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Students rally against U-M buying fetal body parts By | Brendan Clarey Assistant Editor Ann Arbor, Mich. — Nearly 50 people, including four Hillsdale College students, attended a pro-life demonstration outside a University of Michigan administration building Saturday afternoon. The University of Michigan’s Students for Life chapter organized the protest in response to discovering the university was buying parts of aborted fetuses for research. Both students and activists

from the area’s pro-life organizations spoke against abortion, including Hillsdale Students for Life Secretary senior Cheyenne Trimels. “We’re not here because we want to be an impediment to scientific research, we’re not here because we hate women or want them to be enslaved to the antiquated gender norms, we’re here because we respect life,” Trimels said. “These med students who are using these are going to become our doct or s .

Oscars Award show Hillsdalians predict that “La La Land,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and ‘“Manchester by the Sea” will win awards Sunday. B1

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www.hillsdalecollegian.com Jilly Beans owner Jill Nichols is selling her dowtown coffee house. Jim Drews | Courtesy

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Buyers already interested in the downtown Hillsdale coffee house By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief

Senior Cheyenne Trimels, Students for Life secretary, speaks at a pro-life rally held on the University of Michigan’s campus Saturday, which condemned the school’s use of fetal body parts in research. Brendan Clarey | Collegian

After serving fresh coffee to the community for more than 10 years, Jilly Beans owner Jill Nichols put her business up for sale last week as she looks to retire with her husband. “We’re ready to retire,” Nichols said. “It’s been wonderful here, but it’s time. I’m looking forward to it. I want to be a grandma.” Nichols put Jilly Beans on the market last week and is selling the entire business —

including all the furniture, existing inventory, and food service equipment — for $89,900. Century 21 Drews realty broker owner Jim Drews, who is in charge of the listing, said there has already been one offer for the 1,000-square-foot coffee and sandwich shop located downtown, but Nichols is looking for backup offers. “We’ve received and accepted one offer so far,” Drews said. “It came in just a day or two of the listing being put on...The potential buyer is actually a long-time customer, which is

kind of unique that someone who was a frequent patron is now interested in making it their own.” Drews and Nichols said they couldn’t disclose the name of the purchaser. Drews said part of the reason the price is so low is because it doesn’t include the cost of the building. The new owner of the business would have to pay monthly rent to a property owner in town. According to Nichols, the decision to put the business up for sale wasn’t prompted

by any decrease in sales or financial troubles and said she was simply ready to relax and enjoy her family. Nichols also said she would work closely with whomever purchases Jilly Beans to make sure the business doesn’t close during the transition. “If a new owner wants to come and change the name, that’s fine, but I think I’m going to sell it just as it is,” Nichols said. “Nothing would change on my half. If they want to make changes, that’s fine. Most

unteer Income Tax Assistance program, and holding an annual senior dinner for graduating accounting majors, Ikawa has also done a hamburger-eating challenge with some students. He and the students attempted to eat a 2.5-pound hamburger and a substantial amount of fries. The first time Ikawa attempted, he almost completed it, but the second time he said he was convinced by a student to give up before feeling sick. “I think if we were going to do it again, you eat the french fries first, because cold french fries are inedible,” Ikawa said. Sweeney joined him for the burger-eating competition, as well as many other activities. “We are different personalities, but we meshed together real well,” he said. “We’ve published some articles together, gone to conferences together, hosted accounting club parties together, gone bowling. We’ve been to countless football and basketball games together, and we sat in the student section of the football field, before the students did. We went on a trip

to Minnesota together when the football team made the playoffs.” Ikawa is most famous at Hillsdale for his five successes on “Jeopardy!” — the most a single person could win at the time. In his journey, he correctly answered these questions: “Surprisingly Humphrey Bogart won Audrey [Hepburn] away from William Holden in this 1954 film,” “In 1969 this Supreme Court Justice resigned amid criticism of his financial dealings,” and “You’ll find a statue of Puck outside this library,” among many others. “One thing I’m really good at is old movies,” Ikawa said. “But old movies — if you ask me the movies that are playing now, I don’t know anything about them. You have to know broad categories, things like geography, history, literature.” Although his renowned “Jeopardy!” feats occurred in 1990, Ikawa was recently recruited to join team Trivia Newton John in the Students Activities Board’s trivia night at El Cerrito Mexican Restraunt

and led the way to victory. S e nior Sam Clausen, one of the students on Trivia Newton John, said Ikawa helped the team while getting to know the students. Professor of Accounting Bruce Ikawa, known among “Mo s t students for his Hawaiian shirts and disheveled ofof the fice, is retiring at the end of the spring semester. Hannah Kwapisz | Collegian time he let us come up with an an- what’s going on and why you’re swer and then would confirm moving numbers,” Gatchell it,” Clausen said. “There were said. “He’s challenging...but a couple times we didn’t lis- I also found him to be pretty ten, and he was right; we were clear in class and he takes time wrong. Another time, we didn’t to make sure that we underhave a clue. He waited until we stand what’s going on.” Students know him for his gave up before answering.” Despite Ikawa’s extensive signature, bright Hawaiian knowledge, Gatchell said he is shirts and his affinity for travelincredibly clear and easy to un- ing, an interest that ultimately i n derstand in class. “Ikawa actually explains spired See Ikawa A3

cally from the establishment of UKIP, which broke off the Conservative Party in the 1990s, to his now-viral speech in the European Parliament following the Brexit vote. “Brexit and Trump were not blips,” Farage said. “They were not short-term revolts of angry people. They were fundamental changes of direction...They will see 2016 as the year people took back control of their lives, their countries, and their destinies.” Throughout his speech, he focused on the theme of the worldwide bureaucratic system’s dilution of the people’s role in their democracy. He touched on the mistakes made about former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s opinion of the European Union, tying his speech into his visit for Hillsdale’s Churchill Conference. “What is absolutely clear is that W.C., whether the European project went ahead or not, did not believe that

the British nation should be a part of it because he saw we had wider links, bonds, and associations with the world, who were our cousins, our families, and he was right about that,” Farage said. Do you think Churchill would have supported the EU of today? It’s interesting isn’t it — both sides claim Churchill. There was a building in Strasbourg within the European Parliament called the Winston Churchill building. Now my own view is he’d be horrified. And I’ll tell you why — don’t underestimate the disaster in many ways that occurred in Europe from 1870 to ’72: the Franco-Prussian War; 1914, the Germans invade; 1940, the Germans invade the low countries again. Three times in the space of a normal adult lifetime, Germany invades with huge — in the last two cases, global — consequences, so Churchill was looking for solu-

tions and looking for answers, and he did say the U.S. of Europe could be a way of stopping all this from happening, but two key points: Firstly, Britain should not be a member of it, because we had our links and associations through what he called the English-speaking world, which today I would define as the commonwealth plus the United States of America, and secondly, Churchill was not an ideologue. If he’d seen that the idea of bringing peaceful countries together had turned into the anti-democratic monster that it now is, and it doesn’t have the support and consent of the peoples of Europe, there is no way Winston Churchill today would have supported the EU in its current form. Would he support close European relationships? Yes. Would he support being friendly, cooperating, training? Yes, of course. But not this. How do you think Churchill would have felt about

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Ikawa retiring after spring semester to travel the world By | S.M. Chavey Features Editor

After 18 years at Hillsdale College, Bruce Ikawa — fivetime “Jeopardy!” winner, travel aficionado, and professor of accounting — will retire in May, realizing he only had so many years left to explore, he said. “He’s just been a great colleague; it’s like the end of an era,” Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney said. “I’ve probably spent more time with him than I have with my wife for the past 18 years.” A native Midwesterner, Ikawa earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at a number of places, including Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine universities. His longstanding right-wing pedigree and familiarity with the college after living in Michigan for a time brought him to Hillsdale, he said. Although he can claim high success rates among accounting students who have taken the Certified Public Accountant Examination, Ikawa said

he treasured his relationship with the students even more. At the beginning of the semester for students in Accounting 209, Ikawa plays a game to learn students’ names. When students raise their hands to answer a question, Ikawa asks them to provide a hint for their name such as a description of an actor, athlete, or biblical character with the same name. Senior accounting major Caleb Gatchell said he didn’t remember Ikawa guessing any names incorrectly, and Ikawa said he sometimes remembers the clues, even when he sees students years later at homecoming. “He’s a character, a genius, especially with numbers and what he can do in his head,” Gatchell said. “He knows at least a little bit about everything, and his breadth of knowledge makes him fun to have conversations with and interesting to get his take on things.” In addition to hosting an Indian-food themed accounting tailgate, working with the Vol-

Nigel Farage, the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party and the leader of the movement in Britain to leave the European Union, delivered a speech at the Searle Center on Monday about the Brexit vote and President Donald Trump’s election.

-Compiled by Philip H. DeVoe The speech was met with raucous reactions from the crowd, who Farage encouraged to boo for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and cheer for Trump. Farage delivered an account of his role in the Brexit vote, discussing chronologi-

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Nigel Farage, founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party and leader of the Brexit movement, addressed hundreds of students, faculty members, and visitors Monday, during the Churchill Conference. See the full Q&A at HillsdaleCollegian.com. Rachael Reynolds | Collegian Follow @HDaleCollegian

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Trump? It’s very difficult to compare someone who was born in the middle of the Victorian era with the 21st century. The one thing Churchill completely understood was the power of the simple message and the use of media. People forget this about Churchill — he was a terrific showman and on the radio at the time. He was also a prolific writer of newspaper articles and everything, but he recognized that the radio was the means to getting into people’s houses, to get close to people, and nobody tried to use and exploit the radio more or in a better way than Winston Churchill. Trump has recognized that there’s a new thing called social media, and he’s going with that. And I’m quite sure, if Churchill was alive today, he would have the biggest global Twitter following of anybody, so I think in terms of understanding how to deliver messages, in terms of recog-

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By | Emily Blatter Collegian Reporter Students will have the chance to throw a pie in a Democrat’s face Friday, courtesy of Hillsdale College Democrats. The group will be in the Grewcock Student Union during lunch Friday, allowing their peers to shove cream pie in their faces for $3. “Being a Democrat on campus, you kind of have to learn to poke fun at yourself,” College Democrats President junior Elyse Hutcheson said. “We were in a meeting trying to think of fundraisers, and we realized, ‘Wow, people would probably really love to do this’.” The fundraiser, however, will take place during the Hillsdale College Republicans’ annual trip to the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Hutcheson said it is unfortunate because the people attending CPAC would be likely customers. This pie-throwing fundraiser resembles a similar fundraiser the College Republicans did in the fall, College Republicans acting president junior Madeline Domalakes said. “When the College Republicans did this fundraiser last semester, we had a blast, and it was very successful,” Domalakes said. “So when we saw the College Democrats were doing the same (with their own twist), we were flattered and frankly found it hilarious. Imitation is the highest form of flattery — thanks College Democrats!”

IDF soldiers sharing their stories Sunday By | Katie J. Read Assistant Editor Two reserve soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces traveling the Midwest on a speaking tour will end their trip with a special stop at Hillsdale College. The soldiers will discuss life in the IDF and Israeli culture Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium. Hillsdale’s Students for Middle Eastern Discourse and StandWithUs — the international, pro-Israel nonprofit that organized the soldiers’ tour — are sponsoring the event. A StandWithUs representative said it extended their tour to Hillsdale, because it saw potential for meaningful impact on students, many of whom have already been to Israel. “The purpose of this event is to humanize the situation in Israel, to put a face to all the stories we hear in the news,” said junior Hannah Brewer, president of Students for Middle Eastern Discourse and a fellow with Passages Israel, an organization that has led Hillsdale students on 10-day trips to Israel. Mohammad and Ashager, the IDF soldiers who excluding their last names for security reasons, are enrolled at Israeli universities: Haifa University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. “This is a special privilege,” Brewer said. “Since this is their last stop, we’ll get to hang out with them for longer.” The event will also provide Hillsdale students the opportunity to learn more about the IDF and its daily life. Brewer said the discussion should interest students both who plan on applying to future Passages trips and those who have already gone. Passages participant sophomore Joshua Bailey said he plans to attend the event after listening to a panel of IDF soldiers during his Israel trip in January. “To see people our own age who have been serving and think it’s normal to serve in these high-capacity fields with so much responsibility on their shoulders is important for young Americans,” Bailey said. “That awareness is very important in how we view our time and opportunities here.”

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Non-science majors take over bio lounge Larger core curriculum turns biology major hangout into classroom By | Nolan Ryan Collegian Freelancer For more than a decade, Hillsdale College’s biology majors have enjoyed the ability to study and hang out in their own lounge in the Strosacker Science Center. With the expansion of the core curriculum in which non-hard science majors must take a full semester of biology, physics, and chemistry, however, the college has transformed the biology lounge into another classroom to provide needed extra space, Dean of Natural Sciences Chris Van Orman said. It cleared the furniture from the room during the fall semester and is being used for instruction this semester. “The biology lounge was the best and least expensive option to turn it back into a classroom,” Van Orman said. “That classroom can hold 36 students and was outfitted with the most current technology by the IT department.” Several biology professors are teaching classes in the room this semester. In the 1990s, SSC 202 was a classroom, and it became a biology student lounge during

Strosacker’s renovation in the early 2000s, according to Van Orman. “The room was a place that biology majors could go to study or work on their projects,” he said. “They also had tutoring for all the biology classes in that space, as well.” The biology lounge was a special room set aside for the exclusive use of biology majors, though it was used more in the evening and less heavily during the day, Van Orman said. “The bio lounge was a quiet place for science majors to hang out and study,” senior biology major Megan Armstrong said. “There were some computers and a printer that were for bio majors only, a fridge to store snacks, and a few coffee makers.” For now, the chemistry lounge in SSC 302 and the physics lounge in SSC 122 are safe, Van Orman said. “At this point, we have no need to convert either the chemistry or physics lounges into classrooms,” he said. “The chemistry lounge has been a small seminar room and an office in the past, so that could be an option again in the future.” Biology majors like Arm-

strong, however, said they miss their favorite study spot. “I understand that there was a need for more classrooms, but I feel that the lounge would be kind of cramped as a classroom, especially for a large class size,” Armstrong said. “I know a lot of bio majors were upset, me included, that we were losing the lounge. It was a nice quiet place to study.” New biology majors said it disappointed them that they missed out on the space and that it is harder to find a biology tutor, though the department moved the tutoring station to the bridge between Strosacker and the Dow Science Center. “I was devastated, when I found out,” sophomore Andrea Wallace said. “I hurried to declare my bio major in order to spend time in the lounge, and it was repurposed the first semester I could have used it.” Armstrong and Wallace said they now study in the bridge between Strosacker and Dow or in the aquatic research lab. “I don’t think I would have been as upset, if we were offered a replacement quiet study place, and I know some other bio majors feel the same way,” Armstrong said.

Hillsdale College has changed SSC 202, formerly the biology lounge in Strosacker Science Center, into a classroom this semester. Nolan Ryan | Collegian

Student Fed approves tenting equipment purchase By | Emily Blatter Collegian Reporter All students will soon have access to new camping equipment at Hayden Park. In addition to approving the Federalist Society, Hillsdale College’s Student Federation granted the Outdoor Adventures Club $2,300 for tenting equipment durings its Feb. 16 meeting. The equipment will benefit the club’s trips as well as allow all students to get outside, even if they don’t own their own equipment, said sophomore Emma McCormick, Outdoor Adventures Club founder and president. The equipment includes tents, stoves, pots, water filters, a lantern, and rope for backpacking, McCormick said. Outdoor Adventures Club will maintain the equipment and keep track of it, but all students will be able to use it. “Similar to the kayaks down at Baw Beese, or the ice skates or the bikes, this is equipment that is here for every student at the college,” McCormick said. “We’ll store it at Hayden Park, and it will stay with the college.” Student Fed also approved Hillsdale College’s chapter of the Federalist Society, a national organization promoting conservative principles in the legal profession. In the fall, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Brian Zahra helped Hillsdale start an undergraduate chapter of the Federalist Society, said the group’s president, senior Joshua Lee. Usually reserved for law schools and graduate

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nizing new media of the day is, and I think in terms of the passion behind the politics they represent. Maybe they’re not quite as far apart as commentators would suggest. Trump and Brexit were described as ‘populist’ revolutions. Is that pejorative? Well I think it is a pejorative and so I reject it. I reject it. Actually, in the U.K. media, over the last few years, I’ve

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schools, Hillsdale’s chapter is only the second undergraduate chapter of the society. Student Fed approved the Federalist Society on probation, which means that the organization is officially recognized as a campus club but cannot receive money from Student Fed until next semester. The federation’s representatives discussed at length whether to waive the probation period but decided to enforce it. “Probation does not keep the Federalist Society from any benefits,” Student Fed Treasurer sophomore Ross Hatley said. “Rather it reasserts that we have the responsibility for any new club to always look back and check up with them, see how we can help them.” The Federalist Society will function both as a college chapter of a national organization and as a club for students interested in the legal profession, Federalist Society Vice President sophomore Anna Perry said. The club also plans to help students prepare for the Law School Admission Test by providing study materials and monthly opportunities to take practice tests. It is also planning an eight-week seminar that will guide students studying for the test, Perry said. “We had an LSAT prep guy come in, and he kind of went over the 101, the basics of the LSAT,” Perry said. “But what our education chair would do is really be able to dive into the issues and kind of the tips and tricks of the LSAT that you don’t get in an everyday LSAT prep course.” seen Trump and I as the two most vilified people. We’ve had more abuse thrown at us than anybody else who exists in the world. I mean, you’re a dictator in a third-world country, that’s fine. But if you’re going to say don’t advocate Brexit, don’t advocate Trump. What is so extraordinary about the accusations of extremism, the accusations of isolationism, the accusations of spreading division and fear, what is so

The Federalist Society is also looking to start a law review, a monthly publication of roughly 40 pages in length that focuses on legal thought. “A lot of different Ivy League schools have been doing this, and it distinguishes their students applying to law school because they’ve already published things in that law-review format,” said sophomore Abigail Allen, Federalist Society marketing and operations director. The Hillsdale Law Review would provide a conservative counterpoint to other, predominantly liberal law reviews already in circulation. “We want to brand our law review as the conservative undergraduate law review,” Allen said. “We think we can pull in some very interesting conservative legal minds to write for it…We’re hoping that as it grows it can be well-known as a place to find conservative legal thought.” The society’s officers said they also plan to create a “Brain Bank” — a collection of alumni connections and advice that students can use to learn about and apply for law school, Perry said. Federalist Society Treasurer junior Jacob Weaver said the officers are planning for the group to mostly fund itself. Since Hillsdale’s chapter is part of the national organization, it comes with many outside funding opportunities, and independent fundraising efforts by Hillsdale’s chapter should help keep the club financially self-sufficient, he said. Pixabay

extraordinary about all of it is actually all we’re really advocating is a return to normal. In normal circumstances, countries mark their own borders and do what’s in the interest of their own people. That is what normal countries do. And it shows you how abnormal we’ve become that those that advocate such a thing get the abuse they do. See full Q&A at HillsdaleCollegian.com.

