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Hillsdale ranked No. 1 By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief

Hillsdale College was named one of the best small colleges in the United States earlier this month.

In a new ranking from Best College Reviews, an independent college review journal, Hillsdale College topped a list of 50 small liberal-arts schools.

Best College Reviews cited the quality of the student body and academics as a deciding factor.

“Of the hundreds of schools that were evaluated, Hillsdale placed at the top of the list of Top 50 Small Colleges, because Hundreds of people gathered on the campus of the University of it not only met but exceeded Michigan in Ann Arbor to voice their support for ethical science the criteria,” Best College Reresearch. Angie Pytel | Courtesy view Editor Julia McCaulley said in an email. “From the quality and value of the education to its amazing campus atmosphere to its rich and progressive history, Hillsdale really is a fantastic place for students seeking an education that will lead them to a bright future.”

In a news release from Best College Reviews, the organization’s criteria favored institutions with 500-2,000 undergraduate students, the availability of campus housing, the graduate degrees offered, a said despite the negativity, the graduate rate greater than 50 By | Andrew Egger main focus of the rally was sci- percent, a student-to-faculty Senior Writer ence’s positive contributions to Juniors Randi Block and society.

“There was some of that Lauren Barlass said they don’t consider themselves political bashing, but you’re going to people. But when they heard have that anywhere,” Pytel about the March for Science said. “Most of them were just taking place in Ann Arbor promoting the importance of on Saturday, they decided to science and science literacy, just scientists coming together check it out for themselves.

“We read the whole mis- to support one another.”

By | Crystal Schupbach Part of the point of the rally sion statement, and we were was to encourage scientists to Collegian Freelancer curious,” said Block, a biology major. “We didn’t go with signs get more involved in politics, Seniors Bilyana Petkova and and all that stuff; we were in- Pytel said, but with an emphaSheldon Saccoman placed first sis on making a positive conterested in seeing how it would and third respectively for their tribution. play out.” oral presentations at the biol“We need to have more The Ann Arbor event was one of many coordinated representation in senators ogy honorary’s district conmarches across the country on and representatives,” Pytel vention Saturday at Mt. Union Saturday, as concerned citizens said. “It’s good to have some University in Alliance, Ohio.

Petkova earned the Brooks gathered to celebrate science skeptical people who aren’t so Award, the highest honor at and to protest a federal admin- ideological, and we aren’t so the Beta Beta Beta 4-NE Disideological about our science, istration they see as dangerous trict Convention for presenting to science’s further advance- and that would be a refreshing her research on oral bacteria thing. ” ment.

Assistant Professor of Biol- that could prevent tooth deUpon arriving, Block and Barlass said they were encour- ogy Silas Johnson attended the cay. She has the opportunity to aged by the former and disap- March for Science, as well. But publish her work in BIOS, the instead of traveling to Ann Ar- honorary’s scholarly journal, pointed by the latter.

“It was cool to see some of bor Saturday morning, John- and she is entitled to attend the the tenets were bringing sci- son drove through the night honorary’s national convention ence and community togeth- to attend the main rally on the in 2018 at California State Unier,” said Barlass, a biochemis- National Mall in Washington, versity.

The convention honored try major. “There were a lot of D.C. Saccoman for presenting his “It attracted a lot more peopeople there who were local research on the capacity to ple like myself, ” Johnson said. science teachers, things like induce mutations of the acthat — just everyday people “I have colleagues around the tive ingredient glyphosate in standing together for science. country at various other colthe weed-killer Roundup.

He leges and universities who But there were a lot of people that I don’t know if they were traveled out there; there were found that, at a certain concenthere truly for the science — a lot of professional scientists tration, glysophate has properties similar to a known carcinthere were definitely a lot of who went there.”

Johnson agreed with Pytel ogen after examining it with a signs that were just anti-Trump that, despite some anti-Trump comet assay. or even anti-Christianity.”

“Bilyana was an exceptionVisiting Lecturer of Biol- sentiment, the general mood al researcher and did as much ogy Angelica Pytel, who also of the protest was positive. work in three weeks time as attended the Ann Arbor rally, See March A2

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Donald Trump’s budget The Sauk Theatre and the Hillsdale Arts Chorale may have to restructure their budgets, if the federal government decreases appropriations to the arts. A4

ratio of 15:1 or less, a 74 per- miliar with most of the schools cent or higher retention rate, on the list, he said he was satisand tuition costs no more than fied to see Hillsdale in the No. $30,000.

1 spot.

“Retention is an incredible “I do not know enough about 96 percent, and graduates are nearly all of them to judge in known detail,” to be arArnn ticulate said, and suc“but I cessful think p eople,” we are the Best o n e College of the Review best, s a i d . and I “ T h e think Hillsdale w e College have motto, certain ‘Strength qualrejoicities es in the to a c h a l superil e n g e ,’ or deis fitting gree.” indeed.

Best Best College Reviews | Courtesy There is Colno doubt that the excellence of lege Reviews stated it was a Hillsdale education places it “started with the explicit goal at the top of the list as the best of competing with U.S. News small college in the nation.” & World Report as an authorOther schools on the list itative, objective, and editorialincluded nearby Andrews Uni- ly independent college review versity in Battle Creek, Michi- journal,” according to its webgan, and Bethel College in In- site. diana.

Hillsdale College has conAlthough College President sistently placed on U.S. News Larry Arnn said he was not fa- & World Report’s annual Best

College Rankings. In 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked Hillsdale as the 83rd best liberal-arts college in the nation.

Senior Director of Admissions Zack Miller said he was humbled by Best College Review’s ranking and that the honor is the result of a team effort across campus.

“When Hillsdale’s name appears in national rankings like this, it’s really a testament to many things — the students, the faculty, the staff, the curriculum, and so on,” Miller said.

“How those things come together to support and further the college’s mission is pretty special and sets Hillsdale apart from a lot of other institutions.

We see this every day on campus, but it is also nice to see folks outside of Hillsdale recognize it.”

The full rankings can be seen at www.bestcollegereviews.org.

“The word college means partnership,” Arnn said. “All excellence in any organization, but especially in a college, is achieved by people working together toward the goal. We do that mighty well here, and all are to be thanked.”

Students take 1st, 3rd at biology-honorary convention some students of mine have done over a six week period,” biology department chairman Frank Steiner said. “Sheldon is a problem solver and managed, pretty much on his own, to figure out how to get his comet assay to work, as some of the published directions were not very accurate.”

Petkova said she was honored to be chosen and plans to submit her work for publication.

“I’m definitely considering and going to talk with Dr. Steiner about the option of submitting my written thesis as an article to be published,” Petkova said. “Hopefully, I will be able to go to the national convention.”

Saccoman said his favorite part of the convention occurred during the Q&A following his presentation.

He said the audience was surprised to the extent at which glysophate had chemical properties that cause mutations which may lead to cancer and that he enjoyed seeing Steiner in the audience smiling back.

“After we gave our presentations, he told Bilyana and I that we presented like a couple of graduate students,” Saccoman

Senior Bilyana Petkova took first place and senior Sheldon Saccoman placed third at Beta Beta Beta’s 4-NE District Convention on Saturday. Facebook

said.

Each of the students’ presentations lasted 15 minutes and included PowerPoints and animations. The judges provided them with feedback and evaluation sheets, following the awards ceremonies. A poster session also allowed students to discuss their projects with their peers at other colleges and universities in the district.

“It was really exciting to

meet other students involved with Tri-Beta and to see their methods of presenting and compare notes as part of the mission statement of Tri-Beta is the dissemination of science and knowledge,” Petkova said.

Manno to oversee his final campus event with CHP By | Jo Kroeker Opinions Editor When Director of Strategic Services Anthony Manno ’13 graduated and began working as director of student activities five days later, people told him he had big shoes to fill.

But Manno said Assistant Dean of Men Jeffery “Chief ” Rogers told him, “You’ve got your own shoes to fill,” and he thought, “Yeah, I do, and they’re probably bigger than Amanda Bigney’s anyway.”

Three years and four job titles later, Manno will join his father in the family business, Manno Clothing & Tailoring Inc., an upscale men’s wear and full-service tailor in Dearborn, Michigan. At the end of May, he will pass on the responsibility and the wisdom to never Follow @HDaleCollegian

compare yourself to others to Director of Student Activities Ashlynn Landherr ’16, who took over from Manno in January.

“It’s something that has always tugged at my heart, because it’s a family business, it’s a family legacy; there is a lot of pride and love associated with that,” Manno said.

His grandfather, an Italian immigrant, opened the clothing store in 1974. Manno’s father entered the enterprise about 35 years ago at age 25.

Manno’s father, now 62, also didn’t start work with his father immediately. At first, he served as a correctional officer, passing his state police exam and being assigned to Cadillac, Michigan, before deciding to put family first and join his father’s business.

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Striking it on his own, as well, Manno took the job as director of student activities, on Vice President of Student Affairs Diane Philipp’s recommendation in 2013. Philipp said he was a natural for the job from the start.

Manno said he wanted to make sure he wasn’t going into retail because of guilt or a sense of obligation.

“I finally reached that point, just a matter of weeks ago,” he said. “I want to do this — I want to give this a try, I want to give my 100 percent.”

Manno is creative, but he said he likes to see things from start to finish. His goal while working for the Student Activities Board was to bring more legitimacy to the office.

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“A lot of it was related to personalizing and humanizing scientists and connecting science to the public,” Johnson said. “Making science accessible to the public, which I think is kind of an important goal.

A lot of times people think of scientists as these elitist, snobby types who hang out in labs and wear coats.”

For their part, Block and Barless said they are just as committed to fighting the negative stereotypes on display at the march as they are to supporting the science celebrated at them.

“One of the reasons that I really wanted to go to the march and that it was important was to participate in conservative people being in science,” Barless said. “Because if we didn’t go, if we didn’t support it or be involved in it, it would continue the impression that it was conservatives on one side and science on the other or Christians on one side and science on the other. I thought it was important to show that they are compatible.”

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GOAL surpasses meal-packing goal

Students pack 22,000 meals to send to Haitian school By | Nicole Ault Collegian Reporter

Forty-five minutes before the noon finish time, someone hit a gong with a cry: “20,000 meals!”

