Hillsdale Collegian 2.1.18 by The Hillsdale Collegian

Vol. 141 Issue 16 - February 1, 2018

Michigan’s oldest college newspaper

College waits on accreditation results after recent HLC visit

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Construction of chapel, new dorm on schedule, Péwé says By | Jordyn Pair News Editor With the construction costs of the $28.6 million Christ Chapel now completely covered, Hillsdale College is one step closer to the building’s completion in May 2019. Construction for both Christ Chapel and the new dorm on Union Street next to Benzing Residence is on schedule, according to Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé. The north wall of the chapel is the next area of focus for Weigand Construction in the building’s construction. It is also pouring concrete for the balconies this week. “Pretty soon, they’ll close up the building,” Péwé said. Although its construction costs are covered, the school is still working to raise money for the chapel endowment fund and other features it

hopes to include in the building. The unnamed dormitory finally got walls and a roof over winter break, after construction began on it in August. The crew finished the roof just after Christmas in below freezing temperatures. “It seems like they’re really coming along with it,” said senior Macy Mount, Benzing head resident assistant. “At the beginning of the year, it was just a hole in the ground.” For now, the dorm is still unnamed. “Over-time proposals may be sent to friends who have expressed an interest in supporting student housing or this particular project,” Péwé said. “The college would name it once a significant lead gift was made.” For now, the dorm is being financed with a loan from the college’s endowment. According to Péwé, the college will

By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Students may find their IDs more closely scrutinized in the upcoming months, thanks to a recent increase in the use of fake IDs in and around Hillsdale. “Based on information we have obtained from an ongoing investigation, we have reason to believe it may be widespread in our community,” Chief of Police Scott Hephner said. Hephner said police became aware of the problem when a young person provided a fake license to a police officer. According to public records, an 18-year-old was arrested on Jan. 18 for providing fake ID to police, among other charges. “With new technologies, it’s really hard to tell,” Hephner said. “They’re not as obvious anymore.” Fake identification cards can now have valid magnetic strips and holograms, security measures that were previously difficult to replicate. “We’ve come across some really good ones,” Hephner said, adding the department has confiscated fake identification cards from both college students and area youth. Even students who can legally purchase alcohol have

said their identification is being more heavily scrutinized. Senior Hannah Niemeier was a passenger in a car during a traffic stop in Hillsdale on Saturday night. A law enforcement officer asked for the licenses of everyone in the vehicle. “I’ve never had a cop ask for anybody’s ID who’s not the driver,” Niemeier said. Junior Erin Flaherty, who turned 21 over winter break, also reported having her identification inspected by a cashier. “Something about it looked fishy to her,” Flaherty said. Senior Maria Theisen, who turned 21 in March, said her vertical enhanced license tripped up the cashier at the Hillsdale Brewing Company. “I’ve never been questioned with it before at the bar, but at the brewery, they questioned me about it,” Theisen said. Theisen added she thinks this instance is part of a larger trend. “I’ve definitely noticed that places that sell alcohol are looking a little bit more carefully at IDs,” she said. Local businesses haven’t necessarily noticed this trend, however.

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pay it back over time with interest. The school still plans to add a café in the dorm. “It’s got to at least break even,” Pewe said. “I’d love for it to happen, but you have to see if students will come.” Péwé added that the dorm, which will house 56 beds, will be ready for student use at the beginning of next school year. Renovations to Galloway Residence are also scheduled to begin at the end of the semester. The school plans to bring the interior up to the same standard as a new dorm. The renovations will cost $4 million, which is coming from the school’s surplus. The school is also planning to expand Phillips Auditorium as a part of its second phase renovation of the Searle Center. The project is estimated to cost $5.6 million.

By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Now the wait begins. Five accreditors from the Higher Learning Commission visited campus Monday through Wednesday, as a part of the college’s comprehensive evaluation for reaccreditation. The college will receive the results in the next few weeks. Accreditation is a certification from a regional group of member colleges, such as the HLC, that says an institution of higher education meets its criteria and federal requirements. Attendance to an accredited institution is often required to attend graduate programs, participate in NCAA athletics, and receive federal financial aid. Fortunately, Hillsdale’s accreditation is pretty safe, said George Allen, director of institutional research. “An institution has to be in dreadful shape to lose accreditation,” Allen said. “Worst case scenario here is they say: ‘You’re not doing XYZ to our satisfaction, so you have to get into gear for these, and here are your extra reporting requirements on those subjects.’” Hillsdale entered its final year of its 10-year Open Pathway accreditation cycle in January. In December, the school submitted its Assurance Argument, an online explanation of how Hillsdale meets its goals and the HLC’s criteria. The accreditors toured campus and met with faculty, staff, and college leadership to discuss the five criteria it needs to meet pertaining to the college’s mission, integrity, academic quality, academic evaluation, and effectiveness. They also held three open forums in which faculty, staff, and students provided feedback on Hillsdale’s ability to meet the requirements. “We’ve enjoyed our time on campus,” Sandy Cassady, the accrediting team leader and the dean of the College of Health and Human Services at St. Ambrose University in Iowa, said at the forum. “We’ve had some good, candid conversations.” Junior Calvin Kinney attended a forum on Monday at the request of Dean of Men

Aaron Petersen because he is a resident assistant. “I thought it was good that they listened to a student’s perspective,” Kinney said, adding, “Accreditation is reassurance to the student body that Hillsdale is living up to what it says it is doing.” It is the first time Hillsdale is completing the Assurance Argument, after the HLC moved Hillsdale to the new Open Pathway about four years ago. The new pathway requires Hillsdale to complete more paperwork required by the U.S. Education Department, despite Hillsdale not taking federal funds. According to Allen, it shows the trend in changes to accreditation. In the 1960s, the function of accrediting institutions changed when the Education Department made them the gatekeepers of federal financial aid. Since then, regulation and scrutiny of the accrediting bodies has increased. From that, the Education Department can influence the direction of higher education, said Mark Maier, assistant to the provost. The increased regulation also means more demands from colleges, even those that do not receive government money such as Hillsdale, Allen said. Also new are requirements in year four and year five to nine of the accreditation cycle. In 2022, Hillsdale will need to update its Assurance Argument. Starting in 2023, Hillsdale will submit a Qualitivity Initiative proposal on which it will provide a report by 2027. Common initiatives focus on student success, the incorporation of technology, and growing campus culture. “Now it’s supposed to be this continuous relationship where there’s always something going on,” Allen said. While this means more paperwork for the college, which resulted in the creation of Allen’s position, the final-year comprehensive review has lessened in extent. Before switching pathways, Hillsdale had to have a whole room of file evidence that visiting accreditors would read to back up its self-study. The self-study was a large book the college had to write

Q&A: CCA speaker Mary By | Stefan Kleinhenz Collegian Reporter Mary Eberstadt spoke at Hillsdale College this week for the Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture series on the 1960s, where she spoke on “Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.” A senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute and graduate of Cornell University, Eberstadt is an American essayist and novelist whose pieces have appeared in magazines including TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, First Things, and The Weekly Standard. Eberstadt also served as a speech writer to Secretary of State George Shultz during the Reagan administration. She is also the author of a few nonfiction books, including “Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.”

explaining the college’s goals and programs. The Assurance Argument has replaced it on the Open Pathway. Now, all evidence is uploaded online to Dropbox and is less exhaustive, according to Allen. Instead, the materials are supposed to be representative examples of the defense Hillsdale presents in the argument. Additionally, the accreditors’ visit was shorter: they had meetings for a day and a half instead of two and a half days. Accreditation has also moved toward demanding more statistical information. Some of this, however, is good for Hillsdale, Allen said, as it has exposed gaps in transparency and data recording. The HLC requires the college to publish its student outcome rates publicly. Allen worked with the career services office and the college’s website managers to publish that online. “That is great for the institution, because those numbers are great for Hillsdale,” Allen said. “In this case, it’s given us a decent idea that will tie into marketing for the school.” After the accreditors who visited campus this week submit their report and recommendations to the HLC, the commission will review the findings and can edit any of the suggestions. Allen said the accreditors told him that happens about 13 percent of the time. President Larry Arnn will be the first to see the report and then will decide on what happens with the report from the HLC. Last time, the commission provided some recommendations to the college and asked for interim reports on its general education assessment, program assessment, and the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. The accrediting team may request more documents before submitting its report on Hillsdale to the HLC. Mostly, though, the college just anticipates its results. “We’ll find out if they found what we presented satisfactory,” Allen said. “At this point, we’re really just waiting for the recommendations of the team.”

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and that’s the hardest thing about writing: the other side doesn’t want to talk back. In all of the different types of writing you have done, from speech writing, to essays, to novels, what has been your favorite? Last year my novel “The Loser Letters” was turned into a play, and it ran for two weeks at Catholic University in D.C. That was Mary Eberstadt spoke this week for the Center for very exciting and it makes Constructive Alternaatives. Wikipedia me want to writer in the sense that a lot of do more fiction writing and what I do is against the mainWhat is the significance more stage writing. This year I stream grain, and that’s not of writing in your life? Have have a lot of essay writing and because I want to be contrari- speaking going on, and probyou always loved writing? My main vocation honestly an, it’s just that a lot of what is ably a book that will include happening in the mainstream is being a wife and mother, what I did here today and a is wrong and bad for people. but I have been writing since few other chapters. After that I What I try to do is tell stories, I could hold a pencil. I always want to get back to fiction. whether in fiction or nonhope that somewhere down What do you hope to fiction, that tell truths and there it serves the greater instill in the hearts of your to do so respectfully. I also good and tells truths. I regard audience? myself as a counter-cultural try to engage the other side, One thing is that there are www.hillsdalecollegian.com

truths they may not be aware of, and I’m trying to impart to them. Another thing is to give people morale who feel like they are a minority, they’re not a minority here on this campus, but out in the wider world I’m very aware of how countercultural a traditional Christian message can be. Part of what I try to do, especially with students, is give them ammunition, in a figurative sense, so they feel like somebody’s got their back and somebody understands how hard it is for them to be countercultural too. Part of it is intellectual, but part of the work is of the heart. Is there someone you grew up admiring, maybe an author or another role model you’ve always hoped to follow in their footsteps? Intellectually there are so many, but I draw a lot of inspiration from the Russian novelists. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn,and the reason is that they were crawling out of a serious place and time in their different eras that they put a primacy on the truth. Solzhenitsyn especially writes brilliantly about truth telling and the importance of it.

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Catholic Society to hold silent retreat this weekend By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor Hillsdale College Catholic society will participate in an all-women’s “silent retreat” this weekend at the De Sales Center in Brooklyn, Michigan. In two weeks, the group will participate in an all-men’s retreat. The Catholic Society spearheads these retreats each spring semester. Society President junior Sammy Roberts described the retreat as a time for silence, reflection, confession, and spiritual guidance. “We live in a world of constant noise, and so it’s kind of nice to break away from that and start your semester off in silence,” Roberts said. Roberts added that although the group of students who will attend are primarily members of the Catholic Society, the opportunity is open to all Hillsdale students. “If someone is just interested in what Catholic spirituality looks like, just go for it,” Roberts said. “At the very least, you get a weekend to relax in silence and pray.” The idea of a silent retreat follows the order of Ignatian spirituality, a concept that originated during the sixteenth century with St. Ignatius of Loyola. Senior Amalia Hansen described the Spiritual Exercises that are a part of Ignatian spirituality. “The two principles of

Vangieson said. “I gave him this weekend I didn’t really want to give him and he gave me time to complete all my tasks.” Students can sign up for the retreat at the top of the stairs in Grewcock Student Union during the lunch hour on Friday or by contacting Roberts by email at sroberts@hillsdale. A group attended the retreat last year as well. Amalia Hansen | Courtesy edu. The cost for in the presence of God is the the Spiritual Exercises are the retreat is $30 per student, goal of this contemplation.” meditation and contemplaa significant discount from According to students who tion,” senior Amalia Hansen the De Sales Center’s regular have been on the retreat in said. “The talks are about fee for retreats, according to previous years, the time to meditation, and through Vangieson. disconnect from the busyness that they give you advice for Roberts reiterated the value of everyday life is valuable. contemplation. You decide on for all students, regardless “I’ d never been on a silent resolutions for your own life. of circumstances, to take an The talks are really helpful for retreat before last year,” sophopportunity to spend time omore Maggie Vangieson said. giving you practical advice.” in quiet introspection and “I felt going in really stressed, During the retreats, stumeditation. but it was a good way to reset dents will have opportunities “Whether you’re a freshand remove myself from the to attend Mass, pray, reflect, man going on it for a first time business that we have here.” attend short talks, and receive or a senior getting ready to Vangieson said that alone-on-one guidance, spiritu- though some students may be graduate, it’s a time to take a al or otherwise. step back, take a deep breath, wary of spending a weekend “The way they structure the away from their busy lives of and realize you’re not in conretreats is really helpful,” Han- academics and obligations, trol of your life,” Roberts said. sen said. “They fill your time “The sooner that you do that, the opportunity to attend the enough that you’re able to stay retreat is worthwhile. the more joyful a person you focused. There’s also time for can be.” “If I give the time to God, he always gives time to me,” silence on your own. To be

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Campus avoids the flu outbreak hitting nation By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Even as the rest of the country fights widespread influenza, Hillsdale’s campus seems to be staying healthy. “We’ve had a couple cases here at McIntyre,” house director Theresa Martin said in an email. “But not as many as we have had before.” Staff nurse Carol Drews named the Hillsdale Hospital’s vaccinations as part of the reason she hasn’t seen an uptick in students with influenza. The hospital administered over 300 vaccinations to students. “I hope we’re doing a good job with prevention,” she said. “Being in a communal environment does increase your risk of getting the flu.” Drews does warn the vaccine might not be entirely effective, however, clocking in at just 33 percent efficacy, according to Drews. “The strain that is prevalent this year is Influenza A,” she said. “It’s known for

its ability to pervade the predictions of the scientists that make the flu shot.” The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a map outlining areas with high concentrations of influenza. All but Hawaii and Washington D.C. are classified as having “widespread” cases of the disease. “This is the first year I’ve seen the CDC label each state in the union as ‘widespread flu,’” Drews said. Although campus hasn’t been hit, flu cases in the general population are rising. “This has probably been one of the worst seasons,” Director of Risk Management at Hillsdale Hospital Doris Whorley said. “For some reason, this year it happened as a virus that got out of control.” Drews said the best way to prevent catching the flu is to get the flu shot and to wash hands frequently. “Be conscious and kind to your fellow students,” Drews said. “If you have a fever, stay home.”

“This has probably been one of the worst seasons.”

Mock trial looks toward spot at national championship By | Josephine von Dohlen Assistant Editor After a successful performance weekend, both Hillsdale Mock Trial teams look forward to the semester, aiming for a spot at the National Championship Tournament in April. Mock Trial Team 1106 finished in sixth place at the Cornell University Invitational, with a record of 5-3, and Team 1107 took 3-5 at the Indiana University Invitational. Competing against teams from colleges and universities such as Patrick Henry College, University of Pennsylvania, American University, and Cornell University, Team 1106 had a “fantastic” weekend, according to junior Captain Daniel Henreckson. “They ended up going against some of the topranked teams at the tournament, so it was certainly a good tournament with respect to facing quality opponents,” Coach Jonathan Church said. “It was a very solid finish from them.” The Cornell University Invitational tournament was the second “really tough tour-

The mock trial competed this past weekend. Lauren Eicher | Courtesy

nament of the school year,” Henreckson said. Both teams traveled to Yale University to compete in the Yale University Invitational in December, each scoring records of 4-4. “As a team, when we went to Cornell, we were much better, better case theory, better performances,” Henreckson said.

Working to improve their case from last semester, the team added a demonstration board this weekend, laying out specifics to improve their case. “It was beautiful when it was finished,” Henreckson said. “And it is super convincing. When you have rows and rows of evidence, showing a timeline of where the defen-

dant is, and how it is almost certain the defendant was at the scene of the crime, I think that worked really well and impressed the judges.” Two freshmen took individual awards for their Outstanding Witness performances — Connor Daniels and Mason Aberle. Daniels portrayed a pharmacologist analyzing the credibility of

eyewitnesses of the prosecution and Aberle played the role of a homicide detective testifying for the prosecution. “It was about time they got that,” Henreckson said. “We were all shocked and surprised and really happy.” Jonathan Church said the team worked factually on their cases leading up to this tournament. “We basically tore our prosecution and our defense apart for the new semester and I think at this point our set is where we want it to be,” Jonathan Church said. The Indiana University Invitational hosted teams from University of Cincinnati, Indiana University, Dayton University, and the University of Michigan, in addition to Hillsdale’s Team 1107. “In some ways it was even more difficult than our competition at Yale,” sophomore Captain Andrew Simpson said. “We had a really good showing.” Coach Lindsey Church said several of the schools in the competition had really strong programs. “I was very impressed,” she said. “Especially in the

College Republicans hold marriage panel By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor American marriages and families may be in danger of falling apart, but three Hillsdale professors offered both explanations and optimism at a recent panel. Hillsdale College Republicans hosted the event titled “The Dissolution of Marriage and the Family” on Jan. 24. Around 50 students and faculty members attended the discussion. The panel included lecturer of history Dedra Birzer, professor of philosophy and religion Nathan Schlueter, and professor of politics Thomas West. “The topic isn’t really addressed on campus in an explicit way,” said Rachel Umaña, acting president of the College Republicans. “We wanted to talk about this as a human and a political issue, and tie different disciplines together.” Freshman Seth Winter said he found the talk surprisingly heartening. “It’s refreshing to hear people I respect talk about thinks I wonder about,” Winter said. “The talk helped me think about how I want to live in my marriage when the day

comes.” Schlueter began his talk by tracing the history of changing views on marriage and family, from the invention of the first contraceptive pill in the 1960s, to the introduction of no-fault divorce laws in the 1970s, to recent LGBT revolutions. “We live now in a time of complete sexual anarchy and chaos,” Schlueter said. “The costs are very high.” He cited statistics showing how children are at a greater risk of being in poverty, being physically abused, commiting crimes, abusing drugs, and performing poorly in schools when their parents are not married, versus when parents have committed to what Schlueter termed “natural marriage.” “Natural marriage is permanent, exclusive, and monogamous between a man and a woman, and, by right, it includes the biological children from that marriage,” he said. “The social sciences, in their quiet but firm way, have reached a consensus about the effects of the sexual revolution. The gold standard for the welfare of children and human beings is natural marriage.”

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College Republicans hosted a panel about marriage and famiily on Jan. 24. Chandler Lasch | Collegian

He concluded by encouraging listeners to learn the arguments in favor of natural marriage, defend children’s need for a mother and father, and live out the truth in their own lives and marriages. Birzer said strong marriages are necessary for the good of civilization. “Marriage has been traditionally understood to rest on the intention of a permanent union,” she said. “If marriage instead becomes a temporary arrangement based on sexual satisfaction and mutual com-

panionship, neither of which lend themselves to permanence, it’s clear that the family loses its social and economic importance and the state will take its place as the guardian and educator of children.” Birzer referenced the book “Family Cycles: Strength, Decline, and Renewal in American Domestic Life” by Allan Carlson. Carlson notes 50-year cycles throughout American history in which the significance of the family declines and is revived. Birzer said there is hope, because if

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this historical pattern continues, a revival will come around the year 2020. West said he feared that Birzer and Schlueter were being too optimistic about the chances of a reversal of current trends. He criticized feminism and laws regarding child support and no-fault divorce as diminishing the importance and permanence of marriage. Nonetheless, he saw some reason for hope. “Either we reorient ourselves to the understanding of marriage that lasted over 2,500 years and helped make western civilization possible,” he said. “Or we keep going down the anti-rational path of feminism, at the end of which we will find our civilization replaced by something very different and very likely worse. We always have that choice.” Umaña said that she appreciated how the panel tied in different disciplines to address an important subject. “I thought it was excellent,” Umaña said. “Doctor West, Doctor Schlueter, and Doctor Birzer have all been published in this field, and all deepened my understanding of how torn our nation is.”

round against Cincinnati and Michigan, my team rose to the level of competition that they were facing. They definitely showed that they can handle some competition and still have really good rounds.” Freshman Forrest Andresick left his previous position of attorney to take on the position of witness in this tournament. Lindsey Church said taking on a new role this late in the season was a big deal. “He was very amusing,” Simpson said. “Everyone got behind him and really encouraged him. He did a really good job.” As the teams look ahead, they will compete at the Regional Competition later this February, hoping to qualify for Nationals. Simpson said his team has been working really hard and that he hopes they’ll have a good showing at the Regional Tournament. “It will be very intriguing to see how far they go especially since most of our team are freshmen, with a couple sophomores and one junior,” Simpson said.

ID from A1 “We’re really proactive in training our cashiers,” Market House owner Brett Boyd said. “It’s not something we’ve seen here at the store. We try to be proactive in validating.”