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Social Media Manager Hannah Strickland is leaving in June to get married and move to Chicago. Hannah Kwapisz | Collegian

Strickland logging out this summer By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor

Since Hannah Strickland ‘14 started as Hillsdale College’s social media manager two years ago, the college’s social media platforms have grown to reach more than 1.8 million people per month, according to Brad Lowrey, director of digital marketing and social media. Later this year, however, there will be a new operator behind Hillsdale College’s various social media platforms. In June, Strickland is getting married and moving to Chicago, leaving behind a big role to fill. Strickland said the goal is making each of Hillsdale’s social media — Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest — more conversational, and she said she’s proud of what they’ve become. “It’s been a neat experience to watch our audiences grow and get to talk to people from all over the world about the liberal arts and the Constitution,” Strickland said. “People say you don’t really get Hillsdale until you come to campus, so we’re trying to give people a taste of that community feeling through our social media by interacting with them and being a really interesting brand to talk to.” Conversing with others through social media has been the most rewarding part of the job, Strickland said. “We’re talking to all of those people about the things that matter: the higher things and the liberal arts,” she said. “Social media gives us the ability to talk to more people than the ones who come to campus or go to our events.” It’s not a one-person job, though, Strickland said. The marketing team works together to radiate Hillsdale’s mission through its online presence. “I have amazing student workers, and Brad Lowrey has taught me so much about social media,” she said. “We have this amazing team, and we’re all passionate about telling the stories of the college.” Junior Josh Liebhauser — who has worked for Strickland

for nearly a year — calls his boss “approachable, kind, and always available to help.” “She encouraged me to always contact her with questions, and she has always equipped each of the student workers with all the tools needed to perform well,” Liebhauser said in an email. “Her work has done much to market Hillsdale’s brands, and, in my experience, she is always innovating and refining her approach to gain the most positive interaction on our content.” Now, the marketing department is looking for another team member. Lowrey said the department is conducting an internal search, which includes graduating students from both the undergraduate and graduate schools. The internal posting is open through Feb. 24, Lowrey said, and anyone interested in applying may contact Sharon Lucas, hiring assistant and student employment coordinator. Lowrey said the ever-changing nature of social media means the department is looking for creative and innovative candidates with strong writing skills. “Our timeline will be to begin interviews in the next few weeks and then hire someone afterward, the goal being that we have a few months of overlap for onboarding before Hannah leaves,” Lowrey said in an email. Strickland said the role as social media manager is a huge responsibility — which she doesn’t take lightly — and she said she’s hopeful for her successor. “I just hope whoever it is loves the college as much as I do and loves talking about it as much as I do, because that’s the thing I love so much about working in this industry for Hillsdale College — I get to talk about the college all day long,” Strickland said. “I’ve gotten a better understanding of the college, so I hope the next person gets that, too. I hope they get this greater appreciation for what Hillsdale does for the country. I’ll be praying for that person.”

1844 Society raises more than $2,000 with first fundraiser By | Nolan Ryan Collegian Freelancer After fundraising last week for 1,844 minutes — about 30 hours — the 1844 Society raised $2,200 from 140 participants. The society’s first fundraising campaign, which started Feb. 16 at noon and ended Friday at 6 p.m., collected money to go toward Ransom Dunn Scholarships for seniors with financial need and attracted the interest of hundreds of students, said Colleen McGinness, director of alumni engagement and the 1844 Society. The society is waiting until the end of the semester to determine how many scholarships it can provide to seniors next year, she said. “When much has been given, we have a responsibility to give of ourselves — in whatever

capacity we can — in gratitude, to pay it forward,” McGinness said in an email. “We saw that last Thursday and Friday, and it was awesome.” A donation from Hillsdale alumni inspired the event, McGinness said. “The Hough Foundation, named for alumna Bonnie and her husband David, pledged $100,000 for the entire year to match and challenge alumni and student giving from the previous year,” she said. “Their pledge and challenge matched student gifts dollar for dollar above what the students gave last year, if any.” The 1,844 Minutes campaign was not a challenge for students to match the Hough Foundation’s donation but rather a way for students to donate money beyond what had already been given, McGinness said.

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By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief Despite the Boy Scouts of America’s recent decision to admit transgender members and the dissolution of Hillsdale College’s Eagle Scout GOAL program last year, the financial aid office is still offering at least nine merit-based scholarships for scouts. “Going forward, it may be a factor for a new donor who sees that Hillsdale has that cohort of scholarships that benefit Eagle Scouts,” Director of Financial Aid Rich Moeggenberg said. “I’m only guessing it’s a change that may not be as commensurate as much to the mission of our college. But there has been zero discussion about the Boy Scouts of America’s recent decision.” On Jan. 30, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in boys-only programs and that they would identify the children by the gender specified on their Boy Scout application. According to Moeggenberg, private donors have provided funds to finance scholarships

for Eagle Scouts for the last 10 years, and there have been no complaints in the wake of the organization’s decision to not limit membership based on gender identity. This semester, there are 74 Eagle Scouts on campus, making up nearly 11 percent of the male student body. Junior David Van Note is one of them. Van Note reached the rank of Eagle Scout at 15 years old and said he doesn’t see the Boy Scouts of America’s most recent decision as a conflict to either the school or the organization as a whole. “I don’t have too much of a problem with it,” Van Note said. “When you look at the Boy Scout oath and the Boy Scout law, anybody of any gender could follow exactly what they say. I don’t necessarily see it conflicting.” While the Boy Scouts of America’s decision may not be a factor on campus, a previous requirement for the scholarships, however, was that students stay active in scouting by volunteering at local Boy Scout troops through the college’s GOAL program, which was disbanded last year. “The criterion for those

scholarships did state that preference was given to students who are active with scouting in the Hillsdale community,” Moeggenberg said. “That part is missing now, but the scholarships are still here, and they’re helping our students. Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout.” Now that the GOAL program is gone, the college selects Eagle Scouts for scholarships based on merit achievements, which include maintaining a 3.0 GPA at Hillsdale. Moeggenberg said the scouting scholarships led to the formation of the GOAL program. But GOAL Program Director senior Alexis Garcia said the connection with local troops fizzled, because of a lack of volunteers as well as active service opportunities. “We would have volunteers go and help scouts, and they would just be sitting there during the meetings,” Garcia said. “If there isn’t really a need in the community, then we figured it would be better to allocate GOAL resources to other places.” Moeggenberg said the majority of the scholarships focus on academic and merit-based

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qualifications but help identify candidates based on their previous involvement as an Eagle Scout in high school. Van Note, however, said he believes the GOAL program should be reinstated not only to help the community but also as a requirement for the Eagle Scout scholarships. “I think they should include the GOAL program back as a scholarship requirement,” Van Note said. “Some people achieved Eagle simply because they want to put it on a resume not so much that they loved the experience. The GOAL program would force them to be

active and would point out the people who really want to be a part of it again.” Garcia said the previous leader of the GOAL program, Ben Strickland, graduated in 2016 and that if there were student and community interest, the GOAL Program would consider trying it out again. “If there is an initiative to start it back up, we would definitely be on board,” Garcia said. “But there has to be a clear need in the community. We’d be open to restarting it, if a student was passionate about bringing it back.”

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Larissa Clark Political economy, business administration Lamplighters president, Benzing head RA, SAM, ODK secretary, YAF trustee, freshman convocation speaker

Yiannopoulos disinvited from CPAC The Conservative Political Action Conference revoked its invitation to Milo Yiannopoulos, who later resigned from his position as editor for Breitbart, after videos surfaced where he appeared to support pedophilia. Yiannopoulos issued an apology on Facebook.

Constitution 101 now on TV screens By | Andrew Egger Senior Writer

Hillsdale College’s marketing department has released a new DVD set of the college’s online Constitution 101 class. The class, which is the most popular of Hillsdale’s online courses with more than 800,000 viewers since 2012, is something Hillsdale has wanted to release since the Constitution course was re-filmed in 2014, Senior Manager of Direct Response Marketing Jonathan Lewis said. Although the course is online for free, those interested can get the DVDs for a gift to the college of $100 or more, according to an ad for the limited-edition set. “A lot of our people have asked for it for quite a while,” Lewis said. “People who say ‘I like the online courses, but I want to be able to watch it on my TV or show it to someone else,’ or some people have people over and do it as a group.” The set was first made available at the American West

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Ben Albers ’16 speaks with Garrett Holt ’14, a teacher at a classical school in Atlanta, Georgia, at the 2016 Classical School Job Fair in the Searle Center. Joanna Wiseley | Courtesy

Classical school fair offers job and training opportunities

By | Tim Pearce Assistant Editor Hillsdale College’s career services office is holding its ninth Classical School Job Fair Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Searle Center for graduating seniors interested in teaching and students wanting an introduction to the field. The Classical School Job Fair will feature 45 schools from 21 states, giving students the chance to interact with institutions from California to Massachusetts. Students can also participate in interviews on Friday. But aside from passing out resumes and visiting with potential employers, students can also apply for two opportunities to get real-world experience: the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School’s Future Teacher Immersion Program or a teacher apprenticeship. The immersion program will give students the chance to visit

Rally from A1 They are going to become the intellectuals that are doing the research that is going to help heal us, to save our life...but this is is not healing.” Beginning in 2013, Lynn Mills, an outspoken proponent of the pro-life movement, used the Freedom of Information Act to request receipts of the school’s purchase of fetal organs. The request cost her $900. Mills said she was looking for a connection between the Ann Arbor Planned Parenthood and the university. The school, however, was purchasing the organs through a third party in California, she said. The demonstrations reU.S. troops attempting to take Mosul from ISIS U.S. troops are in the process of taking Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State group. A military spokesman said troops have taken and returned fire, and an undisclosed number of troops are wounded. ISIS has between 1,000 and 3,000 troops in the city, a spokesman said.

Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts, from May 11-13. The trip includes job shadowing, developing and presenting a sample lesson to school administrators and faculty, and exploring local Boston attractions such as the Freedom Trail. Mystic Valley will completely cover the costs of the trip, from airfare to room and board. Interim School Director Alex Dan said the the program gives students a taste of the profession while building relationships with students who want to work at a classical school. “We’ve had nothing but great success bringing on Hillsdale College students,” Dan said. Dan attributed the harmony between his school and Hillsdale to the “strong philosophical connection” between to the two institutions. Hillsdale students can also complete an apprenticeship mained peaceful, though 20 minutes in, an individual walked toward a speaker at the event and began yelling. The speaker asked him if he would like to defend himself, but then some in the crowd started to chant, “oppressor, oppressor.” The counter protester shouted several more times and argued with members of the crowd, before leaving. “I thought it was really unfortunate how the protester was handled,” said senior Rachel Crawford, University of Michigan Students for Life president. “We’re very pro-dialogue here.” The University of Michigan chapter of Students for Life has 45 active members. It sent 25 students to March for Life

for the first session of summer school from May 15 to June 2. The apprenticeship is three credits, and students can participate in the program at any approved private or charter school such as Hillsdale Academy. Garrett Holt ’14 obtained his current position as a fifthgrade teacher at Atlanta Classical Academy, after attending the Classical School Job Fair on a whim, he said. “It was a really incredible time, when I realized this is what I wanted to do,” Holt said. Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said she also encourages students not interested in education to attend and take advantage of marketing and administrative positions that many of the schools attending offer. “I’m really excited about the opportunity for both students and the schools,” Wiseley said. “It’s going to be good.”

NASA discovers new planets that could hold life The National Aeronautics and Space Administration discovered seven new planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1. All the planets are Earth-sized, and three of them are in the “habitable zone,” meaning they could potentially support life.

Detroit authority approves tallest building in Mich. A proposed building in Detroit would be the tallest in Michigan, standing at 734 feet. The building will be on the site of what was once the tallest department store in the world. The Downtown Development Authority approved the Dec. 1 groundbreaking plan Wednesday.

this year, said sophomore Beth Swan, the chapter’s vice president. The Hillsdale students said they appreciated the opportunity to see the other chapter and pro-life activists from Ann Arbor. “It was good to get out of the Hillsdale bubble and see families and students and to see there were quite a few people there,” said junior Reuben Blake, president of Hillsdale’s Students for Life. “When I first became president, I didn’t believe in protest; I didn’t believe in March for Life, but I was going to do it anyway, because I was president. Now I believe it is a good outlet to be heard, a way to change individuals before changing policy.”

Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar and in a marketing email a few weeks ago. The set is also advertised in a banner ad on the main course catalog page for Hillsdale’s online classes, which markets it “as part of a homeschool curriculum or for small group discussions.” “It’s similar to the Constitution Reader, where if someone takes the course and makes a donation, we’ll send them a reader as a ‘thank you’ for that gift,” Lewis said. “So it’s a similar thing, where if they send us a $100 gift as a response to this email, then they’ll get a DVD set.” Lewis said the college wanted to make the new DVDs more of a luxury item than the bare-bones edition released in 2012. “We had a set a while ago that was pretty basic, from the 2012 shoot, but we couldn’t really use that anymore, because it was different professors, different content,” he said. “We wanted it to be something where you could put it on your shelf and be proud of this collection.” The design of the three-disc box set, like many special-edition DVDs, resembles a book, with a Hillsdale logo embossed on the front. The college also is looking into more DVD versions of its online courses, after getting plenty of orders, Lewis said. “We were going to kind of see how this one went, but it went very well,” Lewis said. “So we’ll probably wait a bit, ask them and say, ‘Did you enjoy it? Was it a good experience?’ And see what course they’d like to see next on DVD.”

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him to retire, realizing he only had so many years left to explore, he said. Thanks to his wife’s position with an airline company, he’s visited Mongolia, China, Japan, Vietnam, and France as well as Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York City, and several other cities. He said his favorite excursion was a rafting trip in Nepal in 1990. He and his wife have a home in Michigan and another in Chicago, and he said he’s looking for a third location, as well.

Grand Rapids brewery to serve Paczki-inspired ale A Grand Rapids brewery is serving a Paczki-inspired ale this Fat Tuesday. After the experimental ale was a hit in 2015, the brewers of Brewery Vivant will semi-wide release the beer at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The beer is made with powder sugar, prunes, and Belgian yeast.

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Stories from IDF soldiers embody the abstracts we study By | Margaret Handel

Special to the Collegian

As a member of the recent Passages trip to Israel, my fellow students and I got to learn a bit about Israel’s military, the Israeli Defense Forces, and listen to a panel of active-duty officers. Their stories made a strong impression on all of us. Since we got back six weeks ago, I’ve found myself doing some heavy thinking about the IDF and the young men and women who serve in it. Which is weird, right? I mean, why should a foreign military force halfway across the world matter so much to me? It’s not even my country. And yet it does matter. Listening to those who have served or are serving in the IDF gave me a glimpse of a powerful perspective that, I think, few people in our comfortable world at Hillsdale get to understand. If we want to see the real consequences of the hypothetical questions we love to pose around Saga tables, we could do worse than to spend some time listening to their stories. Most young Israelis — 75 percent of men, 58 percent of women — are drafted into the military at the age of 18. Before their 22nd birthday, many of them will enter extremely hostile environments, be forced to make difficult decisions, and sadly, see some of their friends and family perish in service of their country. Confrontation with evil and warfare at such a young age makes Israelis develop a unique perspective worth examining. Because of persistent security threats, Israelis are forced at a young age to make serious moral decisions that have very real consequences. “The IDF is an institution made up from mainly young and enthusiastic people who are for the most part trying to do the right thing, but in certain environments, things begin to look different,” said Mychal Zachariah, former IDF intelligence officer and graduate student at University of Chicago. “I remember talking about the right thing to do in a complex situation… You’re forced to deal with certain things that a nonmilitary environment doesn’t make you think about.”

Freshman and IDF officer Shavit Rootman talked about the pressure that this environment creates. “I don’t think [Israelis] have the time to think or even speak as 18-yearold Americans think,” Rootman said. “There’s always this tension, always something to push you into the corner... in the IDF you learn to channel this tension positively.” “Rejoicing in the challenge” takes on new meaning when applied to these young people. We all need to listen to the stories of those who serve in the IDF, for this simple reason: Their perspectives and stories make the abstract concepts we study very concrete. We talk a lot about freedom, personal responsibility, and honor. Talking about those ideas is one thing — living them out under violent pressure is another. Soldiers in the IDF must learn to embody these concepts in their daily lives, both at home and on the battlefield, if they are to thrive in the chaos of conflict. That’s not to say those who serve in the IDF are necessarily ideal models of virtue, however. The IDF is a human institution, with human faults. Nevertheless, the urgency of the environment and the day-to-day tensions of the Middle East lend the complex stories of these soldiers great significance. At Hillsdale, we are blessed to study alongside many American veterans who share the same perspective that my friends in the IDF offered me. We should seek out those who have served in both forces and talk with them. Ask them questions and listen to what they say. Become their friends, and try to understand their perspectives. Their maturity and experience will change the way you see the world, and maybe help you grasp more fully the meaning of Edgar’s beautiful line in “King Lear,” “Thy life’s a miracle. Speak yet again.” Ms. Handel is a senior studying economics. Editor's note: Visiting IDF soldiers will be speaking about their experiences Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the Phillips Auditorium.

Over the past several months, students have suffered through mono, the flu, bronchitis, and the common cold, without access to frequent care on campus. The college Health Center has only one physician — who is only available for one hour, from 8 to 9 a.m. To combat health issues better, the college should either hire a full-time doctor or find a way to make a doctor more available to students. This is a problem worth prescribing a solution. First, the Health Center

needs a doctor on call. It should be a way for students to seek quick non-emergency medical help, but, in its current form, students who require prescriptions or a professional opinion often have to return the next day. Since students have class in the morning, this is often difficult. Second, the single hour of availability results in long wait times for those seeking help. This sometimes means only students free from 8 to 10 a.m. can consult the doctor and would have to miss class if the

wait times ran too long. We see two main options for fixing the problem. First, the college could certify one of the current Health Center nurses as a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician’s assistant. That way, the college will have an employee available full-time to help students with medical issues quickly, without requiring them to return in the next morning. Second, the college could hire Dr. Andrew Scholl, PAC, the current physician at the Health Center, outright. He is

an excellent physician, and the Health Center would benefit from him working primarily from their office. Though he does practice elsewhere, discussing options with him is a good first step. The need for a permanent physician at the Health Center should be foremost. We have survived one year of coughing, sneezing, and sore throats, but we should not enter Fall 2017 without proper medical coverage.

