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Michigan’s oldest college newspaper By |Macaela J. Bennett Editor-in-Chief Stephen Casai, age 64, died of a brain tumor Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. at the Hillsdale Medical Center.

Known fondly by the Hillsdale College community as “Saga Steve,” Casai ’74 became a beloved figure on campus through his 35 years of working in food service. Always dressed in a suit, his constant smile and cheerful greetings impacted many over his career, as evidenced by the outpouring of love since his hospitalization last September.

Within days, his hospital room was flooded with flowers and cards from students, staff, and alumni.

“Steve was a godly man,” Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers said Wednesday. “He really blessed people, and not so much with his words, but his actions, his kindness, and his smile. He had a service heart, and he did everything in a way that was graceful.”

Though Casai left an impression on so many, few knew him well, and he preferred it that way, his longtime friend Bud Vear said Wednesday night.

“The students have become

his family through the years. He’s a very people-oriented person in some ways, and yet he’s a very private person,” Vear said.

“He deals beautifully with people, but you’re not going to have a long conversation with him — that’s true even with me. As a student and then coming back to work here, Hillsdale really changed his life and made him into the wonderful person that he has been, and I think he wanted to leave his life before behind.”

Senior Klara Holscher, who worked with Casai closely for two years, attested to his caring nature that fostered a close friendship between them even though he shared few personal details.

“He didn’t say a lot about his past,” Holscher said. “I think it was filled with a lot of sadness.”

Despite Casai’s privateness,

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Holscher said they shared many conversations about books, her family, music, theater, and his life advice. When he grew close to people, she said, he would tease them, too,

and he admitted that he didn’t like being called “Saga Steve.”

“He was a particular person, and I don’t think nicknames were his thing, but he was the type of person to still

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That smile at first took Heather Tritchka ’98, off guard, but it later formed the foundation for another dear friendship.

“When I was a college student, I came from California, and he was always friendly, which I wasn’t used to,” Tritchka said. “I came to like it, and later he invited me to a Right to Life talk at the college — that was one of the first things I was invited to in college. We struck up a friendship after that since I always saw him at the cafeteria.”

After Tritchka graduated, Casai invited her to a Right to Life of Hillsdale County event, on whose board he served for more than three decades. His passion for the organization inspired Tritchka to invest in the group’s mission, too.

“He was always so focused and passionate about doing work for Right to Life, which was really motivating,” she said. “That’s something I will always remember.”

For the past two weeks, Casai had been mostly unresponsive, Gloria Vear said, and he completely quit talking.

When Rogers heard this, he organized students to visit Casai. Wednesday afternoon, a couple hours before his death, Holscher and her sister Rebecca visited Casai with Rogers to read him Bible passages, sing, and pray for his pain to be taken away.

“I suspect they probably prepared his way out with hymns,” Vear said.

Although Casai did not respond to their presence, and they didn’t know if he could hear them, the three finished by singing “Going Home.”

“He died shortly after they left,” Vear said. “We figured they sang him into heaven.”

The college is coordinating a memorial service to be held on campus. Details will be finalized in the next few days.

Casai is survived by his brother, Richard Valentine.

Complete obituary to follow next week.

Lady Chargers rank first in the nation By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Reporter

Anders Kiledal | Collegian

The women of the Hillsdale College Track and

Field team have soared from third to first in the nation in NCAA Division II after the Big Meet held at Grand

Valley State University this weekend. This ranking is the result of yet another broken record and several more individually ranked athletes on the list for the national meet.

The Big Meet is always essentially split into two meets — invitational and open — over Friday and Saturday. On Friday — the invite day — Hillsdale was well represented in the distance medley relay, the 400, the 5000, and the 4x400 relay.

The DMR is comprised of a 1200 meter, a 400 m e t e r , an 800 meter, and a 1600 meter, in that order.

This weekend it was run by junior Molly Oren, junior Sarah Benson, sophomore Hannah Watts, and senior Emily Oren respectively. After winning the race with a time of 11:38.19, the group is now ranked second nationally. They have also ensured themselves a spot at the national meet.

The Chargers have consistently led the nation in this

event for the past three years.

Head coach Andrew Towne, however, focuses on how the athletes perform when it counts, not how they are ranked.

“We could break the national record,” Towne said. “To be totally honest, I don’t care about that because that doesn’t give me any more points anywhere.”

In the 400 meter, senior Corinne Zehner finally had that race that clicked that she said she has been waiting for as she placed fourth on Friday, running a time of 55.89 seconds. This performance puts her in first in the GLIAC and puts her on the provisional list for nationals.

In the 5000 meter, Emily Oren broke another one of Amanda Putt’s records, running a 16:24.36. This beat the previous record by five seconds as well as met the automatic mark for the national meet. Sophomore Hannah McIntyre came in second with a provisional time of 16:37.02.

Senior Kristina Galat and ju-

nior Molly Oren also met the provisional standard, placing fourth and fifth, running times of 16:57.21 and 16:58.56.

McIntyre, who represented Hillsdale in the 5000 meter at the national meet her freshman year, has consistently contributed to the team. She attributes this to having seasoned teammates to push her during practice.

“I’m really trying to take advantage of this semester because the seniors are the people who have really helped me get ahead of that learning curve and intensity of training.

I’ve come into that foundation Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday, Feb. 13 at the and I have a lot more confi- age of 79. Collection of the United States Supreme Court | Courtesy dence this year and I think that has played out well,” McIntyre said.

The 4x400, run by sophomores Tori Wichman and Fiona Shea, junior Allison Duber, and Zehner, placed third on Friday, running a 3:48.40. This By |Natalie C. McKee ganizing the speech if he can met the provisional standard change his topic and discuss and is just off the school reSenior Reporter Scalia and the vacancy left by cord.

O n U.S. Supreme Court Justice his death.

Whalen said he felt an Saturday, See Track A9 Antonin Scalia died at the age “emotion of sadness” when of 79 on Saturday of natural causes at a hunting resort in he heard the news that Scalia West Texas, according to Pre- died.

“It’s an emotion I continue sidio County Judge Cinderela, who pronounced him dead to feel and will for a long, long time,” Whalen said. over the phone.

Whalen said he distinctly Soon after the news broke, Hillsdale students, faculty, and remembered how Scalia’s face alumni turned to Facebook to would tense up like a muscle while he was reasoning his mourn Scalia’s death.

Ryan Walsh ’09 majored in way through the challenges American Studies and served of a case up until the moment as Scalia’s clerk from 2013- when he figured it out.

He added that Scalia’s clerks 2014. had the best but toughest job “Like all of us, the justice had biases. Yet, unlike most because they had to determine of us, the justice was often what was logically right, not transparent about those bias- just write whatever happened es, and those biases could al- to be their boss’s opinion. He ways be overcome by reason,” said he would turn in a draft Walsh wrote on his Facebook with what he considered to timeline. “If the justice were be “clever, Scalia-like phrases” inclined to disagree with and then watch Scalia craft us about a case, he not only them into something “so much would welcome a fight — he better.”

Hillsdale Professor of Poliwould expect it.” tics Thomas West said he loved And Scalia would change Scalia’s opinions. his view if he thought the “I appreciated his over-theclerks’ arguments were better top rhetoric full of nasty zingthan his own.

“Law was not politics to ers toward stupid opinions,” Justice Scalia. Nor was it mere West said. “They are fun.”

West said Scalia was the will. Law, to Justice Scalia, was law,” Walsh said. “Forget the second best on the court as cynics. Agree or disagree with far as being consistent and an his jurisprudence, Justice Scal- originalist, giving the top spot to Justice Clarence Thomas. ia was the real deal.”

Whalen said he appreciated Ed Whalen served as ScalScalia’s approach to relationia’s clerk from October of 1991 to July of 1992 and will speak ships and ideas and how they at Hillsdale on March 30. He interact.

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Thank you, Hazel Hare Hillsdale trustee resigns after ALS diagnosis

By | Thomas Novelly Assistant Editor After faithfully serving on the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees for more than three decades, board member Hazel Hare sorrowfully resigned after being diagnosed with an advanced case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

College President Larry Arnn emailed the Board of Trustees on Tuesday afternoon shortly after conversing with Hare and said he was immensely saddened by the news.

“We had a tearful conversation. She is surely the sweetest woman alive,” Arnn said in the email. “She says that the college has been the best thing that happened to her since her husband died and has given meaning to her life.”

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said she was shocked by the diagnosis but is grateful for the time she was able to give to Hillsdale.

“This has been an amazing journey in the past 30 years,” Hare said. “The board was able to bring some amazing buildings to campus. From the student center to the music building, there was such a great satisfaction in bringing everyone together.”

Hare joined the board of trustees in the spring of 1985 at the request of Arnn’s predecessor, George Roche.

Hare said she was skeptical of joining and asked her mother if she should take the offer.

“I didn’t know anything about dealing with higher education,” Hare said. “I told my mother that I didn’t think I was qualified. She told me, ‘They wouldn’t have asked you unless they thought you could contribute.’ So like a good daughter, I listened, and it has been the most pleasurable as- See Hare A3

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Ramette assists LIGO in confirming Einstein’s theory By |Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor In the largest project ever funded by the National Science Foundation, scientists have found evidence confirming Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Among the hundreds of collaborators is junior Joshua Ramette, whose research over the summer contributed to the first-ever detection of gravitational waves.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, uses a

high-powered laser beam reflected across a series of mirrors to detect gravitational waves, a phenomenon predicted in Einstein’s work. The merging of black holes located billions of light years away from the Earth produced gravitational waves, which cause cause tiny distortions in space. Until now, these waves were not observable.

LIGO scientists observed the first gravitational waves Sept.

14, 2015 and publicized their findings Feb. 11 in a press conference.

The promise of working on

what Ramette called “one of the premier physics experiments in the world” spurred him to apply for the summer internship.

“It’s very interesting because it’s an experiment you can do with general relativity, so it relates to some of the most fundamental physics we can grasp right now,” Ramette said.

The main laser beam travels through a prism, splitting the beam in two.

These offshoots travel down two four-kilometer tubes, reflecting across a series of

By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College’s Student Federation quickly approved $7,000, 58 percent of this semester’s discretionary budget, to help fund the College Republicans’ Conservative Political Action Conference trip last week.

Twelve representatives voted in favor of fully funding the $7,000 proposal, five voted against it, and two abstained.

Of the voting members, nine are attending CPAC: Seven voted for full funding, one against, and one abstained.

Treasurer junior Chris Pudenz attributed the 20-minute voting session to the large discretionary surplus of $44,658.04.

“The sentiment last year was very strong that because of such a high dollar amount, subsequent student federations did not particularly want to see another $7,000 proposal, which is what we just saw,” Pudenz said.

Student Fed only receives $12,000 to spend every semester after publication costs.

“The main problem I had with the $7,000 proposal is that is over half of our budget for the semester, just gone,” Sophomore Independent Rep. Christie Mittelstaedt said.

Pudenz and Mittelstaedt both voted no in part because they said College Republicans anticipated the federation would grant them between $5,000 and $7,000 in their planning.

College Republicans requested the same amount last year because state funding fell through but received $6,000 following a two-hour meeting characterized by intense conversation over the grant.

Student Fed adviser Anthony Manno said although CPAC is great for students and the college, members should have partial funding because the conference is off-campus. He said the trip excludes students who can’t afford the $130 cost or to miss classes, adding that the excursion has a “suspect educational aspect”: CPAC has a reputation for the parties that occur during the conference.

This year, 165 students—21 more than last year—will attend, despite the price hike from $50. College Republicans Trustee senior Sam Holdeman said the $7,000 price tag accounted for the decrease in financial assistance from conservative political action groups such as the Michigan Federation of College Republicans, due to more funds tied to campaign during this election year.

The finance committee initially recommended funding $5,000.

Pi Beta Phi Rep. junior Lauren Renslow said it would “alleviate some burdens and encourage good fundraising habits in the future.”

While Student Fed agreed to pay 16 percent of the total cost of the trip, it requested the group advance registration to November or December and reach out to parents sooner in future years.

Freshman Independent Rep. Ross Hatley defended the $5,000 recommendation.

“With demands so high, in my mind, this proposal looks more like an emergency bailout instead of a normal proposal,” he said. “It’s unusual, but then again, it’s an election year.”

After the decision, President of Student Fed junior Christian Wiese expressed his neutrality on the issue.

“The reps made their decision, and I thought both sides communicated their points well enough to sway each other,” Wiese said.

Junior Joshua Ramette stands outside the Laster Interferometer Graviational-Wave Observatory’s Livingston Observatory in Louisiana, where he did research last summer. Joshua Ramette | Courtesy

finely tuned of mirrors and into a sensor. When a gravitational wave passes through the earth, the space inside the tubes is distorted, altering the pattern that the laser creates on the sensor. Each mirror is carefully suspended to isolate the system from the seismological activity of the earth.

In order to obtain accurate measurements, the system’s mirrors must carefully be calibrated so as not to distort the laser’s path.

“The high power main laser beam heats the mirrors upon reflection, causing problems for the optics,” Ramette said.

Over the summer, Ramette worked with a team at the LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana to help correct the temperature of the mirrors using a device called a ring heater to standardize the temperature throughout each mirror. In order to do this, Ramette modeled the heating patterns from the ring heater using mathematical equations and computer software. Then, the team compared the models to the actual temperature readings in the mirrors.

Their project built on the research of two scientists in the 1990s, who worked out the mathematics behind the problematic temperature change caused by the laser

beam. Working off their data, Ramette and the others created and tested the models necessary to stabilize the mirror temperatures and increase LIGO sensitivity.

“They figured out how the heating from the main laser beam works,” he said. “I figured out how the ring heater works.”

Ramette has submitted the work to the journal “Applied Optics” and is currently in the process of publishing a paper.

The extremely sensitive LIGO instruments currently are only able to detect large gravitational waves, but Professor of Physics Ken Hayes said future work may allow for the detection of smaller gravitational waves.

“The technology of LIGO is astounding,” he said.

David Reitze, LIGO Laboratory Executive Director, called LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves one of the largest advancements in physics since Galileo first pointed his telescope toward the stars.

“This is not just about the detection of gravitational waves,” he said at the press conference. “That’s the story today, but what’s really exciting is what comes next. I think we’re opening a window on the universe — a window of gravitational wave astronomy.”

1844 Society aims to make students givers By | Nicole Ault Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College’s 1844 Society is striving to bridge the divide between students, alumni, and the institution itself based on their common appreciation for a Hillsdale education.

Founded last fall, the 1844 Society began to foster student-alumni relationships as well as increase alumni engagement with Hillsdale by encouraging students to invest time and money in the college before graduation.

Director of Alumni Volunteer Engagement Colleen McGinness, who started the society and currently serves as its staff adviser, compared it to the student-alumni associations found at many other schools.

“The society was conceived out of a desire to cultivate a stronger alumni network,” she said.

On average, only 12 percent of alumni donate to Hillsdale — a number McGinness said she’d like to improve.

Currently the society has 20 founding members, all of whom were recommended by Hillsdale College faculty and staff and applied to become involved. Students who wish to become members now don’t have to apply; they just have to pay $18.44 per semester and then $184.40 within three years of graduation.

Members will receive perks, which will increase the longer a student is in the society.

“We hope to have some ex-

clusive events and swag items; society’s vice president, senior ed tuition rate, approximately this week. A Legacy Dinwe’re working on graduation Sydney Delp, agreed: “We’re 92 percent of students receive ner on Monday, Feb. 15 for cords,” McGinness said. trying to establish a habit scholarships and financial aid, juniors and seniors featured “There’s some benefit to mem- of giving with students and all of which are supported speeches from President Larry bership, as well, because we’re make that habit continue past privately.

Arnn, Professor of History trying to connect our alumni graduation.”

“Those numbers are helpful Thomas Conner, and senior with this group in particular, McGinness emphasized in helping students underDanny Drummond. On Tuesso that would give them more that she wants to promote stand the gift that they’re day, Feb. 16, the society held a opportunities to network and gratitude for the private given here,” McGinness said.