Approximately 130 students, capped with plastic hair nets and busy assembling meals in the Biermann Athletics Center on Saturday, cheered. In just two hours, they had reached their goal and then some: packaging 22,032 meals, more than enough to feed 80 children in Haiti for an entire school year.

Hillsdale College’s GOAL Program and Numana Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to packaging meals for people around the world, held the event. Numana sent representatives and supplies to the college, and Hillsdale raised the money and gathered the volunteers.

Senior Jessie Fox and junior Zack Schultz initiated the campus-wide project, after visiting Haiti in January.

“For Hillsdale to be able

Senior Hannah Fleming and freshman Celina McGowan help to pack more than 22,000 meals on Saturday in the Biermann Athletics Center to feed all of the children attending a school in Haiti.

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to come together and — just in our student body — raise enough money and bring together all these people here to change kids’ lives and package all these meals is an incredible

Student Fed increases discretionary fund By | Emily Blatter Collegian Reporter Student Federation increased its next year’s discretionary fund by nearly $7,000 to $45,832.64.

The group unanimously approved its budget for the 2017-2018 academic year, during its final meeting of the semester April 20. The discretionary fund finances student organizations for events, trips, and other needs, after funds are earmarked for campus publications, the senior class, student planners, the federation’s operating budget, and a $5,000 emergency fund from its $100,000 budget.

The Collegian will receive $21,533, though the staffing budget decreased significantly after editors’ salaries were reduced to a fourth of their current value.

Money allocated for printing the Tower Light decreased by $1,000, with the recommendation the Tower Light look for a new printing company this summer, reducing its annual budget to $10,700.

The Winona yearbook will receive $21,800 next year, down from $26,500 this year.

Winona Editor-in-Chief junior Anna Eby said the cut will decrease the number of pages in the book and double the price for non-seniors from $5

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2017-2018 Student Fed budget

to $10.

“I’m trying to change a lot of things about how the yearbook runs and operates and do more and new things to get more students involved, but the funding we’ll be getting from Student Fed is substantially less than what the yearbook has received in the past,” Eby said.

“I know Student Fed was really pushing to cut the publications budgets this year, which I understand, but the yearbook took the biggest cuts of all the publications.”

Student Fed unanimously voted to set aside $5,440 to use as its operating budget for the upcoming school year.

This includes insurance and Medicare costs, since Student Fed is classified as a college department, Treasurer sophomore Ross Hatley said.

“It’s a mandated portion of being a department of the college, and the federation needs some sort of protection in case, say, Outdoor Adventures Club would experience some sort of damage or harm during one of their events,” Hatley said. “So that’s a preventative measure.”

Hatley, however, was able to remove the cost of phone lines hooked up to four computers in the Knorr Student Center that Student Fed has funded for the past 17 years.

The sum of money earmarked to buy planners for the 2018-2019 school year was also reduced in next year’s budget, from $5,665 to $3,480, after a survey showed many students don’t use their planners. Student Fed decided to reduce the number of planners ordered from one per student to roughly 800 total. Every freshman will still receive one. Planners to be distributed this fall have already been ordered.

opportunity,” Schultz said.

GOAL had to raise $6,000 to pay for the meals, which consists of rice, pinto beans, soy protein, and a vitamin pack.

Each meal costs 30 cents. The

West said while the Founders disagreed on different policies, they believed government’s role was to secure the life, liberty, and property of its citizens on the basis of consent of the governed.

“The primary means to implement that kind of protection is through a foreign policy that is primarily defensive, meaning discourage people from attacking us and be ready for a fight if they do,” West said. “Second, in domestic policy, the primary way government protects rights is by laws — criminal law, primarily.”

Graduate student Sarah Onken read selections from West’s book in The American Founding course she is taking with him and said it was helpful to see how the Founders’ policies cohered with their theory of justice.

“Dr. West’s understanding of the Founding fosters a discussion as to whether contemporary America holds to the Founders’ conception of justice — spoiler, it doesn’t — and in what ways a conception of justice influences practical politics,” she said in an email.

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West said many scholars do not recognize these fundamental aspects of the Founding, despite being recognized by the Founders and a majority of the American people at the time.

“We’ve forgotten,” West said.

“As a result of the last 150 years of progressivism and liberalism, people have really forgotten the older way of understanding the government.”

When he began his research, West said he thought a lot about the European influences on the Founding such as the works of John Locke.

“I finally realized it wasn’t necessary to talk about where the Founding ideas came from, because we know what the Founders thought,” he said.

“It was all over the place. They published all these documents and declarations and constitutions in which they state over and over again the important things you need to know about politics.”

In 1997, West published “Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America.” While in that book, he explain the liberal misunderstanding of the

final $200 to cover the remainder of the meals was donated during the event.

“It’s one of the smoothest events I’ve worked,” said Morgan Bolander, a Numana event

leader, adding she was happy with how things were going even though only about 130 students showed up, slightly less than the 170 expected.

Numana will deliver the meals to school children in Haiti through Mission of Hope International, a Christian charity that ministers, educates, feeds, provides medical care for, and grows food for people in Haiti, Bolander said.

Senior Alexis Garcia, the GOAL program director, said this project was one of few campus-wide events GOAL has ever held and it was the most successful.

“It’s a good way to get all of campus working for a greater cause,” she said.

Schultz said he hopes events like this will continue in the future and perhaps even get students involved on the ground in Haiti, as well.

“I see this as a beginning point,” he said. “Hopefully, this is an annual thing. We’re just grateful to God that he provided everything for this event.”

When Hillsdale College became

Hillsdale College began printing all students’ diplomas in Latin, in 2015.Natalie McKee | Courtesy

By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter

Graduating seniors who didn’t take a Latin class may have trouble reading their diplomas.

To polish Hillsdale’s liberal-arts reputation, Hillsdale College began presenting its graduates with diplomas printed in Latin starting in 2015.

Director of Academic Services Mark Maier said in the United States, diplomas serve a more decorative and ceremonial purpose rather than a practical and career-oriented one. The professional world values college transcripts over diplomas, because transcripts are harder to fake.

“Transcripts are now the currency we use to prove that we are who we say we are,” Maier said.“There have been times in the past when the college has discovered people who have claimed to have a degree but actually don’t. And usually they would pass that off with a phony diploma — not a transcript.”

Like the diploma, Latin now serves mostly as a ceremonial language — and the school’s

West releases book on Founding Founders’ political theory By | Breana Noble News Editor Professor of Politics Thomas West released his first book in 20 years on April 3, attacking the idea that there was no political consensus of justice at the time of the American Founding.

West has been researching for and writing “The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom” off and on since 1984, around when he became interested in the topic.

“One of the main things that I’ve been convinced of over the years is that there really was a coherent political theory of the Founding,” West said. “That’s a theory that’s widely disputed today. Most scholars, I would say, deny that the Founders had a unified political vision.”

West breaks the book into three parts. The first covers the political theory of the Founding and the final two apply that theory to two major policy areas: citizen character and property and economics.

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Founders, in his newest book, West said, he avoids any type of partisanship.

“It sticks to a much more dispassionately factual description of the Founders’ political theory without worrying particularly about the issues liberals brought up against the Founders,” he said. “It’s focusing on the most important things about what politics is for and how it should be organized.”

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decision to give its graduates Latin-language diplomas is not unusual. Ivy League schools have done so since their beginnings, and recently, some classical schools like Thomas Aquinas University in California and Texas Christian University now are presenting their graduates with Latin diplomas.

Hillsdale embraced the Latin diploma in 2014 for graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. Maier said a year later, the college extended the practice to all diplomas.

“When Dr. Arnn saw what we were doing with the graduate school, he said that he liked it and decided to do all of the diplomas like that,” he said.

To translate the diplomas into Latin, the academic services office asked Associate Professor of Classical Studies Gavin Weaire to update Hillsdale’s 19th-century diplomas, which were written in Latin, for current use. The process took a year.

Recent graduates have found their diplomas serve little practical use, except as Latinate wall ornaments. Chris McCaffery ’16 — who now studies theol-

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justify everything we do here from an activity’s standpoint and how that relates to a liberal-arts education,” he said.

“We provide an atmosphere where you can apply what you’ve learned in the classroom, and you can go out and engage with your community and create new friendships. I hope I’m leaving that.”

Philipp credited him for an amazing job creating and holding events for the college and said she appreciates his dedication, determination, and desire to serve students.

“Of course, he would give all credit to the efforts of those who work alongside him,” she said. “He is humble, faithfilled, loyal and dedicated to his responsibilities.”

It’s true: He credited Philipp for her hands-off, supportive leadership style that pushed his creative freedom, which he said he strives to emulate in his own team.

Because both Manno and Landherr played basketball for the Chargers, they refer to everyone who works for SAB, like junior Jake Kenyon, as team members rather than employees.

“He really encourages us to do our own thing and take ownership of what we do,”

ogy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. — said he did not have to submit his diploma at any point in his CUA application or any application for graduate schools and post-college jobs.

Similarly, Meg Prom ’16, who works as a graphic designer at the Heritage Foundation, said she also never had to present her diploma during her interview process.

At least one graduate, Devin Creed ’15, however, said he had to mail his diploma to South Korea to secure a teaching job there. The school required he send his original diploma in the same way that a passport office requires applicants to submit their birth certificate.

Although he got the job, Creed did not receive his diploma back.

“It was awful,” he said.

Prom said she thought the school’s decision to print her diploma in Latin was a nice touch of professionalism.

“It looks nice on my wall, and I studied Latin, so I guess this is a practical application for my learning,” she said.

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Kenyon said. “He leads with a very light hand, and really, he just makes a point to be friends with everyone that he works with.”

Kenyon recalled first getting to know Manno while decompressing after Centralhallapalooza last year, three weeks into his work with SAB. Manno said he considers CHP, which will be his last event of the year, unbeatable as a favorite, because it reaches so much of campus.

“From our side of it, which nobody sees, you have this sweat, this camaraderie, this hustle,” he said. “People don’t know, but they’re sitting in class next to people working so hard for this.”

Seeing people have fun makes the extra hours planning and long days setting up worth it.

