9.8.16 Hillsdale Collegian by The Hillsdale Collegian

Road trip President Larry Arnn traveled across country on his motorcylce with his son, old friends, and other Hillsdale administrators.

‘Stranger Things’ The new TV series turns ’80s nostalgia and stellar storytelling into a Netflix show well worth binge-watching. B1

New welcome signs spark criticism Hillsdale citizens criticised the decision by the Hillsdale City Council to replace city welcome signs at Tuesday’s council meeting. A6 Madeline Barry | Collegian

9th best college newspaper in U.S.

Michigan’s oldest college newspaper

By | The Collegian Editorial Staff

The Collegian is the ninth best college newspaper in the United States, according to a list released last week by Princeton Review. “The ranking is a tribute to the hard work and excellent journalism of our students, past and present,” said John Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale. Based on surveys of students across the country, the Princeton Review ranks colleges in 62 categories, publishing the top 20 in each. Hillsdale College placed in seven of

the lists, including, for the first time, Best College Newspaper. The Collegian finished above student newspapers at Yale University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and just below those of Cornell, Brown, Syracuse, and Columbia universities. “All the credit for this recognition goes to our excellent journalism students, who have really improved the quality of The Collegian over the past few years,” said Maria Servold, assistant director of the Dow Journalism Program and Collegian adviser. “I’m also grateful to our readers, who are re-

Freshman recounts time in Israeli special forces

By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief At 18 years old, the average Hillsdale freshman is typically worrying about Western Heritage, getting enough sleep, and gaining 15 pounds. But when freshman Shavit Rootman was 18 years old, he was memorizing Arabic, sleeping in the sand, and carrying a 30-pound machine gun. “The first time you see combat is always the hardest time,”

crossed his mind. Rootman does not have many relatives - just his father, a 15-year veteran and test pilot in the Israeli Air Force — his mother, his brother, and his sister. Rootman never knew his other family members, but was inspired to serve because of his maternal uncle, who was killed in the Israeli-Jordanian conflict in 1968. “Serving in the army is a big deal in Israel, and it meant a lot to me, especially because

Vol. 140 Issue 2 - 8 September 2016

sponsible for our placement.” Since the Princeton Review began its rankings in 1992, it has asked students to evaluate their school’s newspaper, Princeton Review spokeswoman Amy Briskin said. For the 2017 rankings, students surveyed at various times throughout the academic year responded to the question “How do you rate your campus newspaper?” Senior Shayna Fields said she reads The Collegian nearly every week to know what’s happening on campus and in the city. “The Collegian does a great job of bringing all aspects of

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

the community to our attention,” Fields said. “It’s nice to see Hillsdale’s perspective about what’s going on in the world. I get my world news from other media outlets, but it’s great to see what other students or even my friends are saying about it in The Collegian.” The news garnered national attention with shoutouts from Kimberley Strassel, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and former Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism at Hillsdale, on Twitter and radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh on the air. Princeton Review ranked

Freshman class must take physics, chemistry, logic and reason, religion, and philosophy

Copies of Homer’s “The Illiad” are stacked on shelves in Hillsdale College’s bookstore. The class of 2020 will be the first to complete the new core in its entirety, from taking the Great Books and Heritage courses in separate semesters to the new Classical Logic and Rhetoric class. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

By | Kate Patrick Associate Editor Hillsdale College anticipated a $350,000 budget surplus for fiscal year 2016, but because the college received so many charitable gifts, the surplus was a whopping $5.3 million. Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Patrick Flannery said the college plans to use the surplus money for dorm renovations, contributions to its endowment, and

Rootman said. “But I think the training takes over. You just become robotic about it. You don’t think too much about it, especially when you’re 19 or 20.” Rootman is from Hadera, Israel, and came to Hillsdale to pursue a degree in pre-medicine. The 24-year-old had to delay his college education because of his three years of mandatory service in the Israeli Defense Forces. Fighting for Israel may have not been a choice for Rootman, but it was a requirement he embraced, and he chose to serve his time with the IDF’s special operations unit “The Duvdevan.” Unlike the United States, Israel requires all 18 year-old men to serve in its military. But, according to Rootman, many avoid service by faking mental or physical disabilities. Rootman said that never even Follow @HDaleCollegian

my mother lost her only brother in the army,” Rootman said. “There was something to fight for.” Rootman excelled in sports and science classes at his high school in Hadera, taking a keen interest in anatomy and physiology. He was also one of the few members of his class who excelled at basketball. When he graduated high school, and IDF recruitment officers began to see what class of the military would best suit the 18-year-old males, Rootman felt drawn to the special forces. “I was always very interested in the physical and close combat aspect of fighting,” he said. “That basically narrowed it down to the Duvdevan for me. I was nervous, but it made me feel better that everyone was required to serve. I felt ready.” But See Israel B3

Hillsdale’s admissions office does use college rankings, like those from the Princeton Review, in its materials. Senior Director of Admissions Zach Miller said The Collegian’s recognition gives more credibility to the college’s assertion that its journalism program is great. “We’ve always thought it was a world-class collegiate paper, and now we just have more proof to that from a very reputable third party,” Zach Miller said. “We’re very excited about that and will continue to market it and also continue to talk about this whenever we can.”

And you thought the core was big

College surplus 15 times greater than originally expected

Freshman Shavit Rootman, a former Israeli army staff sergent, (right) puts his arm around his comrade Ronen near Jerico, Israel, east of Jerusalem. Shavit Rootman | Courtesy

Hillsdale in its best 381 colleges and as a best Midwestern institution. The college was also No. 1 for Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution, No. 5 for most religious students, No. 6 for Professors Get High Marks, No. 7 for most conservative students, No. 12 for the least amount of marijuana use, No. 14 for most politically active students, No. 15 for students most engaged in community service, and No. 19 in the Stone-Cold Sober Schools category. It was also No. 14 for College City Gets Low Marks and No. 11 for LGBTQ-Unfriendly.

investment in its reserves. The board of trustees will determine the details of how the surplus will be used on Sept. 12 and 13. For fiscal year 2016, which ended in June, the college predicted a much smaller surplus because the stock market performed so poorly. Approximately one third of the college’s budget comes from its endowment, so when the market is down, the college earns less return on its investment.

See Surplus A2

By | Breana Noble News Editor Students in the class of 2020 will be the first to complete the new core curriculum in its entirety. The addition of at least four more required courses than mandated for the classes of 2017-2019 complete the plan set in motion more than five years ago that attempts to “more perfectly execute the purposes in our mission,” Provost David Whalen said. Students must now take a logic and rhetoric class, as well as both religion and philosophy. The curriculum also separates physics and chemistry and removes a standardized test optout for mathematics. “It’s to make students wiser,” President Larry Arnn said in an email. “These disciplines are all fundamental, which means they are approaches to higher knowledge that make and have long made vital contributions. They are features of the original curricula at Hillsdale College and features of the liberal arts as they have been pursued for centuries.” Revamped Western Philosophical and Theological Tradition courses, both now mandatory, look to provide a historical timeline of ideas as well as teach students to think in a philosophic and theological way, said Tom Burke, dean of humanities and chairman of religion and philosophy. “Both have been the main source of ideas that have shaped our country,” Burke said. “All you have to do is

look at the difference between ancient Greek philosophy and Renaissance and early modern philosophy and realize something had to happen in the interim. What happened in the interim was Christian theology.” Additionally, Kirstin Kiledal, professor of rhetoric and public address, and Jeffrey Lehman, assistant professor of education, have reshaped the logic and rhetoric course, a requirement for education minors, to prepare all students with the tools needed to study before they dig deeper into their field, Kiledal said. Although Kiledal and Benjamin Beier, assistant professor of education, are teaching the four sections of Classical Logic and Rhetoric this semester, they are also instructing 22 other professors of all different disciplines to teach the new COR 150, which is not owned by any one academic department. “We really do want to make sure it has this liberal arts flare for starting people off, that it really engages the faculty from all across disciplines and that it serves those disciplines individually as well as us universally as students of the liberal arts,” Kiledal said. The science departments are not exempt from changes, either. The days of taking physics and chemistry in one course as Physical Science for non-science majors are gone. They now must take an entire semester of both fields, though t h e

I had been missing my little involvement in the political world. I think that the club will help me meet that personal desire. I also think the College Democrats is the perfect club to allow a more fully fleshed out understanding of what is a minority view on this campus.” Hutcheson agrees, and said she hopes the club will hold

debates with other campus clubs, including College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom. “One of the things that needed to be fixed on campus was that there wasn’t a lot of serious treatment of left-wing views,” Hutcheson said. “You don’t ever really see anyone who is See Dems A2

return By | Thomas Novelly many notifications. It was a good feeling to see so much Editor-in-Chief encouragement.” When junior Elyse HutchesThanks to Hutcheson’s inion posted on Facebook that tiative, College Democrats is she was going to bring back back on campus after a nearly the College Democrats club to three-year hiatus. She said she Hillsdale College’s campus, she wasn’t prompted by the upsaid she was prepared for the coming presidential election worst. but rather the need for diverse “I was worried,” Hutcheson campus discourse. More than said. “I didn’t know what was 40 students signed up to join going to happen or how people the newly reactivated club at were going to react.” The Source. Returning from her sumAssistant Professor of mer job that July night, she Rhetoric and Public Address said she was expecting nasty Matthew Doggett accepted remarks and criticisms, if any- Hutcheson’s invite to become thing at all. Instead, she found the faculty adviser of the club strangers encouraging the in May. club, students volunteering to “Growing up, my family has help, and more than 100 likes always been involved in polon Facebook from her friends. itics, and until recently, I had “I thought people would helped my mother in her camjust ignore it,” Hutcheson said. paigns for city council,” Dog“But when I came back from gett said. “Since she left office, my shift, I realized I had so www.hillsdalecollegian.com

See Core A2

Senior Lauren Melcher, junior Elyse Hutcheson, senior Christine Scanlan, senior William Persson, and senior Sam Grinis have reinstated Hillsdale College Democrats. Cat Howard | Collegian Look for The Hillsdale Collegian

News

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

In brief:

Orchestra selected to perform in D.C.

By | Katie Scheu Assistant Editor The College Orchestra Directors Association invited the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra to perform at its 2017 national conference in Washington, D.C., in February. James Holleman, music department chairman, announced Monday that the association selected Hillsdale’s orchestra from other applicants around the country through a blind audition process, so it did not consider any information about the college’s music program or the college itself. “I’m thrilled, I’m humbled, I’m excited, and I’m scared,” Holleman said. Holleman had submitted recordings selected from the orchestra’s four concerts performed during the 2015-2016 school year. At the conference, the orchestra will play an hour-long concert. The association also invited an orchestra from Tulsa University, and the two groups will combine to participate in a conducting master class.

9/11 memorial to be held at Saturday’s game By | Chandler Lasch

Reaching new GOALs High Rise Friends and Hillsdale Youth Mentoring in need of student volunteers

Conservative radio talk-show host Dennis Prager answers questions from C-SPAN host Peter Slen Sunday in Markel Auditorium during a special live filming of “In Depth.” Madeline Barry | Collegian

C-SPAN takes over Markel By | Jack McPherson Collegian Freelancer C-SPAN packed up its monthly Book TV program “In Depth” and brought it to Hillsdale College Sunday to interview radio talk-show host Dennis Prager. Peter Slen, senior executive producer and a host at the nonprofit cable and satellite network, said although “In Depth” has covered events at college, it had never before moved the show from its Washington, D.C., studio to an institution of higher education. He said it chose Hillsdale for its conservative reputation, fitting for an interview with Prager. “It grew up organically,”

Slen said. “We knew we wanted Mr. Prager on our program, and we started thinking about how we could do this differently.” Slen interviewed the syndicated columnist in Markel Auditorium from noon to 3 p.m. for the show that aired on C-SPAN2. Prager has written six books, including his most recents “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph” and “The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code.” In addition to speaking about his books, Prager took questions from student audience members and the live TV audience through phone calls and texts. He addressed Capitalism, Republican presiden-

tial nominee Donald Trump, and political correctness. “Hillsdale is an island in this sea of moral confusion, and it’s independent of the state, which now has controls nearly everywhere,” Prager said. “It’s an extremely significant institution.” Students who attended the live taping said they enjoyed experiencing the interview in real time. “I’m very interested in his rebuttals,” freshman Lauren Adams said. “Dennis Prager is a very straightforward man, and I really appreciated when he talked about the disintegration of the American family, which is very important to me.”

Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College’s Young Americans for Freedom is honoring the 2,977 9/11 victims in front of a big audience this year. Since the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, falls on Sunday, its annual memorial will be held on Sept. 10 at halftime during the 7 p.m. football game at Muddy Waters Stadium. “We cannot let this tragedy be forgotten,” Hillsdale YAF President junior English Hinton said. “We cannot let those lives be lost in vain.” In the past, the conservative club held the memorial between Lane and Kendall halls, speckling the grass around the Civil War statue with American flags to represent each of the victims. This year, YAF members will plant the flags beneath the scoreboard. “It’s a good spot to do it,” said Jeffrey Rogers, Hillsdale’s assistant dean of men. “There’s a good segue of the community and the college coming together to represent an event that touched us all.”

Q&As with Dennis Prager and Peter Slen available at www.hillsdalecollegian.com By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor Hillsdale College’s new executive director of Information Technology Services said he is looking to further the college’s mission and values through technology after he started work in July. Jason Sherrill takes over after the former director, David Zenz, retired in the spring. He said his goals for Hillsdale’s ITS department include reaching more constituents for the college’s online classes and finding new ways to employ classroom technology. As a security expert, Sherrill said he also hopes to ensure the college’s data is safe but also not a roadblock for users. “Not only do we have the

opportunity to accomplish what I believe is a very significant mission, but technology gets to play a pretty significant role in that,” Sherrill said. Prior to Sherrill’s position at Hillsdale, he founded a Detroit-area software development company, which specialized in high-security software development. He also helped develop a content management system that allowed companies’ marketing teams to build the tools they needed for e-commerce while still keeping the computer code under the control of the technology department. Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said Sherrill’s experience in these areas made him an appealing candidate for

Surplus from A1

renovations. Other colleges that rely more heavily on their endowments aren’t always able to keep up with the market, Péwé said, adding that the colleges not on top of their budgets are are “crumbling.” “They don’t know what surplus is,” Péwé said. According to data compiled by Nancy Johnson, executive director of institutional advancement, the number of gifts Hillsdale received over the past five years increased by 45 percent, and the number of donors increased by 20 percent. In fiscal year 2012, the college received $76.1 million in gifts. In fiscal year 2016, it received $114.9 million. Johnson said it’s difficult to compare Hillsdale’s fundraising to other colleges because

most other colleges receive federal funding, so it’s hard to say whether Hillsdale receives more gifts than other colleges. But because other colleges receive federal funding, Hillsdale has to make up the difference by raising more funds in the form of charitable gifts. “The burden on us is much greater,” Johnson said. “We have to raise from private sources what nearly every other school in the country receives from the federal and state taxpayers.” Péwé said the college never expects a surplus, but he is always very thankful when there is one because it means the college can get a head start on the next big project. “It’s really a blessing, that’s something a lot of places aren’t used to,” Péwé said.

the position of ITS director. “He dealt with just about every IT issue imaginable for his clients,” Péwé said in an email. “This, above all, made him a most attractive candidate.” Sherrill said the college’s mission, as well as the potential for technology to help classes from A1 are not required for science majors. “We separated them, so students can have a more complete picture of the natural universe because that is part of what we are supposed to be doing,” Whalen said. The three-credit physics and chemistry courses are new. Students can take the new physics course this fall, but the chemistry department is not offering sections until the spring, as it finishes creating its plans for the course. Matthew Young, dean of chemistry, said in Great Principles of Chemistry, students will have lectures twice a week and alternate between discussion and lab one day every week. The class will connect content with context, address-

Dems from A1

Cohen said. “At most other colleges and universities, the roles are reversed. I can appreciate their efforts to make their case for the Democratic Party.” Many of College Democrats’ officers said Hutcheson’s Facebook post inspired them to get involved. Senior Lauren Melcher was one of those students. As a passionate environmentalist, Melcher said she wanted a club where she could talk about environmental issues as they relate to politics with like-minded students. “I thought it was very bold and brave of her,” Melcher said. Melcher serves as the secretary of College Democrats and

The endowment consists of gifts from donors in the form of investment funds. These investment funds earn interest over time, which provides the college with a source of income. Flannery said the endowment “underperformed” this year. Although the college earned less from the endowment, it received so many gifts that the surplus was 15 times larger than expected. “We didn’t have to make any major cuts,” Flannery said. “It was a real blessing.” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the college has operated on a budget surplus every year since 2010 because it is run so economically and expects to stay within its budget. The budget surplus for fiscal year 2015 was $19 million. “Dr. Arnn runs a pretty tight ship,” Péwé said. Before Larry Arnn became president of Hillsdale College in 2000, the college received approximately 19,000 charitable gifts per year. Now, the college receives more than 400,000. “What’s been done in terms of outreach and fundraising has been remarkable,” Péwé said. The college used 2015’s surplus funds to help finish Simpson Residence and the Searle Center and contribute to the ongoing Mauck Residence

A2 8 Sept. 2016

By | Brooke Conrad Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College’s GOAL Program is adding two new programs this semester that encourage students to engage with members of the Hillsdale community. The GOAL Program, a student-run volunteer organization, introduces High Rise Friends and Hillsdale Youth Mentoring. High Rise Friends is looking for volunteers to spend time with the elderly, while Hillsdale Youth Mentoring is searching out students who want to help provide stability for struggling students. Junior Monicah Wanjiru is starting a program at Hillsdale High Rise Apartments. Within walking distance from campus, the apartments house elderly and handicapped residents, many of whom cannot drive and are not able to do simple tasks for themselves, like take out the trash. Many stay inside watching TV all day, with the mailman as their only visitor, she said. During InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s spring break mission trip last semester in Hillsdale, Wanjiru said she and several other students were heartbroken by the situation they found at the apartments. “Afterward, we sat in the church sanctuary in silence for like an hour,” Wanjiru said. “Finding out that some don’t know [about the residents’ situation] — that was quite something.” Wanjiru said she wants volunteers to bring their board games, musical instruments, Bible studies, or a listening ear to the apartments. “If a team is looking for a philanthropic thing to do,

move your breakfast, move your hang-out time to the High Rise,” she said. “All we need is community there.” Hillsdale Youth Mentoring, led by sophomore Emily Walker, is providing opportunities for elementary and middle school teachers to pair student volunteers with children from the community who struggle with anything from bullying to school work to issues at home. The volunteer will meet with the student once a week during lunch or recess to play games, do crafts, or just talk. “People sometimes underestimate the importance for these kids of having one thing that’s consistent in their lives because so much is not consistent,” Walker said. Walker has been looking for ways to reach out to children in the community, ever since she got to Hillsdale. After going through rough times in high school herself, she said she is now passionate about helping children who are struggling. “Sometimes it’s nice to have someone close to your age who’s just going to be there to play games, and hang out, and give you a hug,” Walker said. Alexis Garcia, director of the GOAL Program, said there is great need in the community for both of the programs. “There is a huge need in the county for the mentoring.” Garcia said. “High Rise is also a very strong need. There are just so many people there who need company and encouragement.” To learn more about and get involved in High Rise Friends and Hillsdale Youth Mentoring, email mwanjiru@hillsdale.edu or ewalker1@hillsdale.edu respectively.