“Love the Dale” campaign in know alum.” donorship that makes HillsMcGinness hopes that the Grewcock Student Union, McGinness emphasized dale affordable — to educate students will graduate with where students filled out cards that giving out of gratitude is one student, it costs $66,000 greater appreciation for describing something they an important element of the per year, though the college Hillsdale and give back to the love about Hillsdale. society. charges only $34,352. school — financially or with Keefe said they’re looking Students can designate “The desire is to help their time — as alumni. for as many students to join as their $18.44 to particular students understand not just “We want students to feel possible. programs or let it go by dethe mission and philosophy of that they are a big and critical “Membership is not somefault into the Ransom Dunn Hillsdale but also the financial part of the mission that we’re thing that has to be limited,” scholarship fund, which supstory of Hillsdale because evtrying to accomplish and Keefe said. “Everyone can give ports students who encounter eryone who attends here goes then want to carry that on back. Everyone has a unique unexpected financial troubles here on a major discount,” as alumni out in the world,” experience that they’re grateduring their Hillsdale career.

McGinness said.

McGinness said. ful for here.”

The society’s president, senior In addition to the discountThe society held two events Randy Keefe, said he gave his proceeds to the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program.

“The whole purpose of the 1844 Society is really to cultivate an attitude of gratefulness on this campus,” Keefe said. “We’re also going to be looking at ways to keep the Hillsdale community going beyond Left to right: Senior Sarah Kreuz, senior Tory Harris, junior Katherine Frank, junior Anne Begin, senior Victoria Barry, senior being at Claire Lewis, junior Joy Rumeau, and senior Bailey Bergmann enjoy the Legacy Dinner hosted by the 1844 Society on MonHillsdale.” day evening in the Searle Center. Hannah Carroll | Courtesy The

Kenneth Olmstead: forever carved in our hearts

By |Ramona Tausz Arts Editor Kenneth Olmstead, lifetime Hillsdale resident and husband of long-time college employee Sue Olmstead, died of a brain hemorrhage Feb. 6 — a day before what would have been his 65th birthday.

Sue Olmstead has been a much-loved staple of the Hillsdale College staff for 25 years and served the college in various departments, including the Dow Leadership Center, the Trust and Investments office, and, for the past year and a half, Athletic Administration.

Although “Kenny” Olmstead himself was never an employee of Hillsdale, he was always connected to campus through his wife and will be greatly missed by the college staff.

“A lot of people knew him on campus, and a lot of

people know Sue on campus,” said Financial Aid Manager Brenda Sunday, who has worked with Sue Olmstead for more than 20 years.

“Most of the people from Central Hall who worked there when she was there would have known Kenny.”

Kenny Olmstead was born and raised in Hillsdale.

After graduating from Camden-Frontier High School in 1969, he entered the National Guard, where he served for four years.

“When he came back to Hillsdale, he worked at Hillsdale Tool,” Sue Olmstead said. “And I worked at the office at Hillsdale Tool, and I didn’t know him, so the maintenance guy and the office gal created a blind date.

We would have been married 44 years on Feb. 26.”

In 1978, Kenny Olmstead left Hillsdale Tool to begin working as a truck driver.

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That career would end dracluding a brain tumor a year matically, however, in 1996, ago and subsequent infecwhen a car accident caused tions, when his hip replacesevere injuries to his hip, ment hardware made him knee, and spine. especially prone to disease.

“This accident more or Even though it was always less ended his life as it was,” difficult for Kenny to get Sunday said. Ironically, around after the injury, he according to Sunday, afstill persisted in making ter driving years and years other people happy through in semi trucks without an his favorite hobby: woodaccident, it was a simple working. trip in his personal pickup She said many people on that would start the string campus own at least one of of health troubles Olmstead Kenny Olmstead’s handcraftsuffered ever since. “Here he ed pieces of furniture. has driven miles and miles “I have a custom-made and miles and something like TV cabinet, and one of the that happens.” other girls in the office has a “It was a head-on crash chair,” Sunday said. on Nov. 1, 1996, in south Despite Olmstead’s Hillsdale,” Sue Olmstead continual health problems, recounted. “A young boy he maintained a positive in the car driving toward attitude and cheerful spirit Olmstead bent down to pick throughout all his hardships. up a sucker on the car floor, “He was certainly an and the vehicle swerved over individual that overcame and the center line. “Nobody was adapted to many difficulties killed, but my husband was in his life,” his daughter-inin the hospital five and a half law Christi Olmstead said. months.”

“It just amazed me with In the intervening years everything that he was unbetween 1996 and the presdergoing, that he could still ent, Kenny only continued joke around,” Sunday said. “I please contact Macaela at mbennett@hillsdale.edu. to undergo healthBennett issues, inmean, he was joking with the

nurses, he was joking with my husband. It was like, you didn’t know he was in there to be sick, and he just didn’t let that get him down.”

“He was always joking around. That’s why I fell in love with him,” Sue Olmstead said. “A lot of people loved him for that sense of humor.”

The funeral was held at the Van Horn-Eagle Funeral Home in Hillsdale on Feb. 9. Kenny is survived by his wife, his sons Eric and Aaron, seven grandchildren, and many warm friends and acquaintances.

According to Sue Olmstead, the outpouring of support she received following Kenny Olmstead’s death from fellow Hillsdale staff and family friends has been tremendous.

“So many of the neighbors and people who came to see them, he asked them, ‘Take care of Sue,’” Sunday said.

“And it’s a given that people are going to be there for her and help her through it.”

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Professors weigh in on global warming By | Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter From Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, global climate change spurs international concern and continues to divide American public opinion despite a consensus among climate scientists.

Climate change is backed by 97 percent or more of climate scientists, who attribute the earth’s warming as “very likely” due to man-made causes, Nova reports. This overwhelming consensus is not shared by the American people, with CNN recently reporting 57 percent of Americans do not think global warming poses a risk to their lifestyle. A YouGov poll sponsored by Fox News found 91 percent of Americans do not consider global warming a serious issue of concern.

While careful to distinguish policy from scientific evidence, many Hillsdale College science faculty said they align with the 97 percent of climate scientists who deem man-made climate change scientifically confirmed.

Scalia from A1 someone who was famous for having friendships with people across the ideological aisle,” Whalen said. “He respected the difference between a person and an argument.”

Whalen said Scalia could

Hare from A1 pect of my life.”

For the majorityof her 30 years on the board, she served as chairman of the academic and student affairs subcommittee. According to board member Cleves Delp ’86, Hare’s love for students made her perfect for the role.

“That subcommittee was the perfect assignment for her,” Delp said. “She cared so much for the happiness of the students in every aspect, whether it was the food quality, updated dorms, or promoting student social life. She took great pride in serving the students because she saw them at the center of Hillsdale’s mission.”

Hare frequently worked with Dean of Women Diane Philipp and Provost David

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change we are seeing is definitely aberrant.”

The divergence of opinion between scientists and the public points to what Assistant Professor of Psychology Collin Barnes believes is the overwhelming amount of conflicting data found on the Internet that causes the public to distrust scientists.

“It is always the case that persons interact with data and give them voice,” Barnes said.

Acknowledging that aberrant climate change and crafting policy are two separate spheres — different as Capitol Hill is from a lab station on the Alaskan tundra — is a critical distinction for conversations on climate change.

“What worries me is when we have a physical question and we answer that question one way as a Republican and one way as a Democrat,” said Matthew Young, associate professor of chemistry.

“It’s a very negative situation because that question can be addressed and answered through natural science.”

“If everybody understood the physics and the evidence, the question of the existence of anthropogenic global warming would not be an issue,” Professor of Physics Ken Hayes said. “It’s not a question of belief. This is not a religious issue. It’s a science issue. It’s all been done and it’s all amazingly clear.”

Among the fields of science, analyzing climate change is distinctly a physics question, which Hayes began researching eight years ago and modeled experiments to show the effect of carbon emissions on the planet.

Mark Kalthoff, professor of history and the history of science, said the historical transformation of scientific

theory to accepted dogma is not a linear path from ignorance to knowledge. As Copernicus’ heliocentric system and Einstein’s theory of relativity demonstrate great shifts within the scientific community, Kalthoff said today’s consensus on anthropogenic global warming may look different in the future.

“I would not classify myself as a ‘climate change denier,’ as it seems clear that we have evidence pointing to ways that the earth is warming,” Kalthoff said.

“But the history of science is rich with warnings about the risks of unguardedly accepting ‘the scientific consensus.’

The ‘consensus’ convictions of scientific communities

change. The nature of today’s scientific consensus regarding climate change is not identical to what it was 10 years ago.”

Looking at today’s evidence, Visiting Lecturer of Biology Angie Pytel described the trend of global warming as an upward climb that took off at the time of the industrial revolution, which tells climate scientists that the rising global temperature is a man-made issue.

“As a biologist, I care because of the consequences of gross planetary climate change,” Pytel said.

“Now, within the generation of a human life, you can plant a plant where you couldn’t plant it before. This

befriend people even if they had what Scalia would call “pure applesauce” beliefs.

Senior Dominic Restuccia said when he heard the news of Scalia’s death, he was shocked and sad. He said Scalia was a statesman and fighter for conservatism.

“He was a great man who personally inspired me,” Restuccia said. “He is a traditional Catholic and an Italian-American.”

Restuccia said Scalia was in the political world for decades and died untainted and unchanged.

“What we lost is a servant of God who was fighting to do God’s will for our country,” Restuccia said.

He said Hillsdale should pray for the repose of Scalia’s soul and that God welcomes him as a good and faithful servant.

“This was a loss to the nation,” Restuccia said.

Whalen added that Scalia was a man of deep faith, who was deeply devoted to his wife and family.

“He was full of joy,” Whalen said.

Whalen on the subcommittee. Philipp said Hare’s constant efforts to improve campus life led to the construction of the Grewcock Student Union.

“Hare fought for anything regarding the students and bettering their lives,” Philipp said. “She was a big advocate for the Grewcock Student Union. She had identified that need a long time ago and was politely relentless in making sure we had a nice place for the students to enjoy.”

Hare said she subscribes to the Collegian as a way to keep in touch with student culture and enjoys seeing what the students write.

“I read the Collegian cover to cover,” Hare said. “I love what the students have done with it!”

Phillip said Hare’s love

for students and the college inspired her role as dean of women.

“She is an incredible role model for me,” Philipp said.

“She is strong, persevering,

mously, something that Dr. Arnn often didn’t comply with.”

Brodbeck said the news of Hare’s illness and resignation made him sad, and knows her influential work will never be forgotten.

“She is a highly valued member of the board, and she cast a very wide shadow with her work,” Brodbeck said. “I hate to think of the board without her as a member.”

Delp said he remembers Hare’s overwhelming positivity when talking about major financial decisions and additions to campus.

“She always had a kind word for everyone,” Delp said. “She had an infectious smile and laugh. She was so positive in meetings, she would go out of her way to verbalize the positive aspects

of how a decision would impact the students.”

Hazel said while she’ll miss being on campus and being able to make decisions that will help campus grow, she will ultimately miss the friendships of her fellow board members.

“I’m going to miss all the friends I’ve made over the years,” Hare said. “The board was a whole new friendship group. We were all united in one common goal, growing and maintaining the mission of the college.”

Arnn and other members of the board said her positivity and passion will be missed and are praying for her recovery.

“Hazel is a heroic woman,” Delp said. “As dreadful as ALS is, there won’t be anyone more courageous than her: she’s going to fight.”

“She is surely the sweetest woman alive.” kind, and loving. She truly had an attachment to the college that was so special.”

Chairman of the Board of Trustees William Brodbeck ’66 said Hare was incredibly humble. She frequently gave to the college and often tried to hide it.

“She’s been very generous to Hillsdale over the years,” Brodbeck said. “She did much of her giving anony-

Beckwith reflects on friendship with Kasich By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor College Chaplain Peter Beckwith first saw Republican presidential candidate John Kasich when he walked into St. John’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio — the church where Beckwith was rector.

Kasich was wearing a ragged leather jacket, and ducked into a back corner of the church just before the services began.

“He sat way in the back,” Beckwith said. “He was gone before I could get to the front door for weeks. I finally caught up with him — I figured he wasn’t homeless because he didn’t stick around and ask for money.”

Kasich was a U.S. representative at the time.

“We became good friends,” Beckwith recalled. “He came to my consecration. He came to our son Peter’s wedding.”

When Beckwith was assigned as a reserve chaplain for the Navy at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., he would regularly have meals with the congressman.

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he married his second wife, Karen.

“When it came time for him to get married, he called me, and I stopped by where I used to be the rector,” Beckwith said.

“He was well into his 30s when he married Karen,” he added. “She’s a lovely lady in every way. She keeps him pointed in the right direction—I think he would say that, too. She’s a great lady.”

According to Beckwith, Kasich is “conscientious,” and a “man of faith.”

The presidential candidate’s faith was evident at a town hall held in Livonia, Michigan on Tuesday morning.

“I happen to believe personally that the Big Guy made everybody special,” Kasich said, explaining that every American should use their unique talents to solve problems. “The things that the Lord has given us can be used to fix our world.”

Kasich interacted warmly with supporters, more than 500 of whom crammed into the GOP Field Office.

The touchstone of his comments was a call for unity, not just within the Republican Party, but throughout the nation.

“As Americans, we’ve got

Trump trails Cruz in most recent NBC/WSJ poll Donald Trump trails fellow candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-T.X., by 2 percent in the most recent NBC/WSJ poll, after leading him by 13 points last month. The poll was conducted after Trump’s New Hampshire victory and the South Carolina GOP debate.

In brief: Collegian honored by MPA By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor At its annual meeting on Jan. 28-29, the Michigan Press Association named the Collegian the “best weekly college newspaper in Michigan.” Student writers for the Collegian also won 23 individual awards for work published during the 2014-2015 school year.

“Hillsdale College has some of the smartest and most talented journalism students in Michigan,” Dow Journalism Program Director John Miller said.

“These awards and recognitions show that a classical liberal arts education produces students who can think critically and write extremely well — two of the most essential qualities of a good journalist.”

According to the MPA, 14 Michigan college newspapers submitted more than 671 entries.

“We couldn’t be happier with this year’s results, and a huge congratulations goes out to all the winners,” Miller said.

Judge Rogan to speak Thursday By | Timmy Pearce Collegian Reporter California Superior Court Judge James Rogan will speak on Feb. 18 in the Gillespie room of the Dow Center at 4 p.m.

His talk will focus on his career and most recent book, “And Then I Met...Stories of Growing Up, Meeting Famous People, and Annoying the Hell Out of Them.”

A reception and book signing will be held after the talk at 5 p.m.

Rogan is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and served on the Judiciary Committee during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings. In 2001, Rogan spoke in Hillsdale’s Phillips Auditorium about his role in Clinton’s impeachment and the decisions he made that eventually cost him his seat in Congress.

When deciding to move forward with the impeachment process, Rogan received support from many friends but spoke specifically of the advice he received from President Larry Arnn.

Rogan quoted Arnn as saying, “You know, congressmen lose elections all the time. It’s very rare, though, that congressmen have the privilege of losing an election in defense of the Constitution.”

“Those words carried me through that difficult period,” Rogan said during his speech.

He ended his 2001 speech with a lesson in leadership, “The moment a politician decides that it’s more important to be re-elected than to stand his ground, he becomes weak and ineffective. The willingness to lose elections is a necessary prerequisite of statesmanship.”

Rogan wrote his book, “Catching Our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment” based on a diary he kept during Clinton’s impeachment process.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Rogan to his current position as a judge on the Superior Court of California in 2006. He also holds a teaching position at the Fowler School of Law.

to stop looking up to someone on a white horse to fix our problems,” Kasich said.

“We’ve got to unite again as a country, the spirit is on our streets and in our families.

You can’t wait for someone else to come in and do that.”

Kasich also shared some personal anecdotes about his experiences with government reform. As an 18-year-old freshman at The Ohio State University, Kasich wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon, outlining his concerns about the nation. After the university’s president deliv-

ered his letter to the White House, Kasich was granted a 20-minute meeting with the president of the United States.

Beckwith said he thinks Kasich’s experience as governor, his record as congressman, and his integrity make him a great candidate for the presidency.

“When he was congressman, he was chair of the Budget Committee under Clinton,” Beckwith said.

“Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House then. He and Newt put together this bill that Clinton signed off on that

balanced the budget and they cut the deficit by half a trillion dollars.”

“He’s done amazing things in Ohio,” Beckwith added.

“Eight-million dollar deficit to a $2-million surplus in about two years. And they’ve kept that. That’s pretty good for anybody.”

Beckwith also said he admires Kasich for not engaging in the mud-slinging typical of primary campaigns.

“He’s not into this bashing of other folks,” Beckwith said.

“One of the really neat things that he’s said is that we were made to work, that life should be a better place for us having walked through it. We have this creator God. He’s made us to make a difference.”