“When we plan, and we put on all these things, and we see people having a ton of fun, we know that it was really well-received. You don’t need a survey after.”

Next year, he said he’s looking forward to participating in school events led by Landherr as a “normal” alumni.

“SAB is in great hands,” Manno said. “There is not a person that is more fit to do this job.”

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Students urge administration:

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College posts job listing for ‘Chapel Hunchback’

‘tear down that fence!’

By | Jimmy Carter Statue Correspondent A group of students is petitioning college administrators to tear down the fence that was erected around the quad and the Ronald Reagan statue last month. The group argues the fence “unjustly divides campus” and bars students from “paying respect to the best president in American history.”

The group, which calls itself the ’89ers, plans to petition the Student Federation for official club status at the federation’s next meeting.

“There is one sign the administration can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace,” acting president of the ’89ers, Donald Feagan said. “I can almost hear the Reagan statue proclaiming it now: ‘Dr. Larnn, tear down this fence.’”

In addition to arguing that the fence wrongly separates the campus and the quad, Feagan also believes it’s an eyesore.

“After all the rain last week, the fence started to rust and the formerly-white curtain that wraps around the outside of the fence is starting to take on a rusty, iron-colored look,” he said.

In an email to the Collegian,

the administration’s chief administrative office Mitch Nae Nae called the ’89ers claims “absurd” and “openly provocative, warmongering speech.”

To ease tensions over the fence, administrative officials have announced a new weekly lottery contest, the winner of which will get to visit the Reagan statue. Starting fall semester, students will be able to put their name in the drawing on Monday, and on Friday the winner will be able visit the Reagan statue for five minutes under the supervision of the Dean of Men Buck Rogers.

But even with the opportunity to visit the Reagan statue once a week, many students still dislike the fence.

“Before spring break, I freely walked past the Reagan statue every day on my way to lunch,” said senior Dee Preston. “Then suddenly, one night over the break, the fence just seemed to appear out of nowhere, and now I can’t see my friend Ronnie any more.”

Preston isn’t the only one the fence has barred from seeing a friend.

“I took a picture with Reagan on my visit to campus as a prospective,” freshman Earnest Freeman said. “Now I won’t be able to show the statue to my

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grandma when she visits at the end of the year.”

Feagan said he has tried to set up a meeting with Larnn 10 times, but so far all of his requests have been ignored. He said he knows Larnn is busy working on the college’s next five-year plan, which he plans to show to donors this summer, but believes Larnn should take the time to meet with him because of the overwhelming unpopularity of the fence.

“I mean, I hate the wall, errr, the fence,” Feagan said, “but I think if I can sit down with Larnn and share the concerns of students with him, we can have a rational discussion about how to improve conditions on campus for everyone moving forward.”

In anticipation of the new Christ Chapel, Hillsdale College administrators said Thursday that they are looking for a dedicated student to serve as the full-time hunchback on the property.

“This chapel is going to be big, and it’s going to be beautiful,” Hillsdale College President Parry Larnn said in campus-wide email. “But it’s truly incomplete without a hunchback. We need a student who will be willing to live in solitude during their four years for the good of our school’s mission.”

The job listing, which was posted by Career Services on Handshake, describes the position as “Perfect for students who want to study in quiet without the distraction of society, friends, or sinners” as well as stating “it is not a paid position, by piety is truly priceless.”

Assistant Director of Career Services Jimmy Squint said he is floored at the number of applicants he has seen so far.

Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find hope as ordained ministers By | S.M. Chapel and HosAnna Kroeker Minister of Features Confessor of Opinions

For three and a half years, Thor D. Wheel felt like a third wheel to his best friend and his girlfriend, who began Hillsdating after spending three hours in Saga discussing how the characters from Oedipus resemble various characters from “Dr. Who.” But Wheel was determined to make third-wheeling relevant, and after his two best friends got engaged earlier this spring, he decided with the couple that he would officiate their wedding. That’s when he began collecting signatures for Provost Yall Failin’.

“When Wheel first suggested the ministry major, I was dubious,” Failin’ said. “But when I discovered that those people had an average 95 percent success rate in matchmaking, I knew they were on to something.”

Beginning in the fall 2017

semester, students will now be able to major or minor in Ministry Studies.

In addition to classes in biblical studies and preaching, the major will include classes in Natural Family Planning, Officiating Wedding Ceremo-

couples,” Wheel said. “The ministry major’s practical side will not just prepare us for the real world, but will also help couples worried about taking the next step feel ready to do so by springtime.”

Some course listings raised

“The ministry major’s practical side will not just prepare us for the real world, but will also help couples worried about taking the next step feel ready to do so by springtime.” nies, and Marital Counseling.

Students can add a John Paul II emphasis, featuring Theology of the Body, a campus-couple favorite.

Seniors in the major are required to officiate at least one wedding prior to graduation in lieu of comps or a thesis.

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eyebrows among certain female students, however, including: On Duties of a Minister’s Wife and Childrearing and the Workplace.

“The ministry department shouldn’t distinguish the roles of students of both genders in such an outdated, patriarchal way,” junior Suzie J. Warrior said. “This major should be an arena in which Hillsdale leads the way toward equality in the church.”

In another effort to be viewed as more inclusive, the Ministry department will only allow one professor per denomination, including one scientologist.

“Just as Christ Chapel is a house of interdenominational worship, the ministry major should be too,” the new scientology hire Elron Hubbard said. “I’m happy to represent my beliefs in the campus-wide denominational debates I’ve heard so much about.”

In order to accommodate the increased number of married students on campus, the school is adding classes on homeschooling and resuscitating Home Economics. The financial aid office has announced special loans for engagement rings, wedding bands, and wedding rings.

Failin’ refused to comment on rumors about a possible M.R.S. degree.

“When Larnn told me to put this out as a student-employment opportunity, I thought he was nuts,” Squint said. “Like, who in their right mind would want to sit in the spires of Christ Chapel for hours on end to ring bells endlessly for the delight of the donors and prospective students?”

But more than 600 students have applied for the position since Larnn’s email, the most in the history of on-campus employment. Sophomore applicant Igor Beaver said it’s a chance to be involved in another on-campus activity and to be a living example of the campus’s mission.

“It’s a chance to give back, and to pay true homage to a school and donors who give us so much,” Beaver said. “I mean, yeah I’m taking 22 credits and I’m president of three clubs student fed recently approved, but this would look so good on my resume.

Plus Larnn really inspired me to give back.”

But it appears that administrators don’t want to stop with just making the campus

hunchback a quiet and secluded student job. Hillsdale Athletic Director Ron Studebaker said that the candidate will also serve as the new school mascot, a part of the marketing department’s new campaign to highlight the chapel’s impact on daily student life.

“Chargers just sounds so outdated,” Studebaker said. “I can just imagine it now, students filling the stands to give praise and prayer to the fighting ‘Hillsdale Hunchbacks.’

That just sounds right.”

Due to the number of applicants, Larnn suggested that Hillsdale benefactor Del Tacco host another one of his famous challenges to weed out the number of applicants.

“They need to have a burning desire to serve as hunchback,” Tacco said. “If you’re in the reflection season of your life, this is perfect.”

Ambitious students have been practicing for the role by scaling Central Hall in between classes and letting out menacing screams over the quad. But, sadly, they were drowned out by the sounds of cranes and jackhammers.

College in desperate need of organ donor By | Faithphilly DeVoted City Inquisitor Hillsdale College administration seeks an organ donor for the new chapel. Chief Administrative Officer Mitch Nae Nae says he hopes the donor has a big heart and a lot to give.

“Once again, the college is in need. We’re just asking for an organ, not an arm or a leg,” Nae Nae said. “Without it, our chapel would not be serving its function. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but without an organ, our chapel would die.”

Christ Chapel, set to be completed sometime between 2018 and 2024, will not only be Hillsdale’s second building dedicated to religious worship but also its second struggle to find an organ. After commissioning College Baptist Church in the 1900s, Hillsdale spent weeks on the organ donor list, but every time a donor came up, it wasn’t a good match.

“We were feeling very

heartbroken. The donors who offered were very generous, but they just weren’t the right type,” parishioner Chief Baw Beese said. “We didn’t think our services could be filled with life if we didn’t have this vital organ.”

Several months later, however, a former parishioner who had named College Baptist in his will passed away from a heart attack, and his organ was installed weeks later.

Architect Stroik N. White said he has left a hole in the back of the chapel in anticipation of a donation. In the meantime, to keep the inside of the chapel clean, he plans to install a vacuum that will suck out dirt and airborne toxins and pump fresh air into the chapel.

“I’ve designed it to be temporary because I know God has a plan for us and have faith that a donor will come through,” White said. “In other words, it’s like a life-support system for the chapel.”

Chapel wedding reservations full for next 10 years By | Breana No-bell Chaplain of News

Student Union and get married at Hillsdale College. It’s a dream come true.”

Following the web page’s When Christ Chapel began launch, students reported a taking reservations for wedsubstantial increase in the ding ceremonies Wednesday, number of proposal announceits schedule filled up for the ment on their social media first 10 years in a matter of feeds as ring-by-spring fever minutes. took hold.

The long-awaited $28.6-milSurprisingly, however, enlion chapel that took four years gaged couples acto fundraise was paid off count for only about in less than four min“I am absolutely thrilled. A quiz on half of the reserutes, after the chapel’s website went live at 7 Facebook predicted I would fall in love vations. The other a.m. Wednesday. More in the Grewcock Student Union and half appears to have mostly come from than 1,500 couples have saved the date for their get married at Hillsdale College. It’s a eager parents of prospective students. dream come true.” big day.

“She hasn’t grad“We knew the space uated from middle would be desirable, but we weren’t expecting such a tering. Renters may not use school yet, but it’s never too early to start planning,” said flood of requests,” Chief Chap- any other food service.

The $18,440 also includes one mother visiting campus el Officer Mitch Nae Nae said. invitations with an embossed with her 13 year old.

“It’s a real blessing.”

Now, with the promise of The chapel likely would eagle design absolutely free for extra income from 10 years of have received even more res- current students and alumni.

