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New Barney Charter Hillsdale launches schools open in 2019 new online course By | Nolan Ryan assistant provost for K-12 O’Toole said BCSI’s education, said that all four curriculum team also visits Editor-in-Chief schools are doing well in the each school at some point.

Four first-year charter midst of their first year.

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Workers erect the sign for Treasure Valley Classical in Fruitland, O’Toole said Idaho. Each of Academy in Fruitland, Idaho. Facebook BCSI serves to these joined support charter BCSI in 2019 and continued who recently visited Treasure schools, especially ones that to work with Hillsdale ColCoast Classical Academy. are just getting started. She lege as they began the 2019BCSI leaders worked said no matter the school, 2020 school year last fall. with school administrators the first year is always diffiBCSI is a program that to found the schools.

For cult, especially when faculty, seeks to promote classithis, O’Toole said, they did administrators, students, cal education and support four training sessions for and families don’t know each charter schools nationwide. each school board, as well as other yet. Also, teachers in According to its website, one these contexts are often new of their primary goals is “that training for the principals.

There is also a two-week to classical education, and public-school students may training for teachers in the BCSI helps them learn how be educated in the liberal beginning of August where to teach within the classical arts and sciences and receive BCSI takes them through a method. instruction in the principles “deep dive into the curricuof moral character and civic See Charter A3 lum,” looking at how to teach virtue.” in a classical school setting.

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By | Ashley Kaitz Assistant Editor Hillsdale College has launched an online course which it hopes will, in part, combat popular media’s revisionist history like the New York Times’ 1619 Project.

The course, titled “The Great American Story: Land of Hope,” launched on Feb. 12. It aims to offer a “broad and unbiased” look at the achievements and failures of America’s past, according to Hillsdale’s website.

Kyle Murnen, director of online courses at Hillsdale, said the idea for the course came after historian Wilfred McClay published an American history textbook called “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story” in 2019.

“It’s very difficult to write a one-volume narrative his-

tory of America, and ‘Land of Hope’ is especially good: compact, serious, witty, and surprisingly comprehensive for a 400-page history book,” Murnen said. “In fact, the book has been adopted as a high school American history textbook in our Barney Charter School Initiative and is used as a supplementary text in several sections of the American Heritage course here.”

The course, consisting of 25 lectures, begins with Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America and ends with a lecture that considers how best to mend the cultural divisions in the nation today.

According to Murnen, “The Great American Story: Land of Hope” is unbiased and patriotic.

“The course is unbiased because it aims at providing

an accurate picture of what happened in the past. It is also patriotic, in the sense that it aims to promote the type of intelligent patriotism necessary to preserve the blessings of our free government,” he said. “Those two aims are not mutually exclusive.”

In the introductory video to the course, McClay talked about why it’s important to study history.

“There’s a tendency to think we can decide questions of principle by reference only to abstractions,” McClay said in the video. “History is concrete. History fills in the blanks with real-world events and real people, things that actually happened, and we can test out our principles by seeing how they operate.”

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Wilfred Mclay, author of “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story,” teaches a class for Hillsdale College’s online course, “The Great American Story: Land of Hope.” External Affairs

Q&A: Stephanie Merrick, Free Beacon Managing Editor By | Stefan Kleinhenz Culture Editor Stephanie Merrick is the managing editor at the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication in Washington, D.C. The following is an excerpt from an interview that was recorded this week with Stefan Kleinhenz on Radio Free Hillsdale.

What is the Free Beacon?

We started out as combat journalism. I think we were the first ones to coin that term. We are a publication that goes after, specifically, the Democrats and the way that other outlets cover Republicans. So we’re going

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after Bernie Sanders the same way that the New York Times would go after Mitt Romney when he was running for President.

How did you end up at the Free Beacon?

I started off college as a pre-med major and I quickly realized that was not for me.

I worked at the Michigan Review at the University of Michigan which is the conservative publication in Ann Arbor. I worked there as a sophomore, and I loved it. I loved being part of the newsroom. So I started doing internships in D.C. every summer. I worked for the Washington Examiner

and the Daily Caller before getting my job at the Free Beacon. I got an assistant editor position at the Free Beacon, and that’s where I’ve been ever since.

Michigan Football: is that important in your life?

Yeah — Go Blue!

Is Jim Harbuagh going to stick around for awhile?

I’m not convinced about him. He hasn’t really taken our team anywhere.

I’ve heard the argument that he’s gotten Michigan to the best place they can be right now.

If that’s the best we can do,

I think we need somebody else.

We live in a fascinating time with journalism, politics, and everything.

Your publication is geared toward getting in the fight, getting in the mud, in ways that people haven’t done before. How has Trump, in your perspective, changed the way that journalism functions?

That’s an interesting, loaded question. He’s changed it in a lot of ways. No one has ever covered a politician like Trump — his tweets, you know. His breaking news and his tweets: you have to cover it, and if you don’t cover it,

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you’re not part of the conversation. We’re not so focused on covering him as we are on covering the Democrats. We try to stay out of that battle.

But he’s changed it incredibly.

But is it new for a politician to be saying the things that people have felt for a long time? That media isn’t fair, that overage isn’t fair, that it’s not talking about both sides fairly. How does that change the way journalists function?

For us, it hasn’t changed a ton. He’s still giving access to the same exact people. And we don’t have a White House correspondent or anything that has a ton of access to

him. He is giving more access to other conservative outlets.

I think that has changed.

Looking at the 2020 primaries, it looks like Bernie might be running away with the nomination. Do you think that’s a response to Trump? Do you think that Bernie’s movement is a response to that or do you think it’s something completely different?

I think Bernie is similar to Trump in a lot of ways in that he’s kind of a populist movement. He’s kind of anti-establishment — we can change Washington by getting the

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By |Ashley Kaitz Assistant Editor One of the only fluent speakers of ancient Greek in the world, Dr. Christophe Rico, spoke on the importance of studying ancient languages and his work to make achieving fluency easier. Rico made his remarks during a lunch with students last Thursday.

Dr. Rico is the director of POLIS - The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities. POLIS is a non profit academic institution founded by an international group of scholars and is located in Jerusalem, according to the website. At the Institute, many ancient tongues, including Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew, are taught as living, spoken languages. According to Rico, learning an ancient language is essential to understanding texts written in that language.

“We don’t speak ancient languages for the sake of reading ancient languages — that would be completely silly,” Rico said. “We do it because it is the only way to read a text without a dictionary and without translation. If you can’t do it then you will never be able to read Plato as if it were English or French.”

Understanding ancient languages has importance

beyond being able to read a certain text. According to Rico, the purpose of his Institute is “for the revival of the humanities.”

“We contribute to the renewal of the humanities,” Rico said. “How? By reviving and speaking ancient languages.”

As well as teaching ancient Greek, Rico is currently working on a thematic dictionary of Classical and Neo-Classical Greek, which will provide instructors and students with the tools they need to speak ancient Greek fluently. According to Rico, Greek in its original form stopped being spoken around the 16th century, when the Ottoman Turks ruled Greece and influenced the language.

Now, because the language stopped evolving, ancient Greek speakers have to come up with words to describe modern items that didn’t exist 500 years ago. Rico’s dictionary will help to fill in those gaps.

Another issue that faces ancient Greek speakers is approximating an authentic accent. According to Assistant Professor of Classics Patrick Owens, however, it’s not as hard as it seems.

“There’s a literary tradition of writing diacritical marks and accentuation into texts, so it’s not impossible for him to approximate an accent,”

Owens said.

Rico said that ancient texts leave other clues for modern scholars.

“We can better understand the evolution of Greek by looking at mistakes,” he said.

“When you see a spelling mistake in writing, it’s because the language is changing.”

Although Rico said that he could never pick a favorite philosopher, he said that he loves to read Plato.

“What I like in Plato is that very human way of making philosophy. It’s dialogue, and there is always a tension in the dialogue between two people,” he said. “And there is always a quest for the truth.”

Rico also loves to read Sophocles. “I think he’s a real genius — more powerful than Shakespeare,” he said.

Ultimately, Rico said that reading ancient works in the original allows us to deeply understand both the author and the text.

“When you read in translation, you read in black and white,” Rico said. “When you read the original, you read in color.”

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Venezuelan citizen shares experience with socialism By |Aubrey Gulick Collegian Reporter America is exhibiting signs of a socialist future, according to Jorge Galicia in his talk for Hillsdale College’s Praxis club.

Twenty-four-year-old Galicia spoke about his personal experiences with Venezuelan Socialism and the very real possibility of an American socialist state.

As a student in 2014, Galicia joined a small political activist party in Venezuela devoted to religious liberty, freedom of speech and economic freedom. He was involved in political demonstrations in Venezuela in 2017.

His best friend was arrested after a peaceful demonstration and released three months later, however, the incarceration led Galicia to finish his law degree and leave Venezuela for the

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Murnen said the course offers an alternative to how people usually approach American history today.

“The course is aimed at teaching American citizens about the great narrative story of our nation,” he said.

“Every citizen should know the ideas, people, and events that are responsible for the great achievements in our nation’s history, and also its shortcomings.”

In contrast, the New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to teach American history by attributing American achievements to the institution of slavery.

The New York Times’ website says that “out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing

United States. Galicia has devoted his life to educating people, especially students, about the dangers of socialism.

In his talk on Tuesday, Galicia stressed that what happened in Venezuela could happen in the U.S. “What did we have before Hugo Chavez?... we had something much more like the kind of welfare state that progressives are advocating for here in America,” Galicia said.

Galicia emphasized that before the economic crash, Venezuela had both a similar economy as well as a similar movement toward government-subsidized welfare programs.

“Until this decade (1970) Venezuela used to grow economically every single year, we had the biggest GDP in the whole Latin American region,” Garcia said. “In 1975...he (President Carlos Andres Perez) and his team

decided to create a bunch of new social programs designed to protect the poor.”

Galicia pointed out that Venezuela’s welfare state combined with the government overspending led to the current societal collapse in that country.

“We have tried elections, they make fraud. We have tried negotiations, they don’t keep their word, they keep on incarcerating our people.”

Galicia said when speaking about the fix to the problems in his country. “The solution needs to be by force.”

“This socialism isn’t just historical socialism, it’s like: look what is going on right now.” President of Praxis, Melody McDonald said. “He has actual real-life experience that is very applicable. It just hits on a different level when its personal stories versus, like, a number.”

penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day.”

In the course’s introductory video, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn discussed how the course strives to teach “good history.”

“Good history will be an accurate picture of what happened in the past, with a sympathy for the people so that one can learn from them,” Arnn said. “It gives us a fixity that is made up of things that at the time were constantly shifting and hard to estimate.”

The New York Times said its goal for the 1619 Project was to re-evaluate American history.

According to the Times’ website, “the goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year. Doing so requires us to place the consequences

of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country.”

In one edition of Imprimis, McClay wrote that “the story of America has been fractured into a thousand pieces and burdened with so much ideological baggage that studying history actually alienates young Americans from the possibility of properly appreciating their past.”

McClay said he instead wanted to take an accurate but empathetic look at America’s past.

In the epilogue to “Land of Hope,” he wrote that the textbook “never loses sight of what there is to celebrate and cherish in American achievement.

“That doesn’t mean it is an uncritical celebration,” he said. “The two things, celebration and criticism, are not necessarily enemies. Love is the foundation of the wisest criticism, and criticism is the essential partner of honest and enduring love.”

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By |Ashley Kaitz Assistant Editor Arguing that theoretical liberalism is impossible to translate exactly into real life, Daniel Burns, associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas, spoke to a group of Hillsdale students and faculty on Tuesday, Feb. 25. In fact, Burns said that the modified, imperfect version of liberalism in America is actually preferable to its pure, theoretical form.

At the beginning of his talk, Burns clarified that his use of “liberalism” was “not New Deal liberalism, not Democratic liberalism or anything like that, but something more general, the kind of liberalism that both FDR and Ronald Reagan were both basically united in favor of.”

Burns said that liberalism can be thought about in two ways: theoretically and practically.

“When we talk about liberalism we sometimes mean a political idea that you can read about in books, and each describes a particular version of liberalism, but those versions clearly all have something in common, from Locke to Spinoza to Montesquieu to Kant to Mill and Rawls,” he said. “On the other hand, by liberalism we sometimes mean a set of liberal practices that are appreciated by millions of people who know nothing about the political theory behind them.”

Burns came down firmly in favor of the practical application of liberalism.

“Everything that’s good about our liberal institutions can be defended without any help from liberal theory,” he said. “And if we ever seriously tried to put into practice the dictates of liberal theory, we would have to get rid of many of the most valuable institutions of liberal practice.”

According to Burns, American political theorist Patrick Deneen and a

handful of conservatives are beginning to think that many of the problems that we find in modern society are not actually due to “progressives”, but actually to issues rooted in liberal theory itself.

“The stuff that conservatives and progressives thought they agreed on — individual rights, limited government, and at least some separation of church and state — our whole American political philosophy is what got us into trouble,” Burns said.

“What we’re seeing today is a playing out of mistakes made by our founders who spent too much time reading Locke when they should have been reading Cicero and Aquinas.”

Burns said that the issues with liberal theory begin with flawed assumptions that philosophers make about human nature.

“They imagine human beings in a state no one has ever seen, sometimes called a state of nature. In this imaginary state, human beings are supposed to be completely autonomous and have no meaningful obligations to other human beings, even to their own parents,” Burns said. “I think we all know that nobody is like this, and they would be barely recognizable as human if they were.”

According to Burns, American liberal theory as crafted by the Founders is inconsistent.

“The Founders were not political philosophers.

Theoretical coherence just wasn’t their strong suit,” he said. “American liberal practice is much better than liberal theory and we should make sure not to interpret liberal practice through the lens of liberal theory.”

In fact, Burns said that he doesn’t think Americans need any sort of ideology at all.

“I’m not aware of anyone in the Western tradition before Hobbes who thought that political philosophy required this kind of

comprehensive ideology of human political life,” he said.

According to Burns, the political philosophy of Aristotle can “direct and update” our American political traditions and provide answers for modern social problems that “the Founders, for all their wisdom, just couldn’t have anticipated.”

In the Q&A session after the talk, Hillsdale professor of politics Thomas West told Burns “I don’t recognize anything you just said about liberalism. Every liberalism has a coherent theory.”

West disagreed with Burns’ broad categorizing of liberalism, especially with the fact that Burns lumped Rawls in with thinkers like Locke.

Under Rawls’ theory, West said “There is no liberalism.

There is no freedom of speech.”

Senior Brian Freimuth, who attended the talk, said that he didn’t agree with Burns because his ideas were not academically rigorous.

“He didn’t treat Locke in any meaningful academic way,” Freimuth said. “He made a huge umbrella category that he called ‘liberal theory’ which he said is responsible for the radical individualism of today, and then under that umbrella he placed people like Rawls and Locke. Okay, great. You just made the biggest umbrella ever.”

Freimuth said that Burns attributed ideas to philosophers that they didn’t actually believe.

“Burns said that Locke is for radical individualism,” Freimuth said. “But the longest chapter in Locke’s Second Treatise of Government is on the family.”

Burns’ talk caused quite the stir in the audience, and he acknowledged it at the end of the lecture. “That’s my view. I know I haven’t persuaded everybody,” he said.

Senior class to host first Senior Trivia Night By |Alexis Daniels Web Content Editor The senior class officials are holding a trivia night for the senior class at El Cerrito on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 9:30 p.m.

Senior Hadiah Ritchey said seniors will form teams and sit at their own tables for each round of trivia. The night is Hillsdale-themed “with a few senior twists.”

“The Hillsdale specific trivia created more work on the set up side of things, but we thought it would make the event as a whole better for the senior class,” Ritchey said.

“We all love Hillsdale to some degree or we wouldn’t have stayed here for four years.”