“We haven’t seen it to my knowledge, but we’ve only been open a week.” Owner of Hillsdale Brewing Company Felicia Finch agreed. “We haven’t seen it to my knowledge,” Finch said, “but we’ve only been open a week.” Hephner said some local businesses may be unfamiliar with the design of out-of-state identification cards. For now, police are trying to update their ability to recognize new technologies in false identification. “We’re trying to find the best way to identify what we’re seeing now,” Hephner said.

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College Republicans to ask for $3,000 for CPAC By | Jordyn Pair News Editor The College Republicans plan to ask for $3,000 to fund their CPAC trip at tonight’s Student Federation meeting. The amount is the lowest they’ve ever requested, according to the College Republicans. “It’s taken us a long time to get here,” senior and President of Hillsdale College’s College Republicans Ross Hatley said.

“CPAC, in total, is $16,000 trip to run, and $3,000 is the exact amount of we need in order for it to work,” Acting President of College Republicans Rachel Umaña said. “We simply don’t have the funds for the bus as it stands. We will have the funds once we get all the money from the incentive programs that we are involved in, but that money will not come in time. Therefore, we need the Fed to help us get to that final stretch.”

The student ticket price offered by the chapter is $180, plus tax. The main cost of the trip comes from ticket, hotel, and bus fares. While most of the money has been covered by chapter fundraising, the $3,000 the chapter is requesting from student fed will cover the remaining cost of the bus. The Hillsdale County Republicans also donated $1,000 to the chapter. “As we do every year, we

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aim to never take money from student fed,” Hatley said. “It’s a funding source of last resort.” Speakers at this year’s CPAC include Ajit Pai, Ben Shapiro, Dana Loesch, and Deneen Borelli. “You get to see the biggest names in conservative politics and get to be an active participant in the conservative movement, which is exciting,” Umaña said. Hillsdale’s chapter is running the cheapest trip to

CPAC in the state, according to Hatley. “We started planning in May,” he said. “Through the years, we’ve just gotten better at running this trip.” The chapter is taking 60 students to CPAC this year and already has a growing waiting list. “Nothing is locked in and we’re still in discussion with the finances committee,” Hatley said.

The Hillsdale debate won the Gorlock Gala this past weekend. Johannah Christophel | Courtesy

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The conservation club during a recent clean up. Andrea Wallace | Courtesy

By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor When members of the Conservation Club helped clean up trash along a halfmile stretch of the Baw Beese Trail last semester, they collected six bags of trash, four tires, and a windowpane in half an hour, senior Andrea Wallace, Conservation Club president, said. Their Baw Beese cleanup events are part of the club’s intentional effort to strengthen their presence on campus and in the local Hillsdale community, Wallace said. “We’re trying to make it bigger and more than just a group that gets together and discusses events, but actually gets the general population of our college to know more about conservation and conserve the environment around our campus,” sophomore Andrew Rademacher, the club’s historian, said. During the fall semester, the club also held a seminar about zero-waste living, showed a documentary about the dangers of plastic in marine environments, and a professor presentation on renewable energy. The club’s events encompass volunteer work, education on environmental issues, and a social component, Wallace said.

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From what I understand your husband is also an author. What does he write about? How did you meet? He’s an economist and a demographer. He’s done a lot of work on international issues including world poverty and North and South Korea. We’ve been married for almost 30 years. I was single and working at a magazine, and he had written a piece and I wrote him a sort of fan note. It was the only time I’ve ever done something like that. I thought he was some sort of established old professor. When he came out to New York, he said he was going to take me out to lunch because he liked my note. When he came through the magazine door, he was 30 years younger than I thought he was. Living in a society where the culture is strongly opposed to conservative Christian values, how do we stay true to our values and be that light to the world?

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“I really like the community and how we all drive each other to do better things for the environment,” Wallace said. “It somehow happened that the theme for last semester was plastic, and so many of our lectures and cleaning events ended up being themed around plastic and the environment, and it’s been really great to have that community and accountability. It’s also encouraging because the numbers were slowly dwindling over the years, but we’ve been fostering a new group, and I’m excited to see what they’ll do next year.” The original conservation club began in 2002 and focused on conservation-related genetic analysis and lab work, according to Professor of Biology Dan York, the club’s advisor. The club stopped meeting for a few years, and was reformed under Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey VanZant with a focus on environmental issues. Membership gradually declined, but now there are approximately 20 active club members this year, Wallace said. “The club has been smaller in recent years, so we decided this year would be a good year to help it grow

I’m not sugarcoating it; it’s really tough, and I think it’s especially tough to be a young Christian today. On the other hand, there is a lot of reason for hope. Part of what we’re meant to do is bring other people in, including through our example. The strongest thing our side has going for it, and it’s the same thing Christianity has always had going for it, is that we have an actual community. That’s why I remain an optimist because that sense of community draws people in. What’s your perspective on Hillsdale College? Is this your first time here? What have you heard about the school? Yes, this is my first time to Hillsdale College, but what I’ve heard is that the students are intellectually serious, that the faculty are very dedicated, that it’s vibrant, and everything I have seen here has affirmed all of those impressions. The spirit here carries on after people leave here and it’s wonderful to see.

Train collision kills one One person was left dead Wednesday morning after a truck collided with a train near Charlottesville, Virginia. The train, headed for an annual GOP retreat, held GOP leaders, some of whom are former doctors and were able to perform CPR and care for those who were in the truck.

a little bit, do a few more activities around campus, and things like that,” junior Jimmy McGrath, the club’s treasurer, said. “We all just had that shared interest, and that’s how we all started to get a little bit more involved.” This semester, the club plans to place receptacles for used fishing lines at Baw Beese Lake for recycling, an effort that began last semester. The club is also working with the city to coordinate a tree-planting day in the spring and additional cleanup days for the Baw Beese Trail. McGrath said the club’s efforts fit in with the college’s larger mission to preserve good and beautiful things, whether that involves timeless ideas or the local environment. “We’re just a bunch of college kids trying to do something that’s good for the environment and the city, and we figure that we have a lot of opportunities to grow because we’re small,” said McGrath. “We want to have more opportunities for people to work with the Conservation Club. Even if it’s just planting trees on a Saturday morning, it’s something fun to do, something different, and a way to give back.”

By | Rowan Macwan Collegian Reporter Hillsdale won debate sweepstakes at Webster University’s Gorlok Gala on Jan. 26-28, overtaking all other colleges by a vast margin. “Debate sweepstakes is like the presidential election: if someone wins by much more than five points, it’s crazy and a blowout,” Coach Matthew Doggett said. “We won by 40 points.” Team manager and senior Duncan Voyles said the team performed “brilliantly.” “This group knows how to have fun, persevere, and do well,” he said. Freshman Erin Reichard won first place debater and third place speaker in the novice division of Lincoln Douglas Policy Debate and also won third best speaker. “It was pretty intense,” Reichard said, “but I really enjoyed figuring out how to improve my performance over the course of the tournament, particularly the final round.” Reichard argued that the federal government needed to stop police from seizing property without reason. Freshman Caleb Lambrecht was a semifinalist debater and won first place speaker in the novice division

of LD. Voyles and sophomore Henrey Deese were semi-finalists in the open division of Parliamentary Debate. They both agreed their favorite round was one where they argued about whether China or Russia is a bigger threat to U.S. interests abroad. Lambrecht and freshman Amelia Rasmusen were quarter-finalists in the novice division of Parliamentary Debate, where Rasmusen won first place speaker. Reichard won second place novice speaker. “I had done pretty poorly at the last two tournaments I attended, and I was expecting to maybe break even, but Caleb and I won all five preliminary rounds and made semifinals,” Rasmusen said. She said it was fun to discover how well they balanced each other. “He’s 6’6” and I’m 5’5”. He smacks the podium and dives right in, while I smile at the room and thank everyone. I think the judges really liked our style.” Deese said he thought the team performed really well. “I thought that the younger members stepped up and improve. We put in the work, and we performed.”

Leadership honorary accepting applications By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Campus leadership comes in many styles and emerges across many areas of campus, and Hillsdale’s Rho Beta chapter of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary Society is seeking leaders in the class of 2019 for membership in next year’s leadership circle. Each year, the ten student members of Hillsdale’s ODK chapter select ten rising seniors to continue leadership work. Current juniors in good academic standing who intend to graduate with the class of 2019 are encouraged to apply for next year’s leadership circle, senior Allison Deckert, ODK secretary, said. Applications are due Feb. 28. “Anyone who has been involved in student leadership on campus — whether that’s in athletics, greek life, dorm life, volunteerism, any of the student publications — if you’ve been part of an organization that’s active on campus and you’ve been part of making that succeed, you’re eligible to apply,” Deckert said. The ten members of the Trump focuses on immigration President Trump delivered the State of the Union address Tuesday evening, focusing on the topics of immigration and first-year accomplishments. Trump called for both sides to come together over immigration at this time.

leadership circle, five men and five women, are chosen from all areas of campus to help promote student leadership and improve the relationship between the college and the surrounding community, Deckert said. This year’s ODK members helped organize a luncheon and roundtable discussion with Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on campus. This spring, the leadership circle plans to hold a practical leadership seminar, senior Jonathan Anderson said. “Rather than focusing on leadership theory, it’s really going to be about what we call practical leadership: how to effectively run a meeting, how to set forward guidelines or bylaws efficiently, how to conduct an organization to accomplish its vision and goals,” Anderson said. Later in the semester, ODK members will organize a book drive for Hillsdale High School’s English department, Deckert said. The leadership honorary will also co-sponsor a luncheon on education with the career services office. The previous years’ ODK members secured a $500 grant from the national ODK

Cape Town rationing water Cape Town, the second-largest city in South Africa, has been cutting back on their water use. Showers are limited and bath water is saved as water is running low. “Day Zero,” or the day the water is projected to be completely gone from the taps, is April 12.

organization on behalf of A Few Good Men, according to senior Charlotte McFaddin, ODK treasurer. The members also choose to recognize other student leaders on campus through the Leader of the Month award. “It’s fun to look around campus and see the different types of student leadership on campus and what student leadership can look like,” Deckert said. Senior Maria Theisen, an ODK member, said she almost didn’t apply to join the honorary, but ultimately found the time commitment to be manageable and enriching. “Getting a group of people recognized for their leadership together in the same room is really cool,” Theisen said. “I think it’s been especially great because we don’t really overlap a lot; I’d never really worked with some of the people on the circle because we all lead different things. Brainstorming ideas together with other leaders, who have the same mindset as you in terms of improving campus, is really cool.”

Michigan police plans to apologize to Randall-Gay Michigan Police Department will apologize to Brianne Randall-Gay on Thursday for dismissing her complaint of sexual abuse by USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in 2004. Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison.

Genealogy workshop personalizes history By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief

Students will have the opportunity to learn how they connect to American history on Friday. The Michigan Society for the Sons of the American Revolution are holding a genealogy workshop 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Knorr Student Center’s Weigand Computer Lab. Participating Hillsdale College and Academy students will have the opportunity to use online genealogical resources to explore how their family’s past fits into American history. “High school and college history can be archaic and distant,” said David W. VanHoof, chancellor of the MISSAR. “It’s not relevant to their lives. Any type of contact with personal history, it becomes their history, not just national history.” Those looking to attend the workshop should bring with them the birth dates and location of their grandparents and great grandparents if possible. At 11 a.m., VanHoof will do a half-hour presentation on what the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution are and the application process for the groups. After that, students will use the computers in the lab and the Heritage Quest and Family Search databases through Mossey Library to dig through their family’s history. The workshop is held alongside the MISSAR’s quarterly board of managers meeting. It is the first time the group is doing a genealogy workshop, but VanHoof said he hopes to take it to other campuses in the future. “Understanding where they come from helps develop within the people today a concept of civic-mindedness,” VanHoof said. “We’re trying to whet their appetite.”

Student Fed swears in new sergeant-atarms

By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter Student Federation President and junior Natalie Meckel swore in the new members of the federation, as well as freshman Braden VanDyke as the new Sergeant-at-Arms. VanDyke previously worked for student government in high school as the student body president. “I believe in the mission of both the Student Federation and Hillsdale College and the way that they work in cohesion together,” VanDyke said. “I believe that the work that the Student Federation does is good and its cause is noble.” Independent-at-large and freshman Isabella Redjai felt that VanDyke fit the position in more ways than one. “He seemed passionate, and, looking at his bio, he had a lot of experience,” Redjai said. “He also seemed like someone who would serve in Student Fed in the future, so having him serve as the sergeant-at-arms would be an investment as well.” The sergeant-in-arms works as an assistant to the secretary of the federation. The federation spent the rest of the evening assigning different federation members to the normal committees of the federation such as the finance committee, rules committee, and the campus improvement committee.

‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel in the works Actor Jim Caviezel will appear again as Jesus in a sequel to “The Passion of the Christ.” The film will focus on the Resurrection, according to producer Mel Gibson.

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Trump should learn from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg By | Michael Lucchese Columnist The conservative commentariat flew into a rage when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced she would not attend President Trump’s first annual State of the Union address. Perhaps conservatives should be more sympathetic to Ginsburg’s decision — perhaps the president should follow her lead and refuse to show up to the House of Representatives next year. Article III of the U.S. Constitution requires the President to “give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” But, this message to Congress was not always delivered in person. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent his first annual address to Congress via messenger in writing. He explained that “In doing this, I have had principal regard to the convenience of the legislature, to the economy of their time, to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers on subjects not yet fully before them, and to the benefits thence resulting to the public affairs.” For Jefferson and other Founders, an annual speech before Congress made the President seem more akin to the opulent monarchs of Europe than the limited role they envisioned for him. Congress, not the presidency, was the closest branch of government to the people because it represented them. Around the turn of the 20th century, though, that view started to change. Progressives of the day saw the presidency as the country’s most representative office in the government because they believed presidential elections were the most direct form of democratic action. In the hands of progressives like Woodrow Wilson, the State of the Union address was turned into a tool for the president to set a legislative agenda for the following year. Congress was no longer the branch of government carrying out the people’s will — instead, progressives looked to the president, elevated above the people’s house and giving orders to the people’s representatives. From the attention-seeking politicians crowding the aisles to get a few seconds on televsion to the platitudinous pandering that characterizes the speech almost every year, the annual State of the Union address has come to embody

everything that is wrong with contemporary American politics — everything Thomas Jefferson wanted to avoid in 1801. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said it best in 2013 when he explained why he refused to attend: “[The State of the Union] has turned into a childish spectacle, and I don’t think that I want to be there to lend dignity to it.” In his inaugural address, President Trump said that his

“Our republic deserves better than the modern cult of the presidency.” administration would be dedicated to “transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.” Returning the State of the Union to the form it took when Jefferson and Lincoln ran the executive would be an enormous symbolic gesture toward accomplishing just that. Besides, what could be more classically Trumpian? A large part of the spectacularness Scalia complained about comes from the breathless attention the media devotes to the speech every year. Endless televised panels analyzing the speech, countless overhyped “responses” to the speech by C-List politicians, not to mention the thoughtless live-tweeting during the speech — it’s enough to drive the informed citizen mad. If Trump chose to deliver his next State of the Union in writing, the mainstream media would go ballistic. He would ruin hours of their canned programming and force them to focus on the substance of his message rather than the style. Not to mention, disrupting a custom so entrenched as the State of the Union address would dominate headlines for weeks. Our republic deserves better than the modern cult of the presidency. We don’t need climactic political theater to keep the economy running smoothly or the military protecting us from danger. The president should do what he can to bring the state of politics to something more like the Founders’ original intent — and he can start by being conspicuously absent at next year’s State of the Union address. Michael Lucchese is a senior majoring in American studies.

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Students who register for classes should not have difficulty finding seats. This especially applies to students who are paying to attend a course that they must pass to graduate. And yet, this is exactly what happens all too often at Center for Constructive Alternatives lectures in which enrolled students must compete with campus visitors to find a spot. If they cannot, they risk relocation to Dow A

& B, at which point they may as well watch the livestream from the crowdless comfort of their own rooms. (But since students are required to physically check-in, that isn’t a viable option.) Instead, the college should reserve a student seating section, limited to the number of students registered for the CCA. Visitors could also have their own reserved section, so long as it does not keep any students who are paying to

be there from finding a seat. Anyone else who wants to listen to the lecture could find seating in the remaining space in Phillips Auditorium or the Dow A & B overflow room. The current system results in students frantically pacing the aisles looking for an open spot while the lecture is about to start and awkwardly squeezing past annoyed attendees to grab a seat in the middle of a row. Until Phillips is expanded

and a long-term solution is reached, a reserved section is an easy fix that would make the seating process smoother for everyone. It will also present a better impression of the college to some of our biggest supporters, who don’t need to see a horde of frustrated students scouring the auditorium for an empty chair. Students deserve a place in their classrooms. Give them one at the CCA.

Nassar victims represent the best of the #MeToo movement By | Kaylee McGhee D.C. Correspondent Over the past month, 156 women stood on a podium in a small Lansing courtroom, microphones to their mouths, weights in their chests. Standing there, all eyes on them, they faced a monster — a monster many of them did not know was theirs to face. Larry Nassar, a once nationally-renowned sports doctor, is a monster. For two decades Nassar sexually abused more than 200 young women when they were girls, under the guise of osteopathic medical treatment. On Jan. 24, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced the serial pedophile to 40-175 years in prison. She did so only after hearing the testimony of each survivor who chose to come forward. These testimonies were a heartbreaking and inspiring display of strength and healing all at once — what the #MeToo movement has tried, but failed, to embody. The #MeToo movement is part of the past year’s incredible phenomenon that has blazed the trail for thousands of women to come forward and share their experiences grappling with past sexual harassment and abuse. But what began as a sincere movement to help women move on and heal quickly devolved into a mad free-for-all in which every man was a possible

culprit. It became a contest to see who could point the next finger, who could topple the next patriarchal demigod, who could garner the most national attention. Or, at least, that’s what it felt like. Speaking as a young woman, the national #MeToo movement has failed. It rightly exposed Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer but unfairly ousted Senator Al Franken, D-Minnesota, and Detroit Free Press columnist Stephen Henderson. Neither Franken nor Henderson were accused of sexual assault but both were held as guilty of it. A zero-tolerance policy sounds great in theory, but without a distinction between criminal and inappropriate behavior the result will be an unworkable, unjust legal system. #MeToo has undermined its credibility by failing to draw this line. Its advocates claim all stories are equivalent. In some ways, this is true. As a society, we should decry acts of inappropriate behavior and conduct as we do sexual assault and harassment. But while these stories might all carry very real, painful outcomes, it is a disservice to Nassar’s victims and other victims of past abuse to assert there is no legal distinction. If we follow that line of reasoning, soon a catcall on the streets will carry

similar penalties to rape. Here’s another example: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg recently shared her #MeToo story, in which she accused her past college professor of asking for sexual favors in return for an easier exam. While this is certainly despicable behavior, it can hardly be held on the same legal level as the years of anguish Nassar’s victims have suffered after a trusted doctor violated them repeatedly as little girls. But that is what the #MeToo movement seems to call for, with one of its advocates, actress Minnie Driver, telling ABC News: “There is no hierarchy of abuse — that if a woman is raped it is much worse than if a woman has a penis exposed to her that she didn’t want or ask for.” By failing to draw a line, #MeToo has failed the survivors of these atrocious acts. #MeToo started as an outlet for victims to come together, share their stories, and begin the healing process. Instead, it has become a celebrity-driven medium for women to tear down men who previously “wronged” them, like the Brooklyn photographer who accused actor Aziz Ansari of making unwanted advances after she willingly followed him to a hotel room. Once again, though Ansari acted abhorrently, that story does not advance the #MeToo

movement. That unnamed woman came forward because she was upset Ansari wore a “Time’s Up” pin to the Golden Globes, not because she was seeking closure and healing. Without some level of accountability, #MeToo will simply become a fruitless #BelieveTheWoman campaign. Despite this, the Nassar trial somehow restored hope in the #MeToo movement. The testimonies of those 156 women are a glowing beacon of what the #MeToo movement should be: strong women coming together, sharing their stories to protect the little girls of tomorrow. Yes, Nassar’s victims shared their stories in hopes of seeing him locked away for good. But they did so not out of a vain grasp for attention but a genuine desire to heal and shield others from the trauma they experienced. They inspired other Nassar survivors, who did not initially want to come forward, to testify and face their monster. Because it was on that podium in that Lansing courtroom that they would finally find the strength and healing he had taken from them. That is the true #MeToo movement, and one that will make the world a more just place for women.

By | Isabella Redjai Collegian Reporter

Aziz Ansari — in an effort to expose the uncouth tycoons. The only thing missing from this seemingly wholesome movement is the answer to the question of whether some women were complicit in sexual advances in order to further their careers, whether they had known about previous behavior before the expose, and whether their movies instigated inappropriate behavior.