Christ Chapel is a two-year reservations, Nae Nae said he ervations, but the website crashed from so much activi- construction project that is is already in discussion with ty. Information technological expected to be complete in contractors about building a services said they don’t expect the spring of 2019. It is 27,000 new dormitory on campus to the site to be functioning fully square feet and can accom- accommodate the extra stumodate a wedding of 600 or a dents Hillsdale will attract with again for another four years.

“I got the spinning wheel of celebration with 1,350 of your Christ Chapel.

“Everything is coming todeath,” one senior said. “It was closest friends.

“I am absolutely thrilled,” gether to foster an even stronlike freshman-year course regsaid one junior, as she showed ger community among stuistration all over again.”

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Speakers from around the country sign on to Hillsdale conference By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter

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County arts programs may suffer under Trump budget By | Katie J. Read Assistant Editor Two organizations in Hillsdale County may have to restructure their budgets if the cuts President Donald Trump proposed to the National Endowment of the Arts in March go into effect.

The Hillsdale Arts Chorale and the Sauk Theater receive funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Because the grants financing these organizations are both operational grants, the money is subsidized by the federal funds in the MCACA’s reserve.

This fiscal year, the MCACA has more than $9.7 million at its disposal, according to MCACA Executive Director John Bracey. From that number, $9 million is made up of state funding, and only $770,000 comes from the NEA, which is federally-sourced money. Bracey said a total of about 10 percent of the grants MCACA awards come from the NEA. “When it comes to this money it’s really about creat-

ing experiences for kids and families to learn to express themselves,” Bracey said. “It’s sending tax dollars back to taxpayers so they can make their square mile the best it can be.”

Hillsdale Arts Chorale Executive Director Greg Bailey said the MCACA awarded them a $7,500 grant, the first from the MCACA the organization has received.

The funding supplements a total average budget of $25,000, and will stretch across two fiscal years.

“This grant enabled us to use other funds within our budget to expand our marketing efforts,” Bailey said.

Sauk Theater Executive Director Trinity Bird said his community theater organization receives a grant of

$12,500. The grant goes toward a total budget of $125,000 and contributes to Bird’s salary.

“For us, luckily, a large amount of our funding does not come directly from the NEA,” Bird said. “For our organization, in times of need, the community has always pulled through for us. I think we’re in a safe enough place to say that we could probably make up the difference, but it may mean switching up the budget.”

Both of these grants are filed as o p e r at i o n a l grants and are subsidized by the NEA. If Trump’s budget cuts are accepted, it is possible that these figures will be diminished when the changes are applied.

Bailey and Bird said their organizations benefit the community by providing creative

“When it comes to this money, it’s really about creating experiences for kids and families to learn to express themselves.”

outlets.

“We have so many people who come in and say they’ve always wanted to be in a play or work on a play. You can audition for a show at any age, or work backstage, or make costumes,” Bird said. “For our audiences, we are a very affordable place to come see good-quality theater.”

Both Bird and Bailey said they remain hopeful that their organizations will not suffer greatly if Trump’s budget cuts are applied, and they also remain confident that their organizations will survive if they are.

“The Hillsdale Arts Chorale is the type of organization that is volunteer based, and it provides the type of music and performance that wouldn’t be available in the area otherwise, other than Hillsdale College,” Bailey said. “It’s rare for a county of 40,000 people to have a group that has survived for this long and is able to provide quality entertainment and repertoire.”

By next October, Hillsdale County residents Jon-Paul Rutan and John Smith plan to host a conference on constitutional thought in the Hillsdale area.

The conference will feature speeches about the Constitution by constitutional lawyer and speaker KrisAnne Hall, of the KrisAnne Hall Show; former Sheriff Richard Mack, who served in Graham County, Arizona; Sheriff Brad Rogers, of Elkhart County, Indiana; and others.

“We want these constitutional people to come in and speak and teach us their knowledge, their history, what they have experienced, and how the Constitution can be put into practical use,” Smith said.

Rutan and Smith just began planning the conference, but they hope to have eight to ten speakers, who will include a member of the Oath Keepers and potentially a gun-rights group, according to Smith.

Mack and Rogers are both members of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. Mack, who heads the CSPOA, claims the power to refuse to enforce federal laws that disagree with the Constitution. Mack also started a successful lawsuit which challenged the constitutionality of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. “I’m the only sheriff in U.S. history to take a lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court and win,” Mack said. “Not too many historians gave us credit, but this was a big step in stopping Brady Bills. It was a big case, and probably the most forgotten and ignored cases which the Supreme Court ever did.”

Rogers came to national attention in 2011, when he interceded for a dairy farmer who was inspected by the FDA for selling unpasteurized

milk. After investigating the case, Rogers warned the FDA that continuing to inspect the farmer’s land without a warrant would result in the arrest or removal of federal agents.

“The sheriff is the law of the land,” Rutan, who ran for Hillsdale County sheriff in 2016, said. “That is why the sheriff is such an important position, and that’s why you better know whom you are voting for. The sheriff is the highest law of the land in Hillsdale County.”

Rutan and Smith say the constitutional conference will not only focus on educating the locals but also bridge the gap between the college and the town.

“Let’s face facts: a lot of townspeople will never be able to leave Hillsdale to go see these people, ever,” Rutan said. “I think the conference is a good thing, a way to start breaking down the barrier between the hill and the town, and a way to bring the Constitution to the people here where a great constitutional college actually is.”

The conference will be funded partly out of Rutan and Smith’s own pockets, and partly out of donations. Currently, they cannot afford the cost of a convention space, and so they hope to hold the conference at Hillsdale College. Smith said they have not contacted the college yet.

If the conference is a success, Rutan says he hopes to make it an annual event.

“It doesn’t matter what political spectrum you come from: once you start understanding the principles, you fall in love with the Constitution all over again,” Rutan said.

“We are hoping to make the conference an annual event, where people will drive here from four or five hours away, where friendships will form, and where the principles of the Constitution will sprout and grow like new grass and travel throughout this county.”

Camp Letterman Field Hospital treated soldiers from both the Union and the Confederacy in the months following the battle of Gettysburg.

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New owner threatens site where Hillsdale County Civil War soldier died By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter When the Michigan Fourth Infantry sustained heavy casualties after the battle of Gettysburg, the nearby Camp Letterman became this largely Hillsdale-based regiment’s field hospital. For several months after the Civil War’s northernmost battle, Letterman treated wounded soldiers from both the Union and the Confederacy. Now, it’s the site of a new struggle.

The Pennsylvania-based housing development company S&A Homes has purchased the remains of Camp Letterman. The company plans to build a subdivision on the historical site in the next few

years. But in an effort to maintain the historic ground, the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association has asked S&A to spare 17 acres for preservation of the area where the Camp Letterman Field Hospital once stood. The GBPA has already preserved eight acres of the site.

“People have been talking about saving Camp Letterman since the 1880s. We originally wanted to make it the entrance of the National Military Park,” GBPA representative Glen Hayes said. “But for a number of reasons it never happened.

This is pretty much our last chance to save the site.”

Hayes said the GBPA has received widespread support for its efforts, which resulted in a petition with 2,000 signatures

aimed at persuading S&A to reserve some of the land.

“We even have a reenactment group in Italy signing a petition,” he said.

The part of Camp Letterman about which the GBPA is concerned once served as a field hospital, where doctors and nurses treated over 4,000 wounded soldiers from both the Union and the Confederacy in the months following the battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863.

Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, said because of its involvement in the battle of Gettysburg, the area where the Camp Letterman field hospital stood is worth preserving.

“Camp Letterman does have considerable historical importance and potential as a place to interpret for modern audiences the ways in which both sides dealt with the vast number of wounded soldiers after major battles,” he said in an email.

Among these wounded was Cpl. David Laird of the 4th Michigan Brigade from Hudson, Michigan, who was transferred to Letterman after the battle. He lay there for two months before dying of his wounds on Sept. 24.

In her memoir, “In Hospital and Camp: A Woman’s Record Of Thrilling Incidents Among The Wounded In The Late War,” the field nurse Sophronia Bucklin serving at Letterman recorded the massive influx of

soldiers like Laird transferred to Letterman after the battle.

“A line of stretchers a mile and a half in length, each bearing a hero, who had fought nigh to death, told us where lay our work and we commenced it at once,” she wrote.

Bucklin took note of the gory conditions and suffering many of the soldiers endured while being treated for their wounds.

“One soldier, in the presence of his wife, was striving to endure with calmness the pain of a fractured thigh and amputated arm. No hands but hers smoothed his pillow, no other could give him nourishment to support life, no fingers were as tender as hers over the throbbing wounds, where worms were feeding upon the living

human flesh,” she wrote of an unnamed soldier who eventually recovered of his wounds.

Private Franklin Stokes, a Pennsylvania militiaman assigned to guard Prisoners of War being treated at Letterman also wrote about the camp in his diary.

“It is heart rendering to pass through the streets and hear the cries of agony that burden the air. I have heard them when I was away from the hospital a half-mile,” he said.

Today however, most of Letterman is either developed land — or soon to be developed land — casting doubt upon whether its historic value will be preserved for future generations.

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Baseball splits with Grand Valley, falls to Concordia By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor After splitting a crucial fourgame series with the Grand Valley Lakers, the Hillsdale College baseball team dropped a nonconference game 9-5 to the Concordia Cardinals on Wednesday.

The meat of the week was the split with Grand Valley, moving Hillsdale to 12-12 in the GLIAC, which places them at seventh in the conference with two weeks to play.

“We needed to at least split with them to feel like we had a good shot at the tournament,” head coach Eric Theisen said.

“Obviously, we would’ve liked to take more than two, but we do still feel like we have a good shot to make the conference tournament.”

The series started on a sluggish note for the Chargers, dropping game one 8-0 at Simpson Field. Grand Valley junior Ryan Arnold was fantastic in the effort, throwing seven innings of three-hit ball. Freshman Jeff Burch had a solid start on the mound, throwing 6.2 innings for the Chargers, limiting the Lakers to four runs over his first six innings of work.

After game one, the Char-

gers honored their three seniors — Joe Chasen, Jared Piper, and Ethan Wiskur — for their commitment to Charger baseball.

“It was nice for the three of us seniors to get recognized for our time here with Hillsdale baseball,” Wiskur said.