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Little Caesar’s Mike Ilitch was a true ball player By | Mark Naida Special to the Collegian It has been said that every American male is a failed baseball player. Mike Ilitch was no different. The son of Macedonian immigrants nearly realized the dream of every kid who grew up in the shadow of Detroit: playing for the Tigers. After serving in the Marine Corps for four years, he returned to Detroit. The Tigers offered him $3,000 to play baseball in their farm system. Ilitch played in the farm systems of many teams during his fouryear minor league career which spanned from 1952 to 1955. For the 1952 season, Ilitch played second base at two different levels in the Tigers farm system with the Hot Springs Bathers and the Jamestown Falcons. His career was cut short by a knee injury. In his time with the Tigers organization, he hit .249 with 22 doubles and 10 triples. He never hit a homerun that year. Ilitch passed away on Feb. 10 at the age of 87. He was born and died in Detroit and is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Michigan history. He founded Little Caesars pizza in 1959 which has expanded to have restuarants in all 50 states and

many foreign countries. Ilitch insisted that the company’s headquarters remain in Detroit. His company also sponsored the construction of the new Little Caesar’s Arena, where the Red Wings and the Pistons will play next season. Detroit will be the only North American city to have four major sports teams playing downtown. He purchased the Detroit Red Wings in 1982 for $8 million and turned them into perennial contenders for the Stanley Cup. With his deft business acumen, they won four NHL championships under his ownership. Ilitch proved his love for Tigers when he footed the majority of the bill for Comerica Park, which replaced the old Tigers Stadium. He invested $210 million in the stadium. This was only a hint toward the future financial commitments he would make for the team. In 2012, rumors spread that Ilitch was getting older and wanted to make a big push for a championship. Under his ownership, the Tigers had turned a wildcard bid into a World Series run which ended in defeat after five games with the St. Louis Cardinals. Every wide-eyed young sports fan deserves to have his favorite

team win a title in his lifetime. Ilitch was fortunate to have his team win four: in 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984. But he wanted to give the people of Detroit another title when they needed it most. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the people of Detroit needed something to believe in. The Lions had just suffered the first winless season in NFL history. The federal government had to bail out the entire automobile industry. Ilitch, at the age of 82, signed some of the largest contracts in MLB history in order to win a World Series. In 2012, Ilitch signed power-hitter Prince Fielder to a nine-year, $214 million contract. It was the fourth-largest contract in baseball history. The Tigers lost the World Series that year to the San Francisco Giants in four games. During the 2013 season, Ilitch agreed to sign starting pitcher Justin Verlander, the rookie hero of the 2006 World Series run, to a seven-year, $180 million contract extension. No pitcher had ever been offered a contract that large. That year, they lost to Boston in the ALCS in six games. Still, Ilitch was not finished. After watching the team hemorrhage money in its quest

had to take a blood vessel out of his stomach to serve as a bypass conduit. That was one of the triggers for me to begin developing methods whereby we might take human cells, blood vessel cells, into the laboratory, and coax them to grow into new arteries. To do that we take the cells and grow them in a bioreactor, which we designed to provide a lot of the cues necessary to stimulate normal blood vessels to grow. We’ve exposed the cells to certain growth factors, certain biochemicals, and to mechanical environments, like stretch, that simulate the beating heart. We found, after many years of plugging away, that we can generate functional blood vessels by growing these cells in the lab.

data point. Where the middle of the range is, and how far those boundaries of normalcy extend, can be the subject of discussion, but in medicine, we have an understanding of what normal is. Therapy is designed to take a human body that’s functioning below the normal range and bring it up into the normal range. With enhancement, the goal would be to bring them outside that range of normality into something that we do not commonly observe in the “wild-type” human.

for a championship for the past two seasons, fans figured that 2014 would be the Tiger’s best shot at a World Series. Ilitch emptied the farm system of talent through trades to acquire Joakim Soria, a former all-star closer, and acquired David Price, the winner of the 2012 Cy Young Award, at great cost. Signing David Price meant that the Tigers’ starting rotation consisted of previous four winners of the Cy Young award between Prince, Verlander, and Max Scherzer. Ilitch’s dream became an arms race. These decisions showed his love for the team and for the city as well as his desire to leave a parting gift for his city. In 2014, the Baltimore Orioles swept the Tigers in the first round of the postseason. But it didn’t matter so much. The fans saw the owner’s dream and they loved him for it. The Tigers will win a championship someday, and as the players raise the Commissioner's Trophy, they will remember Ilitch. We all will. Because he was a ball player with a dream, just like the rest of us. Mr. Naida is a junior studying English and French.

Science & Ethics: An interview with Dr. Laura Niklason By | Madeline Johnson and Lillian Quinones Special to The Collegian Science & Ethics is a bimonthly radio show airing on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. The following has been adapted from an interview with Dr. Laura Niklason, MD, Ph.D. Dr. Laura Niklason is a professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering at Yale University. Ongoing research in Dr. Niklason’s lab involves optimizing the development of an engineered lung, work Time magazine cited as one of the “50 Best Inventions of 2010.” In 2012, a synthetic blood vessel that you developed was grafted into the arm of a kidney dialysis patient. Could you walk us through this revolutionary project? About 20 years ago I was in the operating room caring for a patient in the hospital who need a heart bypass operation. For those operations we typically take a vein out of the leg of the patient and put it on the heart to serve as a bypass conduit. Unfortunately this patient did not have a suitable vein; the surgeons looked into both of his legs and in his arm and eventually

In the implementation of these technologies, how do you distinguish between therapy and enhancement? When you’re training as a physician, you learn about two fundamental concepts. One is “normal”--or if you’re talking about animal biology, you might say, “wild-type.” What is the standard phenotype, the standard function of the species or the individual that is under study? We also learn that there is a range; normal isn’t a single

What do you think are the medical developments that will shape the way we do medicine in the future? I’m most excited about an emerging discipline that I would call the molecular engineering of the cell or cellular functions. For example, we can change a receptor on the surface of a cell: whereas that receptor used to recognize stimulus A, we coax it to recognize stimulus B. When it sees this stimulus B, it can activate the whole pathway in the cell that normally was activated by stimulus A. This ability has profound impacts for various types of cell therapies, cancer therapies. For example, immunologists are taking immune cells out

of the patient and changing surface receptors so that the receptors see and ultimately kill tumor cells in that patient. We’re about thirty years into the molecular biology revolution, and we’re just scratching the surface of how we’ll be able to use these molecular tools which we now finally have in hand. How do you understand the roles of the humanities and the natural sciences in guiding human life? I think it’s artificial to cleave those two--to draw a very bright line between the humanities and the social sciences and the physical sciences. Because, for example, the physical sciences really change our view of what is possible in the world, and therefore change how we have to think about what is ethical. If something in the world is not possible, then it’s a non-question of whether or not it’s ethical. But as science makes more and more things possible, our concept of what is ethical and what is moral necessarily changes. Ms. Johnson is a senior studying philosophy. Ms. Quinones is a senior studying biochemistry and journalism.

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Remembering Reginald Lewis

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America's first black billionaire African American to join the By | Amber Crump Special to The Collegian billionaire status in business acquisition, was born in East I like reading biographies Baltimore, a place that is a how I like eating cantaloupe; home to many of my loved cracking open the outer exterior ones. His mother was a mail of an individual, and then carrier and his stepfather, a scooping out the juicy truths teacher. His family was not of his or her life. While reading particularly wealthy, but they the success stories of Warren instilled in him a work ethic Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, more valuable than the most Madam CJ Walker, and precious metals. His family Beyoncé I, of course, pictured mirrored a team of mentors my own biography in the near and coaches that encouraged future. My blissful fantasies him to pursue academia and soon turned into a somber private industry. disappointment as I wailed From a young age, Lewis over the near impossibility of began growing an extraordinary ever becoming as successful as business acumen. By ten those masterminds. Their life years old, he owned his own stories were just so different newspaper route and within from mine, so distant and two years he grew the business foreign. from ten customers to over Everything changed when I one hundred. He then sold read Reginald Lewis’ journey the delivery route for a decent of success. It felt like I was profit. reading the biography of a Years after this childhood distant uncle rather than some business venture, Lewis detached stranger. His origins continued to enhance his were so similar to my own! professionalism in buying, I was finally able to imagine rejuvenating, and selling myself in his shoes without the businesses at a maximum difficulty of hurdling over a profit. This skill paved his way huge schism between our lives. to the billionaire status. In I felt that God had pierced my 1983, Lewis formed his own cloudy future, muddied with investment banking firm called uncertainty, with the light of TLC (he kept the meaning of familiar possibility. He had the acronym anonymous). His finally provided a real life firm took a keen interest in example of a person from a the McCall Pattern Company, living situation very similar which specialized in the to my own, who applied an production of sewing products, upright business ethic to an but struggled with slow sales outstanding career. and heavy debt. While other Reginald Lewis, the first companies viewed McCall as

a dying corporation, Lewis saw the deep commitment and potential of the McCall staff. He, spending $1 million of his own money, and $24 million through a syndicate loan,

Five money-saving tips for spring break

By | Kate Patrick Financial Columnist Spring break is only two and half weeks away, so if you haven’t planned your spring break trip yet, you might be in the throes of last minute planning. Here are a few tips for saving money and planning wisely, whether you’re an experienced spring breaker or if it’s your first and last time, because #senioryear, baby. 1. Visit a walkable city. Depending on where you go, it’s easy to get stuck driving or forking over cash for taxis and Ubers. Before you know it, you can drop hundreds of dollars in just a few days at your chosen destination if you’re not careful. Pick locations that are pedestrian-friendly and require Reginald Lewis wikimedia Commons minimal driving or Ubering — Washington, D.C., Chicago, bought the McCall Pattern New York, Philadelphia, Company. After revitalizing Boston, Minneapolis, and San the infrastructure and cost– Francisco are pretty walkable management department cities with public transit options of McCall, Lewis sold the that aren’t too expensive. company for $95 million the 2. Stay with friends, family, next year. This transaction or use Airbnb. When you’re yielded Lewis an amazing 90– choosing your spring break to–1 return on investment, destination, make sure the a feat well acknowledged by locations where you know you Wall Street and other business can crash with friends or family organizations. are first priority. Couchsurfing Lewis then proceeded at your aunt’s apartment or to accomplish an even your best friend’s house can greater buyout. Living in save you literally hundreds, Ms. Crump is a sophomore and as a college student, you Paris in 1987, Lewis bought economics and know you don’t have oodles Beatrice International, a studying multinational food and accounting. of cash to spend on hotels. beverage conglomerate which If you pick a spot where you can’t stay with fam or friends, check Airbnb before looking at hotels or bed and breakfasts. Airbnb offers some pretty amazing deals — like entire condos, apartments, or houses about the dating culture here, seen friends find their spouses, in beautiful locations for a but each argued completely and I’ve seen many more forgiveness and self sacrifice… discounted rate. The average different things. As a school friends get their hearts broken. and maybe no more PDA in Airbnb room is at least half full of bright and opinionated What I’ve learned is that every the Student Union. Other the cost of a low-end hotel and students, we like to think person—and therefore every than that, every person and usually much nicer, so be kind that we know best about relationship—is different. We relationship is different. We to your wallet, take advantage everything — especially when like to think that there might can play matchmaker and give of the sharing economy, and it’s something that hits as be one big problem, and personal relationship advice open up an Airbnb account. personally as our romantic therefore one magical solution left and right, but ultimately, 3. If you’re driving, pack lives — but do we really know might make it all better. We God is the only one who food. Yeah, this may make you what’s best for everyone else? like to think that because one knows best. “the mom friend,” but if you I know I have been a huge thing works for us, it will work Relationships are a huge. can save money on meals by culprit in this. Every time for everyone. We like to think They knock us off our feet. bringing packable snacks like the subject comes up, I’m not that we can know what’s best They make us angry, sad, and afraid to make my positions for everyone else’s lives, but it’s overjoyed. They teach us how bagels, peanut butter, protein known to those around me, simply not true. to love. Some people graduate and granola bars, then do it. but I always have a different In some instances, from Hillsdale with a spouse, Save your cash for going to a idea of what the problems Hillsdating actually works others graduate without cool restaurant or burger joint and solutions are. It always out. In others, it seems selfish. going on a single date, and comes down to my romantic Sometimes friendzoning is a most of us end up somewhere relationships at the time or serious problem, but others in between. There’s really the relationships of those have good reasons why they nothing wrong with any one around me. I generally blame aren’t dating that good friend. of those circumstances, but whatever problem I encounter Casual dating might be the there is something wrong on “the problem,” but seek a solution for some people, but with just blaming some solution that specifically fits some people really struggle to overarching “problem” for my situation. casually date. the circumstances we’ve been Now as a senior, I’ve found Absolute truth does exist. given. that the problems and solutions There are real things that can have changed a lot: I’ve had apply to every relationship, Ms. Fleming is a senior the unattainable crushes, I’ve for instance: chastity, trust in studying English. Hillsdated, I’ve real dated, I’ve God, and the importance of sold produce in Europe, Latin America, and Asia for 985 million dollars. Under Lewis’ management the net sales of this company bolstered to a whopping $2.2 billion, naming TLC Beatrice International the first black–owned business to acquire over $1 billion in sales. Reginald was then known as the wealthiest African American in the the U. S. Reginald Lewis’ accomplishments are astounding, but I was most astonished by his origins. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, the place of my birth and rearing. He attended Dunbar High School, the high school that my first boyfriend attended, and he obtained a degree in economics in college, the major that I am pursuing as well. Though Mr. Lewis shied away from being considered as a great role model, that is exactly what he is to me. A real example of man from Baltimore, who grew an acuity for business and established a corporate entity respected worldwide. His success, though extremely astounding and unprecedented for blacks during his time, seems possible and reachable to me now because of the familiarity of his past. I thank him for it.

There is no Hillsdating problem

By | Hannah Fleming Special to the Collegian We’ve all seen them: that couple that’s not actually a couple taking walks around campus, studying together in the library, and somehow always ending up at the same tables in Saga. They’re not dating, but clearly at least one of them is romantically interested in the other. It’s ridiculous, it can’t go on forever, it doesn’t seem right. How can we possibly put a stop to this absurdity for both of their sakes and for the sake of all of campus? It almost seems that every student on this campus has a different idea about Hillsdale’s big “dating problem” and how to solve it. We blame Hillsdating, men, women, the severity with which students view dating, the lack of severity with which students view dating, friendzoning, never being friends — the list goes on and on. Last week, both Brendan Clarey and Lauren Blunt offered great arguments

once a day, if your budget allows. You don’t need to dine at exotic eateries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week. If that doesn’t drain your wallet faster than all those student loan payments you’ll have to make when you graduate, I don’t know what will (apart from maybe taxis or Ubers). 4. Be open to weird flight times. If you’re flying, don’t be afraid of taking awkward morning flights or middle-ofthe-week trips, because those are often the cheapest. If you spend a lot of time looking at Google Flights, you’ll notice airlines often seem completely arbitrary about slapping prices on different flight times. Google Flights is a superior search tool compared to Kayak, Expedia, and CheapOair, so use it to find the cheapest, fastest flights available. This is spring break, and you’re a probably a poor college student — don’t turn up your nose at flying on a Monday or taking a 7:00 a.m. flight if it saves you a couple hundred bucks. 5. Use an app. There’s a host of apps catering to travelers: TripIt (which compiles one trip’s multiple itineraries into one master itinerary), PackPoint (which creates packing lists), Wanderu (which helps you find the best train and bus ticket deals), FireChat (if you need to message someone and you don’t have a signal, data, or WiFi), and others. If you’re travelling to a city, see if you can use the app Citymapper, which helps you find the fastest route to different locations (users say it’s better than Google Maps). Another great one for cities is Time Out, which is basically the appversion of an enormous catalog of events, concerts, festivals, restaurants, bars, museums, and other fun things to do. You can use Time Out to find free events and free food, which is a huge plus for a college student on a budget. If you’re travelling with friends, make sure you have Venmo or Square Cash so you can split costs easily. Ms. Patrick is a senior studying history and journalism.

McCorvey, or ‘Roe,’ leaves complicated legacy Letter to the Editor my life,” she claimed in 1994. “I By | Krystina Skurk Special to the Collegian just never had the privilege to go into an abortion clinic, lay Forty-four years later down, and have an abortion.” Roe v. Wade defined abortion is still legal, but the woman who helped make it so McCorvey’s life almost as has died. Norma McCorvey, much as it defined the cultural better known as Roe, died and political landscape that Feb. 18, at the age of 69. Ms. followed it. She revealed her McCorvey is known for the real name to the public in role she played in the landmark the 1980’s and came out as case Roe v. Wade, which a stark defender of abortion instituted federal protections rights. McCorvey spoke at for abortions across the United abortion rallies and worked at States. In contemplating Ms. an abortion clinic. She wrote McCorvey’s life and death, it a memoir in 1994 about her is hard to say whether she was role in Roe v. Wade entitled, “I a hero for the left or the right Am Roe.” She was, for a time, — or not one at all. This is an the hero of abortion rights important question to consider advocates. Ms. McCorvey as both pro-choice and pro- never felt like she could live up life activists grasp for gods to their standards, however. In an astounding aboutand heroes to help them gain victory in a cultural war over face, McCorvey became a abortion that is only increasing Christian and joined the proin intensity since the election life movement. McCorvey’s conversion came about after of Donald Trump. Ms. McCorvey was 22 and Flip Benham, the head of a propregnant for the third time life group named Operation when she sought an abortion Rescue, opened an office next in Texas. Unable to get one, she door to the abortion clinic turned to two lawyers, Linda she was working at. Wearing a Coffee and Sarah Weddington, shirt that read "100% Pro-life, who were looking for an Without Exception, Without Without unhappily pregnant woman Compromise, McCorvey to use as a plaintiff in an anti- Apology," Ms. abortion lawsuit. Though the would often attend pro-life lawyers won abortion rights for rallies. In 1997, McCorvey wrote millions of women in America book, entitled they didn’t win the right for another their own client. The case took “Won by Love,” in which she three years to make it through described her conversion story. the court system and thus She explained how those in Ms. McCorvey never got her Operation Rescue protested abortion, a fact she resented. outside her abortion clinic “I don’t require that much in and how she regularly cursed

at them — only to receive affirmations in return. “The war that went on in front of our clinic became a war of love and hatred,” she wrote. “They never backed down from calling what I was doing sin, but while they showed a rockhard opposition to everything I stood for, at the same time they displayed an incredible openness to reach out to me as a person.” On the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, McCorvey spoke with CNN. “I'm very sad," she said. "But this year, I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.” Some regard Ms. McCorvey’s cnversion as more of a career move than a change of heart. According to a 2013 Vanity Fair profile, she charged a $1,000 interview fee and took an annual salary of $40,000 from her pro-life nonprofit, Roe No More. The left’s degradation of their former hero is understandable. Ms. McCorvey does not fit into their feminist liberal typology and thus self-interest, they claim — not the truth about the horrors of abortion — must drive her. This is not to say that Ms. McCorvey is a candidate for sainthood or that the right should hold her up as a trophy. Her role in Roe v. Wade is to be lamented, just as her work to undo some of the harm is to be praised. She was a broken woman who made some horrible decisions, one of which has dictated the battle

line between conservatives and liberals for the past 44 years. Her death comes at a time when the sword of partisanship is drawing ever deeper and ever wider lines. Just one day after Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the most pro-life vice president we have ever had, were sworn in, millions of women flooded cities all over the country in an attempt to protect what Ms. McCorvey helped give them — the freedom to extinguish the life of their unborn children. Just seven days after the inauguration, millions of people gathered in D.C. to protest this so called freedom — just as McCorvey had done herself for 20 years. In another move, likely to cause ire among liberal activists, President Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his pick for Supreme Court Justice. Gorsuch is a proponent of defunding Planned Parenthood and is widely expected to follow Justice Scalia’s lead in opposing abortion. While Trump’s election has deflated the progress of abortion activism, it has enlivened the hope of the prolife movement. In the future, this year might not only be known for the death of Norma McCorvey, but for the death of one she fought so hard against — that of Roe v. Wade. Ms. Skurk is a graduate student of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship.