While Kasich came in second in the New Hampshire primaries last week, taking 15.8 percent of the votes, his popularity in South Carolina polls has dwindled. The latest polls show only 9 percent of South Carolina voters support the Ohio governor.

Whether he wins the presidency or not, Kasich said on Tuesday he will continue to work to make a positive difference.

“Don’t pray that I’ll win; pray that I’ll accept whatever it is I do next,” Kasich said.

President Obama to skip Justice Scalia’s funeral

Apple CEO refuses FBI terror investigation request

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley endorses Rubio

Flint water becoming safer, tests show

President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama will not attend the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the White House reports.

They instead will pay their respects at the wake at the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Vice President Joe Biden will attend the funeral.

In an open letter, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook said software requested by the FBI in connection with investigation of the San Bernadino terror attacks would allow Apple to unlock any iPhone. Cook expressed concern that the software would allow unprecedented access to private information on Apple devices.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley endorsed Rubio yesterday, good news for Rubio ahead of the primary in Haley’s home state taking place Saturday. Haley delivered the Republican response after President Obama’s eighth State of the Union, a role Rubio filled after the President’s fifth.

New water testing completed this week shows 7 percent of 10,000 Flint, Michigan homes affected by leadened water are above the federal safety standard of 15 parts per billion of lead. Next week, Flint city workers will begin training to remove water service lines containing toxic lead, the Detroit News reports.

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Online: www.hillsdalecollegian.com Editor in Chief | Macaela J. Bennett News Editor | Vivian Hughbanks City News Editor | Kate Patrick Opinions Editor | Sarah Albers Sports Editor | Nathanael Meadowcroft Arts Editor | Ramona Tausz Features Editor | Amanda Tindall Design Editor | Meg Prom Web Editor | Evan Carter Photo Editor | Anders Kiledal Associate Editor | Micah Meadowcroft Senior Reporter | Natalie C. McKee Circulation Managers | Sarah Chavey | Conor Woodfin Ad Managers | Drew Jenkins | Patrick Nalepa Assistant Editors | Stevan Bennett, Jr. | Philip H. DeVoe | Andrew Egger | Jessie Fox | Madeleine Jepsen | Breana Noble | Tom Novelly | Joe Pappalardo | Emma Vinton Photographers | Madeline Barry | Elena Creed | Stacey Egger | Madeline Fry | Brendan Miller | Hailey Morgan | Carsten Stann | Ben Strickland | Lillian Quinones Faculty Advisers | John J. Miller | Maria Servold

The opinion of the Collegian editorial staff This past Monday evening, juniors and seniors made their way to the Searle Center for free drinks, dinner, and a pitch from the 1844 Society on why they, recent graduates, should part with their money for the sake of their alma mater.

Some attended the dinner, if only for free drinks and dinner. But they stayed, ate, and perhaps changed their mind about the society’s goal.

As alumni, our continued relationship with Hillsdale will be a continued relationship with the people. The

school colors, the Charger cheer, and images of Central Hall mean something to us because of the dear friends we made during our time here.

As our alma mater — literally, “nourishing mother” — Hillsdale has both nurtured and educated us. And as it might with a mother, our relationship with Hillsdale endures past the point of independence. We owe Hillsdale for our formation.

Many of our most influential friendships are forged here.

Our first earnest, weighty ac-

ademic engagement occurs here.

Gratitude is proper to us as students, but it is less obvious how it ought to be expressed as alumni. We have formed attachments to professors, to places, and to our friends. It is hard for us to know how to turn those attachments into a legacy or to benefit future students, but a donation makes it possible both to express gratitude and allow others to become part of the community.

Alumni support for the college helps make it possi-

ble for others to come and be nourished. The privilege of education is bookended by the work of others, our predecessors and posterity.

The 1844 Society is one way to engage alumni and encourage them to express that gratitude in a way that will benefit the college which has benefited us so greatly.

The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity, length, and style. Letters should be 450 words or less and include your name and number. Send submissions to salbers@hillsdale. edu before Saturday at 3 p.m.

Beauty can overcome political tribalism By | Walker Mulley Special to the Collegian

By | Forester McClatchey Special to the Collegian I endorse Donald Trump for GOP nominee. Nearly every other candidate represents a safer choice, but Trump provides a unique opportunity.

As The Donald ascends, seasoned political thinkers throw their hands up in despair.

Normal campaign rules do not apply to Trump. He speaks brashly, seems immune to gaffes, and deploys a vocabulary tiny even for American politics.

According to ThinkProgress article “What Language Experts Find So Strange About Donald Trump,” his favorite word by usage is “I.” His fourth favorite is “Trump.” Other favorites include “very” and “money.”

His success elicits genuine fear, and for good reason: Some writers have pointed out the eerie parallels between Trump’s campaign and the campaigns of 20th-century fascists. Acknowledging the risk of shrillness embedded in this claim, Salon emphasizes the parallel between Mussolini, who made Italian Jews wear badges, and Trump, who wants to “register Muslims in a database.”

People know precisely what’s wrong with Trump, yet he remains. Further, he may be a necessary next step for American politics.

In retrospect, his rise seems predictable. Trump’s populist sensibilities recommend him

Forester McClatchey

Walker is a senior studying economics.

Trump 2016: A cleansing fire?

Uses of a Liberal Arts Education

Americans are divided into factions. The instinct to side with your “tribe” against other factions is strong, and it threatens to prevent us from finding the common good.

Tribal affiliations frequently complicate the same-sex marriage debate. People on both sides of the argument tend to misunderstand those on the other. Opponents of gay marriage too often treat homosexuality as an identity rather than a characteristic. Supporters imagine opponents as Bible-thumping bigots who want to persecute them. There’s a reason it’s spoken of as a culture war.

But the culture war moniker reflects a serious political disorder. Politics is supposed to be deliberation about the common good and how to achieve it. It’s supposed to be about our common effort as a society. The fact that it resembles a war between disparate factions trying to defeat the others — rather than win them over — shows that we’ve lost something important.

What we’ve lost is our understanding of a common human nature that allows us to reach shared conclusions about the good.

Modern culture largely rejects the idea of a fixed human nature because it largely rejects the idea of fixed truth. If there is no right way to live — if we’re each just imposing our own meaning onto a bunch of matter in motion — we can’t find a common good. Because we’ve given up on finding a common good, politics has devolved into a battle to impose our own preferences on others.

Perhaps an increased appreciation of beauty can help us regain an understanding of the common good.

Even when people hold to relativism on an intellectual level and deny that there’s an objective good, they may still be susceptible to beauty, because beauty transcends the intellect.

Even those who won’t admit the idea of objective good may realize, for example, that Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” is more beautiful than a work of abstract expressionism.

Beauty awakens noble sentiments. The awe we feel towards beautiful things inspires our respect. United in sentiment by shared awe, perhaps we could learn to overcome our tribal feelings.

How do we take the lessons of beauty and apply them to the reclamation of our political culture?

In the short run, we should focus more on beauty in our rhetoric. Practical arguments are indispensable — those are how we determine how to prudentially pursue the good. But especially when we have so much trouble agreeing on what to pursue, we need to focus on the beautiful as well.

We need to speak of the beauty of families, of the beauty of honest labor, of the beauty of people working together in their communities. If people across the political spectrum realized that, despite our difficulty articulating why some things are good, we can see that these are beautiful, we’d have a better chance of agreeing on policies conducive to human flourishing.

We should work to beautify our culture. Beauty needs to be celebrated and not derided. We especially need to fight the notion that appreciating beauty is effeminate.

The rekindling of our culture’s appreciation of beauty is by no means only a task for artists. It calls for concerted effort on the part of the viewer to really notice and celebrate the beauty he sees in art, in nature, and in other people.

The greater our shared artistic heritage, the more we’ll have to hold us together, especially if the art reflects what it is to be an American. Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” is an example of this sort of art. We need more inspiring depictions of the goods we strive for politically. If the only depictions of American society we see are grotesque caricatures, we’ll have a hard time pursuing politics as the noble endeavor it should be.

Fostering an appreciation for beauty may not be a silver bullet, but it’s a start. If citizens learn to appreciate beauty together, we’ll be better able to agree on common goals. And even though progress in the political system will be slow, experiences of beauty shared between just a few people will forge the personal relationships that are the bedrock of man’s political life.

to a portion of the American electorate who feel scorned, left out, and exploited by politicians. His coarse approach to nuanced problems (we need to “get tough” with China, for example) wins him trust and support from these voters.

While Trump’s approach may seem singular, it’s unique only in its intensity.

Indeed, Trump only escalates GOP rhetoric as recent candidates have already molded it: Combative, mudslinging, and increasingly dependent on catch phrases (“Make America Great Again,” “Build a Wall,” “You’re Fired,” etc.). In this sense, the GOP created Trump.

The pithiest account of Trump’s campaigning style comes from language theorist Jennifer Sclafani: “He’s turning political discourse into reality TV.” She goes on to explain that Trump’s recursive speech patterns, expansive body language, and petulant insults compel viewers in the same way.

Sclafani is right, but I would add that political discourse was already approaching reality TV. Trump just helped it get there.

So why do I endorse Trump?

Consider the following sequence of events: Trump garners the GOP nomination, and then America elects Trump president. At this point, one of two scenarios would play out.

Either the presidency would

“Trump might wreak enough political havoc to force the GOP to engage in serious reflection.” reveal Trump as an ineffectual blusterer, or he would fulfill his campaign promises and drag the country into crisis. The first scenario would demonstrate to voters the impotence of the presidency, allowing them to gain an insight into the balance of power in the federal government.

In the second scenario, Trump might wreak enough political havoc to implode the GOP, forcing it to slow down, rebuild, rethink, and engage in serious reflection. Each party badly needs such reflection.

These scenarios are dark, but it seems reasonable to assert that the American party system has decayed morally and intellectually to such a point that the best cure becomes to burn away the rot.

Republican leaders hate Donald Trump, but they should thank him. In his campaign he embodies everything allegedly wrong with the party (misogyny, jingoism, racism), providing the GOP with a chance to point to it, name it “Trump,” and burn it away. The resulting ashes might nourish a more thoughtful, humble

conservatism.

Thomas Jefferson said that blood must periodically refresh the tree of liberty, but perhaps he omitted the idea that occasional fires must cleanse the political and rhetorical vines that choke its branches.

Donald Trump, scourge of reason, has become such a fire.

The Republican Party ought to step away from the fire it started and let it burn.

Each election cycle brings the average citizen close to the pinnacle of hyperbole, but this election seems to bring us closer than usual. “These candidates are all insane,” a friend said recently. This claim, though medically untrue, suggests the elevated pitch of voter anxiety during this particular cycle.

Trump may be the cure. If elected, he would scorch the very structures of American politics, allowing voters to see the political landscape afresh.

With this idea and the tree of liberty in mind, I propose a new campaign slogan. Trump 2016: A Cleansing Fire.

Forester is a senior studying English and art.

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Faith, hope, and...money Martin Shkreli, ‘most hated man in America,’ is the face of the American loss of charity.

By | Nicholas Rowan Special to the Collegian As society becomes more globalized, we necessarily become neighbors, but do not necessarily become neighborly.

Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, has recently brought to light this side effect of globalization by raising the price of a drug that treats AIDS as well as a host of other diseases pertaining to the immune system from $13.50 to $750.

Shkreli has a colored past.

Originally a hedge fund manager, he left the practice for biotech companies because “there wasn’t enough money” in hedge funds. Shkreli has consistently skirted charges of insider trading and fraud while openly admitting that he lives to exploit others.

Most recently he has come into the public eye by buying the only copy of the rap group, the Wu Tang Clan’s album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” for a record-setting $2 million while simultaneously being investigated for tax evasion

and misappropriation of funds by the Federal government.

Shkreli rightly deserves his title as “the most hated man in America.” But his disregard for mankind points to a deeper problem with our culture that not even Shkreli’s sharpest critic, Wu Tang’s own Ghostface Killah, recognizes.

Shkreli’s self-proclaimed self interest is not an isolated case; rather it is the predictable product of a culture that does not prize charity.

The root of the problem with charity lies in our cultural aversion to objective truth.

Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Evidence for this trend is everywhere. For example, when a group of ISIS terrorists attacked a crowded theater in Paris last year, many people put a French flag filter over their Facebook profile pictures in sentimental solidarity with the victims of the attacks. It is true that many others personally reached out to the people of Paris, offering prayers and donations to ease the victims’ loss. But this number pales in comparison to the much wider segment of Facebook users who did

nothing but offer a trendy sentiment and, within a few days, move on with their lives.

The truth of the matter is that now more than ever, technology has put us in close quarters with each other. And yet, though our world has become more global, we have not learned to treat each other with the love and respect we were designed to give.

The human being is made for gift. Since we owe our existence to infinite charity, it is within our nature to give back. When we exploit our fellow man — whether it be for financial profit or personal gratification — we not only do wrong, we actually undermine the very purpose of our existence.

People like Shkreli are easy targets because of their prominence in the public sphere. But, he’s only one case of this cultural problem.

Though we still call out isolated incidents like his, our cultural failure to prize truth keeps us from recognizing our day to day failures in charity.

Nicholas is a freshman who has yet to declare a major.

The late Jack Kevorkian, known as “Doctor Death,” speaking at UCLA. He was a medical pathologist and an outspoken advocate of assisted suicide. | Wikimedia Commons

The ethics of assisted suicide By | Lillian Quinones Special to the Collegian In less than four months, our Canadian neighbors will become the fifth western country to legalize physicianassisted suicide.

Such legalization creates a pseudo-autonomy that burdens the terminally-ill and elderly to face to their “duty to die.”

Ideally, physician-assisted suicide grants greater patient control over end-of-life decisions; however, serious flaws emerge within its paradigm. First it suggests to the terminally-ill and elderly that they’re lives are not worth-living anymore, morphing into an insidious, sacrificial morality which many proponents advocate as their “duty to die” and save resources for the next generation.

Secondly, physicianassisted suicide inherently endangers the vulnerable by sharing decision-making power with a physician who renounced his oath “to do no harm.” Ultimately, autonomy rests in the pen of physician to prescribe the lethal dose of barbiturates. In America, Medicare funding is expected to rise 72 percent over the next eight years and physicians are already making tough decisions to ration medicine.

How many think the elderly and terminally-ill have a duty to die?

In 1984, Colorado governor Richard Lamm famously said

that the elderly have a “duty to die and make way for the next generation.” Referencing Lamm’s statement in the opening sentence of his infamous Hastings Report, philosopher John Hartwig says that people are “victims of twisted moral reasoning or vicious social pressure,” if they think legalizing physicianassisted suicide obligates a duty to die.

If you keep reading, however, Hartwig asserts that “to have reached the age of, say, seventy-five or eighty years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life’s basic realities.”

Proponents of assistedsuicide claim that the patient’s consent protects them from Hartwig’s credo. Those over eighty years old may have a supportive family who do not see grandpa or grandma as a moral failing, but their physician or insurance company may decide otherwise.

The perilously slippery slope of assisted-suicide has been well-documented in the Netherlands, where it has been legal since 1981 and displays a frightening trajectory.

In 2013, the number of deaths by assisted-suicide rose by 15 percent and another 10 percent in 2014.

These numbers do not include the projected 23 percent of unrecorded additional assisted-suicide deaths, as reported in a 2010 Lancet study.

The most shocking statistics come from the

Remmlieck Report, the most comprehensive study on end-of-life deaths in the Netherlands. A 1996 study documented that beyond the roughly 3,600 cases of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia reported in that year, approximately 1,000 cases of involuntary euthanasia were reported.

Is this what patient autonomy looks like?

Responding to a survey spanning from 1998 to 2014, of the 857 terminally-ill patients who died by ingesting a lethal prescription dose under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, 96 percent said an end-of-life concern was loss of autonomy, compared to 33 percent who listed uncontrollable pain.

The number of deaths by physician-assisted suicide has been steadily rising since its legalization in 1997.

Legalizing physicianassisted death has been slowmoving in the U.S., but as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed her desire to “catalyze the debate,” Americans should expect to see legislation on assisted suicide reach the federal level in the near future, regardless of which president is elected.

Instead of privileging patient’s wishes, assisted suicide damages the integrity of the medical profession and leads to uncontrollable consequences.

Americans need only look across the Atlantic for proof.

Lillian is a junior studying biochemistry.