“I’m thankful that my parents were there to walk out beside me, because they have been my strongest supporters throughout my entire life and it felt awesome to share that with them.”

Theisen called senior day “one of the more emotional days of the year.”

“You’ve gotten to know those guys over the last handful of years,” he said. “For them to stick around and give their all to the team, there is just a lot of gratitude for guys like that.”

After the festivities, the Chargers quickly found a stride in game two. After the Lakers scored two in the top of the first, sophomore Michael Mitchell tied the game with a two-run triple in the bottom half. At this point, Hillsdale starter junior Phil Carey settled in, blanking the Lakers in seven straight innings on his way to an eight inning performance in which he allowed

three earned.

“Our starting pitching was phenomenal,” Theisen said on Monday. “The two outings from Carey and [junior Will] Kruse were huge, but we got good starting pitching out of our two freshmen, too.”

Sophomore Colin Boerst put the Chargers ahead when he doubled and scored on a passed ball in the third. Hillsdale added insurance in the fourth on an RBI single from sophomore Colin Hites, a bases loaded walk by sophomore Donald Ring, and a two-RBI single from Wiskur. Ring would add a solo homerun in the sixth.

Freshman Andrew Verbrugge recorded the final three outs for the Chargers, sealing the 8-3 victory.

When the teams headed to Allendale, Michigan, on Sunday to finish the series, game three belonged to Kruse and fellow junior Ryan O’Hearn, who earned honorable mention GLIAC pitcher and player of the week honors, respectively.

Grand Valley took a 2-0 lead over the first four innings.

In the top of the fifth, however, a single from junior Alex Walts and a walk from Freshman Jake Rhodes brought

Men’s track makes strides to improve By | Evan Carter Web Editor At the time of year when student-athletes are under the most stress from both end-of-the-year projects and the heightened importance of end-of-the-season competition, the men’s track team posted more solid performances at the Al Owens and Jesse Owens invites this past weekend.

At the Al Owens Classic in Allendale, Michigan, senior Todd Frickey and junior Sergio San Jose Lorza ran 10.74 and 10.84 seconds in the 100-meter dash, coming in fourth place and seventh place in the event, respectively. While the time wasn’t a season best for either athlete, short sprints coach Nate Miller said both athletes had heavy lifting workouts the week before, which decreased their body’s explosive power that’s so important in sprint events.

Miller said Frickey and Lorza weren’t happy about their times, but were happy with their performances.

“Now they’re going to be ready to hit the times they want to hit,” Miller said.

Hillsdale’s long sprinters and middle-distance athletes also ran some impressive performances at the meet. Junior Evan Tandy and freshman David Downey ran 56.66 and 57.17 seconds, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles. In the 800-meter run, junior Nathan Jones ran a personal best time of 1:53.69, placing eighth,

while sophomore Nick Fiene ran 1:55.00.

Junior Daniel Čapek also had a good day, with season-best marks of 48.58 meters in discus and 59.33 meters in the hammer throw.

While he wasn’t able to do so last weekend, Čapek said he believes he’ll be able to throw over 60 meters in the hammer throw before the end of the season.

The standout performance of the meet came from freshman Joe Humes, who ran 15:01.67 in his first collegiate 5000-meter run, placing third in the race. Humes’s time is the team’s fastest in the event this year, though senior Joe Newcomb ran 14:42.10 in the event during the indoor season.

Also impressive is the fact that Humes, whose primary event is the 1500-meter run, ran the race in training shoes, and not racing spikes, which weigh less and have better grip on the track.

“I’ve come to realize that every race is going to hurt and that one just hurt for a long time,” Humes said. “The goal of the weekend wasn’t really to run a crazy-fast 5K, it was just to train. So I was in my flats, and I still needed to get my long run in after [the race].”

At Gina Relays, which the college is hosting this weekend, Humes hopes to run a time close to 3:50 in the 1500-meter run.

The men also ran a number of solid performances at the Jesse Owens Track Classic in Columbus, Ohio. Se-

nior Ty Etchemendy ran a time of 55.03 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles, and in the 800-meter run, sophomore Tanner Schwannecke ran a time of 1:53.99. Senior Caleb Gatchell placed seventh in the 1500-meter run with a time of 3:50.59.

Newcomb was sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:19.69. His two steeplechase performances this season have been about 20 seconds slower than his personal best time last season, and Newcomb said there’s still a lot of work he can do in the event. In spite of this, Newcomb is confident he can drop his time down to where it was last outdoor season, and potentially qualify for the national meet at the end of May. “Of course the Gina magic should help [this weekend],” Newcomb said. “Even with the times I’ve run so far, I still think I should be All-American in it. Last year I was ranked eighth going into nationals with my time, so I feel like I’m better before last year.

It just hasn’t happened yet.”

This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the Track and Field Team will host the 51st Hillsdale College “Gina” Relays at the Ken Herrick Track in Muddy Water’s Stadium. Gina Relays is the largest meet hosted by the track and field program every year and this year for the first time ever, the meet will be streaming over the internet for those who have an account with the track and field broadcasting company Flotrack.

O’Hearn to the plate, who gave the Chargers a 3-2 lead with a three-run home run.

“Ryan O’Hearn, man. It’s crazy how you can change the game with one swing of the bat,” Theisen said. “That was huge from him.”

Hites added one more run for the Chargers in the top of the seventh with an RBI single.

Kruse continued his impressive season, tossing all seven innings, while allowing only two runs — one earned — and striking out a career-high 11 batters.

“Being my third year, I’ve been able to get significant innings, which has let me start to put some stuff together,” Kruse said. “I just have a mindset of competing against guys, thinking my stuff is better than what the hitters have, and then trying to win every pitch and every at bat.

In the series finale, the Chargers got off to a 2-0 lead in the first three innings, but failed to push any more runs across. The Lakers plated three runs in both the fifth and the seventh to bring the game to it’s 6-2 final.

Freshman Kolton Rominski started the game for Hillsdale, allowing three earned over 4.1 innings of work.

“To be honest, this weekend was probably the best all-around baseball we have played all year,” Theisen said of his team after the weekend.

“We did look like more of a veteran team.”

After the weekend, the Chargers hosted Concordia for a single game on what proved to be a tough night for Hillsdale.

The Chargers and the Cardinals each pushed one run across in both the first and second, with Wiskur and Hites driving in runs. After Concordia added two runs over the third and the fourth, sophomore Donald Ring tied the game at 4-4 with a two-run home run. Rhodes gave the Chargers their lone lead of the game later in the inning with an RBI triple.

The Cardinals took the lead for good with two runs in top of the sixth, before adding three more over the final two frames. The Chargers were hampered by five errors over the course of the game.

Burch started the game for Hillsdale, hurling 5.1 innings in which he allowed six runs, although only four were earned. Redshirt-freshman Joe Hamrick took over in relief, tossing 2.2 innings, allowing

only one unearned run.

Theisen expressed frustration over the Concordia game and said his team needs to improve before its crucial fourgame set with the last-place Lake Erie Storm on May 6-7.

“If we’re not careful next week, we will go into Lake Erie and do the same,” he added.

The Chargers, who sit at 12-12 and seventh place in the GLIAC, will have an off-weekend before traveling to Lake Erie.

For now, the Chargers are left to preparation and scoreboard watching, as they hope the first-place Northwood Timberwolves take care of business against Ohio Dominican. The Panthers currently hold the final tournament spot at 13-10 in GLIAC play, and will host fourth-place Tiffin on the final weekend of conference play.

“We’re rooting for Northwood. The more games they can take from Ohio Dominican the better.” Theisen said.

“But we can’t do anything about it. We’re just watching. Everybody else has eight games left and we will see how it unfolds.”

Pietila becomes GLIAC champion By | Joshua J. Paladino Collegian Reporter

Sophomore Joel Pietila is the first-ever GLIAC Golf Championship individual winner for the Hillsdale College golf program.

In what was a rough weekend for the entire field, Pietila took the victory by shooting a four-over-par 220. He bested the second place finisher by two strokes.

“Obviously, Joel is a tremendous player,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist said. “You can’t win at this level without being great.”

The golf team took seventh place in the GLIAC Golf Championship. The team shot 928, leaving them 38 strokes behind the winner, Grand Valley State University. The tournament was played from Friday, April 21 to Sunday, April 23 at the Virtues Golf Club in Newport, Ohio.

Sophomores Liam Purslowe, Andrew Grayson, Peter Beneteau and junior Joe Torres also competed in the tournament.

Torres shot 229 and tied for 20th place as an individual.

“Joe had a pretty solid showing,” Gilchrist said. “He plays with no fear, and he is a lot of fun to watch move around the golf course.”

Over the three-day tournament, Pietila shot 72, 76, and 72.

“I knew I’d be close, but I didn’t think that number would win it,” Pietila said.

The score ended up being enough for the victory, due to

the tough conditions.

Pietila said that while the individual victory is “really cool,” it’s not his focus.

“What I’m really excited about looking forward is a team victory,” Pietila said. “It’s way more important for me.”

Gilchrist agreed.

“Even as great as Joel’s victory was, I think everyone would have liked to finish with a chance to win the championship.”

This was the last GLIAC Championship for the golf team, since Hillsdale is switching to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference next year.

Pietila said the team is really excited about the switch.

“It gives us a better chance to win. We feel like we can compete with Grand Valley, but we just don’t have the same resources they do,” Pietila said.

Joel Pietel made history this weekend when he became the first Charger to win the GLIAC men’s golf individiaul championship.

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“This gives us better chances to make it to super regionals.”

Gilchrist said the team will approach golf the same next year, despite the change.

“Nothing will change on our end, we will still prepare and work hard for every tournament,” Gilchrist said. “The players will improve their weaknesses and maintain their strengths.”

Pietila said the team would have needed to take first place in the GLIAC Championship to make super regionals this year, but they fell short.

While Pietila said he hopes for more victories as a team, he is happy with what he won last weekend.

“If I don’t win anything else after this, then I’m still eternally gratefully,” Pietila said.