Editor, I was so pleased by Lauren Blunt's thoughtful editorial last week, "How to win a Hillsdalian woman in 30 days or less." I have a perspective to share that I hope will add some important context to the discussion of relationships, rejection, and pursuit. Blunt opened by pointing out that Hillsdale's "futuredriven mentality" drives men to aggressively pursue a lifelong romantic partner. Unfortunately, as she outlines, this mentality often leads to a kind of romantic persistence that completely ignores a woman's wishes — such as repeatedly asking her on dates and making other romantic gestures — even after she has expressed her disinterest. This kind of behavior, while innocent, bears a disturbing similarity to the problem underlying one of the biggest crises faced by colleges nationwide. We should all be very grateful that we live on an extremely safe campus, where the incidence of reported sexual assault has been approximately 0 in the past decade or so. Tragically, other campuses are not so lucky. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college. Eight out of ten victims knew the person who assaulted them. Maybe these statistics sound a little ludicrous. Twenty percent of female students get raped? Well,

understand that this statistic defines sexual assault as any sexual encounter that happens without the enthusiastic and informed consent of both parties. Too often, sexual assault is not the result of a stranger in the alley, or of malicious intentions at all — it is the result of a man failing to listen when a woman says, "I don't want to." Whether we are trying to prevent assault or awkwardness, we would all do well to remember that women are fully autonomous human beings who should be trusted to know what they want. And when a woman says “no,” whether it's to sex or to coffee in AJ's, men need to trust her ability to make her own decisions — and to respect those decisions, immediately and completely. Continuing to pursue a woman after she has rejected your advances does not prove romantic fortitude: It demonstrates that you are thinking more of your own interests than hers. I fully agree with Blunt that it's wonderful that Hillsdalian men do ask women on dates, and pursue their romantic interests openly and honestly. The problem occurs when men, in an attempt to win over women, stop listening to them. Women are not prizes to be won — they are people to be loved. And part of loving someone is respecting their decisions, whether or not they benefit you. Sincerely, Mary Blendermann

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Zack Bigelow and Joe Kesselring (L to R), co-owners of Ramshackle Brewery, pose together for a picture. Joe Kesselring | Courtesy

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Ramshackle co-owners promise community atmosphere, unique selection of beer in new brewery By | S.M. Chavey Features Editor After six years of planning and preparing, co-owners Zack Bigelow, 37, and Joe Kesselring, 31, have announced groundbreaking for Ramshackle Brewing Company will begin in April, once the Small Business Administration loan has been processed. It will tentatively open around September. Located on 208 E Chicago St. in Jonesville, Ramshackle will be a family-friendly environment specializing in old-fashioned craft beers. “We’ve been homebrewing for quite a while and we really developed a passion for the craft, and everyone that’s tried our beer said they wanted to buy it,” Bigelow said. “We decided we’d take the plunge.” Bigelow and Kesselring decided they wanted to open a brewery in 2011 but didn’t begin flushing out their plans until a few years later. When the Michigan Invests Locally Exemption legislation was passed in October 2014, allowing small businesses in Michigan to raise capital for their businesses by finding community investors, Bigelow and Kesselring seized the opportunity. “A brewery will bring the community together, and what better way to do that than to offer ownership so the community grows with us?” Bigelow said. The partners aimed for 49 percent community ownership, but Bigelow said because the law was so new, many people confused the investments as GoFundMe and other fundraising ideas. Ramshackle did not receive enough support, and the two were forced to return money to everyone and put the project on hold. In 2016, Bigelow and Kesselring decided to try again, with much greater success. They completed their goal within three months with 19

investors who own about 47.5 percent of the company, a total investment amounting to $200,000. The furthest investors live in Grand Rapids, but all have ties to Hillsdale or Jonesville, Bigelow said. “There are some people we know and some people that we met along the way, and they have become great friends,” Bigelow said. Both Bigelow and Kesselring have retained their fulltime jobs while establishing Ramshackle. Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray has been interested in helping them since he received an email from Bigelow in 2013. He said Bigelow and Kesselring have helped educate Hillsdale citizens about MILE legislation and have built ownership and excitement in the city about the brewery, even before breaking ground. “It’s obviously a really new concept for the state, and a concept they’ve helped educate folks in Hillsdale about how that works and what it is. It’s a really exciting concept that they’ve described themselves as being a community’s brewery,” Gray said. “We have some of the premiere food services established now, so it really is a complement to what exists in Jonesville. They hope this is the start of a long-term business plan that will allow them to eventually get to big production and distribution, and we hope to see the next round of expansion in Jonesville, too.” Expanding the business would allow for more jobs and investments within Jonesville, as well as to help build recognition of the city around the country, Gray said. “Craft brewery is a big, growing industry in Michigan and people will travel from brewery to brewery to experience different craft brews in the state,” Gray said. The brewery will have five to eight different taps, with four of them as mainstays that will

Stockford declares candidacy for mayor of Hillsdale By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter Ward 1 City Councilman Adam Stockford announced his candidacy in the 2017 Hillsdale mayoral election in an exclusive interview with the Hillsdale Collegian. The Hillsdale alumnus said he has been considering a mayoral bid for years, and his primary aim as a candidate is to encourage businesses to move to Hillsdale. “We need to focus more on these areas if we want real growth,” Stockford said. “For example, I think food processing is huge for Michigan, and Hillsdale needs to get in on it.” He plans to focus on reevaluating Tax Increment Finance Authority laws to make them more beneficial to local business growth. He cited the neighboring town of Litchfield, saying it has had more success with TIFA because it focuses its fund on its industrial park. “Right now TIFA is not really helping the average citizen of Hillsdale,” Stockford said. In addition, Stockford said he would seek to fight the city’s heroin problem with more modern solutions. To

help solve these problems, Stockford suggested the town consider installing access to modern medical treatment for heroin addicts that is available in cities like Coldwater and Jackson. “The police force here does a good job, but they don’t have the resources to deal with addicts, and addicts don’t have the resources to get over their addictions,” he said. Stockford said his background in business as a recruiter for Elwood Staffing would make him a business-friendly mayor. “I recruit people for a living so I work with businesses on a daily basis, which makes me uniquely qualified for this job,” he said. “I like to think I have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on business-wise.” Stockford said he wants to be a force for unity in Hillsdale who can help the town focus on economic development and educating the next generation, to make the town more attractive for a diverse array of industries. “It’s time that people started working together and stopped arguing about petty stuff like entrance signs,” he said. “It’s all hands on deck now.”

tentatively sell for four to five dollars a pint — a price slightly lower than the specialty beers. Patrons should be able to buy two beers and a snack for $20, Bigelow said. Bigelow said Ramshackle will offer food, but patrons are welcome to bring in their own food as well. “Most of our beers have a history behind them. Some of them are beers that are no longer being made commercially that we’ve kind of stumbled across — recipes, flavors, descriptions, and old texts that we’ve read,” Bigelow said. Many of the beers that interest them — such as the Kentucky Commons or the French Farmhouse Ale — disappeared early during the twentieth century during the prohibition or World War I. Beers that used to be extremely popular are now only made by select breweries, such as Ramshackle. Ramshackle’s brewing process is fairly straightforward, though they sometimes opt for older styles of brewing, preferring to “emulate the way they would have been doing it years and years ago” to the faster, modern method, according to Bigelow. Most beers are made with two-row barley and occasionally corn. Other ingredients are grown locally when possible. Kesselring said he thought Ramshackle would stand out for its unique product — the most important aspect, in his opinion, since people always recognize quality. “The brewing industry is a very high-risk and high-reward investment industry. Our margins are extremely low because we’re taking a bulk grain and turning it into a profitable craft drink,” Bigelow said. The building will be decorated with a full-wall mural by a local artist. Rather than carrying bar hours, Ramshackle will most likely close around 11 p.m. but will most likely feature trivia nights and board games. Bigelow and Kesselring

are also experimenting with soda for patrons uninterested in beer. “It’s kind of an everything goes, welcome-to-everybody type environment,” Kesselring said. “We have a lot of very eclectic tastes whether it be in food, music, art, all that stuff, we try to embrace that in everybody and to get everybody else involved too. We want to be a community-owned brewery where everyone can come in, feel welcome, and those who have been investing can take pride in what we’re doing.” He and Bigelow originally met through a mutual friend and bonded over a shared love of craft beer. They’ve been brewing beer almost every Sunday for nearly seven years. “We’re just a couple of big nerds. We dive into these really intricate things; beer, obviously, creating music back and forth, exploring new things,” Kesselring said. Located on the main strip in Jonesville between Olivia’s Chophouse and a hardware store, the brewery will be made of masonry construction with exposed wood rafters, according to architect Scott Morrison of S Allen Designs, who has been working with them for several years. “The biggest challenge there is the urban infield, trying to fit the building between two buildings. It’s a small brewhouse, so the guest occupant load is close to 50,” Morrison said. “They’ve given me specific details for the brewhouse and then the rest of the decor will be quite simple and simplistic.” Gray said he’s excited to be so close to construction. “They have had a lot of perseverance and tenacity and they’ve really seen the ups and downs of this through the fundraisers,” Gray said. “I’m excited to have them downtown for many years of success here.”

In an effort to improve public safety, the Hillsdale City Council voted unanimously to purchase a new truck for the city’s fire department at a Feb. 20 meeting. The truck in need of replacement, a 1989 Federal Motors E1 pumper truck, acquired by the city in 1992, has a faulty pump system that hazards a break-down while on call. “We’re at that critical juncture right now where we don’t necessarily have equipment that is operational all the time,” Fire Chief and Police Chief Scott Hephner said at the meeting. Hephner added that the fire department’s number one priority is to serve the Hillsdale community by putting out fires and answering medical calls. “That truck is necessary for us to succeed as an organization and do what we’re required to do,” he said. Councilman Bruce Sharp said he was concerned the retirement of firefighter Eric Pressler — which coincides with the purchase of a new truck — will mean the fire department will not replace him with a full-time firefighter. “My concern is to all public vacancy things,” he said at the meeting. “We had a police officer retire four years ago, and we never filled that vacancy.” Pressler’s retirement leaves the fire department with three full-time firefighters instead of the usual four. Sharp cited a 2006 instance when a public vote decided there should be a minimum staff requirement of four full-time firefighters at all times. A subsequent court ruling deemed this vote invalid, so there are no minimum staff requirements. Despite this hesitation, Sharp said he supported the fire department and voted in favor of the truck. “This is the best solution for right now — and I trust Chief Hephner and his judgment,” he said afterward. Councilmen Matt Bell, Brian Watkins, Bill Zeiser, and City Manager David Mackie were not present when the council decided to buy the truck. The local community also showed support for buying a new pumper. Hillsdale resident Ted Jansen stepped up

to the public podium before the city council discussed Hephner’s proposal and said the city should be doing all it can to aid the fire department. “They’re willing to lay down their lives for us,” he said. He then told the crowd that he would “put his money where his mouth was” and placed a $100 bill on the ground in front of the council to help them purchase a new fire engine, encouraging each council member to do the same. Another resident, Denis Wainscott, said he is glad the city is buying a new truck, but he wished help would would have come sooner for the fire department. “I don’t want to be one of the houses that they go to when the pumper decides to break down,” he said. “So every bit of informational or financial aid that we can give as a public should be given to them.” The fire department received a federal grant in 2015 to buy and maintain new turnout gear, which includes boots, coats, gloves. In addition, the fire department has applied for a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to replace its 1983 Pierce LTI ladder truck which has been called “the oldest operating fire truck in the state of Michigan” by state certification agents. “It’s a $1 million truck. These grants are hard to get — they only spread out so many millions of dollars per year,” Hephner said. The fire department has also applied for a grant to replace the station’s source point exhaust apparatuses, which clean poisonous air out of the truck’s system when it’s parked in stations. Hephner said the current fixtures often malfunction and that the company that made them no longer exists. Hephner estimates it would cost about $45,000 to replace them. According to Hephner, the numbers of calls the fire department has answered in the past few years has risen 20 percent yearly, so all upto-date equipment is the fire department’s first priority. “What happens after we move forward is up in the air, but we have to provide a public service to our community,” he said. “The truck is an absolute need right now.”

Council begins process of establishing Neighborhood Enterprise Zone downtown By | Evan Carter Web Editor The Hillsdale City Council took steps to establish the city’s third Neighborhood Enterprise Zone during their Feb. 6 meeting. If adopted in April, this NEZ would offer 10-year tax abatements to 17 property-owners on West Street south of M-99 if they chose to rehabilitate their houses. A public hearing on the proposed NEZ is scheduled for the March 20 council meeting. “We’re hoping that by being able to create this NEZ and have the taxes frozen for a period, it will incentivize some of those property owners to actually improve the properties,” City Manager David Mackie said during the meeting. The new NEZ can now be adopted with a resolution at the April 17 city council meeting. The creation of new NEZs was one of the proposed actions in the city’s 2015 master plan, along with measures to adopt form-based code and historic preservation tools, considering zoning changes that better manage multi-family housing, and working to preserve single-family housing where appropriate. “I hope this will help.

There’s some potentially beautiful homes out in that area that could get a little bit of a boost,” Councilman Matt Bell said during the meeting. While properties within an NEZ don’t automatically receive a tax abatement, Mackie said during the meeting that the state law allows the city to withhold tax abatements from property-owners who apply for them and then never make any changes to their house. Hillsdale Economic Development Director Mary Wolfram reaffirmed and clarified Mackie’s words in an interview with the Collegian. “Homeowners don’t ever get anything. They don’t ever get any money throughout the process,” Wolfram said. “The city isn’t giving anyone anything. All we’re doing is not raising their taxes.” According to Wolfram, the new NEZ is directed at improving the neighborhood surrounding Davis Middle School. She also said the city has never approved a tax abatement for a home renovation within an NEZ under the city’s 2007 and 2015 NEZ zones. Under the NEZ Act of 1992, which was originally drafted by Gary Wolfram, former Governor John Engler’s deputy state

treasurer for taxation policy. Local municipalities can create NEZs where new houses only pay half the statewide average as determined by the state tax commission for ten years. Additionally, owners of refurbished houses only have to pay taxes on their previously assessed property value before the improvements for ten years. Before this law passed, local municipalities could only make changes to property taxes that affected all the properties in the municipality. The City of Hillsdale created its first NEZ in 2007 when it created one of these zones for the 22 lots in the Three Meadows subdivision off Hallet Street. According to Mary Wolfram, the NEZ was created in hopes that the promised tax abatements would encourage new housing developments. Ten years later, with 13 of the 22 Three Meadows parcels sold, the NEZ attracted enough buyers to meet expectations. “There are definitely new houses out there, but there are not tons of new houses because we’re a small rural community,” Wolfram said. City Planning and Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker said he believes parcel sales were affected by Michigan’s

economic drop in 2008. The city adopted its second NEZ in 2015 to encourage property owners to rehabilitate the houses in College Park along Manning Street. According to Beeker, College Park is still too new to say whether the NEZ has attracted new buyers to the market. According to Hillsdale City Assessor Kim Thomas, once an NEZ has been established, homeowners within the zone have to apply in order to receive the tax abatement for their home renovation project. Once a homeowner applies, they have to be approved by the city and the state tax commission before they can receive the abatement. The city tax assessor then does a pre-rehabilitation assessment and a post-rehabilitation assessment after the rehabilitation project has been completed. At this point, the approved homeowner within the NEZ doesn’t have to pay additional taxes on the added value to their house. According to Thomas, the houses within the newly proposed NEZ are sorely in need of renovation. “This neighborhood is part of the original village of Hillsdale, so we’re dealing with some of the oldest houses in the city,” Thomas said.

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The counter of the Jilly Beans coffee shop. Jim Drews | Courtesy

it has been established for 10 years, makes the business so much more attractive.” Jilly Bean’s was started by Nichols and her partner Cathy Moore in November, 2008 when another coffee shop then in town, The Gathering, closed. The two women immediately put a bid in on the location and went to work redesigning the building to give it the warm, cozy feel it has today. Nichols worked at The Gathering as a barista a year before it closed, and has served

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Interior shots of Jilly Beans, which is up for sale for $89,900, including the furniture and equipment. Jim Drews | Courtesy

people I’ve talked to would leave it as is. It’s established, and people are familiar with our drinks and sandwiches.” Of all the businesses and properties that he has marketed, Drews said that Jilly Bean’s is perhaps one of the most special. “What makes this so unique is that a potential buyer who may have looked into starting a business like Jilly Beans can now make that happen,” Drews said. “With everything that’s included with it, and because

up hundreds of cups of tea, coffee, and lattes at Jilly Bean’s since starting the store in 2008. Nichols said that while she’s ready to retire, she’s also going to miss all the memories she’s made in the store. “I love getting to meet all the customers,” Nichols said. “You get to find out about all their families and see their troubles as well as their happy times. I’ve always had good girls to work with here.” According to junior Susena Finegan, a weekend employee at Jilly Beans since April of 2014, Nichols is one of the best employers she’s worked with.

While she remains optimistic about a new owner, she said she anticipates some growing pains. “Jill has been the best boss I’ve ever had,” Finegan said. “She is so sweet and really created a wonderful community between her employees and customers. I don’t feel ‘out of the job’, because I know that whoever takes over will do their best to continue that community, however, it might be hard for me to adjust. Each boss has their own way of doing things.”

‘In God We Trust’ decals placed on Sheriff patrol cars By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor The Hillsdale County Sheriff ’s Office recently placed the national motto “In God We Trust” on its vehicles, raising questions from local citizens on whether local governments should incorporate religion in their operations. Sheriff Tim Parker said it was one of his priorities upon entering office to place the motto on HCSO vehicles, and that it was ultimately his decision. “We didn’t go around asking for votes or asking what everyone thought,” Parker said. Parker said the funding for this project came from a source outside the sheriff ’s office who wished to remain anonymous. “It didn’t come from within the department,” he said. “So I don’t see why there’s a problem.” Regardless of the origin of the funding, some citizens say they are concerned the newly placed mottos violate the separation of church and state. “In a country that espouses religious freedom, I find this disconcerting,” Hillsdale resident Natasha Crall said. “Especially when it is coming from positions of authority.” Parker does not see it as an endorsement for a specific religion, however, since “In God We Trust” is the national mot-

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The phrase appears on coins and currency as well as many state license plates. “It astounds me that people are getting upset about our national motto,” he said. “It’s part of our patriotism. Do we want to be patriots of our nation or not?” Regardless, Crall said, this decision disrespects the minorities HCSO represents. “It makes me wonder what [Parker] thinks about other groups he’s vowed to protect,” she said. According to Parker, the motto does not change the way HCSO serves and protects its citizens. It is a representation of the officers’ beliefs that a higher being is watching out for them, he said. Hillsdale resident Ryan Radabaugh agreed. “The phrase doesn’t have an effect on our everyday lives. If the officers feel more comfortable in the performance of their duties by having a little extra protection from four simple words, then that’s a win for everyone,” Radabaugh said in a Facebook message. “With the increasing violence against police across the country, if four simple words give them a little piece of mind then have at it.” Radabaugh and Crall both said Parker should have consulted members of the community before making the decision, however.