There will be three rounds of 10 questions revolving around the seniors’ past four

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craziest person. His supporters might not think he’s crazy, but he has the most outlandish ideas, farther from what we currently live in. And it’s just a reaction to the fact that we just don’t like what’s happening in Washington.

Do you think that Bernie could beat Trump? Is that why people like him? Do people believe he is the best candidate to beat Trump in the general?

I don’t know who believes that. I’ve never met anybody who believes that. I don’t believe that. But I didn’t think Trump was going to win either.

Bernie was mentioning that Fidel Castro and his regime weren’t that bad because they taught people how to read. Is that fair criticism when he’s trying to point out that there are good

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years at Hillsdale as well as a general trivia category titled “The Core Revisited.” More than 100 seniors are participating - about ⅓ of the senior class. Trivia nights have been put on by SAB in the past, but Ritchey said the class officials thought it would be a good idea to have one just for the seniors also.

“This is the first year for a senior specific trivia night, but it would definitely be cool to continue the tradition in the future,” Ritchey said.

“Trivia is a great group activity because everyone is able to work toward a common goal and still able to converse with their teams.”

Senior Adam Buchmann, who helped with the marketing, said the winning team will have their drinks paid for

as their prize.

“We are hoping for everyone participating to have a good time competing, reliving some Hillsdale memories, and enjoying some awesome food and drinks,” Buchmann said.

Senior Lucy Meckler said she hopes the event unites the senior class.

“I hope it’s a fun social event that helps bring the senior class together and accurately recaps our past four years on campus,” Meckler said in an email. “I also hope the event helps bring awareness about the senior class gift (replanting trees on the quad) and the lasting legacy our class has the ability to leave after our graduation.”

and bad parts to things? Or is there no validity in that?

That’s an outrageous position to have. You saw all these Democratic congresswomen coming out against him in Florida, saying this is ridiculous, to think of all the people Castro has murdered.

Why would you defend a murderous regime? You don’t have to.

says. I think he truly believes that socialism is the way to go. I don’t think so, and I don’t think most Americans think so. But I think he thinks that there is some way that socialism could be good.

Even though it hasn’t worked throughout history.

What do you think his thought process is in that?

Either he doesn’t know or he truly thinks that Castro was a good person. I don’t know which is scarier. He’s always been drawn to these authoritarian regimes.

Do you think it’s coming from a good place, that he thinks there is some truth in this and that we can make our country better in all of this? Or does he have some ulterior motive?

I think he believes what he

Do you think that the Republicans perhaps need to be having a conversation since people are drawn to that message?

I think that Republicans and Democrats are both doing it at this point, saying how much it’s going to cost. In that same interview, he discussed how Medicare is going to cost 300 trillion dollars. How are we going to pay for that?

Taxes. Does that mean the middle class is going to be paying more in taxes? Yes. That’s a pretty easy way to get people turned off of that.

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Senior Gift Restaurant Week to raise funds for oak trees on quad By | Hannah Cote Collegian Freelaner The Class of 2020 is well on their way to raising enough money to gift the college with 10 oak trees for the quad. Their partnership with local restaurants this week promises to bring them closer.

This week, a different restaurant is partnering with the college every day of the week to donate 10% of their proceeds to the 2020 Senior Class Gift.

Anyone involved with the college can participate with a punch card, provided by the seniors, by taking the card to each restaurant they eat out at and getting a unique punch at every stop. At the end of the week, they can drop off these punch cards at career services for a chance to win either an

Amazon Echo, a Yeti mug, or a Hillsdale Swag Bag. The more restaurants they go to, the more chances they will have to win.

The restaurant schedule is as follows: Monday - Rosalie’s Roadhouse, Tuesday - Saucy Dogs, Wednesday - Pub & Grub, Thursday - El Cerrito, Friday - Hunt Club, Saturday - Finish Line.

Throughout the seniors’ time at Hillsdale, they’ve seen the quad with and without numerous oak trees, a staple to some students’ experience on campus. Fundraising Officer Lucy Meckler remembers the quad before every tree was taken down for the construction of the chapel.

“There were live oaks that were removed when the chapel was originally built,” Meckler said. “People were really passionate about it in

our grade because we’ve seen campus post, during, and pre-chapel.”

Lizzie Leathers, Senior Class Treasurer, often found herself out in the quad when doing homework.

“When I was a freshman my favorite thing in the world to do was to walk into the quad and just find a comfy spot underneath a tree and read,” Leathers said. “Then the chapel came along so there were no more trees, and I just really want other people to have that experience because it was so special.”

Meckler said that the senior class wanted to bring the trees back to campus.

“We decided that a fun way to fundraise for it could have a Restaurant Week, where every day we partnered with a different business to give back, that way students could

go out and have fun but also feel like they were contributing to the class gifts and help bring awareness about the gift more generally to those who may not be seniors,” Meckler said.

Not only are the students excited for the fundraiser, but the restaurants are as well.

“Most of the restaurants are pretty excited, willing, and love partnering with the college,” Meckler said. “I got a bunch of positive feedback about how grateful they were to live in the Hillsdale community.”

Meckler, Leathers, and all of campus will soon see the fruits of the seniors’ gift, some even before graduation.

“The cool thing is we get to see what exactly we’re contributing to right now,” Meckler said.

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Federalist Society hosts Constitution debate By | Carly Fisher Collegian Reporter Two professors debated the virtues of interpreting the Constitution as a living document versus an originalist interpretation last week.

At the event hosted by the Hillsdale Federalist Society, professors John Baker and Richard Primus, moderated

by Justice Bryan Zahra of the Michigan Supreme Court, debated the topic of “Our Constitution: A More or Less Perfect Union? A Discussion on the Challenges of Originalism.” The debate was part of a project by PBS’s “Free to Choose” series on originalism and the Constitution. Baker represented the living document viewpoint, while Primus advocated for the originalist perspective.

Primus kicked off the debate by arguing that the originalist interpretation was, in practice, a living document. He asserted that what decides a modern court case is not the actual meaning of the document in historical context but rather the original meaning of the document as understood by the judge.

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“Putting together a school is a hard thing. It’s like starting a business except you’ve got hundreds of children coming to school for the first time,” she said. “We provide them some guidance. We help them work on classroom management and how to teach every subject.”

Treasure Coast Classical Academy Janine Swearingin, principal at Treasure Coast Classical Academy in Florida, said the school held its first day of classes on Aug. 12 and opened with 535 students.

After losing some, she said the school grew, and there are now 620 students. The school has a waiting list, but it is no longer accepting applicants for this year. TCCA is currently a K-6 institution, and it will expand to 7th grade next year. The plan, Swearingin said, is to be a full K-12 school by 2025.

She said before she joined, a group of founders in the Martin County area were interested in classical education and decided they wanted to form a partnership with BCSI. One benefit this new school offers, Swearingin said, is that it provides more alternatives for parents looking to send their children to school.

“In this county, there are only two other charter schools,” she said. “One serves students on the autism spectrum, and one is a highly specialized program for high school students.”

This means that TCCA is the only charter school of choice for many parents in the area. She noted that about

is supposed to hold the law steady and keep it how it was in the beginning but, in reality, originalism is a recipe for changing the content of Constitutional law over time as the values of the judges change,” Primus said.

Primus called this system of interpreting the Constitution “operative

original meaning.” To defend his point, Primus showed how on the issues of school segregation, fire arms, and same-sex marriage, legal experts have managed to make the text of the Constitution fit both sides of the argument at different times in history, demonstrating the dynamic

nature of originalist interpretation.

Baker defended originalism by first asserting that an originalist interpretation of the Constitution is an obligation, not optional.

“Originalism is not a theory,” said Baker, “It’s an oath all judges take to uphold the Constitution.”

He continued by emphasizing the importance of reading the Federalist papers and dictionaries from the time of the founding to understand the original intent.

“Many people who call themselves originalists aren’t very good at it because they’ve never read the Federalist and

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20% of students are attending private schools. But based on TCCA’s current enrollment numbers, Swearingin said the classical model appeals to a large amount of the population in that county.

Swearingin praised the resources and help BCSI has offered them, saying there is an “overwhelming amount of support,” including materials for professional development.

Last summer, the curriculum team trained the teachers in all subject areas, including Singapore Math, Access Literacy, and other foundations of education. They also focused on classroom management.

She said BCSI team members have been accessible for teachers, whether by phone or by email.

Six weeks into the school year, Swearingin said, the BCSI team returned to observe the teachers in their classrooms.

“They provided some really practical feedback to help us implement and grow our program,” she said. “They expressed that they saw a lot of growth.”

Swearingin said she has weekly phone calls with the curriculum team, as well as quarterly calls with BCSI leaders. She also has been mentored by Robert Garrow, principal at Golden View Classical Academy in Golden, Colorado.

Treasure Valley Classical Academy While Treasure Valley Classical Academy is in its first year, its building is not new, according to Clinta Condra, assistant principal.

It’s a 90-year-old structure on the main street in Fruitland, Idaho, and it has mostly

served as a school throughout its history. Condra said it was a site just waiting for TVCA to occupy it.

The school began as a grassroots effort, Condra said.

Local people had an interest in opening a charter school, and after forming a school board, they were “trained, guided, and vetted by Hillsdale.” Around this time, Principal Steve Lambert was recruited. Three years later, the school opened its doors.

It now has more than 300 students enrolled in grades K-6th.

“There was a strong interest on the part of those who formed the board,” Condra said. “And even in a small town, there’s a large scale demand.”

Condra, like Swearingin, highlighted the training board members and teachers received from BCSI staff.

“Since the school year began, some of those same experts have been sent back for a couple of visits,” he said.

“They field questions from teachers and offer advice and guidance.”

Condra said the school staff also plan to attend BCSI’s summer conferences on Hillsdale’s campus.

“Our teachers have all got their tickets. It’s generated a lot of hype,” he said. “I myself have been to a conference for administrators last summer.

But this will be for teachers the first such conference, since we’re such a new school.”

It’s important that parents have multiple options for where to send their children to school, Condra said. He said because of the American approach to a free-market

system, having a charter school like TVCA as an alternative to standard public schools allows local families to have a choice on where they want their children to receive an education.

Condra also emphasized that TVCA exists to form virtuous citizens and to prepare them to live well.

“We prepare students to become informed citizens and to pursue whatever kind of professional inclinations they might have. We are not simply a ‘college factory,’ although the rigor of our curriculum is such that students — by time they graduate — will be well prepared to succeed in college, if that’s the path they’d like to choose.”

TVCA focuses on literacy and numeracy, or mathematical literacy, which are foundations for other subjects, Condra said. For this first year, he said, as students come in from the local public schools, faculty have been paying attention to what exactly needs remediation in terms of learning and content.

“Where necessary, we’re setting aside rich parts of the curriculum, but they’re designed to be spiraled back into place in later years,” he said. “So maybe extra time will be set aside in a grade, and they’ll miss some literacy or medieval history.

But they’ll get that in future grades at least once more.”

Ivywood Classical Academy Since opening for the first time in September, Ivywood Classical Academy has about 130 students in grades K-5th, according to Principal Stephanie Kooiker. Next year, they plan to add sixth grade. She

said open enrollment began Feb. 25, and the school already received 70 applicants.

Their projected enrollment for next year is 325.

Kooiker said that when their board president and his wife had their first child almost six years ago, they were looking into classical schools. At the time, Livingston Classical Academy was the only other BCSI school in Michigan, Kooiker said.

They decided then that they wanted to open another BCSI institution in the state.

The BCSI team met with ICA’s teachers, as well as LCA’s, since they had many new hires, according to Kooiker.

“They came to us and provided on-site training for the entire staff in classical teaching practices,” she said.

“They trained us on the whole curriculum, and they were there to answer questions.”

During this school year, BCSI staff came twice for two to three days. They observed all of the teachers, and on the last day, they met with them and went over any questions they had.

Kooiker said ICA differs from local public schools in that staff can tailor curriculum to the needs of students.

“Traditional public schools use the curriculum that is based off of the latest trend,” she said. “It’s mandated by the state through the district. As a charter school, we are our own district. We make decisions based on our students’ needs.”

Northwest Ohio Classical Academy Northwest Ohio Classical Academy began their first year as a K-8th institution.

you got to understand that to be an originalist, ” said Baker.

Junior Dan Grifferty, president of the Federalist Society, said that PBS reached out to him last semester to request that Hillsdale’s chapter of the Federalist Society host this event.

Though this debate will not be part of the television series to be aired later this month, it is part of their project on originalism and the Constitution.

Grifferty said their chapter had not hosted debates on this topic because of Hillsdale’s originalist bent.

“We haven’t done debates in the past because we have the opposite problem of most schools,” said Grifferty, “We have to bring in a living Constitutionalist rather than having to bring in an originalist.”

Both Baker and Primus complemented Hillsdale on its academic excellence and reputation. Primus said he has had several outstanding students from Hillsdale at University of Michigan Law School where he teaches.

“Something is being done right here so thank you for bringing me to the place,” said Primus.

They have 208 students enrolled, according to Principal Phillip Schwenk. He said that before he came to the school, a couple of the original board members noticed a decided lack of classical education in the greater Toledo area. They wanted to open a new charter, based partly on a BCSI school in Savannah, Georgia.

Schwenk said the Hillsdale name carries a lot of weight in Toledo, since it’s only about an hour from the college campus.

He also said the program guide BCSI offers its affiliated schools is a major benefit to joining the initiative.

“As someone in education for 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “You get to watch kids engross themselves in that.”

When it comes to the method of classical education BCSI promotes, Schwenk said he appreciates “having a curriculum that really relishes in learning for the sake of learning,” particularly from the great books and literature.

Everyone at NOCA, he said, are seeking to become not only learned but also virtuous.

Schwenk also emphasizes the community aspect that NOCA offers Toledo — the fact that students come from a variety of backgrounds and demographics.

“We have students coming from local public schools and local private schools, and there’s a significant homeschooling population here.

They are all very different, and there’s obviously diversity in all those communities,” he said. “We’re coming around a common goal of the true and beautiful.”

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The Weekly: protect free speech for Julian Assange The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff

Extradition hearings for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began this week in London.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Assange under the Espionage Act in relation to publishing documents leaked by Chelsea Manning detailing U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The charges allege that Assange aided Manning to retrieve the documents by helping her crack a password, effectively hacking into Pentagon computers. The U.S. government requested that

Assange be extradited for trial.

But the Department of Justice under Barack Obama reviewed the same evidence and concluded Assange should not be indicted.

“If you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange,” thenDOJ spokesman Matthew Miller said.

What changed? This week, Assange’s defense team revealed a 2017 meeting with former U.S. Rep.

Dana Rohrabacher. Assange’s lawyers said Rohrabacher offered him a “preemptive pardon” in exchange for “personal assistance to President Donald Trump” regarding the Russian investigation.

The defense said Rohrabacher, whom they claimed directly represented Trump, asked Assange to publicly state that the leaked DNC emails did not come from the Russian government. Rohrabacher denied the meeting was on behalf of Trump. Assange’s defense used this example to assert that the Trump administra-

tion is trying to extort the WikiLeaks founder.

These new developments are troubling for journalists around the world. Fortunately, British courts stand between the U.S. government and Assange and can reject the extradition request.

The Collegian echoes the statement from Reporters Without Borders: “RSF urges the UK government to prioritize the principles of freedom of expression and the defense of journalism in its treatment of Assange.”

Exempt off-campus students American justice system needs reform from meal plan requirement Punitive justice too harsh, restorative justice allows for reconciliation, reform By | Cal Abbo Schools around the country are taking a new approach to discipline, and it seems to be working.

For decades, teachers and administrators responded to bad behavior with punitive justice. Fighting, bullying, and other misconduct would result in detentions, suspensions, or even expulsions..

Now, schools are using a new method called restorative justice. Instead of earning punishments, students must solve the problems caused by their actions. This type of justice strikes at the heart of social problems in schools rather than dealing with them on a surface-level. These new methods have proven effective in improving student behavior.