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SOFTBALL SECURES SPOT IN FINAL GLIAC TOURNAMENT By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College softball team secured a spot in the GLIAC tournament in an increasingly competitive conference after splitting with the Ashland Eagles and the Ohio Dominican Panthers and ending their final home game of the season with a 9-3 win. The games put Hillsdale at 13-7 in the conference and 25-20 overall.

The Chargers dropped game one to Ashland 4-1, the only run coming from senior centerfielder Bekah Kastning’s solo home run. Hillsdale was unable to regain the lead, but freshman pitcher Alexis Newby held the Eagles to zero runs in the final three innings of the game.

Though Hillsdale came back to win game two, it was just as close. Neither team scored runs until the sixth inning, when Hillsdale put two on the board. The Eagles answered with their only run of the game before a double from sophomore left fielder Katie Kish scored junior third baseman Jessica Taylor in the top of the seventh for a final score of 3-1.

On the mound, freshman

Erin Gordon pitched five in the nightcap, shutout innings for the scoring three runs win, and freshman pitcher in the top of the Dana Weidinger got the first. Sophomore save. Offensively, junior second baseman third baseman Kelsey GoAmanda Marra’s ckman went 2-for-3 with a single scored Kastwalk, and Kish went 2-forning, followed by 4 with an RBI. a two-run single “When we’re playing from freshman any of the top eight teams shortstop Sam in the league, it’s hard beCatron. The Charcause everyone’s so equal gers scored two that anything can happen more runs in the in any game,” head coach top of the sixth Joe Abraham said. “It’s no off singles from coincidence that you keep freshman catcher getting these splits, because Sydney San Juan the teams are so evenly and freshman first matched.” baseman Shelby Sunday, Hillsdale honSprouse, giving ored its three senior team the team a 5-0 members — Kastning, lead. The Panthers’ catcher Cassie Asselta, and answered with a pitcher Kyra Rodi — before three-run home their final collegiate home run to narrow the games. Though Hillsdale gap. dropped game one to the The Chargers Ohio Dominican Panthers pulled away in the 4-1, it was still a game for top of the seventh the books: Kastning, who when a two-out, went 2-for-3 in the effort, Senior centerfielder Bekah Kastning broke the school record for single-season hits bases-loaded sinbroke the school record for when she laid down a bunt in the Chargers’ first game against Ohio Dominican. gle from San Juan single-season hits with a Sarah Klopfer | Courtesy scored Kish, and a bunt single in the first in3-RBI double from to win every game, you can opportunity,” Asselta said. ning which brought her to Sprouse scored San 77 hits. Gockman and Kish at least make the adjustments “That’s exactly what we did Juan, Catron, and Marra for a each went 2-for-3 in the game. you have to make and become game two on Sunday.” final score of 9-3.

The Charger bats came alive “Even if you’re not going the better team in your second “Six to three, we were in

good shape,” Abraham said.

“Five to three was making me nervous, but when Shelby hit that double, that was it.”

On the mound, Weidinger got the win in seven innings of work, allowing only three runs total and striking out one. Offensively, three-quarters of the batting lineup had a two-hit game.

“It was really good to see that we have a lot of fight in us, and we can battle through to get a win, especially in that second game against Ohio Dominican,” Weidinger said.

“We all just stepped up and came together. Throughout the lineup, everyone came in and had some clutch hits” Tomorrow, Hillsdale will face Wayne State for the final conference doubleheader of the regular season, determining the team’s position heading into its final GLIAC tournament.

“Depending on if we win, lose, or split, it’s going to have a pretty big effect because we’re all neck-and-neck, the entire conference,” Asselta said. “I think it’s the closest I’ve seen it in my four years.”

Hillsdale and Wayne State are both 13-7 on the conference season, and are currently tied for third in the GLIAC.

FRITSCHE NAMED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH By | Tim Pearce Assistant Editor

Matthew Fritsche was named Hillsdale College’s seventh head women’s basketball coach on Tuesday. Fritsche joins the Chargers after serving four years as the assistant women’s basketball coach at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

During his tenure at Creighton, the lady Bluejays made the Division-I NCAA tournament every year from

2014-2017 and had an overall record of 78-54.

Fritsche graduated from the University of Nebraska-Kearney with a degree in education in 1999. He went on to receive a Master’s of Education in Educational Leadership from Doane College.

In 2001, Fritsche began a 10 year stint as head varsity girls basketball coach for Bellevue West High School in Nebraska. He led his teams to four state championship appearances, winning the title game

in 2007, 2009, and 2010. From 2009 to 2011, Fritsche won coach of the year awards from nine different organizations in Nebraska.

Fritsche was the head women’s basketball coach at Midland University for one season before joining the coaching staff at Creighton.

Hillsdale College athletic director Don Brubacher said Fritsche has three key qualities that made him the best candidate: an understanding of and willingness to carry out

Women’s track prepares to host 51st Gina Relays By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Reporter

ally fun to race with her.”

Because Oren’s main event is the 3000 steeplechase, running the 1500 this weekend was just for training purposes.

She will be running her event of choice at the Gina Relays with her sister, Emily Oren, and Allysen Eads. The Orens are seeded in the top two for the meet this weekend. Molly Oren is excited to run with her sister again and be pushed by her competition.

win steeple at nationals as this is her last season.

McIntyre said of the race, “It was really fun. It was the last This weekend, the Hillsrace that Molly and I are ever dale College women’s track going to get to run together and field team competed at the which is kind of a big deal be2017 Jesse Owens University cause we’ve been running toClassic at Ohio State Univergether for my entire time here. sity and the GVSU Al Owens In that way it was special but it Open. The weekend was mostjust went well — my strength ly about getting ready for the is the middle of the race and Gina Relays which the CharMolly just has a great kick, so gers will host this weekend as it just played out nicely.” the biggest meet in Hillsdale McIntyre explained history. the training strategy for “Right now, as a full the distance squad. team, we are happy with “With distance events, where things are,” disit does make a difference tance coach Samantha how you train for the week Kearney said. “We call if you don’t race,” she said.

Gina’s week ‘the first part “To pop off a great 5k at phase of championship the end of the season it season.’” helps to have had at least At Ohio State, sophoa couple weeks that were more Allysen Eads took just training-heavy and sixth in the 3000-meter you really can’t do that steeplechase. Running a when you’re racing every 10:46.02 — her season weekend.” best and not far from McIntyre will be runher personal record. This ning her race of choice provisional performance — the 5k — this weekend. put Eads on the national She said she plans to run list and ranks her 24th in the race without a specific the country. goal in mind for nationThe 4x400 team of als. senior Allison Duber, The Chargers will use juniors Tori Wichman the Gina Relays to preand Ashlee Moran, and pare for nationals and freshman Lorina Clembuild confidence for the ence took fourth. The athletes who are already team met the provisionqualified for the national standard, running a al meet. Others who are 3:48.52, and is ranked right on the cusp will 16th nationally. take advantage of getting Junior Alex Whitford experience in high levagain met the provisionel competition, Kearney al standard in the pole said. vault with her jump of “Indoor was a good 12 feet, 2.75 inches. She learning experience as is now ranked third naSophomore Allysen Eads took sixth in the a whole for some of our tionally. women, especially seeing Senior Molly Oren and 3000 steeplechase at Ohio State. girls like Duber make it in junior Hannah McIntyre Todd Lancaster | Courtesy an individual event for the both met the provision“Steeple is really fast this first time,” Kearney said. “We’re al standard in the 1500 at the GVSU Al Owens Open. The year at the national level,” excited to see people learning duo took third and fourth re- Oren said. “Seven people have from the indoor experience at spectively. Oren ran a 4:31.17 [met the automatic standard,] nationals and improving upon and McIntyre was close be- which is a lot more than nor- that for outdoors — especially hind with a 4:31.59, both per- mal. So, originally, I was going for the women’s DMR. They sonal bests. They are ranked to run a 5k at Gina’s, but since were able to really gain confi25th and 28th in the event it’s really fast, I wanted to get dence from indoors. being the nationally though neither of another steeple under my belt. last one in but still All-Amerthem plan on running it again This meet is just to remember ican — an underdog kind of how to run steeple again and feeling.” in the future.

“I hadn’t run the 1500 since hopefully run a faster time to freshman year so I just went in practice for GLIACs and nawith the goal of sticking with tionals.”

Oren’s goal is to ultimately Hannah,” Oren said. “It was re-

the mission of the college, the ability to provide a great experience for his student athletes, and the expertise needed to win games.

“We have high hopes,” Brubacher said.

Although Fritsche and his family are moving from a Division-I program in Omaha, Nebraska, to rural Hillsdale with a population of less than 10,000, he is looking forward to the new setting and believes the whole change to be a net positive.

“I wouldn’t even call it a move down. I would just call it a move up for my family cause I wanted to be a head coach and I wanted a small town.

Division-II is just a little more family friendly as far as our summer access and things like that are concerned,” Fritsche said. “I think I could be a really good dad and a really good coach at the same time at this level.”

TENNIS FINISHES FOURTH IN GLIAC TOURNAMENT By | Scott McClallen Collegian Reporter

In the program’s second year of competition, the Hillsdale College men’s tennis team finished fourth in the GLIAC tournament after a 1-2 weekend in Midland, Michigan. The Chargers edged out No. 4 seed Wayne State University 5-4 on Friday evening in the GLIAC quarterfinals before falling to No. 1 seed Ferris State on Saturday and No. 2 seed Grand Valley on Sunday.

On Friday, Hillsdale won two doubles and three singles matches to gain the first postseason win in program history.

Sophomore Justin Hyman picked up a No. 1 singles win 6-2, 6-4, and teamed up with freshmen Charlie Adams — who won No. 2 singles 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 — to win at No. 1 doubles 9-7. Freshman Milan Mirkovic was a No. 3 singles winner 7-6, 6-3. Junior captain Dugan Delp paired up with sophomore John Ciraci to win at No. 2 doubles 8-5.

Hyman’s was against Matt Westkamp, who was named GLIAC Freshman of the Year, was crucial to the 5-4 decision.

“At one point, Wayne State was up 4-2, and there were three close matches on,” Delp said. “All they needed was one of them, but we got all three.”

Head coach Keith Turner said he was satisfied to avenge a 5-4 season loss to the Warriors.