New ITS director logs into Hillsdale’s mission

liberal coming to campus in a serious light to talk about ideas. It needs to be more than just debates between libertarians and conservatives.” College Republicans President junior Brant Cohen said although he disagrees with liberal ideologies, he respects the club’s ambition and willingness to debate. “Their presence will lead to further discourse over our disagreements and allow a minority opinion to be heard, which can strengthen our own views and help us all recognize other sides to political issues,”

How to: Advertise with The Collegian

If interested in placing an advertisement in The Collegian, please contact ad managers Adam Stathakis at astathakis@hillsdale.edu or Aidan Donovan at adonovan@hillsdale.edu.

extend the college’s outreach, sparked his interest. “Working with students that are going out and starting in life with similar values to my own is very satisfying,” Sherrill said. “That piece of it was intriguing to me. I enjoyed so many of the people that I worked with in the past 20 years, but there’s something at a deeper level that feels very different working in an institution with the goals and mission of Hillsdale.” Although Sherrill said he was first hesitant to enter into academia, a field with which he had little experience, he said he’s looking forward to applying his technological and business expertise in new ways.

“As an entrepreneur and business owner, he’s attuned to the need for innovation,” Provost David Whalen said. “We expect great things, but he’s not here to create earthquakes. His fresh perspective is valuable, especially in things like the website. These kinds of things develop organically, and we’re very excited to have him on board.” Sherrill said he looks forward to spreading the college’s mission through his work in the ITS department, where he will be able to apply his expertise in a new environment. “It’s an opportunity to try something different that I think will be very, very rewarding,” he said.

Core

ing the historical circumstances leading to advances in chemistry and science in current events, Young said. “We’ve tried to make it a course that will make more connections with other courses students are taking,” Young said. “What we’ve tried to do is make it an enjoyable, interesting, and useful course for someone who probably won’t go on and use that content very much in future courses or in their career, but they will hopefully benefit from learning something about the physical reality of our world.” As for mathematics, a 27 or above on the ACT will no longer exempt students from the Mathematics and Deductive Reasoning requirement. Students will also have to take a senior capstone course, the details of which have not

been finalized. Beginning with the class of 2016, Hillsdale began making changes to the core, adding Physical Wellness Dynamics, restructuring the schedule of when freshmen and sophomores take the Heritage and Great Books classes, and reducing the required number of Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars from two to one. Whalen said the changes are to the benefit of students, providing an even better liberal arts education. “The old core was a good core — noteworthy, outstanding even,” Whalen said. “The new core goes from a good core to an excellent core. We need to serve the purposes of the mission superbly, and this is a step toward that.”

said she is excited to implement many new environmental initiatives across campus, from encouraging members to donate old bottles to recycling cigarette butts for use in park benches. College Democrats Vice President senior Christine Scanlan said she felt like her views were a needle in a haystack of conservative ideas and said she was missing open discourse from her college experience. Now, with College Democrats on campus, Scanlan said she hopes there is an attitude change towards liberal ideas from the student body. “When my political beliefs started changing, and I be-

came more liberal, I felt very out of place at this school,” Scanlan said. “It felt alienating. But with upwards of 40 people signing up, that was a huge win.” Although Hutcheson said the organization plans to hold liberal speakers and engaging debates, it will not endorse a presidential candidate for the November election. “No, I don’t see us endorsing a presidential candidate as a group,” Scanlan said. “I identify more as a liberal than a Democrat. We’re not really sold on Hillary Clinton.” Hutcheson said she debated starting the club during an election year because she

didn’t want it to come off as a political move. But Hutcheson said the club goes beyond politics and that there isn’t a better time to start campus discussion. “While the club is College Democrats, I want it to be a place for anyone who has more liberal ideas,” Hutcheson said. “Our school is small, and it’s good to have a place to talk. You don’t need to be belligerent about it. A lot of people are actually willing to just talk reasonably and not jump down your throat.”

Jason Sherill | Courtesy

How to: Subscribe to The Collegian

To receive weekly issues of Hillsdale College’s student newspaper, please contact Conor Woodfin at cwoodfin@hillsdale.edu or Finn Cleary at fcleary@hillsdale.edu.

How to: Join The Collegian

If you want to find out more about how to contribute to The Collegian through writing, photography, or videography, please contact Thomas Novelly at tnovelly@hillsdale.edu.

News

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

A3 8 Sept. 2016

MyHillsdale on the go In brief: New app eases student access to class, campus information

Collegiate Scholars plan Greece return

The Class of 2017 Collegiate Scholars stood on top the Acrocorinth during a 10-day stay in Greece in May, the first time the program did not go to Turkey on its annual trip in 13 years. Andrea Sommer | Courtesy

By | Joe Pappalardo Assistant Editor More than 660 people have downloaded Hillsdale College’s new app, garnering nearly 29,000 screen views, as of Sept. 1. Ellucian Go is a free Android and iPhone app that now allows Hillsdale students to access the cafeteria’s menu, their schedules, course registration, and other information on their portable electronic devices. The app is meant to meet the rise of smartphones on campus and offers students quick access to features once limited to computers and web browsers, according to Chris Miller, systems analyst for Information Technology Services. Miller spearheaded the app’s adoption for the college, which became available to a select group of users in June and to the rest of the student body in August. Schools are able to customize the app, which serves more than 2,400 schools in 40 countries, according to the website of Ellucian Company LP, the app’s maker. “We are excited to break new ground, but we will also be watching closely to resolve any issues that arise, and we will continue working with other departments to add more functionality,” Miller said. The app combines several features of Hillsdale’s website, including WebAdvisor and the Mossey Library catalog. Most of the buttons link to an in-app version of the college’s website or switch the user to the web browser on their phone. It also offers a Google Maps rendering of campus with labeled classroom buildings. “Most of our student data currently flows through an application called Colleague developed by a company called

Ellucian,” Miller said. “This mobile app was also created by Ellucian and integrates well with Colleague and thus provides both efficiency and cost advantages.” Student Activities Director Anthony Manno and Miller worked to create the Student Resources section of the app to increase the relevance of the app for students, Manno said. It includes an event calendar, volunteer opportunities, and in-app versions of all the club and organization web pages, all of which Miller was able to add in one afternoon. Manno said, in the future, he envisions a My Hours tab for students to log both volunteer and work hours. The app also has security features. Students have access to emergency phone numbers and a link to the vehicle registration webpage. Jeffrey Rogers, assistant dean of men, said more functions will come later. Features not used in Hillsdale’s version of Ellucian Go include an assignments calendar and a directory of faculty and student phone numbers. Several Hillsdale students said clicking on their professors’ names while using the My Classes tab in Ellucian Go caused it to suddenly quit. ITS updated it to display a “Person was not found” message, when someone now clicks on a professor’s name. For now, the tab is marked “under construction,” though students can still access it while it is incomplete. Senior Hank Prim said he was pleased with the new alternative to logging onto his laptop. “It’s so much nicer not having to log into WebAdvisor in the morning during the first couple of days and figuring out where you’re supposed to go,” he said.

By | Breana Noble News Editor Hillsdale College’s Collegiate Scholars Program is looking to return to Greece, not Turkey, next summer, after a packed 10-day journey in the Hellenic Republic in May. Students said ancient locations brought The Western Heritage reader to life. That experience and continuing uncertainty in Turkey, led Collegiate Scholars Director Eric Hutchinson to assess a return to Greece in 2017, he said. The group’s tour guide, who students said was a highlight of the trip, is already booked for next year. “That destination worked perfectly for this program,” Hutchinson said. “It hits on so many of the important texts and ideas and places that are part of the core curriculum at Hillsdale. For those who are rising seniors, that can help to tie together strands they’ve been getting over the course of their education.” Just 36 days before 31 people — the largest group in the history of the Honors Program, now known as the Collegiate Scholars Program — were supposed to board a plane to Turkey, then-Collegiate Scholars Director Richard Gamble changed the annual trip after the U.S. Mission in Turkey released an emergency message concerning credible threats to tourist areas in the first two cities on the group’s itinerary. The destination changed for

the first time in 13 years, and the trip shortened to 13 days instead of the original 22 because Greece is more expensive. Former Honors Program Director Don Westblade said he originally chose Turkey for the trip because it is where Greco-Roman culture and the Judeo-Christian faith met. Matt Sauer ’16 said this year’s trip was comparable to the Turkey experience. Sauer went to Turkey in 2015 as a member of the Honors Program and accompanied the rising seniors this summer. “You’ve got the ancient Greek world, and then you’ve got the Byzantine era,” Sauer said. “We saw where Paul taught. We got to see how Christianity flourished in that part of the world a very long time ago, which is what you get in Turkey.” Senior Andrea Sommer said she was relieved when Gamble and Hutchinson announced that the group would not go to Turkey. Greece was no disappointment, she said, noting highlights included seeing the Oracle at Delphi, Corinth, and the jail cell in Athens where Socrates probably drank the hemlock that killed him. “We stood in the Agora, exactly where Pericles would have given his funeral oration and where Socrates would have been teaching and questioning people,” Sommer said. “Having the history come alive in that way was really cool.”

Sauer said the group’s tour guide, Smaro Touloupa, from Aristotle Travel kept the schedule busy and the scholars consuming new information on ancient art and Greek history. Hutchinson said it was like a “miniature college course.” She set up the historical and cultural context of the sites and exhibits before students looked at them. “It made the viewing of the artifacts that much more worthwhile,” Hutchinson said. “It made the experience of looking at the objects much richer after having gotten all of this background material.” Sommer said since Touloupa was a native Athenian, she also provided a unique look at modern Greece. “She wasn’t afraid to speak about the political situation, which I heard is different from the Turkey trip,” Sommer said. “She even had stories about modern-day Greece, like her family had done a pagan sacrifice at the foundation of their home to set it up because that was tradition. The ways the ancient traditions affected modern life, she was able to comment on, too.” Sauer said he felt the trip, however, lacked many interactions with locals. Two Hillsdale alumni living in Turkey, in the past, would introduce students to friends and native Turks. Nevertheless, the travelers said the trip was worthwhile,

growing their understanding of the Western heritage and learning from their tour guide. Sauer said Touloupa was impressed with Hillsdale, too, since she noted that in her 18

years of touring, only one other group could keep up with the information she fed them. “She didn’t spare us anything,” Sauer said. “Everyone was so engaged and involved.”

By | Nicole Ault Collegian Reporter Junior Sarah Schutte said she took action when she noticed the Paul House needed some repairs. Luckily for the women’s residence, Schutte, a residence assistant there, said she likes home decorating — and she and her family are good at it. During spring break and the summer, Schutte, her parents, and her brother worked hard to renovate the Paul House, also known as the Dow Residence, stripping wall paper, painting, tearing up old carpet, and redecorating to make the 19th-century residence a more welcoming space. The college approved the renovations to the house and paid for paint and some supplies, but Rebekah Dell, assistant dean of women, credits the Schuttes for making it possible. “It actually all happened because Sarah and her family was excited and willing to come in and spend a period of time working on the house,” Dell said.

Although Schutte said she “fell in love with the house” while living there last year, it was not ideal. “A lot of it, to me, was aesthetic,” Schutte said. “Wallpaper was peeling, there were cracks. There were drafts, old water damage. The radiators were chipping. Just little things like that added up. And there were hardly any lights, so people didn’t want to come study, and that’s what we wanted. We wanted people to come.” Schutte approached Dell and Dean of Women Diane Philipp in the spring about painting the dining room and kitchen. Her family volunteered to help. Her mother, Stephanie, said they just wanted to support the college. “At this point in our lives, that is what we have to give, so we wanted to help Sarah create a place where people will want to gather to learn and build relationships and grow in the atmosphere inspired by Hillsdale,” she said. After completing the painting during spring break, she said they had a vision for more they could do to spruce up the

place. The Schuttes offered to come back and do more in the summer, and the deans consented. “ W e wanted to show the college by painting that we were really invested in the house, and they’ve just respond- Junior Sarah Schutte sits in the piano room of the ed to that Paul House after she and her family worked during so well,” spring and summer break to fix up the residence. said seNicole Ault | Collegian nior Emily Lehman, head RA idence. Her father, Greg, built of the Paul House. “It’s been a a wooden coffee table. team effort.” The family also collected The residence now sports paintings to hang and redecoa fresh paint job, instead of rated several rooms, including wallpaper, in the living room, the upstairs study room with kitchen, and dining room. The a new map theme and a selfSchuttes also patched cracks, serve coffee bar in the works. and Stephanie Schutte reupThe college provided new holstered furniture for the res- carpet for the living room and

piano room. It also paid for the installation of new lighting fixtures throughout the house and renovations to the main-floor bathroom, which both Dell and Schutte said was the most needed update. A few pieces of furniture from Mauck Residence and oriental rugs donated to the college are welcome additions, Dell said. She said, however, the residence will eventually need further renovations. “There are plans, but down the road, of renovating the Dow House, but it’s not in the immediate future,” Dell said. “It’s on our radar, but we don’t have a set date for that.” Schutte and Lehman said they are excited for new possibilities that have opened up because of the renovations. “Now it’s a much more livable space, and I think it’s not going to require quite as much work to make it feel warm and friendly,” Lehman said. “I’ve already seen people gathering in the house in a casual, friendly way. That just makes me happy to see.”

its expansion. “The contact center will hopefully allow Hillsdale to provide the best prospect experience of any college,” said John Papciak ’13, director of contact center operations. “I hope to grow and develop its student curriculum and perhaps an internship for the summer.” An admissions outreach, the student-operated contact center connects with prospective students to introduce them to the college, its core

curriculum, and its values, ultimately seeking to interest them in attending the college. The Kendall contact center includes individual cubicles and a training room. It provides student employees with their own headsets and computers. “It’s beautiful,” said sophomore Amber Crump, who has worked for the call team since fall 2015. “A big leap from last year.” The contact center’s call team is looking to hire stu-

dents of all years. In full operation, Papciak said he expects it to employ 50-70 students. Sophomore Josephine von Dohlen began working in the contact center last year. She said it taught her about Hillsdale’s history, programs, and departments. It has helped to hone her professional and communication skills, as well, von Dohlen said. “I love it,” she said. “I met a lot of really great friends doing it. And especially now that we’re growing, there are a lot

of opportunities for personal growth through working through it, and a lot of great real-life experience.”

Mich. sues buisiness over M-22 trademark Michigan is suing a clothing company over the use of the scenic highway’s iconic sign. The company M22 LLC trademarked the logo of the Upper Peninsula highway to print T-shirts. Michigan says the company is not allowed to trademark state road signs.

Mexico finance minister resigns after Trump visit A week after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Mexico, its finance minister, Luis Videgaray, unexpectedly resigned Wednesday. Videgaray aided the Trump campaign in Mexico, and he supported the visit for Mexican economic interests. He served for four years.

Apple releases iPhone 7

RA and family renovate Paul House

Kendall Hall basement’s admissions contact center now open By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter Kendall Hall’s basement transformed this summer to house a brand-new call center for Hillsdale’s admissions department. Formerly based in the admissions office in Central Hall, Hillsdale College’s contact center relocated to the bottom floor of Kendall. The renovated space will facilitate the center’s revamped employee training programs and accommodate

things to know from this week

-Compiled by Brendan Clarey

Apple Inc.’s new iPhone, released Wednesday, doesn’t have a conventional headphone jack. The new phones do have dual cameras, stereo speakers, and a water-resistant design in a glossy finish. Recently, iPhone sales, which are Apple’s largest source of profit, have been declining.

WRFH

equipment crashes

By | Jordyn Pair Assistant Editor Hillsdale College’s radio station WRFH 101.7 FM went off the air for two hours Friday, as a result of the computer’s motherboard crashing. The cause of the failing motherboard is unknown, WRFH General Manager Scot Bertram said, adding he hopes a new motherboard will arrive by the end of the week, so it can resume regular programming. For now, WRFH is playing music off an iPod. Bertram said he does not expect the fix to be expensive. “My understanding is the crash is rare, especially considering that motherboard’s only about a year old,” WRFH General Manager Scot Bertram said. “We are playing music, merely because it’s the easiest thing for us to get on the air at this point.” At the top of the hour, the station plays recorded legal identifications to keep the station in compliance with Federal Communications Commission guidelines. Although the station prepared for mishaps like a failing hard drive, it was not ready for something of such magnitude, Bertram said. “We’re slowly trying to plan for bad events like this,” Bertram said. “Short of having another computer unit ready to go, there wasn’t much we could do.” Until the new motherboard comes, students are doing background work. “We have a number of students who are very excited about getting things going at the station,” Bertram said. “We’re still working with them here behind the scenes, but unfortunately, nothing they’re doing at this moment is making it to air. Hopefully that’s only a couple of days away from changing.”