“Instead of acting on a whim, they should have sought public opinion before acting on it,” Radabaugh said. Councilman Adam Stockford agreed the decision was a bold move, but said he believes the community should give Parker the benefit of the doubt. “He was elected by the constituents of Hillsdale County,” Stockford said. “I trust his judgment.” The backlash to this decision is one of many recent attempts across the nation to remove references to God, Christianity, or religion from government property. The Oklahoma State Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the state must remove the six-foot monument of the Ten Commandments from its capital building, noting it violated the state’s constitutional ban against the use of public funds or property to benefit a religion. Sacramento attorney Michael Newdow filed a lawsuit in November 2005 against the U.S. government in an attempt to remove the motto “In God We Trust” from all national currency, claiming the national motto is unconstitutional. Crall agrees and said the national motto represents only one religion, which she said is discrimination. “What you do on Sunday has nothing to do with your job,” Crall said.

Houses for Rent February 23, 2017

The following houses are for rent for the 2017-2018 school year:

• 85 East Fayette Street - This is a very spacious, five-bedroom, one and one-half bath, fully furnished, and recently renovated Victorian that is one and one half blocks from campus. It is centrally air conditioned, has a large eat-in-kitchen with a garbage disposal and dishwasher, separate dining room, living room, parlor, large front porch, deck off of the back, unattached one-car garage, unfinished basement useful for storage, and is equipped with a washer and dryer. The rent is $420 per student per month based upon five student occupants. Available June 1, 2017. • 173 West Street – This is a three-bedroom, one bath Victorian, that is only two blocks from campus. It has been recently updated, is fully furnished, has a separate dining room, living room, and unfinished basement that can be used for storage and is equipped with a washer and dryer. The lease is $405.00 per student per month based upon three student occupants. A fourth student may be added at a reduced rate if desired. Available June 1, 2017. • 171 West Street – This is a three bedroom, one bath, recently updated, unfurnished Victorian that is two blocks from Campus. It has a living room, den, eat-in-kitchen, and an unfinished basement available for storage that is equipped with a washer and dryer. The rent is $360 per student per month based upon three student occupants. A fourth student may be added at a reduced rate if desired. Available June 1, 2017.

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A 1919 picture of the Dawn Theatre, the style to which TIFA hopes to restore the current theatre. Mary Wolfram | Courtesy

Dawn Theatre to screen classic movies following TIFA renovation By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief Despite turning off its projector more than 20 years ago, downtown Hillsdale’s historic Dawn Theater may soon play movies again. Members of Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority (TIFA) and Director of Economic Development Mary Wolfram said that with the help of a new grant they will be able to renovate the nearly 100 year-old theater to host private events, as well as play old, classic movies on the big screen by 2019. “The Dawn first opened in September 1919,” Wolfram said. “So we are shooting for a complete rehab and grand opening in September of 2019. Everyone wants to see it stay as a community theater but we also hope to make it a facility where you can show movies.” TIFA bought the Dawn Theater as well as the Keefer House from previous co-owners Jeff and Marcy Horton for $410,000 in October of 2016. Since then, the city has taken a variety of steps to renovate, repair, and reinvent the theater — including the installation of a new HVAC system and roof renovation. Mike Harner, the chief staff officer for Hillsdale College, is also a member of the TIFA board and said he hopes to see the building restored to its vintage look. “There are some great pictures of what it used to look like,” Harner said. “It had a beautiful brick facade and was a classic vaudeville theater. Looking at it now, it’s very pedestrian. But there’s a pretty building under that building.” Wolfram said she hopes by renovating the Dawn Theater

to its antique style, and by offering the occasional classic movie, it would become a great tourist location in town and could host theme nights, such as classic car shows. “We’re not aiming for the Dawn Theater to be a competitor with first-run movie theaters,” Wolfram said. “The plan is to keep renting it out for events such as wedding receptions, proms, and frat date parties. But we also want to be able to show a classic movie that is gorgeous on the big screen.” When it was built in 1919, the Dawn Theater was intended to be a classic movie theater. In an interview with The Collegian in October, then-owner Jeff Horton said it underwent major construction changes in the 1930’s to help better the sound quality of more modern films. But in the 1990’s, the theater seating was ripped out, and raised platform seating plus dinner seating was added. Before it was purchased by TIFA, the Dawn Theater would frequently host college events and serve patrons from their in-house bar. In last week’s Hillsdale City Council agenda packet, it stated work was ongoing to transfer a Class C liquor license to the Dawn Theater. Wolfram said the liquor license is an attractive selling point for those interested in the building. When asked if there was any interest or offers to purchase the building, Wolfram and Harner both said there has not been much. “There’s no serious interest,” Harner said. “If we do secure these grants, there will still be a lot of capital to put into the building.” Wolfram said the building has a wide variety of repairs that must be completed, in-

cluding bringing it up to code with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which will make it handicap accessible. But, she said, many of the future revitalization efforts can be made possible by a category of grants from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for “blight elimination for historic preservation.” “The owner of the buildings was not redeveloping them,” Wolfram said. “They sat in suspended animation for years and nothing happened. So we’re moving it forward and we’re in the process of applying for a MEDC grant that will be helpful with the laundry list of improvements that need to be made.” While happy to see the Dawn Theater being repaired back to its original state, Hillsdale resident Penny Swan said she disagrees with the way the city is going about it. “I think it’s great that they’re doing things with it, but I don’t like that the city is involved,” Swan said. “If this all happened in the private sector I’d be more happy with the result.” Swan said she was upset the city paid more than the appraised price for the theater, in part due to the package deal that tied its purchase to the Keefer House. Harner disagreed, and said he believes the Dawn Theater may be the perfect project to help with economic development. “Throughout the state of Michigan communities have seen revitalization when they have re-development efforts surrounding a local theater,” Harner said. “I don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t work here. If the right person comes along, it’s going to be a great place.”

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Feb. 25 Ky. Wesleyan - 11:00 AM Bellarmine - 3:00 PM Feb. 26 Southern Ind. - 10:00 AM McKendree - 12:00 PM Freshman Ryan Thomsen pole vaults at the annual “Tune Up” meet last weekend. Evan Carter | Collegian

Freshman track athlete has early decathalon success By | Evan Carter Web Editor

Before competing in the Saginaw Valley State University Open last December, freshman Ryan Thomsen had never done a heptathlon. In a performance he called “alright,” Thomsen qualified for the indoor national championship and broke the Canadian junior record and Hillsdale’s fouryear-old school record in the event. Now, after three months of trying to recover from a muscle strain he sustained in December, Thomsen has decided not to compete in the 2017 GLIAC Indoor Track and Field Conference Championships this Saturday and Sunday in Findlay, Ohio. Thomsen had hoped to win the GLIAC heptathlon and went into the event ranked No. 2 in the conference. “I really wanted to compete, but I didn’t want to risk not performing at the best of my ability,” Thomsen said. “Especially with us going to the GMAC next year, I’d hoped to get a GLIAC championship under my belt.” Beyond his freshman indoor and outdoor track seasons, Thomsen is already dreaming about competing to win the NCAA Division II decathlon. And while Thomsen’s track and field success may seem sudden to some, it’s something that Thomsen has been working toward for the last four years and plans to continue working toward throughout his collegiate career. “The great thing about freshman year is that you can

put some pretty crazy dreams together and spend your next few years trying to accomplish them,” Thomsen said. Growing up, Thomsen played basketball, football, and soccer. According to his dad, Al Thomsen, Ryan was the kid who picked dandelions during soccer games. During his freshman year at Calvin Christian High School in Escondido, California, Ryan tried cross country in the fall and basketball in the winter. He didn’t enjoy cross country and wasn’t very good at basketball, even though his older brother Tyler had been a basketball star at Calvin Christian. When the spring rolled around, Ryan decided to try track and field, because his friends were doing it. “As a freshman in high school, we were just kind of exploring different things,” Al Thomsen said. “I didn’t push him into anything particularly, I just let him try what he wanted to try.” Ryan Thomsen quickly discovered that he excelled in track, particularly in the jumps, as he competed in long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault. He did so well that he advanced to the conference final in each event by the end of his freshman track season. His success continued into his sophomore year, when coaches asked if he would be interested in trying the decathalon. The decathlon isn’t an official high school event in California, so he had to wait until the Cuyamaca Invitational in June to compete. Thomsen placed second to the best

decathlete in California. “California’s a very competitive place, so finding a place where you can actually be decent — and this kid was a big deal, I put up pretty close to him my first time doing it — I thought, ‘Hey, this is something I could actually be pretty good at,’” Thomsen said. The decathlon is a multievent competition in outdoor track and field, in which athletes compete in ten jumping, running, and throwing events over two days. The athletes earn different amounts of points depending on their performance in each event, and at the end of the ten events, the athlete with the most points is declared the winner. In the NCAA, male athletes compete in the decathlon outdoors and a smaller seven-event heptathlon during indoor track. Female athletes compete in the heptathlon outdoors and the shorter fiveevent pentathlon during indoor track. Thomsen continued to find success in his individual track events, going to the California Outdoor Track State Meet his senior year in the long jump, pole vault, and 110 meter hurdles — an impressive feat in populous California, where there is only one division for every track and field athlete in the state. Still, Thomsen’s real strength was the decathlon, which he continued to compete in during the summers after his junior and senior years of high school. The summer after his junior year, he qualified to compete in the elite Arcadia Invitational, where he was the top Cal-

ifornian decathlete and the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics, where he placed in the top eight and was named All-American. “That was what cemented decathlon for me, being what I wanted to do, at Arcadia,” Thomsen said. “Up to that point it was just kind of, ‘Hey, I’m kind of good at this, this is fun.’” The next summer, he competed at Arcadia and the won the USA Junior Olympics. He also competed in the Pan American Junior Championship in Ontario, Canada, which because he is a dual American-Canadian citizen, also counted as the Canadian under-20 World Championship qualifier. After college, Thomsen has aspirations of competing for the Canadian national team in the decathlon. “I still have time to put in the under-20 record for the U.S., as well as Canada,” Thomsen said. His brother Jordan, who is

a year younger than Ryan, also competes in decathlons. “We’ve always been close, he and I,” Ryan said. “We always got all the golds and silvers. We even have salty pictures of him sulking because I’m standing on the podium with four gold medals and he has four silvers.” Thomsen had the opportunity to join a number of NCAA Division I track and field teams, including Dartmouth and Princeton. He even had the opportunity to walk onto the team at the University of Oregon, which won the NCAA Division I indoor track and field championships for the last three years and the outdoor track and field championships in 2014 and 2015. Still, Thomsen chose Hillsdale. “When we saw that Hillsdale doesn’t accept any kind of federal money, you know all these things were hitting the right buttons for us,” Al Thomsen said. “Ryan, in talking with coach Towne, decided that this

was the school for him.” Ryan not only appreciated what Hillsdale stands for, but he also liked that head coach Andrew Towne was so consistent in contacting him during the recruitment process. Since coming to Hillsdale, Towne has been working with Thomsen on improving in all of the decathlon events, focusing on improving Thomsen’s sprinting form. Thomsen’s training was delayed for much of the season when he and fellow heptathlete junior David Chase both pulled muscles doing a hurdle drill in practice last December. As a result of these injuries, the GLIAC Indoor Championship would have been the first indoor track meet Thomsen had done since last December. Still, Thomsen believes he made the right call when he decided not to compete. “It’s both a let down and a smart decision,” Thomsen said. “I know in the long run it will be smarter for me to have done this.”

TENNIS BOASTS UNDEFEATED WEEKEND ON THE ROAD By | Scott McClallen Collegian Reporter

The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team carried away a two-match win streak from Erie, Pennsylvania, on Monday night. The Chargers toppled Mercyhurst University 5-4 on Saturday Feb. 18 to improve their record to 2-2. The Chargers took 4 of 5 single matches from the Lakers, who are ranked third in the Atlantic region. Head coach Keith Turner said the win was “the biggest win in the program’s existence.” Freshmen Milan Mirkovic and Julian Clouette clenched the lone doubles win of the

match, 8-1. “A second-year program upsetting a No. 3 ranked team is unheard of,” Turner said. “Mirkovic went 4-0 in singles — he stood out from the rest,” Turner said. Sophomore Justin Hyman won at No. 2 singles 6-3, 6-4. Junior captain Dugan Delp won 7-5, 6-0 at No. 4 singles, and sophomore John Ciraci won No. 6 singles 7-0, 3-0. Mirkovic moved from Croatia to play for Hillsdale, and was originally concerned about the second-year team. “Now I see that our age is a great thing, because we all started together and support each other,” Mirkovic said. “Beating Mercyhurst proves our team’s potential. In the

following few months, we will perform better, and beat teams better than Mercyhurst.” Mirkovic attributed his 4-0 singles record to Turner’s practices. “I wasn’t playing well beginning the season, because I played less often in Croatia, but practices have increased my levels of play,” Mirkovic said. Mirkovic said he wasn’t aware of Mercyhurst’s ranking, which was to his benefit. “I knew they were good, just not that good,” Mirkovic said. “I was more relaxed, which allowed me to play a good match.” The Charger’s back-to-back wins follow a loss to Lewis University.

“Lewis has the top two ranked players in the region and are overall a tough team,” Turner said. “We lost 7-2 last year, only 6-3 this year. Their coach complimented our improvement.” Turner said they need to improve doubles play if they hope to beat better teams. The Chargers went on to defeat Daemen College 7-2 on Sunday night, improving their record to 3-2. The team won five singles matches, with three of the wins going to seven sets. Hyman won 8-2 at No. 1 doubles, but Ciraci and freshman Charlie Adams were defeated 8-5 at No. 2. Mirkovic and Clouette won 8-5 at No. 3 to clinch the close win.

“We could have won by more, but we played sluggishly,” Turner said. “We reacted well to the doubles loss — some teams end up throwing the match over it, but we finished strong,” Mirkovic and Clouette have been a strong doubles team, and Mirkovic said they hope to continue their success. “We underestimated Daemon, because we beat them 9-0 last year,” Mirkovic said. “They gave Julian and I serious trouble in doubles.” The Chargers are chasing their team goals of finishing above .500 and placing in the top five in the GLIAC. To this end, they are focusing more on wins, rather than scores. “Score does matter, but it’s

not everything. Winning is winning, and winning two games in two days is a huge accomplishment for such a young team,” Mirkovic said. The Chargers will play their first conference match against Grand Valley on Feb. 25, at Premier Athletic Club in Grandville, Michigan. “Grand Valley and Ferris State are probably the two best teams we will play all year,” Turner said. “We were competitive with both teams last year, so hopefully we can keep the matches close this year and make things interesting.”

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TRACK TUNES UP FOR GLIACS By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Reporter

This weekend, Hillsdale hosted its annual “Tune-Up” meet, giving athletes a chance to do just that — tune up last-minute performances before heading into the conference meet this weekend at the University of Findlay. “I thought it was another really good step for us. It was exactly, as the meet is named, a good tune-up for a lot of people,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “We’re ready for GLIACs. The majority of our kids that are going to compete there have been at a pretty high level and are confident that they can continue to do that.” Junior Tori Wichman met the provisional standard in the 200-meter dash with her firstplace time of 24.95 seconds — her best this season, which places her 24th on the national list. Senior Allison Duber took first in the 400 meter, with a provisional time of 56.99 seconds. Duber is currently ranked 26th nationally. Junior Hannah Watts won the 800-meter race with a 2:16.64 performance, meeting the provisional standard. Senior pole vaulter Alex Whitford is still ranked sixth after once again vaulting provisional height, clearing 12 feet, 6.25 inches. Senior Dana Newell broke the school record this weekend in the women’s weight throw with her throw of 62 feet, 7.25 inches. This is a personal record for Newell who remains ranked tenth nationally. “There wasn’t a lot of competition,” Newell said. “The main thing I was focusing on was doing the best I can and I was hoping for 62 feet, but I didn’t think I would get it, but I got it on my first throw.” The record was held by her throwing counterpart, junior Rachael Tolsma, last year. Newell’s personal record previously was just under 61 feet. “I still feel better overall, and it’s just good to know that I’m still hitting these high marks, and I still have time before NCAAs,” Newell said. “The idea behind it is just focusing on the same things I’ve been focusing on all year — trying not to do anything new and just focusing on the performance and do what I need to do.” Tolsma also reached the provisional standard throwing 57 feet, 7.5 inches. She’s ranked 16th overall. Both throwers earned All-American titles in the event last year and expect to continue the trend this year. On the men’s side, there were an additional five provisional standards met this weekend. Senior Sergio San Jose Lorza ran a 6.86 in the 60-meter dash, breaking his personal record, taking second, and meeting the provisional standard for the event. Senior Todd Frickey also ran a 6.86 in the finals for the 60, but placed third — .09 seconds behind Lorza in the preliminaries.

In a race where every millisecond counts, Frickey is currently ranked 14th nationally for his performance of 6.81 early in the season while Lorza is ranked 36th for his performance this weekend. Lorza also ran his personal best in the 200 this weekend, making the provisional list with his 22.08-seconds performance. In the 800 meter, sophomore Tanner Schwannecke took first and gave his season-best performance of 1:53.58, putting Schwannecke at No. 17 on the national list. “I felt pretty excited with how I did, but being right on the edge there just makes me really want to push this week and kill it next week at conference,” Schwannecke said. “I just want to be the best I can be. If it doesn’t work out it will give me something to work for in the future.” Schwannecke attributes this race to his training and focusing on staying calm and pacing. He said he’s excited for the conference meet where he’ll compete against the athlete that is 16th on the national list. Last year, Schwannecke raced at the national meet with the distance medley relay, which is also on the cusp of making it to the national meet. Junior Jared Schipper cleared a height of 16 feet, 3.25 inches in the pole vault. This is the previous All-American’s sixth time meeting the provisional height this season —

Schippter is ranked 12th nationally. “If you look at our program objectives, our number one objective is always NCAAs and how we are faring there. The next priority is how we do at the conference level,” Towne said. At the Chargers’ final indoor GLIAC conference meet, Towne wants his athletes to leave a lasting performance. “We are always trying to win, but there is a certain way we do things at Hillsdale across the board and in the program that exemplify Hillsdale, and we want to continue to show those things in our last go-around,” Towne said. The team motto is always “excellence,” but each year Towne adds another word for the team to focus and reflect on. This year he chose “commit” as a constant reminder to his athletes to avoid outside distractions during competition. The GLIAC conference meet is one of the last in the country, and Sunday is the last qualifying day. “You never totally know what you have to get done so you always want to be at your best,” Towne said. “But as I look through our roster at men and women, there are quite a lot that are safe for NCAAs and some that are on the fence and some that could surprise people.”