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girls in the womb do not. Women are not defined by the way they are treated by men in the workplace but how they professionally present themselves in their workplaces. A woman does have power over what she does with her body, but she cannot necessarily claim power over the body of the individual who grows within her. The Women’s March sought to empower women, but ultimately the fight appeared to be over the notion of whether a woman should be answerable for her actions. The message entailed the short-sighted desire for a woman’s full control over her body, free from consequences. Creating a movement where women can encourage respectability in one another, respond to inappropriate behavior with decency and grace, and show the maturity that predators lack is the most empowering response women can make. The most empowering action women can take is to protect not only women preyed upon in the public workplace but also the dignity of the future world-changers in the wombs of women. This movement can pave a path for all women by moving toward recognizing and building up women in other countries who lack the basic right to enter workplaces or preserve the life of her child. The Women’s March exhibits a misdirected generation of women who do not recognize the power they possess to facilitate change both here and abroad.

Kaylee McGhee is a junior studying politics.

Recognize women’s rights and wrongs As you may have seen in the news, the 2018 Women’s March took place nearly two weeks ago, from Jan. 20-21. It has raised skepticism as to how effective the feminist message has truly been, specifically related to the sexual assault scandals that have snowballed for several months. As I scroll through my feed on social media and observe my younger female (and even male) friends holding signs that say “Public Cervix Announcement — F*** Off ” and “Not Your B****,” the question of whether these statements produce allies or enemies of the feminist cause is viable, especially when disussing the subject of sexual assault. Women gathering to fight the evils of sexism and sexual misconduct in the workplace, while wearing apparel with blatant images of uteruses and/or minimal clothing at gatherings, brings into question whether women are giving offenders any reason to show contriteness for their own vulgarity. Moreover, it may prove that women can be almost as tasteless as the insensitive men who have been sexually suggestive. Actresses at this year’s Golden Globes came together in the campaign #WhyIWearBlack to fight against sexual misconduct in Hollywood — beginning with Hollywood royalty Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual assault by over a dozen Hollywood elite actresses, and spanning to Matt Damon, Christopher Plummer, and

“The Women’s March relayed women’s thirst for personal power.” do not want a man’s say or any rivaling opinion over what is right/wrong for their body,

Protesters gathered at the National Mall for the Women’s March. WikiCommons

Are women arguing that they can act sexually explicit and expect men to not respond either verbally or physically? Are women unwilling to make changes that could decrease incidents of inappropriate behavior? Are women doing everything in their power to minimize the causes of sexual harassment? These are questions for all women, yourself included, to mull over. The modern feminist movement entails much more than mere protection from male predators in the workplace. Modern feminism enters into the discussion of

from anyone. Period. Observing the number of Hillsdale students traveling to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, a particular statistic caught my attention: 25 million women aborted since 1973, who could have been president. Perhaps this explains the void in female power that women seek to fill. The Women’s March relayed women’s thirst for personal power but also their lack of accountability. This was disturbing and must be addressed. American women have rights, but women in some foreign countries and

Isabella Redjai is a freshman studying English.

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By | Brendan Clarey Columnist There seems to be a lot of sex, drugs, and rock and roll on campus. Oh wait, it’s just this year’s third Center for Constructive Alternatives on the sixties. The problem with the CCA isn’t the drugs or the music or the talk about sex and big government. The lectures are interesting and informative, but they’re not academic. Larry Elder, as great as his speech was, didn’t illuminate race relations in the sixties and couldn’t be called academic by anyone interested in the subject. Hillsdale College should not require students to write a paper for the CCA because the conference is primarily for the enjoyment of donors rather than educating and benefiting Hillsdale students. While attendees enjoy an open bar and catered meals served with wine, Hillsdale students have to attend all the lectures, a feat in itself. Then they must write a paper on top of all the other responsibilities they have like sports, practices, reading the Constitution, math homework, physical wellness dynamics presentations, and everything else the newly expanded core requires. The CCA is really an alternative to constructive pursuits. Perhaps the clearest marker that the CCA is not an academic undertaking is that students don’t receive the prompt until after the conference has ended. How are students supposed to follow the threads of a topic or craft an argument through the various lectures unless they are looking for something to argue? The paper seems to be

more focused on forcing comprehension rather than requiring fruitful synthesis. This reduces what could be an interesting brush with new ideas into a requirement and undermines the spirit of learning by forcing students to pretend that the CCA’s busy work is a useful endeavor. The paper actually reduces the amount of time that students would otherwise be able to spend on other assignments where they can study primary texts and practice synthesis that carries on a dialogue. In contrast, the CCA papers are a hodgepodge semi-analysis of the most abominable sort, a sty on Hillsdale’s clear vision of academic rigor. Worse yet is the grading process for the paper: No one is accountable for the grades that students get on their papers. One reporter for The Collegian wrote an article in February 2016 about the difficult and secretive methods used to grade the papers. She turned in a paper on the 2015 CCA “American Journalism, Yesterday and Today” a few days before the deadline. She received the paper more than two months later, badly graded. The unknown grader tore her piece to shreds and gave her a “C+.” The office, as she explained, doesn’t clarify the grading scale they use to evaluate student papers, and sometimes the problems aren’t even on the topics discussed. She said, “The comments are often stylistic rather than textual, which makes one question if the graders were even at the lectures.” Why should students’ grades be determined by anonymous and unaccountable graders? The CCA office has some

options to make the CCA better for students: They can make the lectures and the paper process more academic or drop the paper requirement altogether and just require attendance. Making the CCA more academic requires picking better speakers and being clear about the expectations and grading of the paper. The office should release a grading rubric and follow it closely. Their challenge is to make the CCA into something that competes with the worthwhile pursuits of the classroom. The lectures need to be more than stories and cursory glances into the subjects. They can’t be bogged down by political biases. They have a lot of room for improvement. Another option is a pass/ fail attendance-based grade. Perhaps students shouldn’t have to write a paper but rather attend a reasonable number, perhaps four lectures, every year for all four years. They would attend more lectures (16 total), be more interested because they get to learn more about what they’re interested in, and skip the busy work of the paper. The CCA is a good outreach to donors and a beginning foray into a variety of topics for students, but the paper isn’t academic enough to take the time away from other responsibilities. I implore the administration and the Center for Constructive Alternatives office to consider making the conference more palatable for busy students or worth writing a paper on. Right now, it’s neither. Brendan Clarey is a senior studying English.

their club’s bank account By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College business office holds money for all clubs and employs policies to prevent dishonesty. A business office employee told The Collegian it structures club accounts this way to preclude people from knowing the club’s full balance — a large sum of money for long-established clubs as well as those which charge membership fees. The office even has meticulous safeguards to prevent dishonesty, such as including the purchased per-unit costs, original receipts, and signatures of the treasurer, club president, and faculty adviser. Hillsdale College discourages personal liberty and accountability when it prevents club treasurers and presidents from viewing their own club’s account balance. Notifying a treasurer of his account balance will not incline him to embezzle funds. Actually, it is a requirement to do his job well. There’s a big difference between sending the account balance to the club’s board members, whose actions influence the amount of money and sharing the balance with regular members. The college states its goal is “to pursue good living by building friendships, exercising leadership, and practicing excellence in all areas of life outside the classroom.” With 131 clubs on campus, 1,526 students have 262 options for filling the role of treasurer or president — about 20 percent of the school’s population will encounter this problem.

One might argue a treasurer could be told the account balance once, using simple math to track future expenses. This only works when funds are deposited into the correct account. The Hillsdale College Federalist Society was paid $473 for our March 9 event, but that amount was deposited into the wrong club account. I had no idea. This problem reared its

“We should trust students with information instead of requiring babysitting by club advisors.” head when I, as the former treasurer of the Hillsdale College Federalist Society, spent $313 for an event on Nov. 6. I later attempted to reimburse my board members and was told our account had less than $100 in it, though I had spent no additional money. I had scheduled a $217 event a week later with a senior attorney of an international law firm, and the business office still wouldn’t let me see the club’s balance. If I had overdrawn our account, I would have disappointed the attorney, 135 people who attended the event, and embarrassed the national Federalist Society, which

believed Hillsdale College was distinguished enough to have the second undergraduate chapter in the country. The Collegian reported a similar problem in 2016. “Interfraternity Council President Matt Vanisacker said not being able to see the budget has slowed down and altered IFC’s activities. In years past, the account balance information the council received, at times, Vanisacker said, were incorrect.” The article digressed to tell that IFC had partnered with SAB and had promised money but failed to deliver the amount because the IFC adviser was told the wrong dollar amount. “It’s frustrating because it’s hard to do my job well when I don’t know how much money we have,” IFC Treasurer senior Kelly Cotes told the Collegian. Red tape discourages entrepreneurial club ideas just like in the business world. Everybody makes mistakes, but through transparency, all parties will be better off. Many treasurers sidestep the business office by just depositing money into a cash box throughout the year instead of storing money with the college, which comes with risk. One such club had about $900 stolen last semester, though the money was returned. This wastes a lot of student time. We should trust students with information instead of requiring babysitting by club advisors. Scott McClallen is a senior studying economics.

People should acknowledge the right to self-identify By | Rowan Macwan Collegian Reporter A young lady recently told me “Rowan, with your beard you could be Santa, except you’re too dark.” She thought it was funny. She was putting me in a box where, in her mind, she determines my identity and what I can and cannot do. Those in the conservative tradition tend to emphasize that we are individual people that together become one. E Pluribus Unum. This view of humans as either individuals or parts of a group ignores and therefore implicitly denies cultural identity. Conservatives argue that this is actually good, for they reject identity

politics and thereby avoid racism. They claim to hate collecting people into a lump, and the result is that they swing to the opposite extreme. They deny people’s cultural identity. Cultural identity is central to a person’s being and to ignore it explicitly is a mistake. Take, for instance, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah or the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa. Hanukkah is a legitimate, religious, and cultural occasion for many people. Kwanzaa provides an avenue for observers to manifest their cultural identity as African Americans. Yet, these holidays are often ignored. And when they are mentioned, it is in attempt to be humorous or ironic. People are often not

cognizant of the disrespect within such humor. Through this disrespect, we implicitly endorse the mindset that the cultures to which these holidays belong are not worthy of our attention. When we ignore a people’s cultural identity, it denies the parts of who they are that are shared with people from the same culture. Take me as an example. It’s not uncommon for people to assume that I am African American. When people make such assumptions, they put a false tag on me that I have not consented to associate with. This lack of consent about my own identity, something over which I have sole right, breaches a basic right that I have as a human. When peo-

ple assume I am something other than what I say I am, they deny recognition of me. They act as if my personhood is not as legitimate as their perspective. In fact, I am Indian. When I say this, many assume that I mean Native American. The fact that people continually make these assumptions further demonstrates that they do not respect my right to self-identify. Although it’s unintentional, by not clarifying my self-identification, people implicitly label me. Hillsdale claims to care about people bettering themselves and becoming more virtuous. Is it really virtuous for you to deny that I am Indian? If everyone treated me like that, it would make me feel

like my identity is unimportant. On the other extreme, is it virtuous for you to only see me as an Indian? Obviously not! The answer is simple: do not put people into boxes, recognize the boxes into which they have put themselves. Recognize that others are nuanced with complex backgrounds. The only reason that it is okay to recognize others’ boxes is because they have control over them; consent is the key difference. When students are forced to participate in a society in which people ignore others’ right to self-identify without the students consent, their rights have been violated. For instance, when students of color self-segregate on col-

lege campuses, whether it is helpful or not, it is their own decision to which they have consented. Consent is the difference between a person’s autonomy being respected and their rights being left by the wayside. Ask people about their background and what their individual experience is like. It is crucial as we try to respect others’ rights and personhood. If we respect others’ unique upbringing, race, sexuality, spirituality, and person, we would have a kinder, gentler nation.

my life. For instance, it inspired me to purchase a plane ticket in June and couch surf the city for a weekend, checking in with the blossoming Hillsdale mafia. My lunch date had already gone back to work by the time I realized I would not be riding the metro home. Somehow despite its reputation as a swamp full of stuck-up metrosexuals, the Washington, D.C. metro area keeps sucking Hillsdale students and alumni into its network. I was just visiting some journalist friends and had planned on catching dinner a few hours later when I found myself pretending to be homeless on a park bench. The sight of a skinny guy digging through trash can convince passerby that he’s hungry or hunting for heroin. One of the notable differences between my credit card and heroin is I never lost heroin while walking from a cash register to a soda fountain. But that’s what I looked like: an anxious junkie digging through trash in public, skittering around the restaurant asking if anyone had seen it. I was wearing my favorite ratty shirt, a black “Breaking Bad” tee with various icons of death and chicken scattered to form a mosaic of the title character. Of course, no one batted an eye when I dove into the garbage. D.C. is a great place for personal development. Public transportation is easy to access if you aren’t desperately broke; there are plenty

of places to visit and strange people to bump into. Personally, I felt that my previous summer spent in the city was one of the most formative experiences of my life. Being independent from my parents gave me the chance to survive on chicken nuggets and beer while furnishing our apartment living room with an inflatable couch and a coffee table made from cardboard Costco crates. At some point, however, independence falls to the wayside as panic sets in, and the time comes to ring mom only to discover her cell phone isn’t turned on. The trip has mutated from an adventure in personal growth to a five-alarm family meeting. How does one cancel a credit card? How soon will someone steal the rest of my identity? I was searching for comfortable benches to spend the night when my phone finally rang. Yes, my card could be cancelled, and no, I wasn’t uninvited from Sunday dinner. That said, those with a firmer grip on their wallets and a more stable phone connection should not hesitate to venture into lands foreign and domestic. There is nothing better than surprising your family by running away to D.C., but the thrill of being on your own quickly fades when you tie your independence to a piece of plastic.

Rowan Macwan is a sophmore studying the liberal arts.

William Goldman should be the I lost my credit card in D.C. 2018 commencement speaker

By | Ellen Sweet Special to The Collegian “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” A harsh message for 400 eager graduates—but maybe the one we need the most. It’s a line from The Princess Bride, a movie that my generation grew up watching and rewatching. It was my favorite movie as a child. Nothing else quite catches that sappy-sarcastic tone, that romantic cynicism that somehow both mocks and champions the fairy-tale genre. I wonder how many people know the man behind movie: not the director or the actors, but William Goldman, the man who wrote the story. Bill Goldman’s most popular story may have been a fairy tale, but his early life was anything but. His mother was deaf, and his father was an alcoholic who committed suicide when Goldman was still in high school. In college, he failed creative-writing classes, teachers thought he was stupid, and editors rejected his work. And then he became one of the most successful writers in the history of Hollywood. Aside from creating a cult classic (hello, The Princess Bride), he wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The

President’s Men, and Marathon Man, among many others. He fell into screenwriting almost by accident; he set out to write novels and found that he was good at writing stories, regardless of the medium. He’s written novels, children’s books, screenplays, stage plays, memoirs. Prolific, popular, financially successful—Goldman has lived every writer’s dream. In his second memoir, Which Lie Did I Tell?, Goldman writes: “Someone pointed out to me that the most sympathetic characters in my books always died miserably. I didn’t consciously know I was doing that … I think I have a way with pain. When I come to that kind of sequence I have a certain confidence that I can make it play. Because I come from such a dark corner.” In other words, “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” A note for the uninitiated: The Princess Bride is a spoof of a classic fairy-tale. It’s the story of the beautiful Buttercup, her true love Westley, and their struggle against evil and death and the conniving Prince Humperdinck. As the narrator asserts at the beginning of the movie, the story has it all: “Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…” It’s remarkable, really, that The Princess Bride came out

of Goldman’s “dark corner.” I think the story perplexes Goldman himself. The writing process was unlike anything he had ever done; apparently the story opened itself up to him, just like that. He wept when he wrote the scene about Wesley’s death. Looking back on his work, he said that The Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the only things he ever wrote that he looks back on without humiliation. How did he do it? It’s a secret, I think, hidden behind hard edges and gritty realism. It’s a secret tucked away in a storyteller’s soul. It’s a paradox—the paradox of life and death, good and evil, light and darkness. The best storytellers don’t resolve the paradox; they lean into it. Life may be pain, but there is more than pain in life; in the words of Miracle Max, “true love is the greatest thing in the whole world.” We don’t need someone to tell us that we’re special or that we’re going to change the world. We don’t need someone to elaborate on Aristotle or the Constitution. What we need now is a storyteller. This is what Goldman has to offer us. Because life may be pain— but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a happy ending. Ellen Sweet is a senior studying English.

Joe Pappalardo learned about independence the hard way in Washington, D.C. Collegian

By | Joe Pappalardo Senior writer The fourth time I pull my head out of a District Taco garbage can in Washington, D.C., I still can’t find my credit card. The discarded plates of diners who came before me have been scraped clean in my frantic search for the piece of plastic I failed to bet against. It’s an afternoon in June, I have $5 and a nearly empty metro card in my pocket, and I’m more than a few train stops from the house I crashed at last night. My cocky independence is rapidly deteriorating into chaotic panic as I realize one does not simply leave home to visit friends for a weekend and return unscathed. In the space of an afternoon, I’d managed to obliterate every scrap of self-confidence I naively built up during my previous summer working away from home. Since the summer I spent in D.C. as a starving journalist, I’ve had time to reflect on how the experience changed

Joe Pappalardo is a senior studying marketing.

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Osseo’s Tip-Up Festival is for the children By | Jo Kroeker Features editor Although Friday’s warm spell had already melted some of the ice layered on top of the lakes in Osseo, Michigan, it didn’t deter the ice fishers from participating in the 58th Tip-Up Festival this weekend. The Tip-Up Festival is the Hillsdale Conservation Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year, with money going toward both scholarships and club activities. It also brings Hillsdale county dwellers together. “We cater to the kids around here,” Kirk Culbert, “Mr. Mayor” of the festival, said. Scott Phillips ’77, a conservation club member who does realty for his day job, also jumped in. “The adults have fun, but it’s all for the kids,” Phillips said. Culbert added, for the record: “There’s lots of supervision.” For Phillips, it’s especially important to get kids outside today. He speculated that kids might need replacement thumbs in the future because of all the gaming. “I think it changes their lives. It’s about seeing nature, not about hunting and killing,” Phillips said. “Hunting is conservation. It’s part of keeping everything in line.” The weekend’s two most popular events were the steak dinner, during which volunteers served up about 200 dinners, and the prize-cash raffle, which always packs attendees in shoulder-to-shoulder. While fishing is the main draw, the festival has grown to include deer, coyote (pronounced kai-ote), and squirrel hunting. Coyotes are especially problematic, according to Culbert, as their hunger for pheasants has almost killed the pheasant population.

“We’re overrun with coyotes, so anyone who brings them in, thank you,” Phillips said. “They’ve got no predators but us, they populate almost like rabbits.” Culbert regaled me with a coyote story. A hunter he knew was up in a tree, hunting. A pack of coyotes stopped below the tree and he shot at them until he ran out of bullets. Some friends, having noticed the hunter’s absence, came with their pickup and chased the coyotes away. “They’re bad news,” he said, shaking his head. Phillips said there are a couple hundred members of the conservation club, which has an affiliate rifle club. Most of what the conservation club does is for the kids, Culbert said, from 4-H to practically all shooting sports: .22, archery, BB, pellet, trap, and muzzleloader. Over the past few years, the club has even sent 10 kids to national shooting competitions for archery, .22, pellet, and muzzleloader, said Bonnie Shaffer, a member who organizes the shooting sports. Shaffer said that starting February, the conservation club will have beginning bow classes on Mondays at 6 p.m. that are open to the public, for children 5-years-old and up. Overall, Shaffer said it’s been more than wonderful to work with the club and the kids. The cash and prize raffle, as well as most of the hunting gear the conservation club allows members and children to use, are acquired through donation — which Phillips said involves a little chasing down. “We get a lot of good feedback,” Culbert said. “A lot of donations come from local merchants, and we get deals.” For example, Clubert was at his doctor’s office getting

his new prosthetic leg fit when he told his doctor about the festival. He came out with a prosthetic leg and a pledge to donate $250 to the club. The festival doesn’t leave out non-hunters and non-fishers, however: On Friday, 60 people filled the hall for a giant Euchre tournament. Hunting and fishing fall down the family, Culbert explained, when Phillips jumped in, adding that kids sometimes get their dads interested, too. Phillips recalled how his dad, J. Donald Phillips, Hillsdale College president from 1952-1971, would take him fishing when he was younger. The elder Phillips also took a November vacation for open-season deer hunting, bringing his college work up north with him. 66-year-old Ralph Slade ambled up, Bud Light in hand, ready to tell stories. In one, he was in a tree hunting, wearing camo. He was still for so long a squirrel eventually came up to his pant leg and climbed up his body as if he were part of the tree. The Hillsdale native estimates he’s been coming to the tip-up festival since the late 50s, early 60s, way back when it was held on the beach at Baw Beese Lake. He said some things have gotten better and better over the years. Still, some aspects stay the same. Slade said there are a lot of festival regulars who he only sees here. Outside, Tony Borroughs, from Morenci, Michigan, is carving animals out of stumps with a chainsaw. It’s his second year exhibiting the wood carving process in real-time at the festival, but he’s been carving for about 10 years now. A chainsaw, unexpectedly, is nothing like the clay sculpting and drawing he did before that. “It takes some getting used

Real fish hang on wooden fish at the tip-up festival. Jo Kroeker | Collegian

to,” he said. “You have to respect it like it might bite you. Be aware. It’s a lot faster than anything you’ll ever use.” He called it an alligator. At the moment, he was examining a log with branches coming out every which way, figuring out how he would carve a perched owl into it. Lansing local Nick Green is over by the painted wooden fish punctured with hooks from which fish dangle, inspecting. He’s visiting his in-laws, and they were fishing on Baw Beese with no luck. It’s his first time coming down for the festival. He’s also the editor of Michigan Out-of-Doors, a hunting magazine that grassroots lobby group Michigan United Conservation Clubs publishes. Compared with the tip-up festival at Houghton Lake, a big event that draws a larger crowd, Green described the Hillsdale Tip-Up Festival as

pretty local, with more friendly competition. “It’s fun to see the community get involved in something,” Green said. “It’s family oriented. It gives a sense of community, and it’s a good way to get to know people.” Back inside, it’s a little after lunchtime but members in specialized T-shirts are still delivering pulled pork, hot dogs, and potato wedges from the kitchen. The potato wedges are the best potato wedges I’ve ever eaten. Phillips describes the festival people as a “fun crew.” “Nobody has an agenda,” he said. “They’re fishing, drinking a beer, or two…” Lottie LoPresto, the festival organizer, walks by. Phillips flags her down, heralding her as the “guts and glue” of the operation. LoPresto has been in charge for more than 10 years now, keeping track by the

50th anniversary, when, she remembers, they went all out. The weekend of the event, she stays late into the night. “We have a good crew that is the heart of this event,” LoPresto said. “You can’t do it as two people. This event is run on 20-plus members.” She said given last year’s freezing rain and ice storm, she can’t complain about this year’s warm weather. The only event the melting ice cancels is the kids’ ice fishing. She’s proud that the event is self-funded. “It’s amazing,” she said. “You think of our community as poor, but we still have its support.” With the euchre, cash and prize raffle, fishing, hunting, kids’ activities, and wood carving, there is still one thing that LoPresto thinks the festival is missing. “I would love to have an ice sculptor.”