CRs don’t endorse presidential candidates

By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief Harvard University College Republicans’ letter detailing its decision to not endorse GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump went viral in August and brought attention to Hillsdale’s chapter. College Republicans President junior Brant Cohen said numerous media outlets — including ABC, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today — asked them why they haven’t endorsed Trump. Although Harvard’s chapter has endorsed the GOP nominee for the past 128 years, Hillsdale’s historically refrains from doing so. “It’s not our job to endorse a candidate,” Cohen said. “We aim to provide the opportunities to teach students about conservative principles and let them think for themselves.” Some media outlets lumped Hillsdale’s chapter with others, such as Harvard’s, claiming they’re revolting against Trump. Cohen said they want to keep discussion open for all students on campus.

Kendall Hall’s contact center has cubicles and computers for student callers working for admissions. Madeleine Miller | Collegian

NASA to launch spacecraft toward asteroid NASA launches Osiris-Rex, a robotic spacecraft, Friday toward asteroid Benmu to retrieve some of its material and bring it back to earth. Osiris-Rex will stay on Benmu for more than a year. NASA also released new images of Jupiter Friday.

Hurricane Hermine hits Florida hard Florida was hit Friday by a hurricane that killed one person, caused severe damage, and left some 300,000 without power. The storm has left standing water, a major concern in the fight against the prevention of the Zika virus.

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

A4 8 Sept. 2016

In defense of Colin Kaepernick By | Joe Siler Special to the Collegian When Jackie Robinson willingly chose not to stand or salute during the national anthem for every baseball game he played, he went down in history as a patriot. "I cannot stand and sing the anthem,” Robinson said. “I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world." Criticisms of Kaepernick are unfair. His patriotism can be mirrored by some of history’s most notable figures, and stands stronger than the inconsistent patriotism of Donald Trump. It took the media three games to begin criticizing Kaepernick for sitting during the anthem. The pretend outrage, which the media manufactured, suppresses true concerns in American life and politics. This country faces an exploding national debt, inner city gang violence, and wars in the Middle East. The media and those who are upset with Kaepernick merely distract from real problems. Hillsdale Associate Economics Professor Gary Wolfram put it this way: “The news media now covers primarily sensational events and personality while ignoring matters of substance. Should we be wondering if the second string tackle for the Miami Dolphins is singing off-key on purpose?” Donald Trump supporters seem most outraged by incidents like this, and this is because they only care about personality, not principles. They want people to make them feel good about their country, instead of addressing real problems. Americans must understand that our nation’s treatment of minorities is lamentable. The effects of that treatment can still be felt today. Throughout American history, patriots have expressed dissent toward problems in Americans, and never a blind nationalism. Patriotism in the United States has devolved into pageantry. This switch of focus from substance to flash has never been more apparent than in Kaepernick’s situation. It is not an anthem that makes America free, strong, and beautiful; our soldiers did not die for a flag or a song; they died for principles. The founding fathers had no national anthem to stand for. They showed their patriotism by refusing to bow to a government that harassed them. Kaepernick made a small gesture of protest toward the current state of American affairs. His intent was not malicious, and the media nearly grazed over his actions. Trump has personally attacked a famous prisoner of war, saying he is not a hero. He has attacked a gold star family for criticizing his political positions, and willingly took a Purple Heart as a souvenir. Kaepernick looks presidential when put up against Tomi Larehn, FoxNews, and Trump supporters across the nation. Compared to Trump’s boisterous and flagrant disrespect for American soldiers, Kaepernick’s actions were graceful and patriotic. Let’s view Kaepernick for what he is. He has no credibility as a political intellectual. He's just an entertainer. He should have an insignificant place in the political discussion. A football player who thinks he has the right to peacefully protest American race relations is much better than a reality TV star turned presidential candidate who runs his loud, ignorant mouth. Taking a look at Trump, maybe Kaepernick should run for president too. Siler is a sophomore studying Political Economy.

Aug. 31 was a good day. Not only did classes begin and the first issue of The Collegian’s 140th year come out, but we got news that The Collegian is the ninth best college newspaper in the United States. What made the news even more special, however, was learning that we got there because of you. The Princeton Review ranked colleges in 62 different categories based upon survey information gathered

from students throughout the year. One of the questions asked you to evaluate your student newspaper. In ninth place, we found ourselves above Yale University and among other Ivy League institutions. It makes knowing that the hours we spend every week thinking up story ideas, chasing down sources, writing pieces, taking photos, editing articles, and laying out our pages are worth it. So, thank you.

But we couldn’t do what we love doing, if it weren't for you, sharing your story suggestions, writing op-eds, taking the time to interview with us, and reading our pages every Thursday. Give yourself a pat on the back, as well. With a new year and new staff, however, we don’t want to disappoint. In fact, we want to do better than ninth place next year. But we need your help. If you have an idea for something that we should cover, a

question you want answered, or a point of view you think is not being represented, let us know. The contact information for our staff is directly to the left of this editorial. Use it, and we will do our best to serve you. The Collegian is committed to this campus and community. Thanks again for all of your support, Hillsdalians. We look forward to making our 140th year the best with you.

'Historic Hillsdale' is more than a college By | Andrew Egger Senior Writer Hillsdale College’s Richard Péwé thinks that Hillsdale’s unofficial city motto, “It’s the People,” doesn’t “say anything about the town,” and that what really stands out in Hillsdale is the college. The people in question are absolutely right to disagree. If Hillsdale College and the Hillsdale City Council are really interested in improving relations between the two communities, their decision to replace the city’s iconic “It’s the People” M-99 welcome sign is a serious blunder. After the Collegian reported on the upcoming change (“It’s not the people anymore,” 8/31/16), a “Vanished Hillsdale” Facebook poll found that residents favor the “It’s the People” sign by a margin of nearly 6 to 1. Many comments on the typically amiable page were bitter. And they were absolutely right to disagree. “Hillsdale College is taking

over this town and it’s sickening,” Hillsdale resident Tracy Johns wrote. “The town is more than just the college.” This probably isn’t the kind of relationship Péwé hoped the signs would produce. The current sign, with its cheerful slogan surrounded by the badges of local service clubs and organizations, is a celebration of Hillsdale’s residents and the community they have built. It is memorable, instantly recognizable, and widely beloved. The replacement sign will swap that community flair for the slick branding of a marketing brochure, welcoming travelers to the “Home of Hillsdale College” in the white and blue of official college signs. Visitors will presumably have to find about about the Garden Club and the Rotary on their own. The old sign had its drawbacks. The wicker design showed its age, and the lack of any mention of the college was awkward. This won’t even be the first time Hillsdale’s welcome signs have capitalized on the college brand:

according to a 1962 Collegian photo, the predecessor to “It’s the People” also proclaimed the town, “Home of Hillsdale College,” with an enormous drawing of Central Hall to boot. But the new design goes a step too far by casting the city of Hillsdale as one element of the college, rather than the other way around. No matter how big the school’s national brand may be, the city of Hillsdale belongs to the residents, and those residents are justifiably keen to maintain an identity distinct from that of the college. It’s also worth asking what the college hopes to gain from a new sign in the first place. Its brand thrives on radio ads, on Rush Limbaugh spots, on the circulation of Imprimis, and on its online courses, not on a sixfoot board thirty miles from any interstate. There’s no reason why the college shouldn’t be content to leave the regional branding to the group interested in building a regional brand: the city of Hillsdale. To local residents upset by the change, all we students can say

is that we’re bummed too. After all, “It’s the People” has united the college community just as strongly as it has the city. The phrase has made an appearance in the past three freshman convocations. Students and alumni sharing the news on social media voiced the same disappointment and disgust as residents. “One reason I got more knowledge than a lot of people at the college was that I spent so much time in town and had so many friends among the locals,” Joshua Rice ’14 wrote on Facebook. “The ever-deepening rift between the school and the town is dangerous, damaging, sad, and largely the college's fault.” In the end, that’s the biggest irony here. The sign that links college and community best is the sign we already had. When it’s gone, we’ll all be worse off. Egger is a senior studying history.

By Nic Rowan

Online: www.hillsdalecollegian.com

The opinion of the Collegian editorial staff

Welcome To Hillsdale

Newsroom: (517) 607-2897 Advertising: (517) 607-2684

Let's welcome progressive speakers to campus By | Kristiana Mork Jonah Goldberg, James Rosen, Special to the Collegian and Victor Davis Hanson, not to mention the celebrated Justice The University of Chicago Clarence Thomas. welcomed its class of 2020 with a While conservatives condemn warning. policies that restrict the Students may face marketplace of ideas in other discomfort with the “rigorous schools, our own school may be debate, discussion, and even guilty of a similar offense. disagreement” fostered by the It's time Hillsdale invited a school’s devotion to freedom of progressive to campus. inquiry and expression. Diversity The First Amendment of opinion and background, the codified freedom of expression school wrote, is a “fundamental by prohibiting laws that abridge strength of our community.” freedom of speech, or of the Around the country schools press. like the University of Chicago face increasing pressure to adopt “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” which protect students from encountering offensive views. In virtually all, these policies favor progressive classes and guests at the cost of conservative ones. The First Continental Hillsdale College has the Congress wrote that the purpose advantage of being known as a of freedom of the press was to bastion of conservatism. With humble oppressors and direct conservative political class everyone toward truth, science, offerings and a belief in honest morality, and unity. and unflinching discourse, Diversity of thought within Hillsdale College attracts an academic setting achieves the students prepared to encounter a same ends as freedom of the press conservative point of view. in America.. When students are Unlike schools where exposed to thoughtful ideas conservative speakers have been other than their own, they are cancelled or booed off the stage, forced to exercise their reason Hillsdale hosts conservative in order to evaluate which of the favorites like Mollie Hemingway, arguments is best.

While Hillsdale does offer a number of classes on progressivism, liberalism, and contemporary political thought, none of these classes are taught by anyone who earnestly believes in the validity of those ideas. If truth is truly to rise to the forefront, it should be given the chance to defend itself against the best arguments and earnest opinions of the other side. President Barack Obama reflected on diversity of thought in academics during a 2015 town hall in Des Moines Iowa. He said:

“If conservatism is correct, it will prevail in the battle of ideas." “...it was because there was this space where you could interact with people who didn’t agree with you and had different backgrounds that I then started testing my own assumptions. And sometimes I changed my mind. Sometimes I realized, maybe I’ve been too narrowminded. Maybe I didn’t take this into account. Maybe I should see this person’s perspective.” In 1644 John Milton published the Aeropagitica, a speech to Parliament advocating for the

Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. The Aeropagitica opposed government censorship arguing that truth and falsehood should be allowed to challenge one another in an open forum because all else being equal, Truth will always triumph. Approximately 275 years later, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes drew upon the same principle during his dissent in the landmark freedom of speech case Abrams v. United States. Holmes wrote, “…the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market…” Conservatives should not hesitate to grapple with the best progressive minds on their campuses. If conservatism is correct, its arguments will prevail in the battle of ideas. Hillsdale College can become a standard-bearer for academic freedom of inquiry and expression, just like the University of Chicago has. Expanding the diversity of ideas on Hillsdale’s campus by hosting a progressive guest would teach students to better defend their own beliefs and it would promote their understanding of Truth. Mork is a senior studying politics and journalism.

A5 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Vote your conscience: Vote Gary Johnson By | Ben Dietderich and James Millius Special to the Collegian Hundreds of speeches were given at the Republican National Convention, but Ted Cruz's stood above the rest: “vote your conscience," he said. Ted was right. Conservatives should vote their conscience because this election year, one shouldn’t feel constrained to voting for either the Republican or the Democrat. According to the RealClearPolitics average of favorability polls between Oct. 24 and Sep. 1, Trump has an average favorability rating of 36 percent, and Clinton is only at 40 percent. Never have the favorability ratings of the Republican and Democrat nominees been so low. Whether a candidate is expected to win by a landslide, or lose by one, a conscientious citizen is obligated to vote for the candidate that best represents their beliefs. If a candidate finishes with twenty percent of the vote, that still speaks

No Supreme Court is worth electing Trump By | Michael Lucchese Opinions Columnist After anti-Trump efforts at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland failed, many conservatives who were either hostile toward or skeptical of Donald Trump’s candidacy fell in line behind the Republican nominee. They argue that prudence dictates voting for Trump. Some conservatives in the media have made a prudential argument for voting for Donald Trump. Hugh Hewitt, for instance, has forcefully made the case that conservatives ought to vote for Trump to preserve our voice on the Supreme Court. However, the argument that a vote for Trump is the only way to preserve the Supreme Court, and therefore the republic, remains unconvincing. There is little reason to believe that Donald Trump would adhere strictly to the list in the first place. In an August intewrview with Mark Halperin, he suggested that his sister, a left-wing judicial activist, would make a good justice. Trump is a man without principle, and there is no reason to believe he would stand by that list of judges, whatever he may tell Hewitt in a radio interview. Not only that — Trump has a lengthy record of flip-flopping. On social issues from abortion and religious freedom to North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law, Trump’s positions are incredibly difficult to define. Trump has recently even been inconsistent on his campaign’s signature issue, immigration. Beyond that, Hewitt’s claim that a Clinton presidency and Supreme Court nominations

louder than the one percent they may have had four years before. Perhaps that same candidate will have made enough of an impact to affect future elections. There is a better option this election: Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson. Johnson is the only candidate with the temperament, experience, and credentials to be president.

They also both won their reelection campaigns by historic margins. The Johnson/Weld ticket showcases an impressive 14 years of executive experience, surpassing the Clinton and Trump tickets. While some value Trump’s self-proclaimed business qualifications, Gary Johnson has a better business record. Donald Trump likes to boast about his successful real-estate business,

"No vote is ever truly thrown away." Conservatives should not fear that a vote for Johnson will not spoil the election for Trump. According to the Huffington Post, both Trump and Clinton lose roughly equal amounts of support to Gary Johnson when his name is included in the polls. If Donald Trump loses the election in November, it will not be because of a Libertarian spoiler, but because of his own ineptitude in running a political campaign. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld were both twoterm Republican governors in solid-blue states.

Dear Editor,

the Trump Organization, but his business has filed for bankruptcy. Twice. Johnson started his door-to-door handyman business by himself. This company, Big J Enterprises, grew to be a multi-million dollar construction company and one of the largest employers in New Mexico by 1999. Contrary to Trump, Johnson is a proven fiscal conservative. He cut taxes on businesses and the middle class, and vetoed more than 200 big government bills during his first term. His

tax cuts and reductions in spending balanced the budget in New Mexico, making it one of only four states with a balanced budget when he left office in 2003. For the first time in more than a century, we have an opportunity to forge a wedge through the heart of America’s two party system– a system that the country was not intended to have, yet one that has existed for far longer than any of us have been alive. It’s polarizing and corrupting effects have been a barrier to American progress for far too long. Fellow conservatives beware: despite the image some Republicans have imposed upon him, Trump is not an American messiah that will "make America great again." While Johnson may not be perfect, his credentials and the opportunity he has to remove the chains of the two party system, makes him a candidate worth voting for. Dietderich and Millius are freshmen studying politics.

Letter to the Editor

In last week’s Collegian, Peter O’Rourke and Rachael Reynolds attempted to make the case for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, respectively. Both writers argued that their candidate is not a lesser evil but actually good. But they succeeded in demonstrating only one thing: that they need to start thinking before they vote. Their arguments are nonsense. Reynolds’s only argument in favor of Clinton is that she is compassionate. False and irrelevant. Clinton’s altruism becomes doubtful at best after considering Benghazi, her e-mail server, and the Clinton Foundation. All three instances — and there are more — point to a self-interested and corrupt person, not a compassionate one. But for sake of argument, let’s ignore those and grant that Clinton is compassionate. It does not make her principles or policies good. To prove Clinton’s compassion, Reynolds would spell the death of conservatism is downright hyperbolic. There are plenty of options for conservatives to continue to fight. For one, the Senate has no constitutional obligation to confirm the nomination of a far-left justice. Senate Republicans admirably blocked the confirmation of President Obama’s latest appointee, Merrick Garland, to no real political disadvantage. Should Hillary Clinton win the election in November and nominate a leftist to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s seat, conservatives in the Senate have the ability — even if they find themselves in the minority — to block the appointment. Even if a liberal justice is confirmed, there are still options for resisting bad decisions from the Supreme Court. Conservative legal scholars like Robert George have written on the possibility of executive defiance to unconstitutional Supreme Court decisions, and Congress has the authority to strip the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction on many issues. The prudential case for Trump breaks down further when his candidacy is considered more carefully. Trump’s foreign policy alone should be

cited her support of Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive health care, largely abortions. Is that compassionate? If you’re pro-choice, yes: they help women control their bodies. If you’re pro-life, no: they mass-murder babies. Similar arguments hold for the other policies Reynolds cited. Voters can either view Clinton’s health policies as compassionate or as a form of government overreach. Voters can either see her support for military intervention in the Middle East as compassionate or as the destruction of entire nations. Compassion does not identify good policy, so her only pro-Clinton argument crumbles. O’Rourke fares little better. He assumes the United States government, in collusion with the elites, tramples the blatant interests of the American people. As such, he discards principles. He claims we need only to elect an energetic leader to fight against corruption for the People. O’Rourke thinks Trump will do the job.