Our criminal justice system can learn a lot from these innovations. Up to now, it has almost exclusively used punitive justice. Effectively, our legal framework works to put people in prison rather than reduce crime and rehabilitate citizens. Instead, it should incorporate restorative models to better address crime.

Last year, President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill, the First Step Act, which eased the standards by which prisons evaluate convicted criminals. As a result, more than 3,000 Americans were released and officials redirected $75 million to programs focused on rehabilitating inmates. This is a small but important step in the right direction.

Punitive justice works to reduce crime by calculating costs and benefits. Its proponents, who shape the way Americans view justice, claim the best way to reduce criminal activity is through long sentences and large fines. It ignores the needs of victims and promises a one-size-fits-all solution. Its side effects include millions of citizens facing harsher-than-necessary sentences.

Restorative justice, the alternative, is a multi-faceted approach to the problem of crime. Instead of the dogmatic pursuit of punitive action, it emphasizes preventative, anti-poverty measures, community education, victim compensation, and rehabilitation of offenders.

Crime is often a response to social situations outside of an individual’s control. In “Politics,” Aristotle observed, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” Restorative advocates think he was right.

The restorative approach understands crime in a social context that punitive systems do not.

Annually, states and the federal government spend $81 billion on the prison and jail systems alone. A restorative approach would spend most of this money on preventative measures such as education, rehabilitation programs for newly-convicted individuals, and direct reparations for victims.

Punitive justice hurts victims as much if not more than criminals. At least two-thirds of victims report they’re unsatisfied with prison sentences; a restorative framework addresses their needs through immediate service or financial help.

Imagine someone breaks into your storefront, destroying property and stealing expensive items. Under the current system, those items will be returned to you if they can be found. Though the property wreckage may be partially addressed by insurance, the emotional trauma doesn’t just go away.

A restorative response would place the responsibility on the criminal to rectify this. A convict would pay some sort of criminal alimony to compensate the victim while enrolling in aggressive probation and rehabilitation.

Social workers would check in with convicts multiple times per week, working with them to rebuild a productive life.

An offender can also participate in the direct repair of the victim’s property. The perpetrator could work with a construction team, supervised by a security guard, to fix damaged property. This is the most common-sense answer, and one often applied to children.

Psychological studies have found that school children involved in direct reparative activities, like cleaning up their own messes, understand the costs of their actions better than children who receive a punishment unrelated to their action, like timeouts or detention. These children are also less likely to commit further offenses.

The prison system’s greatest flaw, however, is its socializing effect on criminals. By restricting first-time offenders of minor, non-violent crimes to a social life comprised almost entirely of other offenders, the current system breeds recidivism and criminal networks. Instead, a restorative process emphasizes reconnection with the local public.

Community service projects and direct rehabilitation surround potential recidivists with friends and family who are directly interested in their rehabilitation.

Social workers help dignify offenders by finding them a full-time job through mutual cooperation.

Implementing a restorative system would have a lasting impact on America’s diverse communities. The categorical prison-solves-everything mindset disregards other solutions that can offer real justice for all.

Cal Abbo is a junior studying psychology and a columnist on Democratic politics.

He is the features editor for The Collegian.

By | Sutton Dunwoodie When students move off campus, the deans only expect two things from them: first, to live by the Honor Code, and second, to pay for a meal plan.

While the commitment to follow the Honor Code is good for all students, the need to buy a meal plan should end when students move to places where they will have their own kitchen.

The administration should allow off-campus students to opt out of a meal plan because it will help students eat healthier, save money, and eliminate overcrowding in the Knorr Dining Room.

One of the main reasons students move off campus is to save money. Living off campus saves students more than $1,600 dollars every year, and allowing off-campus students to cook for themselves will help them save even more money.

The two minimal meal plans allowed by the school cost $1,970 each semester.

One gives students 10 meals a week, at $13 per meal, and

no Liberty Bucks (or “Charger Change,” as the cool kids still call it). The other plan gives students 100 meals for the entire semester at $19.45 per meal, and $25 in Liberty Bucks.

According to Forbes, home-cooked dinners cost $4.31 on average. If a student cooks dinner five times, spends $30 eating out twice, and spends $30 on breakfast and lunch food, they would be spending about $80 a week for all of their meals — roughly $1,120 each semester.

That’s $850 less than the cheapest meal plan, and provides twice as many meals.

When the average graduate from Hillsdale has $26,000 in student loans, keeping students from saving money by cooking at home is callous.

The college has a financial interest in keeping students on the meal plan. If off-campus students stopped paying, costs would rise for students that stay on the meal plan.

The college should pay for some or all of the increased costs to students. While

students are struggling to leave without debt, the college’s endowment reached $548 million dollars in 2017, with assets valued at almost $1 billion dollars. Without renegotiating the Bon Appetit contract at all, the college could pay for 200 students on the 100 block to leave the meal plan for about $788,000 per year, or fourteen-hundredths of one percent of the endowment.

Fourteen-hundredths of one percent is an easy investment in student well-being.

One argument for keeping all students on the meal plan is that it improves campus culture by bringing everyone up the hill to eat together.

This is naive. Students in the cafeteria eat in the same place, but they do not eat together. Sports teams, Greek students, and friend groups sit together. One could argue that forcing students to eat in the dining hall is harming campus culture because it contributes to tension caused by overcrowding in the dining hall.

Allowing off-campus

students to eat at home will take hundreds of students out of the dining hall and is a simple way for students to relieve tension caused by overcrowding.

In the three years that I’ve been chained to a college meal plan, I gained 30 pounds. The first night I came home after my junior year, my mom said, “You’ve got quite a belly now.”

In the one semester I was on the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program and not on a meal plan, I lost 20 pounds. I had more energy, started running, and felt better at the end of the day. Now that I’m back on a meal plan, I’m terrified that I’m going to get my belly back.

Eating healthy and saving money are hard enough.

Hillsdale College should not make it more difficult by requiring off-campus students to buy a meal plan.

Sutton Dunwoodie is a senior studying political economy.

College students should strive for integrity over high GPAs By | Sarah Becker Last week, while waiting for office hours with Associate Professor of History Matthew Gaetano, a freshman student introduced himself to me. The moment I shook his hand with a “Hi, I’m Sarah,” he immediately asked me if I was “the one with the 4.0.”

After affirming that he had accurately remembered what was published by both The Collegian and the Student Activities Board about this year’s President’s Ball court nominees, I spent the next five minutes telling him why graduating with a 4.0 is not necessarily a mark of success.

In my own academic career, it certainly reflects dedication and hard work, but also moments of inappropriately prioritizing my studies over social activities, prayer, and rest. A’s are goods when they reflect academic excellence, but they are never ultimate goods.

In last week’s Letter to the Editor, Professor of History Tom Conner proposed an interesting argument for why student GPAs should be kept private rather than announced at public events, in our campus newspaper, and elsewhere. But I believe that the most important reason why the college should be more thoughtful before revealing GPA information is not as much an argument about privacy as it is an argument about integrity.

Like any academic metric, a student’s individual GPA is influenced by many factors: the courses they have taken, the professors teaching those courses and their respective grading standards, natural intelligence, and willful perseverance. Each person’s GPA is also shaped by their extracurricular commitments, individual obligations,

and the varied circumstances of their personal life. No GPA exists in isolation, and thus a GPA is only intelligible when framed within the entirety of a student’s life.

One of the key purposes of the college is to teach students to live with integrity — integrity meaning the quality of being whole and undivided. To live a life of integrity is to live a life that is coherent rather than fragmented, driven by a consistent purpose rather than motivated by aimless passions. To live with integrity means learning how to see one’s life as something unified, and then to incorporate everything one does into that unity.

If we are serious about this vision of integrity, then we should encourage students to think about their GPAs as they fit into the whole of their lives, remembering that each of those lives are meant to find fulfillment in unique, distinct vocations.

In my own life, because I discerned that I was called to the medical profession, I knew my GPA was important — not inherently, but instead as a means by which I would be capable of pursuing what God wanted for my life. For another student who has discerned a number of other equally worthwhile pursuits, their GPA may be less important, or maybe just as important, or more important. For all of us — myself included — earning a 4.0 is almost always excessive and unnecessary, but even a 3.7 or 3.8 is only honorable insofar as it fits within the context of a student’s broader life.

I, too, remember arriving at Hillsdale College as a freshman, frightened by the constant chorus of “Hillsdale is hard, adjust your standards, be ready to earn

C’s.” Four years later, I do not regret most of the time I spent reading, writing papers, studying for exams, and performing laboratory experiments. The GPA I earned as a result has enabled me to pursue my vocation as a physician, and I am profoundly humbled by the opportunity to begin medical school next year.

To be entirely honest, I am not sure whether we should publicize student GPAs, and what context would be best to do so. What I do know, however, is that certain presentations of GPAs run the risk not of exposing too much, but instead too little, about a student’s life. GPAs that fail to place grades within the context of our dynamic, multi-faceted, and hopefully integrated and vocation-driven lives paint only impoverished visions of the students to whom they belong.

Our GPAs are important, and we should remember that our GPAs matter. A student’s GPA is one of the things that might allow him to continue his education or pursue a professional career. These, in turn, will allow a student to love others and transform the world in the way in which God desires. So pursue understanding and study hard.

College is a rare and privileged time for learning, and one we will not be able to repeat at any other moment in our lives. Take time to visit with professors. Make writing center appointments. Reread the paragraph you don’t understand. Identify what distracts you from genuine contemplation. Take time to ponder deeply the ideas you are encountering in the classroom. If you do these things honestly and with diligence, I hope that you will succeed academically.

Learning at Hillsdale has fundamentally altered my entire way of looking at the world. More than anything, however, I am grateful for the way in which my studies — and everything that has been part of my life at Hillsdale over the past four years — have radically transformed me as a human being.

And so, to every person on this campus whom I have been blessed to learn with and from, especially the student I met in Delp last week, what I would say is this: Never forget that before you are a student, you are first and foremost a person called to live a life of integrity. Integrity is difficult. It will demand that you wrestle with who you are, what your purpose is, what forms the basis of your life, and where you are going. Lots of people can tell you to get good grades, but fewer can tell you how to live in a meaningful way. Understanding what sort of person you are meant to become does not free you from your responsibilities as a student.

Your academic obligations will not be dissolved, but instead intensified, for now they will be endowed with a deep purpose.

As a campus community, may this be what we strive to honor and promote more than anything — not just the 4.0, which is held up as an isolated or ultimate standard.

But, instead, the life of integrity which respects study as an essential, though never all-encompassing, aspect of our life here at Hillsdale College.

Sarah Becker is a senior studying biochemistry and philosophy.

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Jodel’s online community promotes #GoodVibesOnly If you’re one of the 400 members of the Hillsdale College Jodel community, you’re probably all too familiar with its “#GoodVibesOnly” mantra.

Since its arrival on campus last fall, Jodel — properly pronounced as “yodel” — continues to grow in local popularity. According to Gustave Sauveroche from the Jodel Headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Hillsdale is currently the 11th largest community on Jodel in the United States.

Sauveroche admits that over at HQ, our community is considered to be a “funny and great one” with more than 175 posts each day. All posts are anonymous, but users post under the condition that their words be used to promote #GoodVibesOnly. This means

no names, no harassment, no spamming, and no photos of others.

The creators of the app intended Jodel to be a way for people to communicate easily and instantaneously based on your geographical location.

They tell new users, “Never underestimate the importance of fun. Don’t take life too seriously, smile and enjoy the ride.”

While it’s easy to dismiss Jodel as just another harmful social media platform used to post freely without tangible consequences, it’s also amazing to see how our Jodel community has become just that — a community.

Nowhere else on campus can you find such lively discourse among strangers about life at Hillsdale College. On Jodel, nothing is too insignificant to discuss. Even seemingly ordinary things, such

as pictures of sunny days, become something worth celebrating and sharing with fellow users.

But why is Jodel so appealing to students? The posts are relatable.

Because each post is anonymous, users are more inclined to post without worry of judgement. Consequently, the posts are candid, and they become instantly relatable and popular with the other users. Some poke lighthearted fun at Hillsdale culture — like the post that read, “Whoever is running the DSP Instagram deserves a raise” — while others dialogue about overcoming the woes of Hillsdating. Still others started an open dialogue about mental health, asking for advice before a first visit with a counselor and encouraging other students to take care of themselves during

midterm season.

Jodel posts often recognize outstanding individuals at Hillsdale — Jodel allows users to mention public figures such as professors or celebrities by name as long as it is in a positive context. There hasn’t been a week where someone hasn’t mentioned their appreciation for “John from the Splex” and “Bobby from Saga.” Another recent post asked users to name the “Best professor on campus and why?” and users recognized Professor of History Brad Birzer, among other great professors.

Of course, Jodel’s effect on self-esteem and the community are important to monitor. Like on all other social media platforms, there are sometimes extremely insensitive or sarcastic posts that can easily be misinterpreted as cruel. Avid posters ought to consider the effect that their

Hillsdale should invite more liberal speakers to campus Inviting a diverse range of speakers promotes free speech, critical thinking Hillsdale College just completed a beautiful chapel, Galloway Residence basks in swanky renovations, and the campus has a residential building so fresh it still goes by the name “New Dorm.”

The next item on the agenda shouldn’t be another building. Instead, Hillsdale College should improve exposure to intellectual diversity and make a sincere commitment to bring in top minds from across the political and philosophic spectrums to debate and express their views.

Leftist or progressive guest lecturers at Hillsdale are rarities. If the college wants to advocate for liberty and truth, it must provide students with the best counter-arguments in politics, science, economics, and philosophy so they can meet divergent opinions head-on. Understanding the finest advocates of “the other side” will strengthen students’ critical abilities and help them to better influence the nation.

Students at Hillsdale College are not mindless conservative drones. They don’t think in lockstep on every issue. Viewpoints outside of conservative orthodoxy, however, are a conspicuous minority. In the top 385 colleges surveyed in the 2019 Princeton Review, Hillsdale’s students were the second most conservative and fourth most religious.

Aristotle writes that

agreement on questions of the highest things is one of the requirements for true, lasting friendships. Yet there’s a danger in only reading conservative media or getting all your news from FOX News.

And no, being subjected to CNN at an airport gate twice a year doesn’t count. Students cocooned in an environment where they rarely hear strong cases for the other side will form ideological blind spots.

Conservatives from Utah or liberals from California are far more likely to be surrounded by people who think just like them.

As they’re rarely asked to provide a vigorous justification of their views, they can be, in a word, soft. Alternatively, as a conservative who went to an ultra-leftist arts school in Toronto, my beliefs were tempered, hardened, and honed by a hostile environment where I was forced to

play defense. In most classes, it was 30 versus one, but the experience helped me learn how to better articulate my beliefs. It also exposed me to a variety of arguments from those across the political aisle.

Some may say that Hillsdale’s students don’t need to hear leftist or secular opinions because the culture is already filled with them. The forums and debates that could be orchestrated by the college, however, could present both sides in a fuller, more accurate light. One possible format would be to hold debates with teams of two opposing members on each side. In a world where complex issues are reduced to 30-second soundbites, Hillsdale students would welcome prolonged and thorough discussion.

The funds to bring in top-notch minds shouldn’t come from student groups, which could spend their

“Hillsdale should become the clear champion of free speech on America’s campuses and demonstrate that the college welcomes open and honest debate...We need to talk to each other more than ever.”

entire annual budgets securing someone like Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, or Bernie Sanders—if they could afford them at all. The tab for this new initiative should be the responsibility of the college itself. Yet this effort doesn’t necessarily need to be expensive. Excellent content can come from affordable speakers.

Those confident in their beliefs shouldn’t be afraid to subject them to the most rigorous scrutiny. Some students may find “the other side” has some valid points. It happens. Refining or revisiting “settled” opinions isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of humility and a necessary step to growth.

Hillsdale should become the clear champion of free speech on America’s campuses and demonstrate that the college welcomes open and honest debate. In our current divided, tribal moment, we need to talk to each other more than ever. There’s no better place to get the conversation started than at Hillsdale.