A screenshot from the trailer for the “Lego Star Wars” video game. | Wikimedia Commons

Media franchises: less is more By | Joseph Pappalardo Assistant Editor In 2005 I nearly sold my soul to the “Lego Star Wars” video game. That year over 30 million people fell victim to the seductive combination of Star Wars, building blocks, and electronics. This June, after the release of over 20 similar Lego games, consumers will have the chance to purchase “Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

This news pits the consumer’s nostalgia against reason. When I was 10, “Lego Star Wars” was a first-of-itskind masterpiece. The first Lego adventure game was based on the three Star Wars prequels and preceded the release of “Revenge of the Sith.”

Nearly a decade later, I can see the same excitement in my younger siblings, but this new entry in the franchise aspires to expand on its predecessors while focusing on only one film. The new game promises levels from “The Force Awakens” and another section dedicated to the events between the new film and “Return of the Jedi.”

The Star Wars movies are serial films. This game may come too soon for a series that is structured in trilogies.

Game developer Travelers’ Tales has made similar products for “Indiana Jones,” “Jurassic Park,” and “Lord of the Rings.” This game will be the first to be based on a single film.

The prospect of a new entry in a popular series is thrilling. It fails, however, to mask the creators’ obvious attempt to capitalize on the phenomenal success of “The Force Awakens.” Unless they plan to release updates until 2020, this new game will be part one of three titles, each retailing at $60 with extra content available for online purchase.

“The principle of ‘less is more’ must be applied to films and video games, particularly when a fan can edit together the three parts of ‘The Hobbit’ and make a decent three-hour movie.”

While in-game purchases are commonplace, this new chapter in “Lego Star Wars” has been blatantly split into physical parts for more profit.

Hollywood’s love for dividing movies into “part 1” and “part 2” has found its way into children’s games. While this particular issue might not concern most college students, it is frustratingly popular in modern media.

After the “Harry Potter” movies split the final book in two, “Twilight,” “The Hunger Games,” “The Hobbit,” and “Divergent” each followed suit to varying degrees of success.

Buying entertainment shouldn’t be a down payment followed by several more investments. While paying for each installment of a game or film may offer instant satisfaction, it’s quite likely that in the end all the parts will be boxed together.

The first two “Lego Star Wars” games were combined in 2008 for the price of one.

I’m not oblivious to the fact that the producers of these franchises want to make money. That is one of the purposes of the entertainment business. The people behind this divideand-conquer approach to games and movies are smart and know how to increase their profits. They can release more “Lego Star Wars” games in 2018 and 2020, and fans are still going to fork over the money to have the full set.

Nevertheless, the principle of “less is more” must be considered for films and video games, particularly when a fan can edit together

the three parts of “The Hobbit” and make a decent three-hour movie. Producers add filler material to these movies and games to give fans a bigger experience, but the saturated products waste consumers’ time and money.

In the domestic box office “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Part 1” made just under $300 million, the fourth highest in the series, while the second part led the franchise with over $380 million. Fans skipped the rising action and only bought tickets for the climax.

Perhaps the greatest issue with releasing this game so early is that its story fails to offer the same satisfaction of its predecessors. The first two Star Wars trilogies were complete story arcs. This game, like the second-to-last Harry Potter and Hunger Games films, represents the rising action for a larger story. The movie was a complete narrative, but it will make for a subpar video game without episodes VIII and IX. The conclusion of the film left many questions to be answered by the sequels, with both heroes and villains gearing up for a war that won’t appear in theaters until 2019.

I’m excited and willing to pay $60 so my brothers can enjoy this game. It’s just frustrating to know that this time experiencing the full story requires purchasing another one. And another one.

Joseph is a junior studying marketing, journalism, and computer science.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor,

Tom Novelly’s column (Feb. 11, “Etiquette: The Lost Liberal Art”) was both convincing and compelling. It provided a unique perspective on a real issue with students in our generation. I appreciated his argument for an etiquette class at Hillsdale College and completely support his claim that etiquette is, in fact, a lost art. I was, however, slightly surprised at the claims that sophomore Maria Theisen made and Novelly supported in his column.

While 13 percent of Hillsdale students may be homeschooled or “come from other smaller learning environments,” I find it inappropriate to assume that means they “may have never been in situations where formal etiquette is necessary.”

It was discouraging that they indicated etiquette courses would be most beneficial to “teach these students how to approach social situations they may have never

experienced before.”

I will admit it: I was homeschooled throughout my entire education, excluding two years nonconsecutively in elementary school. My parents taught me certain classes at home, but I also participated in courses outside of the home with tutors and in a variety of classroom settings. This part of my education also included taking undergraduate courses on campus in a college classroom setting during my senior year of high school, where I experienced “professionalism” and “new social situations.” I also took a formal etiquette class (taught by someone other than my parents) as a part of my education and participated in multiple formal events that required “small talk, table setting, and situational dress.” My parents wanted me to experience a full, well-rounded liberal arts education involving a variety of learning situations and topics that would allow

me to be successful post graduation. I can say honestly that I did not experience the classroom environment lacking in professionalism and new social situations that Theisen and Novelly described of students who were homeschooled.

I explain all of this not to argue against Novelly’s assertion that etiquette is needed. Honestly, I completely agree with him. I am writing only to show how impossible it is to assume a certain group of students may need it more than others, or to correlate homeschooling and education at small schools with a lack of professionalism or new social situations.

I think that every student can benefit from learning basic professional skills and experiencing social situations outside their comfort zone, not just those who were homeschooled or educated at smaller schools.

Lydia Ivkovich, senior

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Dearborn Michiganders ‘Feel the Bern’ Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hosts rally at UAW union Monday Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to supporters at a UAW rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on Monday.

He discussed the Flint water crisis, education, increasing minimum wage, foreign policy, and re-industrializing the American economy.

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By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Dearborn, Michigan — Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied a crowd of local blue collar workers, establishment socialists, LGBT rights activists, and enthusiastic college students with his pro-working class message at a rally at the United Auto Workers’ union Local 600 in Dearborn Monday evening.

In his first Michigan campaign visit for this year’s presidential elections, Sanders tailored his stump speech to his audience — again promising assistance in the wake of the Flint water crisis.

“Imagine being the mom of a bright young daughter and seeing that child mentally deteriorate in front of your eyes from being a bright good student to a student who is now, I believe, in special ed,” Sanders said. “I feel very much that Flint is the canary in the coal mine here.”

Sanders said that as president, he would create an economy that works for the working class, investing 1 trillion dollars in infrastructure, create 13 million decent-paying jobs, and raise the “starvation” wage of $7.25 per hour to $15.

“We are living in a nation which has more income and wealth inequality than virtual-

ly any major nation on earth,” he added. “Together we’re going to create an economy that works for the working class, not just the one percent. We are going to rebuild cities like Flint.”

Held in the industrial sector of Dearborn, the rally attracted a variety of attendees.

Jaq Arntfield, a supporter who travelled from Jefferson County, Ohio, to help with crowd

work! We want work!” the crowds yelled sporadically in the hour before the event began.

“I think he’s the best candidate for us economically and foreign policy-wise,” Richard Walker, a Sanders supporter said. “His economic plan is far and away the best of all the candidates. He properly supports the best interests of the middle class and the poor in

ing Muslims from the country, the Dearborn crowd jeered: Dearborn has the highest Muslim population in the United States. The Local 600 UAW is surrounded by Arab-American-owned eateries and businesses.

According to Sanders, de-industrialization is the cause of the disappearance of the middle class. The senator explained that he wants

former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to secure an endorsement from UAW. While the organization has not pledged support to either candidate so far, UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada is a firm Sanders supporter.

“Bernie talks the talk and walks the walk on picket lines with workers,” Estrada tweeted on Feb. 4.

“I’m angry that some would

“The thing he’s most vocal about is the income inequality, and the disparities in general when it comes to social issues — specifically white privilege and mass incarceration. I support him because I feel like he’s our best chance at actually actualizing on a lot of the issues that we’ve been frustrated about.” control, happily expressed her enthusiasm: “He believes in everything that I have ever since I can remember,” Arntfield said. “It’s amazing to see somebody who can really help us create the change come along and run for president.”

Hundreds of supporters waited in the snow for hours to be admitted to the invitation-only event, forming a line which stretched around the UAW building.

“We want work! We want

this country.”

“The thing he’s most vocal about is the income inequality, and the disparities in general when it comes to social issues — specifically white privilege and mass incarceration,” Sanders supporter Rasha Almulaiki added. “I support him because I feel like he’s our best chance at actually actualizing on a lot of the issues that we’ve been frustrated about.”

When Sanders mentioned Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s policy of exclud-

to bring industry from China back to America.

“We do not need unfettered free trade, we need fair trade,” he said, to loud cheers.

Sanders also attacked the policies former presidents, especially George W. Bush’s administration’s Middle East policy.

“If we can rebuild villages in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can damn well rebuild Flint, Michigan,” Sanders said.

The socialist candidate has struggled against opponent

imply that Women who support Bernie don’t support women. Not productive not true!” she tweeted at Sanders and Clinton on Feb. 9.

On his tuition-free education policy, Sanders went all out.

“Last I heard, getting an education is not a crime to be punished,” he said, to ecstatic cheers. “I believe that in the year 2016 when we talk about public education, it’s not good enough just to be talking about first grade through 12th grade,

we’ve got to make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free.”

Attendees were optimistic about his ability to pay for such an extensive project.

“He’s going to invest in that and cut costs in other areas,” said Laurie Cheaito of Dearborn, whose interest in Sanders as a candidate she said was peaked in the last few debates.

“I think it’s doable,” Sanders supporter Rasha Almulaiki said, of his tuition-free education policy. “I think that the ones who are saying that it’s not realistic are the ones who are not willing to give up the large amounts of money that are put into the military instead of fostering education at home.”

Arntfield said that her young daughter wishes she could vote for Sanders in the upcoming election, citing free education, a $15 minimum wage, and LGBT rights, and women’s rights her own top concerns this election. Arntfield will vote for them both at the March 8 primary.

“I was telling my daughter about him… I said, ‘I’m doing this for you, for your future,’” Arntfield said.

Council adopts new social media policy By | Nicholas Rowan Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale City Council voted to pass a new social media policy for city employees at its Feb. 15 meeting, although both the council and the public expressed a general dislike for the policy’s wording. The policy permits the city government to fire any employee who speaks inappropriately on social media.

Hillsdale City Attorney Tom Thompson said the policy is intended to make employees aware of the consequences of criticizing city government.

While the council agreed it was necessary to have such a policy, council members disagreed over its wording.

Councilman Brian Watkins said the policy ought to be

reworded, but he felt the city should implement the policy even if it was not perfect.

“Having a policy in place is super important,” he said.

“I’m in favor of clarifying the

poration to clarify his point.

“Aside from there being no references to elected and appointed officials, their policy is basically the same thing as ours. Only the wording was

be the city of Hillsdale or a car manufacturer. There should be consequences for employees that do.”

He suggested the council adopt a more encouraging pol-

for ‘what we expect of you as an employer’ and ‘this is what we hope you’ll do whether elected or appointed.’”

Cambria Township resident Jeff King said the policy

“The intent of the policy is not to find a way to fire somebody, but to express the guidelines for ‘what we expect of you as an employer.’” wording later on, but it’s good at least to have one right now.”

Watkins reminded the council that the city is a municipal corporation and should therefore adopt a social media policy like those in private corporations. He used the example of Toyota Motor Cor-

much more clear and positive,” Watkins said. “As elected officials, we’re only held accountable by the people for the most part. At the same time, from an employee standpoint, it’s a little different. You don’t want your employees bad-mouthing your company, whether it

icy in the future so employees will not feel restrained by the policy.

“The biggest issues with our policy are the confusing and unfriendly wording,” he said.

“The intent of the policy is not to find a way to fire somebody, but to express the guidelines

could be inadvertently detrimental to city employees because of its wording, especially with regards to how employees can be fired for using the city’s logo or images of city officials in an unauthorized fashion.

“There’s no need to rush this policy,” King said. “I re-

cently posted a link to a Hillsdale News article on Facebook.

You think that’d be fine. But immediately it came up with a picture of city manager Mackie. If I was a city employee, I could be fired for using his image in an unauthorized way.

That’s not right.”

Councilman Bruce Sharp said the practice of using social media inherently leads to dispute. He disavowed the medium entirely and said people should always communicate in more traditional ways because the way people often post on social media causes a snowball effect of unnecessary arguments and confusion.

“It’s like what Dr. King said,” he said. “Stub your toe and next thing you know, you’re having it amputated.”

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Welcome, Hillsdale Hospital HCHC board members vote to change name to ‘Hillsdale Hospital’ By | Josephine von Dohlen said that the committee sought to be “thorough and Collegian Freelancer exhaustive,” even seeking the A committee of Hillsdale assistance of students in the Community Health Hillsdale College Marketing Center board members, Department to survey the hospital administrators, community. and community members Judy Gabriele, Director voted to change their name of Development at the to Hillsdale Hospital in Hillsdale Hospital, said November 2015. A new sign and logo displaying the new name were implemented Jan. 1.

The name change, however simple, was not in haste.

“We were required by charters to seek a corporation of directors, a board of trustees, and members, to either sell the hospital or change the name,” Jeremiah Hodshire, Director of Organizational Business Development at Hillsdale Hospital and a 1999 Hillsdale College the community responded graduate, explained. positively to the change.

Hodshire said the idea had “People have said that been played with for about they have always called it 12 years, and the committee Hillsdale Hospital…I have met regularly for the past not seen any negativity year and a half. Hodshire whatsoever,” Gabriele said.

Hodshire concurred, calling the name change “truly in alignment” both with what the community knows the institution to be and with what their services offer.

In the hospital’s press release on the issue, CEO and President of Hillsdale

improving our technology, services and by embracing growth. Now our name better suits what we’ve become.”

Gabriele said the hospital was afraid that other communities saw the Hillsdale Community Health Center as a clinic, but also

-caliber health services.

As Hodshire explained, the Hillsdale Community Health Center did not want to get confused with the Federally Qualified Health Center on Carleton Road.

Hodshire expressed that the Hillsdale Community Health Center itself had, and

“Our longstanding mission is to provide quality, compassionate healthcare throughout the communities we serve. We’ve fulfilled this through constantly improving our technology, services, and by embracing growth. Now, our name better suits what we’ve become.”

Hospital Duke Anderson said, “Our longstanding mission is to provide quality, compassionate healthcare throughout the communities we serve. We’ve fulfilled this through constantly

said the hospital’s services include more than what a clinic offers. These services include women’s health, cardio pulmonary care, rehabilitation, and bariatric surgery, among other high

City clerk seeks Election Day volunteers By | Jessie Fox

Assistant Editor The Hillsdale City Clerk’s Office is looking for registered voters to work in the polling locations on the three Election Days in the upcoming year, and Hillsdale students could be viable applicants.

The only requirement to work in the polling locations is to be a registered voter within the state of Michigan.

Poll workers will be involved with elections on March 8,

August 9, and November 8.

Election workers typically arrive around 6 a.m. to set up the polls and work until 10 p.m. at the latest. These 14-hour days are filled with an assortment of jobs.

“It’s mostly working polls, greeting people, making sure they’re registered, and giving them a ballot,” Hillsdale City Clerk Stephen French said.

Workers are paid $8.50 per hour. Both lunch and dinner are provided on election days.

Prior to working at the

first election, workers will attend a two-hour training session this month.

Interested applicants can fill out an online application, or stop into French’s office to fill out the application.

French emphasized that the process needs to occur in the next few weeks.

“It would need to be pretty quick,” French said.

“Training is this month so they would need to do this in the next couple of weeks.”

French said homeschooled students have worked in

past election years, but was unsure if Hillsdale students had accompanied them. He said, however, that young workers are beneficial as they are comfortable with technology.

“With the growth of technology with computers and laptops, a lot of older workers are fearful of learning how to work a computer,” French said.

“Young people are more used to using touch screens and computers everyday.”

CAPA hosts first annual charity ball By | Amanda Tindall

Features Editor

With snowflakes dangling from the ceiling, and gowns glittering with every movement, Johnny T’s Next Door sparkled for the Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness of Hillsdale County Children’s Charity Ball Feb. 13.

According to CAPA Executive Director Bill Lundberg, the monetary goal of the event was $10-15,000.

Although the final numbers

were not available for the Collegian, Lundberg said the event was very successful.

The event was hosted in memory of Trey Bowman, who passed away in May 2000, from what were supposed to be complications from Shaken Baby Syndrome.

The money raised will go to to help the “Baby Think It Over” Campaign, which sends baby simulators home with students to simulate the responsibility of having a baby.

According to Board

President Denise Potter, abuse poses a serious threat to children in the county.