To support such thinking, O’Rourke cites Trump’s immigration policy, but this unravels his entire argument. Trump recently changed his stance that called for the deportation of all illegal aliens. Now Trump says he will “work with them” as long as they pay taxes. Trump’s flip-flops show that the interest of the American people are blurry and that he doesn’t understand what the country needs. Reynold’s and O’Rourke’s arguments are based on unfounded assumption. Compassion is not a principle. Standing against the elites in Washington is not a principle. I have no doubt that Reynolds, O’Rourke, and those who agree with them see themselves as defenders of liberty. But they should start by liberating themselves from whatever misconceptions led to the arguments they published last week.

enough to disuade conservatives. Across the spectrum, from Mitt Romney to Ted Cruz, conservatives believe that American leadership on the global stage is necessary for national security. Donald Trump on the other

government. The American people cannot trust someone so surrounded by pro-Putin stooges, and willing to praise the brutal dictator, to act in the nation’s best interests abroad. Not only that, but Trump's proposed national security policies are unjust and insane. He has refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons in the United States’ fight against ISIS. He has sworn to order drone strikes on terrorists’ innocent families in the Middle East — which actually would constitute a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. These are not the policies of a war hawk or someone who is “tough on terror.” These are the policies of an unhinged, uninformed demagogue, trying to whip up the passions of the American people. A Trump presidency likely would be an abject catastrophe. He has no real commitment to conservative principles, and the American right should not put faith in his demagogic posturing.

“Trump's national security policies are unjust and insane."

hand has said that we should retreat from strategic alliances like NATO and treat hostile regimes like Iran and Russia as partners for peace. Many on Trump’s foreign policy advisory team are altogether too friendly towards Vladimir Putin and our Russian adversaries. They minimize or even defend Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, and deny the geopolitical threat that Putin’s new totalitarianism poses to American interests. Much like Hillary Clinton, some of Trump’s advisors — like Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — have even accepted money from the Russian

Sincerely, Jonathon Misiewicz

Lucchese is a junior studying American History

City News

A6 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Drop-In Center fights to improve mental health Zoning issue causes higher

The Hillsdale Drop-In Center’s storefront. Brendan Clarey | Collegian

By | Brendan Clarey Assistant Editor The Hillsdale Drop-In Center serves the community by assisting people who suffer from mental health issues. A non-profit organization, the Center has provided its members with a safe environment for twenty-two years. Its unique mission focuses on recovery, rehabilitation, and restoration. The Center, on the corner of Hillsdale and Monroe Streets, goes largely unnoticed, besides occasional passerby traffic. “People wander by and we get some looks, but we’re friendly people. We’re not going to jump out the door and attack anybody,” said Steve Powell, Treasurer of the Advisory Board for the Center. The mission of the Center is to protect its members and empower them to face the challenges of their daily lives. According to its mission statement, the center offers refuge

to those who are threatened or forgotten. Its members have often experienced emotional or physical abuse, trauma, or neglect at some point in their lives. The center encourages members to stand up for themselves by taking responsibility for their actions. This enables them to lead lives of which they are in cont r o l , somet h i n g m a n y members haven’t normally experienced. “I like it because it is a place to come and chill and relax and have people to talk to,” said member Jarid Browning, who has been a part of the center for a year. “You know, get your mind off of something that’s been bothering you all day.” The center utilizes sup-

port groups to aid individual members’ recoveries. Groups cover a range of issues such as depression, anxiety, and living with chronic illnesses, and are led by a certified peer support specialist. It offers meals to its members Monday through Friday at 5pm, a l ong with providing a place to clean t h e i r l au n d r y once a we ek. There are also several recreational activities, including a pool table and slot car racing. Activities Recovery and Empowerment runs the Hillsdale location, as well as a location in Jackson. The organization is consumer-run, meaning it is staffed with those who have previously been diagnosed with a mental illness. This includes the

“If I can do anything to help them, I’m going to be there for them.”

Board of Directors, the CEO, staff members, volunteers, and members. The Center is a non-profit organization, and it depends on Medicaid for funding as well as state and local grants. The Drop-In Center relies heavily on the feedback from its members, and enables them to play an influential role in its operation. Monthly meetings allow each member to have an equal voice by allowing them to vote on decisions regarding its management. At least two of the members have been going to the center for twenty years. One such person is Ruth Place, who said helping people is her favorite part of the center. “There’s a pride here that I take with these people, and I show them that we can be friends,” Place said, “And that if I can do anything to help them, I’m going to be there for them.”

tax for business owners

By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale City Council’s decision to vacate a series of undeveloped alleys in the Clover Hill block has caused confusion and anger among property owners at a Sept. 6 meeting. City Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker explained how the old alleys will be zoned into the adjacent properties, and what this means for property owners in the block. “The alleys will be broken up equally amongst all of the property owners. This means that each property owner will get any extra eight feet in length based on the width of the property,” Beeker said. “The city has never made any move toward maintaining those alleyways and many of those property owners were already maintaining them. This decision ensures property owners that the city can’t do things like put telephone poles in their backyards.” By vacating these alleys, however, the city causes a rise in property taxes for anyone who receives a piece of old alleyway. Councilman Bruce Sharp said that, despite the inconvenience, this decision will ultimately benefit property owners. “We’re not trying to stir anything up, we’re just trying to correct something. I think it’s a win for you guys in the long run. Your taxes just go up a little bit,” he said.

Sharp also said property owners who receive land from the alleys should hire surveyors to allay any confusion among neighbors over who owns which piece of land. “You don’t want to build something and then find out that you’ve built on someone else’s property,” he said. “I would definitely recommend all property owners to get their land surveyed.” Councilman Brian Watkins, however, was not satisfied with the agreement. Watkins, who owns a piece of land adjoined to an alley, said the council might be acting too quickly and without regard for property owners. “My concern is that we’re not taking steps to get some legal clarification for the owners’ sake,” he said. “Neighbors that get along great are not going to have a problem with it, but neighbors that never speak and might be a little greedier with land could have an issue over what we’re doing here.” Councilman Adam Stockford agreed. “I hate to drop a dirt pie on somebody’s lap, even with good intentions,” he said. “I think this is something we should move forward with, but I do think we don’t understand all of the ramifications of what we’re doing.” Stockford responded to those still unhappy with the inevitable tax hikes: “No one likes their taxes going up, but that’s just how it is.”

Hillsdale woman pleads guilty to harboring fugitive

New welcome signs spark criticism at council meeting By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter The people of Hillsdale are not ready for the town to become the “Home of Hillsdale College.” This became evident at a City Council meeting on Sept. 6, during which several citizens voiced their concerns about the council’s recent decision to replace the motto on all of Hillsdale’s welcome signs, changing “It’s the people” to “Home of Hillsdale College.” “I think it’s great that the college offered to pay for some new signs, but I have a big issue, as I think a lot of people have with ‘It’s the people’ getting taken off,” Hillsdale resident Penny Swan said. “‘It’s the

people’ includes everybody. It includes the college people, the radio station, all of us out here — we have a really special little town, and it’s the people that make it that way.” Swan said “It’s the people” applies to all of Hillsdale, uniting the town and the college. “I watched the convocation speech from the College and the first student that spoke actually brought that up,” she said. “When she came to town she saw that on the sign and really didn’t understand what that meant. But after being in Hillsdale for four years, dealing with the college folks, dealing with the city folks, she really understood what that meant. And she was proud of the ‘It’s the people.’”

Local business owner Julie Games also voiced concerns about the city’s decision. “We have to remember that it’s the people that make this town great,” she said. “My husband and I first moved here because of the college, but we’ve stayed here 31 years because ‘It’s the people.’” Games produced a handdrawn sign proposal and asked the city council if it was possible to include both “Home of Hillsdale College” and “It’s the people” on the new signs. City Councilman Matthew Bell declined her request. “The signs are completed. They’re just waiting for installation,” he said. City Councilman Bill Zeiser asked if the council would

consider finding a way to include the city’s old motto on the already-completed signs. “I think the signs are beautiful and I think it would be very nice if we were to add on something that says ‘It’s the people’ in quotation marks,” he said. “The slogan obviously means a lot to people of all walks of life in the town.” Zeiser said these new signs could ultimately be a way to foster a closer relationship between the city and the college. “I think the new signs are great,” he said. “If you look at any college town, they have pride in their relationship with the school. I think a melding here would be a good thing.”

Jonesville man arrested for disributing sexually explicit photos By | Philip H. DeVoe City News Editor Gregory Lawrence Kuhn, 28, was arrested in late August on a felony warrant for distributing sexually explicit verbal or visual material to a minor. According to Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Megan Stiverson, the material distributed was nude photographs considered harmful in nature, which were distributed to a 16-year-old girl. Stiverson was not aware of the subject of the photos. Kuhn exercised his right to counsel at a probable cause hearing earlier in the week, delaying the hearing until further notice. “These kinds of cases are very common in Michigan and the U.S. because they are crimes committed through a computer,” Stiverson said.

Stiverson instructs Hillsdale-area high schoolers on the legal implications of using phones to send photos to others that are sexually explicit in nature, and said she always reminds them that their cellular devices and computers contain technology as powerful as that which NASA used to reach the moon. “Perpetrators start grooming victims with computer contact, and attempt to distribute it from there,” Stiverson said. Although unable to speak on her opinion of the outcome of the case, she explained that convictions have been easy on similar cases in the past. Since photos are taken using an electronic device, it is easy to identify a timestamp and follow the photo as it is forwarded around, Stiverson said.

Gregory Lawrence Kuhn, arrested for distributing sexually explicit verbal or visiual material to a minor. Hillsdale Sheriff’s Department | Courtesy

Blue Danielle Lucio, arrested for harboring a fugitive, resisting arrest, and lying to an officer. Hillsdale Sheriff’s Department | Courtesy

By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor Last month, the Hillsdale County Sheriff ’s Department took Hillsdale resident Blue Danielle Lucio, 20, into custody for harboring a fugitive, resisting arrest, and lying to an officer. According to a police report, Capt. Carl Albright responded to a distressed caller, who claimed she had been the victim of an assault on Aug. 23, 2016. The caller accused Brandon Rumer, 27, of the assault, and informed Albright that Rumer was hiding in Garden Grove apartments in Hillsdale.The tip led Albright to 18 Garden Drive, where Lucio had been hiding Rumer, who was also the target of a separate HCSD search, for neglecting multiple child support payments. “When I arrived at the house, I listened to the door, knocked, heard footsteps, but no one answered. They had propped the interior door so that I couldn’t get in,” Albright said. “Once we got the door open, I confronted Lucio with the information I had, which she denied.” According to the police report, Rumer was not in the house when the police arrived, and was later found hiding in the woods after a nearby contractor claimed he had seen a man jump out of the window. When Albright confronted Lucio for lying to the police, she responded, “I am sorry.

Brandon came to my apartment last night and said his babies’ momma had kicked him out and he needed a place to stay, so I let him,” according to a police report. Lucio was then placed under arrest and, according to a police report, began crying. “I know it was stupid,” Lucio said, “I am sorry.” Rumer was later located by Officer Shelby Rathbun about a half mile from the suspect’s sister’s apartment. “As I walked down a path I observed Brandon Rumer sitting on the ground in front of a large tree,” Rathbun wrote in the police report. Rumer was then taken into custody and obtained an additional charge for resisting arrest. Rumer, who is currently in the Hillsdale County Jail with no bond allowed, was charged with resisting arrest and domestic violence/assault and battery. He also has two civil warrants for child neglect. Lucio and Rumer appeared in the Hillsdale District Court on Sept. 7, 2016 for their probable cause hearings. According to prosecuting attorney Neal Brady, Lucio pleaded guilty to harboring a fugitive and resisting and obstructing an officer. The minimum sentence for harboring a fugitive is four years. Rumer also pleaded guilty to assault and battery and domestic violence, and could face up to five.

City News

An ACD broadband pole. ACD | Courtesy

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

A7 8 Sept. 2016 Kevin Schoen, CEO and co-owner of ACD, works at a computer at ACD headquarters. ACD | Courtesy

Faster internet just a few clicks away By | Scott McClallen Collegian Reporter Fiber optic high-speed internet will soon be offered to the city of Hillsdale by ACD after two years of preparation. Hillsdale’s fiber optic network began in November 2014 through a contract between ACD and the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities. The original purpose for the network was to promote efficient communication between utility services by building a ring of fiber around the city, using pre-existing utility poles. Soon, ACD will provide service to residential homes and businesses. “The network has and will continue to do great things for the city. Fiber optic internet and cable allows for browsing and streaming speeds unimaginable ten years ago,” said Mary Wolfram, City of Hillsdale Director of Economic Development. ACD’s optic service is renowned for its futuristic speeds and reliability. Fiber optics uses an advanced data, voice, and video processing

By | Anna Timmis Collegian Reporter Four bands—Luxury Flux, Trash Cats, Big Bad Wolf, and Muskin—competed for a grand prize of $1,000 in the third round of Broad Street’s annual Battle of the Bands. For the first time, the County Fair stepped in to raise the stakes, offering the winner a stage at the Hillsdale County Fair. Kory Osmun, co-founder of Rychko Entertainment, organized the event and contacted the musicians. Although Rychko Entertainment is a new project, Osmun is a veteran of the entertainment industry. “I’ve been in entertainment for twenty five years. We’ve built relationships with multiple bands,” he said, “The music industry is about who you know.” Every band that performed on Thursday, Sept. 1 has Michigan roots. Luxury Flux is from Lansing, Muskin is from Delton, and Trashcat and Big Bad Wolf hail from nearby Jackson. Luxury Flux opened the event. When asked how the band formed, Lindsay Taylor, lead vocalist, said she and her two fellow band members met in 2015. “We met on the internet through the Lansing local

system. The cutting-edge system is controlled by a laser, the width of a hair, sent down pieces of glass and plastic. The number of fibers ranges from 2- 288 strands, depending on the primary function of the cable. Optic fiber is typically used in buildings close in proximity to a LAN, in order to provide uninhibited bandwidth speeds for both internet and cable. The fiber optics exist on utility poles marked with an orange flag labeled ‘ACD,’ and the installation and price charge is contingent upon the distance between the pole and the business. “The data travels at the speed of light and is received at the endpoint by lasers. For perspective, Comcast offers a maximum of 100 megabyte internet [in Hillsdale], while ACD deploys 1000 megabyte and 10000 megabyte internet over fiber optics,” said ACD project coordinator Kevin Meeker. The McKinsey Global Institute found that small businesses with a high-speed In-

ternet connection reaped a 10% improvement in productivity, stimulating job growth. Wolfram said the new internet option will encourage more businesses and entrepreneurial opportunities within the city of Hillsdale. Fiber optic networks are traditionally installed only in large cities due to the estimated $35,000/mile cost of fiber, but the Hillsdale BPU was able to secure the contract. ACD, a longtime internet service provider for Michigan, installed fiber optic internet for a select number of state universities through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed into law by President Barack Obama. Merit, a nonprofit computer networking firm based out of Ann Arbor, was given a grant to connect rural communities across Michigan in order to build a secure fiber backbone. Jeff King, owner of Aero Data, expounded on the impact a local internet provider had on his business. “My company creates med-

ical products and does engineering consultations, so fast internet speed is vital to our well-being. My internet speed has only diminished since I purchased it, to the point that I can’t even stream Netflix. Slow internet is driving business out of Hillsdale,” said King. ACD has to obtain a few more permits until they can fully offer their services across the city of Hillsdale. “We are working in tandem with the county to bring fiber optic closer to downtown Hillsdale underground to avoid construction on existing roads. We expect it to be finished in a few months,” said Meeker. Meeker expressed his excitement on offering optic fiber internet and cable services to residential areas for the first time, and encouraged others to look into the speed differences. “No matter if you are trading stocks or playing video games, once you experience fiber optic internet, there is no going back,” said King.

Bands battle for spot at Hillsdale County Fair

scene. We were just looking for other musicians to jam with,” she said. The other musicians echoed Taylor’s perspective, viewing music as an opportunity to enjoy the company of other musicians while doing what they love. Band member Johnny Baird joined a band to spend time with his son. “My son plays in a garage rock band and I thought it would be a good opportunity to play together,” said Baird. Big Bad Wolf closed the night with a mix of rock styles. The members of the four-man band are self-proclaimed music geeks, listening to a variety of styles from Classical to Metal. “You’ll hear different styles in our music, but we can get pretty hard,” said Richie Brown, laughing. Big Bad Wolf has experience playing in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Lansing, and Battle Creek. When asked his favorite city to play in, Brown said that the Music Factory in Battle Creek draws a big crowd. Drawing a crowd was exactly what Osmun and Josh Wainscott, manager of the Underground, wanted. Wainscott hopes to involve Hillsdale students in regular Thursday night events.

Luxury Flux rocks out at Broadstreet’s Battle of the Bands last Thursday. Anna Timmis | Collegian

Zeiser will fight for local businesses, better roads as councilman By | Ben Dietderich Collegian Freelancer

Hillsdale City Councilmen Matt Bell (L) and Bill Zeiser (R) check their computers at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Ben Dietderich | Collegian

Bill Zeiser, a 4th year PhD student enrolled at Hillsdale’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, was elected earlier this month to Hillsdale’s City Council. Zeiser was elected as a representative of Hillsdale’s Ward III in a close race between candidate Julian Kast and himself. With only 254 ballots cast, Zeiser beat Kast by a mere 15 votes. Zeiser and his wife moved to Hillsdale three years ago so he could attend graduate school. Zeiser is originally from the New York City area. “I always joke with people that it’s been quite the adjustment because I came from a city with 8 million people to a city of 8,000,” Zeiser said. As both a stakeholder in the

college and the town community, Zeiser hopes to strengthen the relationship between the town and the college, and build dialogue between the two respective groups. “The town is an asset to the college and the college is an asset to the town,” said Zeiser. Despite being done with classes on campus, Zeiser said he decided to stay in Hillsdale because of all it has to offer. “There’s the low cost of living and the nicest people you could meet. It’s a wonderful place,” Zeiser said. Even though Hillsdale is a community teeming with wonderful opportunities, Zeiser does believe “there are many serious problems.” Zeiser indicated that he stands with several local residents who believe the faulty quality of the roads is a major barrier facing the Hillsdale community.