Shirkey warns elderly of identity theft scams

By | Nic Rowan city news editor Senior citizens have more state-provided benefits available to them than they often know, state Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Mich., said at a town hall specially designed for seniors on Monday. “You need to know if you’re a senior and have a legal problem and don’t know where to go, you can get help,” he said. Shirkey used the opportunity to introduce Ron Tatro of the state organized Elder Law to explain how senior citizens are entitled to free legal advice on how to put their affairs in order as they approach the ends of their lives. “Most of the issues that senior citizens bring to us can be solved over the phone,” he said. According to Tatro, senior citizens often have a hard time accessing help when dealing with issues like credit card debt, wills, and identity theft. “I’ve found that seniors are the most prideful people in our society,” he said. “They do not want handouts.” Tatro explained that seniors tend to be at a greater risk of fraud than other demographics because their age can often inhibit their judgement. Tatro called it the Buick Effect. As seniors’ ability to make rational decisions goes down, their

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a little bit Rock N Roll, the other place was more country,” he said. I worked in the business professional setting for 5 years. I went to the same cubicle, did the same job every day and it made me want something else.” Ray said he finds satisfaction working as a cook and cooking good food. “The kitchen is my area. I make every special and food if you had something I probably made it. I make sure

Sen. Mike Shirkey addresses a group of the elderly on Monday. Nic Rowan | Collegian

confidence in their decisions goes up. “The moral of the story,” Tatro said, “is that seniors become the most susceptible to scams and need to be surrounded by the people whom they trust to help make their decisions.” Local attorney Sandra George attested to this assertion, recalling how her elderly friend had been entrapped in a situation where she felt that was not being taken care of. George’s friend had asked her to take her from a care facility to the doctor in the morning. Although she did not have legal authority as

a caregiver to do so, George agreed for her friend’s well-being. According to the state, however, this act could be considered kidnapping. “As an attorney, I’m not worried about this,” she said. “But what about someone else?” George characterized the situation as stressful for both her and her friend and said it was indicative of the often confusing legal situations in which the elderly inadvertently find themselves. “People need to know that they can be helped,” Tatro said.

we have everything we need,” Ray said.” I was hired as a cook and then upgraded to a bartender.” “He was upgraded to my left hand,” Conant explained. Conant also designed ‘Dougie the Barfly’ who is grasping a beer in the front of Pub & Grub, which he said over 500 people purchase through his shirts and hoodies. “ I like being a bartender because I like giving people satisfaction and boarding and giving my opinion of the best burger or certain flavor of beer,” Conant said. “I love

coming to work every day. I have a 2 year-old and sometimes it’s hard to pry myself away from her to come here to have fun. But I like to work. I always have. And beside me, these people are all my family. Conant said his family and friends have helped him since day one. “Everything here in this bar we built ourself: me, my dad, and Tim,” Conant said. “This was a hair salon with pink floors and a lot of paneling when we moved in.”

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Marijuana dispensary to open this month in Reading State to allow up to five dispenseries in Hillsdale County, stirring community discussion By | Scott McClallen Assistant editor Reading City Council unanimously voted on Dec. 12 to allow up to five medical marijuana dispensaries in Hillsdale County. The dispensary owners told the Collegian they will open Feb. 12, when the state allows new dispensaries to. City council meeting minutes state the city will charge a $4,000 initial facility fee and an annual renewal fee of $3,600 for each license. Hillsdale County Undersheriff Albright and County Commissioner Wiley stated that they were against it. Hillsdale County Sheriff Tim Parker represented the county in October opposing the decision to open up to five medical marijuana facilities. “It’s an overall desensitization to drugs in our communities. And multiple communities explore the option of marijuana dispensaries but then decided not to, including the Branch County,” he said. “There are individuals who believe that there is a large windfall of money that will

come into the communities because of the marijuana industry.” Parker said he feared the medical marijuana dispensaries would bring additional traffic into Reading, which only has a part-time law enforcement agency, and has no immediate plans to boost law enforcement agency, he said, which cost for more service from the Hillsdale County Sheriff ’s office. “We are really tight on manpower covering the entire County of Hillsdale, let alone dealing with additional calls coming into that community.” he said. Parker said so we can look to states that have legalized marijuana for possible consequences. “But it depends who you’re looking at. If you’re talking to marijuana advocates, it’s the greatest thing that ever happened to them,” Parker said. “If you speak to the law enforcement community and communities where this has occurred, there has been a detriment to the community with an increased person to person crime rate.”

By | Scott McClallen Assistant editor One day out of the entire year, Here’s to You Pub & Grub is closed — for the annual all staff trip to a Tiger’s game. Owner Kevin Conant graduated from Hillsdale High School and went to college and received a degree in computer science, but said he only used his degree briefly in the practical world because he “didn’t like fixing people problems who didn’t want them fixed.” Conant soon returned to Hillsdale and opened Here’s to You, Pub & Grub in 2007 with his dad, his late wife Jessica, and Tim Hergert, his best friend since age 15 whom he used to brew on his front porch. “Sitting on his porch, Conant told Herget, ‘we should open a bar’, so we did,” Conant said. “And the rest is history.” “I thought I knew what I wanted to after college but I didn’t,” Conant said. “I’m 42 and I really don’t know what I’m going to do when I grow up. I dabble in real estate, here, at a brewery I’ve opened this restaurant. If it looks like fun, I’ll try it.” Conant said that he found satisfaction in bartending. “Here, it’s not exactly a need to fix things,” Conant said. “Here you just talk about sports and stuff like that. Sometimes we have break-in conversations about girlfriends. I call it a single serving problem once they walk out the door they’re out of your mind.” Conant said no degree could have prepared him to run a bar. “I had no experience when I started Pub & Grub,” Conant said. “I have figured it out through trial and error. I decide to go to business

with Tim because I knew him since I was 15 years old. It just sounded like something fun to do at the time.” Rough Draft co-owner Carlyn Hubbard ’16 said Conant brought craft beer to Hillsdale through the Hillsdale Brewing company, which he opened in January with the help of his staff. “You only do this for as long as Kevin has and then start a new businesses like he has if you really love it,” Hubbard said. “But he’s also disciplined. Pub & Grub is open every single day except for one day.” Conant said that craft beer existed since the 60s, but ‘blew up’ within the last six years. “I’ve always been in the craft beer because I have out of necessity,” Conant said. “I started drinking craft beer because my uncle drove for a beer delivery company and craft really didn’t sell in the late 90s early 2000s so I got all of it for free.” Conant said the brewery in just in its soft opening but will host its grand opening soon. “We’re going to have a grand opening with music and a lot more things. We’re just trying to get our service trains are Brewing practices down and our food down Before I even advertise,” Conant said. “But we’ve been so busy we haven’t been able to do anything. We ran out of food 7pm on Saturday we had a closing because we were out of food for that day.” Conant added that people followed him from Pub & Grub to the Brewery. “Both people want good food and craft beer,” Conant said. “I see a lot of the same customers. I have a lot of the same following for a customers and back.” Hubbard said she didn’t understand how it felt to own

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City redraws economic development strategy By | Nic Rowan city news editor The City of Hillsdale changed the way it manages economic development, according to a Jan. 18 press release. The release stated the City has not renewed its contract with the Hillsdale Policy Group, run by Mary Wolfram and Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram. Mary Wolfram will remain with the city, working on a limited contract with the Tax Increment Finance Authority to assist in the completion of the Dawn Theater and Keefer House projects in downtown Hillsdale. Previously, Gary Wolfram had informed the Hillsdale’s Economic Development Corporation that he would be resigning at the beginning. The management of the city’s economic development

has now fallen to City Manager David Mackie, Director of Grants and Economic Development Kelly LoPresto, and Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker. According to LoPresto, the change is not seismic. “Our roles have just expanded some,” she told The Collegian. LoPresto added that the new arrangement will aim to benefit the city as best it can. “We just want everyone we know that we will work as a team and with other partners in the community with economic development,” she said. According to Beeker, LoPresto will work with Mackie on the majority of Hillsdale-centric economic development projects. He will continue to handle economic projects in the downtown TIFA district. Mackie could not be reached for comment.

Longtime Hillsdale resident Jon Smith said he applied and received a medical marijuana card for pain management, and that he smokes about five times per year. “If you can show me a fact that marijuana increases the person to person crime rate, I will talk about it,” Smith said. “It’s hard to argue it. Medical marijuana does not hurt people in moderation.” “Prohibition has never worked in history,” Smith said. “And it’s not going to work now, regardless what you think about drugs.” Parker said that although medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, it is still federally illegal — which poses problems for law enforcement. “Technically all medical marijuana dispensaries were illegal before December of this year and yet other communities allowed them to be there.” Parker said. “But they are currently getting their marijuana elsewhere, and they currently can do so.” Smith said he thinks he will be harrassed for his lifestyle choices. “If you look in the mari-

juana laws are currently being passed or signed in the state of Michigan, the state of Michigan is posing to start running their own bank because you can’t run marijuana through a federal banking system,” he said. “So why would someone not scratch their head a little bit and and say, ‘there’s something wrong here’”. Parker said that states that have legalized marijuana have seen an increase of driving while intoxicated (DWI), but that there is neither a legal nanogram inebriation limit nor a marijuana breathalyzer. “We’re going to see an in increase in drug driving cases, so that’s an increase in persons harmed in our community,” Parker said. “In general, marijuana tends to mellow people out, right? Why don’t you do a survey with factories and ask them how many of them are doing drug testing anymore because they can’t find enough workers in our communities. So if everyone is on marijuana, whom is performing the services?” Urine tests are the main tests for marijuana, Parker said, but will be used on driv-

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a small town business until she invested in Hillsdale. “Every hour that Rough Draft is open I’m thinking about it I’m worrying about it and I’m excited about it,” Hubbard said. “It’s tiring, but so beautiful. I can’t wait to wake up and be inspired by him everyday. Kevin never stops. “ Hubbard said Conant mentioned things she had never worried about: mainly the number of holes in his wall. “Now I’m just afraid someone’s going to punch a hole in my wall,” Hubbard said. “I think he’s so used to it now that it’s not even interesting thing to talk about.” Conant said that between Pub & Grub, the brewery, and his two-year-old daughter, and his wife dying, he couldn’t have opened his new restaurant without his staff at both restaurants. Conant said he personally hires employees because he will be working with them, and ensures they are willing to treat customers right. “Working for me is pretty easy to work for as long as you do what you’re told,” Conant said. “The first 15 minutes with someone I can usually tell if I can work with them or not.” Conant said that his bar is probably where college students and townspeople interact the most in Hillsdale. “We form a good relationship with students. We start

to learn each other’s names and knowledge each other in public and that’s nice. Conant said. “The ones who come in here they always come back during Parent Weekend, and they always come back. We’ve had some great kids over the years.” Conant explained their original bar idea. “I wanted to cater to everybody. That’s what’s fun,” Conant said. “Obviously, some kids consider as townies and some stuff like that, but everybody intermingles here is and that’s what’s fun about it,” Conant said. “I’ve had very few fights between townspeople and students but we squash them very quickly. It’s 2018 no one does bar fights anymore.” Conant said that people from all walks of life and socioeconomic statuses visit his bar nightly. “A book club comes every Thursday, but don’t bring books. Instead, They drink have dinner and socialize. It’s a lot of fun. We really do have a good time.” Rob Ray, Pub & Grub’s kitchen manager, said that he started working here a yearand-a-half ago because Pub & Grub staff member suggested he work for them instead his current bar. “I was told by a staff member here that my personality fit in better here than in a country bar. Kevin’s

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ers suspected to be high on marijuana while driving. Blood and urine tests can only show current intoxication. But marijuana can stay in one’s system for up to 90 days depending on usage and body weight. “Currently if we test your blood or urine and you have any trace of THC content, and we couple that with your driving behavior, you could be charged with drunk driving,” Parker said. “Bottom line I want on the record opposing these facilities because of the increase in law enforcement requirement to police the individuals coming and going out of that. It’s cash industry and they can’t run through normal Banks. Parker said that since marijuana is a cash industries that can’t be financed through a federal bank, it encourages dishonesty. “In cash industries there’s a chance for fraud and not paying taxes to the great state of Michigan and to the communities,” he said. “On top of that, imagine if you will now in your local communities you have store fronts and their

children going up in front of the store fronts saying what is this oh this is marijuana place where you can go get your marijuana.” Overall, Parker said the situation confuses him. “It’s funny that if we have a drug problem in the community we want to increase this by having more access to drugs,” he said. Greg Stuchell of Ward 1 ran against legalizing marijuana because he said he thinks it’s a potential-killer. “Medical marijuana is ok, but it is still a drug,” he said. “Kids always go from potential to no potential after smoking marijuana.” Stuchell added that he had personal friends whose lives were derailed by marijuana. “It’s a gateway drug that to worse ones, and nothing good comes from it,” he said. The only good is the tax money coming from it, but if you look at research, it actually kills businesses around it.”

By | Nic Rowan city news editor The City of Hillsdale has narrowed its search for a new ladder truck to two used trucks in Houston, Texas, Fire Chief Scott Hephner told the Collegian on Tuesday. Since November of last year, the Fire Department has been in need of a new truck to replace its 1983 platform truck, which has been in service to the city for 19 years. The truck failed inspection when its hydraulic lift cylinders failed, and inspectors noticed that other hydraulic components were leaking. Additionally, the truck’s ladder cradle is broken, its ladder turret turns slowly due to low pressure, and its suspension load cushions are cracked. This essentially means the truck cannot function as a ladder truck because it would be unsafe to raise the ladder with firefighters on the platform. “The need for a new truck really comes down to the safety of our firefighters,” Hephner said. Fixing the current truck would cost $25,000 — much more than the 34 year-old truck is worth. Buying a new would cost anywhere in the range of $800,000 to $1,000,000. The City Council has allotted the Fire Department $250,000 to buy a new truck, according to Hephner. The Fire Department is looking for a truck with a 100foot long ladder to replace the current 85-foot platform. Additionally, it needs a truck with a ladder that has hydraulic capabilities, meaning that it can run water up through the end of the extension.

Because its ladder is out of commission, the current truck cannot effectively fight fires that would break out in tall buildings. This includes the Hillsdale Hospital helicopter pad, the 9-story Beacon Hill apartment building on M-99, and many of Hillsdale College’s buildings. It also includes much of the city’s downtown, which has a high concentration of 3-story buildings. Hephner said that if a fire occurs, Hillsdale will recieve aid from neighboring towns and townships. “But we don’t want to be without a fire truck,” he said. Hephner also added that although the ladder on the current truck cannot raise for accurate fire fighting, the fire department can spray water up in the air from other trucks to douse flames in tall structures. Some Hillsdale residents has requested that the college pay for a new truck because of the number of large buildings it maintains, but Hephner put to rest any rumors that this would be an option. “The Fire Department is not asking the college or any institution to pay for it,” he said. Additionally, Director of Campus Security William Whorley said he is absolutely confident in Hephner’s abilities to protect the city until the Fire Department secures a new truck. “He’s a good administrator and I have absolute confidence in both the Police and Fire Departments,” he said.

Penny Swan was given a preview to the new website one day before it was officially released. She said she likes it a lot better than the old website. “I think it is much more user friendly,” Swan said. With the old website, Swan said she often found it difficult to find the minutes and agendas of city council meetings and other events. The new website makes it easy to find those things, she said.

As to the new aesthetic, which reveals a fresh, new look for the City of Hillsdale, Swan said she thought it was pretty, and that she is “happy we have it.” “I think they did a good job,” Swan said. She noted that the website is still a work in progress, and that she did find a missing piece of information, but that the city is working to fix any mistakes in the coming weeks.

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City debuts new website By | Josephine von Dohlen assistant editor

City of Hillsdale launched a new website last night, simplifying access to city news and information online. City Clerk Stephen French called the makeover a “total revamp.” Throughout the upcoming weeks, the City of Hillsdale Facebook page will spend time featuring some of the website’s updates. According to the Facebook page, the city will continue to return to the website to add more information and fix any problems that may have been overlooked. According to the city clerk’s office, the old website was not set up for mobile users, but the new website is fully compatible on mobile phones. The old website prohibited the city from making updates

on its own, forcing them to work with a third party website provider for each individual change and work on its schedule. “The whole thing was cumbersome,” French said. The backend was archaic, the city could not do updates to it on its own, it needed to contact the website provider and work on its schedule. The new website clearly features city news and events, as well as live information on any power outages or other problems. Scrolling down the main homepage, viewers can watch a short video tour of Hillsdale. Clearly offering access to Board of Public Utilities information, online bill payment, a city calendar, public notices, and forms and permits, the new website gives Hillsdale a fresh new look online. Community member

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to be able to do. That creates mismatches for the other team.” If it weren’t for Ott’s hot hand to begin the game, the Chargers may have been in trouble early on. Dittmer was charged with two fouls in the first couple of minutes, forcing her to sit the bench for much of the first quarter in order to avoid further foul trouble. Fritsche acknowledged having Dittmer out for almost the entire first quarter was a challenge to work around. But the senior center with the G-MAC’s second-best shooting percentage found her groove late, scoring 12 of

her 14 points in the second half. Fritsche said once the Chargers started working Dittmer into the offense, their execution improved exponentially. “She makes good choices every time she touches the ball,” Fritsche said. “She’s a smart player and when we play through her, we’re better.” Junior guard Allie Dewire, along with Reed, each flirted with double-doubles. Both sunk clutch pairs of free throws in the game’s final minute to ice the contest. Despite an admittedly carefree mental approach to the free throws, Reed came through

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Jan. 27 Hillsdale-162, ONU-125 Hillsdale-107, CWRU-184 ble with 21 points and 11 rebounds. She leads the team with 15.1 points per game this season. “She’s been a consistent scorer for us,” Fritsche said. “Offensively, she found plays for us that were available. Defensively, she stepped up her role rebounding the ball.” Ott made four of seven three-pointers, including a couple early in the first quarter to get HIllsdale rolling offensively. “My goal is to just be as versatile as possible,” Ott said. “To be able to shoot outside, to be able to drive to the basket, to be able to post up; those three things I want

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Gray out, the team had to be finer in its execution. “There was less margin for error this time since there was less scoring on the floor,” Fritsche said.” We had to be better at the little things, and it worked out good.” Two days later, the Chargers hosted Trevecca Nazarene University, whom they lost to early in the season. This time, Hillsdale prevailed in a back-and-forth contest, 69-65. Junior forward Makenna Ott recorded a double-dou-

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nonetheless. “I was thinking ‘wow, there’s a lot of people here… this is a pretty close game,’ and then I was shooting free throws,” Reed said, laughing. “But we practice a lot of free throws because we know they’re really important.” The Chargers have won five of their last six games and continue to climb in the G-MAC. They currently sit in fifth place, but only two and a half games separate them from first-place Cedarville University. “We’re just really excited and we can feel that energy when we practice and before games,” Reed said. “We’re go-

ing into games confident and knowing there’s no one team that’s untouchable.” Hillsdale travels to play Walsh University (12-8, 9-5) on Thursday night for a 7:30 p.m. tip off. On Saturday, the team travels to Malone University (8-11, 6-9) for a 3 p.m. contest. Walsh and Malone are two teams the Chargers have beaten already this season. “We’re going to be very prepared,” Ott said. “We know what’s at stake and what we have to do to win and get the job done.”