“When I first joined CAPA, I was pretty naive about what was going on in the community when it comes to abuse,” Potter said. “I sell insurance for a living, so you know, so I was pretty naive to that, so being involved made me more aware, more educated about what’s needed in our local schools to teach them about good touch, bad touch and things like that.”

Paula and Chad Haynes

attended the event because they adopted two children from the area who were in foster care.

“It’s something that’s close to our hearts,” Paula Haynes said. “We’ve adopted two children who were taken out of a very bad situation. Being in education and having our two children whom we adopted has made us aware of the problems.”

Those interested in donating to CAPA can find more information online at capahillsdale.net.

“grown to far capacities;” they naturally sought a name that captured the fullness of their abilities.

2015 was fitting for a name change because it was the hospital’s centennial

anniversary.

Leaving behind the slogan, “Large enough to be of service…small enough to care,” and taking on, “Caring.

Commitment. Community,” Gabriele said the hospital’s values will not change.

“I think with all three words it describes us,” Gabriele said. “We are caring, we are committed to what we do, and we are committed to our community. It shows a lot about who we are and what we do.”

Freshman Andres Torres, a Hillsdale Hospital volunteer, said the name change was “mostly a name thing…everyone has been calling it that, even before it was official.”

Other than the excitement of a new name tag, Torres believes that everything will remain the same.

Hodshire confirmed that no administrative aspects will change at the hospital, and that nothing will change in regards to prices for services.

“It is simply just a name change,” he said.

Broad Street puts eye candy on the menu By | Philip H. DeVoe

Assistant Editor

The Broad Street Underground will host traveling male dance review Girls Night Out next Wednesday, which is based out of Las Vegas and features alumni of the Chippendales and Thunder from Down Under.

“It’s a group of musclebound guys dancing for girls.

No nudity, no promiscuity, no ill-intent,” Underground Manager Kory Osmun said.

According to Osmun, Broadstreet heard about the group through its web-booking system, which allows performance groups to send out their information to local venues and the venues to respond if interested. Osmun said they were in the area during an opening in the Underground’s schedule, so he booked them.

“We’re trying to make Hillsdale a destination spot, where people stop and stay instead of drive through,” he said.

Tickets are available online for $15, or $20 at the door, but VIP passes, which for $40 include a meet-andgreet with the dancers after the show, are sold out. One hundred and thirty five tickets of the 180 have been sold already, which Osmun said is impressive, especially given the fact that most tickets are sold a few days up to a week before the event.

“This exhilarating show revisits classic fantasies and exotic temptations with a new twist... performed with class & style… [and] designed, choreographed and created with one goal in mind – the pleasure of women!” reads the Girls Night Out profile on BandsInTown.

Events like this are Broad Street’s way of trying to find new sources of revenue, while also encouraging customers outside of Hillsdale to travel to Hillsdale for events. Broad Street recently relinquished their carry-out liquor license because of issues with profitability.

“The carry-out license wasn’t profitable, and we are a business,” Osmun said. “We realized we had a large stock of inventory but weren’t selling it, and had to get rid of it.”

Since Broad Street completed the Underground, management has been attempting to use the new space to host events and build up an entertainment hotspot in Hillsdale. They are using events like the Girl’s Night Out group to attract outsiders, but have been implementing events and programs which encourage Hillsdale College

“It’s a group of muscle-bound guys dancing for girls.

No nudity, no promiscuity, no ill-intent.” students to visit the bar on weekly College Nights, a recurring promotional event on Thursday nights.

“We have a team of five college students who work with us to directly run and manage events for which other college students will visit the Underground on Thursday nights,” Osmun said. “We basically give them the keys and let them plan everything.”

Broad Street has also hired a group of students in a Hillsdale marketing class to promote weekend events throughout the college and greater community as part of Broad Street’s goal of building a Hillsdale nightlife scene out of the Underground.

Tickets may be purchased on the Broad Street website for $15 or $20 at the door on Feb. 24 at the Broad Street Underground. The show begins at 7 p.m. and only 21 and over are admitted.

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Women’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball THURSDAY, FEB. 11 Michigan Hillsdale Tech

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StatS from feb. 11 Kyle Cooper Stedman Lowry Nick Archer Zach Miller Ryan Badowski

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SATURDAY, FEB. 13

Thursday, Feb. 18 at ferriS St. 8:00 pm saTurday, Feb 20 VS. grand Valley St. 3:00 pm

South Division 1. Ashland 2. Findlay 3. Walsh 4. Tiffin Wayne St. 6. Lake Erie Ohio Dominican 8. Malone

Northern Mich.

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StatS from feb. 13 Kyle Cooper Ryan Badowski Stedman Lowry Nate Neveau Nick Archer

25 PTS, 12 REB, 1 STL 14 PTS, 5 REB, 1 STL 9 PTS, 3 REB, 2 AST 7 PTS, 8 AST, 2 STL 7 PTS, 2 REB, 1 STL

GLIAC Standings North Division Conf. Overall 1. Saginaw Valley 17-2 21-4 2. Ferris St. 13-6 19-6 3. Lake Superior St. 12-7 17-8 4. Grand Valley St. 10-9 16-9 Hillsdale 10-9 14-9 Northwood 10-9 14-11 7. Michigan Tech 8-11 9-14 8. Northern Mich.

4-15 6-17

Hillsdale

40 PTS, 4 REB, 2 STL 14 PTS, 10 REB, 1 STL 9 PTS, 4 REB, 2 AST 8 PTS, 3 REB, 1 BLK 6 PTS, 1 AST, 1 REB

Conf.

15-4 14-5 10-9 7-12 7-12 6-13 6-13 3-16

Overall 21-4 17-7 12-11 11-15 7-15 9-16 9-16 6-18

THURSDAY, FEB. 11 Michigan Hillsdale Tech

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upcoming

SATURDAY, FEB. 13

Thursday, Feb. 18 at ferriS St. 6:00 pm saTurday, Feb 20 VS. grand Valley St. 1:00 pm

StatS from feb. 11 Allie Dittmer 9 PTS, 4 REB, 1 STL Makenna Ott 7 PTS, 2 REB, 2 AST Brittany Gray 6 PTS, 6 REB, 1 AST Kayla Geffert 6 PTS, 1 AST, 1 STL Morgan Blair 4 PTS, 2 REB, 1 STL

Northern Mich.

Hillsdale

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StatS from feb. 13 Makenna Ott 23 PTS, 4 REB, 2 BLK Allie Dittmer 9 PTS, 10 REB, 1 BLK Allie Dewire 9 PTS, 4 REB Sarah Theut 8 PTS, 2 REB, 2 AST Becca Scherting 6 PTS, 6 REB, 3 STL

GLIAC Standings North Division Conf. Overall 1. Saginaw Valley 14-5 17-7 Michigan Tech 14-5 16-7 3. Grand Valley St. 12-5 18-7 4. Northwood 11-8 15-10 Northern Mich.

11-8 12-13 6. Hillsdale 6-13 9-14 7. Ferris St. 5-14 5-20 8. Lake Superior St. 4-15 5-20

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

Conf.

18-1 14-5 14-5 10-9 5-14 5-14 4-15 4-15

Overall 24-1 19-6 17-7 15-10 10-15 8-17 7-17 6-18

Swimming

Track and Field

Results

New School Records

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lane WHite, ty etcHemendy, noaH HiSer, colby clark- 4X400 3:14.11 todd frickey- 60 m 6.88 emily oren- 5000 m 16:24.36

feb. 20 Hillsdale Tune Up 12:00 PM

Men’s Tennis

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WedneSday, feb. 10-13 GLIAC Championships 1st- Wayne St. 2nd- Grand Valley St. 6th- Hillsdale

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Saturday, feb. 13 HillSdale-9 VS. daemen-0

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Upcoming Saturday, feb. 20 at Paine College 12:00 PM, 3:00 PM Sunday, feb. 21 at Paine College 12:00 PM

WedneSday mar. 9-12 ncaa d-ii cHampionSHipS At Indianapolis, IN

Softball Upcoming friday, feb. 19 at Fairmont St., Francis Marion 3:00 PM 5:00 PM Sunday, feb. 21 at Fairmont St., Mercy 1:00 PM 5:00 PM

Men’s track breaks records, chases qualifying times for nationals By | Evan Carter Web Editor The Hillsdale College men’s track and field team had a successful outing at the Grand Valley Big Meet last weekend, as senior Todd Frickey reclaimed the 60 meter school record, the 4x400 relay team won their race and broke the school record, and the distance medley relay team won their event and came within two seconds of the school record.

Frickey’s 6.86 second record-breaking dash marks the third time the school record has improved in the event this season. Although there aren’t many meets left in the indoor track season, short sprints coach Nate Miller is confident that the competition between Frickey and junior Sergio San Jose Lorza will continue to produce fast times.

“It’s been great having those two guys to train together,” Miller said. “They’re both very supportive of one another.

They’re both very competitive, but very supportive and very happy when the other person does well, which doesn’t always happen.”

Miller also believes that “it’s very possible” one or both of the 60-meter sprinters will run a time fast enough to qualify for the NCAA Division II National meet in March — most likely 6.79 seconds.

Sophomore David Chase, who often ran on the 4x400 relay last indoor track season, ran the 400 meter leg of the DMR on Saturday. He said he was glad he split a sub-49 second 400 and thought it was cool to run a race with the distance runners.

“I was happy to get the win for Tony Wondaal, Caleb Gatchell, and Tanner Schwan-

necke,” Chase said.

In addition to the team’s success in the short sprints and relays at the meet, many of the team’s distance and middle-distance athletes ran times good enough or close to being fast enough to get them into the D-II national meet.

Junior Caleb Gatchell ran the mile in 4:11.33, a personal best time as well as a provisional mark for the national meet, though the time still probably isn’t fast enough to get him into the meet.

Sophomore Tony Wondaal ran a personal best time for the second week in a row, this time running the 3K in 8:24.60.

Wondaal’s time is also a provisional time, but, based on the depth of the potential 3K field at the national meet this year, it is about 15 seconds too slow to make the national meet.

Junior Joe Newcomb also ran a personal best time, run-

SWIM PLACES SIXTH AT GLIACS By | Kat Torres Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College swim team wrapped up its season at the GLIAC tournament this weekend at Mott High School in Waterford Township, Michigan, with a sixth-place overall finish with 298 points.

This is the 15th time since 1989 that the women’s swim team has placed sixth at the conference tournament, matching their place at last year’s GLIAC meet.

The Chargers finished their dual meet season with a record of 7-4-1.

“In many ways, it exceeded what I was expecting. However, we had some untimely injuries and illness that affected what we were trying to do,” head coach Kurt Kirner said.

“In the end I was very proud of the camaraderie and competitiveness of this group.”

The freshman class finished their first season on a high note, particularly the 200 medley relay team. Susanne DeTar, Erla Sigurjonsdottir, Anika Ellingson, and Tiffany Farris placed sixth in the event, recording a school record with a time of 1:46.84.

On the first day of competition, the Chargers were in seventh place with 55 points.

Eleven of the 55 points came

from senior captain Zoe Hopkins, who took eighth place in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 10:27.43.

“It was exciting to watch the freshmen swim so well. As a senior, it’s a good feeling knowing that the team is continuing to get faster,” Hopkins said. “It was also fun to watch the seniors’ last races and be there for each other as we finished off our last season together.

The past four years have gone by so fast it still doesn’t feel like it’s over.”

Senior Sarah Rinaldi was the star Charger of the meet, placing sixth in the 200 individual medley — good enough for a ‘B-cut’ qualifying time for nationals. On the second day of competition, she scored 12 points individually with a seventh place finish in the 400 individual medley.

“As a senior, GLIACs had such a different feel to it,” Rinaldi said. “It was a bittersweet feeling to think that my swimming career would soon be over, and I would no longer be in the pool and in the weight room with these ladies everyday.”

Rinaldi was an important leg in the 400 medley relay, alongside Farris, Ellingson and junior Emily Shallman for a sixth place finish.

After the second day of racing, the swim team had earned 123 points and maintained their seventh place standing.

On the third day, Ellingson swam into second place in the 100 breaststroke. She broke her own school record in the event with a time of 1:03.35. Later, she finished in record-breaking time for a ninth-place finish in the 200 breaststroke. Both of her times are also ‘B-cut’ eligible for nationals.

Hopkins swam in the 500 freestyle for an eighth place finish, as well as the 1650 freestyle, where she finished in sixth place. As it was the last meet for the seniors, the group led the team to a solid finish for the season.

“Anika was outstanding in both breaststroke events and has a very decent shot at being invited to NCAAs. Zoe and Sarah were seniors with experience and swam in finals every night,” Kirner said.

“The seniors were solid. Without them we would have not scored many of our points.

They were the heart and soul of our team, not just this year, but for the last four years.”

The NCAA national meet will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 9.

ning the 5K in 14:36.76. Like the times run by Gatchell and Wondaal, Newcomb’s time is fast enough to qualify for the national meet, but probably not fast enough to earn him a spot in the meet.

Still, Newcomb believes that if he runs a smart race at the GLIAC Conference Championship on Feb. 27, he’s in good enough shape to run a time that will get him into the national meet.

“I’m feeling pretty good.

Workouts have been pretty great and obviously I provo’d for the first time ever last week in indoor track,” Newcomb said. “I wanted to run faster, and based on my training I can run faster than I did last weekend.”

Based off of the improvement his teammates have made this season and looking ahead to the final three meets, Newcomb is confident about

Sophomore David Chase runs 400-meter portion of the DMR on Saturday. Hillsdale won the relay. David Mexicotte | Courtesy

what the team can accomplish.

“Overall our whole program on the men’s side is pretty young and we’re really talented,” he said.

This Saturday, starting at noon, the team will compete in their final home indoor track meet of the season at the Hillsdale Tune Up.

Softball SwingS into SeaSon

By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor After finishing third place in the GLIAC tournament last year, the Hillsdale College softball team will look to build on its success this season. The Chargers will open their season tomorrow against Fairmont State University in South Carolina.

As the Chargers only lost three seniors at the end of last year, head coach Joe Abraham said the team consists almost entirely of returning players.

“This year, to a large degree, has been a continuation of last year,” he said. “Since there are only three freshmen, we can jump right back into the way we do things.”

In addition to the large amount of experienced team members, Abraham said the team is well-rounded in terms of talent.

“We’re a pretty well-balanced team in all aspects of the game — hitting, pitching, batting — and we have a ton of experience on-field,” he said.

“We do not lack game experience.”

Despite ample experience

and talent, this year’s team consists of only 14 players, leaving little room for potential injuries or illness. The smaller size, however, has also helped produce a close-knit team.

“Our team chemistry is really good,” freshman second baseman Amanda Marra said.

“We all get along really well, which is reflected in the way we play. We play for each other.”

The two new assistant coaches, Kate Ardrey ’15 and Tristan Wilcox, both said their first year as Hillsdale coaches is off to a good start.

“It’s going really well,” Wilcox said. “I enjoy working with the team. It’s a great group of girls. They’re really coachable.”

According to junior center fielder Bekah Kastning, the feeling is mutual. Kastning said the new assistant coaches have helped to implement more drills and offer additional perspectives.

“We love them,” she said.

“We think they’ve been a great addition to the team. We miss the old coach, but a fresh perspective is always good.”

An additional challenge facing the team this year is

a shortened opportunity for out-of-conference games. Due to the late spring break, Abraham said the team will not travel to Florida like it usually does, as other schools’ spring breaks do not overlap with Hillsdale’s break. The Chargers usually play anywhere from 15-25 games out of conference, but this year, Abraham said the team will only play eight.

Despite the lack of out-of-conference game opportunities and fierce competition from within the conference, Kastning said hopes remain high for a strong season.

“Our whole team really wants to win the conference,” she said. “This team is by far the best that the program has had.”

Abraham said his goals for the team are primarily process-based, short-term goals.

“My goals as a coach are to play as well as we can, and let the chips fall where they may,” he said.

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Baseball hopes youth and maturity lead to GLIAC championship By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor Although your frozen hair may suggest otherwise, baseball season has arrived.

The Hillsdale College baseball team will open play this Saturday as the Chargers travel to Augusta, Georgia, to play a three-game set against Paine College. The teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday followed by a single game on Sunday.

Third-year head coach Eric Theisen expressed the importance of getting off to a fast start.

“I have talked a lot in the past about how we want to hit our peak in May,” Theisen said. “This year we want to to hit our peak sooner and stay there.”