Baseball from A10 earned, over 4 1/3 innings of work. After the Battlers tied the game with three runs in the top half of the fifth, the Chargers took the lead for good with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the frame. Six different Chargers logged hits in the game, including the first-collegiate hits for sophomore Dylan Lottinville, and freshmen Brendan Oosee, Jake Rhodes, and Rob Zurawski. Sophomores Alex Walts and Chris Ackerman both drove in two runs in the affair, while Oosee drove in one of his own. Rominski was rewarded for his efforts on Monday, when he was awarded GLIAC Pitcher of the Week Honorable Mention. He said it was an honor to receive the award in his first collegiate weekend, but also credited his team and the coaching staff for calling a great game. Sophomore Colin Boerst joined Rominski, receiving a GLIAC Player of the Week Honorable Mention, after going 5-for-14 on the week, with two doubles and three RBIs. “It’s good for the team to see that we are up there with everybody else,” Theisen said. “We’ve got guys that are up in the top-five in the conference in major categories. Although it’s one weekend in, so it doesn’t say a whole lot, it’s good to be there.”

The Chargers returned to Nicolay Field on Sunday, where they opened up scoring in the bottom of the third with four runs. After gaining one back in the top of the fourth, the Battlers strung together six hits and three Charger errors to plate 10 runs in the top of the fifth — a lead that proved too much for Hillsdale to overcome. One bright point of the game came when O’Hearn, crashing into the centerfield wall, robbed a Battler homerun. Both Theisen and assistant coach Michael O’Sullivan agreed it was one of the best catches they have ever seen. “That was amazing,” Theisen said. “I couldn’t believe it when he raised his glove.” Four separate Chargers had a hit in the effort, while Boerst and sophomore catcher Steven Ring drove in two runs, as O’Hearn drove in one more. The bookend of the series proved to be the closest, with Alderson-Broaddus coming out on top 6-5. After both teams plated one in the first, the Battlers pushed two across in the top of the second, before the Chargers returned fire with three of their own in the bottom half. The Battlers took a 6-4 lead with three runs in the top of the fourth, and a seventh-inning comeback effort from the Chargers fell short, after they were only able to score one of two needed in the final frame. Freshman pitching was

once again fantastic in the effort. Andrew Verbrugge took the ball first, tossing four frames, while allowing six runs, although only three were earned. Fellow freshman Dante Toppi relieved Verbrugge, throwing three innings of no-hit ball, allowing only one walk. Six Chargers had hits in the game, including two from both Boerst and Walts. Waltz also tacked on two RBIs, while Boerst and sophomore captain Colin Hites each drove in one. Despite two losses on Sunday, the Chargers were able to glean the good from the weekend. “Nobody likes being swept on the day, but the overall feelings on the weekend were still, ‘We had fun and enjoyed ourselves,’” junior Phil Carey said. “We also know, though, that we could have done better and so it’s back to business this week.” Theisen said the Chargers will spend a good part of the week sharpening their defense before they travel to Louisville, Kentucky, for a three-game set with the Bellarmine University Knights. “We are going to see a good Bellarmine team. They are going to have some high-velocity arms, they will have some guys that swing the bat,” Theisen said. “They are going to have some talent, but we just have to go out there and keep improving.”

After off-season training, Charger golf places 15th in opening spring tournament By | Josh Paladino Collegian Reporter After a four month off-season that included a routine of strength training, ball striking, and putting, the Hillsdale College golf team finally competed in South Carolina this week. “It felt great to come back after a long winter,” sophomore Peter Beneteau said. “The guys were all really excited and it was great to get out on the course again.” The Chargers participated in the Newberry College Invite, which was played at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, a course which Golf.com ranked as the fourth hardest course in the country. The two-day tournament that ran from Feb. 20-21. In the three rounds of play, Hillsdale shot a 941, landing them in 15th place out of 16 teams. Tournament host, Newberry College, won the event with an 873. Beneteau took the low score for team, shooting

Senior Sergio San Jose Lorza broke his personal record in the 60-meter dash this weekend, placing second. Matt Kendrick | Collegian

scores of 78, 75, and 76, giving him a 229 for the tournament, which tied him for 28th place. “Beneteau had a pretty solid showing. He played well for three rounds,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist said. “He did a lot of good things and he has a lot of confidence going forward for the spring.” Beneteau said he struggled going into the event, but still came out with good scores. “I made a 9 on my very first hole of the tournament and somehow was able to keep my composure and post an OK first round,” Beneteau said. “Then the very next round, I eagled that very same hole that I made the 9 on, which was certainly something to laugh about.” Despite a low finish in the event, Gilchrist said only one other team that played in the Newberry College Invite is in the same region as Hillsdale, so this tournament will not hurt their chances of qualifying for regionals this spring. “It was just an opportunity to compete against other Di-

vision II schools that we don’t see on a regular basis that we will have to beat if we’re going to win a regional championship and a national championship,” Gilchrist said. Beneteau said the team showed good signs this week, but “needs to work to eliminate bad mistakes and be more consistent and strategic.” Gilchrist said the team installed an indoor putting facility and each team member had to roll 2,500 putts during the off-season. They also maintained a diet and exercise routine to ensure they were ready to come out and make good swings. Now, the team is hitting on the range and playing on their home course of Bella Vista in Coldwater, Gilchrist said. “The team worked really hard this off-season and improved a lot in some important areas and we’re confident we’re going to have a really good spring,” Gilchrist said.

Women’s basketball misses tournament after winning season By | S. M. Chavey Features Editor

Hillsdale’s women basketball ended the farewell GLIAC tour on a positive note: a triumphant senior night for the Chargers and an overall winning record. “I think the season went well. We won 40 percent more games than last season. We’re not satisfied with that, I think we still want more, to work towards those wins,” head coach Todd Mitmesser said. “We won two of our last three games and played really good basketball in a lot of games we ended up losing.” With a number of players returning from injuries next season along with some new freshman, Mitmesser said he’s looking at a bright future. The Chargers missed the GLIAC tournament by just one spot, coming in ninth place overall in the GLIAC for their final season there. In Thursday night’s game against Lake Erie, the Chargers pulled ahead early on. The team lost its lead during a challenging second quarter, in which the Storm outscored Hillsdale by 11 points. But

with 48 points in the paint and a field goal percentage above 55 percent, the Chargers scored 51 points in the second half to just 19 by the Storm, leading to a 88-68 victory. “I was really happy with the way the team pulled out in the second half...we kept the pressure up even when we were ahead and didn’t let them come back into the game,” sophomore guard Allie Dewire said. Senior guard Morgan Blair played 31 minutes and ended with 9 points, 6 assists, and 3 rebounds. Sophomore guard Makenna Ott led the team with a season-high of 20 points — including 4 made from behind the 3-point line — followed closely by junior center Allie Dittmer and junior guard Maddy Reed, each with 16 points. A team effort led to 49 rebounds, almost double Lake Erie’s 27. Hillsdale’s bench also provided quite a bit of assistance, scoring 28 points. “We didn’t play all that great in the first half, but we really picked it up in the second half. It was really kind of cool to see how everyone wanted to go out on a really strong note for our last home game, so we just

went out together and really just dominated in the second half,” senior guard Morgan Blair said. The game clinched a winning season for the Chargers and closed out the home season 8-4. Two days later, the Chargers played their last game in the GLIAC, away against Ohio Dominican. The 86-94 final score did not reflect how close the game was until the last minute. “We pretty much went out with a bang. ODU was a tough loss, but we fought really hard and we brought the game within 2 points,” Dewire said. Five of Hillsdale’s players scored double digits, leading the team to its high scoring loss. The Chargers started out strong and led by as much as 9 in the first quarter, but a 15-2 run by the Panthers gave them a lead that they held onto through the rest of the game. The Panthers beat the Chargers 42-29 on the boards, but Hillsdale lost only 23 points off 17 turnovers, in contrast to 34 off 23 turnovers by Ohio Dominican. Sophomore guard Allie Dewire led the team with 24 points, followed by junior

guard Maddy Reed who hit a season high of 19 points including a career high of five 3-point shots. Dittmer, sophomore forward Brittany Gray, and Ott all scored 10 points. “It was a really close game, a 2-point game with about a minute to go,” Mitmesser said. “We played very, very hard and just couldn’t quite hit enough shots. We just came up a little short to a very experienced Ohio Dominican team.” Blair and senior guard Becca Scherting ended their college careers with a winning season, but missing out on the tournament. “It’s very bittersweet,” Blair said. “I’ve been playing since I was 5. I played here for three years because I transferred, but I loved every second of it. I made some of the best friends that I could have ever asked for in my teammates and across the athletic department in general. I think here more than at other schools, the athletes understand the struggle. It’s such a privilege to be an athlete, but it’s also tough, so we all rally together and support each other and that was the biggest highlight for me of Hillsdale athletics.” Both Blair and Dewire said

they loved watching the team develop and the individuals improve throughout the season, and though Scherting and Blair will be graduated next season, Blair and Dewire said they think the Chargers will do well next year in the new conference, with an athletic freshman class. “The good thing is we are, for the most part, a relatively younger team. It’s nice because we get to move forward with most of the talent we had this year and it’s only going to get better,” Dewire said, adding that it “stinks” to lose Blair and Scherting. For Blair, Dewire, and Mitmesser, a highlight of the season was beating Grand Valley, at the time ranked No.16 in the country. Bigger picture, the highlight was coming together as a team, Blair said. “From start to finish, we really grew a lot. It’s not easy getting a new coach and learning a new system and learning how to interact with each other in that system. Even at the beginning of this year people were unsure, and they wanted to see what their particular role was on the team, but by the end everyone was working cohesively and working together towards

our main goals,” Blair said. Mitmesser added that winning 14 games was another highlight of the season. With four players injured through almost the entire season, the team had less depth than expected, but Mitmesser said next year there will be much more competition for playing time. Next year, the team will be both young as well as more experienced. Three players ended the season with more than 100 rebounds: Dittmer (whose 229 was second in the conference), Reed, and Dewire. Dewire, Dittmer, and Ott all had over 300 points. The team’s average 40 rebounds per game was third highest in the GLIAC. Mitmesser said he was most proud of the team’s determination to stick with teams through close games. “We have shown many times that we were able to make runs and get ourselves in a position to win games,” Mitmesser said. “I think we played extremely hard and that was evident in the fact that we were able to come back and win several different times this season.”

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After 0-5 GLIAC start, Hillsdale wins 8 out of 9 final games to clinch tournament berth

By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Senior Writer The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team has completed its remarkable resurgence. Despite opening their GLIAC schedule with five straight losses, the Chargers clinched a spot in the GLIAC Tournament last weekend by winning eight of their final nine games. Hillsdale will be either the seventh or eighth seed and play at No. 22 Findlay or at No. 21 Ferris State on Tuesday, pending the outcomes of two games tonight. Regardless of who they face, the Chargers feel confident that their current form can carry them to a first-round upset. “We always have confidence going into the tournament but we’re particularly confident just because we’ve been playing our best basketball,” junior guard Stedman Lowry said.

“We’re going to have to face one of two really good teams, but we’re confident and I think we can beat both of them.” The Chargers earned a postseason berth on Feb. 16 thanks to their 92-71 victory over Lake Erie and Walsh’s loss to Ashland. No Charger knew they could clinch a tournament spot before Saturday’s regular-season finale at Ohio Dominican, so the win felt a bit more special. “I’m just really pleased and really proud,” head coach John Tharp said after Hillsdale’s win over the Storm. “We weren’t very good at one time. We were pretty bad, and these guys just toughened it out. They’re just getting it, and they’re understanding their roles so well.” All five Hillsdale starters scored in double figures against Lake Erie. Junior guard Ryan Badowski scored 26 points on 8-of-10 3-point

shooting. Lowry scored 13 points. Sophomore point guard Nate Neveau recorded a double-double with 12 points and 10 assists. Senior forward Rhett Smith scored 12 points and senior center Nick Archer added 11 in the final home game of their careers. The Chargers were red hot from beyond the arc, converting 20 of their 32 3-point attempts (63 percent). “We knew that they have a tendency to stare when you drive and kick or if the ball goes inside,” Tharp said. “The game plan was to try to play inside-out and to penetrate and find and they did that.” Hillsdale held Lake Erie to 47 percent field goal shooting and 41 percent shooting from beyond the arc. After the game, Tharp said defense will continue to be a “point of emphasis,” and Hillsdale’s focus on defense paid off at Ohio

ATHLETES NAMED OUTSTANDING SENIOR MAN AND WOMAN

By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor For the first time in seven years, a pair of Charger athletes — Daniel Drummond and Krya Rodi — were named Outstanding Senior Man and Woman. After being nominated by the senior class, Drummond and Rodi went through an interview process with the faculty members who made the decision earlier this week. Drummond, a football player, and Rodi, a volleyball and softball dual-athlete, said they were honored to receive this recognition. “It’s a really humbling experience to be chosen by students and faculty,” Drummond said. “I can think of about 20 other guys in the senior class who are just as deserving of the award. Rodi added that she was shocked to receive the good news. “I had to check it again to make sure she gave me the right letter,” Rodi said. “But it was so cool to be honored and to be recognized and to see that I’ve impacted people. It’s very humbling.” Charger athletics have played a major role in shaping both Drummond’s and Rodi’s Hillsdale experiences, they said. “The whole part of being on a team filled with incredible guys and being able to work with them and to spend time together has been a special thing. It’s offered me a great community of guys to be around and invest in,” Drum-

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mond said. “I can’t imagine my college experience without it.” After Drummond took over as the starting right tackle for the Chargers in 2015, he was named the team’s offensive lineman of the year and has made the GLIAC Academic Excellence Team. Drummond plays intramural basketball, works as a student ambassador, a resident advisor, and a pianist during Sunday brunch. Drummond is also a candidate on the President’s Ball Court this year. Drummond will graduate next year with degrees in marketing management and history, and he hopes to work in sales. Rodi said it’s been a blessing to be an athlete at Hillsdale. “The Hillsdale athletic community in itself has been huge — getting to know everybody, going to basketball games when we’re out of season, seeing football guys at our games — things like that,” Rodi said. After four years on the volleyball team, Rodi decided to

Dominican on Saturday. The Chargers forced 15 turnovers and held the Panthers to 37 percent field goal shooting and 30 percent shooting from beyond the arc in a low-scoring 60-51 win — Hillsdale’s fifth consecutive victory. “We struggled offensively, but we were really pleased with the defensive effort,” Tharp said. “It just showed that we can win a different way. That was an important thing for our basketball team, since we’ve been stressing our defense and rebounding.” With a road matchup against Findlay or Ferris State upcoming, Hillsdale’s grind-itout win was a good sign. “We’re going to have to play great defense, because Ferris and Findlay are both high-powered offensive teams,” Lowry said. “We didn’t play great offensively and we

still were able to get the win, so it definitely is a confidence booster.” Since they won’t know their first-round opponent until tonight, the Chargers have been practicing differently this week. “We have some guys that are banged up physically, so we need to get some rest while also trying to get better and keep our edge and keep our confidence,” Tharp said. The Chargers studied film from their past games on Monday, held a longer competitive practice Tuesday, and had a lighter skill practice yesterday. Hillsdale will play an intrasquad scrimmage today and then take tomorrow off before preparing to face either Ferris State or Findlay starting Saturday. The Chargers will treat Saturday through Monday leading up to Tuesday’s tourna-

ment game like their normal Monday through Wednesday schedule when preparing for a Thursday game. “We’ll watch a ton of film of our opponent and try to figure out what we have to do to be successful,” Tharp said. “We have a formula right now that we’ve talked to our guys pretty consistently about and we’ll keep on reiterating that formula.” Last season, Walsh was the eighth seed in the GLIAC Tournament but was playing its best basketball at the right time. The Cavaliers beat top-seed Saginaw Valley in their opener and Hillsdale in the semifinal to advance to the championship game. The Chargers haven’t lost in three weeks and will try to pull off a similar run. “We have a lot of confidence going into the game,” Lowry said. “We’ll be ready.”

Junior outfielder Ryan O’Hearn robs a homerun against Alderson-Broaddus this weekened. Laurie Ackerman | Courtesy

Kyra Rodi join the softball team, as well. This season, Rodi was a top player. Rodi appeared in 28 matches, tallying 88 blocks for her team. When she’s not at the sports complex, Rodi works toward her biochemistry degree. She’s a member of the 1844 Society, Lamplighters, the biology honorary, the math and science honorary, and the women’s chemistry honorary. Rodi co-leads the volleyball Bible study, participates with Athletes Intervarsity, and serves as the secretary of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Rodi was on homecoming court this fall. After graduating in May, Rodi will attend medical school at the University of Colorado, Denver. “The things you learn from athletics at Hillsdale are things you’re going to take on for the rest of your life. Things like the dedication, the commitment, and the communication,” Rodi said. “These things teach you how to be a young woman and what it means to be selfless and a teammate. It’s going to be applicable forever.”

Baseball goes 1-3 in opening weekend By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor For the first time in any of their careers, the members of the Hillsdale College baseball team slept in their own beds before opening day, after rain in Tennessee and record highs in the Midwest moved last weekend’s games from Hendersonville, Tennessee, to Adrian, Michigan. Under clear blue skies, the Chargers met the Alderson-Broaddus Battlers for a four-game set, splitting Saturday’s games — 0-5, 8-4 — before the Battlers took two from Hillsdale on Sunday — 5-15, 5-6. For a very young Hillsdale team, the opening weekend was an opportunity to gain

game experience. “We’re so inexperienced that it was good to get guys game time, get guys at-bats and innings on the mound,” head coach Eric Theisen said. “It’s a process for us to figure out what combinations we’re working with, so it was good to start to see that live.” Both Theisen and junior captain Ryan O’Hearn said they were impressed by the team’s base running and the performances of the team’s freshmen, both on the mound and at the plate. Although it was the team’s first series of the season, there was no easing in. The Battlers returned most of last year’s team, which went 31-21, on its way to the regionals of the NCAA tournament.

“It was kind of a tough test for us, off the bat,” Theisen said. The first game of the weekend saw the Battlers top the Chargers 5-0. In a series highlighted by solid Hillsdale starting pitching, junior captain Will Kruse kicked things off, allowing three earned over five innings, while striking out a career high seven batters. Senior Joe Chasen took the ball from Kruse, allowing two earned on three hits over his two innings. The Chargers lone win on the weekend came in Saturday’s nightcap, 8-4. Freshman Kolton Rominski was fantastic in his first-collegiate start, allowing only one

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Oscars 2017: Sunday’s award show celebrates well-loved films, but is it worth the hype? Prediction: Academy will earn the ‘Most Elitist Award’ for the 89th time“La La Land” was a hot contender for a while,

‘La La Land’ will win everything. But should it?