Love of cycling puts Endurance Club in motion By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Freelancer When Freshman Emma Noverr left her home in Colorado to come to Hillsdale this fall, she left what she called the “cycling Mecca of America,” and came to a place without an established cycling community. Rather than give up cycling, she created her own community. That community is called the Endurance Sports Club, of which Noverr is president. The club competes as a collegiate club team and will begin racing competitively in the spring. It currently has four members, and its coach and faculty adviser, Laura Peter, is enjoying the experience of helping students progress as cyclists. “I love working with athletes that care,” Peter said. “Emma has been very proac-

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looked at the girl mounting the diving block in her neighboring lane, she realized she was swimming against her sister, Clare Smith. Theresa sporting a green suit and Clare one in red, the Smith sisters got to race in the 200 IM three times that year. Theresa won once and Clare out touched her twice. Clare Smith now runs track as a freshman at Benedictine College in Kansas. “Now I’m in blue, but she’s still in red,” Smith said. The swim team recognized Bowen and Smith’s leadership and devotion when it celebrated them both on Saturday night as they competed Saturday afternoon in Hillsdale’s own McAvoy Natatorium against Ohio Northern University and Case Western University. The team beat Ohio Northern 162 to 125 and lost to Case Western Reserve University 184 to 107. The day before, the team triumphed over Indiana Wesleyan University 121 to 80 and placed first in every event except two. Junior Grace Houghton cruised ahead of the competition in the mile swim at 18:46.66, defeating the other freestylers by a whopping 27 seconds. Houghton said that she had never swam the event before Friday. The G-MAC nominated Houghton as its Swimmer of the Week after her performance over the weekend with three spectacular wins. “I broke up the mile into thirds, and then just took it a

tive and very ready to stand up for the club.” Peter said endurance athletes don’t peak until their late 20s or early 30s, and that changes the way she trains her team members. “You have to train athletes knowing that you only have them for four years,” Peter said. “As a coach, I want to instill love in the athletes and make sure they still love cycling when they leave.” Part of instilling that love are frequent visits to what Noverr calls the “Pain Cave.” The “Pain Cave” is a training area in Peter’s garage she created for the team so they could train during the winter months. “We usually ride for about 12 hours a week and do six hours of weight training a week in the Pain Cave,” Noverr said. “It’s a nice outlet for us.”

Because that training may sound pretty intense to most, the Endurance Sports Club will expand to include members that don’t wish to train at that level. “The winter training is for people that are really committed,” Peter said. “When the weather turns, we’ll go out for Saturday midday rides. We just want to introduce people to any type of cycling.” While the club will try to attract casual riders in order to expand, Joseph Toates, the co-founder of the club, said the club was originally created so its members could compete at the collegiate level. “Both Emma and I really like the racing scene,” Toates said. “We wanted to create the structure to race around here to race for the college, and not just some company team.” Toates ran half-marathons competitively before becom-

third at a time. I work well as a back half swimmer, meaning I’ll make my move on the last half when everyone’s getting tired. Or, in this case, I caught up on the second third and held on,” Houghton said. “The second my head was out of the water at the finish, I heard all my team cheering and it was just great.” Freshman Hannah Wilkens followed Houghton’s lead and won the 500 freestyle, 16 seconds ahead of her competition and clocking in at 5:28.25. Houghton took another first in the 100 butterfly at 1:01.87 and Wilkens also won the 200 freestyle at 2:02.17. Freshman Katherine Heeres swiped first place in the 100 backstroke at 1:02.91. She also headed up the 200 IM at 2:15.85 with Junior Anika Ellingson just behind her in second place at 2:17.86. Other first place wins included sophomore Victoria Addis who ousted competition by six seconds in the 100 breastroke at 1:09.30. The chargers dominated the 100 backstroke when sophomore Allie Mattie, sophomore Bailey Bickerstaff, freshman Mary Vita, and junior Tiffany Farris took first through fourth place. The chargers returned to McAvoy the following evening to wrack up a few more spectacular wins. Ellingson took first in the 100 and 200 breaststroke at 1:07.05 and 2:29.84. Heeres pulled first place in both the 200 freestyle at 1:59.42 and the 400 IM at 4:48.97. Houghton’s winning streak

lasted through Saturday as she conquered the 200 butterfly in 2:13.15. Farris finished second in her 1,000-yard freestyle swim — an amazing feat for a sprinter. At 11:38.28, she out touched the third place winner by eight one hundredths of a second, knifing through the water to pass her in the final leg of the race. “On the second-to-last 50 yards, I was so very, very worn down. I could see my coach wanting me to speed up, but I personally didn’t know if I had the energy to do so. I just wanted to glide in to the finish,” Farris said. “On that last 50 yards, I pushed off the wall and I could see the feet of the other girl ahead of me. That competitive drive that I have kicked in and I decided to go for it.” Heeres, Ellingson, Houghton, and Vita won the 400 medley relay in 4:03.32. Farris, Addis, Rao, and Vita took second place at 1:44.04 in the 200 freestyle relay. “I find it really fun to swim more for the team,” Vita said. “In individual events, you’re still doing it for the team, but it feels a lot more like that when you’re in the relay with other girls.” As the mid-February G-MAC Championships approaches, Kirner said his swimmers need rest and recovery to prepare. “So many have had to gear back because of difficulties physically but the great thing is others who normally swim in the background stepped up to provide us with a winning record,” Kirner said.

ing a competitive cyclist. He said he switched to competitive cycling because long-distance running competitions felt like exercise, while cycling races require skills specific to competing against other people. “There isn’t really any reason to look at anybody around you during a half-marathon,” Toates said. “Bike races are very strategic, it’s difficult to learn how to do, and they aren’t just an exercise competition.” As the fledgling club begins its first season, the Instagram biography of the club describes it as, “Four broke students on a quest for the athlete water bottles.” The desired “athlete water bottles” are clear bottles with a Hillsdale athletics logo on the side, and are distributed only to members of Hillsdale’s official sports teams, not club

Laura Peter (left) and Emma Noverr (right) bike with the Hillsdale Edurance Sports Club. Emma Noverr | Courtesy

teams like the Endurance Sports Club. Peter said she believed cycling would always be a club sport at Hillsdale, but Noverr was more optimistic. “Dr. Arnn actually used to race bikes back in Claremont,

and a lot of other professors have done the same,” Noverr said. “The possibility is there…right now we are just working on affording uniforms. Baby steps.”

MEN’S TRACK TURNS IN STRONG PERFORMACE AT GRAND VALLEY By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter

Coming off a first place ranking at the Conference Crossover, the Charger men delivered strong performances at the Mike Lints Alumni Open at Grand Valley State University. With three meets left until G-MAC Indoor Championships, head coach Andrew Towne said the meet was a good step forward. “It went well,” Towne said. “We’re at the point in the season where you want to be taking steps forward every week. From Michigan a few weeks ago, to home last week, to Grand Valley this week, I think that we’ve done that.” While the team as a whole did well, there were a few outstanding performances. Sophomore Joey Humes, coming off a record-breaking performance in the 1,000 meter at the Conference Crossover, took first with a time of 8:24.62 and earned NCAA provisional status. “There was one guy and I just decided to stick with him,” Humes said. “The whole race he was going to go fast and so I was just going to try and hold on. But once the pacer dropped

off, he didn’t really want to go fast. So then we weren’t going for the fastest time but just for the win.” Humes stuck to the shoulder of the front runner and made moves accordingly throughout the duration. “It was one of the most fun races I’ve had in a really long time,” Humes said. “It wasn’t the quickest time. It’s considered a provisional qualifying time for Nationals. It won’t get me to Nationals, but it was a fun race.” Another outstanding performance came from senior Lane White who took third place in his 400 with a time of 49.21 seconds. “The season is progressing well for myself and everyone else,” White said. “Right now we’re in a good position to do well at G-MACs and hopefully at Nationals. We’re going to take each performance weekend by weekend.” Towne said the team is focusing on improving and strengthening its performances. “You want to be checking boxes, so to speak, in terms of getting things done,” Towne said. “Now is the time for that. One of the things we talked about with the guys is you can’t just

show up at a championship meet and expect it’s going to be there. You have to prepare.” That preparation comes with both the physical and mental side of the sport. “We need to continue to be more urgent and more committed,” Towne said. “Not that we’ve had any issues with that but just really buckling down and making sure we have no distractions. You gotta do the things now, whether its physically or mentally, so that when you’re there you are ready to go.” As the season begins to draw to a close, the team is at home this Friday and Saturday for the Wide Track Classic. The meet will see the Chargers competing against solid programs from around the United States and Canada. “We’ve brought in some really great teams,” Towne said. “We have Academy of the Art University coming in, which is one of the better programs in the country. They’re from San Francisco. Simon Fraser University, which is a pretty solid program, will be here from British Columbia. We have a pretty solid meet this weekend.”

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did it flawlessly, abandonBy | Kie Kababik the simple run-pass opSpecial to the Collegian ing tions quarterback Nick Foles threw the previous week in On Sunday, the Phila- favor of the deep ball. No delphia Eagles will face the one expected that type of New England Patriots in Su- performance from Foles, as per Bowl LII. The game is a he beat Tom Brady in every rematch of the 2004 Super passing category last week. Bowl in which the Patriots Super Bowl Sunday will beat the Eagles on a field be Doug Petersen’s and Nick goal. Foles’ greatest test against There may not be any Bill Belichick, one of the best players on the Eagles who head coaches at in-game adplayed in that game, but the justments. entire city of Philadelphia The Eagles will be the remembers that day. Before largest underdogs in the Suthe game, optimism flowed per Bowl since 2009, with the through Broad Street as the line currently at 5.5 points in fans thought they would fi- favor of the Patriots. But this nally capture that elusive team has shown that no matSuper Bowl, and heartbreak ter who is favored, the Eagles ensued when the clock read will find a way to win. all zeros with the score 24-21 The defensive line and in favor of the Patriots. linebackers for the Eagles The Eagles welcomed the are the best in the league, so underdog role this playoff they figure to take away the season, the three-point un- Patriots run game altogethderdogs to the Atlanta Fal- er. When Brady goes back to cons and the Minnesota Vi- throw, he will have pressure kings. Heading into the game in his face almost immediagainst the Falcons, experts ately. said that Matt Ryan and Julio The Eagles have shown Jones would be too much for they can throw the ball or a defense which had been hit run the ball and win. The or miss throughout the sea- Patriots’ lax defense won’t be son. able to stop the Eagles wide The Falcons only scored receivers and running backs. 10 points, all of which came The Eagles have so many difoff of turnovers. The Eagles ferent types of players, they defense stopped four plays are a matchup nightmare. inside the 10-yard line late in For these reasons, the the fourth quarter to secure Eagles will dethrone the a place in the NFC Champi- “G.O.A.T” and bring the city onship. of Philadelphia its first, and The next week Doug much deserved, Lombardi Petersen, the Eagles’ head Trophy. coach, had to game plan Fly, Eagles, Fly. for the number one ranked defense in the league. He

when faced with the Patriots’ By | Ben Weeks Special to the Collegian well-conditioned team in the 4th quarter. The Eagles are a passionIn 2011, NFL Films made a documentary about the six ate team, but the Patriots are quarterbacks drafted before disciplined, and discipline the New England Patriots se- matters far more on the biglected Tom Brady in the 2000 gest stage in professional draft. Despite being picked football. Bill Belichick, the late in the draft, Brady has most calculated mind in NFL defied the odds and is head- coaching, will make the biged towards his sixth Super gest difference in this game. In numerous documentaBowl win. Brady has looked as good ries on the Patriots, one can as ever in his 40-year-old see Belichick’s meticulous season. In comparison, Phil- planning before a game, acadelphia Eagles quarterback counting for every scenario. Nick Foles won’t be able to Additionally, the Patriots ofhold up under 4th quarter fense is called by the brilliant Super Bowl pressure. While mind of Josh McDaniels, Brady will be playing in his whos success will likely gain eighth Super Bowl, Foles is him a head coaching job afplaying in his first. If the Pa- ter this season. The Patriots’ defense triots can come back from a struggled at the beginning 28-3 deficit in last year’s Suof the year but has now beper Bowl against a team with the best offense in the league, come a dominant force, esthe Atlanta Falcons, and an pecially with the addition MVP quarterback in Matt of former Pittsburgh Steeler Ryan, they can certainly beat James Harrison. Defensive an Eagles team led by a backend Trey Flowers has looked elite so far in the postseason, up quarterback. Two weeks ago, Brady bringing pressure off the was able to come back from edge. The Patriots’ defense being down 10 points in is also led by the tactical the 4th quarter of the AFC mind of Matt Patricia, who Championship against the will most likely be the head best pass defense in the coach for the Detroit Lions league this year. Brady and next year. The Patriots have the Patriots were able to do one of the best red zone dethis without the hulking fenses in the NFL. This will tight end Rob Gronkows- lead to the Eagles settling for ki. If the Patriots’ offense is field goals when they need fully healthy, they will shred touchdowns to beat a team the Eagles’ secondary. Slot like the Patriots. Sunday night, Tom Brady receiver Danny Amendola will hoist his 6th Lombardi is coming off arguably the best game of his career and Trophy after leading the New shows no signs of slowing England Patriots to their secdown. Other NFL teams fold ond Super Bowl in a row.

The Patriots will win the Super Bowl

The Eagles will win the Super Bowl

Jeffrey VanZant

Associate Professor of Biology “The Philadelphia Eagles will overcome playoff inexperience to beat the aging New England Patriots.” Eagles - 34 Patriots - 31

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Hillsdale Head Football Coach “Patriots will win because of the QB – Tom Brady is the G.O.A.T. Also a factor – the Patriots have been there, Eagles have not.” Patriots - 31 Eagles - 17

Patricia Bart

Associate Professor of English “Being from Pittsburgh, how can I root for Philadelphia? Being a Prepneck from the Mid-Atlantic, how can I root for the Patriots? The Appalachian/Whiskey Rebellion/ tribal affiliations just run too deep. I shall simply take the ladies’ option and hide out in the kitchen making proteinand fat-laden hors d’oeuvres.

Brendan Rohlfs

Junior and member of the Hillsdale College football team “Nick Foles will step up and have a good game, but Tom Brady will find a way to win per usual.” Patriots - 38 Eagles - 30

With Terrible Towel tearstained cheek, I predict Eagles - 21 and Patriots - 17.”

From the driveway to the hardwood Assistant women’s basketball coach brings passion and love for the game to the Chargers squad By | Carmel E. Kookogey Collegian Freelancer New women’s assistant basketball coach Katie Meister has been preparing to lead a team since she was drawing out fake plays in her driveway as a kid. Meister, who describes her love of basketball as having started with a Little Tikes hoop, is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After graduating high school, she went to Augustana University to play Division II basketball, but her experience with the sport goes back much further. “As soon as I fell in love with [basketball], I would be a little kid drawing out fake plays in my driveway and stuff,” she said. Senior forward Jessica De Gree described the positive impact Meister has already had with the girls on the team. “Everyone understands what she expects, and she’s so chill about it that we don’t want to disappoint her,” De Gree said. “We’re coming from a loud, crazy coach from last year, so it’s good for the team to have someone who’s really stable.” Meister started coaching at Hillsdale in May 2017. Up until she got she job, she had never heard of Hillsdale

College. “I’m from South Dakota, which is a pretty conservative state,” Meister said. “But when I got the job, all these people came out of the woodwork, and were like ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve heard of that!’” Post graduation, Meister spent a year as a volunteer coach at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. She then went on to coach at Winona State in Minnesota, which was how she eventually found Hillsdale. “[Winona State’s] men’s coach, Todd Eisner, is actually really good friends with Coach Fritsche here,” Meister said. “So I had met Fritsche out recruiting, and he was super nice, and I saw he got this job, and so I had coach Eisener put in a good word for me, and next thing you know I’m on a flight here.” Head coach Matthew Fritsche described Meister as a steady teammate. “She doesn’t get super high or super low,” he said. “She has a deep caring and understanding of what our young women need, and what they need at the time. I’ve only worked with her since May, but I’ve been impressed with her daily.” De Gree confirmed that as a player, the change has been

healthy. “She’s so young that we can relate to her,” De Gree said. “Often times she’ll tease us about our game, or just anything in the day, and it’s totally fine to tease her back too, so it’s a really healthy coach-player relationship.” Meister admitted it could have been difficult to enter into a team that has had so many coaching changes in the last few years, as the Chargers have. The team, however, was surprisingly willing to experiment with both her and Fritsche, as they took a different approach. “They’ve been willing to trust our offense and defense, and what we’re trying to do as a team. Even though it’s been a little rocky, they can see when it’s going well, the results, so they’re bought in. Everywhere I’ve been, the coach had been there for a while, so this is a new experience, trying to change a team’s philosophy, I guess you could say. It’s been challenging, but it’s been really fun. And they’re all awesome, awesome kids,” Meister said. Meister described her past experience with her own coaches as influential. “You’re kind of always influenced by the people around you, but I’ve always been in love with the sport,”

she said. “Obviously all the coaches growing up have some impact on you, good or bad, so you kind of use it or lose it.”

Fritsche said her impact was of the former type. “I’m lucky to have her — the whole college is lucky to have her,” Fritsche said. “She

adds to everything that we stand for here, as far as how to treat people and what it means to be a good teammate.”

Head coach Matt Fritsche and assistant coach Katie Meister both joined the women’s basketball program this season. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

Charger Super Bowl LII Professors, coaches, and students give their predictions as the Eagles look to keep Brady from his sixth ring on Sunday. A9

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Driveway to hardwood Assistant women’s basketball coach Katie Meister joined the program this season, bringing a passion for the game with her. A9

Endurance Sports Club A love of cycling led a group of Hillsdale College students to found the Hillsdale College Endurance Sports Club. A8

The Chargers currently hold second place in the G-MAC. Crystal Schupbach | Collegian

MEN’S BASKETBALL PUSHES WIN STREAK TO FOUR By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale men’s basketball team (17-4, 11-3 G-MAC) ran through the competition last week with two wins on its home court, winning a hard fought battle against Kentucky Wesleyan University (12-11, 6-7 G-MAC) on Thursday and a high scoring affair against Trevecca Nazarene University (4-17, 3-10 G-MAC) on Saturday. The Chargers earned a 7463 revenge victory over Kentucky Wesleyan University who had beaten Hillsdale in a nail-biting overtime contest in December. In a physical defensive game, senior guard Ryan Badowski led the Chargers in scoring with 24 points on 5-12 shooting and hitting 1011 from the free throw line. He also added 5 rebounds and

had 5 steals. “Badowski is running really good offense right now,” Tharp said. “He is reading the defense incredibly well.” Late in the game, with a narrow 52-48 lead, Badowski swiped three passes, including two on inbound plays over 2 minutes of play while scoring a quick 12 points with a three-pointer, an and-one play, and 6 free throws. The flurry increased the Charger lead to 8 points and held off a late Panther scoring run. “We just gutted it out,” head coach John Tharp said. “We just found a different way to win.” Junior guard Nate Neveau had the hot hand on the night, scoring 21 points with 3 triples and going a perfect 10-10 from the free-throw line while adding 4 steals and 2 assists. Against a trio of 6 foot 9

inch Panther forwards, junior forward Nick Czarnowski battle to haul in 11 rebounds while getting Amir Warnock, the starting center for Kentucky Wesleyan, in foul trouble early, limiting to only 2 points in 14 minutes of action. Hillsdale won the game at the foul line after drawing 24 personal fouls where as a team they shot 26-29 -- nearly 90 percent -- despite shooting only 32 percent from the field. “We told our guys we were really proud of how we one that game,” Tharp said. “Sometimes you have to win without shooting a high percentage.” The Panthers shot 41 percent from the field and 45 percent from the field but had fewer free-throw attempts which allowed the Chargers to go on a 26-15 run over the last 8 minutes of the game.