Senior captain Mitchell Gatt, a right-handed pitcher, echoed this sentiment and explained the structure of this year’s team.

“We have a lot of experience coming from our seniors, which is always good,” he said.

“Behind them we have a big freshmen class pushing them and trying to win a starting position. That is making everyone better ball players.”

When Gatt calls the freshmen class big, he is not overstating it. The team has 15 new

members this year, the largest incoming class in Theisen’s time at Hillsdale.

“We are graduating 11 seniors after this year, so we really wanted to add depth through this class. This means that these young guys can have a year with the seniors and learn from them,” Theisen said.

These freshmen, however, will not simply sit and watch this season. In fact, Theisen expects many of them to see some playing time and make an immediate impact.

One such freshman is Jonathan Lapshan, who will be the lone left-handed pitcher on the team. This means that Lapshan could be utilized in a variety of roles right away. This prospect excites Lapshan.

“Prior to his year I was always a starting pitcher, but with the circumstances it’s likely I’ll be a reliever, which is fine by me,” Lapshan said. “In the end, team comes first.”

Despite his confidence, Lapshan admits that the collegiate game is on another level, and that there has been an adjustment period for the freshmen.

“Most of us in high school were physically bigger and stronger than most of the other high school athletes we faced,” he said. “Now, with teammates

who are 21 and 22 years old, it’s humbling to see how athletic and strong they are.”

For every member of the team, freshmen and seniors alike, the goal is to win the GLIAC championship. Gatt explained that although this is the goal every year, in the past the biggest obstacle has been mental toughness, rather than on-field talent.

“It seems that sometimes when we lose a game we start to panic,” Gatt said. “This year when we lose a game we want to calm ourselves down and move on to the next one. We aren’t trying to be undefeated.

We have to put those games aside.”

The first step towards this goal would be making the GLIAC playoffs, which are reserved for the top six teams in the conference, something that Theisen believes is within reach.

“This is a big, confident group of guys, and so we’re looking forward to letting them go have some fun and seeing what they can do,” he said.

Assistant coach Gordie Theisen — who is head coach Eric Theisen’s father, volunteer assistant Pat Dillon, and former Hillsdale player Shane Armstrong ‘15 will round out the coaching staff for the sea-

Senior first baseman Nick Sponseller takes batting practice in preparation for the team’s season opener in Augusta, Georgia, this weekend. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

son. This will be Armstrong’s first season as a coach, but Theisen believes that he has already made a mark.

“Having Shane on the staff has been huge,” Theisen said.

“It has let us spread out a little bit more, which is always a positive. He is a really hard worker. You want to get ‘the H’ to as many places as possible.”

Armstrong noted that having just graduated gives him a

unique angle when it comes to recruiting.

“When I go watch guys I am able to compare them to players that I played with, or against, while at Hillsdale,” he said. “That gives me a pretty good idea of who we should target. Then it’s all about trying to get them to come here.”

Although the team has been unable to practice on their field as of yet, they have made the most of the opportunities pro-

vided by the unusually warm winter. The team has been using the turf football field to conduct full speed scrimmages, Theisen said.

“Sometimes these early games and practices can show a little rust, and put a little bit of wear and tear on the guys,” Theisen said. “But when you get down there you have no choice but to be ready to play, and we will be.”

in Ohio after only a vaulting at the Olympics.

Caldwell, from A10 pionship few months of practicing.

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the throwers maintained their consistent progress. Junior captain Dana Newell won the weight throw with a throw of 18.59 meters — coming very close to the record — while sophomore Rachael Tolsma placed fourth with a throw of 17.86 meters. Both improved upon their spots on the provisional list, advancing Newell to eighth and Tolsma to 18th.

“With where I’m at now — unless something bizarre happens — I’m pretty much going to nationals,” Newell said. “The atmosphere in the weight room is really good. We are all trying to push each other to do as much as we can.”

Although the team is ranked first in the nation, Towne does not want ranking to distract from the ultimate goal of scoring points at GLIACs and nationals.

“It’s nice but it really doesn’t change our focus,” Towne said.

“We could have the greatest team in Division II history but if we don’t win the NCAA or GLIAC title I really don’t care. We’re not trying to be ranked in the top four, we’re trying to finish in the top four and be a podium team.”

On Saturday, the Chargers will host the Tune Up meet at the Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center. This will be the last home meet of the season and the last meet before the GLIAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 27.

Senior Emily Oren (right) broke the school record in the 5K on Saturday with a time of 16:24.36. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

countries.

“It’s just awesome; you meet all these new people and have all these neat experiences,” Caldwell said, adding she ate an octopus after seeing it move around minutes before and visited a Buddhist temple.

Caldwell said she is hoping to do some more exploring soon — this time in Brazil.

Ever since she can remember, when someone asked Caldwell what she wanted to be when she grew up, she responded: an Olympian.

“I didn’t really have a job in mind like everybody else,” she said. “I just wanted to go to the Olympics.”

Caldwell said she can’t remember what inspired that dream, but she loved gymnastics as a child and enjoyed watching the competitions on television.

“I really wanted to be one of those people that people wanted to see and to win the Olympics and be called the best in the world at something,” Caldwell said. “That’s always been an amazing thought to me.”

During the eighth grade, Caldwell injured herself, which forced her to take a break from gymnastics. Her brother ran track, so she said she thought she would try it. She beat several records in sprint events.

“I thought, ‘I should do this again,’ because I got so much attention from it,” Caldwell said.

In high school, she ran track again, but once her coach learned she had done gymnastics, he suggested pole vaulting.

“It was a lot like gymnastics, so I thought it was a lot of fun,” Caldwell said.

As a freshman, Caldwell took second at the state cham-

“I said, ‘Okay, I’m good at this,’” Caldwell said.

Towne agreed — once he found out she pole vaulted. While recruiting her for sprinting, he called Caldwell multiple times during the evening — he knew when her gymnastics practice ended.

She refused to pick up at first because she had full-tuition scholarships to NCAA Division I institutions.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, man, I don’t really want to go to Michigan,’” she said.

Towne promised to stop calling her, especially after learning she held the high school pole vaulting record in Ohio, if Caldwell visited Hillsdale once. She obliged. Her trip changed everything.

Not only did the athletic facilities impress Caldwell but the classes and students, too.

“I felt like I fit right in,” Caldwell said. “I was like, ‘These people are awesome!

The students are so nice, and the professors are great.’ I loved all the people in the athletics building.”

At the end of the day, all Caldwell said she could do was sit down and think: “Oh my gosh, am I really going to go to this rinky-dink Division II school?”

After just one day of praying on it, Caldwell said, she felt God was pulling her to attend Hillsdale.

Throughout her college experience, Caldwell participated in many different track and field events, but as a senior, she started to focus on pole vaulting.

“She wasn’t really where she wanted to be at that stage in her career,” Towne said.

Nonetheless, her goal remained set on one day pole

was very confident, very assertive, and that was something at the very least she was going to give her best effort to,” Towne said.

She traveled to Jonesboro to train with Bell at a pole vaulting camp four times throughout the year.

“She made some progress during her junior year but not as much as she would have liked,” Towne said. “We thought it was in her best interest in that particular case.”

After training with Bell, Caldwell’s jump increased from 13 feet, 4 inches, to 14 feet, 5 inches, which set a new NCAA Championships outdoor track and field pole vaulting record along with a competitor from Ashland University in 2013.

“I’m just really fortunate the Hillsdale College coaches were such good coaches because we would talk about what I learned at pole vault camp,” Caldwell said. “They helped me figure out pole vaulting.”

Hayden Park Fitness Director Bill Lundberg, who participated in the Olympic trials in 1976 and 1980, said he did not know of any Hillsdale alumni who have participated in the actual games before, though a few have competed in past trials.

Even if Caldwell doesn’t make it, however, she still has time. Many pole vaulters continue to compete into their mid-30s and some into their early 40s, she said.

“This definitely is not my only shot,” Caldwell said.

And Hillsdale will continue to cheer her on.

“We’re excited to see how things shake out,” Towne said.

“She’s very well-positioned.”

win this week if we play the way we know we can play, and we play hard every second of the game,” Ott said.

The Chargers (9-14, 6-13 GLIAC) will attempt to break a six-game losing streak at Ferris State at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

They return home to take on

Grand Valley State at 1 p.m.

Saturday.

“We’re really hungry and really ready to play this week,” Geffert said. “We’re focusing on improving what we have right now and putting ourselves in the best position for next season.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS SIXTH STRAIGHT GAME

By | Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team fell to Michigan Tech 68-41 Thursday and lost hold of Northern Michigan in a 58-57 loss Saturday after the Wildcats answered a Charger layup with a last-second score of their own.

“We’ve definitely improved so much these past couple weeks,” freshman forward Makenna Ott said. “We’ve been playing good teams, and we’ve battled with them.”

The Chargers lost 68-41 to the Huskies, who are tied for second place in the GLIAC, in a low-scoring defensive battle on Thursday. Tight defense and turnovers on both sides kept the scored tied at zero for the first two-and-a-half minutes of the game. The Chargers were unable to outmaneuver the Huskies’ defense, finishing with a 20.8 field goal shooting percentage in their lowest-scoring game of the season.

Head coach Todd Mittmesser declined to comment after the game.

“The Michigan Tech game was a wake-up call,” senior guard Kayla Geffert said. “We had to regroup and refocus

what we were trying to do on offense and defense.”

Sophomore Allie Dittmer was a bright spot again in the post position with nine points and nine rebounds, and a 3-point shot at the buzzer from Geffert showed a glimpse of the rapid-fire Charger offense.

Geffert’s spark carried the Chargers into an electric Pink Game against Northern Michigan on Saturday afternoon.

The Chargers came out full speed, gaining a quick lead that carried from the first quarter until the middle of the fourth.

“The Northern Michigan game was a lot better after Thursday’s game,” Geffert said.

“We executed and shut down their offense. We were able to use our quickness, because they were tall, but we could get past them.”

The Chargers sliced through the Wildcat defense for 20 points in the paint, as well as opening the floor for outside shots.

“The game is more fun when we’re moving the ball,” freshman guard Allie Dewire said. “For me, getting a good assist is as good as scoring a basket.”

This offensive charge

spurred Ott to the best game of her career. The freshman scored 23 points, including 5-for-7 shooting from outside the three point line.

“We definitely try to play all around,” Ott said. “You can’t just be a shooter, or just a driver. Playing as a team is so important, because then we’re able to move the ball and make plays.”

Northern Michigan’s Bre Gaspervich matched Ott almost shot-for-shot throughout the second half. Gaspervich scored 26 points, putting the Wildcats up by one point with less than 30 seconds left in the game.

Then senior forward Sarah Theut drove past three Wildcat defenders for a layup that put the Chargers up by one point with eight seconds left in the game.

But the Wildcats raced down the court for a layup of their own with six seconds remaining to defeat the Chargers 58-57.

“In retrospect, it was a difficult loss, but the team energy, the skill, everything was there for us,” Dewire said. “We’ve played a handful of games down to the wire, but we haven’t been able to put them

away. Right now, we’re focused on proving to ourselves that we can beat these teams.”

As the Chargers near the end of the season, they look to follow through on the improvement they’ve made since November.

“I really believe that we can

Freshman forward Makenna Ott looks to score in Hillsdale’s 58-57 loss to Northern Michigan on Saturday. Ott led the Chargers with 23 points. Brendan Miller | Collegian

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By|Nathanael Meadowcroft gency in that second half. We fed off each other’s energy and Sports Editor the energy from the crowd, For the first 20 minutes last which made us a lot toughThursday night against the er defensively,” Archer said.

Michigan Tech Huskies, the “When we play that way we’re Hillsdale College men’s bas- tough to beat. The trick is to be ketball team looked sluggish. able to put forth that sort of efThe Chargers needed a win fort for 40 minutes.”

Archer finished with nine to stay in the GLIAC tournament picture, but they trailed points and three rebounds, but the Huskies 37-24 at halftime his impact was felt beyond the in front of a home crowd that stat sheet.

“He played really, really had witnessed two straight strong this weekend,” Tharp comeback efforts fall short.

For the second 20 minutes, said. “He was a big boost for however, Hillsdale looked like our team and our energy. He a different team. The Chargers got some steals and worked in shut down Michigan Tech’s of- the post.”

With his team facing anfense and jump-started their own, outscoring the Huskies other second-half double-dig42-24 in the second half to win it deficit, Tharp said it was Archer who got the Chargers 66-61.

Hillsdale won its second back on track.

“When we go through a straight game on Saturday, shooting past the Northern season as long as we do and Michigan Wildcats 85-70 to you have the ups and downs improve to 10-9 in the GLI- — and none of us like those AC and move into a four-way downs — you need some guys tie for sixth place in the GLI- to snap you out of it,” Tharp AC with three regular-season said. “I thought he did.”

The Chargers used an 18-7 games remaining.

But the Chargers would be run to draw even with the on the outside of the tourna- Huskies at 54-54 with 5:58 ment if they hadn’t pulled out remaining, and took the lead a win against the Huskies on for good when senior point guard Zach Miller and sophFeb. 11.

“You almost saw a small omore guard Stedman Lowry sample size of our season hit back-to-back 3-pointers to within that game,” Chargers give Hillsdale a six-point lead head coach John Tharp said. with less than a minute left.

“For us to start out slowly “We were much better defensively the second half than we like that and then pull ourwere the first half. I thought we selves out in the middle of the game and get a win was huge wore them down.”

The Chargers forced 11 for us and allows us to see that turnovers in the second half we can win these basketball alone, several of which were games,” said senior forward the result of junior forward Kyle Cooper, who led the Nick Archer’s physical inside Chargers with 25 points and 12 rebounds. “We saw the forplay.

“We had a great sense of ur- mula that we need to execute

to win, and that’s being really active on the defensive end, and running spaced motion on the offensive end.”

The Chargers didn’t need a dramatic comeback to defeat the Northern Michigan Wildcats on Saturday, as their offense got the job done. Hillsdale finished with a 63-percent shooting clip (32-for-51) from the field, thanks in large part to Cooper’s third-career 40-point performance. Cooper, who leads the GLIAC with 22.9 points per game and was awarded his fourth GLIAC North Player of the Week award of the season on Monday, shot 81 percent (13for-16) from the field and 80 percent (4-for-5) from 3-point territory.

“We got him the ball in the right positions on the floor,” Tharp said. “I wouldn’t have guessed he had 40. I don’t know if you can have a quiet 40 or not but he had that quiet game. He just did it inside, he did it outside, he did it at the free throw line, did it in transition, had a couple offensive rebounds. He was pretty impressive.”

Cooper said the Chargers were “due” for a good shooting performance.

“It feels like it had been forever since we had a good shooting day. But really I think it came down to just taking our time on offense,” Cooper said. “We didn’t try to force too many things. It was more about setting good screens and getting each other open.”

To preserve “freshness,” Tharp gave his players Sunday and Monday off before they began to prepare for tonight’s game at fourth-place Ferris

State at 8 p.m.

“There’s things that we’ve learned from the first game.

Ferris State is just incredibly athletic,” Tharp said. “They offensive rebound incredibly well, they’re really good in transition, they’ve got a lot of guys that can do a lot of different things, so that gives us a certain challenge.”

Hillsdale will return home for a matchup against the Grand Valley Lakers on Saturday at 3 p.m. As it is the final home game of the season, the Chargers will conduct a pregame Senior Day ceremony to honor their graduating seniors.

“It’s going to be really weird to be completely honest,” Miller said. “Knowing that it’s the last time playing out on our home floor with all my boys is going to be weird for me.

I’m sure I’m going to be pretty hyped up early on before it starts but once things get going it’ll be just another game.”

The Chargers are tied with the Lakers in the GLIAC standings, so Cooper, Miller, and other seniors are focused on grabbing the right result.

“I’d love to be able to think about the fact that it’s my last home game and stuff, and that’ll obviously be a big deal and I’ll walk out with my family before the game, but just as important I think is the fact that we’re tied with Grand Valley right now,” Cooper said. “I don’t think there’s any need for any external motivation for that game. It’s going to be huge and I’m just hoping that we can come out with a ton of energy and play a really good basketball game from start to finish.”

Senior forward Kyle Cooper drives to the basket in Hillsdale’s 66-61 win over Michigan Tech on Feb. 11. Cooper was named GLIAC North Division Player of the Week on Monday. Brendan Miller | Collegian

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Sophomore Dugan Delp prepares to hit a backhand in his 6-1, 6-3 win at No. 2 singles in Hillsdale’s first varsity home match in 14 years. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

Men’s tennis sweeps first home match

By | Nick Conger Collegian Freelancer

The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team dominated on Saturday. After a 14-year hiatus, Hillsdale’s new varsity men’s team defeated visiting Daeman College 9-0. With the win, the Chargers improved to 1-1 on the season.