Campus bands rock the Boondocks

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By | Philip H. DeVoe and his performance was very good, but he’s City News Editor Associate Editor played similar roles too many times. Emma Stone of “La La Land” is the favorFar from being #sowhite as it was in 2016, ite for Best Actress, but the Academy rebuffed Before diving into detailed discussions of the 2017 Oscars will feature a wider variety of Amy Adams for that nomination: Adams is each category and film, the 2017 Academy films, but some things about the elitist event an exceptional actress who has played a vaAwards will be a sweep for “La La Land.” By remain the same: the Academy will honor riety of roles (“Enchanted,” “American Hustaking six Golden Globe awards out of sevgood films, snub some of the best ones of the tle,” “Leap Year,” year, and honor others solely for the sake of “ S u p e r m a n” ) , diversity and political correctness. and her latest It’s never obvious which film will win Best performance is Picture, but this year experts and film critics by far her most across the board answer in unison: it’s going impressive and to be “La La Land.” While “Arrival” is arguably deserving of the a better contender for the nomination, and award. Of course, “Moonlight” or “Manchester by the Sea” might Meryl Streep was cause an upset, “La La Land” is still more nominated beflashy, more whimsical, and more charm- cause her name is ing: the film, its director, and its leads are the Meryl Streep — if newest darlings of Hollywood, and it’s unlike- she wins, which ly the Academy will cause public outrage by is thankfully unchoosing a sci-fi film or the story of a religious likely, we’ll be pacifist (“Hacksaw Ridge”) for Best Picture. privileged with (Plus, Mel Gibson directed “Hacksaw Ridge,” another politiso the film is unlikely to get an Oscar based cally charged acon that fact alone.) Among the nominees this ceptance speech year — actively fighting the #oscarssowhite challenging us all hashtag — are a few films about racial tension to be more enand identity: “Fences,” “Hidden Figures,” and lightened about “Moonlight,” which is based on a play about our political a poor, black, gay man struggling to find his choices, just like Kyle Chandler stars in ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ nominated for Best Picture. Imdb place in the world. her. While “Moonlight” may not get the award Critics are pretty unanimous in predicting en nominations, it broke the record for most for Best Picture, it will get Best Adapted that Best Director will go to Damien Chazelle awarded to a movie. It won seven Critic’s Screenplay. for “La La Land.” There’s an entertaining inChoice awards out of 10 nominations, and Best Actor is going to either Casey Af- ternet debate, however, over which song from the list goes on. It goes without saying “La La fleck from “Manchester by the Sea” or Denzel “La La Land” will Land” is this season’s award show favorite, and Washington from “Fences.” Ryan Gosling of win Best Original See Elitist B2 I do not anticipate that changing on Sunday. But I do not think it is the best picture of Junior Mark Naida and sophomore Ryan Burns perform at the Boondocks. Sarah Reinsel | those nominated for Oscar awards. Lately, Collegian the academy has loved films that feature the movie-making process or celebrate the theatre — look at “Argo,” 2012’s best picture; and “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” which won in 2014. Certainly this is not true in every case, but when a movie that has excellent production quality, a nice story, and features the Magic of Film, it stands to reason “La La Land” will be the next Best Picture. I believe “Manchester by the Sea” deserves the award, and I believe it would win if “La La Land” does not. For those who have not seen it, the movie is an exploration of grief and the toll it takes on humanity. Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams, whom I will discuss later, deliver amazing performances. The writBy | Kate Patrick

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Only something incredible or awful could happen when 60 people cram into the living room of a half-finished house on Hillsdale St. at 8:30 p.m. on a Friday night. But here they are. At an off-campus house called the Boondocks — where blankets cover the windows, and floor lamps illuminate a band crowded in front of a mess of amplifiers and wires blocking off the front door — nine of their classmates are putting on a rock show. With varying lineups, nearly always composed of members of the musical fraternity Phi Mu Alpha, these student bands have played at many school events, including the Student Activities Board Welcome Party and the Phi Mu Alpha Battle of the Bands in the 2016 Fall semester. But the performance on Friday, Feb. 17 was no school event. This is the Boondocks House Show — an unofficial concert put on by students for students. Sophomore Ryan Burns leans into a greasy microphone and psychs up the audience while behind him senior David Johnson tunes his guitar and sophomore Shad Strehle checks that his bass is still plugged into the amplifier. In the far corner, drummer and junior Dean Sinclair opens a window to air the room out. “This is one you’ve all listened to in your car,” Burns says. “Get ready to sing along.” The band breaks into the familiar chord progression of The Killers’ “When You Were Young,” a favorite among student bands on campus. The audience starts dancing, stomping, jumping — and of course, singing along to every word. When Burns belts out the line in the song’s chorus, “He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus,” freshman Ben Garst turns to a printed picture hanging on the living room wall and shouts, “There’s Jesus! It’s him!” Senior Alexandra

Howell, grooving near Garst, whips around to face him and asks if he’ll come to mass with her the following Sunday. Garst declines and rejoins the wild crowd. On the other side of the room, junior Brigette Hall dances while a blue Campus Security hat atop her head sways with her body’s motion. Hall had been designated “the bouncer” before the show — to keep rowdy people out — but in the middle of this Killers’ anthem about love and loss, that joke is long-forgotten. As the band rips into the final chorus, the audience’s fervor rattles a colonnade of empty Pabst Blue Ribbon cans on a shelf above. Someone bangs into the wall and tips over the shade of a glass lamp decorated with the PBR logo. Senior Jake Coonradt, a Boondocks resident, grabs the mic from Burns when the band concludes the song. “Hey, Public Service Announcement,” he says. “The basement is literally made of cardboard boxes.We can totally rock, but jumping around — not so much.” No one knows if he’s joking, and the jumping continues. Coonradt would repeat his plea later when his own band launched into Queen’s “We Will Rock You” — the classic sports arena stompfest. Both Burns’ and Coonradt’s bands — tonight called “Melophobia” and “Quran Quran” — are part of a Hillsdale College students increasing efforts to build an off-campus rock scene. From the very beginning of the show, when junior Heather Woodhouse played “Moon River” on the flute, accompanied by Coonradt on the guitar, attendees were pushing to the

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ing is wonderful, and the cinematography is gripping. The film has the capacity to cause the audience to feel something deep and yet familiar, and I believe all these things justify “Manchester” for Best Picture. Another film that will not perform well despite deserving awards is “Hacksaw Ridge.” The academy still dislikes Mel Gibson, and probably have not seen past his outer flaws and into the depth of his movie. It tells the story of Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to earn the Medal of Honor. Though violent, which is typical of Gibson’s work, it is powerful, and makes the audience wish they had the courage of America’s soldiers. Andrew Garfield, nominated for Best Actor for his performance, will take the category if the academy has forgiven Gibson, but I do not find that likely. In the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, my selections are Affleck and Emma Stone, respectively. Besides Garfield, Affleck’s greatest threats are Ryan Gosling and Denzel Washington. Gosling’s “La La Land” is a movie that sets its actors up for an award, and Washington’s acting was wonderful. Of what I have seen of “Fences,” I saw in Washington a great chance to topple Affleck or Garfield, but I still believe Affleck deserves the award. Stone will win because she performed better than the others, and because “La La Land” has a greater hold on the voters. Though I did not see “Elle,” I did read up on it and watch trailers and clips, and I think Isabelle Huppert played too edgy of a character to perform well. For the Supporting Actor and Actress categories, I pick Jeff Bridges and Octavia Spencer, respectively. “Hell or High Water” itself was not the strongest Best Picture film, but Jeff Bridges — and Chris Pine, who was not nominated for Best Actor — made it worthy of the nomination. Bridges delivered a believable amount of emotion through a tough, Texan law enforcement officer exterior and helped bridge the gap between the film’s comment on big banks and attempt to show how crime impacts us. Octavia Spencer did a wonderful job in “Hidden Figures,” but she is also the best in the category. I believe Michelle Williams, of “Manchester,” did not act well, and have read or heard that the others were not outstanding. If she has competition, it will be against Viola Davis of “Fences.” I would not ordinarily mention Best Animated Feature Film, except to say Zootopia should not win. It is a horrendous film designed to indoctrinate children See Awards B2

GOES ABROAD

What’s the coolest cultural phenomenon you’ve encountered on the road? History Professor Richard Gamble: The Hillsdale group visited a region in southeastern Turkey that you can’t even visit these days. We stopped at a small-town supermarket for lunch. We sat down on the store’s front steps to eat. When the manager came out, I thought he was going to shoo us off his property, but he simply asked, “Tea?” He returned with hot tea for everyone, counted heads, and returned with more.

Senior Jonathan Wolff: Fireworks are a big deal in China, especially around Chinese New Year. However, since the population density is so great, people have to get very creative with their pyrotechnics. I have seen them set off in the middle of the street during a Chinese New Year party and even watched some fireworks explode very nearby while taking off in an airplane.

Senior Katie Kortepeter: “Definitely different beliefs about the way food impacts health. When I got sick in China, my host mom scolded me for drinking a smoothie while eating spicy food and told me the combination of cold and hot foods caused my fever. I’ve worked at a Taiwanese restaurant for seven years, and before we snack on watermelon during breaks, my boss asks me if I’m pregnant and reminds me that watermelon causes miscarriages.”

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Reliving once-in-a-lifetime experiences with study abroad programs

By | Brooke Conrad Collegian Reporter If “you only live once” is America’s best expression for living in the moment, the French have an even better one: “profiter du moment.” “It means to ‘profit’ from the moment, to get all you can from an experience because it’s not going to last,” junior JoAnna Kroeker said after spending four months in Tours, France, at a language school for international students. For Kroeker, the best part of studying abroad was being thrown into

a new environment and seeing how other people lead their lives. Kroeker will share about her experiences in France for the International Club event “Americans Abroad,” along with senior Katie Kortepeter on France, sophomore Lydia Reyes on Germany, and senior Andrea Sommer on Spain. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 23, in the Heritage Room in Mossey Library. Reflecting on her time in Germany, Reyes said that

one of her favorite memories was staying at a cabin in the mountains. “It looked right out at the Alps,” she said. “It just drew your breath away. Especially in the morning when the sun was rising and it just came over the Alps to the top of the mountaintops where there was still a bit of snow since it was still early in the year.” Reyes visited Germany while she was still in high school, through a nonprofit organization called Youth For Understanding. Although

Senior Andrea Sommer, senior Katie Kortepeter, and sophomore Lydia Reyes have studied abroad in Spain, France, and Germany, respectively. Sommer, Kortepeter, Reyes | Courtesy

Elitist from B1 Song: “City of Stars” or “Audition (The Fools Who Dream).” While “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” is a more moving composition that serves as the backdrop for one of Stone’s most powerful scenes in the film, “City of Stars” is hummable and more iconic in its representation of the film as a whole. The award will undoubtedly go to “La La Land,” probably for “City of Stars.” But it is a travesty that none of the gems of “Sing Street” were nominated for Best Original Song. The film, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story loosely disguised as an ode to 1980s rock ‘n’ roll, features original songs based on the main characters’ influences including Duran Duran,

The Cure, The Jam, A-ha, and others. Original song “The Riddle of the Model” sounds like a Duran Duran song, but it’s catchy and charming, and absolutely deserving of Best Original Song. But “The Riddle of the Model” isn’t the only work of art that emerged from the film: “Up” and “Drive It Like You Stole It” are also fantastic contenders for the award, and it’s surprising not one was nominated. Perhaps more outrageous is that “Sing Street” wasn’t nominated for a single Oscar, despite its universal critical acclaim. It’s a fact of life that the Academy insults amazing films every year, and “Sing Street” is just one of many — “Finding Dory,” “Sully,” and “Deadpool,” for example, weren’t nominated for a single award, regardless of their

being an amateur in the language was challenging, especially in learning to maneuver the language’s grammatical “matrix,” as she described it, her communication improved exponentially once she began to learn. “Going there and being immersed in it, without having been trained in the language before, you learn it kind of like a child does,” she said. “The grammar becomes kind of like guesswork, where you have a certain intuition for things because you listen very closely and observe how people say it.” Both Kortepeter and Kroeker were particularly struck by the atmosphere of “détente” in France, which, as Kroeker described it, is “the idea of spending hours in a café smoking cigarettes and drinking your espresso, just talking.” “Americans have this kind of ‘go, go, go,’ like if we’re not doing something, we’re not being us…and that’s time wasted,” Kroeker said. “There wasn’t really time wasted

when I was in France; it was just time differently spent.” Kortepeter also liked the emphasis on leisure in France, the 35-hour work week that allows people to spend more time with family and “get away from the grind.” But she said she also found French culture to be hedonistic in a negative way, and to exhibit a loss of historical and religious consciousness. “I realized the conversations I was having with them were not nearly as deep as the conversations I would have somewhere at Hillsdale,” she said. “French culture felt a little bit like a veneer, you know, like you have this outer shell of beautiful things, beautiful buildings, lots of simple pleasures, you’re with your family, and then when you get underneath, there’s not really a lot there.” Such sentiments about how Americans feel as foreigners abroad are what International Club President Ema Karakoleva said she plans to have the panel represent at tonight’s

event. Over the past two years, a total of 69 students have studied abroad through Hillsdale’s Germany, France, England (Oxford), and Scotland programs. The International Club as a whole is both for American students and non-American students on campus who want to learn about other cultures, Karakoleva said. The club currently has members from the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Israel, Kenya, Ukraine, South and North Korea, and several other countries. Kortepeter knows firsthand what it is like to change perspective on different cultures after studying abroad. “At the [Institut de Touraine], I was meeting people from all over the world,” she said. “It kind of got rid of a lot of stereotypes that I had, and it helped humanize the things that are going on in different parts of the world that I make a lot of assumptions about… now I feel like I can put faces to what I see on the news.”

box office success and critical praise. But perhaps it’s just as well. As “Sing Street” character Brendan (Jack Reynor) insists passionately in the film, “Rock and roll is a risk. You risk being ridiculed.” Every actor, director, and producer risks ridicule by broadcasting their films to the world — and it’s an elite group of critics that chooses who they think is the best. Sometimes it’s more than enough to make it in the box office and receive mostly positive reviews — that means the majority of the public loves the film, even if the Academy turns up its nose. And if a film garners a cult following, well, that lasts longer than one night of Academy fame, and it means more than a shiny trophy for your desk.

Actors, singers, and dancers rehearse for the opening night of ‘Kiss Me, Kate,” only six days away. Top left: Juniors Glynis Gilio and Jonathan Henreckson; Bottom right: Senior Gianna Marchese and sophomore Lane Gaudet. Elena Creed | Courtesy

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From left to right, Oscar Award nominees ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ ‘La La Land,’ and ‘Lion.’ Facebook, IMDB

Awards from B1 into a liberal agenda. That is all. Best Directing will probably go to Damien Chazelle for “La La Land,” but it should go to Gibson for “Hacksaw.” With the film, he made a powerful comment on war and the re-

sponsibility Americans owe to help fight her battles. His portrayal of a character who many would think to be unpatriotic for refusing to fight as courageous demonstrates the universality his messages have. Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) will most likely be “Hidden Figures” or “Fences,” and Best Writing

(Original Screenplay) will be “Manchester” or “Hell or High Water,” though I am leaning toward “Hell or High Water.” The technical awards will most likely be divided among “La La Land” and “Arrival” in the categories where they are nominated.

House Show from B1 front of the crowd, standing on couches, and craning their necks to see their classmates perform — and when the rock started — to sing along. “I love watching my friends play,” sophomore Suzie Peyrebrune said. “There’s more meaning in the music for me when it’s performed by people I know.” Strehle said the house show allowed student bands even more freedom for musical connection with their peers — and in ways that might not be appropriate for on-campus events. “It’s small, intimate, loud as hell, and nobody is telling you what to play,” he said. “There seems to be a pressure to appeal to popular tastes with other shows on campus, but a house show allows for a more raw and enjoyable feeling.” Strehle, already known for his on-campus performances of the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” and Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold

Us,” took advantage of the Boondocks’ no-rules-allowed atmosphere to rap a cover of “Break Stuff,” Limp Bizkit’s 1999 nu-metal anthem about anger issues. “The song is objectively horrible, but I love it anyway,” he said. Other songs on Melophobia’s setlist reflected the free-spirited attitude of the band. Under the guidance of junior Mark Naida’s throaty whine, they played Chicago-based rock band the Orwells’ 2014 anti-war song “Who Needs You,” made famous by lead singer Mario Cuomo’s provocative gyrations during the band’s debut performance of the song on the David Letterman Show. Naida did not imitate Cuomo’s Letterman antics, but instead, he let loose his voice, which at its best sounds industrial sandpaper or a washboard rubbed on a Billy Corgan track. “At a house show, melody is a suggestion,” Naida said a few days beforehand. The band also played the Pixies’

The curtain will rise at Hillsdale College’s Sage Center for Performing Arts on Wednesday, March 1, for the Tower Players’ opening performance of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate! The Musical.” Director James Brandon said that “Kiss Me, Kate” has become a modern classic, a fun musical that is a mix of typical musical comedy themes and Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” “Cole Porter is an amazing talent, and I think that our students at Hillsdale College do an excellent job in bringing his vision to life. The show

“Where Is My Mind,” Alvvays’ “Marry Me, Archie,” and Black Lips’ “Bad Kids” with Naida as vocalist. Burns sang the remainder of their set. Although the show went smoothly, it only came together in the hours before. While Burns, Johnson, Strehle, and Sinclair were practicing the instrumentals, Naida ran into the room wearing basketball shorts and dress shoes, holding a sheaf of lyrics printed out from the website A-Z Lyrics. He hopped on the mic, excited to perform his songs, some of which he had not looked at in weeks. “First I was playing basketball, then I had Tower Light, then dinner, now I’m practicing here — and I haven’t showered in four days!” he said. As the band played, Naida noticed the sound mixing was disproportionate to the vocals, so much so that while the drums, bass, and guitar shook the Boondocks’ living room, he could hardly hear his own voice above the din. “You’re going to need to turn the

is fun, the tone is light, and the songs are catchy. With around 50 students on-stage, in the orchestra pit, and backstage, it is one of the Tower Players’ bigger productions,” Brandon said. Musical theatre combines acting, singing, and dancing, and according to freshman actor Isaac Johnson, who plays the character of Gremio, this means that the audience’s enjoyment will be threefold, especially in a show like “Kiss Me, Kate.” “In this production, you have music and lyrics by Cole Porter, two dynamite performances by Jonathan Henreckson and Glynis Gilio, and jazzy choreography by Phil

vocals up,” he said to his bandmates. “This is a house show — everyone is going to want to sing along.” And while most of the audience did sing along during the show, some complained that they could not always hear the vocals clearly, even after the band turned them up throughout the night. “They just weren’t loud enough,” senior Oliver McLeod said. “But I think that’s in the nature of a house show — although Mark Naida does what he does with his voice very well.” Sophomore Mike Purzycki said he liked how the Boondocks’ slipshod venue — a few amps, some old microphones, and a lock for the front door so people wouldn’t come in that way and unplug the tangle of wires — made the concert a more visceral experience. “I thought it was amazing,” he said. “Even though the house is so small, it felt like a real rock concert because everyone was dancing and