The Chargers put the game away going 8-8 in free-throws in the final minutes of the game. “We had the right guys shooting free throws, the ball handlers,” Tharp said. With the playoffs approaching, hard foughts wins like this seem to mean more. “It felt really good to beat them on our home floor because we have never done that,” senior guard Stedman Lowry said. The Hillsdale men’s basketball team came back Saturday to earn a decisive 74-63 victory over the Trevecca Nazarene Trojans. Freshman forward Austen Yarian put on a show scoring 19 points on 8-9 shooting while grabbing 5 rebounds. “Yarian shows flashes at almost every practice, every game, Tharp said. “He hasn’t done it all like he did on Sat-

urday. He just saw one go in and he was really confident. He just didn’t think a lot and his mind was free out there.” This season, Yarian has averaged 3.5 points per game and has been hesitant to shoot three pointers. But on Saturday, he shot 3-4 from beyond the arc. “We know he is really good, senior guard Stedman Lowry said. “He didn’t redshirt because we knew he could help us a lot. As soon as he hit couple early, he kept rolling.” His breakout performance was supported by steady veteran production as each starter scored over 8 points, with Lowry having 15 points and dishing 5 assists. Czarnowski stuffed the stat sheet, scoring 11 points while adding 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and a steal. Unlike the grind against

Kentucky Wesleyan, Hillsdale shot 57.4 percent from the field and 41.7 from beyond the arc against Trevecca Nazarene while sharing the ball and creating 18 team assists. “We have to get their defense shifting as we share the basketball. It is one of the first things we look at. It isn’t always the assist, often it is the pass before that doesn’t show up on the stat sheet. We are an unselfish team and it is a credit to our guys,” Tharp said. The Chargers will play their next two games on the road. Thursday they will face Walsh College at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday they will face Malone University at 1 p.m. “We got to play with an edge. If we take a deep breath and relax, we could be in big trouble. If we guard, take care of the basketball, and act tough, good things happen.”

lifeguard training course with a swim around a pier on the shores of California. Already a proficient swimmer, the little girl knew jumping into the open ocean would do her no harm, but that didn’t change the fact that she had planned to take the big plunge with her dad, whom L.A. rush hour had made late. “I leapt in the water and started swimming, and soon I felt my dad’s hands on my feet,” Bowen recalled. “He had run into the water to finish the swim with me.” Smith’s parents both worked for the United States Air Force as pilots, so they navigated the skies better than the waters. But Smith still tears up at memories she made racing one of her sisters. Four years ago, Smith was competing at a meet for her club team as a senior in high school. When she

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floor, grabbing 22 offensive rebounds, while out-rebounding the Panthers in total, 5824. The Chargers’ rebounding superiority led to a 83-58 victory at Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena. “We really got after them about their effort,” Fritsche said of the timeout. “We basically told them ‘You can’t win like that.’ From then on, it was game over.” In one game, Hillsdale moved from fifth to second in the nation in rebounding margin, out-rebounding opponents by an average of 11.9 rebounds per game. Senior center Allie Dittmer led the rebounding barrage with 12 boards. Dittmer ranks third in the G-MAC this

season with 9.3 rebounds per game. Hillsdale rode a 39.1 shooting percentage from three-point range to pile up points on the Panthers. Kentucky Wesleyan didn’t shoot well all night long, especially from downtown, where they made only 12 percent of their three-pointers Leading the Chargers on offense was senior guard Maddy Reed, who scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed five offensive rebounds. Reed said the Panthers’ focus on Dittmer got her more open looks. “They were doubling Dittmer a lot and collapsing in, so she was able to kick it out and find me on the three-point

line,” Reed said. Freshman guard Jaycie Burger made four of eight three-pointers en route to a career-best 15 points. “It was awesome,” Burger said of her performance. “Shooting threes is definitely something I work on. We get a lot of good looks from three because of all the screens we set for each other.” Burger drew starts both games last week with junior forward Brittany Gray out with an ankle sprain. “Brittany is not someone you can replace,” Burger said. “I just wanted to come in and play my game.” Fritsche said that with

Five wins in six games put women’s Swim honors two seniors at dual meet basketball at fifth in G-MAC standings By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor After its Friday evening win and Saturday evening split, the swim team had great reason to celebrate more than their points. The swimmers focused all their energy Saturday night to honor the team’s two seniors, Peyton Bowen and Theresa Smith. “Peyton and Theresa have been great stabilizing forces on the team,” Head coach Kurt Kirner said in an email. “They truly put their teammates first and are always the most supportive duo on the team.” While Bowen and Smith’s athletic commitment to the team comes from years of training, their emotional support was, perhaps, inspired by the care and comfort their own families provided them. Bowen said she remembers finishing up a junior

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Charger swim honored seniors Theresa Smith and Peyton Bowen at senior night on Saturday. Peyton Bowen | Courtesy

When head coach Matt Fritsche called a timeout two and a half minutes into last Thursday’s home game against Kentucky Wesleyan University (11-8, 7-8 G-MAC), he was less than thrilled with his team’s rebounding efforts. The Hillsdale College Chargers (12-7, 10-5) had dug themselves into an early hole, due partly to their lackluster performance on the defensive glass. For the ensuing 37 minutes after the timeout, the Chargers took command on the boards and didn’t look back. Hillsdale dominated the glass on both ends of the

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WOMEN’S TRACK SWEEPS 5,000 METER AT GVSU By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor Senior Hannah McIntyre led the distance runners in a sweep of the 5,000 meter at Grand Valley State University on Saturday. Sophomore Arena Lewis came in second at the opener of the Mike Lints Alumni Open. “At this point in the year, you wanna continue to take steps forward,” Head coach Andrew Towne said. “I feel like we’ve done that every week, from being home, to Michigan, to this past weekend.” Finishing in 16:23, McIntyre made an NCAA auto-qualifying mark. Lewis’s time was just below an auto-qualifier. Freshmen Marissa Depies and Kyleigh Edwards finished third and fourth in the race with provisional marks.

Lewis said the 5,000 was relaxed, with most of the women from Grand Valley participating in the 3000 meter. The chargers performed well in the 3,000 meter race though, freshman Christian Sawyer making a provisional qualifying mark. Sophomore Addison Rauch finished seventh in the race. “Our whole distance squad did crazy well,” Lewis said. “...We’d all just discussed the plan for the race beforehand and we were all ready to go fast and see what we could do.” McIntyre was named the Women’s Track Athlete of the Week after finishing the race 17 seconds faster than her goal time, a second faster per lap. “Before the race, I had to tell myself, ‘you know you have to run fast today, you just have to make a decision,’”

she said. Lewis said McIntyre made the race easy physically and mentally for her younger teammates. “[Hannah’s] just a machine,” Lewis said. “It was so crazy. We were supposed to be hitting 60s for each lap and she was coming through 59s completely by herself. And she’s just so selfless. She let me sit on her shoulder, and do whatever she was doing. I put no work into the race and she just led me through. She’s the best teammate ever.” Lewis and McIntyre said they communicated and supported each other throughout the race. “It was really great to have her behind me,” McIntyre said. “She’s a tough cookie.” McIntyre also said that she shared with her younger teammates her experience as a freshman, and how she

depended on older teammates during meets. “I said, ‘You guys are capable of running a lot faster than you think,’” McIntyre said. ‘So clear it with Coach, but I think you guys should just try to stick with me as long as you can.’” The Chargers made good marks in other events. Senior Chloe Ohlgren finished third in the triple jump with a distance 10:89 meters. Senior Hannah Watts, sophomore Abbie Porter, and freshmen Carmen Botha and Calli Townsend finished fifth in the 4x400 relay. “I felt going into this meet this was the first chance to really establish ourselves,” Towne said. “This next week will be another big step in that direction.”

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The music of the ’60s: Cohen and Dylan drive By | Hannah Niemeier & Nic Rowan Senior Writer & Assistant Editor There are a few conversations that music junkies would kill to overhear, and here’s one of them: Dylan and Cohen on a California road trip, reminiscing about the golden days of ’60s rock ’n’ roll. Several weeks before his death in 2016, Leonard Cohen replayed his memory of the conversation for the New Yorker. In Cohen’s retelling, Bob Dylan’s classic 1966 hit “Just Like a Woman” came on the radio. After humming a few bars, Dylan turned to Cohen and told him that a famous songwriter had recently remarked to him, “Okay, Bob, you’re Number One, but I’m

Number Two.” In typical Dylan fashion, he used the opportunity to give his road trip partner a wry compliment. “As far as I’m concerned,” Dylan said. “Leonard, you’re Number One. I’m Number Zero.” That’s probably the best assessment of the 1960s — a musical moment that a still-shocked-and-awed Jody Bottum outlined in his CCA talk Tuesday night, with some uncertainty about what it all meant: “It wasn’t Beethoven’s Ninth, but it was something.” And it was just that: Something new, something unprecedented and hard to define. In the ’60s music movement, technology, politics, and cheap speakers exploded into a psychedelic array of earworms, smash hits, and headtrips. It was a musical

free-for-all, and amidst the confusion, songwriters like Cohen could still score hits by telling love stories with old guitars. But only Bob Dylan’s genius transcended and transformed pop music. Dylan came onto the scene at the right time. In the ’60s, audiences and artists made a mutual (and perhaps unspoken) pact that pop music was important and needed to be treated with reverence. “Like A Rolling Stone” became an anthem for the disillusioned. “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” gave voice to the downtrodden. Even the 11-minute dirge “Desolation Row” was taken seriously, and eventually deemed Nobel Prize-worthy — despite Weekly Standard columnist Andy Ferguson’s vehement protestations. Cohen stumbled into pop music shortly after Dylan’s

nationwide success. Already established as a failed Beat poet (check out his aptly-titled novel “Beautiful Losers”), Cohen turned to songwriting because fiction was not paying the bills. Like Dylan, he was a Jew who drew on a deep reserve of Biblical and cultural history for his lyrics. But Cohen never waded into Dylan’s free ’n’ easy waters; he stayed fixed on the shore, looking out at the hippies’ so-called “Age of Aquarius” with a lover’s gaze. Cohen’s seminal hit, “Hallelujah” — and everybody’s favorite Jeff Buckley cover — did not come out until long after the ’60s had spun into the excess of the ’80s, but it is essentially a child of the same era that produced his early break-out hits “Suzanne” and “So Long, Marianne.” Cohen spent five years writing

“Hallelujah,” and a whole lifetime living its broken victory march. Cohen and Dylan combined their observations of time’s passage into eternity in a way that set them apart from their peers. The ’60s was a diverse and ephemeral time, wrapped up in its own contemporaneity. It put the acid-drenched folk band The Grateful Dead, the hard rocker Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan’s most-attractive cover act Joan Baez on the same stage, but none of these acts (except maybe The Grateful Dead) escaped the era they helped define. Cohen and Dylan were acutely conscious of their place in the era — and that’s how they transcended it. This is how these songwriters became voices that still speak for an entire people. Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,”

which was originally conceived as a ballad about social unrest, still speaks for the deep human longing for respite from the world. Similarly, Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” talks about love and loss in a way that still makes its listeners’ hearts ache. But every work of artistic greatness resonates from within its own time. Cohen and Dylan’s lyrical music, relatable as it is for all ’60s sons and lovers, is self-consciously political as much of the message-driven rallying cries of the revolution-rabid decade. Both songwriters aced a lesson they purified later in their careers: Music is politically and culturally powerful, as long as you can convince people to believe it is. Dylan isn’t afraid to ask in his music: “How does it feel?”

A chance to dazzle Violinists, pianist, soprano, and flutist to perform solos at March and May orchestra concerts

Sophomore Chase Sabina is a professional photographer. Chase Sabina | Courtesy

From posting to professional Sophomore Chase Sabina grew his love of good photographs to a successful business, without ever taking a photography class

By | Abigail Liebing Assistant Editor When sophomore Chase Sabina started sharing his favorite photographs on a blog, he just wanted to post images he liked. Now, Sabina has been busy doing photoshoots for clients like Brooks Brothers, Google, and Land Rover — and has more than 27,000 followers on Instagram. Chase begins to describe what he does and who is he is, but he’s not quite sure. “Photographer, influencer, a lot of different words, I don’t really know,” Sabina said. Sabina’s original blog revolved around sharing pictures that he enjoyed, but he was not the photographer taking those pictures. “And then out of the blue I just picked up a camera and started shooting, saying I wanted to kind of replicate the images that I was seeing and sharing,” Sabina said. Sabina also kept his work somewhat secret, even from his own family. Junior Brooke Sabina, his older sister, said she was shocked when she found out how successful her

younger brother had become. “His success surprised me. His original blog, which he became known for, he had kept a secret from me,” Brooke said, “I think because he thought I wouldn’t approve or that I would tell our mom he was on the internet all the time.” Within a year the blog had around a million and a half page views. With that kind of popularity, Sabina figured if he could make a blog that popular, he could transfer the idea over to Instagram. “And then about two years later, after a lot of hard work on Instagram, I got my first client in brand to reach out to me,” he said. When he started out, Sabina had no thought of monetizing his Instagram or doing photo shoots professionally. But when his first client reached out to him, he began to think about the possibilities. Sabina now has a variety of clients, some small, some famous. He has done shoots for everything from small start-up businesses all the way to Airbnb and Delta Airlines.

Over the summer Sabina worked for a growing company called Grayers, which took him to London, Austria, and Germany. Though Sabina is in school now, his photography and Instagramming are not on hold. Sabina signed with an agency that represents him and manages his social media, but they are allowing him to work on his own schedule. Now he is trying to find the best balance between school and his work. “I just recently went to Chicago because I work with Google,” Sabina said. “And then I have another project with them this coming year, so they’ll send me travelling for that. Luckily I’m sort of able to balance it between work and school. It’s definitely difficult though.” On the academic side of his busy life, Sabina is thinking about majoring in economics or marketing. After working on both the creative and business aspects of his photography and Instagramming, he has come to appreciate the psychology behind marketing and economics. “The whole process of

building social media is marketing yourself and branding yourself, and making a brand out of your own name, which has been crazy,” Sabina said. “I really enjoy the whole psychology behind marketing yourself and trying to figure it out.” Junior Mark Compton, a friend of both the Sabina siblings, noted the unusual maturity with which Sabina handles his business and success. “Chase treats his success just like any other part of his life: lightly. He’s willing to laugh at the way he came into success, as well as the failures he’s encountered along the way — there are a lot,” Compton said. “I think managing a business at such a young age can lend itself to arrogance, but Chase operates with maturity.” His friend, junior Henry Listenberger, agrees. “He is definitely just a normal 20-year-old clown who happens to have way more experience than most,” Listenberger said.

By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor At the beginning of each spring semester, more than 20 students — music and non-music majors — vie for a coveted spot to perform a solo with the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra. On Monday the music department announced this year’s winners: Sophomore Keely Rendle, junior Thomas Ryskamp, and senior Susena Finegan will perform in the May concert. “I’ve never soloed with an orchestra before,” Rendle, the grand prize winner, said, “so I’m expecting it to be a little intimidating, but also really thrilling — and a real privilege.” Juniors Tova Forman, a violinist, and Clara Fishlock, a flutist, will perform in the March orchestra concert. Seniors Heather Woodhouse and Gregory Farison, a flutist and a cellist, earned honorable mentions. Three judges, musicians or faculty from music departments at nearby schools, select the winners. This year the judges were a pianist from Ann Arbor, an orchestra conductor at Hope College, and the head of the music department at Wayne State University. For almost 20 years, the music department has hosted its Concerto/Aria Competition to select four to five students to perform solo pieces during the spring orchestra concerts. To compete in the com-

petition, students typically begin practicing their pieces the spring semester the year before, but Rendle, a transfer student, didn’t begin learning her piece until a couple of weeks into the fall semester. Her violin instructor, Professor of Music Melissa Knecht, invited her to practice one of two pieces, and Rendle chose Bruch’s “Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26, 1st.” “I thought it was more emotional, or haunting, and beautiful,” Rendle said. Ryskamp auditioned for the competition last year, but this was the first time he placed. He’ll perform Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, 1st” on piano. “This piece has an element of sensitivity and subtlety that last year’s piece didn’t have as much,” Ryskamp said. Finegan, a soprano, will perform Menotti’s “Steal Me, Sweet Thief ” from “The Old Maid and the Thief.” The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will perform March 1 and May 10. Knecht, who prepared both Rendle and Forman to perform solo with the orchestra, said the student musicians at Hillsdale impressed her with their talent and diligence. “I think at Hillsdale we have, in our music department, some really gifted and intelligent students who are just devoted to anything that they do,” Knecht said. “Any commitment they take on, they have the joy of accomplishing it in extraordinary ways.”

Sophomore Keely Rendle will perform a violin solo in the May symphony orchestra concert. Keely Rendle | Courtesy

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Peter Leithart ’81 talks theology and Shakespeare -Compiled by Hannah Niemeier Dr. Peter J. Leithart ’81 is an author and theologian as well as the president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies. Leithart spoke on campus last week about the “achievement, failure, and promise” of the Reformation in the final keynote lecture of the series “This Far By Faith: The Reformation at 500.” He sat down to speak with the Collegian about uniting the divisions of the modern church, changing his plans as a Hillsdale student, and interpreting the works of Jane Austen. Your most recent book is “The End of Protestantism.” Why did you choose that title? Who is the book written for, and what is your view for the future of Protestantism? The book is addressed to my own “tribe:” conservative Protestants who historically have not been inclined to ecumenical or Catholic visions for the church. They’ve tended to be kind of separatist and sectarian. So I’m partly trying to persuade conservative Protestants who need to be persuaded from Scripture that Scripture teaches that the church is and ought to be one in a way that’s visible to the world. John 17 has been a major text of the ecumenical movement since the early 20th century: Jesus prays that the church will be one so that the world would see that the Father sent the Son. Invisible spiritual unity is not all he’s talking about; it’s apparent to the world. Part of the book is also an effort to assess the cultural and ecclesial moment: Where do we stand? I make a case for the idea that we’re in a time when pursuing deeper and more visible unity in the church is a timely effort. I think there are already signs that certain barriers have been weakened if not broken down. The culture wars have put conservative Catholics and conservative Protestants together on one side, and that has dispelled a lot of the prejudices on both sides. Charles Colson described this as an “ecumenism of the trenches.” If you’re picketing with Catholics, it’s hard to have the same kinds of anti-Catholic prejudice that Protestants have often had. So you’ve seen members of churches working together in politics and the daily life of the Christian community, but members of denominations still find themselves divided on some essential understandings of what it means to be Christian. How do you think they should go forward in difficult doctrinal conversations? I have confidence in a future unified church only because I believe that’s what

God is doing. It’s not because of the ingenuity of theologians or pastors or laypeople. It’s not about our ability to politic and manipulate a solution. It’s a work of the Spirit. I think that is inherent in the story of Scripture as I see it, that God is uniting nations together in the body of his son. If you start from that premise, it relaxes you somewhat because it’s ultimately God’s work. It puts the emphasis on prayer because if it’s God’s work, then you need to be asking Him to achieve it. We’re not freed from responsibility, but that puts us in the right frame to act even in what seem to be the most intractable impasses. It’s a mistake to enter into those kind of discussions on the assumption that the only alternatives are those that have already been formulated, and one or the other party has to win. One of the practical consequences of a divided church is that if you go with the New Testament image of the church as a body, if you have parts of the body that aren’t functioning, or if you have a church body that is really more the concentration of one organ — Presbyterians tend to be brains, and if you gather all the brains together, then you have a really high-functioning brain, but you don’t have the hands and the feet that some other traditions might bring. So I think the whole church is weakened by the fact that we aren’t sharing each other’s gifts. How did your faith form your education and your vocation as a preacher and theologian before, during, and after your time at Hillsdale as a student of history and English? I grew up Lutheran and met my future wife at Hillsdale, and when I started going to her home church in Atlanta, I started hearing a kind of preaching that I hadn’t heard in the Lutheran churches — a depth of Biblical teaching that I hadn’t gotten from the Lutheran church. After we got married, I joined a Presbyterian church, and I’ve been in Presbyterian churches since then. I’m more appreciative of the Lutheran tradition now than I was when I was a Lutheran. I don’t think I grasped what I had. I’ve become much more sympathetic to the liturgical Lutheran tradition than I was before I moved to a Presbyterian church. As far as my vocation, I pastored at a couple churches, but my inclinations and makeup are really more suited to the life of a theologian than a pastor. I also had some good history professors who steered me in the humanities direction. And as I read more theology, partly guided by my wife’s pastor, it became clear that

my real love was in theology. I still do some work in history and literature, but theology is my overriding interest. You’ve written books on Jane Austen, Dostoevsky, and other literary giants. Are those primarily literary works, or do you look at literature from a theological perspective? I feel like I’m doing theology no matter what. I’ve written two books on Jane Austen; one was a biography where I emphasized her upbringing in the Anglican church, which is sometimes downplayed by critics. But I also have a book that’s a study guide for high school students on Austen’s novels. In those, just as a result of my training and inclination I gravitate to what I think of as theological themes in the books. I hope I’m doing justice to the text as a literary artifact, but I know that I zero in on themes that interest a theologian. What poet or author addresses theological themes in a way that speaks to you most strongly? I’ve gotten theological insights from Shakespeare. I have an interest in political theology, and I think Shakespeare’s history plays, English and Roman, and the political dimensions of the tragedies, show that he’s very aware of the theological import of what he’s doing. The whole sequence of the English history plays is moving from one model of Christian kingship in Richard II to Machiavellian kingship in Richard III and you see the breakdown of this medieval idea of kingship where the king was the anointed of the Lord breaking down over the course of that sequence of plays. Coming from an education at Hillsdale that was formative in your faith and your intellectual interests, and looking at the political and theological climate that Hillsdale students today are in, what do you have to say to students who are having these discussions about faith and thinking about what it means to be a Christian? I see hopeful trajectories in various areas in the United States. I think there are opportunities for positive Christian witness that can be persuasive. I think Americans in general are confused about where our country is going, and thoughtful Christian witness has a real potential for being heard. I think Christians should be prepared to face resistance and be prepared to witness faithfully. That’s the original meaning of the word “martyr:” it’s a witness, a person who is faithful in the face of dangers or threats.