Joshua Lawson is a candidate for a Master’s degree in politics from the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College.

His work has appeared in the Washington Examiner and The Federalist.

Self-defense should be part of gym class By | Calli Townsend Last weekend we caught a glimpse of the spring that should be coming soon. I saw dozens of people outside, going for walks and enjoying the sun that we’ve missed for so long, but as the weather gets nicer and we’re itching to get outside, I remembered something that happened last fall.

I was running on the Baw Beese trail one morning and I approached an unshaven man in a red sweatshirt that was far too big. And I’m pretty sure he had a cigarette in each hand. As I got closer, I prayed this strange man wouldn’t do anything to me.

I felt guilty for being so judgmental. Though he kept to himself, that isn’t the way it always goes. Men have slowed down to drive alongside me while I run. They’ve whistled and beeped as they go by. Once, a man even tried to find out where I live by asking one of my friends.

We live in a dangerous world, and Michigan high schools should respond by teaching self-defense and equipping kids with the skills to protect themselves. The lessons could last a lifetime — and save lives, too.

I hate that we live in a world where I feel the need to pray for safety when I’m alone, that my mom makes

me carry pepper spray when I run more than five miles, and that my roommate wants to monitor me on Find My Friends. I like to think things aren’t that bad, but the data shows that there’s plenty of danger out there.

In 2018, the Michigan Incident Crime Report recorded 3,670 first-degree rape cases, up 10% from 2017 and up 22% from 2014. More than a quarter of the cases — 936 in all — involved 15 to 19 year olds. The second highest age group was the 10 to 14 year olds, with 790 incidents.

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System report in January, more than 15,000 people were missing across the country. Detroit ranked among the top five cities with the most missing people, 150.

Just over a year ago, the Detroit Missing Child Recovery Unit attempted to rescue 301 reported missing children in Wayne County. With the help of the Michigan State Police, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and several other organizations, 123 of those kids were rescued in the one-day Operation MISafeKid. After an interviewing process, officials found that several of the cases were linked

to sex trafficking. Even after that operation, however, 178 kids were still missing.

Gym teachers in New York and Chicago have taught self-defense for years. It’s time Detroit and the rest of Michigan follow suit.

Charles Schweizer, a physical education teacher in Hicksville, NY, just outside of New York City, began a five-week course on self-defense in 2001. His class has grown into 10 sections of semester-long classes to accommodate the many high school students who want to participate.

Linda Carlson, an award-winning physical education teacher in Chicago., teaches a nine-week self-defense class to more than 800 students a year. She adapted self-defense techniques developed by the Rape Aggression Defense Systems in 2003. The course is now a requirement for students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

When I was in high school, the closest thing I received to a self-defense lesson was practicing our lock down drills in case of an intruder in the building. Teachers told us to hide, be prepared to throw a textbook, and jump out of the window if possible. None of that, however, is going to save me when I’m by

myself on a long run.

Thankfully here at Hillsdale, Master Brian Anderson, who has taught taekwondo for more than 40 years, also offers self defense classes. Junior Carmen Botha took his class during her sophomore year and said it has helped her feel more safe.

“I think self defense is important because you don’t know how bad you are at it until you’re forced to try it,” she said. “You see it in movies and it seems really easy, but when you try to do it yourself it is very hard.”

High schoolers today miss class time to attend assemblies on bullying, “stranger danger,” and internet predators. They’re taught what to fear and how to act in dangerous circumstances, but they’re not taught the actual defense skills that might keep them safe in worst-case scenarios.

By teaching self-defense in gym classes, kids won’t need to miss time in the classroom. Sure, they might miss a few days of playing dodgeball, but dodgeball isn’t going to save their lives.

Calli Townsend is a junior studying sports management.

She is the assistant sports editor for The Collegian.

words have on others and strive to maintain a fun, yet positive, atmosphere.

With the increase in the app’s popularity in Hillsdale, Jodel administrators have recently increased the amount of monitoring. They are aware of the impact of hurtful words and insensitive jokes and promptly remove any posts that violate their code of conduct. Too many infractions might result in a ban from the app. In addition, each user has the ability to report any posts that he or she finds harmful to the community.

The app is not completely anonymous either. Users’ IP addresses are also tracked by and stored at the Jodel Headquarters and can be accessed in case of an endangerment of life or in severe cases of bullying that require police intervention. While Jodel values anonymity, it values

the safety of all members of its community even more.

And at the end of the day, it’s the students who have both the ability and responsibility to promote positivity on this campus online and in person. Hopefully, the moments of relatability and connectivity won’t be limited to online discussions on Jodel’s anonymous platform.

So go tell John that you’re happy to see him next time you’re at the Splex. Thank Bobby and your professors for their awesome work on campus and find love in the community around you. Have a little fun during your college days. And don’t be afraid to share those #GoodVibesOnly with all of campus.

Luciya Katcher is a sophomore studying economics and French.

Chile suffers from lack of patriotism Unrest caused by universities teaching disdain for country, government

It was a beeping disaster.

Literally.

We’d spent four days on the coast of Chile, in a small beach town called Maitencillo. A hearty dose of sea time and shrimp empanadas prepared us to go home. But the journey took longer than we expected.

Forty-five minutes into our drive, we made it to the first toll booth, and honks filled the air. Not one, not two, but a cacophony of loud, obnoxious, blaring beeps erupted, and it didn’t stop. Angry shouts added a nice touch.

The blissful beach days were far gone, the false silence immediately broken. It was the protestors.

The person at the toll booth told us they were angry about the toll price hike.

Smoke bombs marked our entry into the neighborhood where two of my aunts live. That time, my mom explained, the police set them off. But other times, it’s the protestors — often a battle between them and the officers, each trying to disperse the other. A barricade of people stood to the right of the smoke.

It looked like the set from “Les Miserables” made it to Chile, and there was little missing. Hundreds clustered around a statue, cloaked in red, white, and blue — these are Chile’s colors, too. Some held up flags, others posters.

“Kill Piñera,” one read. All were screaming. It’s called a demonstration.

My aunt said the protesters gather there every night.

The streets of Santiago reek with anger. It’s been more than three months since public transportation tickets hiked in price. In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal documented the cost of the riots and protesting. The riots have caused more than $2 billion in losses and damages, which include 1,200 looted retail stores, and 300,000 newly unemployed people. More than 2,000 police officers have been injured, and 25 others have been killed in the riots.

Pińera certainly triggered the problem, but the bus fare hikes weren’t enough to be the leading cause of the major revolt — it was a 30 peso increase, adding the equivalent of 4 cents to the bus prices.

The core problem began much earlier, under Michelle Bachelet’s presidency from 2014 to 2018.

After she won the election in 2014, Bachelet said in her victory speech that “Chile has looked at itself, has looked at its path, its recent history, its wounds, its feats, its unfinished business and this Chile has decided it is the time to start deep transformations.”

But Bachelet only made the problem worse. Her reforms infringed on a free and stable country. In her presidency, Bachelet banned the replacement of workers on strike, which increased the cost of labor for businesses, and public spending increased faster than the rate of economic growth.

These political reforms didn’t spark the destruction, however. Instead, scholar and Wall Street Journal columnist Axel Kaiser said Chile’s destruction began in the universities, “where progressive ideologues spread the idea that there was nothing to feel proud about when it came to Chile’s social and economic record.”

Chileans stopped believing in their country because of what their universities were teaching them. In order for a country to thrive, its citizens must believe it can do so.

This is true patriotism, and it must be fostered by government leaders who promote stability.

Patriotism is the lifeblood of a nation, and without it, a nation cannot survive. It is with great pride that Americans stand together and say the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

It was for good reason that Chile was known as one of the most stable nations in South America. The Chilean population of those living in poverty decreased from 30% in 2000 to 6.4% in 2017 under free-market reform. And Chile was the first country in the world to establish a private social security program.

Under this program, each month Chilean workers deposit a percentage of their income in an account in their name, managed by private companies called Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones, or administrators of pension funds. When workers retire, they do not depend on the workers who came before them to pay into the system.

Rather, they receive their own money. This system — contrary to any other country in South America — is fully funded.

But Bachelet immediately began to devise a state-run pension program, according to Forbes in an article following her election. “As is easy to foresee, this will probably create unfair competition to the current private administrators which would not be able to match the commissions charged by an enterprise subsidized by the taxpayers’ money,” the article said.

Chile must look forward, toward the progress it can make. But living in regression — and aggravating it — has destroyed Chileans’ joy in their country.

“Right now, Pinera is toast,” said Patricio Navia, a Chilean political scientist who teaches at New York University. “The left hates him, and the right thinks he gave the left too many concessions.”

They raised their voices, and Pinera listened. But now there are no winners. Only sore losers who couldn’t see the big picture of the game.

Sofia Krusmark is a junior studying philosophy. She is the assistant culture editor for The Collegian.

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Carl Albright running for sheriff, promises to update department technology at low costs By | Emma Cummins Assistant Editor Hillsdale County Undersheriff Carl Albright is running for sheriff in the 2020 election and promises to improve technology within the department.

Hillsdale County Sheriff Timothy Parker will not run for reelection in August but has endorsed Albright.

Albright began working for the Hillsdale County Sheriff Office in 1985 as a corrections officer. In 1989, he became a sergeant. Albright has done a little bit of everything, as he has worked in every position available in the department and currently runs a $3.5 million budget.

One of Albright’s primary campaign focuses is keeping the department’s technology up-to-date while remaining fiscally responsible.

“I will find new alternatives to costing taxpayer dollars and keep the office up-todate,” he said. “We can’t put all that burden on taxpayer dollars.”

Another issue Albright plans to focus on is inmates who are mentally ill.

“We’ve had some serious issues in our jail,” he said.

“There are a lot of people in our jail who should not be there, people who are addicted to drugs and have mental issues.”

The Hillsdale County District Court began operating a drug court in 2017, which gives first-time offenders who are addicted to drugs the chance to start over through supervision and treatment.

“We give first-time offenders the opportunity to make a change instead of becoming a burden. If we can get them to get off drugs and go clean, they can make a contribution to society. I’d like to see people who want to have a chance have the chance,” he said.

As for people who struggle with mental health, the county jail is not the place for them, Albright said. Though the department has a mental health expert come Monday through Friday, Albright said, there is

more that needs to be done.

“We’re doing a terrible disservice to these people,” he said. “That’s something that’s close to my heart to see those people there.”

Albright pointed out that there are several in jail who are mentally unfit to stand trial for misdemeanor charges, but because the wait to get into a mental facility can take six to eight months, they end up waiting longer to get help than they would serving a maximum sentence for their crime.

“We’ve got to do more,” Albright said. “I’m talking with other sheriffs very seriously.

There’s an outcry for that, and there should be an outcry.”

Albright cited his 36 years of law enforcement in Hillsdale County as one reason he would serve the public well as the sheriff.

“I’m very familiar with all operations. I’ve dedicated my entire life thus far to law enforcement. I’m invested in this community,” he said.

Since those who run for

sheriff do not have to be in law enforcement, Albright said it’s important to elect someone who knows what they’re doing in times of crisis.

“I’m the most qualified,” Albright said. “You don’t have to be a licensed police officer to be sheriff. The real issue is when you or your family is the victim of the crime, do you want someone investigating that to be a licensed police officer?” he asked.

Parker said it’s important to have a sheriff who has some law enforcement experience.

“We have 60 to 70 people we are keeping behind these bars. We’re responsible for protection in our schools and courts. Do you want someone who’s actually a law enforcement officer?” he asked.

Albright declined to comment when asked about his misconduct, which included forging the city treasurer’s signature on two separate tax documents in July 2019.

“They never held a hearing on it. I went to the commissioner’s meeting before I filed the suit. I asked them, ‘Why haven’t you had a hearing on this?’ It was upsetting.”

Hendee said there is a conflict of interest between the county prosecuting attorney and the sheriff department, as the attorney works with the department. For this reason, Hendee said that if a public official breaks the law, the prosecuting attorney should contact the state attorney

general, declare a conflict of interest, and then a special prosecutor from the state would be assigned to the case.

The prosecuting attorney from the city, however, did not do this.

The sheriff ’s department did not ask for an outside investigation of the matter, and the department brought no charges after legal counsel decided that Albright’s actions lacked criminal intent.

Albright received a two-week suspension without pay,

despite turning in his resignation. Albright declined to comment.

“I stand by Undersheriff Albright,” Sheriff Timothy Parker told the Hillsdale Daily News last September. “He has been an asset to Hillsdale County for many years. I have the utmost confidence in his ability to fulfill his duties.”

Hendee is not as confident.

“The public needs to know what happened,” he said.

Hendee submitted his suit to a county judge, who

will decide whether to take any further action regarding Albright. The citizen jury, if formed, will have the power to subpoena emails, interview those involved, and make a conclusion regarding the alleged criminality of the case.

“The grand jury will get to the bottom of it,” Hendee said. “They have the power to subpoena emails. We’re going to find out what happened.”

Hendee said that several people within the county, whom he decided to keep

anonymous, have contributed to this effort.

“I think it’s great that we have citizens in our county who are willing to take initiative in this nature and not be complacent,” said Jon Smith, a Hillsdale resident and campaign manager for sheriff candidate Jon Rutan.

Hendee said he hopes the suit will ensure accountability and transparency in the future.

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each volunteer for one year.

Every three months, one class of volunteers will leave and a new class will take up the mantle. This ensures that 25% of the people will be new every three months in order to avoid factions, Rutan said.

“Let’s say you have a complaint against the deputy,” Rutan said. “Now, you’re not going to a closed agency.

You’re going to your neighbor. That person then will go get two other people on that board from two other townships and they will come into the sheriff ’s office and they will bring the complaint.”

Rutan cited Lord John Dalberg-Acton and the Founding Fathers to explain how accountability prevents man’s temptation to abuse power.

“You have to put checks and balances in place, which the Founding Fathers understood,” he said.

Rutan has a criminal justice background. He worked for

the Michigan Department of Corrections for eight years, worked as a field training officer and weapons trainer, took criminal justice classes at Jackson Community College, and has his corrections certificate. Despite not having any law enforcement background, Rutan said the sheriff ’s role is not traditionally meant to enforce the law.

“There is a misconception that the sheriff should be a law enforcement officer.

That’s a completely and totally misconceived notion. Going all the way back into ancient history, the sheriff, or the ‘shire rief,’ was supposed to be a man of good standing and good moral character that was the protector of the people in the shire,” Rutan said.

According to Rutan, the sheriff is “an administrative position, not a law enforcement position,” which is why the “undersheriff must be a qualified police officer.”

Rutan said the sheriff should be a man of good moral character who is committed to protecting the rights of residents in his community.

Rutan’s campaign manager, Jon Smith, said Rutan is the best suited for the job because of his record, involvement in the community, and knowledge of the Constitution.

“He’s a squeaky clean guy.

Jon Rutan spends 30 to 40 hours a week helping the community,” Smith said.

Smith said that Rutan knows the words and the principles of the Constitution.

“He knows the Constitution like he knows the back of his hands,” he said. “He knows the Constitution and the principles more than anyone in the community and the majority of the people in the college. We have judges that call him for constitutional advice.”

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Hillsdale resident requests grand jury, special prosecutor

By | Emma Cummins Assistant Editor Hillsdale citizen Joseph Hendee initiated a civil action suit on Feb. 14, requesting a citizen grand jury and a special prosecutor to investigate Hillsdale County Undersheriff Carl Albright.

Albright admitted to forging the city treasurer’s signature on two separate tax documents in July 2019.

“I felt that our public officials failed us,” Hendee said.

Hillsdale Justice Project Co-founder Jon Rutan is running for sheriff in the 2020 Election. | Facebook

Jon Rutan running for sheriff, plans to create a citizen advisory board Hillsdale Justice Project co-founder Jon Rutan is running his third campaign for Hillsdale County Sheriff.