Simmons. It is safe to say that gangsters, sex, and Shakespeare have never mixed so well as in the Tower Player’s production of ‘Kiss Me, Kate,’” Johnson said. Junior starlet Glynis Gilio said she believes this musical is an American classic that has the perfect balance of family friendly fun with Shakespeare’s bawdy humor. “It is honestly the perfect show for Parent’s Weekend,” Gilio said. The Tower Players will perform at 8 p.m. March 1-4 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 5. To reserve free tickets, email the box office at sageboxoffice@hillsdale.edu or call 517-607-2848.

getting into it.” Junior Aaron Andrews, who played the drums for Quran Quran, said playing music in front of a crowd like the one at the Boondocks made him feel like a real rock star. During the band’s performance of “We Will Rock You,” Andrews kept time by beating his free hand on his leg. He hit himself with such vigor that now he has a palm-sized bruise on his inner thigh. Andrews laughed when he said that although the bruise hasn’t turned dark blue yet, he expects it will soon. “I gave my body for the band,” he said. Andrews said performing in front of a live audience means more than just throwing your whole body into the show — it’s about the endorphic rush of performing and becoming a star, if only for a moment. “If ‘cool’ is a real thing, the closest you can get to cool is rocking in front of a crowd,” he said. Sarah Reinsel | Collegian

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B3 23 Feb. 2017 This summer, junior Karl Berg will break ground at Tel Shimron in Israel. Karl Berg | Courtesy

Archeology and apologetics: Junior joins team to break ground at Tel Shimron By | Anna Timmis Collegian Reporter Junior Karl Berg, a history major, has shown interest in biblical archeology for most of his life, working actively on history projects since he was in middle school. For the first time, Berg is traveling to

the Jezreel Valley in Israel for hands-on experience in the archeology and history that has held his passion for so long. “For me, exploring archeology and exploring the past makes the faith come alive in different ways than you might expect,” Berg said. “If Christianity is true, then it will be

grounded in and backed up by archeology.” In July, with the Tel Shimron Excavations, Berg will learn from and work alongside archeology experts from Ivy-League colleges, including Harvard University and Dartmouth College. The team of excavators will be the first

Junior Karl Berg is traveling to the Jezreel Valley in Israel for hands-on experience in archeology this summer. Karl Berg | Courtesy

Wolfram from B4 said. His hands — which, besides Lincoln’s face, are the only parts not covered with clothing on the statue — were the focus, however, as Frudakis shaped the smallscale version of the 7-foottall statue. “It really isn’t miniscule,” Frudakis said. “Hands are so expressive. We use our hands to talk all the time.” Frudakis said he imagined Lincoln’s hands held behind his back as if he were holding a Bible. But he also said their position tells a story of the foundation of his presidency. “Those hands symbolically represented the binding of the union — holding the union together — a bond he literally gave his life to uphold,” Frudakis said. Wolfram said he visited Frudakis, who lives just more than a block from him, at his home studio. He didn’t have to do much, he said, but stand in Lincoln’s pose: his hands

behind his back, head tilted slightly downward, and his right foot a bit forward. But Frudakis, who said the commission gave him an excuse to read from Lincoln and about his character, said Wolfram brought more than his physique to the project. “Like Lincoln, he’s a good storyteller,” Frudakis said. “He reinforced the spirit of Lincoln’s sense of humor and whit.” It is common practice for sculptors to use models for their works, when the sculpture’s figure is not living. Frudakis also secured help from philosophy and religion department chairman Thomas Burke Professor of History Emeritus John Willson while making Hillsdale’s George Washington statue. He said he also had students model for Thomas Jefferson, which he sculpted during the same time as Lincoln. “Working from life can keep the work fresh and give a freshness to the work,” Fru-

dakis said. Structurally and aesthetically, basing a piece off a model can also offer solutions to artists, Frudakis said. Sometimes nature may even have a better design, he said. Finding models can be a challenge, however. Sometimes they are found in the oddest places. California artist Bruce Wolfe was searching for a man approximately 6-feet, four-inches tall and 200 pounds to match the build of Frederick Douglass, who Wolfe is sculpting for the college and is expected to be unveiled at spring commencement. He found Joel Hart. “We were at a soccer game of our granddaughter, and his daughter was playing on the opposing team,” Wolfe said. “I saw him and asked him if he would pose for a Frederick Douglass sculpture. He said sure and came over whenever he could, always bringing cake and goodies. He is a great guy and fun to be

to break ground on Tel Shimron in the Jezreel Valley. “The most amazing thing is that I’ve always pictured all these biblical events taking place in certain scenery and none of my expectations differed from what I saw,” Berg said. “It looked exactly how I expected it to, fitting in place with the Scripture that always lives out in my mind. It was almost a homecoming.” Since he was 11 years old, Berg has been working on a Christian apologetics project focusing on ancient culture. He said his vision is to peel back the layers of time between the modern world and the first century to encourage people to explore the ancient world with first-century eyes. “We skim over at 30,000 feet and don’t get the details,” Berg said. When economy and wealth — common causes for war and conflict through history — are applied to biblical narrative, the familiar stories become more believable. Berg said in the ancient world, the two wealthiest places were Egypt and Mesopotamia. The only way to travel between them without the brutal deserts destroying the caravan was to follow a trade route that hugs the around.” In addition to the model, Wolfe also used photos of the escaped slave-turnedabolitionist, who is believed to be the most-photographed person from the 19th century. Wolfe is now finishing the large clay sculpture to be cast for the final bronze piece. He also sculpted Hillsdale’s Margaret Thatcher statue. She, however, was living at the time, making her easier to sculpt, he said. He said meeting her also allowed him to get a sense of her personality and character. “She was a wonderful human being, I think,” Wolfe said. “She was strong and feminine. Some women have power, but yet, it’s in a gilded box; it’s in a velvet fist. She was that kind of person that had that quality. She knew exactly what she wanted to do. I think [in her statue] she looks assured, confident, at ease with herself.” Wolfram said it was an honor to help with a project

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the most beautiful”) he has to focus completely on the target because there is work to be done. According to Hillsdale College shooting teammate senior Kie Kababik, Dupre has the drive toward international competition necessary to travel and remain focused on success. “Whenever I shoot with Ian, it really brings out a competitiveness because he’s just so into it,” Kababik said. “He’s going to do the best he can every time, and it just makes you want to do the same thing. He really brings out the same intensity in everybody.” Dupre began shooting shotgun competitively as a sophomore in high school, competing through the summer with a high-school team. His senior year, he chose to specialize in international trap, a game outside of collegiate sports. “The attraction was pretty much because it was an Olympic sport,” Dupre said. “I also like the fact that it’s really challenging.” The challenge in international trap differs from the challenge of American trap. In the U.S., competitors go for perfection, he said. In American skeet and trap, competitors — like his teammate Kababik — have to vie for perfect scores to win or make it to a shoot-off. In international trap, however, targets move faster and at harder angles, so hitting every target is tougher. “Shooting a 95/100 is an amazing score that would win you a medal at an international competition, whereas a 95/100 in the states is, ‘Thanks for showing up, have a nice drive home,’” Dupre said.

Mediterranean and takes the traveler north and east into Israel through various mountain passes which converge into the valley. As a result, the Jezreel Valley was one of the most fought-over and developed places. Having control of this trade and military center meant controlling all the wealth pouring in from Egypt and Mesopotamia. Solomon gained his wealth after he grasped power over the valley. He fortified the ancient city of Tel Megiddo, and the gates he built on the nearby mound remain to this day. “Reading through the Bible, we don’t always recognize economic motives,” Berg said. “When we read about the Philistines attacking, we think they’re just the bad guys. But they were actually trying to control this trade spot. Saul and his sons died in the Jezreel Valley fighting to control the trade route.” Kenneth Calvert, history professor and headmaster of Hillsdale Academy, said archeology cannot be excluded from ancient history. “This is a great experience for any student to understand how archeology is done, and to understand what truly amazing things are to be found,” Calvert said. “In-

When Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis scultped the Lincoln statue, he said he imagined Lincoln’s hands held behind his back as if he were holding a Bible. Breana Noble | Collegian

that memorializes Lincoln, an accomplished historical leader and thinker. He added that Hillsdale is lucky to have several remarkable artists like Frudakis working for it. Wolfram said he now en-

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Senior Ian Dupre with his team after a day of training in Lonato, Italy. Ian Dupre | Courtesy

Senior Ian Dupre, his team, and his coach, Allen Chubb, pose with Rodolfo Vigano, a member of the Italian National Shooting team who was teaching a shooting clinic in Sant’Ubaldo, Italy. Ian Dupre | Courtesy

In addition, international trap, especially in Italy, has a much larger following, more ranges, and larger competitions than in the U.S. The sport’s heightened popular-

ity ups the competition, but Kababik said this doesn’t daunt Dupre. “He’s very intense, but very calm,” Kababik said. “Going into the last event,

he knew he had to shoot a certain score to be eligible for an All-American position, and when I asked him about it, he said ‘Well, it’s just going to happen.’”

scriptions, texts, and pieces of ancient lives are to be found.” Berg said his greatest goal is to look into the lives of the ancients as a way of understanding and experiencing the Christian faith. Professor of Classics Joseph Garnjobst spent four seasons excavating in Athens, Greece, and said standing in the famous locations one reads about makes the history real. “To be in those places and see how the actual place operated according to our reconstruction gives it a little more life than one gets from the page,” Garnjobst said. In June 2016, after his 10 years of research, Berg launched a website: fightfinishkeep.org. Berg said his anticipated trip to Tel Shimron will add tangible experience to his vision, allowing him to show the accuracy of biblical narrative through the lens of historical discoveries. “There are a lot of historical finds that back up the Scriptures,” Berg said. “It’s uncanny, and there’s a lot that brings out the reality.You get the little details that really don’t matter in the large scheme of things, but they just add to the full picture.”

for it.” When Sinclair first came to Hillsdale, he knew he couldn’t bring his drums with him, and for the first time since he was 6, he wasn’t sure he would be able to play, according to Naida. “One time he was speaking about how, coming to Hillsdale, he wouldn’t have his drum set,” Naida said. “And he started kind of tearing up over that, that there could be some limits on him doing the thing that he loves to do most in the world.” Sinclair’s head snaps up and down as he plays, keeping time with the music and getting the audience engaged. “I’m doing my best to be a showman, so I’m trying to be moving around and to be as visual as possible,” he said. “The other guys, they get to stand, they get to move around … I’m trying to do my best to get an audience involved, or as hyped as I can from sitting in the back, where it’s probably difficult to see me sitting down.” Sinclair also plays with rock band August Hotel, made up of guys from his hometown near Chicago, Illinois. When Sinclair won a middle-school talent competition for a drum solo, the judges connected him with Ryan Lammers, who took third in the competition for a guitar solo. The judges suggested the two boys jam together sometime, and their parents exchanged phone numbers. The drummer and lead guitarist for August Hotel have been playing together ever since. After working together for almost 10 years, Sinclair and Lammers have an instinctive recognition of each other’s style, Lammers

joys looking out his window to see Lincoln, which he said he thinks is an incredible piece. “But I didn’t check to see if I was in it,” Wolfram said.

said. “We’ll be working on a new song, and we’ll kind of be playing through it for the first time, and figuring out our parts, and we’ll instinctively go for the same kind of feel at the same time,” Lammers said. “We just know what should happen there … I’ve played with other drummers for various things and it just feels weird, because it never syncs up the same way.” The band is currently working on recording an extended play, or EP, a short album which features four songs. Sinclair said he wrote two of the four. Staying involved with August Hotel while at a college more than three hours away has been difficult, Sinclair said. But he still travels home to play for gigs, and is helping to create the EP. “We just have to be conscious of [Sinclair’s travel time] when we’re picking what we’re going to do,” Lammer said. Sinclair’s passion and skill have been a huge asset to campus music as well, Pep Band Director senior Hank Prim said. “His skills are off the charts,” Prim said. “He’s a phenomenal musician to work with, because he knows what he need to do and he knows how to do it. I can ask Dean, ‘Hey, can we aim for something more like this?’ And he just does it … he’s just super in tune to what’s going on and can use his instrument to drive the rest of the band too. His humor is infectious, everyone loves him, and obviously everyone looks up to him greatly because he’s an awesome musician and an awesome drummer.”

www.hillsdalecollegian.com Senior Ian Dupre trained in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at Keystone Shooting Park, the home range for his international summer team. Ian Dupre | Courtesy

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Shooting for the Olympics By | Jo Kroeker Opinions Editor Before senior Ian Dupre takes a shot, he touches the barrel of his Perazzi shotgun to a pad and wiggles his feet. When he’s ready, he puts the gun to his shoulder and leans in. “Pull.” Within a seventh of a second, he aims and shoots at a target hurdling at 70 miles an hour. The clay target shatters, and the shot echoes over the dead trees lining the open field. Four more shots, and then he walks to the next station, wiggling his feet, settling into his groove — one he said took three years of competitive shooting to find.

“I have a very consistent and set routine, physically, and that helps me keep my mental game consistent through the entire round,” Dupre said. “This game is all about focus. You want to do it the same way every time.” In a competition, he’ll repeat the same routine 124 more times. “It helps to be mellow,” he said. For a game that plays intense mind games, Dupre lets off a laid-back vibe. While other shooters try too hard, his coach Allen Chubb said Dupre doesn’t put himself into any kind of contortions. “When you’re with Ian, you could set a grenade off next to him and he’d go ‘Oh, how ’bout that,’ which is a good thing — it works to

his advantage,” Chubb said. “He’s not very emotional, but he’s pretty determined.” It shows: Dupre doesn’t flaunt it, but he’s ranked first of 311 athletes by USA Shooting, the national governing body for Olympic trap shooting. He’s also competed in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France because Chubb — a former world-class athlete himself — said he firmly believes Dupre needs international experience to prepare him for the competitions that lead to the 2020 Olympicqualifying World Championships in South Korea. “The only way you can learn how to win is to be in competition,” Chubb said. “Training is one thing, but

when the pressure is on, learning how to win is something you can only win in a Grand Prix or World Cup atmosphere.” In Italy, Dupre has had the chance to meet and train with Giovanni Pellielo, who is “arguably the best shooter in the world,” Dupre said. Pellielo is a premier Olympic trap shooter who has competed in seven Olympic games and ranked second and third in four of those seven. By shooting and competing abroad, Dupre benefits from what Chubb calls “reverse training”: a way of lessening the initial intimidation shooters representing the U.S. face. He hopes that each trip will facilitate quick

adaptation to a myriad of conditions — weather, lighting, time change, different ammunition, culture, language, and food — for Dupre and his teammates. But Dupre admitted he didn’t need to travel to train in adapting to fickle weather conditions: “Luckily, I’m on a team in Hillsdale, Michigan, so I get lots of practice in bad weather conditions. I do pretty well compared to everyone else on bad weather days,” he said. According to Dupre’s coach, developing an Olympic athlete takes between six and eight years. He said these athletes go through all of this with the understanding that even winning an Olympic

Meet the doppelgangers Models give life to campus statues By | Breana Noble News Editor From his corner-office window in Lane Hall, Gary Wolfram, the economics program director, can look down into Kresge Plaza and see a similar figure to his own: Abraham Lincoln. While sculpting the 16th president of the United States for Hillsdale College’s Liberty Walk, Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis used Wolfram as his model for the statue, which was dedicated in 2009. Frudakis has a habit of borrowing bodies on campus as convenient models for such commissions. “I thought it would be interesting to try it out,” Wolfram said. “How often do you get to model for something?” Frudakis said he looked for a model for Lincoln, choosing Wolfram for his height and “Lincolnesque lankiness,” he

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Junior Dean Sinclair plays drums in five campus ensembles and two student bands. Dean Sinclair | Courtesy

Hillsdale’s own drummer boy By | Emily Blatter Collegian Reporter

Economics Program Director Gary Wolfram was the model for the Abraham Lincoln statue on campus. Breana Noble | Collegian

Junior Dean Sinclair used to drum on pots and pans when he was a kid. While his parents noticed he was playing in time, they assumed that was just something kids did — until Sinclair’s younger brother started doing the same thing, without Dean’s sense of rhythm. “My parents were always

listening to music around the house,” Sinclair said. “I heard noise, so I tried to make noise back.” After 16 years of making noise, Sinclair’s natural sense of rhythm has made him a beloved member of the pep band, jazz combo, orchestra, percussion ensemble, and Big Band. He also plays for rock bands August Hotel and Deaf Davy and the Wineboxes. “Oftentimes, he may have

gold medal won’t translate to a financial boon because they play a less-popular sport. “You want to do it because you want to be the best in the world,” Chubb said. And in Chubb’s eyes, Dupre has the drive to overcome mental, physical, spiritual, and financial exhaustion to accomplish that. Another challenge is overcoming the shock and awe of being abroad. Even though Dupre was surrounded by Italian culture and food (“You can’t get a bad meal in Italy, which is pretty great”) and Swiss staggering prices and natural beauty (“It’s crazy expensive, but it’s definitely

See Dupre B3 never even heard the song that we’re covering,” Deaf Davy and the Wineboxes singer junior Mark Naida said, “And based on the progressions and the rhythms of the guitars, he can pick up what the drum’s supposed to be and oftentimes he’s right. He just has an amazing ear for it.” Rock music is Sinclair’s favorite thing to play, he said. “Say a guitar player or piano player is playing something,” Sinclair said. “I’m not able to make chords and notes the way we think of them, like scale-type things. So for me, it’s much more fun to play with those tonal instruments.” His passion for rock music also inspires his fellow musicians, Naida said. “It’s Dean’s joy that comes through a lot of the time,” Naida said. “As a singer, I’m singing and then I hear him, this whisper in the background because he’s screaming over the drum set, and he knows all the words to all the songs and I never do. He’s one of the greatest musicians I’ve ever met and just has such a love

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By | Chandler Lasch

Describe your style. My style could be described as a mix between comfy/ casual and hipster/ grunge.

Do you have a favorite historical era for fashion? I love the 90s fashion era. Where do you like to shop? I’m a sucker for a good thrift store or small boutique. Goodwill and Buffalo Exchange are my faves. But online or at a mall, I shop at Missguided, Topshop, Zara, and Brandy Melville.

What is your favorite color to wear? Darker, more earthy tones, army green, a deep mustard yellow, or maroon are my go-tos. What is your favorite piece of clothing? I love wearing oversized sweaters and flannels. Anything comfy and cute. Chandler Lasch | Collegian

Who inspires your fashion taste? My sister definitely inspires me most. Chandler Lasch | Collegian