Heather Tritchka ’98 sculpts humans and history. Madeleine Jepsen | Collegian

From concept to clay: A look inside a sculptor’s creative process By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Sometimes, when Hillsdale County sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is working on a statue, the facial emotions on the sculpture seem to reflect those of of the sculptor, her husband Greg Stuchell said. “If she’s was really joyful that day, the statue’s face would look more like it’s smiling,” Stuchell said. “If she was in a bad mood while sculpting, at the end of the day, you can almost see more of a frown on its face.” From the statue of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in the Grewcock Student Union to the statue of Potawatomi princess Winona in Mrs. Stock’s Park, Tritchka has crafted many statues since she first took a sculpting class as an undergraduate student. Now, her latest project has moved from humans to animals as she begins sculpting a mother black bear and her two cubs for an installment along Baw Beese Trail. She said the most lengthy and difficult part of the sculpting process is toward the beginning, when she’s constructing the armature, or interior framework, of the statue. Unlike previous statues, which had a more flexible wire frame, the bears will have a plaster frame under the clay exterior that will be sturdier during the process of casting the statue in bronze. “It’s a little bit difficult as an artist because I’m used to having an armature that moves, so when I look at it and say, ‘I wish her head was just a little more to the side,’ I can grab it and move the whole thing,” Tritchka said. “But when you have a hard, plaster center, there’s not a lot of turning. I’d have to cut and replaster. It’s ok because bears don’t move gracefully anyway, so it’s not too bad. But that might be a challenge if I do another human figure.” She said constructing the framework, especially a less flexible frame, is one of the most time-consuming aspects of the sculpting process.The armature hardly resembles the finished product, but Tritchka has already put in hundreds of hours of research to determine how the bears can be arranged in realistic and artistic poses. “Armature is one of the most difficult parts because I feel like I have to get the motion of the piece and the spirit of the piece done with armature,” Tritchka said. “The detail stuff on top is kind of like putting the decorations on the cake.” With some of her human statues, such as the Winona statue, Tritchka rolled clay onto the armature, then smoothed it and shaped the surface details. For the bears, however, she said she would like to try a different ap-

proach. “I’m going to try something a little different with melting the clay into a putty-like texture and then putting it on with a putty knife to create a rougher texture,” Trichka said. “I’m still trying to figure out how I want to indicate fur, and I don’t want to do something super finished. I want to have a rough look to it because it’s going to be on a trail outside in a natural setting, and I want it to have a rough texture, but what that looks like exactly, I’m not sure yet.” Tritchka said the creative focus of her animal-based statues has differed from her human statues, since bears have fewer specific characteristics to consider during the design process. Instead of focusing on historical details of a human subject, Tritchka said she has concentrated her efforts on making the statues interactive. “With Winona, it was more about getting the figure accurate, making sure she looks like someone who could be half-Potawatomi and halfFrench, and making sure I have the historical details correct, and then the energy that I would’ve put into that, with the bears I’m putting that into making sure that people can interact with them,” Tritchka said. The mother bear, up on her hind legs, will stand behind her two cubs playing with a berry branch. Tritchka said

the mother’s paws will be out far enough that someone could stand next to her or in front of her, and small children will be able to crawl between the cubs or sit on one of the cubs’ laps. Once the clay statues of the momma bear and her cubs are completed, the statues will be cut into smaller portions and transported to Studio Foundry in Cleveland, Ohio. There, the clay statues will be used to make rubber forms of the clay exterior. The rubber forms will be filled will a thin layer of wax. Foundry workers will then dip the wax pieces — hollow replicas of the clay bears’ heads, torsos, and limbs — into porcelain slurry. The porcelain, once hardened around the wax, serves as a mold for the final bronze statue. The molten bronze is then poured into the porcelain, filling the space as the wax melts out of the mold. “It’s a similar process that the Romans used, and probably the early Greeks, where they would cast the statues in sections,” John Ranally, an owner at Studio Foundry, said. Stuchell said Tritchka’s work, both in the clay models and the final bronze statues, captures the emotions and facial expressions of her subjects in a powerful way. “She really has an eye for detail,” Stuchell said. “I never get tired of looking at her art.”

Heather Tritchka ’98 sculpted the Potawatomi princess Winona. Madeleine Jepsen | Collegian

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Antiquated technology lives on at Hillsdale

By | Nic Rowan City News Editor Anyone who has taken one of Professor of History Ken Calvert’s classes knows about his love of the overhead projector. Instead of the digital projectors wired into the ceiling of each classroom, Calvert prefers a boxy contraption illuminated by an incandescent light bulb that looks like it belongs in a “Looney Toons” episode. But Calvert is proud to be a Luddite. “The ‘old-fashioned’ overhead projector is easy to use, rarely breaks down — although sometimes it needs a new bulb — it never needs to be restarted or to have an IT person help figure out how to work the thing,” he said. “I think the overhead projector has more smarts than the smartboard.” Calvert is not alone in his affection for the technologies of the past. Sophomore Jonah Davey typically types the drafts for all of his papers on a typewriter. Davey said doing so helps him distill his thoughts and write more efficiently, in a way that neither handwriting nor typing on a computer would allow. “It’s a low-tech device that functions for me as an accelerated form of handwriting,” Davey said. Even the college itself still adheres to the past. Although now rarely in use, Mossey library has two microfiche readers as well as a microfilm reader.

According to Public Service Librarian Linda Moore, the college is in the process of slowly phasing out microfiche. For example, the college used to have a number of books in its microfiche cabinet, but once these were purchased online, the physical copies were discarded. Additionally, the college has purchased a scanner that allows microfiche users to make individual copies of

“It’s a low-tech device that functions for me as an accelerated form of handwriting.” microfilms. “If someone decides a microfilm is important, it becomes available online,” Moore said. As new technologies quickly overtake older ones, the library tends to accumulate multiple copies of the same thing. Moore said this has happened most notably with the New York Times. The college owns hard copies, microfiche versions, and the online version of the NYT

archives. “It’s America’s paper, so to speak,” Moore said. According to Moore, another problem with the constant onslaught of new technology is the hard decision of whether to replace existing catalogs or create new ones. This becomes most evident in the library’s transition from VHS tapes to DVDs for the film collection. Some things in the VHS library are irreplaceable, and as the library transitions from DVDs to Blu-ray discs, the same is becoming true. “Keeping up with the technology as it evolves can be a real issue for the library,” Moore said. Even more pressing, however, is the issue of when to finally let an old technology go. For instance, the library no longer stocks vinyl records because it no longer has record players. “One of the philosophies of the library is that if we are going to collect it, we need to have the equipment,” Moore said. “People were stealing record needles — which are expensive — so we never replaced them and got rid of our record player.” Some technologies, however, are so old that they never will leave. Moore pointed over to the table near the copy machines. “Paper cutters are not cutting edge, so to speak,” Moore said.

Two microfiche readers are available at Mossey Library. Wikimedia Commons

Hillsdale students competed in a series of chemistry-related games in an annual competition called the Battle of the Chem Clubs. Andrea Lee | Courtesy

Hillsdale ACS competes in ‘Battle of the Chem Clubs’ By | Jordyn Pair News Editor In the end, it was the titration lab that was their downfall in the Battle of the Chem Clubs. Senior Andrea Lee, a biochemistry major, was the only member of the five-person team that had taken analytical chemistry, and that was over a year ago. “In a titration lab, you’re trying to find the concentration of a basic solution,” Lee said. “We were pretty close. I was pretty proud of us.” Although the Hillsdale College chapter of the American Chemical Society didn’t quite make it to the playoffs at the annual Battle of the Chem Clubs, they did tie for seventh place overall. Twelve schools attended this year’s battle, which included events like a puzzle of

the periodic table and chemistry-themed charades. Hillsdale was in third place going into the final event before lunch, but having to re-learn titration on the spot pushed their time to the limit. Their accuracy, though, was impeccable. “To be honest, I had low expectations for us,” Lee, the president of the chapter, said. “We had a small team, and we didn’t have a lot of upperclassmen with us.” The chapter brought one freshman, two sophomores, one junior, and one senior to the battle. “We’ve been doing this for a while,” junior biochemistry major Christine Ausherman said. “It’s a really nerdy title, but it’s great.” Associate Professor of Chemistry and chapter adviser Christopher Hamilton said one of the main benefits of the

event is being able to make good connections. “It helps students interact with peers at other institutions,” Hamilton said. Lee agreed. “It’s a way for all the ACS chapters to come together for some friendly competition,” she said. Hillsdale has only missed two battles since the event started 11 years ago. The chapter normally take between 10 and 15 students, but could only bring five this year, due to outside conflicts. “We did really well, considering we had only five people,” Ausherman said. Hamilton said he hopes to take a larger group again next year. “We definitely foresee doing this again in the future,” Hamilton said. “Hopefully we get a large group together and take home the trophy.”

(From left) Sophomore Jackie Pham, junior Christine Ausherman, sophomore Stephen O’Dette, and sophomore Nate Gipe competed in an annual chemistry competition. Andrea Lee | Courtesy

‘Super blue blood moon’ rises in morning sky By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Early Wednesday morning, a lunar eclipse occurred in combination with two other lunar phenomena, dubbed the “super blue blood moon.” During the lunar eclipse, the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, casting a reddish tint on the surface of the moon. “The Earth has an atmosphere and the moon doesn’t, so when you have the Earth blocking the sun, you still have the atmosphere,” Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch said. “We have a blue sky because blue light

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scatters the most off of the nitrogen molecules, whereas red light keeps going in a straight line. Therefore, most of the light that passes through the earth’s atmosphere and keeps going is red. That sunrise or sunset light that’s coming through, that’s the portion that reflects off the moon back to us.” Some scientists also use thermal measurements of the moon’s surface during the eclipse to gain information about characteristics of the moon’s surface. “The whole character of the moon changes when we observe with a thermal camera during an eclipse,” said Paul Hayne of the Laboratory

for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder in a press release. “In the dark, many familiar craters and other features can’t be seen, and the normally nondescript areas around some craters start to ‘glow,’ because the rocks there are still warm.” The lunar eclipse coincided with a super moon, a term for when a full moon occurs during the point when the moon’s orbit comes closest to Earth, causing the moon to appear slightly larger and brighter than normal. The eclipse also occurred during a blue moon, the term for when two full moons occur during the same calendar month.

Laser system creates 3-D color images in thin air In a step up from holograms, or images projected onto a surface that only appear to be three dimensional, scientists developed a laser system that can create 3-D color images that can be viewed from any angle. The system creates an image by trapping tiny cellulose particles in laser light. The laser moves the particle along a particular path, illuminated by other lasers for color, to produce the image. The project is described in Nature.

The lunar eclipse, or “blood moon,”as seen from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during early Wednesday morning. NASA/Robert Markowitz | Courtesy

Scientists discover 10 new bacterial defense systems A new report in the journal Science describes 10 sets of bacterial genes used to protect bacteria from viruses. Bacterial viruses, called phages, invade bacterial cells and use the cell’s materials to produce additional phages. All 10 sets of genes defend against foreign genetic material and use a defense mechanism similar to that of Crispr, a biotechnology tool that originated in bacteria.

Microcapsules used to collect reactive oxygen species Reactive oxygen species, a type of oxygen produced through certain biological processes, can damage cells when left unchecked. A new microcapsule, described in Chemistry of Materials, may be able to collect reactive oxygen species. The scientists demonstrated that the microcapsule is stable in biological environments, making the new material a possible substitution for antioxidants in industrial or medical applications.

New biosensor uses tears or sweat to monitor glucose levels Using tiny ribbons of a glucose-related enzyme, researchers have created a wearable material that could be used as a biosensor for glucose levels. The material, described in ACS Nano, can detect glucose concentrations typically found in the sweat, saliva, or tears of diabetic or nondiabetic people. The glucose present in the sample interacts with the enzyme, which ultimately creates an electric signal.

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Elizabeth Maynard greets students, rescues dogs, keeps witty Instagram puppies with the Detroit Bully Crew, or coordinating a casino bus trip fundraiser for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, Elizabeth Maynard, better known as “Liz from Saga,” encourages each soul she encounters. Her motto is simple: “I put one foot in front of the other, help others as they have helped me, and put good energy out there.” A Tecumseh native, Maynard attended Western Michigan University for a year beElizabeth Maynard greets patrons fore beginning a career in the auto industry. She worked as they enter Hillsdale’s dining the graveyard shift, from 11 hall. Elizabeth Maynard | Courtesy pm to 7 am, for 22 years at various automotive manufacBy | Alexis Nester turing plants in southeastern Collegian Reporter Michigan, including HutchinWe pass her every day as son in Quincy, while helping we amble into the boisterto raise her niece and nephew. ous cafeteria. She smiles and When the Great Recession welcomes us while we swipe hit in 2008 and the Quincy our IDs and mutter under branch of Hutchinson closed, our breath about a test we just the company offered their bombed or the payment we employees a scholarship with had to make or the cost of our a stipend to go back to school. meal plan. With the scholarship, MayWhether providing moral nard attended Kellogg College support to a frowning student, in Battle Creek where she posting funny quotes and earned a degree in Adminisphotos on her Facebook and trative Assistance. Maynard found the job Instagram accounts, rescuing

search difficult due to the plethora of automotive workers who went back to school and earned similar degrees. As a result, she went back to the auto industry after school and worked at the Alphi Manufacturing plant in Jonesville for four years before applying to Bon Appétit in August 2016.

“ Liz is ver y friendly and outgoing. She connects well with all the students, and I always like to have that personal connection at the front desk.” JoAnn Alvarez, who interviewed and hired Maynard for Bon Appétit, said she knew Maynard’s skills would be best used at the front desk, greeting guests. “Liz is very friendly and outgoing,” Alvarez said. “She connects well with all of the students, and I always like to have that personal connection at the front desk.”

Law school does not require Pre-Law Students find value in liberal arts By | Stevan J. Bennett Sports Editor Each year, Hillsdale College sends several students to top 20 law schools, including schools such as Yale and Harvard. Not one of these students is a pre-law major. In fact, Hillsdale doesn’t even offer a prelaw major. Instead, students interested in law school are encouraged to pursue their other academic passions in their undergraduate studies. The result: a diverse group of uniquely equipped students entering their first year of law school. “We’re a liberal arts college, so we don’t provide professional or technical degrees, which is what a pre-law major would be,” said Nathan Schlueter, Professor of Philosophy and Religion and a pre-law advisor. “Fortunately, a real liberal arts education is the best preparation you can get for law school.” The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law — consistently a top 15 ranked law school — keeps a list of pertinent skills for law students to possess on its website. Chief among these are strong written and oral communication, critical and analytic thinking, ability to research, and academic organization. According to Hillsdale students planning on attending law school next fall, these are skills their respective majors developed within them. As an example, senior English major and co-founder of the Hillsdale College Federalist Society Daniel Cody said he initially decided to study English because of a personal passion, but within the major he found incredible opportunities to develop his writing and ability to dissect the written word. “The English department at Hillsdale teaches you to write with precision and to read closely,” he said. “I can’t imagine two more fundamental skills for the practice of law than that.” Beyond his study of English, Cody said he believes a liberal education itself is a valuable resource to those entering the legal field. “At Hillsdale, we’re always talking about being a more-full person, and that somehow knowledge and learning brings us closer to whatever we’re supposed to be, and I think that’s true,” he said. “I think that the people you want making, enforcing, and helping you comply with the laws ought to be the best they can be, intellectually and morally.” It’s not only English majors who have discovered value for their legal aspirations in their specific field. Senior history major Jacob Weaver — also a co-founder of the Hillsdale College Federalist Society — noted the research component of law school, and how the history department has prepared him for that. “I am doing my thesis right now, and it’s just digging through old documents and case law and trying to match these documents with my thesis, and shape a thesis around these documents, and that’s what you’re going to do in law school,” he said. Cody said he believes all of the departments at Hillsdale bolster these skills, citing philoso-

phy and politics specifically. For senior Dugan Delp, the economics department taught him to approach each situation and problem within its broader context. He said this was particularly helpful in taking the Law School Admission Test, a test which focuses heavily on logical inferences and contextualization. “Economics helps you think critically and logically,” he said. “So with the LSAT, it really helped me find the issues, and find the logical discrepancies, and work through the logic games. I felt like I had a better grasp on all of those because of my understanding of economics.” Delp, who is also majoring in Spanish, added that his foreign language background served as a strong point of diversity and interest in the application process. Students don’t stop finding these benefits when they close their books, either. For senior theatre and history major Glynis Gilio, the stage provided its own preparation. “When you’re an actor, you’re required to embody and take on people from many different places in history and many different social classes, and so you have to be able to get into that mindset, get on stage, and defend them. That’s basically what you’re doing as an actor, making a defense,” she said. “I think that empathy and the mechanics of [acting] are so important and helpful to attorneys.” Additionally, she said she strengthened her researching skills while preparing to place her characters convincingly within a given play’s setting and framework. The unique benefits of diverse study for prospective law students extend far beyond the humanities. In fact, students studying physics and mathematics routinely achieve some of the highest acceptance rates at top law schools, according to information published by the Law School Admissions Council. Hillsdale itself has a record of sending STEM majors to prestigious law school. Weaver said the range of majors represented by prospective law students speaks to the diversity of the field and the possibility to find one’s own niche within it. “More than the broadness itself, it’s about the mental development you can get from these different fields,” he said. “Having this diverse background within the field of law allows people to go off into different areas of the law that can be more of their speciality.” Cody suggests that younger students interested in law school should pursue an undergraduate degree in something they are passionate about, rather than viewing their undergraduate years as simply “pre-law.” “Everything that you need to learn vocationally, you will learn in law school and through practice,” he said. “If law school needed to be seven years, it would be seven years... focus on having a work ethic and an intellect which have been trained for the specific tasks of learning, comprehending, and focusing. Those are things you can learn in any undergraduate pursuit.”

“Fortunately, a real liberal arts education is the best preparation you can get for law school.”

When asked about her favorite part of working for Bon Appetit, Maynard mentioned her interactions with students. “I love hearing your highs and lows, and I try to offer support,” Maynard said. “I enjoy the kids a lot…I feel like you guys have accepted me, and that is a good feeling.”

When not welcoming diners to their meals on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she visits friends in Jackson or Battle Creek, attends her niece’s 4-H presentations and the college’s sporting events, and walks her rescue dog, a pitbull named Caesar. Since 2011, Maynard has volunteered with the

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most popular music video reaching 600,000 views. His dedication to creating original content centered around the show is far from unique in the community. “The fandom allows anyone who wants to be creative in any aspect to participate. There’s art, music, fanfiction, and animation,” Custer said. “It really shows the creative aspect of the fans.” Hillsdale sophomore Joseph Frank Johnson has a simple explanation for this artistic phenomenon: “Ponies are easy to draw.” Johnson hesitates to call himself a brony, but enjoys the show and creates content in his free time under the YouTube handle “Joey, The Dark Lord.” “It’s really stupid, but I’m taking ‘My Little Pony’ episodes, and I’m applying economics to them,” Johnson said. “The videos use ponies to explain economic concepts like comparative advantage.” Johnson first discovered “My Little Pony” his sophomore year of high school, but moved away from the fandom after being exposed to its more extreme facets. “You look at stuff at the fandom has made and you think ‘Oh that’s cool,’” Johnson said. “But as time has gone on I started to realize how weird some of that stuff was. I think the closer you get to what a brony is, the more you want to step back and just like the show.” Outside of buying a few shirts from Hot Topic during high school, Johnson kept his wallet far away from the fandom’s clutches. Custer cannot say the same. “I’ve dropped about $1,000 on the pony fandom,” Custer said. “I’ve been to BronyCon in Baltimore the past two years, so that includes flights and hotels.” At last year’s convention, Custer met people he knew from the community in person, watched panels, and participated in live musical performances. He even made time to bring Johnson home a poster. “The show is very positive. All the messages are about community, friendship, and how to interact with other people,” Custer said. “That inevitably seeps into the psyches of the people who watch the show, so we pride ourselves on being a very open, loving, and accepting community.”