Meanwhile, Hillsdale County Sheriff Timothy Parker is not filing for reelection.

Rutan, though not in law enforcement, said he is extremely involved in the community both through the Hillsdale Justice Project and the work he does giving legal advice to those who have found themselves caught up in the justice system.

Two of his main campaign issues are transparency and his dedication to “protect your God-given, constitutionally protected rights.”

If elected, Rutan said he plans to install a citizen advisory council. This council will be made up of one person from each of the 18 townships within the county, who will

Man will face 90 days in jail for trashing Taco Bell By | Carly Fisher Collegian Reporter A former Taco Bell manager was sentenced to 90 days in jail, five years of probation, and $52,392 in restitution costs on Feb. 24 for attempting to destroy the Taco Bell on West Carleton Road on Dec. 24, 2019.

Dakota James Joblinski was originally charged with malicious destruction of property over $1,000 and disorderly conduct. But through a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to attempted malicious destruction of property over $1,000.

The recommended sentence was up to six months in jail.

Hillsdale Prosecutor Neal Brady said the lighter sentence Joblinski received was unusual for Circuit Court Judge

Michael Smith.

“Smith usually gives the full sentences. If Judge Smith doesn’t believe he deserved the full six months, then he didn’t deserve the full six months,” Brady said.

Defense attorney Kimberley Berger agreed.

“I was surprised Judge Smith didn’t do the six months, but it’s fair considering the probation and restitution Joblinski will have to give to Taco Bell,” she said.

When Smith asked Joblinski why he attempted to destroy Taco Bell property, he cited his alcohol abuse and life circumstances.

“I was doing a lot of drinking, and a lot was on my mind, from my kids to my grandpa’s death,” Joblins-

ki said. “I am getting myself together so I can get my kids back before they go to the foster care system.”

Joblinski, who said he grew up in the foster care system, said he has not seen his children in six months, as their mother threatened to report him for harassment.

After Smith inquired whether Joblinski had sought parental visiting rights through the courts, Joblinski said his name only appears on one of the children’s birth certificates.

Smith gave a summary of Joblinski’s past criminal record before handing down his sentence.

Joblinski was charged with possession of marijuana in 2014, destruction of property in 2016, and entry without

permission in 2016. He has served a total of five days in jail for his past indiscretions.

“You’ve just made one bad decision after another,” Smith said.

During his probation, Joblinski, who said he has a 10th-grade education, will be required to complete a GED program, comply with alcohol and drug tests, work a job for at least 30 hours per week, and refrain from all alcohol and drug consumption.

Berger said the defense was satisfied with the outcome of the sentencing.

“Sometimes as an attorney, it is about getting the best possible resolution when there is no defense,” Berger said.

“We accomplished that.”

A former manager who caused significant damage to Hillsdale’e Taco Bell on Carleton Road was sentenced to pay $52,392 in restitution costs to the restaurant. Julia Mullins | Collegian

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Hillsdale CASA to hold Designer Purse Bingo fundraiser this Saturday By | Liam Bredberg Assistant Editor It took all of three days for the Hillsdale County Branch of Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children to sell out of tickets for its first annual Purse Bingo fundraiser.

The event will be held at Johnny T’s Bistro on Feb. 29 and will benefit the organization, which provides services for abused and neglected children within Hillsdale County.

Heather Upton, the program coordinator for the Hillsdale branch of the organization, said that CASA puts on fundraisers like the bingo night to pay for things that its grant doesn’t cover.

“There are some operating costs and other things like volunteer recognition that our grant and donations won’t always cover,” Upton said. “We put on fundraisers like this

one to make sure we can.”

The event will have a baked potato bar, beverages, chili, clam chowder, and a large selection of other food options for attendees.

The event started selling tickets on Jan. 6 and sold out three days later. The tickets cost $35 each and include 20 games of bingo and dinner.

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“We donated a purse to the bingo night from the company, and my husband and I donated one ourselves,” Brock said. “CASA is a great organization and they do great things for the community. We’re here for the kids, and that’s who they’re helping. We felt like it was a no brainer to sponsor the event.”

The event is set to have a large turnout.

“We posted the event on our Facebook page and it seems like bingo is popular in the community,” Upton said. “As of now, there are going to be around 300 people attending the event.”

Brock said CAS is a necessary organization in the community.

“They do a lot of good,” Brock said. “The volunteers and court advocates take a lot of pressure off the kids and the families, and it’s a good thing we have them in the community.”

“The volunteers and court advocates take a lot of pressure off the kids and the families and, it’s a good thing we have them in the community,” Brock said.

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tique, a candy store in downtown Hillsdale, will be sponsoring the event alongside a number of other local businesses. Danielle Brock, the owner of the shop, said that she decided to sponsor the event because she believes the organization is of vital importance to the community.

Tax donations support children in the Michigan Foster Care System By | Genevieve O’Gara Collegian Freelancer

Michigan residents can now use checkoff boxes on their state income tax forms to donate money to programs that assist children in foster care throughout the state.

Taxpayers can donate $5, $10, or more from their state tax returns to the Children’s Trust Fund or the Fostering Futures Scholarship, two programs that assist children in foster care.

According to Heather Upton, program coordinator for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hillsdale County, there are 97 children in Hillsdale County who are part of the foster care system.

Upton said substance abuse issues are the most common reason for removing a child from their home and placing them in foster care within Hillsdale County.

CASA is not affiliated

with the organizations on the tax forms, but works with children in foster care and advocates for their best interest in court. CASA volunteers offer consistency for the child and serve as the eyes and ears of the court, Upton said.

Although each situation is different, Upton said, cases are open for a year to one and a half years on average.

There are 12,500 children in Michigan’s Foster Care System, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Public Information Officer Bob Wheaton said.

According to Wheaton, the Children’s Trust Fund is a nonprofit organization that focuses on child abuse prevention, intervention, and providing services to families.

Although the Children’s Trust Fund works with MDHHS to provide funding for foster care programs to local communities all across the state, it is a separate entity that

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great time to make a donation,” Campbell said.

The Fostering Futures Scholarship is a joint effort between the Michigan Education Trust and MDHHS, said Robin Lott, executive director of MET. The scholarships are for young adults who were in the Michigan Foster Care System from age 13 or older and have plans to attend a Michigan college.

The Casey National Alumni Study reported that nationally, 70% of teens who emancipate from foster care report that they want to attend college, but fewer than 10% who graduate from high school enroll in college, and of those 10%, less than 1% graduate college.

The FFS provides $1,500 per semester in financial support. FFS also depends on donations to fund scholarships. Last year, the program raised $31,000 from income tax donations, but to keep

their place on the form, it will need to raise at least $50,000 this year. Organizations cannot stay on the form if they fail to raise $50,000 two years in a row, Lott said.

Lott said the support of the FFS is important for students who lack traditional family assistance during college.

Events such as finding a place to stay over school breaks or career guidance can be more difficult for students who went through the foster care system, Wheaton said.

FFS also connects students to a campus coach that can help them get the resources they need, like counseling.

“It’s important to support students overall to help them become successful adults.

They will be the ones running our towns and hospitals.

They are the vitally important future leaders of our communities,” Lott said.

Michelle Loren sworn in as interim city clerk, Katy Price leaves for medical emergency

Loren will handle absentee ballots as March 10 election approaches By | Ben Wilson Assistant Editor Hillsdale Mayor Adam Stockford swore in an interim city clerk on Monday, Feb. 24 after City Clerk Katy Price had to take time off for a health emergency.

Hillsdale Recreation Director Michelle Loren was appointed and will serve in the role for a few weeks.

Both state and city law required a new appointment be made immediately, with absentee ballot deadlines for the state quickly approaching.

“Because of the March primary, the City of Hillsdale is scrambling to meet state and federal guidelines for the delivery of absentee ballots and a quick decision had to be made to ensure election

integrity,” Stockford said in an email. “This appointment could not wait.”

Loren said her number one priority is making the election process as smooth as possible.

“We need to keep the absentee ballots coming and going so that everything is handled by election day,” she

mayoral-appointed position.

“Michelle has worn many hats in city government and is an asset to this community,” Councilman Ray Briner said in an email. “The City of Hillsdale is lucky to have her in our corner with the upcoming due dates from the clerk position.”

Stockford will ask the city council to ratify his appointment during its March 2 meeting.

“I encourage citizens that see Michelle to thank her for stepping up and helping out in this time of need,” Briner said.

Price is expected to return in the coming weeks, and Loren will resume her responsibilities in the recreation department.

“She will be back in not too long,” Loren said. “We just had to keep the election rolling forward.”

“I encourage citizens that see Michelle to thank her for stepping up and helping out in this time of need,” Briner said. said. “The election needs to stay on track.”

Loren has filled in as an interim city clerk several times over the past decade. The position used to be an elected one, and she would fill in if the elected clerk had to step away. It has since been made a

Michelle Loren will serve as interim city clerk in the weeks leading up to the election as Katy Price is out due to a medical emergency. Julia Mullins | Collegian

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Chargers tune up for conference championship Men's Track and Field By | Kate Pipher collegian freelancer Coming off of the Hillsdale Tune Up meet, head coach Andrew Towne said he was proud of his men’s team and feels confident moving forward into this weekend’s G-MAC Conference Championship meet.

“Across the board, it was really good,” he said.

To kick off the home meet, senior hurdler Ian Brown continued his season of success and set another personal record and a NCAA Division II Provisional Mark in the 60 meter hurdles. He won the race with a time of 8.21 seconds.

“The race went really well.

It’s always nice to have competition to push me,” Brown said. “We had done a couple things technically different in preparing for this meet.

To run 8.21 was perfect because it’s the provisional qualifying mark.”

Towne said he has been impressed with Brown’s season so far.

“He is a really good example of what we’re looking for,” Towne said. “His PR

coming into the season was 8.49 and now it’s 8.21. In a short race, that’s huge. It’s what we talk about with our team all the time. What you put into it is what you’ll get out of it. And Ian has been very focused this season, and it shows.”

Freshman Joseph Ritzer competed in the 400 meter dash and ended fourth with a time of 53.84 seconds.

Senior teammate David Downey ran for sixth with a time of 54.02 seconds.

In the 800 meter run, freshman Sean Hoeft and junior Mark Miller battled throughout the race for the lead. Hoeft edged out Miller at the end to set a personal best by two seconds with a time of 1:57.26. Miller came in right behind him with a season’s best 1:57.54.

“I was looking forward to the race. Last week, I was half a second away from qualifying for the fast heat at conference,” Hoeft said.

“I went in just looking to go out fast. I think Miller definitely helped pull me through that race. I was really happy with that result.”

Both Hoeft and Miller

qualified for the fast heat at conference and are currently sitting at fourth and fifth in the conference rankings.

Freshman Isaac Waffle also raced in the 800 meter run and came in fourth with a time of 1:59.54. Freshman Dylan Palmer ended eighth with a time of 2:02.61.

The men’s 4x400 meter relay won the race in 3:24. The team was made of freshman Benu Meintjes, freshman Ian Calvert, sophomore Jacob Schmidt, and junior Adam Wade.

In the field, the Chargers racked up even more points.

Freshman Charlie Andrews competed in high jump and ended fourth with a jump of 1.89 meters. Sophomore Will Syrus leapt 6.42 meters in the long jump and took fourth place. Syrus also ended fifth in triple jump jumping 11.40 meters.

Freshman Josh Nichols jumped to a second place finish in the triple jump with a jump of 13.20 meters.

Sophomore Steve Weideman set a new personal best for the second week in a row in the weight throw. He took second with a mark of 15.57

meters. Sophomore teammate Kai Panethiere placed eighth in the weight throw with a throw of 13.21 meters.

Senior Ryan Thomsen competed in the pole vault, earning a second place finish as he cleared 4.43 meters.

Sophomore John Baldwin took a break from his normal events on the track, and fine tuned some of his decathlon skills. Baldwin pole vaulted and ended sixth with a vault of 3.83 meters.

On a whole, the men’s track team is prepared to take on the tough conference competition. Brown said looking ahead to his final indoor conference meet.

“It’s really gonna be who can be consistent at conference, so that’s my goal,” Brown said. “I want to be unphasable. I’m going to run my race, and I’m going to run it fast.”

This weekend the Chargers travel to Tiffin, Ohio, to compete in the 2020 Indoor Track and Field G-MAC Conference Championship.

Events begin on Friday, Feb. 28 and conclude on Feb. 29.

The Hillsdale College women’s track and field team took full advantage of its last home indoor meet to take the necessary steps to prepare for the G-MAC Conference Championship “This meet was what we needed across the board,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “Coming off a meet like that, you want to feel ready to go. And I feel like we’re ready to go.”

To start off the meet, junior Kajsa Johansson dominated the competition in the 60 meter dash. She ran a NCAA Division II Provisional Mark with a time of 7.66 seconds.

“The Athlete of the Week was Johansson,” Towne said. “She moved up in the national rankings, and she should be in good shape this weekend.”

Johansson also won the 200 meter dash with another provisional mark of 25.01 seconds, which currently ranks her 19th in nation of NCAA Division II. “I felt that my races Saturday went well,” Johansson said. “It felt like all the little things were finally starting to come together so that was

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dominated in that event with a personal best and an NCAA Division II Provisional Mark. She won with a time of 9.08 seconds. Roney had never even run the 60 meter hurdles before her freshman indoor season, and now she sits in good position to medal in the event at conference.

“I was super mentally prepared for this meet and excited,” Roney said. “I PR'd last week, so I was excited to PR again. I felt throughout the week because of practice and I just went out there and killed my old PR by .2 seconds.”

Coming off injury, Allison also ran the 60 meter hurdles and ended third with a time of 9.51 seconds.

In the field, the Chargers showed up to compete.

Sophomore Alexie Day placed second in the high jump with a jump of 1.62 meters. Senior Kathryn Bassette pole vaulted and ended in a solid second place with a season-best vault of 3.45 meters.

Emily Gerdin, a freshman, won the long jump with a leap of 5.31 meters. Her senior teammate, Danielle Jones was right behind her taking the runner-up position with a jump of 4.96 me-

ters. Jones also ended second in the triple jump with a leap of 10.08 meters.

For the throwing squad, sophomore Nikita Maines led the pack. Maines won the shot put with a throw of 12.81 meters and took first in the weight throw as well with a throw of 17.09 meters, an NCAA Division II Provisional Mark.

Sophomore teammate, Michaela Burkhauser placed second in the shot put with a throw of 12.77 meters and earned third in the weight throw tossing 15.91 meters.

Freshman teammate, Katie Weldy also put together a strong day of competition ending seventh (10.57 meters) in the shot put and fourth in the weight throw (14.67 meters).

Overall, excitement for the conference is high and the team feels well prepared.

“I’m really ready. I’m excited to go out there and do what we’ve been preparing for,” Roney said.

The Chargers begin the 2020 G-MAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Tiffin, Ohio, on Feb. 28.

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exciting too. I’m hoping to PR and score as many points as i can at conference.”

Freshman Jillian Roney took second in the 200 meter dash with a personal best of 26.11 seconds. Sophomore Alanna O’Leary finished third in 26.25 and freshman Allison Nimtz took sixth place with a time of 27.39 seconds.

Freshman Judith Allison won the 400 meter dash ending with a time of 59.96 seconds.

Another freshman dominated her event, as Gwynne Riley took first place in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:18.90.

Her teammate, junior Megan Poole ran the race in 2:22.25 and took second place.

Most of the distance athletes took the week off to recover and prepare for conference, but a few Chargers competed in the longer races. Senior Addison Rauch won the event with a time of 5:22.82. Fellow senior Kate Vandersteldt ended in 5th with a time of 5:39.60.

In the 3000 meter run, freshman Natalie Martinson ended fourth running the race in 11:29.55.