“We had a good regular season, and we accomplished so

many goals,” Turner said. “To upset the No. 4 seed and to win a main draw round was great.”

The Chargers fell to Ferris University 5-1 on Saturday morning.

Adams and Hyman paired up to win at No. 1 doubles to beat freshman Till von Winning and sophomore Steward Sell, who are ranked as the 16th doubles team in the nation for Division II. The Chargers dropped two doubles and three singles matches to seal the Ferris victory. Mirkovic, Adams, and Hyman’s matches were left on the court, following GLIAC tournament rules.

“Even though we lost, it was encouraging that our loss margin shrunk by a lot,” Delp said.

“If we have to lose to anyone, we’d like it to be to the eventual champions.”

The Bulldogs — ranked 15th in the country — advanced to win the GLIAC tournament for the second consecutive year.

“Ferris blew us out 9-0 earlier this season when we had injuries, but this time, we made them work for it,” Turner said.

The Chargers fell to Grand Valley State 5-2 on Sunday morning resulting in their fourth-place finish in the tournament.

Adams won at No. 2 singles 7-6, 7-4, 6-3, and paired with Hyman for a No. 1 doubles win 8-3 against the sixth ranked doubles team in the Midwest.

“Even though we lost 5-2,

all the matches were tight,” Hyman said.

Turner said that Adams and Hyman, who went 13-2 at No. 1 doubles this season, may receive a regional doubles team ranking in May for their performance against Ferris and Grand Valley.

Adams, Mirkovic, and Clouette were named Second-Team All-GLIAC. Delp was also awarded All-GLIAC honorable mentions.

Hillsdale finished 13-10, more than doubling their wins from last year, while also finishing above .500 in conference play.

“Our team really showed everyone else out there that we can compete with anyone,” Hyman said. “I was really proud everyone showed up and gave 100 percent effort and showed great sportsmanship.”

Turner said that he was satisfied with the team’s progress this season.

“To go from ninth to fourth place is an amazing accomplishment in two years,” Turner said.

Turner said he signed a freshman recruit from Argentina, and that Hillsdale should be the favorite to win the GMAC conference next year.

“We competed well, especially as a second year team, and our placing gives us momentum moving into the new conference,” Delp said. “We have a chance to be really competitive, and hopefully to win the championship next year.”

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Opera, English essays, and the arts: Music makes the life of the mind melodious By | Katie J. Read Assistant Editor

When I sang through a series of warmup exercises with Voice Professor Missy Osmond for the first time as a freshman, I had one goal in mind: I wanted to sing like the women on Broadway, the stars who dig deep into their chests for those lusty strains of melody familiar to anyone with an ear for a show tune.

Three years later, after easing my voice up and down hundreds, maybe thousands, of scales, and working my vocal chords through six semesters’ worth of music, I’m no closer to my goal than I was that late-August day when Missy sat down at a piano bench to plunk out a few notes and guide me through my first lesson. I’m about to finish my junior year, and I’m confident that I’ll never belt “Defying Gravity” from Wicked outside of my shower, and I’ll never scream those ungodly notes at the end of “Phantom of the Opera” in public, which is probably good for, you know, humankind’s sake.

But I do have something to show for the effort: I discovered that I love to sing opera. It’s a bizarre hobby for any young, hip-hop-happy musician to pick up as a Broadway sweetheart wannabe, but this stuffy, high-class art has my soul. And while this unexpected love affair still bewilders me, I’m even more surprised to report

that opera has made me a better stu- ly-soundproofed practice rooms sy gave me harder pieces, and I fell dent. lining the basement of Howard Mu- in love with the freedom of my arias, When I took Western Heritage as sic Hall. Embarrassed by the lack of solo movements plucked from fulla Hillsdale initiate, my main concern control in my voice, I put my back to length operas. On stage, in the stuwas scraping together enough in- the glass windows embedded in the dio, or down in the dank basement formation to trick Dr. Gamble into doors of the practice rooms and sang of Howard, I became a desperate believing I had been able to process, until I forgot my neighboring musi- woman pleading with God to spare let alone analyze, anything from the cians could hear me. I was bad, but I her lover, or a young Juliet crying out assigned reading. It was the same didn’t care. I respected the literature to her Romeo, or a distressed daughthing with Great Books — Dear Dr. Missy entrusted to me and sought ter begging her father for forgiveJackson, please know I at least tried to honor it and its genius composers ness. Because I believed in the truth to grasp the point of Dante’s trek with excellent performances. Mo- behind the stories and the beauty of through the underworld as I made zart, Puccini, Strauss — I just wanted the music, I worked hard to keep my my own journey through the trials of to do them right. voice and my body in the best shape freshman year. I was a young, inexAs the semesters passed, I began possible to give myself a chance when perienced student with good inten- to take chances with my music. Mis- I took the stage. Soon enough, I was tions back then, just organizing my schedtrying to make deule around getting in cent grades with the bed before midnight so few smarts God gave I could get up before 8 me and all the effort I a.m. to stretch out and could muster. loosen up physically.

Opera was differLater in the day, I’d hit ent, though. I started the practice rooms to out with the basics, ease my vocal chords singing straightforinto the day’s rehearsward songs every als. I was committed soprano uses at the because I loved it — I beginning of her would have done anytraining. When I rething for the music. alized I could make When I started something beautiful singing opera, I finally if I practiced hard knew what it was like enough, I penciled to be passionate, and rehearsals into my then to take that pasplanner, preparing for Scheu performs in a scene from Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ with voice sion, pair it with talent lessons in the poor- professor Luke Bahr in March. Elena Creed | Collegian and hard work, and proly-ventilated and hardduce something worth

‘13 Reasons Why’ not to make a Netflix series Popular Netflix show discusses mental health issues, but may glorify the stereotypes By | Jordyn Pair

Assistant Editor

Joining the ranks of shows like “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the television adaptation of the book “13 Reasons Why,” by Jay Asher, was released as a Netflix original series late last month. The show follows high school student Clay Jensen, played

by Dylan Minnette as he listens to 13 tapes left by his friend and crush Hannah Baker, played by Katherine Langford, who recorded them before she committed suicide.

In the tapes, Hannah addresses people she felt played an integral role in her decision to take her own life.

Although the show has quickly risen to popularity, it has also garnered protest from those that say it glorifies both suicide and mental health issues and portrays them in an unrealistic way.

“13 Reasons Why” is a 13-episode, one-season series. Although rated mature, the show itself plays like a typical fluff high school movie —unrealistic and full of stereotypes. The students’ clothes are too nice, their cars are too expensive, and their homes are too big to reflect anything other than a rich suburb, although the show seems to want to mimic an average high school. All the jocks wear varsity jackets and the nerds are extra bookish.

In addition to most of the actors appearing older than high school age, with the exception of both Minnette and Langford, who look closer to the appropriate age, the show adds a thick layer of drama to everything.

Brooding looks and heavy foreshadowing are spread throughout the episodes. Although it adds suspense, the entire show smacks of falsity.

One of the highlights of the show, however, is how it weaves together the past and the present. The plot relies heavily on the use of flashbacks, and the show does a phenomenal job integrating them into the current events.

The popularity of the show is not without its problems, however.

“It seems to paint suicide as a way to get back at people, which is not very realistic,” Director of Health Services Brock Lutz said in an email.

“I’ve worked with many patients who have attempted suicide, and very few, if any, tried to kill themselves to get back at others.”

Schools are issuing warnings about the graphic content of the show, which includes scenes of sexual assault and Hannah’s suicide.

“There is a copycat nature to these kinds of things,” Lutz said. “Friends or family members who have a close loved one who has committed suicide are several times more likely to attempt suicide. The same goes for those who watch extreme violence;

“I think if the film wanted to add to the discourse on this subject in a helpful manner, they should have added a PSA at the beginning of each program that gives the number for the national suicide hotline or other numbers for help,” Lutz said. “That, to me, just misses the mark and is irresponsible, especially given that the audience is mainly teenage population.”

Still, with its perfectly-integrated flashbacks and gorgeous cinematography, “13 Reasons Why” could be the lens through which to start discussions. The slightly unrealistic air to the show helps separate it from reality, possibly making it easier to digest.

Sheff said talking about suicide is the best defense against it.

“I’m proud to be a part of a television series that is forcing us to have these conversations, because silence really does equal death,” he said.

“We need to keep talking, keep sharing, and keep showing the realities of what teens in our society are dealing with every day. To do anything else would be not only irresponsible, but dangerous.”

“The television adaptation of the book ‘13 Reasons Why,’ by Jay Asher, was released as a Netflix original series late last month...

Although the show has quickly risen to popularity, it has also garnered protest from those who say it glorifies both suicide and mental health issues and portrays them in an unrealistic way.”

they are also more likely to attempt suicide.”

In a column published on Vanity Fair, however, Nic Sheff, the writer for episode six of “13 Reasons Why” said Katherine Langford stars in the controversial the show was “relevant Netflix show about a young teen who and even necessary.” committed suicicde. Imdb “I saw the opportunity to explore issues of cyberbullying, sexual assault, depression, and what it means to live in a country where women are devalued to the extent that a man who brags about sexually assaulting them can still be elected president,” he said.

“And, beyond all that, I recognized the potential for the show to bravely and unflinchingly explore the realities of suicide for teens and young adults — a topic I felt very strongly about.”

If the series wanted to prompt discussion, however, they could have done it differently, according to Lutz.

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sharing. Suddenly, my work up the hill didn’t seem so impossible anymore. Through opera, I had learned to love great works, to take them into my soul and really learn them before I stamped them with my own ideas and turned them into professors for evaluation. As a sophomore, I treated my Great Books term paper for Dr. Jackson like an aria. I internalized “Death of a Salesman” like I would a song — a sight reading, an in-depth look at smaller sections, a piecing together of a narrative with consideration to all the little details that made it shine. Soon I had a paper, just like I had a performance.

In two weeks, I’ll perform alongside another winner of Hillsdale’s concerto competition with my peers in the college orchestra for their final concert of the school year. This finals week will be a challenge with the added stress of protecting my voice, but I know I’ll be satisfied when I sing Puccini’s “Vissi D’arte” and Strauss’ “Klange der Heimat” the best I can.