“It affects every other aspect of life here,” said Zeiser. Like many students of Hillsdale College, Zeiser describes himself on Twitter as being “center-right” and “pro-liberty.” Zeiser hopes to utilize these positions to create an environment that fosters economic growth and, more specifically, employment opportunities for local residents. “It’s obvious that there are many vacant businesses downtown. There’s a need for more shops,” Zeiser said. Zeiser hopes to have informal discussions with local business owners to solve these problems. He wants to learn about the challenges they face in order to launch changes that will bring business back into Hillsdale. Zeiser would like to approach nearby communities and encourage them to bring their businesses to Hillsdale as well.

A8 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Sports

Follow @HDaleSports for live updates and news

Volleyball

Football SATURDAY, SEPT.

saturday, sept.

FRIDAY, SEPT.

vS.

wALSh 7:00 pm

Hillsdale

UpcOmiNg

Indianapolis

StAtS Chance Stewart Joe Reverman Trey Brock Jay Rose Drew Mallery Steven Mette

29-42, 320 yRD, 2 tD 26 Att 76 yRD, 1 tD 13 REc, 197 yRD, 1 tD 10 tkL 2 tkL, 1 SAc, 1 ff 3-3 fg, 3-3 xp, 12 ptS

Cross Country

UpcOmiNg

Hillsdale Merrimack

03 01

SEASON LEADERS Kills Digs Aces Assists Blocks

Kara Vyletel-49, Paige VanderWall-32 Vyletel-47, Taylor Wiese-41 Jackie Langer-6, Emily Lachmann-4 Taylor Bennett-151, Lachmann-5 Erin Holsinger-18, Kyra Rodi-10

fRiDAy, SEpt. 16

SAtURDAy, SEpt. 10

SUNDAy, SEpt. 11

At Walsh

At Ashland

10:00 AM

1:00 PM

something each was impressed by. “In the UK, I was put in math courses and I would have finished with math,” Roberts said. “Over here, I am learning more religion and heritage. It is going to be interesting for sure.” The five have, to no surprise, had some cultural adjustments to make. Roberts said he was shocked by the size of the portions, quipping

that he couldn’t believe “the small cup was the size of our large,” regarding a recent trip to Wendy’s. Bell added she was was taken back by how confident and outgoing her peers seemed. Mirkovic said the religious and political atmosphere is something that contrasts what he is used to. “In Croatia, there are religious people, but it not as important as it is here,” he said.

11:50 AM

Spartan Invitational become part of a team, which is something that may be taken for granted by those familiar with American high school sports. Bell, Capek, Clouette, Mirkovic, and Roberts, however, have spent the majority of their competitive careers competing individually. “Back home, I played lots of individual and singles competitions,” Bell said. “I had a few team events for my county, which were really fun. Most-

ly, though, it’s just individual events.” Each athlete expressed excitement over this new-found camaraderie. “It’s not just me out there. I am relying on — putting effort in for — the team,” Roberts said. “Instead of travelling half an hour down the road, now I get to travel five or six hours down the road with my team. You’re playing with a bunch of guys that want it. There is no

Gannon

Hillsdale

Clarion

03 00

Women’s Tennis Upcoming

freshmen, from A10

00 03

At pitt-jOhNStOwN 1:00 pm

Upcoming At East Lansing, Mich.

Hillsdale

saturday, sept. 10 At mALONE 9:00 Am

03 00 Hillsdale Cedarville

SATURDAY, SEPT.

friday, sept. 9 At cLARiON 3:00 pm

slacking.” While this interpersonal drive is important on the field, it’s also important in the classroom. Bell, Mirkovic, and Roberts spent recent years studying extremely specialized subjects. For Bell and Mirkovic, it was the hard sciences, while Roberts studied mathmatics. With this in mind, the liberal arts education provided by Hillsdale is an obvious change of pace, although

“It is the same with politics. Those are just minor things though.” Although these members of the 2020 class come from different corners of the world, they arrive with a common goal: “Better myself.” “Everyone is here with something to do. Everybody is focused,” Roberts said. “A lot of people want something out of this, which is good to be a part of.”

HILLSDALE ALUM BEGINS PROFESSIONAL CAREER

By | Nathanael Meadowcroft to adjust to life in a new country. Senior Writer “There are hardships I 2016 has been quite the year wasn’t really expecting,” Coofor Kyle Cooper. The former per said. “It’s more of a mental Hillsdale College basketball struggle sometimes than I restar was named 2016 GLIAC alized.” Player of the Year in FebruThe language barrier has ary, graduated in May, and been the hardest thing for got engaged in July. In June, Cooper to break through. he signed his first professional While he speaks some Spanbasketball contract with Amics ish, he doesn’t consider himCastello in Castellon, Spain. self fluent. “It’s a huge opportunity,” “Going to a restaurant, goCooper said. “It’s awesome to ing to the grocery store, gohave the chance to have a team ing to the pharmacy, it’s hard sign you to a contract. It’s a to communicate everyday high level of basketball and it’s choices with people because I a great city.” don’t speak their language and Amics Castello plays in LEB they know I don’t speak their Gold, the second highest bas- language,” Cooper said. “But ketball league in Spain. Coo- besides that, I really have no per also received offers from complaints.” teams in Australia, France, Cooper lives with a teamand Germany, but LEB Gold mate from Colorado. The rest features the level of basketball of his team speaks Spanish — he was looking for. but they know enough English “It just seemed like the best to communicate. opportunity out of the bunch,” “Some of them actualCooper said. ly speak decent English, and Hillsdale College basketball hand motions and gestures are head coach John Tharp helped always helpful,” Cooper said. Cooper begin the process of Cooper is just a 15-minute pursuing a professional con- drive away from the Meditertract in the spring. Tharp said ranean and has gone to the Amics Castello is “an incredi- beach several times since arble place” for Cooper to begin riving in Spain. But most of his his career. time has been taken up by pre“We are very proud of Kyle season practices. Amics CasCooper in everything that he tello practices six days a week. has become as a basketball Four of five of those days the player and more importantly team will have two practices, as a man,” Tharp said. “Like so most days Cooper spends all of our players in Europe, about seven hours at the pracwe wish him all the best and tice facility. look forward to monitoring “It’s definitely been tough,” his rookie season.” Cooper said, “but I wake up, Cooper left for Spain on and eat breakfast, and go to Aug. 20. Since then, he has had basketball practice, come

home, eat lunch, and chill out until I go to basketball practice again. It’s not a bad life by any means.” As Cooper has had to adjust to life off the court, he’s had to adjust to the faster style of play on the court. “The game here is more free-form and guys are a lot looser,” Cooper said. “The style, offensively, is not as rigid.” Cooper played his first preseason game on Aug. 29. Amics Castello lost 83-65 to Valencia, a team in Liga ACB — the highest basketball league in Spain. Last season, Valencia finished third behind Barcelona and Real Madrid. “They are really, really good. I’m not going to lie, they beat up on us,” Cooper said. “But it’s a preseason exhibition game so it’s not anything really to hang your hat on.” Cooper started the game and finished in the top three on his team in rebounds, assists, and blocks, but suffered a poor shooting night. On Tuesday, Cooper and his teammates flew to China for a 12-day, three-game preseason tour in Xi’an, the capital of the province of Shaanxi. Basketball will be the focus, but the team will also have the opportunity to tour the region. Cooper is grateful for the opportunity to visit a country and continent he’s never been to before. “I just feel really blessed that the game of basketball has me living in Spain, and it’s taking me to Asia,” Cooper said. “Basketball has given me so many

amazing opportunities to see the world and experience life in different cultures, and I just feel really blessed by it.” Amics Castello will begin the regular season on Sept. 30. Like soccer leagues in Europe, LEB Gold features a promotion/relegation system in which the best teams each season can move up to Liga ACB and the worst teams are sent down to the lower league. Cooper appreciates that the threat of relegation doesn’t allow teams to tank. “It’s a pretty cool system because it keeps competition alive,” Cooper said. “Nobody’s attempting to lose games because you don’t want to go down a league.” While the best teams each season can move up to the top league, some elect not to so because they don’t want to deal with higher costs and tougher competition. Cooper’s contract lasts until the end of the season, so he could return to the United States any time from the end of April to mid-June, depending on how far Amics Castello advances this season. Cooper said whether he returns to Spain after this season is “super dependent on a lot of different variables.” “If there are opportunities to further my career in Italy or Germany or Portugal, I would have to consider those. So I’m definitely not tied to Spain, although I wouldn’t complain about staying in Spain,” Cooper said. “Especially if I was able to move up to Liga ACB — that’s pretty much one of

told me that it wouldn’t be possible for me to play both club volleyball and softball at the same time, and so I chose volleyball.

some of my best friends here, and to build relationships with the girls on the team. I look forward to learning this sport again, to the challenge of catching up on all the years I’ve missed, to the blisters from batting and the sore shoulder from pitching. I love the sport, and so to just be out on the field again is an opportunity I am so thankful for. I know how hard the softball team has worked over this past year, and coming off of such a successful season last year, I can’t wait to see how we compete this spring.

Kyle Cooper ‘16 drives to the bucket during a preseason game with Amics Castello as he continues his playing career overseas. Carlos Javier Sanchez Santiago | Courtesy

the highest levels of basketball in Europe — that would be a huge opportunity, and I would

be more than happy to stay in Spain to play there.”

played in a beach tournament, worked the Hillsdale summer camps, and got to play with the team some as well.

possible to play both.

CHARGER CHATTER: KYRA RODI

Kyra Rodi is a senior biochemistry major from Temecula, California. She plays middle/right side on Hillsdale’s volleyball team and will begin as a pitcher on the softball team this year. What made you decide to compete in two sports this year, especially now as a senior? I had bounced around the idea of playing softball during my senior spring since coming into college as there is much

more time available after the volleyball fall season your senior year. I had committed to playing volleyball coming in, so I knew it wasn’t an option for me to try and split time between teams before this spring, and it wouldn’t be fair to either of them. However, I mentioned to one of my friends on the softball team that I would love to get pitching lessons and joked about wanting to play this spring. I went out and threw a few times and was shocked that the softball coach said it could be possible for me to play. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be able to play softball again and to be a part of the awesome team here at Hillsdale. How long has it been since you’ve played softball competitively? The last competitive travel team I played on was in sixth grade, though I played pick-up and practiced some with the high school team up through freshman year. The high school softball coach

Which sport do you prefer, and why? I love both, and different things about both. I love the complexity and beauty in volleyball, the attention to detail, the fast pace, the dependence on your teammates, the long rallies, and the passion that we play with. I grew up playing softball, and so that in itself brings back so many good memories. I miss the mound, the individual pressure and mind games that you can play with the opposing team. I miss the sport itself, and even working a softball camp this summer I was so thankful that I have the opportunity to play again. What are you most looking forward to about the softball season? I am looking forward to everything. First of all, I am excited to be able to play with

How have you prepared for both seasons over the summer? I pitched a few times a week this summer. Cassie Asselta is a senior catcher, and we were both here over summer school doing research, so she was able to catch for me and also give a lot of instruction. Sarah Klopfer has also spent time helping me, and I’m so thankful for her knowledge and guidance as a pitcher. For volleyball, I worked out a lot,

How do you plan to juggle the volleyball season and the softball fall season? During the fall season, my first commitment is to my volleyball team. I will be at all of the practices/meetings/ lifts during season and am focused on giving all I can to my team. I plan on making all of the softball meetings that I can, though I know it won’t be many during the fall and won’t make most of the practices or games. I am enrolled in the softball class with Coach Joe, so hopefully I can put in some work pitching during that time, though I do need to be careful about taking care of my shoulder. Once the volleyball season is over, I get to commit to softball and will make as much of the volleyball time as I can. Both Coach Gravel and Coach Joe have been awesome about being flexible and willing to work with me, which makes it

What do you hope to accomplish in each sport during your final year? During my final year, I hope to become a better teammate and a better player and ultimately to glorify God. Obviously, we’re all working for successful seasons, and I hope to help my teams in whichever ways I can for the success of the team. For volleyball, I want to cherish every practice and sprint and extra rep, because I know how quickly the last three years have been. I want to help this younger team develop into strong leaders and players because there is a lot of talent returning next year. On the softball team, I am so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to play again, and so I want to be able to play fearlessly and for the love of the game each time I step out onto the field. I want to build relationships with my teammates, and encourage them in their successes. — Compiled by Madeline Fry

A9 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Sophomore wide receiver Trey Brock and junior tight end Austin Adams celebrate a Charger touchdown in Saturday’s 30-24 win. Ben Block | Collegian

Football, from A10 cent of their third-down opabout four or five deep there with guys that I can count on to go get open.” Hillsdale’s defense has vastly improved — but needs to continue improving. In 2015, the Chargers gave up an average of 30.7 points per game and 447.1 yards per game. They also allowed their opponents to convert 43 per-

portunities and gave up an average of 193 rushing yards per game. On Saturday, the Chargers gave up just 24 points and 273 total yards, while not allowing a single third-down conversion in eight opportunities. They surrendered just 50 yards on the ground. “We did a great job stopping the run. First and fore-

most, you’ve got to stop the run,” Otterbein said. “That was absolutely a major factor of this football game and how we performed on defense.” Junior linebacker Jay Rose led Hillsdale’s defense with six solo tackles and 10 total tackles. Rose was proud of the Chargers’ ability to get stops. “It’s huge getting off the field on third down,” Rose said. “That’s a big difference from last year. Our third down percentage was horrible.” While the Chargers’ rush defense showed clear signs of improvement, their pass defense was not as sharp. Hillsdale allowed 223 yards through the air on just 12 completions. “We did let a couple big plays go, and that is always going to be our challenge,” Otterbein said. “You get matchups on the outside and skill-onskill and you go against good players, and sometimes the other team makes some plays, too, with their good players.” All three touchdowns the Greyhounds scored were a result of big pass plays. Their first touchdown came on a 40yard pass, their second came on a short rush after a 36-yard pass, and their third came on a 22-yard pass that followed a 52-yard completion. “When we’re focused on the run, things like that will happen. But we definitely can find ways to stop that,” Rose said. “We’ve got to be better on that moving forward obviously.” The Chargers’ inability to keep opposing receivers from getting behind their secondary made the game much closer than it might have been. Hillsdale dominated time of possession 42:04-17:56, ran

80 plays to the Greyhounds’ 38, and gained 149 more total yards. Still, the game came down to the last minute. “It shouldn’t have been that close of a game because it felt like we were outplaying them,” Rose said. “We just had a couple lapses. That’s the unfortunate part of football. If you let up for a couple plays, it could be a close game when it really doesn’t feel as if it should be close.” Walsh is an unfamiliar opponent. The Chargers host the Walsh Cavaliers on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium. No one on the Chargers’ roster or coaching staff has ever faced Walsh before. “We haven’t really had to put a game plan together against them, so we’ve got to study it a little bit,” Otterbein said. “They’re a good football team. They’re going to be tough. They’re going to be physical.” The Cavaliers lost to Michigan Tech 33-7 in their season opener on Saturday. Last season, they finished 2-9. Regardless, the Chargers know this opponent will present challenges. “They definitely have a lot of athletes and that’s going to be a challenge,” Rose said. “The biggest thing is just treating every week the same, regardless of who it is. We’ll prepare with the same intensity that we prepared for Indy. As soon as you take someone lightly, they’re going to beat you.”

FOOTBALL COOLS DOWN WITH ROASTS

By | Nathanael Meadowcroft “I’ve been roasted plenty,” Stewart said. “Last year I Senior Writer was new still so nobody knew Fall camp is a grind. For anything about me, so I was almost three weeks before just like the quiet kid in the fall semester begins, Hills- corner.” dale College football players On the last night of fall spend more than 14 hours camp the Chargers put on per day at the Roche Sports a rookie show in which the Complex prepping for the freshmen roast each other, season. Every evening, the their teammates, and someentire team — players and times even their coaches. coaches — come together for “It’s really fun when they a team meeting. But the play- take shots at the coaches and ers convene about 20 minutes the upperclassmen, about all early. And while they wait for of our quirks,” head coach the meeting to begin, they Keith Otterbein said. “Usualcall out someone’s name to ly I get a couple different vertell a joke — or roast a team- sions and variations of how I mate. act or what I say or hand ges“It’s just nice ending the tures or whatever I do.” day with some laughter,” juWhile the freshmen havnior defensive lineman Casey en’t gotten to know everyone Schukow said. “At the end of by that time, the older players each day it’s nice to just come will give information about together for a little bit, share their teammates to the freshsome laughs, and mentally men to use in their roasts. just relax and take some deep “This year’s was really breaths. It probably is my fa- good. We were laughing the vorite part of camp.” whole time,” junior linebackNot every player does a er Jay Rose said. “They did a roast or gets roasted, but they good job.” all enjoy bonding through The Chargers don’t have the shared experience. While daily team meetings during the players take a break from the season, so the roasts end football, the coaches wait with fall camp. outside the meeting room. Still, the roasts allow play“They understand that ers to get a break and get to that’s our time to tell each know each other during one other jokes, roast people, and of the busiest times of the relax a little bit. Sometimes year. they’ll hear it,” Schukow said. “It’s a break from footSophomore quarterback ball,” Stewart said. “You get to Chance Stewart said he was have fun, and you get to see roasted more this fall since some of the character of kids everyone got to know him and see how they act, so that in his first full offseason with works perfect.” the Chargers.