Detroit Bully Crew, an organization that rescues dogs from abusive and neglectful owners. Currently, Maynard is planning a bus trip to Greektown Casino in Detroit to raise money for Stiggy’s Dogs, a nonprofit organization that trains dogs to assist veterans with PTSD. A $40 ticket buys a ride to Detroit as well as a $20 casino credit. “Veterans and dogs are the two biggest things that I try to support,” said Maynard. “I love to give back. Any time I can give back and make somebody smile, that makes me smile.” Since starting at Bon Appétit, Maynard has acquired a small cult following on Facebook and Instagram, posting humorous and pleasantly sarcastic quotes, memes, and

photos of her dog. “I will admit that my social media is not for everyone,” Maynard said. “I have a very dark, crazy sense of humor, and I love sarcasm. I post stuff that I think is funny, and I know my audience.” Maynard finds value in the connections she makes with students. While sitting at the front desk in Bon Appétit, she said that she hears students struggles and tries to offer as much support as she can, even in brief interactions. “My life has taken some interesting turns at times and you have to work through it,” Maynard said. “I heard every day before exam time about stressed kids, and I want you to know that you will get through this, and it will all work out.”

Elizabeth Maynard rescued a pitbull named Caesar. Elizabeth Maynard | Courtesy

The brony fandom thrives on its openness, to the point where it produces everything that a fan could possibly want or need. There’s brony news websites, brony support groups, brony shoes, brony charities, communist brony discussion boards, and even a brony dating site called “Brony Mate.” The brony fandom is often viewed negatively by the public, leading to tragedy. In 2014 an 11-year-old boy attempted to hang himself after his classmates repeatedly called him gay for wearing clothing featuring the character Pinkie Pie. Earlier that same year a 19-year-old with learning disabilities threw himself in front of a train after internet trolls accosted him over a pony fanfiction. Both Custer and Johnson claim that Hillsdale students never so much as sneer at them for their bronyism. Junior economics major Jenna Suchyta explains part of the reason why. “My gut reaction is that the whole thing is weird, but its not hurting me so, ‘you do you,’” said Suchyta, when asked how she feels about bronies. “Anime is weird also, but they don’t bother me, so why should I be worried?” Considering Hillsdale counts itself among the few remaining colleges in the U.S. that allow smoking on campus, this answer seems far from surprising. Self-government extends into bronyism quite nicely. “People know I’m a brony, and they don’t really care about it,” said Custer. For both Custer and Johnson, the most difficult person to discuss bronyism with was their parents. Custer’s father initially resisted his bronyism. “My dad would joke around about how he would never want any of his sons to be a brony,” Custer said. “That was a difficult conversation.” Johnson, on the other hand, found his mother difficult to convince. “I was pretty nervous leading up to telling my mom about it,” Johnson said. “I showed her a couple of episodes, and she thought it was weird but was cool with it. Later, I found out she thought I was gay.” “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” recently wrapped up its 7th season. According the brony news website “Horse News,” the show experienced a huge drop in the ratings

during its 6th season and continues to lose viewership. After leaving the public eye, bronies began to abandon their once beloved fandom. “There is definitely a sense that fewer and fewer people are involved with the fandom,” said Custer. “When the fandom first started it was weird and caught people’s eye. After the hype dropped people who were not as involved all left.” Visiting brony websites gives a stark impression of the fandom’s falling popularity. Many of these websites post new content rarely if at all, and the few that persist lose traffic every day. “I think that the whole fandom got big as a counterculture thing,” Johnson said. “People came on because it was a fad, and then things just eventually blew over. People analyzed the show way too much, picking apart each episode on an individual basis. It was talked to death.” Johnson believes that bronyism now serves as an interesting case study more than anything else. “I think bronyism is remarkable,” he said. “It’s the first culture to arise purely because of the internet. Something like Star Trek or Star Wars appeals to guys on a universal level, so they could grow naturally without the internet. Bronyism needed the internet, so it’s the first of its kind.” As the world that they built crumbles around them, the few remaining bronies continue to create. Rumor has it that the show still has two seasons left, and fans like Custer and Johnson hope to stick around to the very end. Custer just hopes for some like-minded company in the meantime. “If there’s any bronies that haven’t made themselves known, feel free to contact me because I would love to meet you. It would be great if we had a group here on campus.” Custer sees the writing on the wall, but refuses to be swayed by the apparent exodus. “There’s a fairly large core of really dedicated members of the fandom,” Custer said. “Come hell or high water, these people won’t leave the fandom. Even if 90 percent of the fandom leaves I’m still sticking around. I’m still watching the show, I’m still going to conventions, and I’ll still have the friendships I’ve made.”

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Clifford Humphrey, a graduate student, teaches a U.S. Constituton course this semester. S. Nathaniel Grime | Collegian

Tom Tacoma, a graduate student, taught a U.S. Constitution course in the fall. S. Nathaniel Grime | Collegian

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Undergraduate teaching opportunities available to select graduate students By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor Clifford Humphrey taught English in China for a year before enrolling in Hillsdale’s graduate program. Tom Tacoma attended Hillsdale and received his master’s degree, before returning as a graduate student. Now, both have experience teaching undergraduate politics courses at the college. Teaching adjunctly is a common step toward becoming a full-time instructor, but Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship only offers this experience to a select few, including Tacoma and Humphrey. Humphrey just began his semester teaching U.S. Constitution, replacing Tacoma, who taught a section last fall. Dean of the Van Andel School Ronald Pestritto says only certain graduate students qualify as potential candidates for adjunct teaching positions, and only once they’ve finished their graduate coursework. “This is a teaching college, so we don’t expect our graduate students to do our teaching for us,” he said. “We don’t use our undergraduate classes as guinea pigs for our graduate students.” Pestritto said the adjunct professorship is a privilege for students who have done well at Hillsdale, an approach that not only differentiates the Van Andel School from other programs, but turns some graduate students away. Tacoma, a student all his life with a semester of an undergraduate teaching under his belt, said being a first-time teacher has its difficulties, but felt prepared thanks to his experiences as a student in the classroom. “Having reflected on being in courses to take some of the observations I’d made under different teachers, different professors, and try to apply those in the classroom,” he said. Tacoma points to developing a syllabus as the most fundamental task for cultivating a successful classroom atmosphere. The Van Andel school prepares its students for potential teaching positions through a teacher-scholar apprenticeship program, which connects doctoral students in their third year to graduate faculty. Students shadow the

professors in class and learn everything from teaching a class and preparing a syllabus to writing exams and grading essays. Tacoma graduated from Hillsdale with a bachelor’s degree in American studies in 2012. His undergraduate experience provided him the opportunity to observe his professors first-hand, even before apprenticing to a graduate professor. “My expectations of what a Hillsdale College professor was, from my undergraduate years, were so high,” he said. “All the professors here are so good, and every class I took, I was impressed by the teaching ability and the level of knowledge that everyone brought to the classroom.” Humphrey’s experience differed significantly. He taught Greek and Latin at a classical school in Florida for two years, taught online for one year, and taught English in the Chinese province of Hunan for a year. He says his experience overseas especially helped prepare him for teaching at Hillsdale. “It was really eye-opening, especially for teaching,” he said. “It was extremely enlightening coming back from that, just realizing how distorted my perspective was when I went in. It was great.” Humphrey also points to the detailed study in the graduate program as challenging yet beneficial to helping him prepare for teaching undergraduate courses. “The challenging part for me is to go from the graduate level where we talk about a lot of the same things all the time at a deep, deep level,” he said. “I’m teaching freshman now where I’m always having to reign in, saying, ‘We don’t need to go down that hole,’ so I feel overly prepared to be able to teach the things that we’re discussing.” Pestritto, who also teaches undergraduate politics courses, added that approaching an undergraduate class can be different because, for non-majors, he must spark their interest in the topic of study. For graduate students, interest in the program is already present. Still, Pestritto says the chasm between upper-level undergraduate students and incoming graduate students is

not as wide as it may seem. “When you get some of the advanced undergraduates in our majors, often they may actually have more knowledge in terms of American politics or political philosophy than our entering graduate students,” he said. “Sometimes there’s a mistaken assumption by the undergraduates that they should be intimidated by these graduate students.” Another uniting factor is Hillsdale’s ultimate mission. Pestritto described that what all of his students are learning is “desirable for its own sake”. “We keep the career end of it in view,” Pestritto said. “But the threshold requirement is that you have to want this for its own sake, otherwise you don’t be happy here and you won’t learn very much.” Tacoma is married, so his second experience at Hillsdale is different than his first. Humphrey is engaged and will be married this summer. Still, bBoth gush about the sense of community among the graduate student body. Pestritto says his favorite part of the program is getting to work with students individually. Both Tacoma and Humphrey have completed their coursework as graduate students and passed their comprehensive exams, meaning they’ve reached “All but dissertation” (“ABD”) status. The only thing standing in between them and a Ph.D. are their respective dissertations. Tacoma will write his dissertation on Calvin Coolidge and constitutionalism in the early 20th century. Humphrey will cover John Taylor of Carolina and his understanding of federalism during the American founding. Before Humphrey writes his dissertation, he has a semester of teaching Constitution 101 ahead of him. After all, U.S. Constitution is part of the Hillsdale way. “It’s an amazing way for us to give back to the school, because we’ve been given a lot through this program, and everybody has this experience where they’re extremely grateful for the opportunity to be at this school and to learn from these professors and to be in this community,” Humphrey said. “It’s a pretty rich experience.”

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Senior jacob Hann performing the role of Jesus in “Forgiven by His Love.” Jacob Hann | Courtesy

the “Little Tramp” show a mastery of physical control and Marcel Marceau, a frenchman, epitomized mime in the twentieth century with his character Bip the clown. Marceau referred to the art form as “the art of silence.” “The art of silence speaks to the soul, like music, making comedy, tragedy, and romance, involving you and your life. . . . creating character and space, by making a whole show on stage – showing our lives, our dreams, our expectations,” Marceau said in 1949. EPPIC ministries’ brand of mime uses the Christian narrative to evoke emotional responses from an audience and like Marceau, they want to speak directly to souls.

By | Brooke Conrad Assistant Editor There are two ways to tour Rome: the normal way and the slightly more extraordinary — where you bring juggling pins instead of cash; survive on bread, cheese, and olives; and make your parents fear you’ll never return. “We wanted to see Europe,” Professor of English Benedict Whalen said, “but there was also a component of prayer and visiting churches and relying upon charity in a sense, so we didn’t take money.” Instead, Whalen and 11 of his high school friends from boarding school performed for people on the street. Whalen accompanied the group with guitar, bodhrán — an Irish drum — and singing, while his friends juggled everything from balls and pins, to knives and flaming torches. Later on, a bagpipe player also joined them. “Our time was divided each day between putting on shows to get enough money for lunch and then stopping at a church for mass and then going back out and doing shows all afternoon until we said, ‘Ok, we earned enough for dinner and a hostel for the night.’” Whalen, who had just graduated from Gregory the Great Academy in northeastern Pennsylvania said the hardest part in planning the trip was convincing his parents to let him go. His father, Hillsdale College Provost David Whalen, ended up giving him permission, but only if the group brought sufficient emergency funds to eat and sleep, and if there was an adult to supervise. Ben Whalen said the adult was a college student, and the troupe never used any emergency cash on the trip. “We went hungry several nights,” Whalen said. “We made enough to get a couple loaves of bread and some cheese or something, but it was not a real dinner.” Fortunately, they never slept on the streets, but there was always a chance that they would. One particular night after they had secured two rooms at a hostel, they met two female British tourists who

had somehow lost their room and appeared very distressed. The group decided to help by giving up one of their rooms. “I distinctly remember that,” he said. “We 12 guys piled on top of each other in outrageously cramped circumstances in our one room. But you know you also felt that because we were, in a sense, living on charity or whatever people wanted to give us, we were passing that on to others in need, and so it was fitting in the spirit of the thing.” Besides the challenges of affording daily meals and hotels, no one in the group spoke Italian. But having some level of experience in Latin at school back in the U.S., the troupe members were able to communicate somewhat with Italians and ask for directions. “They would look at us sort of funnily and have some idea of what we were saying, and I think the shared etymology of the languages was a help there,” Whalen said. On the last day of the trip, Whalen’s parents almost realized their worst fears. With an evening flight heading back to the states that night, the troupe was putting on its last show in one of the piazzas they found to be more successful, because it was a heavier tourist area. But before they could pass around the hats, three men came around the building. “They were dressed in black with caps — like a director’s caps or something like that — and earpieces in, and they looked very serious…It turned out there was a director of ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ who was filming a couple blocks away, and we were making too much noise, and the actors were having trouble getting into character.” Whalen’s troupe responded that they had to put on the show because they had no other way to get to the airport that evening. “He said, ‘How much do you need?’ And we said whatever amount it was — you know, maybe 60 euros or something more — and he just pulled out a huge wad of cash and paid us exactly what we needed.” Whalen said the group

English professor Benedict Whalen as a high school graduate. Benedict Whalen | Courtesy

was amused afterward that they had actually been paid to stop performing. “It was also funny because we realized we probably could have asked him for much more than we did, but we were young and naïve… That was our great moment: interrupting Brad Pitt and ‘Ocean’s Twelve.’” Provost Whalen agreed that the troupe should have taken advantage of the situation. “I think they bungled it,” he said. “You double the amount, triple it…You say, ‘We want signed 8.5x11” colored glossies of these three stars who were in the movie’…You try to finagle a day on the set watching them: ‘We’ll shut up if we can watch and if you pay us so we don’t have to starve tonight.’ ‘Do you need some extras for the film? We’d be happy to walk by. In fact, I think you need a little scene where a juggler is doing some stuff on the street corner.’” Whalen still keeps in touch with some of the people on the trip and remarks that the trip was a “strange” albeit formative experience for him. “It was my first real introduction to Rome,” he said. “I later as a college student spent a semester studying in Rome. It was also important for your imaginative engagement and understanding of the church and Europe, the old world. And it was important sharing that with these fellow boys, and especially as many of us were heading off to a diverse number of colleges.” Despite the risks involved, Provost Whalen said one can’t deprive high school and college students of adventure. “You can put boundaries around things, but they always need a fundamental contest with reality,” he said. “That age needs adventure.”

Patrick and Benedict Whalen playing guitar and accordian. Benedict Whalen | Courtesy

Erickson felt called into this ministry in 1984 after seeing EPPIC, then only a two-year-old organization, do a Christmas performance at Eden Prairie Presbyterian in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. At the time, Erickson was a high school teacher and was so moved by the performance. And he wasn’t the only one. “In the audience I saw five dads, grown men, in tears and they couldn’t explain why,” he said. He became so inspired by the intimate connection miming could have that he quit his job to become a full-time missionary. Jacob Hann, because of his stature and charisma, was chosen to play Jesus in the redemption sketch, called “Forgiven by his Love.” Using simple costumes to dis-

tinguish the characters — angels, humans, Jesus, and the devil — the actors show a great sacrifice taking place and an empathetic character who helps a struggling human find happiness. The powerful symbols cause spectators to approach the missionaries after the performance to learn more about what the silent characters represented. From there, often with the help of an interpreter, the gospel can be shared in fuller detail. It is a subtle routine, and the actors, with painted white faces and eyeliner, remain masterfully consistent as they create imaginary props — walls, chairs, pens — and never forget about them, moving around and through them, while portraying universal human emotions in their posture and facial expression. Both Hanns played the role of

Jesus in “Forgiven by his Love.” The role, which is the most difficult in the play, requires over 60 hours of practice and require the mime to hold his hands above his head for three minutes during the crucifiction. The mime has to be able to intimate the love of Jesus Christ to the audience without the help of the Sermon on the Mount or any other scripture. But Erickson thought he, like his brother, was up for the job. “Jacob has a good build and a good look,” Erickson said. “He caught on really well and has a great attitude.” Hann has a group of friends back home who get together still to work on new material or stay fresh with their old standards. “Mime is a dying art form but when it is done well, it can be astounding,” he said.

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Brony culture brings magic By | Shad Strehle Collegian Freelancer

Every local news station in the United States featured exposés on a rising and seemingly dangerous subculture in 2013. “You probably sit with your kids sometimes when they watch cartoons,” reported WREG in Memphis Tennessee. “But we’re about to introduce you to a group of grown men and women who are obsessed with one particular cartoon: ‘My Little Pony.’” News channels like ABC, FOX, CBS, and their local affiliates all took time to explore this budding cultural phenomenon. “Red Eye Radio” and “The Howard Stern Show” sent reporters to conventions hoping to catch bronies on tape. Podcasts, blogs, newspapers, and magazines featured interviews with professed bronies. Parents watched horrified, believing that their children were being exposed to brony culture and even worse: brony-themed pornography. Bronies drew attention, and everyone wanted clicks while the getting was still good. People soon moved on, and the coverage stopped. The bronies, however, have stuck around. The website “What is a Brony” states that a brony is “a fan of ‘My Little Pony: Friend-

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ship is Magic’ that is outside of the target demographic of little girls.” The statistics tell another story. According to the most recent “State of the Herd” report, a statistical analysis of the brony fandom, a clear majority of bronies are males ages 14 to 24. Hillsdale senior Steven Custer fits into this demographic. Custer studies economics and plans to graduate next semester. He also loves “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” “At the end of my freshman year I saw something on the internet mentioning bronies,” he said. “I figured I would watch the first few episodes before passing judgement on it, so I watched the first few episodes, and I really liked it.” Custer devotes about 10 hours a week to brony-related activities. He watches the show, streams fan-created content, talks with other bronies on the chat service Discord, and makes music videos featuring the cast of the show. “I’m a content creator,” Custer said. “I take clips from the show and reinterpret them in the context of a piece of music to tell a story. They’re called PMVs, or Pony Music Videos.” Custer has 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, with his

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Jacob Hann with the mime team of Each Person Personally in Christ Ministries in Guatemala. Jacob Hann | Courtesy

To mime as the spirit enabled them By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor Before they went down to the square, they smeared white paint on their faces and drew delicate black lines to accentuate their facial features. There was no crowd initially, just people milling about a public place in Guatemala. As they climbed the stairs of the gazebo in the center of San Marcos square, the students arrived with their director and smiled at the Guatemalans. They unfurled a black backdrop, queued up music on a speaker, and began the play. The only human sound was mumbling in Spanish and Mayan dialects from the gathering crowd. The students were on a high school mission trip in 2014 with EPPIC (Each Person Personally in Christ) ministries to evangelize through mime. Among their number was senior Jacob Hann. When he decided to go to

Guatemala for the mission with Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, he knew there were five different teams: a medical team, sports and drama, children, service, and mime. His older brother John had gone on the trip previously and he had participated on the mime team and had already taught the “mime walk,” a motion akin to the moonwalk, to Jacob in middle school. The trip organizers asked him his preferences for which team he could be on. “I put service first and mime second,” Hann said. “I had seen the performance and thought it was well-done, unique, and moving. Little did I know that no one was going to put mime anywhere near their top choice.” Although he thought he would be suited for the service team, he was the only person to show any preference for the mime team. “I was destined to be a

mime,” Hann said. But he wasn’t donning a zebra-patterned shirt or a beret to do physical comedy on street corners — he was sharing the gospel. The team shares the story of the death and resurrection of Christ while also telling character-building stories through physical movement. Evangelists must contend with the reality of Babel. They find themselves in situations where they may need to fully understand the language to proselytize. But miming allows missionaries to experience the miracle of Pentecost. It is like Luke wrote of the apostle’s evangelization: “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” The director of EPPIC Ministries, Chris Erickson, said he believes the body expresses universal feelings and emotions. “It doesn’t require explana-

tion,” he said. “You can go any place in the world with it. It is like a language unto itself. Mime is a language where you use your body as a tool to talk.” Hann agreed. “You can take this and bring it anywhere in the world and people still understand what is happening,” he said. Though modern conceptions of mime portray a Parisian vagabond pretending he is in a box, or figuratively lassoing a passerby, mime actually arose from the ancient Greek theatrical tradition. The best mimes in Ancient Greece were known as ethologues, and they were valued for their ability to teach and instill moral lessons in the audience. And those audiences were not simply passerby who might flick a nickel into a felt top hat, mimes were the main event and audiences numbered over 10,000. Charlie Chaplin’s roles as

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The Floor Staff Bon Appétit Chic By | Rowan Macwan Nate Brown

What do you think about the new uniforms? “I love them. They’re better looking and more professional than the old ones. The denim never goes out of style. They’re comfortable, and they stand out.” How would you improve them?

“I’d hem the sleeves and have us wear khaki pants. They’re already comfortable, and I wouldn’t mind wearing them for a long time.”

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What do you think about the new uniforms? “They’re hot. They look nice, but they’re hot. They’re heavier than they’re used to, but I don’t mind. At least I look cool.” What would you do to improve them? “I’d add a pocket, so I don’t have to hang my watch around my neck, because I can’t wear it on my wrist for safety reasons. I would make it more breathable, short-sleeved polo to look cooler, more dapper for everyone.” Karl W. Rowan Macwan | Collegian