Roney also competed in the 60 meter hurdles and

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Freshman Canela Luna prepares for a return in one of the matches she played last week. courtesy | hillsdale college athletics

Chargers edge Michigan Tech at home, remain undefeated on season By | Ryan Goff assistant editor

Junior Hannah Cimpeanu returned to the singles lineup this week as the Chargers hosted Michigan Tech University on Sunday. Her presence was immediately felt on court.

In the Hillsdale College Chargers’ 4-3 win, the Chargers faced pressure on the singles courts after narrowly losing the doubles point with a few match points on the second court and losing a bid for the point in a tiebreaker on the first court. Starting off the match one point down, Cimpeanu’s resilience at no. 1 singles was critical.

She rocketed returns low and away, neutralizing her opponent’s strong serve. She redirected the ball late into points, working all angles of the no. 1 court and earning clean winners. In moments she missed her spots, but more often she hit her lines in the tight match.

Her opponent served to take the second set and level the match. Cimpeanu returned a first serve with a clean winner and out-rallied her opponent in other points, but hit one ball in the net up against a set point.

In the third set, Cimpeanu stayed aggressive. In long points, she placed shots deep in the court and on the lines.

Often her shots hit the tape of the net, but she didn’t deviate from her aggressive gameplan. She kept up the pressure in the slugfest of a third set.

“Today she struggled a lit-

tle bit on her backhand side,” Walbright said. “She needed to stay steady in the match to win.”

Up 5-4 in the third, Cimpeanu had the chance to break for the match. Facing 15-30, she dug in and forced an error. Up 40-30, she put a return in the net to set up deuce. Without ad-scoring, the next point would determine whether Hillsdale takes the match or Michigan Tech forces a tiebreak.

A long rally ended with Cimpeanu’s call on the baseline. Disagreeing with the call, her opponent shouted, “Seriously?” and tried to push back. Frustrated, she threw her racquet as she walked to her bench after shaking hands. On the other sideline, Cimpeanu’s teammates walked out to congratulate her.

Senior Katie Bell outlasted a late charge from her opponent on the no. 3 court, sustaining her intensity late into a set that was challenged up until the final point of the straight set win. When her opponent’s ball sailed past the baseline after a series of hard rallies, Bell pumped her fist as she ran to the net to shake hands. That win meant a lot as the first point for the Chargers, who were forced to dig out of the 1-0 hole after losing the doubles point.

Then, sophomore Sarah Hackman lost her match narrowly in the third set and freshman Canela Luna forced a third set after losing her first quickly. With a straight set win from senior and GMAC Player of the Week Kam Matthews, the

score was tied 3-3 and it all came down to sophomore Sophia Spinazze.

After jumping out to an early 5-2 lead, Spinazze lost her first set. In the second, she used her consistency to lengthen rallies and find openings to get out to a fast start that she maintained well into the third set.

“I tried to stay focused on each shot and take it one point at a time,” Spinazze said.

After neutralizing her opponent’s aggressive play, Spinazze worked her way into the court and created opportunities for clean winners.

“I think she did that really well in the third set especially and being really consistent and letting the other girl make the error eventually,” Walbright said. “I love her game because she can stay out there all day and that’s part of her game style.”

By the third set, all the other matches were decided and the no. 6 court was the focus of everyone’s attention.

Spinazze’s methodical game style kept working against her opponent in the pressure moments. She said the attention from her team helped motivate her to close out the match strongly.

“I wanted to win for them and hearing their close support really helped me to close out the match,” Spinazze said.

The Chargers are now preparing to lengthen their unbeaten streak on Saturday on the road against Ferris State University.

Julien Clouette eyes the ball in his win in a doubles match in last weeks tournament. courtesy | hillsdale college athletics

Chargers defeat Lewis to improve unbeaten record By | Ryan Goff assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers outlasted two tough opponents on the road this weekend with a pair of wins over Purdue Northwest and Lewis University that set them on an undefeated start to the season.

“Best start in school history, as far as I’m concerned,” head coach Kieth Turner said.

The Chargers came out on top of a 4-3 match that was decided by a tiebreaker on Saturday against Purdue Northwest. Sophomore Brian Hackman’s straight set victory at no. 4 singles was the deciding match for the Chargers who were up 3-2 after a tight three-set loss by senior Charlie Adams, a straightset loss by senior Michale Szabo, and three strong wins by freshman Tyler conrad in straight sets, junior Ivan Lissanevitch in three, and a sweep of the doubles courts.

“From what I knew, I might lose, Charlie might lose, Michael is losing, so I knew no matter what I needed to win my match,” Hackman said.

After getting ahead early and taking the first set, Hackman faced more pressure in the second. Late in the second set, Hackman’s

serves which were faltering snapped into form and he controlled the fate of the match.

“All of a sudden at the end of the second set, in the tiebreak after we hit 6-6, I literally hit 5 aces,” Hackman said. “It was crazy. The kid just blinked and our match was over, the whole match was over.”

The next day, the Chargers came from behind against Lewis University and won the match 4-2, which was only played to clinch.

When we got down 1-0 we were confident we were going to win 5 and 6,” Turner said. “We knew we had to win two of the top four singles matches.”

The Chargers did end up sealing the 5 and 6 courts quickly, and Adams took no.

1 singles 6-3, 6-3 to help the Chargers surge back into the lead.

At the beginning the other team carried the momentum into singles,” Hackman said.

“But suddenly we were the ones way louder than them and had the momentum, so that was super big.”

That put the match into the hands of either Lissanevitch or Hackman.

“Charlie played phenomenally well. Michael was playing a good player and was losing,” Turner said. “We

were hoping Ivan could pull that second set out, and he did.”

Beating his opponent 6-2, 7-5, Lissanevitch closed out the match under pressure. In the close second set, he had to rely on what he knew to win the final points.

“This was a big turning point in the season for him, as far as he can still play his normal game and beat these guys,” Turner said.

After losing the doubles point last weekend vs. Ashland, the Chargers focussed on improving their doubles play. Turner said he is still concerned with improving the net play of the team.

“The doubles point is going to be huge on Saturday against Ferris State,” Turner said. “Because we have yet another extremely tough weekend coming up.”

Hackman said he knows how important the doubles point is to success in the season, but points to the Lewis match as a big confidence booster for the team late in the season.

“We expect to usually win the doubles point, but there’s going to be some teams where we just won’t,” Hackman said. “I guess knowing we were able to win that match gives us a good feeling that we’ll be able to figure it out.”

charger chatter: Jake Rhodes Q: How long have you played baseball?

Q: What made you choose Hillsdale?

A: I’ve played baseball as long as I could walk. Organized since I was five or six— the coaches would pitch—but even before that, I was always playing. I had two older brothers who also played, and I’d go to their games and play on the side with a wiffle ball. As long as I can remember, I’ve been playing baseball.

A: My two older brothers came here and played baseball here, so it was kind of a tradition. I was well aware of the school.

They always told me stories, and they had great experiences here, so that was a big appeal.

Q: Who is someone you look up to and why?

A: I’d say I look up to my father. He’s always been a very strong role model for me, both in sports—he was always my coach growing up, for whatever sport I was playing—but he was also a very good family leader off the field. Raising me, he instilled the values in me that helped me to be successful. His leadership—he’ll drop anything he has just to help others. He puts others before himself all the time.

Q: Did your dad play baseball?

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A: He played baseball in high

school, he never played further. But he loves it, and he’ll watch it all the time. I think he likes baseball even more than I do. He could watch it every day all day. He and my mom have probably watched more Hillsdale Charger baseball than anyone, because they watched it for six years when my brothers were here and now four years for me, so they’ve watched ten years of Hillsdale baseball. It’s weird when they’re not there.

For a lot of people it’s different when their parents are able to make the games, but I’m lucky to say that it’s weird when mine aren’t there.

Q: How has the Hillsdale baseball team evolved how you’ve been here?

A: It’s really cool, because now that I’m here for four years, I can see how things have been passed down. The guys who were seniors when I was a freshman instilled values in us, and now, being a senior and being a leader on the team, I’m

able to pass that down to the freshmen. Also, Coach Theisen just sent a picture today of our hitting facility, the barn that we have outside our field—he sent a picture of what it looked like five years ago. And it looks nothing the same. We’ve been blessed with facilities and technology. It’s improved so much in the past five years, so that’s been awesome to see.

Q: How is playing baseball at Hillsdale different than your past experiences playing?

A: The main difference is that you just get so much closer with the guys. The guys I’ve lived with have become my brothers.

They’ve become closer than any teammates I’ve ever had on any other team. Just the close-knit community of the guys. We’ll go to class together, we’ll eat lunch together, we’ll go to practice, to workouts together, and then we live together on top of that.

The relationships we’ve built are unlike any others.

Q: Do you ever get tired of each other?

A: Occasionally it can happen, just like any brothers get tired of each other a little bit. But for the most part, it’s just awesome spending time with them.

Q: What’s your best baseball memory?

A: Winning the GMAC tournament in 2018. The feeling of all the hard work we put in all throughout the year, just feeling all that accumulated into winning the championship, which was our goal from day one. The dog pile on the pitcher’s mound—we all ran out and jumped on each other, and just that feeling of euphoria was awesome. That was probably my favorite moment.

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Two winning weeks for Chargers before final regular season game By | Calli Townsend assistant editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers capped off a fourgame homestand with a victory over the Tiffin University Dragons on Saturday.

Hillsdale is now 14-3 in the conference, with one last game in the regular season remaining.

On Thursday, they hosted the Cedarville University Yellow Jackets, who got off to an early lead to start the game. The Chargers put a quick stop to that, gaining control of the game and ultimately winning 75-67, but not without a battle as the game closed.

The Yellow Jackets pulled ahead with just under nine minutes to go, leading 60-56.

Hillsdale came back to tie the game at 62, and from there senior guard Dylan Lowry put up 12 of the Chargers’ 13 points in the final five minutes.

Lowry totaled 21 points in Thursday’s game, earning him a spot among the 37 other past Chargers to score 1,000 career points.

“Hitting 1,000 is one of the goals I set for myself prior to the season and it feels really good to see all the hard work that goes into the summer, the preseason, and the season itself pay off,” Lowry said. “My family, friends, and coaches have been incredibly supportive which has been awesome.”

Freshman forward Pat Cartier added 22 points to the Chargers’ offense, while junior forward Austen Yari-

an scored 10 while snagging a game-leading eight rebounds. Yarian also led the team with three assists.

This was the first and only time Hillsdale will play Cedarville during the regular season, but there’s a chance the two teams will see each other again in the Conference tournament. The Yellow Jackets currently sit one spot behind the Chargers in third in the G-MAC rankings.

Hillsdale celebrated its seniors on Saturday with an 89-77 win over Tiffin.

The Chargers put together a solid team effort with 21 assists and eight steals while forcing 11 Tiffin turnovers. Four Chargers scored in double figures, one of whom was senior guard Mike Travlos who celebrated his day appropriately with a career-high 11 points. Yarian tied his career high of 23 points as well, while Cartier and Lowry each added 19.

Yarian attributes his high-scoring game to the help of his teammates.

“I would say it was definitely my teammates getting me the ball in spots for me to make plays,” he said. “We had 21 assists and I think when we are playing unselfish basketball, it allows different guys to contribute more.”

The Dragons scored a three to put themselves ahead 26-16 with 11:33 to go in the first half. Fifteen seconds later Lowry came down and scored a layup, getting the and-1 when Hillsdale called a timeout. The Chargers came back out on the

University of Findlay for the final game of the regular season. This highly-anticipated game brings with it plenty of pressure for both of these teams. Findlay currently leads the conference with a 14-2 record, with one of its losses being to Hillsdale back in December. The winner of this game will be the regular season conference champion.

“We are very excited for the opportunity,” Lowry said.

“Games like this are the reason we play college basketball. It’s going to be a hostile THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

The Hillsdale College Chargers fell in their regular-season home finale last Thursday against Cedarville University and lost their fourth consecutive game on the road against Ursuline College on Saturday.

The Chargers are now 3-14 in the G-MAC and 6-20 overall with one game remaining in the regular season. For the first time since joining the G-MAC, the Chargers won’t qualify for the conference tournament.

On Thursday, the Chargers fell to Cedarville, 66-53.

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court and Lowry drained his free throw, sparking a much-needed 10-2 scoring run to give the Chargers a one-point advantage.

Hillsdale couldn’t hang on to its lead, however, as Tiffin headed into the locker room with a 10-point advantage at the half.

“If you remember last year’s senior night, we ended up losing and it was just a miserable feeling letting our seniors down after everything they did for the program, so we didn’t want to repeat that again,” Yarian said. “The biggest difference between the first and second

and grabbed three rebounds with two assists.

The Chargers shot 36.4% from the floor overall, and each team had 35 rebounds and 11 assists. Cedarville took advantage of 15 Hillsdale turnovers to score 17 points off of miscues.

On Saturday, Hillsdale traveled to suburban Cleveland, Ohio, to face the Ursuline College Arrows.

Again, the Chargers remained close for most of the game, but the Arrows pulled away in the fourth quarter, outscoring Hillsdale 18-9, and won 74-57.

Daffenberg led the Chargers in scoring Saturday with 13 points, and also grabbed

half was just our team defense as a whole. In the first half we weren’t in the right spots and were getting beat one on one.”

He said they decided to embrace the challenge in the second half and play the defense Hillsdale is known for.

The Chargers took the court and made a series of layups to score 15 points in the first five minutes and take back a 50-48 lead. They never looked back from there, leading the rest of the game, finishing up with a 12-point victory.

On Saturday, Feb. 29, Hillsdale will travel to the

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six rebounds. Wacker followed with 10 points and eight rebounds.

Junior guard Jaycie Burger scored nine points on three three-pointers, and Touchette and Anderson both scored seven points.

Touchette also had a teamhigh four assists and two steals.

The Chargers close their season on Saturday on the road against the University of Findlay, who they beat in December in Hillsdale. The victory over Findlay was one of just five conference losses the Oilers have this season.

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Chargers drop home finale Touchette again led the team in scoring, putting up 15 points on 7 for 13 shooting from the floor. The performance was her seventh straight game scoring in double digits.

Sophomore guard Lauren Daffenberg and senior guard Sydney Anderson both scored 11 points, and each made three three-pointers.

Senior center Julia Wacker scored eight points.

Freshman forward Arianna Sysum came off the bench for a season-high 17 minutes, and scored four points with five rebounds and two assists. Sophomore forward Anna LoMonaco also came off the bench for 17 minutes,

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environment and hopefully a tremendous game between two great teams.”

Despite the pressure of the big, especially of one on the road, Lowry said the team is still ready for the challenge.

“It’s been so long since we played last, we are both such different teams,” he said.

“For us, it’s going to be all about getting off to a good start and avoiding giving up big scoring runs because they can be so explosive on the offense and especially at home.”

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I find out what happens in ‘the fantasy suite’ so you don’t have to By | Haley Strack Collegian Freelancer It’s fantasy suite week.

And, oh, how sweet it is.

With this week comes many promiscuous connotations. Peter and the remaining girls have the chance to spend the night together.

There’s an air of mystery around what happens behind closed doors.

As Peter has his chance to go down under, so do we. We meet the bachelor in Gold Coast, Australia, and he’s never looked better.

Peter is the spitting image of romance. As he frolics down the beach in a flamingo button up and khaki shorts, I can’t help but be jealous that I’m not the one running my fingers through his flowing comb over.

Luckily, he has three other girls to do that for him.

Before the dates start, Madison voices some concerns to Peter. She tells him that if he chooses to be intimate with the other women, she will not feel comfortable continuing their relationship.

Understandable, given that Peter has the opportunity to sleep with three girls and six days later will choose his future wife.

It gives a new meaning to the “last night (week?) of freedom.”

Ironically, the three finalists, Hannah Ann, Victoria, and Madison, are all staying in the same house this week.

Maybe viewings have gone down and the producers couldn’t splurge for separate rooms, but my guess is that they know it’ll be drama, drama, drama.

Things are tense, to say the least. Amidst the fake greetings and compliments like “wow you look SO skinny,” or “you look good enough to steal my man,” (kidding, they only thought that). Peter enters to pick up his first date.