VOLLEYBALL SERVES UP 3-1 OPENING WEEKEND

By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor In a solid opening weekend, the Hillsdale College volleyball team served up three wins at the Tony Banner Invitational in Clarion, Pennsylvania. The Chargers dropped just one match on the weekend. Though it was the team’s first official competition of the season, the Chargers are already striving to be spotless. “We definitely wish we would have gone 4-0,” senior outside hitter Sam Siddall said. “But there was a lot of good that came out of this weekend, too.” The Chargers powered to an undefeated start on Friday, sweeping Merrimack University 3-0, and defeating Cedarville University — Hillsdale’s future GMAC rival — 3-1. Junior outside hitter Jackie Langer had a stellar debut match for the Chargers, leading the offense with 13 kills. Hillsdale out-blocked Merrimack nine to zero, and forced the Warriors to a -.045 hitting percentage. Compared to Hillsdale’s impressive .291 hitting percentage, Merrimack didn’t stand a chance. Sophomore outside hitter Kara Vyletel partnered with Langer to begin her incredible weekend showing. Vyletel pounded eight kills in the first match, and went on to captain the Chargers’ offense for the rest of the weekend. “Kara got a lot of kills,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “With Kara, a difference from fresh-

Sophomore setter Taylor Bennett and senior middle hitter Erin Holsinger go up for the block against sophomore right side hitter Paige VanderWall this week in practice. Luke Robson | Collegian

man to sophomore year is that she was able to recover from errors, and that’s what we need her to do.” Friday’s second competition proved a bit more challenging for the Chargers as they matched up against the Cedarville Yellow Jackets. The Chargers came out strong, beating the Yellow Jackets 25-18 in game one. Cedarville went on to reverse the scores in game two, defeating Hillsdale by an identical margin. From there, the Chargers sharpened their offense and pushed for consecutive 2519 and 25-20 wins to end the

match. Vyletel matched her career-high kills, slamming 15 kills against Cedarville. Seniors Erin Holsinger and Kyra Rodi combined for 21 kills in the middle, while sophomore Paige VanderWall rounded out the Charger offense with 9 kills from the right side. Orchestrating this powerful offense was sophomore Taylor Bennett. The starting setter recorded a career-high 48 assists against Cedarville. “Taylor Bennett was very focused on the first day. She ran the offense well,” Gravel said. “As the tournament went

on, we got better at selection and changing things up. Her game four was very good, and she used a lot of our options that we have built into our offense.” “We looked really solid,” Siddall said. “We have a lot of talent on the team and the ability to work really hard. Our mindset going in was a lot more confident this year.” But on Saturday, the Chargers’ stainless showing met its match. Gannon University swept Hillsdale 3-0 to start the day. “A lot of people just forgot to bring their games into the

gym — they left them on the bus,” Gravel said. “But afterward, we had lunch, and they looked under their seats and found their games again.” The Chargers bounced right back, powering to a 3-0 win over the Clarion University to cap the 3-1 weekend. Holsinger, who was named to the All-Tournament Team, smashed 11 kills in her .429 hitting percentage against the host team. Vyletel didn’t cool down in the final match: she recorded 14 kills, bringing her weekend tally to 49. Saturday proved a shining day for Siddall, who was brought off the bench against both Gannon and Clarion. “When Jackie was struggling, we brought Sam Siddall off the bench — she was a difference maker,” Gravel said. Defensively, the Chargers were led by Vyletel, playing middle-back, and freshman libero Taylor Wiese, who played an “excellent” left-back, Gravel said. “I was really nervous, but I think as a team we have really good chemistry and if I was struggling, or if someone else was struggling, we did great at bringing each other up and working hard for every point,” Wiese said. Gravel said his team’s serving stood out as a strength in its debut performance — the Chargers served 19 aces this weekend. Though Holsinger hasn’t served much in her three previous seasons, Gravel said she was strong on the line this weekend. Freshman Em-

ily Lachmann, however, has emerged as one of the team’s strongest servers and an allaround asset for the Chargers. “Emily Lachmann seems to be, across the board, our most aggressive server with the most success,” Gravel said. “She’s never played right-back in her career, but each match she gets a little bit better — she figures out where she needs to be on defense, and she gets more balls up. She’s also an option for back row attack.” The Chargers are looking forward to playing familiar faces next weekend — Hillsdale will match up with Clarion on Friday to start the Findlay Classic. “We’ve never had that happen where we play back-toback this early in the year,” Gravel said. “We did beat Clarion in three, but it wasn’t easy. We always try to go back to the basics, but we served and passed pretty well against them. We’re going to have to do the same or better to end up on top again.” The Chargers will play Malone, a former GLIAC opponent, and Pitt.-Johnstown on Saturday. Though Hillsdale defeated both of these teams last year, Gravel said neither should be overlooked. Siddall said her team is striving for perfection before starting conference play the following Friday. “This weekend, we’re definitely hoping to go undefeated,” she said.

Aaron Tracey: admissions by day, athletics by night By | Tim Pearce Assistant Editor It’s Tuesday afternoon, and the Hillsdale high school men’s soccer team is lining up for some post-practice sprints. One runner doesn’t match the rest: he’s a Hillsdale College employee, and the Hornets’ head coach. Aaron Tracy, Hillsdale College’s assistant director of special projects for admissions, is the Hornets’ new head coach. Tracey, a 2014 Hillsdale graduate, assisted former Hornets head coach Al Philipp for a season before moving into the job after Philipp stepped down. While attending Hillsdale, Tracey was a founding member of Hillsdale College’s club soccer program, playing for three years until he graduated. In addition to his role at the high school, Tracey is coaching his former club team this season as well. Tracey is passionate about soccer and jumped at the chance to expand his role with the Hornets when the head coaching position opened up.

“Last year I was helping them out on and off, but, of course, this year, I am fully committed to being their head coach,” Tracey said. Coaching two soccer teams while fulfilling all his responsibilities in Hillsdale College’s admissions department is a challenge. Tracey balances daily soccer practice, coaching Hornets’ games during the week, and club games on the weekends with admissions recruiting trips to metro Detroit, hiring student ambassadors, and running the college’s high school study abroad program. He credits the admissions department with allowing him a flexible schedule to accomplish everything. “I’m gonna make it happen,” Tracey pledged. “It’ll be busy, but, just like being a Hillsdale student, I love being busy.” Just three years removed from college, Tracey uses his youth to his advantage at practice. He scrimmages and runs drills alongside his team to motivate and lead by example while continuing to critique his players’ performance. He even lines up for post-practice

Aaron Tracey (right) poses with the Hillsdale High School Hornets soccer team. Tracey, a Hillsdale graduate and employee, is the Hornets’ head coach this year. Aaron Tracey | Courtesy

conditioning, running up and down the field and challenging his athletes to push themselves. Senior Daniel Miller is a co-captain entering his fourth year playing soccer for the Hornets. He says Tracey’s willingness to endure the physical part of soccer practice alongside his team is not lost on the players. “The fact that he gets in

there and gets his hands dirty, it’s an interesting aspect — one that we admire,” Miller said. Tracey’s particular style of coaching isn’t the only change he brings to the Hornets. He says his team will be more strategic than previous years. “I’d like to say we’re hopefully a little bit more tactical this year in terms of our strategy, in terms of our positioning.” He said.

Philipp, who coached the Hornets to a first place league finish in 2014, agrees that Tracey’s coaching style and experience will bring a new, positive quality to the team. “I was concentrating a lot on defense and Aaron brings a new component into the strategy,” Philipp said. “Aaron knows a lot about soccer. He’s probably able to teach them more technique than I could.”

Philipp also praises Tracey’s overall ability as a coach. “He has them in really good shape. He does everything the right way. He conditions them. He does the right stretching. He does the right drills with the balls, and he also talks tactics to them so, all around, he is a very good coach.” Junior co-captain Nathan Gimenez has been on the team for three years said he is ready to see where Tracey’s coaching will take the team. “I’m excited about him,” Gimenez said. “He is a hard worker and pushes us harder than we would ourselves.” As head coach, Tracey says he will measure his team’s success on more than wins and losses at the end of the season. “It’s going to be based on, certainly, how far everyone has advanced. Everyone’s got a record, but the important thing is how much everybody has improved, certainly how well we’ve worked as a team,” Tracey said. “You know, those are things that I think are most important.”

Charger Aaron Tracey | Courtesy

Hillsdale alum coaches high school soccer Admissions employee Aaron Tracey steps in as Hillsdale High School head soccer coach. A9

8 SEPT. 2016

Volleyball jumps to 3-1 start Chargers open season with a solid performance at Tony Bannon Invitational at Clarion University. A9

Luke robsonCollegian

Kyle Cooper plays overseas Former Charger continues playing career with Amics Castello in Spain. A8w Carlos Javier Sanchez Santiago | Courtesy

Ben Block | Collegian

CHARGERS DEFEAT NO. 16 INDIANAPOLIS

Five takeaways from the Chargers’ first season-opening victory in six years By | Nathanael Meadowcroft rest of the night. “That’s why you open with Senior Writer an onside kick — to get moThe Hillsdale College mentum. It didn’t necessarily football team upset the 16th- affect that drive, but it sure ranked Indianapolis Grey- affected our mentality,” Otterhounds 30-24 on Saturday bein said. “You’ve got to be agnight at Frank “Muddy” Wa- gressive.” Hillsdale’s aggressive mindters Stadium. It was the Chargers’ first win over a ranked set paid off late in the game as opponent in six years and it ex- well. With 8:40 remaining in tended their winning streak to the fourth quarter, the Charfive games dating back to last gers held a 27-24 lead with season. Here are five things to the ball at their 21-yard line. know before the Chargers host Rather than electing to play it Walsh on Saturday at 7 p.m. to safe and run down the clock, the Chargers mixed the run open GLIAC play. Don’t expect head coach and the pass during a 13-play, Keith Otterbein to play it 68-yard drive that resulted in a field goal and took the game safe. The first play the Chargers clock down to 1:23. “When you’re playing a ran this season was a surprise onside kick that they recov- good team, you’ve got to mix ered. Hillsdale didn’t score on it up, and you can’t be afraid that opening possession, but to go win the game. If you’re the aggressive play call to start playing and calling a game the game set the tone for the not to lose, chances are you’re

probably going to lose,” Otterbein said. “Our kids played with great passion and great emotion all day long.” The Chargers have developed a no-quit mindset. While the Chargers never trailed by more than four points throughout the game, their ability to keep their composure — especially in the third quarter — against a ranked opponent was impressive. With 4:41 remaining in the third quarter, the Greyhounds took a 17-13 lead on a 3-yard touchdown run from quarterback Jake Purichia. Hillsdale responded with a 5-play, 76yard touchdown drive, but the Greyhounds countered with another go-ahead touchdown just 36 seconds later. The score capped a five-minute stretch in which Indianapolis scored 17 points,

but the Chargers kept their cool. “Every time there was a chance to lose momentum, we just sucked it up and went. That’s a tribute to the leadership we had all winter, through spring ball, the summer, and through camp,” Otterbein said. “They stuck together, and they just believed that we were going to make enough plays to win the football game. I’m really proud of them.” Otterbein told his players before the game and at halftime to “just play the next play.” “It doesn’t matter what happened the last play. If you let that bother you — if you think about the last play — you’re not going to perform on the next play,” Otterbein said. “This was a tremendous example of just keeping it going and not worrying and not looking

at the scoreboard.” Hillsdale’s offense is focused — but not dependent — on the run. The Chargers have featured a run-heavy offense the past few years. Last season, Hillsdale ran 138 more running plays than passing plays. On Saturday, however, the Chargers ran 42 passing plays to 38 rushing plays. Sophomore tailback Joe Reverman, who won GLIAC Freshman of the Year in 2015, didn’t even touch the ball until Hillsdale’s third drive of the game. The Chargers did not de-emphasize the run in the offseason, but they added more run-pass option plays to their playbook. The way the Greyhounds set up their defense forced the Chargers to go through the air more than they might have otherwise. “We’re doing some run-pass

reads because so many teams are putting a lot of hats at the ball. They’re getting their safeties and linebackers involved and flowing really fast,” Otterbein said. “To counter that, you do these run-pass reads. You read a guy and if he gets out of there then you throw it. So a lot of those open little slants over the middle were those kinds of plays.” Sophomore quarterback Chance Stewart took advantage of more opportunities to throw the ball, completing 29 of his 42 passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns. Stewart credited his teammates for his solid performance. “The offensive line gave me time, so when they can give me time, we’ve got great receivers,” Stewart said. “I don’t think people understand that we’re

See Football, A9

10 international students join Charger athletics from all corners of the world.

INTERNATIONAL FRESHMEN EXPERIENCE LIFE IN THE STATES By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor The first weeks of college can be an adjustment. Now, imagine if you had never lived in the United States before. A small cross-section of the class of 2020 found themselves in this situation, while also entering the world of collegiate athletics.

This fall, Hillsdale College welcomed five international student athletes: Katie Bell, Daniel Capek, Julien Clouette, Milan Mirkovic, and George Roberts. Bell hails from Portsmouth, England, and is a member of the women’s tennis team, while Clouette — Montreal, Canada — and Mirkovic — Split, Croatia — became two

of the newest members of the men’s tennis team. Capek, native to Sladkovskeho, Czech Republic, became a thrower on the track and field team, while Roberts shipped his sticks across the pond from Hampshire, England, to join the men of Hillsdale golf. Although starting college in a brand new country has presented challenges for each ath-

lete, all five mentioned being struck by people’s willingness to help them adjust. “So far, my favorite part about Hillsdale is just the people,” Mirkovic said. “Everybody has been nice and helps you out. Back in Croatia, you meet all sorts of people that are not very pleasant to meet. Here, everybody is so nice and polite.”

For Capek, Clouette, and Mirkovic, part of the transition includes switching their primary tongue to one other than their native — Czech, French, and Croatian, respectively. All three said they learned much of their english through social media, television, and video games. When speaking to the men, however, this is hardly noticeable.

“In Canada, we learn English a little bit from the beginning to learn some words,” Clouette said. “I learned them most by watching TV, though. In classes, you learn rules and grammar, but you don’t learn to listen and speak it.” Now that the athletes are on campus, they have all officially

See Freshmen, A9

B1 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Grace DeSandro | Collegian

‘Stranger Things’ have happened: Netflix original lives up to the hype By | Andrew Egger Senior Writer

We’re going to remember the summer of 2016, you know. On Christmases and Thanksgivings 50 years from now, we’ll lean forward in our armchairs to whisper to clusters of wide-eyed grandchildren: “I remember the year ‘Stranger Things’ came out on Netflix.” This, at least, was the vibe around the blogosphere last month, when a Netflix sci-fi/horror series helmed by rookie directors came rocketing out of nowhere and up through the ranks of our cultural consciousness, blasting right past “fun ’80s homages” and “supernatural camp flicks” and “smalltown mysteries” into the rarified air of “AAA-quality binge material.” If you aren’t yet on board, I’ll be blunt: By not putting down the Collegian, whipping out your laptop, and diving in this minute, you are doing yourself a disservice. We live in a golden age of TV, an era

when shows like “Breaking Bad,” with its staggering character development, and “Game of Thrones,” with its rococo plot and dizzying cast of characters, push the episodic film format further than ever before. The rise of original programming on Netflix has only accelerated this rush toward the big and the ornate. In this environment, “Stranger Things” stands out as a triumph of TV minimalism, a master class in succeeding by getting the little things right. The show starts with a bang. The idyllic town of Hawkins, Indiana, is turned upside down when local boy Will Byers goes missing under paranormal circumstances. When Will’s three best friends go looking for him, they stumble across a mysterious young girl in a hospital gown, with no name but an “011” tattoo on her arm—a girl with paranormal abilities, on the run from an organization she knows only as “bad men.”

Finding Will, and hiding Eleven, become the story’s two driving concerns. “Stranger Things” transcends its own limitations in every scene. The characters may be archetypal, but “Stranger Things” makes up the lost complexity with bull’s-eye casting de-

Consistently interesting cinematography, an absolute ringer of a soundtrack, bright and witty dialogue, and an enormous dollop of ’80s pop-culture nostalgia supply the finishing touches. This attention to detail means two things. First, every moment on this show is, for one reason or another, fun to watch. Second, and more importantly, there are brilliant moments when the little things rush together in a breathtaking climax of TV transcendence. The final scene of Episode 3, “Holly Jolly,” which jump-cuts between two grieving families as Peter Gabriel swells over synths and police sirens wail in the background, can move mountains. I cried. The second time I watched it, I cried again. So the show is really, really good. But that’s not the only reason it’s a great time to be a fan. TV shows with rabid fanbases are nothing new,

“If you aren’t yet on board, I’ll be blunt: By not putting down the Collegian, whipping out your laptop, and diving in this minute, you are doing yourself a disservice.” cisions and pitch-perfect performances from both child and adult actors, from Eleven on down to school bully Troy. The plot may be straightforward, but it examines deeply human themes like friendship and loss as deftly as many shows that are much more complex.

of course—“Star Trek,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and even “Breaking Bad” are now all venerable old relics. But the particular fun of “Stranger Things” as opposed to these is the suddenness of it all, the lunatic zero-to-sixty air that surrounds fans of the new Netflix original. Trekkies have had decades to hone their devotion; fans of Stranger Things have hit their stride in under two months — if not quicker. (The number of people who watched it in a single sitting beggars belief.) It’s almost as though, despite the majesty of today’s huge, complex TV shows, we were craving something else — something deep enough to satisfy, but simple enough not to wear us out. By delivering on that promise, “Stranger Things” shows itself to be more than just that show you accidentally watched over the course of one emotional, bloodshot night. “Stranger Things” proves that the Netflix generation can still love simple, understated TV, and that might be its greatest achievement.

Shaw’s ‘Northern Star’ shines on iTunes and Spotify By | Katie Scheu

Assistant Culture Editor KayLynne Shaw’s feather-light voice and soulful lyrics hit iTunes and Spotify just in time to encourage homesick students to look to their own “Northern Star” when they feel far from home. Released Aug. 24, 2016, sophomore KayLynne recorded acoustic “Northern Star” at Inside Out Studios in Farmington, Arkansas. The song features her younger brother, Samuel Shaw, on vocals and guitar. KayLynne wrote “Northern Star” on the day she left home for her freshman year at Hillsdale College. “I wrote the whole thing in one sitting,” KayLynne said. “It just flowed. I wrote it at the piano and then I left [for Hillsdale].” In “Northern Star,” KayLynne captures both the feelings when her family moved from Oklahoma

to Arkansas in 2009 and how she dealt with leaving her family, specifically her brother Samuel, when she departed for college. “At some time during our lives, we all make hard decisions, wondering if the difficulty that follows

“I wrote the whole thing in one sitting. It just flowed.” is a sign that we made a wrong choice,” said Leslie Shaw, KayLynne’s mother and voice teacher. “I believe that we can all relate to that. I love how real her lyrics are to people of all ages and walks of life.” At first, KayLynne sang “Northern Star” as a solo, but eventually invited her younger brother Samuel to sing it with her. “My little brother Samuel is my best friend,” Kaylynne said.