I love opera because it’s beautiful: I’m blessed to participate in its beauty, and I’m honored to carry out the commitment it demands. Come term papers and final exams, it’s good to remember why I do what I do, up the hill or on the stage.

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CULTURE CORNER How and where are you getting cultured this summer?

Rebecca Voccola, sophomore: I am going to the Summer School of Polish Language and Culture organized by Adam Mickiewicz University. It’s a three-week course in language. They have it for all different levels so it doesn’t matter that I have no experience. I have been wishing for a way to return to Poland since I went the summer before coming to Hillsdale and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. I have really wanted to learn the language. I think this hands-on approach will be the best and most exciting way to learn.

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Elizabeth Garner, junior: I am excited to intern in Washington, D.C., this summer at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. I will be working in the Office of Advancement, which is responsible for fundraising and event planning. I am especially looking sforward to assisting with special events Facebook in the museum’s marvelous venues, the largest of which holds 1200 guests. I am thrilled to have this amazing opportunity to combine my love for art and history at one of the nation’s finest museums.

Elizabeth Barnum, junior: This summer, I have the incredible opportunity to see how God is working in minority cultures through Bible translation — the process of scripture becoming accessible to people in the language that speaks to their heart. I will be spending June interning at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, Texas. Facebook My official role is “Biblical Background Assistant.”

In July I will travel to Indonesia, interning through SIL International, a faith-based international nonprofit organization serving language communities worldwide. Here I will observe various parts of the translation process in the field. Over the course of the summer, I will participate in what God is doing in Bible Translation.

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Sharing Shakespeare The springtime tradition of the arb By | Breana Noble News Editor When Gretchen Roth ’06 learned that her and her sister’s brainchild, Shakespeare in the Arb, has become a tradition at Hillsdale College, she said it delighted her.

“I’m extremely surprised,” Roth said. “The sheer genius and fun of Shakespeare are one of many favorite memories from Hillsdale College …

Shakespeare is timeless and classic. There’s never a wrong or right way to do it. That they’ve continued on, that makes me very proud.”

This year, Shakespeare in the Arb will present its 13th consecutive production, “The Taming of the Shrew,” May 6 and 7 at 3 p.m. in Slayton Arboretum. What has become a staple of the spring semester, however, began with some initiative from a group of students who found a love for “Hamlet” in Provost David Whalen’s class.

“I’m glad to be able to carry on the tradition,” said senior Noah Diekemper, director of this year’s production.

“I’m grateful to participate in Shakespeare in a meaningful way.”

After her first semester at Hillsdale in 2001, Roth received advice from her oldest sister, Madalyn ’04, to take Whalen’s Great Books II course after she took it herself. Gretchen Roth said she loved reading “Hamlet” so much, she teamed up with her sister to put on a produc-

tion of the tragedy inspired by Whalen’s course.

“We decided to do it in the arb, because Dr. Whalen said it was made for that,” Roth said. “It had a stage to do productions outside.”

With practically no budget and about a semester to put the production together, the Roth sisters worked busily with what they could get. They held auditions by spreading the news through word-of-mouth, asked for donations of props and clothing from friends and professors, and scraped together enough money to print programs and hang white sheets between the trees in the arboretum for a backdrop, which students still do today.

“For us, it was just about the love of Shakespeare and making it come alive,” Gretchen Roth said. “You don’t have to be a professional actor in theater to appreciate his work.”

The costumes and set were simple. Most of the actors wore black pants and white shirts and had swords or other props when needed. The set design consisted of a table and some chairs.

Professor of Classics Joseph Garnjobst had both of the Roth sisters in his classes and was an early supporter of their project. He said he enjoyed the former students’ ambition and how their minimalist approach with a shoestring budget allowed the audience to focus on the words.

“It’s one of those liberalarts things: ‘Let’s take this and see it in action,’” Garnjobst

said. “Shakespeare is not just meant to be read. Shakespeare was meant to be heard. It becomes so much more vivid and alive.”

In the fall following the first Shakespeare in the Arb production, the Roth sisters studied abroad in England at Oxford University. Of course, they did not miss their chance to see “King Lear” and “The Merchant of Venice” in Stratford and to visit the Globe Theatre.

“Nobody does it like the Brits,” Gretchen Roth said. “I mean, what an amazing venue. It kind of inspired us for my last two productions of Shakespeare in the Arb. What an experience to see it at the stage and how it was done in Shakespeare’s day.”

Roth, however, said as her sophomore year ended, she was unsure of what she wanted to do in the future. Having entered college at 17, she said she felt she needed to take some time off and decided to travel through Europe for two years. Shakespeare in the Arb became a memory at Hillsdale.

When she returned to Hillsdale, however, she brought back a love for Shakespeare and the theater that had inspired her freshman year after a four-year hiatus. Having done a tragedy in 2001, she decided that she would direct a comedy in spring 2005: “Twelfth Night.”

Madalyn Roth — who had graduated and was working at Crossroads Farm in Reading, Michigan, at the time — returned

to her role as co-director. In addition to directing, Gretchen Roth also played the lead role of Viola.

“We want to bring back appreciation and make his work accessible to people who don’t understand it,” Roth told The Collegian in 2005.

“We want to show everyone what it’s all about.”

After graduating, Roth went to Washington, D.C., and worked in the WilmerHale law library for two-and-a-half years.

“It was about Gretchen Roth ‘06 and her sister began Shakespeare in the Arb after Provost David as exciting as itWhalen’s Great Books II class inspired them to perform “Hamlet.” LinkedIn sounds,” she said.

After several years, howev- try. It’s great to now work with She then traveled to the city that never er, Gretchen Roth said she felt food and serve it to those who sleeps to work in restaurant like she needed to do more. need it.”

And in New York, Roth is management among the best She left three years ago to beof the best in New York City. come the director of food ser- just a subway ride away from Garnjobst said that was no vice at The Bowery Mission, the best theater performances surprise — most of the memo- a Christian nonprofit that in the country.

“I would just encourries he had of the Roth sisters provides help to the hungry, centered around food, from homeless, addicted, and at- age students that if there are things you want to try but their finding a restaurant to risk youths in skid row.

“I love working with the you think are too hard to do attend during the Eta Sigma Phi classics honorary conven- food and serving, but it was or that no one is interested, tion to seeing them help in the getting a little harder for me,” you’ll be surprised how many kitchen during College Presi- Roth said. “I saw the homeless are,” Roth said. “Don’t be dent Larry Arnn’s inaugura- population and the waste of afraid.” food in the restaurant industion.

Old news gets new interface: Volunteers preserve local history By | Jo Kroeker Opinions Editor Not everyone in Mossey Library this week is stumbling through hell week.

A handful of GOAL volunteers devote an hour a week each to digitizing the

23 microfilms housing old editions of The Reading Hustler, a weekly newspaper, dating from 1891 to about 1953.

They are led by Debbie Reister, a member of the Mitchell Research Center since 2009 and the housedirector of Kap-

Junior Joshua Schmid is one of a handful of volunteers who digitize old editions of The Reading Hustler, a weekly newspaper dating from 1891-1953. Jo Kroeker | Collegian

pa Kappa Gamma since 2013.

“It’s a really great opportunity to interact with these old newspapers as a history major,” junior Joshua Schmid said. “I definitely plan on continuing to do it next year, and if there are any other people, history majors, I highly suggest it to them as well, or just to anyone who’s interested in genealogy.”

According to GOAL Program Leader senior Alexis Garcia, the archiving effort isn’t quite a GOAL program because it would need a bigger scope, more potential for growth, and more students involved. It does, however, fall under the GOAL umbrella because the program essentially handles all volunteer opportunities.

The Mitchell Research Center is a volunteer genealogical research center. When Reister and the other volunteers received the films, they looked for a digitization machine to convert the micro-

films — 50- or 60-year-old technology starting to show signs of wear and tear — to digital files and preserve them for future researchers.

But there was a problem: a digitization machine costs $12,000, Reister said, which was too much for the volunteer group. The vendor of these machines, however, pointed Reister to the college’s library.

After working with the Hillsdale College Archivist Linda Moore and contacting Garcia, the Mitchell Research Center secured use of the microfilm reader and digitizer as well as student volunteers.

“We’re a volunteer organization, so that’s why it was so kind of the college to communicate with the community to let us do this,” Reister said. “It was kind of a nice connection to help people.”

Reister said the digitization process is time-consuming because the pages need correcting, whether it’s adjusting brightness or straightening

them.

Occasionally, volunteers can find the hand of whoever spent their time converting old newspapers into microfilms a half-century ago.

“It was a little eerie seeing the image of that hand,” Schmid said.

For Reister, it’s also fun to read the pages as she puts them in the computer. She said she’s excited for upcoming sessions because she has just reached the World War I years of the newspaper.

“It’s very interesting to see how people treated each other the same way we treat people now,” Reister said. “We think about mass media as not having been before the phone, but they used newspapers to communicate who was in town. It was a weekly thing, it was a little bit less timely.”

Most people looking up information about their families rely on birth and wedding announcements and obituaries in papers. They are also digi-

tizing wills and divorce certificates.

“We do whatever we can do for them to help them track back their families,” Reister said.

Reister said people from as far away as Wisconsin come to the Mitchell Research Center because they had family in the county. Also, many people who come in are seeking to provide proof their lineages go back to people on the Mayflower or in the American Revolution so they can be a part of Daughters of the American Revolution or the Mayflower groups.

For Reister, this kind of project is not just an interesting way to step back in time, but it’s also in her blood.

“My great-grandmother was a founding member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lenawee County,” Reister said. “My mother has cupboards and cupboards of records. And I keep coming back to it.”

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln By | S. M. Chavey Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln Describe your style.

Thomas Jefferson: In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Abraham Lincoln: And what is the influence of fashion, but the influence that other people’s actions have [on our own]?

If you could go back to any era of fashion, which would it be?

Jefferson: I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago.

Do you have any fashion advice?

Jefferson: Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Lincoln: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

How do you feel about mixing patterns?

Jefferson: I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.

What is the importance of the Liberty Walk?

Jefferson: The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Lincoln: I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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Who are your style inspirations?

Jefferson: Josh Pradko.

Lincoln: Joe Thistleton.

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