The program returned to varsity status this spring and on Saturday afternoon played its first home match since 2002.

The Chargers won every match in straight sets, and none of the sets reached 6-4.

Leading the Chargers was freshman Justin Hyman at No. 1 singles. Hyman won with a stellar 6-1, 6-0 victory. Sophomore Dugan Delp drilled home a 6-1, 6-3 win at No. 2 singles. Gianpiero Placidi was a 6-3, 6-2 winner at No. 3 sin-

gles, while John Ciraci netted a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 4 singles. Zach Rabitoy clinched his match with a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 5 singles, and Jerry Hewitt finished the sweep with a 6-3, 6-1 win at No. 6 singles.

The Chargers also cruised to three wins in doubles.

“It was fantastic, and we were glad to get back out there for the first time in 14 years,” Chargers head coach Keith Turner said.

Turner, a former coach at nearby Albion College, said he is excited to see how the rest of the year would pan out. Turner said that he was proud of his boys as he has seen steady improvement in their game.

The players, too, were very happy with their performances.

“I was very happy with how my team and I played and glad that we were able to sweep Daeman College,” Hyman

said.

Delp agreed with Hyman.

“We had a great team effort and we were able to accomplish what was needed today,” Delp said.

Both Hyman and Delp agreed that the ultimate goal for Hillsdale this season is to make it to the GLIAC playoffs.

They both believe that this goal will require serious effort, but they said that they are up for the challenge.

“It’s going to be tough as we don’t know many of the teams we are playing so we are going to have to come into every match blind. Still, we are ready to give it our all,” Delp said.

A large number of students and parents came throughout the day to cheer on the Chargers. The next home match will be played on Feb. 26 at 4:30 p.m. against Spring Arbor University. The team hopes for continued support as they

When Kayla Caldwell ’13 qualified for the 2016 Olympic trials for pole vaulting at the KMS Invite in Birmingham, Alabama, on Jan. 31, she said she was angry.

“That day I felt like I was going to jump a personal best,” Caldwell said. “Then my calf cramped up, so I had to stop.”

An hour into her drive home, she said she realized she jumped the needed 14 feet, 5 inches, to meet the standards for Olympic qualification — her first time doing so this season, Caldwell said. Seeing posts from family and friends on her social media, Caldwell said it finally hit her that she was one step closer to accomplishing her dream.

“That’s when it was really exciting and kind of overwhelming,” Caldwell said.

She will attend the 2016 USATF Indoor Track & Field Championships on March 11-12 in Portland, Oregon, in hopes of reaching a 15-foot personal best. On July 8, Caldwell will compete to place in the top 12 at the Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. If she does so, she will participate in the July 10 finals. Those who place in the top three in the finals head to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 2016 Olympic Games starting Aug. 5 with the Team USA. Caldwell trains four to five hours a day, listening to her body as to when to push herself and when to rest. She also works as the head coach for a competitive gymnastics team.

Bell Athletics — owned by three-time Olympian Earl Bell in Jonesboro, Arkansas — has been Caldwell’s training ground since graduating from Hillsdale with physical education and sports studies

degrees. She said she loves working with Bell.

“We get each other really well,” Caldwell said. “We don’t have to say much. Where I’m very high-strung, he’s very relaxed and calm, so when you’re at a meet, it keeps you calm and focused.”

Hillsdale College track and field head coach Andrew Towne said since her time at Hillsdale, Caldwell has been motivated.

“Whether things were go-

ing good or things were going bad, Kayla was always determined that she could do more,” Towne said. “That’s very uncommon, and I think that’s why she’s able to persevere to where she is.”

Caldwell competes, on average, two to three times per month nationally. She has traveled to South Korea twice and Vietnam once for meets, winning one time in both

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Hillsdale alumna Kayla Caldwell ‘13 will compete at the 2016 USATF Indoor Track & Field Championships on March 11-12 and at the Olympic trials on July 8. Kayla Caldwell | Courtesy

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Alumna author releases third novel Ruta Sepetys’ ‘Salt to the Sea’ ‘gives voice to the unheard victims of the greatest maritime tragedy in history’

By |Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter Jan. 30, 1945: Thousands of refugees huddle in a repurposed German luxury liner, desperate to escape the death throes of the Nazi regime. Aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, the decks are crowded, the night is dark, and the silence is haunting.

And then a sound tears through the ship, signalling the beginning of the end: Bang.

In “Salt to the Sea,” the third novel of Hillsdale College alumna Ruta Sepetys ’90, Sepetys establishes herself as a force in historical fiction, expanding her voice and artistic range in an elegiac work that gives voice to the unheard victims of the greatest maritime tragedy in history: the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff late in World War II. Readers of young adult fiction may remember Sepetys from her New York Times best-selling novel “Between Shades of Gray,” a story that challenged teens and adults alike with its unflinching portrayal of Soviet labor camps.

Echoes of Sepetys’ 2011 debut novel run through “Salt to the Sea”: Joana, one of the main characters, is a cousin of Lina, the protagonist in “Between Shades of Gray.” The family tie between the cousins adds scope and resonance for readers as they read of guilt and grief in families torn by the war.

In her most recent work of “hidden history,” as she calls it, Sepetys weaves together the fictional voices of four young refugees from countries across Eastern Europe as their flights from

the Nazis converge upon the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship whose fate cost over 9,000 World War II refugees their lives.

Salt to the Sea” excels. Anecdotes drawn directly from interviews with survivors throughout Sepetys’ three years of research lend to the horror of the maritime tragedy. Sepetys is not exaggerating when she writes of mothers tossing their babies overboard in hopes of reaching a lifeboat.

But what truly brings “Salt to the Sea” to life is not the accuracy of the historical facts, but the powerful voices of the fictional characters that humanize it.

The four narrators, on the run for their lives, punctuate their escape attempts in rapid-fire chapters marked by a foreboding refrain: “Guilt is a hunter.

Fate is a hunter.”

Then it’s “shame,” and later, “fear.”

This artful echo marks Sepetys’ growth as a writer. Though her first novel gave Sepetys a reputation for forcing readers to examine the injustice of victims’ suffering, Sepetys makes these daunting questions more poignant in this book through the stark poetry of the dark narratives she weaves together.

And though readers connected with the struggles of the characters in “Between Shades of Gray,” those voices never sang like the personalities in “Salt to the Sea.” If anything, Sepetys’ characters are too individualized, straying toward caricature as each character fulfills a distinct purpose in the novel. Emilia, a young Polish mother, is the source of most of the novel’s symbolism, and Alfred, a German soldier, serves as a vehicle for Nazi political ideology and inhumanity, a means by which Sepetys

conveys much of the novel’s painful historical background.

However, Sepetys does not let her readers off easily. She refuses to place blame on any one person or party. Instead, Sepetys’ depiction of evil is largely abstract. As a Prussian soldier asks late in the novel, “How do you defend yourself against . . . knowing you will surrender to the sea?”

For Sepetys and the characters of “Salt to the Sea,” war darkens the whole world.

Yet this darkness is where the novel is most successful. Amid attempts to give a voice to an untold tragedy, Sepetys allows her characters to founder in questions beyond their grasp.

In “Salt to the Sea,” evil remains unanswerable, but peace is still possible for those who find their way ashore. In the end, the narrators of “Salt to the Sea” find strength and hope in keeping alive the memories of those they have lost.

Sepetys described her reasons for reviving forgotten tragedies in much the same way.

“I found bottles that contained messages that were thrown overboard from some of these refugee ships, and that told me that these souls were desperate for someone, anyone, to know their story,” Sepetys said.

“Salt to the Sea” is a chilling dive into the reality of war. But in a novel that Kirkus Reviews called “heartbreaking, historical, and a little bit hopeful,” Sepetys’ eulogy offers a story of strength in suffering as the victims of the Wilhelm Gustloff finally come up for air.

Art professor gives ‘Glimpse’ into his world

Daughtrey Gallery to feature Professor of Art Sam Knecht’s paintings Feb. 20-March 18 By |Thomas Novelly

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By the time a student graduates from Hillsdale College, he or she will be familiar with at least one of Professor of Art Sam Knecht’s works. His painting, “The Signing of the American Constitution,” graces the cover of the Constitution Reader used for the core Politics 101 course.

But for students who want to see more than just the cover of their textbook, dozens of Knecht’s paintings, ranging from landscapes of Hillsdale County to portraits of his family, will be on display in his exhibit “Glimpses” starting Saturday, Feb. 20,

in Daughtrey Gallery at the Sage Center for the Arts.

Knecht’s been teaching art at the college for almost 40 years, but said most of his paintings on display in “Glimpses” are relatively new works. The selection of landscapes primarily focuses on the state of Michigan and areas near campus.

“Most of it will be fresh within the last two years,” Knecht said. “It’s a mixed theme with a significant number of landscape paintings from the Hillsdale area and the Upper Peninsula. Simply speaking, this is a show of landscape paintings and portraits with some See Knecht, B2

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Mossey library hosts first student art show By | Evan Carter

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The Mossey Library announced the winners of the first Mossey Art Show on Monday, with freshman Lauren Schlientz winning the library staff vote and junior Faith Lamb winning the student vote with her self portrait.

“I’m honored to have been chosen, especially because there were many other beautiful works,” Lamb said in an email. “Thank you to everyone who voted for me! And a huge thank you to Mark Naida for voting for it multiple times.”

According to Public Service Librarian Brenna Wade, the idea for a student art show in the library came from a focus group of student library workers that included seniors Hannah Wolff and Maddie Whitney and junior Jonathan Wolff. Wade said the focus group had previously suggested putting more art in the library before they came up with the idea for the art show.

“Personally, I thought the idea was fun and it seemed to go over well,” Wade said.

Whitney said she hopes to cover more walls in the library with artwork to improve the study environment as well as encourage student writers.

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Freshman Lauren Schlientz and junior Faith Lamb won Mossey Library’s first art show. Evan Carter | Collegian

Over Christmas break, students received an email inviting them to submit one piece of two-dimensional artwork to be judged by students and library staff. By the competition deadline on Jan. 29, the library had received eight submissions The library will display both of the

winning pieces until the end of the semester.

Whitney said she hopes the library will host another art competition in the future.

“We got very high quality pieces,” Whitney said. “Professor Knecht even commented on the quality of

work we received, so we were very thankful to the artist community, and also thankful for the amount of votes we received.”

The 88th Academy Awards: Predictions

By | Philip H. DeVoe

Assistant Editor

Best Picture: “The Revenant” The Best Picture nominees this year are “Bridge of Spies,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Revenant,” “Spotlight,” “The Martian,” “The Big Short,” “Room,” and “Brooklyn.” “The Revenant” is most likely to win best picture this year. Alejandro Inarritu’s directing style and the film’s high level of cinematographic quality aside, the film itself captivated audiences and critics in its retelling of a relatively unknown chapter in American history.

The academy likes true stories, such as “The King’s Speech,” “12 Years A Slave,” and “The Hurt Locker,” but they also like true stories of passion. The passions of

Best Actor: Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo” Of the best actor nominees, Bryan Cranston for “Trumbo,” Matt Damon for “The Martian,” and Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant” have the best chance of winning. Unfortunately, this will not be DiCaprio’s year, even though his acting was superb in director Alejandro Inarritu’s most recent film. Though either Cranston or Damon could take the Oscar, the latter for good acting and the former because “Trumbo” celebrates Hollywood leftism, Cranston will most likely win.

Best Actress: Brie Larson, “Room” Nominees Brie Larson for “Room” and Saoirse Ronan for “Brooklyn” are the top contenders in their category. Ronan’s representation of a lost lover in “Brooklyn” could play out well for her during the awards, but Larson took home the Golden Globe for “Room” and will probably win the Oscar as well.

Best Director: Alejandro Inarritu, “The Revenant Directors Adam McKay for “The Big Short” and Alejandro Inarritu for “The Revenant” are the most likely winners for their category. Inarritu is an academy favorite, and his film captivates a style the voters have favored in the past. The wide, sweeping shots of nature and close, intimate scenes of faces and actions are reminiscent of “American Beauty,” “Life of Pi,” and “Gravity,” all movies directed by previous winners. McKay’s merit comes from the same place as Cranston’s; McKay injected his own brand of Sanders-Holly wo o des que liberalism into Michael Lewis’ story, leaving the voters with an easy way to prove their political beliefs. That being said, they’ll probably respect the tradition and merit of Inarritu and grant him the award.

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Special to the Collegian Best Picture: “The Revenant” Leading the pack with a total of 12 nominations, “The Revenant” is most likely the best picture winner. This film has been gaining momentum as it continues to garner success at other award shows. It captured both a Golden Globe and a British Academy of Film and British Television Award (BAFTA) for best picture earlier this season, both strong indicators toward a best picture win at the Academy Awards.

In “The Revenant,” Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki take viewers on a wild ride so immersive that the struggle of survival, as beautifully acted by Leonardo DiCaprio, becomes palpable. The visceral physicality of the film is made apparent by Lubezki’s use of continuous filming. The camera follows DiCaprio on foot, on horseback, through water, and through air with little editing, yet it is seamlessly choreographed.

Widescreen lenses and up-angle pans brilliantly reflect the scope and power of the landscape. Shot only with natural light, this film rarely succumbs to artificiality and is anchored by DiCaprio’s stellar performance. All of these elements lock this film pretty squarely in the winning position.

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DeVoe and Stetzel declare ‘The Revenant’ clear Best Picture winner Leonardo DiCaprio’s character as contrasted by the rest in the film make the movie a powerful rendition of reality, especially a reality few have experienced.

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Larson, who catapulted to the attention of the Hollywood Foreign Press after her success in “Short Term 12,” is suddenly a Hollywood darling. Larson, a relative newcomer, is the front-runner for the category. She’s swept the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild award, and Critic’s Choice award for her performance in “Room,” making it highly likely she will take home an Academy Award come Sunday.

“Room,” based on the novel of the same name, is about a mother who is held captive with her young son, who knows no other life. Themes of innocence, familial relationships, and the tenacity of the human spirit are at play. As the action of the plot is internalized, Larson’s performance drives the film. Her range is astounding, as Larson is able to grapple with dark subject matter and deliver a layered, nuanced, and thoroughly captivating performance.

Best Director: Alejandro Inarritu, “The Revenant” Inarritu is a clear choice for best director.

This would be his second consecutive win, as he also won last year for directing “Birdman.” Inarritu became the first director in history to win consecutive Director’s Guild of America awards, which makes a strong case for an academy win.

Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant” It’s Leo’s year. Despite being nominated six times for previous works, from “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” to “The Wolf of Wall Street,” DiCaprio will finally go home with an Oscar for his work in “The Revenant.” DiCaprio, a method actor, cut no corners on his performance. He suffered hypothermia, crushed ribs, and even ate a buffalo liver all while giving a gut-wrenching performance about human survival.

The actor has already earned a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild award in this category.

Best Actress: Brie Larson, “Room”

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works that are classroom demonstrations.”

The highlight of the gallery for Knecht is a series of portraits of his twin daughters.

Knecht has painted a new portrait of his daughters every year since they were infants.

He said the portraits showcase not only the growth of the girls but also the growth of his family. Knecht said he put more than 100 hours into the portraits of his twin daughters.

“I’ve tried to do a new portrait of the twins every year as a Christmas gift to my wife,” he said. “They’re 14 now and the whole series will be on display in chronological order.

I’d change up the composition every year to mix it up as well.

“I consider myself a realist and I observe the truth of a scene — carefully, I might add,” he said. “Let’s call me a romantic realist. I try to discover the poetry of a subject while also paying attention to the facts. I look for the poetry of the particular.”

Senior Forester McClatchey is currently in one of Knecht’s art classes, and said the course has given him a deeper appreciation for his artwork.

“It is definitely inspiring to see what our instructor works on,” McClatchey said. “Especially because he has such a broadly applicable, elegant style. To see how much work a

professional artist puts in is simultaneously scary and reassuring.”

Knecht has been painting since he was 16 years old. He said his current style of bold composition and bright colors contrasts markedly with that of his earlier works.

“The work in my early career tended to involve a lot of watercolors, and I was a lot tighter and pickier with details, trying to get by on minutiae,” Knecht said. “In more recent years, I feel like I’ve broadened in that I’ve tried to capture more general qualities of color and imagery without getting quite so fussy.”