“I wanted to make something that would capture our relationship.” KayLynne sings the first verse, which details her leaving, and Samuel leads the second, which speaks to his experience after his sister, his “best friend and biggest encourager,” left. “This song evokes a mixture of emotions, whether it be sadness from missing her or happiness because she was thinking of me when she wrote it,” Samuel said. “Our relationship definitely has an amazing effect on the music we create. It gives the music a sense of authenticity and raw emotion.” KayLynne comes from a musical background. She is an active church musician, as are her parents and siblings. KayLynne said her mother, a musician by profession, has helped her daughter to grow musically “since day one.” KayLynne said music, along with writing, is her creative outlet. She currently sings in the Hillsdale College Choir in addition to

leading worship at SOMA campus ministry and Pine Ridge Bible Church. KayLynne said she has compiled 10 songs for her upcoming album, but she does not know when she will release it. In the meantime, search for “Northern Star Kay” on Spotify or iTunes to give “Northern Star” a listen.

Northern Star “You’re in a new world you left me behind I miss you more than ever now I’m getting day confused with night and I look up and see your star and I know that you’re never all that far and I’ll be all right.”

‘THE GIRLS’: A PITY PARTY

Siblings KayLynne and Samuel Shaw released their first original song, “Northern Star,” on iTunes and Spotify Aug. 24. KayLynne Shaw | Courtesy

CULTURE CORNER See how Hillsdalians keep up with the culture

Emma Cline’s début novel misses the mark in a feminism fail

By | Hannah Niemeier Culture Editor “Poor girls.” The refrain resonates, echoing with regret for generations of victims of circumstance. Simple and elegiac, the central phrase of “The Girls” mourns the unsung potential of women shattered by societal expectations. Emma Cline’s eagerly anticipated debut novel about a woman haunted by memories of the Manson murders earned a prominent place in beach bags and bestseller lists this summer. Though “The Girls” invites readers to bask in sympathy for the tortured position of women in society, the novel rings hollow for those who believe that women deserve more than pity. “The Girls” is haunted from the start; Evie Boyd, an aging recluse, reflects on her ill-fated transformation from a normal suburban teenager into a liberated, devilmay-care member of a fictional version of the Manson cult in California, circa 1969. It doesn’t start well, and it doesn’t end well; young Evie begins as a lonely, confused 14-year-old who spends her time fantasizing about her best friend’s brother and fighting with her mother’s boyfriends. Then, on what seems like another long, teenage-angst-ridden summer afternoon, she meets Suzanne, a black-van-driving bombshell of a woman who spends her days dumpster-diving and shoplifting with her friends. Later, after a night of drinking, smoking, and sexual revelry, she discovers these women belong to the harem of a man named Russell. This is, of course, Cline’s stand-in for Charles Manson, the charismatic cult leader responsible for plotting and executing the murders of nine people around Los Angeles in 1969. Cue ominous music. Sunburns blossom across the backs of women across the country as the stempy plot drives away all

thoughts of shade and sunscreen. Young Evie is enthralled by the women of the commune. She feels welcomed. Loved. Cherished. For the first time in her short life, something better than “poor.”

Courtesy | Cosmo

The novel follows the familiar tune of coming-of-age stories as she begins to “find herself” at Russell’s commune: “I was starting to fill in all the blank spaces in myself with the certainties of the ranch,” she remembers. But the fateful foregone conclusion continues to rumble in the background. As anyone who’s read about the Mansons knows, the story crescendos quickly toward disaster. Suzanne’s wild side leads her to dark places, and Evie is left to deal with consequences that haunt her for the rest of her life. The novel is framed by an older Evie’s memories of this troubled past, and her struggles to create a new life for herself out of the ruins. Throughout the novel, Evie lives an empty life whose governing principles are discontent, horror and pity.

Her memories are her chief companions until she runs into Sasha, a new “poor girl” who seems to be reliving Evie’s rebellious, boy-crazy, vagrant life. Cline’s voice is subdued and appropriate to her young, confused narrator, but it’s the older Evie who shows just how dismal Cline’s “poor girls” refrain is: “Poor girls,” the older, wiser, sadder Evie says. “The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get.” This deprivation, not its violent culmination, is the center of Evie’s and Sasha’s – and according to Cline, her entire gender’s – tragedy. As a pot-smoking hippie in the late 1960s, Evie is — or should be – free, according to the common view of the time period. Yet Cline follows familiar themes of the then-burgeoning feminist movement and women’s coming-of-age novels in general: Girls are penned in, held back by expectations, afraid of the world and struggling to find themselves. Evie was lost in suburbia long before Russell drew her into his dark world. Evie was hollowed out by empty friendships long before her misguided adoration of Suzanne blasted her apart. Cline may be right to point out the stifling, empty lives that many women led in the supposedly liberated era of the 1960s, but she doesn’t offer a way out. For Cline, Evie’s traumatic past has defined her, and she’s never been able to grow up or move on. In the end, the faded Evie is defeated, unable to offer comfort with her refrain: “Poor girls.” Though Cline’s “The Girls” is an elegy for the struggles of adolescence, readers may find small comfort in a refrain that See Girls, B2

Darryl Hart | Courtesy

Chandler Ryd | Courtesy

What was the best movie you saw this summer?

Darryl Hart, assistant professor of history: “It would have to be the Woody Allen movie ‘Café Society’ because Woody Allen is one of my favorite directors. It was nostalgic in a ‘Great Gatsby’ way. It has an ending like that: a man looking out and thinking about a missed loved one. But he also made Hollywood in the ’30s look good, and if you know Woody Allen’s movies, he has always been anti-L.A. and anti-Hollywood.”

Chandler Ryd, junior English major: “My favorite movie I saw this summer is a little documentary called ‘Make.’ It was produced by The MusicBed, which is a website that curates and licences music for filmmakers to use in their productions. The film is 75 minutes long and explores the lives and core motivations of roughly half a dozen filmmakers, musicians, and graphic designers as they try to make good art while still somehow paying the bills.”

What is on your “must see” list for this fall? Hart: “Christopher Guest, who has made ‘This is Spinal Tap’, ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ ‘A Mighty Wind,’ and ‘Best in Show,’ is now doing a mockumentary called ‘Mascots.’ I expect that to be pretty darn good.”

Ryd: “I’m not as knowledgeable as I wish I was about this fall’s releases, but I have had my eye on Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage of Time’ and Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Manchester by the Sea.’” Compiled by Katie Scheu

Culture

B2 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

on campus this week From the pit to piano Bring Beaux to the show New permanent art collection is college’s best yet

De Mare takes sing-a-long Sondheim to the keys By | Emily Blatter

Collegian Reporter

Sondheim has long been part of my life, and over the years I often imagined how his songs would sound transformed into piano works,” de Mare said. “The idea never left me, and in 2007, I decided to pursue a formal commissioning and concert project.” Hillsdale Music Department Chair James Holleman highlighted the innovation and creativity involved in works like those by LIAISONS composers. “It’s very difficult to take vocal music, because the melody is very simple, and figure

ers develop Sondheim’s original ideas. “What’s so exciting, as a composer, about coming to this concert is seeing what these composers find unique about these pieces,” Herman said. “How did they compose the piece of music in such a way that it brings out what they think is most characteristic? How did they bring out what they wanted in this piece? “I’m going to listen for when melodies appear, I’m going to listen for how melodies develop, I’m going to listen for creative use of texture, how

as a solo piano work,” Holleman said. “You don’t have the words, and you don’t have the sustained melody of the voice. It’s really interesting how these composers have approached this music differently.” Junior Quentin Herman, a composition student and pianist, said he is excited to hear the different ways the compos-

carry these melodies, to create an ambiance. There are a lot of little things you could look for, how these composers use their artistic license to reimagine these works.” Tickets to the concert are free through the Sage Box Office, at sageboxoffice@hillsdale.edu. They will also be available at the door.

Pianist and LIAISONS founder Anthony de Mare will perform unique solo piano renditions of musical theater works by Stephen Sondheim at 8 p.m. Sept. 9 in Markel Auditorium. “I created LIAISONS because I wanted to show Sondheim’s influence on composers of many different genres,” said de Mare in a video interview on his website. “I also wanted to enhance the piano repertoire with a whole new body of work. And quite honestly I just simply wanted to play these marvelous pieces.” “LIAISONS is a landmark commissioning and concert project based on the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim,” according to the project’s website. “The Project invited 36 of the world’s foremost contemporary composers De Mare will perform several Sondheim arrangements tomorrow at 8 p.m. to choose a song in the Markel Auditorium. De Mare’s Website | Courtesy by Sondheim and re-imagine it as a solo piout how to make it come alive he uses the accompaniment to ano piece.”

De Mare started LIAISONS as a tribute to Sondheim to celebrate his work. The contemporary musical theater composer and lyricist is most beloved for his musicals, which include “Into the Woods,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” and “Sweeney Todd.” “The music of Stephen

Rahe’s new book spars with typical view of Sparta By | Hannah Niemeier regime contains two main lesCulture Editor

Professor of history Paul Rahe’s new book proves that the Spartans deserve more credit for shaping history than the action film “300” gives them. “The Spartan Regime: Its History, Character, and Origins,” which will be officially released Sept. 27 by Yale University Press, is Rahe’s second book in a projected four-volume series that provides an indepth look into the rise and fall of Sparta. “What you usually get are single-volume books that survey things once over lightly,” Rahe said. “‘The Spartan Regime’ is a work of political science, describing the Spartan Constitution and way of life, and how their way of life grew out of their Constitution. This is Sparta in motion, as opposed to Sparta at rest.” “It’s a sympathetic reading of Sparta,” said Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow in Classics and Military History at Stanford’s Hoover Institute. “He’s trying to show you what they did with limited means, small population, and not very much money, and how they were so influential in a way that doesn’t make sense compared to Athens, which had a large population and territory.” Hanson said the Spartan political system is difficult to study because most historians focus on Athens and work from a classicist’s perspective, which emphasizes language over political science. “The Spartan Regime” aims to dispel limited views of the Spartans as mere military men only interested in power. Rahe said he sees an underlying “grand strategy” in the growth of Sparta from a fierce political regime of “military monks,” as Thomas Jefferson called them, to an imperial power that collapsed under its own weight. Rahe’s work on the Spartan

sons for politics today. “You can’t defend liberty if you go soft,” Rahe said. “The Spartans have something to teach us in the defense of liberty. And it’s also helpful in thinking about international affairs.” Rahe’s work has peaked the interest of those interested in international affairs; he spoke with foreign policy experts in Washington, D.C., about the se-

“The Spartans have something to teach us in the defense of liberty.” ries’ first volume, “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge” and will travel to West Point Military Academy to discuss his work later this month. “People in the military and State Department will look at this and say, ‘Wow, this is a paradigm that we can use to deal with ISIS or Russia,’” Hanson said. Sophomore Ellen Friesen said Rahe’s in-depth approach to history makes his classes at Hillsdale rewarding. “He taught me a way to look at history,” Friesen said. “He looks at the underlying causes of why things happen.” Hanson, who was an advisor in the creation of the movie “300,” said Rahe’s book presents a more hard-hitting version of what the action film presented in caricature. “’300’ was sort of like a Greek vase painting,” Hanson said. “It had a style that’s artificial or contrived. If you look at a Greek vase painting, every Greek warrior is muscular … That’s kind of what the movie is. It’s an idealized, artificial portrait.” “The Spartan Regime: Its History, Character, and Origins” is available online and in the Hillsdale College Bookstore.

By | Nic Rowan

mission of the college?’” Senior Will The art department’s upVeitkus, a monicoming exhibit, “Enduring tor at Sage Center Visions: Selections from the for the Arts, said College Permanent Art Colart exhibits can lection,” featured Sept. 13 impact all who to Oct. 9, showcases the colattend. lege’s art acquisitions, cen“I think art, estering on two works by Cepecially well-docilia Beaux, a well-known ne professional Victorian painter. art, can inspire “This show is meant to more than anydo two things,” said prothing,” he said. fessor of art Sam Knecht. “That’s why we “First, it’s a teaching colgo to museums.” lection — these works will Forester Mcreceive special attention Clatchey ’16 simply by being put in the commented that gallery. Second, it will be an the presence of encouragement to the visitor a permanent art that the college is interested collection on in enhancing its permanent campus should art collection.” prompt students In April, the college re- “Ernesta,” by Cecelia Beaux, will be on to immerse themceived two paintings by display in the Daughtrey Gallery begin- selves in more art. Cecilia Beaux, “Ernesta” ning Sept. 13. Sam Knecht | Courtesy “I would hope and “Ernesta’s Shoes,” gifts that students would from Ann Arbor resident are not directly affiliated value this chance,” he said. “I Anne Natvig. Beaux was a with the college. “I decided to shift the think they would. Hillsdale top-tier artist who was dehas a remarkably low phiclared by her contemporary, spotlight to other artists listine quotient, and I think the artist William Merritt of repute because our own most or all students would Chase, to be “the greatest faculty gets their day in the acknowledge the importance sun with some frequency,” woman painter of our age.” of art history in a liberal arts “The Cecilia Beaux paint- Knecht said. The college does not have education.” ings are the works of the McClatchey also said greatest value and greatest an art gallery to house its though art is important to permanent collection, but historical importance that we Knecht believes this exhibit Hillsdale’s mission, there have to date,” Knecht said. is still much room for its The exhibit’s other high- will raise awareness among growth as a staple of campus both students and faculty that lights include a portrait of culture. former Hillsdale College the college is interested in “I think there’s a powerful collecting and exhibiting fine President Joseph Mauck and emphasis on art at Hillsdale, paintings by Brian Curtis, an art from well-known artists. but it mostly stays within the “Whenever we accept associate professor of art and walls of Sage,” he said. “I or acquire an artwork, it’s drawing at the University of always with the question, suspect a permanent collecMiami. tion will be a good way to Unlike past exhibits, ‘How will this fit in with the connect the art department teaching mission of the art which have showcased the with the rest of campus.” works of students or faculty department?’” Knecht said. “Secondarily, ‘How will that members, this exhibit focuses exclusively on artists who resonate with the broader

Collegian Reporter

Living like Lewis: Coupland studies at author’s former home in Oxford By | Ben Boyle Collegian Freelancer

Coupland said his fascination with Lewis goes beyond a simple appreciation of his works, as Lewis helped to shape his understanding of Christ. “I would say that Lewis, through ‘The Chronicles of Narnia,’ helped me to develop an understanding of who Christ is, and I would suggest that the imaginative side of his writing, him providing these images, has actually deepened that understanding,” Coupland said. Coupland stayed at the Kilns for three weeks and was allowed to use Lewis’ for-

New College. This lecture was attended by Elisabeth Guensche and Carly Howell, two current Professor of Education Daniel CoupHillsdale students who have taken classes land researched two in-depth projects on with Coupland. Both gave glowing reC.S. Lewis in Oxford this spring. While views of the lecture. there, Coupland was able to stay at the “He was speaking about the moral Kilns, Lewis’ former residence, where he imagination, and how, especially in chilstudied and worked on his projects. dren, it’s really important to exercise the “Every so often I would pause and just moral imagination,” Howell said. “Somereflect on the fact that Lewis lived here one can tell you that something is wrong for 30 years, and he walked these halland that you shouldn’t do it, but when ways, and he was reading in the library, you see characters in a story and you see and he ate in the the lessons played out dining room,” before you, then you Coupland said. can put yourself in the “I have a lot of characters’ shoes and respect for him, actually learn lessons and just to walk better that way.” the halls that Guensche said she he walked and admires Coupland for to see the desk his love of children’s where he wrote literature. ‘The Chronicles “I think his passion of Narnia,’ that for children’s literature was just amazespecially comes across ing.” in the classroom, and Coupland’s rekind of makes you love search focused it too, and it’s just realon Lewis’ use of ly fun,” Guensche said. the theological Coupland described virtues as well his time at the Kilns as as the influence “the trip of a lifetime of Kenneth Graand a great experihame, author of ence.” “The Wind in Professor Daniel Coupland lived and studied in Oxford, England, this May and According to his the Willows,” in June. Daniel Coupland | Courtesy students, he shares this Lewis’ life and same excitement and writings. mer house as a place of study through the love for learning in the classroom every “Lewis cites ‘The Wind in the Willows’ C.S. Lewis Foundation, which owns the day. perhaps more than any other novel,” property. While there, Coupland had the “He’s one of my favorite teachers here, Coupland said. “He cites it in quite a few opportunity to eat lunch at The Eagle and one of my favorite professors, and I can of his articles, but he uses the characters Child, a pub in Oxford that was a former just tell that he genuinely cares about the from ‘The Wind in the Willows’ in a few meeting spot of Lewis and some of his students as people,” Howell said. “If you of his more well-known books like ‘The closest friends. He also gave a lecture at take his class you’re going to enjoy it.” Four Loves’ and ‘The Problem of Pain.’”