Hannah Ann and Peter set out on a wild adventure.

Well, wild in bachelor terms.

They go to a beach and drink champagne. It feels like we could have done this anywhere, but at least the sunset in Australia is nice.

Hannah Ann is the only one who has said she’s in love with Peter and he eats it up.

He’s obviously infatuated with her, so it’s no surprise that the two spend the night together (we’re still wondering what they did).

The next day, Peter sends Hannah Ann on her way and tidies up for the next girl.

Victoria and Peter take a helicopter ride to a waterfall.

In case you forgot that Peter is a pilot, here he is, reminding you at every given moment. The pair guzzle cham-

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pagne and have a shallow conversation (I feel like we’ve been here before), where they address the problems their relationship faces.

Peter says “I love everything about Victoria. Until it comes to communicating.”

Semantics, Pete. As if communication is important in a relationship. Although the pair acknowledge their faults in communication (again, not a big deal), they can’t deny their “obvious chemistry.”

The two proceed to spend the night together (we’re still wondering what they did) and like clockwork, Peter’s giving her the boot the next morning to get ready for his date with Madison.

Peter and Madison’s relationship reaches new heights (and inevitable lows) this week. To start, the couple climb the tallest building in Gold Coast. Nothing makes you love a person quite like depending on them so you don’t fall 270 meters to your death. A rather good strategy on Peter’s part, I must admit.

Madison confesses her love for Peter when they reach the top of the building, though at this point it’s unclear if she was saying it so they could climb down or because she meant it.

Regardless, the couple enters the evening drama-free and loved-up. Sound too good to be true? Good, because it’s not.

Madison wants to know if Peter has been intimate with Hannah Ann and Victoria… and as someone who could be engaged in a week, I’d say she has the right to know.

Much to Madison’s chagrin, Peter has been blatantly ignoring her concerns about his intimacy with the other women. Peter probably thought he could get away with it, but Madison puts him in his place.

She has expectations for the relationship that Peter just isn’t meeting. In all fairness to Peter, if Madison didn’t want to date a man courting 30 other women, she probably should’ve tried church first.

Peter tells her he can’t lose her, he can see them together forever, but it’s too late. Peter put intimacy before her and Madison isn’t able to come to terms with it. She walks away and our bachelor is left crying in the club.

I can’t speak to the legality of the issue, but I’m pretty sure every Bachelor is contractually obligated to sleep with the final three. At least, that’s what Peter tells himself so he can sleep at night when none of his women are with him.

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Students take break from studies, paint at Penny’s watercolor event By | Hannah Cote Collegian Freelancer Students had the chance to relax and play with paints over the weekend.

On Saturday, Feb. 22, senior Joanna Dell and junior Caroline Hennekes hosted their second watercolor event of the year, “Water Color with Jo and Caro.”

Their first watercolor event hosted in the fall semester had a large turnout, and many students said they were excited for a second round of painting.

Paint palettes were set up around Penny’s coffee shop with numerous brushes and sheets of watercolor paper, alongside different lattes and teas, creating the ambiance of a relaxing and soothing painting session. Hennekes recognized the calm environment that the afternoon of painting invoked, encouraging both her and Dell to continue the sessions.

“We just left so happy that other people had a good time at our first session,” Hennekes said. “It was noticeable, like everyone was relaxed. It’s

Hillsdale, so when that happens you’re like, ‘Oh, something happened!’”

Dell and Hennekes are pursuing art majors and have taken many classes together.

“We’re actually doing a

with watercolors her junior year, and has found a new passion for it every since.

“I didn’t really touch watercolor until I took a class last spring,” Dell said. “Ever since then I just fell in love with

Student painting at “Watercolor with Jo and Caro” event hosted at Penny’s. Hannah Cote | Collegian

watercolor independent study together,” Hennekes said.

“Every Monday is a watercolor day together which is fun. It’s only halfway through the semester and I feel like it’s changed how I paint with watercolor.”

Dell only started working

watercolor and I got my own supplies. Whenever I travel, I paint and I really loved doing it over the summer.”

Many students at Saturdays watercolor event came back for the second one, but there were also many new faces.

Sophomore Reagan Linde was

unable to attend the first watercolor event but made sure she attended the second one.

“I set an alarm so I would remember,” Linde said. “I had set a reminder to go off at noon because I was like ‘I have to go.’”

Sophomore Gladys Oster was also unable to attend the first event, but she opened the door back into her childhood as she painted during the afternoon of the second event.

“I forgot how much I love painting,” Oster said. “It had been a long time, so I was just so excited when the signups came out, like ‘oh my gosh I can do this again.’”

“Jo and Caro’s” watercolor sessions were received well across campus, as they shed light on the calming atmosphere that accompanies art.

Even if you haven’t painted in years, events like “Water color with Jo and Caro” provide an outlet for many students to step back into their artistic roots and take a break from the busy college schedule, allowing them to truly create.

Shakespeare Society: friendship over the Bard The students who read, talk, and perform Shakespeare are growing their club and spreading their passion across campus By | Haley Strack Collegian Freelancer “Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.”

In the 1989 drama film “Dead Poets Society,” English teacher John Keating, played

by Robin Williams, proclaims these words to his students while encouraging them to find inspiration through the eyes of poetry.

Now, Hillsdale students have started a club so their “barbaric yawps” can be heard all over campus.

The group joins artistic and literary pursuits in exploration of the highest virtues Hillsdale preaches.

It is formally known as the “Shakespeare Society.”

Their mission is to gather, teach, and enjoy the Bard’s most influential works.

“It’s always been a very casual club,” co-president Sienna Clement said. “Over the course of 15 to 20, years it’s become more official, but it has this ethos of being amateur people who just really love Shakespeare, admire language, and are just participating.”

The club meets weekly to read Shakespeare plays and in the spring, the society sponsors “Shakespeare in the Arb,” an annual play performed, directed, and facilitated entirely by students.

“The club started out as a stage reading society,”

co-president Amelia Rasmusen said. “They would hold a big stage reading, and it gradually mutated into a society that puts on one production a year.”

This semester, the club will perform their rendition of “A Winter’s Tale,” set between the 1950s and ’70s. As the director, Rasmusen has the job of taking amateur students

“There’s something very grassroots about it,” Clement said. “We have very low budget costumes, but it’s exciting to perform Shakespeare in a way that feels kind of folksy and informal.”

The society gives students a chance to speak the great poet’s words out loud — an entertaining and intellectually stimulating activity.

“It’s pretty simple. We just want to read Shakespeare.” and giving them an outlet to express their love of Shakespeare.

“We’re setting the first half of the play in the ’50s, because it’s set in Sicilia which is a place with a very strict hierarchy,” Rasmusen said. “The play includes a man accusing a woman of adultery and her having no power because of the patriarchy. The second half is set in the 60s and 70s which is a very hippie, free loving, less hierarchical time.”

The play will be performed on April 25 in the Slayton Arboretum. Students said they are eagerly preparing and excited by the prospect of putting their own spin on a classic.

“It’s pretty simple,” Rasmusen said. “We just want to read Shakespeare.”

Students from all backgrounds join together in their love of Shakespeare and many even develop an interest in theatre as a whole through the annual performance.

“We have several English and theatre majors participating this year,” Clement said.

“There’s quite a few theatre people who became theatre people through the Shakespeare society.”

Though Shakespeare’s genius is universally recognized, the Society’s specific and intense readings give students the chance to grow in their love and understanding of

the poet. Through readings and performances, students find enhanced inspiration to grow in their love of classical literature.

“Shakespeare gives you a structure,” Clement said.

“There’s a rhythm that carries you through whatever you’re saying, and he has a multicolored sort of way that captures so many different aspects of life.”

The club has a large base on campus.

“We have about 20 people in the cast this year,” Clement said. “We had a really good turnout for the reading club last semester.”

With numbers increasing and interest growing, the Shakespeare Society shows no sign of slowing down. The club will continue to put on performances in the spring, and they hope to inspire others with their admiration for Shakespeare.

To study Shakespeare’s poetry is to study the important things in life — beauty, romance, and love. The Shakespeare Society offers students a place to enjoy literature and camaraderie while finding inspiration in the beauty of the poet’s timeless words.

All students are welcome to join the Shakespeare Society to partake in the eternal word of Shakespeare, and the society welcomes everyone to enjoy their performance in the Arb in April.

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Lighthouse Tea pours Ad Liberty performs first show of semester over good conversations By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College Lighthouse Club is continuing their monthly teas. Every other Friday afternoon the club meets to have open and honest discussions about various mental and emotional struggles.

For their last meeting on Friday, Feb. 7, the group gathered at the Paul House to talk about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Lighthouse President Alexis Daniels said she thought their last gathering went well, as seven students, both male and female, attended.

“The number of attendees varies from tea to tea depending on the topics,” Daniels said. “In the first full week of the semester in January, we talked about Seasonal Affective Disorder.”

The next tea will be in March when students come back from spring break, but the club has not chosen a topic yet. In addition to the informal teas, Lighthouse, along with psychology honorary Psi Chi, hosts monthly “Behind the Stigma” talks where professionals and other students give lectures on a wide range of mental health topics. This is a more structured and formal event, so the teas offer students a more relaxed environment to learn.

“The Lighthouse teas are kind of a scaled down setting from the Behind the Stigma talks,” Daniels said. “It’s meant to be informational and we educate each other, and it’s also a space to share those experiences and we can see how different those experiences are and better understand each other.”

Lighthouse Vice President, Olivia Manocchio, said that while the teas provide stu-

dents an opportunity to share their own experiences they aren’t meant to be a therapy session.

“During the teas, we typically discuss a mental health topic and partake of light food,” Manocchio said. “The goal is to foster conversation and understanding.”

At the last Lighthouse tea, although no health professional could attend, Daniels said the students in attendance still learned a lot from their discussion.

“Someone new came in who had been struggling with OCD all of his life,” Daniels said. “He talked about what it looked like to live with that.

It was really informative and striking to hear another student’s experience face to face.”

Manocchio said the group hopes to involve more of the Hillsdale Health Center counselors in future gatherings. Hillsdale’s Director of Health Service, Brock Lutz, is already involved as the faculty advisor for the group. He said he thinks what they’re doing is a great idea.

“There is a revolving list of topics that they discuss, usually focused around some mental health diagnoses or disorder, and I think anytime we get information out there about these disorders and how to best cope with them it is very helpful for students,” Lutz said. “It is also a very nonthreatening environment to come and discuss these issues, mostly with peers.”

Lighthouse began hosting the teas in the beginning of the fall semester and has continued to host them throughout the school year. The date and topic of the next Lighthouse tea will be announced in the Student Activities Board newsletter and on posters throughout campus.

By | Tracy Wilson Collegian Freelancer

AdLiberty Improv’s preparation and high energy allowed for a successful first show of the semester, according to Jake McKie, the club’s president.

The improv group held their first show of the semester last Thursday, Feb. 20, in Conrad Recital Hall.

“We just felt like we were ready for the show. Even a lot of the new stuff we were trying was clicking,” McKie said.

“I think a lot of the scenes

all around were really strong and really fun to watch, with consistent laughs,” he said.

The show featured a series of several improv games acted out by different members of the group. Among some of the games performed were five things, new choice, swinging pendulum of death, four square, good bad and worst advice, and scenes from a hat.

Actor Tom Southwell commented on a particularly funny moment from the show. “We had a lot of fun, unexpected stuff, like a walnut falling from the ceiling in the middle of the scene,” he said,

referring to how he incorporated the walnut into his performance as a theater-ghost in that particular scene.

McKie said that they frequently work to keep the scene going under any circumstance, which is called justification. “No matter what happens, theoretically we can make it make sense in the scene”, he explained. “We’re always trying to help each other up and work everything we can into the scene.”

McKie added that while AdLiberty Improv is looking to increase in size, their small group is still able to work

together well.

“We’ve been a rather small group this year but we’re working on getting our numbers up,” he said. “The chemistry between the people we have is really fantastic.”

The members of AdLiberty Improv encourage new members to attend practices.

Practices geared toward new members looking to hone their improv skills are held on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in Room 135 in the Fine Arts Building.

‘Marriage Story’ tells a powerful human story By | Victoria Marshall Assistant Editor It was the beginning of “Marriage Story” that did it for me.

The Oscar-nominated film opens up with a soon-to-bedivorced couple recounting what they each love about their estranged spouse (at this point the viewer has no idea that they are, indeed, estranged). Charlie Barber, played by Adam Driver, has the first line.

“What I love about Nicole…”

As Charlie recounts Nicole’s (played by Scarlett Johansson) endearing personality traits and quirks, the audience members are taken on a panoramic trip of their past life.

“She really listens when someone is talking.”

The camera cuts to Nicole listening to an animal rights activist outside the subway with a sign-up sheet, nodding

her head with sincerity.

“She cuts all our hair.”

We’re shown Charlie sitting on the edge of the bathtub as Nicole plays barber. The scene repeats with their 8-year-old son as Charlie watches.

“And it’s not easy for her

ing, her sense of humor, her ingenuity — the audience falls more and more in love with their relationship. I know I did.

“What I love about Charlie...Charlie is undaunted.”

Now we get Nicole’s

“Instead of seeing each character as a villain, we see their strengths and their flaws with the necessary backdrop of their shared history and attachment” to put away a sock, or close a cabinet, or do a dish, but she tries for me.” Camera cuts to Charlie hitting his head on a kitchen cabinet door left ajar.

As Charlie continues to list what he loves about Nicole — her gift giving, her parent-

perspective, which is just as heart-wrenching as Charlie’s.

In a way this sequence at the beginning of the film is the most powerful and telling of the entire movie. The audience sees the genuine love and connection Charlie and

Nicole have for each other, which makes their separation so agonizing.

Marriage Story is successful because it starts with the realization that what Charlie and Nicole had was real. And even as they fall out of love, they are continually reminded — as well as the audience members — that their bond remains (as flashbacks to the film’s opening scene attest).

Thus this opening scene is necessary because it is pivotal to the structure and understanding of the movie as a whole.

Ultimately, “Marriage Story” is successful because it tells a story well, the story of Charlie and Nicole and their failed marriage. Instead of seeing each character as a villain, we see their strengths and their flaws with the necessary backdrop of their shared history and attachment. We see the genuine depth of their very human relationship, and we relate it to ourselves.

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Christophe Rico, professor of general linguistics from Israel, gave a lecture on the “Sixth Renaissance.” Alex Nester| Collegian

Scholar suggests global sixth Renaissance is on its way

Christophe Rico points to online dictionaries, apps, and databases will hasten the new Renaissance By | Alex Nester Opinions Editor Each of the five renaissances in human history have been defined by characteristics of a return to old sources, the discovery of a new technology, the renewal of ancient languages, and the concept of a classic author. And some think we are headed toward a sixth, one scholar argued at a public lecture on campus.

Christophe Rico is a professor of general linguistics, semantics, Greek linguistics, the Greek New Testament, and the theory of translation and pedagogy of ancient languages at the “Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem” in Israel. He is the dean and head of the ancient philology program of the Polis, the Jerusalem Institute of Language and Humanities.

Polis, a group of about 3,000 scholars located in Jerusalem, promotes a “renewed interest in all that has happened” in the past.

Rico proposed the question of whether or not global society is moving toward a sixth Renaissance, and compared what people are experiencing

globally to the five Renaissances of history.

Rico said that “in the five Renaissances on which most everyone agrees, the question is to ask ourselves if we are heading toward a sixth Renaissance.”

Though there are many defining characteristics of a Renaissance, one of the defining moments is technological innovation. For example, Greek glossaries and commentaries marked the first renaissance, from the third to second century B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt. These texts grew to become the famous Library of Alexandria.

Rico provided evidence that pointed to the beginning of another Renaissance.