Students of Knecht said they enjoy his bold and colorful style. Sophomore Patrick

Lucas said it’s Knecht’s bright use of colors that evokes such great feelings within his pieces.

“I’m so excited to see the show because professor Knecht is like my favorite artist of all time,” Lucas said. “His style is very lush.

It is a rich realism with a lot of colors.”

Knecht said that he has used painting as a way to capture the beauty of nature and those he cares about in a permanent form.

“I’m in love with painting,” Knecht said, “and I just organize my life as best I can to be able to paint the things that I find compelling subjects.”

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Playing dress-up to give preschoolers a step up By | Katie Scheu Collegian Reporter During story time in Sue Walberg’s Head Start preschool classroom, four college volunteers sit criss-cross applesauce among their 3-and-4-yearold peers on the oval-shaped, royal blue rug.

Three little bodies squeeze together on the lap of junior Kathryn Wong, who gives a warning glance to a small friend who has begun to shout. Wong is a familiar face to the children at the Community Action Agency’s preschool. As the leader of Hillsdale College’s GOAL program for the CAA preschool, Wong and a handful of other college students look forward to several hours of tag, dress-up, and crafts every week.

The Head Start programs are federally funded and directed by the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“Established in 1965, Head Start promotes school readiness for children in low-income families by offering educational, nutritional, health, social, and other services,” the program’s website reads.

“Since its inception, Head Start has served more than 32 million children, birth to age 5, and their families. In 2014, Head Start was funded to serve nearly one million children and pregnant women in centers, family homes, and in family child care homes in urban, suburban, and rural communities throughout the nation.”

Seventy percent of the 18 students in Walberg’s classroom come from low-income homes. Within Hillsdale County, there are eight more Head Start centers.

The Head Start program has been in Hillsdale since its initial installment as a summer school in 1965. The sterile-white rooms embellished by scribbled drawings of kitties and laminated reminders to use a tissue are new to students of the college. This is the first year that a GOAL program has existed for the CAA preschool.

“It all started during the Hillsdale mission trip two years ago,” Wong explained. “We just loved the kids. It was a huge success, and the teachers loved having us here. They were understaffed and really worn out.”

Head Start classrooms cap the student to teacher ratio at 10:1, so in a classroom of 18 children, Walberg always has a teacher’s assistant with her.

Carola Thomas, the CAA’s Children’s Program Manager, appreciates the volunteers’ assistance to the teachers, and glowed when she spoke about

their work with the preschoolers: “I just love watching them with the children.

They get down at the children’s level, they’re playing with them, but the children...they’re laughing, they’re happy, they look forward to it. It’s not just the adults in the room standing back watching, it’s the adults totally engaging with the children.”

And this is true.

When the volunteers step into the classroom, the children flock to them, ready to show off their latest tricks and toys. One student guides Wong to a corner, where they don sparkly masks and a feather boa to become the princesses of Hillsdale.

Another attacks senior Spencer Doan, begging for what is surely the best piggyback ride in town.

Sophomore Hannah Kwapisz bends quietly over an iPad and its master, who expertly bounces his fingers around the screen, giddy to win her approval.

“We try to show them a lot of love and affection,” said volunteer and sophomore Jessica Shuler.

She explained that the preschool students seem to function on a variety of levels: some of them chatter away, while others refuse to speak at all.

She clarifies that her job is to show each child kindness and warmth.

On a separate occasion, Wong made the same remark: the volunteers make loving the preschoolers their chief purpose.

“One thing I just love doing with the kids that are less confident and more fearful is interacting with them individually and helping them know that they can do things, and they are accepted and love,” Wong said.

For Wong, this task is as easy as passing a ball back and forth with a timid child. As the satisfying thwack of the ball entering the child’s grasp echos in the gym, the child’s self-confidence expands.

Wong, with her soft encouragements and warm smile, ensures the student that he can do this, that he’s doing great.

“In doing things like that, I really hope and pray that we give the students a little more security and identity, confidence in who they are,” Wong said.

“Even if you don’t remember those things, these moments still form who you are, and so do the reverse. The bad things also form a part of who you are. I really don’t know the relationship of those things, if they can even counteract each other. I sometimes doubt that putting in that little bit of goodness will serve to counteract whatever badness is there. But that is my hope.”

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, speaks at Hillsdale’s Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on February 3. Aaron Sanford | Courtesy

FROM ARTICLE I B4 “The original motivation was efficiency and administration,” Spalding said. “What is has become is really a mess of vast and extensive regulations in every aspect of our lives.”

More recently, however, the debate has returned its focus to the separation of powers that have gone “out of wack,” Spalding said.

He referenced the debates leading up to the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for speaker of the House in October.

“The debate was driven by a push by conservatives to get the majority to focus on legislative powers, balancing budgets, being fiscally responsible,” Spalding said. “The fact that you have a speaker who at least intellectually recognizes that opens this discussion.”

A1P, however, requires more than Congress’ approval, Spalding said.

“When it comes to legislation, it is highly doubtful anything will occur until the next president is in office,” Spalding said. “What you’re doing is setting up and defining the things that would be focused on in the next administration.”

Lee said the president must read the Constitution and believe in its structures of federalism and separation of powers, which the national government has neglected, in order that A1P succeeds.

“It needs to be somebody who has a strong commitment to the Constitution itself, someone who will honor his or her oath to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution,” Lee said. “Honoring the Constitution means more than following whatever portions of the Constitution the Supreme Court is willing to enforce or order.”

Lee said he sees those attributes in his colleagues and GOP presidential contenders Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida.

“I believe they are devoted to restoring those provisions of the Constitution that have been neglected, overlooked over the course of many years,” Lee said.

Until a new administration comes, Lee said he and his colleagues will work on creating bills that return the superior power to Congress as the Founders intended when signing the Constitution.

Winter shorts-wearers answer the question: “Aren’t you cold?”

By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Reporter Between November and February, students dashing from class to class bundled up from headto-toe will throw shocked and mystified stares at sophomore Daniel Visnovsky, who strides through campus in a sweatshirt, a hat, a scarf, and shockingly, shorts.

Men who wear shorts in the cold represent a localized northern U.S. campus phenomenon that garners strange looks, comments, and the question, “Aren’t you cold?!” from the toasty lay people who prefer fleece-lined leggings or long johns underneath jeans.

Sophomore Cecilia Bellet shook her head in disbelief. “Why would you want to abuse your body like that?”

Visnovsky’s response to the incredulous, seasonally-conscious masses was, “There’s no school rule that I have to defend my ‘fashion sense,’ fashion sense in quotes.”

Beyond “fashion sense,” most shorts-wearing people see their choice as more practical.

Senior Aaron Shreck, who labels himself a “reformed winter-shorts-wearer,” explained that at Hillsdale, “you only have to walk a very short distance from your car to school.” He said since he was in an environment where he didn’t have to go outside very much, “I found myself getting hot in buildings in the winter time, so I would wear shorts.”

Senior Erich Steger, from Wisconsin, wore pants and a sweater when he explained his shorts-wearing habit. “I’m required to wear pants for fraternity dress code and labs,” he said. “It’s more appropriate to wear pants and shoes.”

Students can identify Steger by his athletic shorts, a T-shirt, and flip-flops, playing ping-pong in the union when it’s snowing, and running around on the quad barefoot when it’s mild enough to play Ultimate Frisbee.

“For me, my legs and arms are fine,” he said.

“My core will get cold, so I’ll wear coats and hats.

Everything else is just extra.” He gestured at his dressy-casual sweater. “Sweaters are too much.”

While Visnovsky’s decision to pair a tightly

wound scarf with his dark cargo shorts surprises most, Visnovsky conceded that the winter wear “compensates” during the few walking minutes.

“I spend most of my time in the same computer lab, and it’s not very cold in there,” Visnovsky said. “Other than that, I make the joke that I’m one-eighth Norwegian so it’s in my blood. I just don’t care.”

Being Norwegian may have something to do with it, but Visnovsky, who is from Grand Rapids, said that Hillsdale’s climate “an improvement.”

For Florida native sophomore David Stone, climate doesn’t have everything to do with it.

Before his freshman year, Stone had never seen snow or experienced temperature below 35 degrees.

“In Florida, people wear socks with flip flops,” Stone said. “That’s like our winter boot.” When most Floridians who migrate to Michigan would see 25 degrees as the snowpacolypse, Stone decided it was time to adapt to the cold by wearing shorts.

“I get a lot of people who say, ‘You should be bundled up right now!’” Stone said. “They don’t expect a guy from Florida to be wearing shorts. I get crazy looks.”

Stone pointed out that there are two types of shortswearers: guys with higher body temperatures and guys who “push themselves unnecessarily hard.” According to him, the same guys who push themselves too hard to get 4.0s every semester will also choose to wear shorts when everyone else has opted for one or two pairs of pants.

If some do it to push themselves, others, according to senior Colin Wilson, probably do it for the attention. He said the assumption among pants-people is that shorts-people reject winter norms just so they can answer the question, ‘Aren’t you cold?’ with ‘no, I’m from insert-colder-region-here, I’m used to it!’

Whether it’s because they’re always indoors or because it’s in their blood, for Norwegian Visnovsky, “reformed-shorts-wearer” Shreck, flip-flop loving Steger, and Floridian Stone, one thing is for certain: the bizarre looks won’t cause them to compromise comfort.

Annalise Harrison with her first formal instructor, Devan Garcia, performing a showcase at the 2014 Starlite Ball in the Century Center, South Bend. Annalise Harrison | Courtesy

FROM BALLROOOM B4 some lessons with Harrison. “You can sense her love of the dancing, and you can see that she really enjoys watching you get it.”

She cares for the students outside of the classroom as well, junior Abigail Akin said. Akin took Social Dance I with Harrison last year and is now in Social Dance II. “She has a lot of wisdom when it comes to the movement and the theory behind the dance moves,” Akin said.

She wants us to actually know how to do the dances properly, so she teaches us proper footwork and things to practice during the week so we can get the move down the proper way.” In dance therapy, Harrison will work Alzheimer patients and obese patients among others. Though she doesn’t know whether or not she will ever become a professional competitor, she will continue to do what she loves.

“Life is always a journey and you’re always taking steps,” Harrison said. “I don’t think that this is the end.”

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Senator Mike Lee speaks at Hillsdale on restoring Article I powers By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor Standing under “The Signing of the American Constitution” painting, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Ut., introduced an initiative to revive Article I of that document at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship Feb. 3.

“The American people are hurt when Congress refuses to do its job, outsources its job, delegates it job over to the executive branch,” Lee told the Collegian. “The American people become less powerful. Their voice doesn’t matter as much when Congress doesn’t do its job.”

The Article I Project, known as A1P, aims to place the superiority of the federal government into the legislative branch again, returning that power to those who are directly elected by and accountable to the people.

Through new legislation and reinstating traditional regular order, two senators and eight representatives will try to recover Congress’ authority with information and research from Hillsdale College.

“I certainly hope Hillsdale College can be a resource to us and provide us with influential insight,” Lee said. “Hillsdale College is an institution dedicated to the principles of good government and of a constitutionally limited government. It makes it a good fit, as well.”

Lee and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, are leading this Republican, bicameral initiative that looks to reclaim the power of the purse and budget, take back authority over regulation, and redefine standards of executive discretion by drafting new laws. They also look to reform omnibus bills and cliff legislation that threaten government shutdowns.

“It’s been this gradual building realization ever since I’ve gotten here seeing how the

deep the problem really runs,” Lee said. “The fact that most laws are no longer made by Congress, that creates all types of problems.”

Additionally, the representatives and senators look to reestablish regular order, the sequence of steps that Congress uses to make, debate, and pass or reject legislation and appropriate funds.

Matthew Spalding, associate vice president and dean of educational programs for the Kirby Center, said Congress has moved away from regular order because of its delegation of powers to the executive branch.

“There’s an increasing recognition that that’s the problem,” Spalding said. “The most important key to that is rebuilding a strong Congress that understands legislative responsibilities.”

In the meantime, the Kirby Center is working with Republican House leadership, Lee, and others to think about the role of Article I. “The Kirby Center is an extension of Hillsdale’s teaching mission,” Spalding said. “We’re interested in reviving constitutional government and encouraging those who would like to do so but also teaching them the best way to think about constitutional questions.”

Hillsdale will contribute to and push forward discussions by holding events and smaller working groups at the Kirby Center in addition to providing relative information.

“We have studied the Constitution and the way of governing it establishes since the beginning of the college,” President Larry Arnn said in an email. “Now there is a new way of governing, with different objects, and we have studied that, too. We seek to make the contrast known. These are big subjects, and we may be wrong about them, but we take care not to be.”

Lee said two stacks of papers in his office inspired A1P about a year ago. One with only a couple hundred pages is the laws Congress

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Ut, speaks at Hillsdale’s Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship about the Article I Project, an initiative that aims to restore the law-making power of the federal government to the legislature. Aaron Sanford | Courtesy

passed last year while the other, which is 11feet tall with 80,000 pages, contains the federal regulations issued.

“Both sets of documents impose binding obligations on the American people,” Lee said. “The difference is that the small stack is passed into law by elected representatives of the people.”

Lee said having elections makes those in Congress accountable to the American people while administrators in the executive branch are not.

“Minute by minute we have seen Congress delegating its lawmaking power to the executive branch bureaucracy that has diminished the accountability of the federal government to the people,” Lee said. “It hurts Americans.”

Spalding said this outsourcing of power dates to the days of progressivism, beginning in the late 1800s when the country was growing in size and complexity.

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Junior dances into teaching ballroom lessons By |Sarah Chavey Collegian Reporter No one is ever too old or ungraceful to learn to dance, Junior Annalise Harrison said. Based on her rapid progress over just three years, her experiences render the statement true.

Harrison began social dance lessons just three years ago, but is already assistant-teaching social and ballroom dance classes at Hillsdale and competing with other non-professionals (those not paid to teach). After graduating, she plans to study dance therapy and become a professional competitor or dance instructor.

“Ballroom dance captures the beauty of human relationship in a way that no other dance can,” Harrison said. “It gives a connection and a communal aspect to dance that you don’t get in ballet or modern, which tend to be very individualistic. There’s something very significant in creating that human bond connection.”

Harrison never took lessons in ballet growing up. Though Harrison said the lack of experience poses a challenge, she said she believes she can still become an instructor simply through hard work. She believed Mozart and Van Gogh succeeded more because of their intense dedication and time than through simple natural talent.

When she first began, Harrison did not immediately want to pursue dance. It wasn’t until she began taking private lessons that she grew to love it. When she arrived at Hillsdale in fall 2014, she temporarily stopped lessons.

“I really missed dance and I felt like a part of me was dead without it,” Harrison said.

In the spring of 2015, she took time off school to study with

professionals. She came back to school in the fall of 2015, but continued to take private lessons in Ann Arbor, and is now considering transferring to University of Michigan where she would continue her exercise science major and dance minor while cutting down on drive time to and from private lessons each week.

“There’s a lot to lose if I leave,” Harrison said. “I’d be losing a community. There’s not very many places in the world that are willing to ask questions and delve deep into the past and the present. But for me, I don’t think the friendships here won’t be something I keep.”

In the meantime, she assists with the ballroom dance club.

She also voluntarily helps teach the social dance classes— avoiding receiving payment for them so that she may be considered a non-professional and therefore compete with the non-professionals.

She compared the dance competitions to an English essay.

Just like an English essay will be graded on how well it adheres to the format and content required as well as the individual style, so a dancer will be judged on how well they perform the dance and the style, costume, make-up, etc., in which they do it. Already, she has had some success in these competitions.

Meanwhile, her students at Hillsdale appreciate the time she devotes to teaching them dance and caring for them personally.

“She is very helpful since she recently just learned it all herself,” Jackson Bergenquast said. “She uses the same exercises her teachers used on her to practice form and get it down.”

He is a member of the ballroom dance club and has taken

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Junior Annalise Harrison assists in teaching ballroom dance on campus, and she hopes to go into dance therapy when she graduates.

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you were still asking about fashion? But, music is so much more interesting!

How would you describe your style?

A country boy goes to boarding school.

What is your favorite piece of clothing?

What are your fashion staples?

Brant Cohen’s flannel shirt.

Flannel, tweed, elbow-patches... and dog hair (it’s on all my clothing).

Has your style evolved?

No, just different dogs’ hairs.

What inspires your style?

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