Girls, from B1 never lets “The Girls” receives anything more than pity. Despite – or because of – her struggles, Evie’s life deserves a better rating than “poor.” Before nodding in identification with the miserable and mistreated Evie, women should ask themselves whether the world ruined Evie or whether Evie allowed the world to run roughshod over her. Further, they should ask whether Emma Cline, in casting her main character as a dark symbol for all “poor girls,” shuts off not only Evie, but all readers and sympathizers with “The Girls,” from the light. C.S. Lewis often met with friends and fellow writers at ‘The Eagle and Child,’ a pub in Oxford. Daniel Coupland | Courtesy

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

B3 8 Sept. 2016

Researching coffee from bean to brew

Senior Sigrid Kiledal researched coffee at Hillsdale College this summer. Madeleine Jepsen | Collegian

Senior Sigrid Kiledal researched coffee at Hillsdale College this summer. Cindy Hoard | Courtesy

FROM ISRAEL A1 nothing would prepare Rootman for the extensive year and a half of training he received, he said. The first six months consisted of basic training with Israeli paratroopers, and the following five months were devoted to learning special operations skills, including Arabic, Krav Maga (the IDF’s close-combat martial arts), survival skills, land navigation, and skydiving. “Training was shocking,” Rootman said. “You barely eat, sleep on the ground, and we skydived five times. I’d never do that again. I basically pooped my pants.” The remaining time was spent learning a specific job within the Duvdevan. Jobs in the unit are related to their counter-terrorism measures, such as kidnappings, hostage situations, and undercover intelligence. Rootman’s job was kicking down doors. According to Haim, one of Rootman’s older teammates in the Duvdevan, he showed promise from the beginning. The Collegian is withholding Haim’s last name for security

fine, but Shavit worked his way to the top. He showed resilience and leadership skills. He should be proud of his service.” Rootman said he couldn’t elaborate much on his operations, but was thankful that he never lost a fellow teammate in combat — with the exception of an acquaintance from the Israeli Air Force, 20-year-old Tomer Hazan. Hazan was kidnapped and killed by a Palestinian in September 2013. Rootman said he and his platoon officer were the ones who found him dead. They extracted his body and met up with ally forces to exchange intel. After a debrief, they found the location of Hazan’s murderer. His unit mobilized and eliminated the target. Rootman said he wasn’t filled with emotions of retribution, but rather sorrow. “That one was sad because you actually see the person who was involved in Tomar’s murder,” Rootman said. “Most of the time you’re a robot. You arrest and do what is needed, not thinking about

Hillsdale freshman Shavit Rootman (top left) fought for the Israeli Defense Forces in the special operations unit “The Duvdevan.” Shavit Rootman | Courtesy

was devastating. With his military career behind him, he moved to Munich, Germany, in 2014 to work as a private security guard for Jewish immigrants. He also studied German at the local university. It was there that he met his girl-

“Training was shocking. You barely eat, sleep on the ground, and we skydived five times. I’d never do that again. I basically pooped my pants.” reasons. “He grew up before my eyes,” Haim told The Collegian in a phone call from Israel. “He is like a younger brother to me. Hardship brought us together. Someone who starts ahead and stays ahead in training is

who that person has harmed before you met them. This time, we knew.” A few months later, Rootman’s military service was cut short. During a rescue operation outside Jerusalem, Rootman’s leg was caught between two rocks, and he twisted and broke his leg. Rootman said it

for roasting and brewing coffee beans for an optimal cup of coffee. Using these standards, Kiledal focused her research on coffee beans from Guatemala, Kenya, Maui, and Papua New Guinea. But brewing the coffee was hardly the beginning. Before she could determine the levels of chlorogenic acid and caffeine, she first had to roast the green coffee beans, and then grind as well as brew the coffee in a consistent manner so the subsequent analysis would yield meaningful results. In the process, she had to develop a new method to analyze both components simultaneously. “She was trying to look at a very complicated thing,” Baron said. “Coffee is hugely complicated, and that’s the issue. There are so many components, and you have to figure out a way to pick out just the ones you want to look at.” Kiledal used a liquid chromatography instrument to separate the components of the coffee samples, and a mass spectrometer, which sorts out and measures the components according to molecular weight, to determine the levels of caffeine and chlorogenic acid present in each coffee brew. “After it goes through the chromatography column, then those individual portions go into the mass spectrometer,” Professor of Chemistry Mark Nussbaum said. “Then you’re looking specifically for a given mass. The mass spectrometer gives you the ability to detect and quantify what’s there at one particular mass, but it also allows you to scan a range of masses so you can get a full mass spectrum.” She then compared the readings from the coffee samples to standards of pure caffeine and chlorogenic acid prepared at known concentrations. “That’s what they do in crime labs, that’s what they do in hospital labs,” Baron said. “They only know how much of something is in a sample if they have standards [to compare it to].” Baron said Kiledal’s detailed preparation of the coffee and the extra work she put into ensuring her results were reproducible made her project stand out. “People have looked at coffee and caffeine for forever, but the way she went about it and chose her variables was unique,” Baron said.

By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor Since the 10th century, coffee connoisseurs have sought after and crafted the best brews. This summer, senior chemistry major Sigrid Kiledal looked at the “perfect” cup of coffee through the lens of science. Kiledal’s research project combined two of her interests: chemistry and coffee. She originally learned about the coffee-making process from her father, who roasts his own coffee. “It’s always been something I’ve been interested in because my dad has been roasting coffee for a long time, just for fun,” she said. For this project, Kiledal set out to analyze the amounts of caffeine and chlorogenic acid present in an ideal brew. Chlorogenic acids contribute to coffee’s acidity, which can corrode teeth and cause indigestion. Based on the data she collected, Kiledal would be able to find which coffee roasts had minimal acidity and high caffeine content while still falling within optimal brewing standards. “Being able to look at what the instrument tells you and see how much is there, that’s really interesting,” Kiledal said. “A lot of coffees will say, ‘If you make it like this, you’ll have this much caffeine,’ but you don’t really know if that’s accurate or not.” Kiledal is continuing to look at her data in-depth, but the trends show Kenyan coffee beans to be most acidic, with dark roasts generally containing more caffeine and less chlorogenic acid than light and medium roasts. “It really looks like a darker roast actually yields more caffeine,” Kiledal said. “You would think that the caffeine would break down during the roasting process, but that does not seem to be the case.” For her project, Kiledal followed international standards for the ideal cup of coffee, which differ from region to region. “There’s something called a brewing ratio for what the ideal coffee is, and it depends on what country you’re in,” Professor of Chemistry Lee Baron said. “What you’re trying to do is get a coffee that fits in the ideal range.” Organizations such as the Specialty Coffee Association of America, Specialty Coffee Association of Europe, and the Norwegian Coffee Association all offer standards

friend, Diana Steele. Steele graduated from Michigan State University in 2014 and was spending her summer abroad. Steele said when she met Rootman, she was immediately attracted to the loyalty he displayed for his country and family.

“He sticks out, that’s for sure,” Steele said. “It wasn’t easy for him to move away from his family, and he misses them. He served in a elite unit of the IDF because he wanted to protect them. But he knows there are opportunities here in America, and his family supported him.” Steele left Munich to work for Shaw Industries in Denver, Colorado, prompting Rootman to look stateside to pursue his education. Several friends and teachers back home in Israel told Rootman to look at private schools and suggested Hillsdale — close to Steele’s hometown of Ann Arbor. When Rootman came to look at the school in the summer of 2015, he said he was won over by the low student-to-faculty ratio and the unique core curriculum.

“In Israel’s education system, I never had time to encounter philosophy or other major subjects that question why the way things are,” Rootman said. “So I knew I would encounter a bunch of stuff at Hillsdale that I knew nothing about and that would make me a better person.” Rootman said he hopes to join the pre-med track or major in international business and German. “When I graduate, I want to help people,” Rootman said. “And at Hillsdale, I know I’m going to learn the

Kish in Cuba: stepping forward to serve By | Alan Kotlyar Collegian Freelancer Other than visiting Canada, sophomore Katie Kish had never traveled outside the United States before signing up for a mission trip to Cuba in June, where she spent eight days volunteering with a group of high school students. Upon landing in Cuba, the group jumped right into their missionary work. “We flew into Havana and spent a day there,” Kish said. “We stayed in and did mission work in Matanzas, two hours east of Havana.” While she was sharing her faith with the residents, Kish received, in return, a one-of-a-kind immersion experience in Matanzas, a city alternatively known as the “Athens of Cuba” for its many poets and the “Venice of Cuba” for its many bridges and rivers and unique architecture. During the course of the trip she helped paint an orphanage, worked on a pineapple farm, and played soccer with kids in a narrow, deserted street.

Among her friends and teachers, Kish is known as a bright student and a generous human being. Her softball teammate, sophomore Amanda Marra, said Kish is compassionate and enthusiastic about her faith. “She is one of those people who is always looking for ways to help other people and to bring them closer to God,” Marra said. Professor of History Bradley Birzer also said Kish’s personality is well-suited for mission work. “Kish is simply amazing,” he said. “She possesses the perfect mixture of kindness and personality and intelligence and imagination.” Another friend, sophomore Cameron Maxwell, said “Kish has always been a very selfless person who loves helping people any way she can. It doesn’t matter if she’s needed in another country or across the street.” Kish’s takeaways from the mission trip were almost all positive. In three words, she said the trip was “rewarding, eyeopening, and hot.” The warmth of the

things that will challenge me, make me a better person and give me the opportunity to do that.” Rootman said he is looking forward to his time at Hillsdale and in America, but the uncertain safety and security of his country and family back in Israel is constantly on his mind. “In my unit I was preventing the terror attack of tomorrow,” Rootman said. “Threats to Israel come from all over, daily. The country is fighting every day for it’s survival. It’s scary.”

FROM ARNN B4

“If you have the right people (and these are all friends of mine, wonderful people), it’s hard and it’s funny.” Despite the challenges, Péwé, Jeffrey and Arnn all agreed it was worth it. “You’ve got to take care of yourself. If something happens to your bike, it’s bad for everyone,” Péwé said. “You’re kind of exposed to the elements, and there’s a camaraderie about that.”

Cuban people was paralleled only by the warmth of a Cuban summer day. Kish also said the Cuban government and its treatment of political opponents opened her eyes to how fortunate she is living in a country with the freedom of worship. Although she said there weren’t many churches in Cuba, she nonetheless painted a picture of a people in transition who were eager to hear what Kish had to tell them about her faith and about her country.

Hillsdale sophomore Katie Kish and two friends working at a farm in Cuba. Katie Kish | Courtesy

Hillsdale sophomore Katie Kish plays soccer with a student in Cuba. Katie Kish | Courtesy

B4 8 Sept. 2016

www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Biking with the boys: Arnn reflects on 2,400 mile motorcycle journey

Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn went on a motorcylce trip with his son and five friends this summer. They stopped at the O’Neil Pass in the Black Hills for a picture. Doug Jeffrey | Courtesy

By | S. M. Chavey Features Editor There are two things to know before taking a cross-country motorcycle trip. First, take the back roads, not the interstate highways. Second, don’t let your motorcycle break down once you’re on those back roads. When Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn took a motorcycle trip from Michigan to California this past summer, his group let the second rule slide — three times. “It was a complete disgrace, it was wonderful,” Arnn said regarding one of the incidents. Arnn had considered a motor-

Henry Arnn, Ted Sanborn, Bruce Sanborn, Doug Jeffrey, Greg Palen, Rich Péwé, and Larry Arnn. Doug Jeffrey | Courtesy

cycle trip several times in the last few years, but college duties prevented him from making the trip a reality. When Hillsdale College Board of Trustees member Bruce Sanborn suggested the trip this summer, Arnn was prepared to decline again. He ultimately decided to go for it to celebrate the 30th birthday of his son Henry, who had never been on a motorcycle trip before. The Arnns and Bruce Sanborn were joined by Sanborn’s son Ted Sanborn, Vice President for External Affairs Doug Jeffrey, Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé, and Arnn’s longtime friend, Greg Palen. “A long motorcycle trip is hard,” Jeffrey said. “You go through bad weather and it’s not always fun. But when you get where you’re going at night, there’s a great feeling of satisfaction. And when you’re with a whole bunch of guys like that, there’s a lot of banter along the way that’s funny, amusing, and sometimes intelligent. It was a manly crowd.” It was particularly easy to joke around as the crew stopped time after time due to motorcycle challenges. When Péwé experienced electrical issues, Jeffrey commented, “When you go with any-

one driving a Harley Davidson, you’ve got to expect that.” Palen, Victory Motorcycles Chairman, was riding the newest Victory Motorcycle available. When he lost his key fob, which was necessary to start the bike, there was nowhere he could go for a new one. He decided to try the alternative method, a push code, but didn’t know the numbers to press. It was only at Arnn’s urging that he hung up the Victory Motorcycles hotline and called his old secretary there instead, speeding up the process. While Palen dealt with the key fob, Arnn bought his son a new bike, a more comfortable alternative to the cruiser bike he had been using. “If you sit on these motorcycles all day long covering a lot of ground with the wind blowing, you need a big bike, and you need the right bike,” Arnn said. Only the two Arnns stayed for the entire weeklong trip. Although many of them had traveled across the country on motorcycles before, they still requested certain stops. Péwé asked to stop at Mount Rushmore, Jeffrey wanted to see the Custer Battlefield, and Arnn caught his first glimpse of Old Faithful.

Answering the call to the collar and cloth

By | J. McLain Driver Collegian Freelancer “I got dumped by a girl,” Father Adam Rick said with a candid smile. It was the turning point in his college career that steered him towards seminary. “When you’re a junior in college, man, it’s devastating … I started to read the Bible with fresh eyes.” Now, Rick will serve as Hillsdale College’s chaplain after Bishop Peter Beckwith concluded his six years as chaplain with his retirement in the end of July. The second born, between two sisters, Rick spent the first 12 years of his life in California where his father practiced law. He moved to Concord, Michigan, when his father took a job with a Free Methodist church in Spring Arbor, Michigan, where he and his family also attended church. Being a member of an intellectual and religious family, Rick’s parents, particularly his father, were instrumental in his spiritual development. He began serious study of the word of God in high school. As his faith grew throughout his collegiate career at Spring Arbor University, Rick thought he would follow his father’s path to-

ward law school. Following his junior year break-up, Rick returned to Spring Arbor with a broken heart for his final year of undergraduate education. The event was so life-altering that it drew him away from the law and drove him toward the cloth. “As I was wrestling with the Scriptures with new eyes, I realized that I didn’t know how to read it, and that I needed to go to seminary,” Rick said. Rick entered Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts, as “a blind slave” to the will of God. “I wanted to meet Jesus at the right hand of God,” Rick said. At Gordon-Conwell, his studies emphasized Biblical interpretation and exposition. During Rick’s graduate career, he became a Pierce Fellow for Disciple-Building which transformed his spiritual life and directed his efforts to spiritual leadership. Upon his graduation, he took a job with Gordon-Conwell designing an online curriculum, during which time he decided to plunge into pastoral ministry. Three years later, in August 2012, he was ordained a

“As I was wrestling with the Scriptures with new eyes, I realized that I didn’t know how to read it, and that I needed to go to seminary. ”

They spent an entire day in the Black Hills of South Dakota enjoying the waterfalls, winding roads, and at one point, an elevation of almost 7,000 feet. “When you’re on a motorcycle, you can smell things that you can’t smell in a car,” Péwé said. “You can see things you can’t see in a car. Your perspective is different. So if somebody’s got a fire in their fireplace, you can smell it. You can feel the temperature changes. If you’re going down, you can feel the air change, you can feel the mugginess of it, and you can kind of sense your environment. And when the roads are windy and the scenery is beautiful, it’s almost sublime.” In addition to the views and the time to think, Arnn enjoyed seeing buffalo. “Do you want to be a buffalo rancher?” He asked. “’Cause I do.” He’s seen buffalo several times before, but was still thrilled to be only 30 feet away from one of the “majestic” creatures. “He was eating a little, but mostly he was just looking. Noticing me was quite beneath him. He snorted one crisp morning and there was a big cloud, and I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to get one of those,’” Arnn said.

He spent most of his time thinking, but many of the others listened to books on tape, particularly Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove.” A western novel detailing a group of retired Texas Rangers driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana, the book was appropriate for the trip. “In a lot of ways, people describe riding a motorcycle as riding a horse,” Péwé said. “When you’re riding a horse, you can’t let it be in control. If you’re riding a motorcycle, you can’t be a kind of halfway about it. You have to take control of it and be confident.” They ate at unique diners and stayed at cheap hotels. When all of the restaurants were closed one night, they ate gas station food. “We had a six pack of beer so it was fine,” Jeffrey said. The weather provides a challenge and as Péwé pointed out, “you gotta like yourself,” since you spend so many hours with your thoughts. Though the 10 hours of driving were long, Arnn said it was worth it for the fellowship. “I loved all of it — I even liked the prairie, although not while we were doing it,” Arnn said.

SEE ARNN B3

Hillsdale College’s new chaplain Adam Rick and his wife Katherine Rick. Adam Rick | Courtesy

deacon in the Anglican church. Rick met his wife, Katherine Harris, while she was visiting a mutual friend at GordonConwell around the same time as his ordination. She had just completed her second year in her doctorate in piano performance at Peabody Conservatory, a part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Through countless flights and hours of Skype dates, they carried out a long-distance relationship for the next 11 months, until they married. “I wanted to marry someone that was incredibly intelligent, and that’s what I got,” she said. “I remember one of the first things I asked for was a paper he had written, and I was really attracted by the bibliography.”

The paper was on the Trinitarian theology of the Cappadocian fathers. Katherine Rick said her husband will be a good resource for any and all Christian students and faculty. “I thought that he would be a good fit for this job because he could keep up with anyone on this campus, whether it be students or professors,” she said. Head of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Griffith Brown agreed. “He will help facilitate more unity within the student groups on campus,” Brown said. The Ricks moved to Hillsdale in early August, and said they are filled with joy to call this their new home.

Jonah Davey

By | Catherine Howard What inspires your fashion sense? I’ve had a fascination with Victorian culture since seventh grade. I’m a bit of a hipster, but I like to stay ahead of the trend in a classic style. What is your favorite piece of clothing? I have this pair of forestgreen parachute pants from the ‘80s.

How long do you take to get ready in the morning? The whole process can take about an hour. I like to take my time and I’m very distractible. What statement clothing item should every guy own? Every person should invest in a real bow tie (no clipons). Catherine Howard | Collegian

Catherine Howard | Collegian