In 1985, Catholic Priest and latinest Reginald Foster founded the Aestiva Romae Latinitas, a group that became the “torchbearers of new renaissance movement” in the United States. In 1996, a group of Latin-speaking professors started the Septentrionale Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum, a group of professors and students who promote learning Latin. And

a group of Latin-speaking scholars in Jerusalem founded the Polis Institute in 2011.

Rico said that, today, there are nearly 3,000 people across the globe who speak Latin.

Further, the use of online dictionaries, apps, and online databases for information constitute one key technological advancement that Rico says might signify the onset of a sixth renaissance.

“When I was a student, there was nothing of that,” Rico said. “I went to a small school in Marseille, and there was only a small group who would speak Latin, and they were all old. The people who speak Greek and Latin today are all very young.”

Rico said that when he attends Latin-speaking events, the average age of the Latin speakers is 25 years old.

Though the quantity of interest in studying ancient texts and language during the 16th-century Renaissance is much greater than today, Rico said the quality of interest and the technological advancement seen today is comparable.

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“If a family doesn’t trust you, they’re not going to buy what you have no matter what it is, even if it’s the best deal ever. And so the first goal is always to get them to trust you by being human, because people trust people who are being real and being themselves,” Brown said. “That’s also why the first three weeks you don’t focus on how much you sell. You focus on how many people you’re talking to and how much practice you’re getting, because if you do the reps, you’re going to get better at it.”

Credibility is a vital component for every Southwestern intern. As Houser said, each intern is assigned to a school district. They make a Facebook business page, obtain a permit, and check in with the police.

“Most people in that community know who we are and what we’re doing from the Facebook page, but if they don’t, you just have to say you’re the book girl or guy for that area,” Houser said. “So you build your business for that summer in the one area, so it’s not like a group thing.

Other interns don’t come into your area. They have their own.”

Although a seemingly solo effort and enterprise — interns make 40% commission

Hillsdale’s Karate club in the ’60s. Collegian Archives

‘After tumbling out of an airplane from 3,000 feet...’

By | Callie Shinkle Columnist Hillsdale’s sports scene saw a revamp in the spring of 1967 with an increase in action activities according to the April 27, 1967 issue of The Collegian.

Skydiving, flying, judo, and karate led this trend.

Collegian reporter Parke Hayes wrote, “Skydiving appears to be catching on tremendously. Steve Verbanac, who made the wire services with his jump into the middle of a football practice session last fall, has ‘dozens’ of fellows interested.”

This quote reveals a wild turn of events that leaves so much unanswered. Was the jump into football practice announced prior to the event, or did he literally just fly out of the sky and plunge toward the field at a stupendous speed?

Were any football players injured in the descent?

Unlike skydiver Verbanac, these inquiries were left up in the air, and Hayes moved on from skydiving to discuss aviation at Hillsdale.

He wrote, “Another group of guys is also serving as instructors, while continuing their interest in flying. Dean Cutshall, Ken Ward and Guy Peterson are three names that come to mind. Peterson naturally draws the most attention

when he buckles up his 1941 bi-plane.”

It is unclear whether or not all three college students owned planes, or how they acquired the means to fly.

Hayes also reported that “Karate and judo are being popularized by Tom Ditzler and Ray Irvin. Regular classes have been held once or twice a week on the Japanese-born sports.”

One does love to see the birth of the one credit “sports studies” classes. Generations of GPAs are forever indebted to Ditzler and Irvin.

This, however, was not Hillsdale’s first taste of action-filled adventure.

On Nov. 12, 1964, Collegian sports reporter Steve Fairchild wrote, “Another member joined the Marshall Skydiving Club from Hillsdale last Sunday. Patti Pace was immediately accepted after tumbling out of an airplane from 3,000 feet and living.”

I like that they threw in the “living” stipulation at the end, pretending that people were genuinely on the edge of their seat to see if Patti Pace would make it through this jump. Pro tip from an amateur journalist: the audience knows if something stunning happened, it will be in the headline.

The action sports continued to be popular in the

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from Grand Rapids last summer.

Tim Wells, the executive director of administrative affairs, said he appreciates Newson’s work recording CCAs and College President Larry Arnn’s senior capstone lectures. He’s also provided support for SAB events and lighting and sound for Christ Chapel.

From finding work and jobs to growing his production company, Case said Newson hasn’t let anything get in his way.

“Adversity hasn’t slowed that dude down,” Case said.

“From getting into college, finding work and jobs, riding the bus, or doing the work … he never expected or wanted a handout, and he brought integrity and his family along the way. He doesn’t want a handout, he just wants a seat at the table.”

Though he’s traveled the country shining the spotlight on starlets and professional athletes, Newson remains humble, placing his faith first, followed by family.

“That stuff doesn’t phase me,” Newson said. “It’s hard to remember who I’ve met.

They’re not my God … I put God in front of all that I do.

That’s key for me.”

Bentley concert, Newson only noticed the people who weren’t there.

“I was looking out at the crowd, as a goodwill man, at 200,000 people, and my family’s not there,” Newson said.

The next day, Newson reached out to his mentor, which eventually led him to apply for his current job at Hillsdale.

“I wanted to slow down for my family,” Newson said.

He and his wife Michelle have a two-and-a-half year old daughter, Naomi, and a six month old son, Evander.

Though he had never heard of Hillsdale before, Newson said he appreciated the college’s connection to Frederick Douglass, whom he admires (alongside Martin Luther King, Jr.) for his oratory abilities. Newson added it was important for him to have his family nearby.

“This man was a slave and he wrote and spoke so beautifully. He and Dr. King are my two favorite orators of all time,” Newson said. “I strive to have dignified speech like these men, I have worked at it my whole life.”

Newson said he’s received more pitches for sound and audio at large national events since moving to Hillsdale

following semesters as well.

On Nov. 6, 1967, The Collegian reported, “A Karate Club, one of the newest organizations on campus, has been started by James Chang, a native of Hong Kong.”

The article continued, “Jim’s reason for starting the club was ‘because not too many foreign people know this art, and I want to introduce it to them.’”

At the time the article was published, the club had over 20 members and continued to grow in popularity the following year.

On Feb. 22, 1968 The Collegian reported that the club “gave a demonstration at the First Methodist Church in Hillsdale. In the future, it is hoped that the members might be able to compete with various other college and city karate and judo clubs.”

I won’t lie: when I think of karate demonstrations, I don’t immediately picture it taking place in a church, but any publicity is good publicity I guess.

The rise of new sports on Hillsdale’s campus was a great trend that offered new activities for students. At the very least, I think we should bring skydiving back. Catch me parachuting down onto the football field this year.

February 27, 2020 B3 on everything they sell — community still defines the experience.

Interns live with each other and stay with host families — usually Southwestern alumni. Every Sunday, the entire Southwestern contingent for their area meets up, and everyone checks in with each other and participates in bonding activities.

“So you’re able to get your questions answered and first years who are going through it for the first time get to talk about whatever emotions they experienced through the week to a manager,” Houser said.

After completing their first summer internships with Southwestern, both Houser and Brown knew they were going to return. But this time, it wasn’t for the money.

“It’s after you get past the money aspect, that’s the next reason why people like it.

It comes from the idea of, ‘How far can I actually push myself?’” Brown said. “Doing door to door sales is really hard. My family never opened the door. For example, my parents were like, ‘Why are you doing that? We never open the door when somebody knocks.’”

Houser said if money was the motivating goal, most people would quit Southwestern after their first internship.

“It’s the mission of our company to help young people develop the skills and character they need to achieve

their goals in life. And it gets super touchy-feely, but it’s literally my job as a manager now,” Houser said. “I come back and talk with people about what their goals are. If Southwestern lines up with that, and they are willing to trust me, and I can trust them to be honest, my job is literally to help these people realize their potential. So I would say that’s the biggest motivator.”

Brown also stressed the mission of the company.

“It’s really, really centered on helping us,” he said. “It’s not necessarily about sales skills, what we really emphasize is you’re learning how to communicate with people, you’re learning how to sell an idea, which are really important skills to have. But there’s also the character of how you run a business over the summer. In general, how you run a business says a lot about you, what your core values are, and what your principles are. Even if you run it poorly or unethically, that’s on you.

Southwestern empowers college students to run their own business.”

Through their internships, both Brown and Houser received skills they will use for the rest of their lives. But they are not done. They plan to spend a fourth summer selling books door-to-door.

Perhaps late-stage capitalism doesn’t account for personal growth and achievement.

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JW Newson operated Garth Brooks’ spotlight during his concert at Notre Dame stadium. Courtesy | JW Newson

Grammys to family: Audiovisual superstar joins Hillsdale staff

By | Alex Nester Opinions Editor In the front cover of his notebook, Jerry Wilson, “JW,” Newson has a few lines scribbled. They’re reminders he learned from the book he reads daily: “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale.

It begins, “I believe I am divinely guided. I believe I will always take the right turn in the road,” and continues, “It’s your attitude that counts.

It is your attitude which gives obstacles their power or lack of power.” Finally, “I expect the best and with God’s help, I will achieve the best.”

Newson joined Hillsdale’s Audiovisual Department in

June 2019, providing lighting and sound support for events and speakers across campus.

Newson first became interested in light and sound technology in his early teens.

He spent his Sunday mornings at church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, either singing in the choir or assisting the sound producer. His mother bought him a Dell Inspiron computer, which he used to create tapes, CDs, and DVDs. His Nana gave him a four-foot high stack of old records.

From one record, Newson hand-cut a rectangle — a prototype for his business card.

His lifelong friend, Jayson Case, helped Newson create these custom cards. This was the beginning of Newson’s

music production company, Dem Ductions.

Case said Newson always carried around a camcorder.

“In the first grade when we ran into each other, there was never a time he didn’t have it in his hand,” Case said. “It’s his lifelong passion, making audio, being an entrepreneur.

He made himself these cool opportunities … with his high spirits, and believing in Christ, and chasing.”

Newson and Case went to grade school and high school together and played on the same sports teams. While working for Case’s family jewelry and goldsmithing company in his early 20s, Newson told Case he was going to go to the 53rd Grammys. He

didn’t know just how, but he’d get there.

Newson then heard of the Give the Gift of Music essay-writing contest, which asked competitors to write about what music meant to them. Newson wrote in, won, and made it to the Grammys that year.

“The 53rd Grammys showed me that I can do it, too,” Newson said. “There was a small probability, but I told Jayson I was going. I followed the sense or intuition that I was going. It’s that ‘believe it, speak it, receive it’ attitude.”

Newson said attending the Grammys was a crucial “pivot” in his career “from small-minded to an international level.”

Since 2009, Newson has freelanced for concerts, televised professional sports matches, and other events across the country.

From 2014 to 2018, Newson worked as the director of special projects at the United States Department of Justice, where he and a team of researchers created a program that used music to promote literacy and math education.

He’s also worked at the 2019 NFL draft in Nashville, the 2019 NBA All Star Weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, the 2019 NHL Winter Classic, the Cirque du Soleil Corteo at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Kevin Hart’s Irresponsible Tour at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, and

Summer interns make Dear Dale, bank selling books By | Victoria Marshall Assistant Editor If anything is enigmatic to late-stage capitalism, it’s probably a door-to-door sales company that sells books in the age of the internet.

College-age interns who work there typically gross $10,000 a summer.

This is Southwestern Advantage, “America’s oldest entrepreneurial program for university students.” Established in 1855, Southwestern markets itself as a company that gives students the ability to afford their college degrees and earn transferrable skills for life after graduation.

“Southwestern Advantage is the original company of what is now Southwestern Family of Companies — 29 brands that serve a range of industries around the world,” Sales and Marketing Associate Morgan Millikin wrote in an email. “Interns are trained in performing consultative sales, marketing educational products to families in communities throughout the country.”

Essentially, interns sell educational materials — think Princeton Review and National Geographic — door-todoor in neighborhoods across the United States. Four Hillsdale students, among them junior Karinne Houser and senior Ian Brown, interned with Southwestern and plan to return this summer.

Houser heard about Southwestern when she filled out a summer work interest survey in her senior year of

high school. From there, she attended an informational meeting, earned an interview, and was selected as an intern.

“It sounded like the hardest thing that I could do with my summer,” Houser said. “If I did the work, the company was old enough where I could trust that I would make the amount of money the average first year makes. And if I didn’t, that would be on me, and that scared me.”

Houser said she also interned to build her resume.

“On my resume I could be relocated, was able to learn how to prospect, approach, and have a sales conversation with over 3,000 families of all different socioeconomic backgrounds, and then did my own facilitating of all the product, close the sale, and deliver to this amount of customers,” Houser said. “So, it was a lot of growth condensed into three months.”

Houser made $6,500 dollars in profit her first summer. Since then, she profited $13,000 and $25,000 dollars from her second and third summers, respectively. She plans on completing a fourth internship with Southwestern after this semester.

Brown heard about Southwestern through his cousin, who had made $13,000.

Brown’s parents told him he was on his own for college, so he saw the internship as a way to help pay for tuition.

“Honestly, it was because of the money aspect,” Brown said. “I didn’t want to graduate with a ton of student debt. I

wanted to be able to buy a car, so when I understood that I could actually make a lot of money, it was kind of just like the immediate need of school.

So that was really the reason why I got into it. Then I was like, okay, these people seem cool.”

Brown made $9,000, $21,000, and $24,000 his first, second, and third summers, respectively. He now recruits and trains students as a Southwestern student manager himself.

“In the spring training, we meet with interns once a week and we cover all kinds of stuff — basically the A-Z of selling,” Brown said. “So we walk through, like, ‘What’s the cycle of a sale?’ And, ‘What are the objections, blah, blah, blah.’ Then we also do sales talk practice. We practice going through our sales talks, because the more you have that memorized, the more you can jump in and out of it. It’s improv, essentially. For example, a mom is talking to you and they ask you a question. And you’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what’s next in my sales talk.’ You can’t be a robot, you have to understand how to come in and out. The sales talk is so that you don’t have to be thinking about what you’re saying. It just comes out like second nature.”

Brown said that being able to come in and out of the sales script is essential to connecting with a potential customer, as the conversation should be

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Garth Brooks’ CBS Special at the Notre Dame Stadium.

He’s worked for other artists, including J. Cole, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, and Shania Twain, and he once worked at a fashion show for Sperry.

Most recently, he produced at the 2020 NBA All Star Game in Chicago.

At last year’s NFL draft — an opportunity Newson credits to his friend Neil Crum — Newson worked on the “Hit Squad,” a group tasked with audio, video, staging, carpentry, and rigging equipment in NFL setup zones around downtown Nashville. But looking over a massive crowd of 200,000 people on Saturday night during the Dierks See Newson B3

I did something really embarrassing a few days ago. I thought it would be fine, but then I overheard people that I don’t even know talking about it in the union. I am mortified!

-Embarrassed Ed

Dear Ed, Word travels fast. All it takes is one uncomfortable slip-up for people to talk.

Without knowing the nature of your embarrassing incident, it is hard to know the specifics of how to approach your problem. Let’s instead look at the root of the issue: caring so much what other people think.

Look at the numbers. There are 1440 minutes in a day.

If someone talks about you for a generous ten minutes, that’s only taking up 0.7% of their time. Even though you happened to overhear these people talking about you, it’s likely they merely mentioned it in passing.

Moreover, think about how embarrassed you are by this incident — you are concerned with your image, your reputation, and your drama. Well,

everyone else is doing the same exact thing with their own personal problems. The reality is, people are generally too preoccupied with their own life to be putting too much thought into others’.

Sure, it might be an entertaining story now, but it will soon blow over once the next topic of interest comes along.

Finally, remember that even if people do talk about it for a long time, there’s nothing you really can do to stop it. Humans by nature are judgmental and often gossip. You can’t control what they say but you can decide how much it affects you. You wouldn’t truly be living the college experience without a few embarrassing moments. So go easy on yourself and don’t worry so much about the opinions of strangers.

-Dale To submit questions to Dear Dale, contact The Collegian on social media or email cabbo@hillsdale.edu.