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Michigan gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck visits campus

By | Joshua Paladino Opinions Editor With the Constitution in the pocket of his suit jacket and a finger pointed toward the sky, Michigan State Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton, said: “I know who I serve. I know why I’m serving.” Colbeck, who represents the 7th District in Wayne County, is running to replace Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who is term limited. On Wednesday night in Lane 335, he gave a short speech, then fielded questions from the audience for more than an hour, noting that none of the other Republican candidates talked to their prospective constituents with such candor. “You need someone who is willing to speak truth to power,” he said, “and the other candidates just won’t do it.” In the Republican primary, he’s up against Michigan

Attorney General Bill Schuette and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, who have widespread name recognition and much fatter campaign coffers. According to the Detroit Free Press, Colbeck has raised a meager $243,00 compared to Schuette’s $3 million and Calley’s $1.8 million. But that’s where he said he’s most comfortable. He’s an outsider candidate, a longshot, but that’s the history of his seven years in the Michigan Senate, he said. “I ran because I’m tired of cronyism — at all different levels,” he said. Colbeck earned his Senate seat in a longshot bid, too. Never having held public office, he faced four state house representatives and beat them all. Since he began the campaign, he has built a grassroots movement with little funding and hardly any name recognition outside of his district. He

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Persson added that the Bon Appétit team has designed a vegetarian sandwich and that the entree salads will be gluten-free. Students will be able to find specials and menu updates on the shop’s Instagram @ hillsdalefresco. Daily menus will be available on hillsdale. cafebonappetit.com. In the future, Persson said Bon Appétit hopes to add even more selections. Café Fresco’s name is meant convey that its meals are made fresh daily in the Searle Center’s catering kitchen, but also available for students to grab quickly. Its hours mirror the Grewcock cafeteria’s to alleviate its lunchtime busyness. Between 1,100 and 1,300 people come to the cafeteria for lunch, mostly between 11:55 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. “The biggest challenge for me is the times when the cafeteria is open,” freshman Sam Swayze said. “That would resolve that complaint. The portability would be nice.” Students said they were excited about the new café, especially if it does free up dining space in the cafeteria. “A lot of days, you arrive at 12:15 p.m. and can’t find a seat anywhere,” sophomore Jillian Riegle said. “It can give me anxiety to go. I don’t look forward to it. I hope the grab and go does alleviate some of the overcrowding.” Apthorpe said the opening of Café Fresco will cause unexpected challenges but noted that Bon Appétit is working to make the project a success and will implement changes as needed. Ultimately, though, the hope is that the new service will benefit the students and functions of Bon Appétit’s service as a whole, Persson said. “I would have loved to have this option available,” he said. “It’s nice if you do not have time to go to lunch and spend an hour there, waiting in line and then you start talking to friends. That’s more like an event. Café Fresco will allow students to save time if they need to.” Riegle added that she is happy to save more of her Liberty Bucks when she cannot make it to the cafeteria. “It’s nice that I can use a swipe,” she said. “That way I can still buy coffee three times a week.”

He said, luckily for him, at least 50 percent of voters remain undecided with four months before Michigan’s Aug. 7 primary. In the general election, the Republican victor would likely face former Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Michigan gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck, a state senator, answered ques- Whitmore tions from students and local residents in Lane 335 on Wednesday night. or Abdul Breana Noble | Collegian El-Sayed, the former execsaid it stands opposed to what and Snyder. utive director of the Detroit he calls the “Lansing oligarIn two polls on Real Clear chy” — the trio of Michigan Politics, he registered at 3 per- Health Department. Colbeck said his campaign House Speaker Tom Leonard, cent and 4 percent, while the slogan — “principled soluR-Dewitt Township; Michigan Republican primary favorite, tions for Michigan” — inSenate Majority Leader Arlan Schuette, hovered between 30 forms his campaign and every Meekhof, R-Ottawa County; and 50 percent.

vote he takes as a Senator. The first principle is “The government works for the people, not the other way around,” he said. He said Lansing doesn’t follow this principle for basic services, like road maintenance. “The whole issue with our roads is that they’re treating it as a jobs program instead of a public service program,” Colbeck said. “The Michigan Department of Transportation is not focused on quality.” As evidence, he cited a MDOT study that looked at different road maintenance techniques and the number of union jobs that would result from each. Colbeck earned his Senate seat during the Tea Party movement, which has cost him political capital in the Senate Republican Caucus.

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Café Fresco opens Monday Daniel Cody wins Everett Oratory contest restrictions at the new café. By | Breana Noble Knorr Dining Hall will have competition for students’ meal swipes starting next week. Café Fresco, the new grab and go service from Bon Appétit Management Co. in Kendall Hall, opens Monday. Serving patrons from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the shop will offer a new menu of sandwiches and salads for students to swipe to alleviate customer congestion in the Grewcock Student Union’s cafeteria and offer an easy way to get lunch to go. “We want to always push the limits of what we’re capable and expand the expectation of our guests,” said David Apthorpe, general manager for Bon Appétit at Hillsdale. “We want to get as much use out of the student union while providing an additional service and meeting demand.” Unlike A.J.’s Café or Jitters Coffee Cart — which accept cash, cards, and Liberty Bucks — Café Fresco takes only the meal sweeps that previously were limited to use in the Grewcock dining hall. Persson said based on how the project goes, it may consider accepting Liberty Bucks in the future. Students have a choice of two types of meals at Café Fresco. The first consists of a sandwich, side, drink, and dessert. Sides range from a mini kale salad to a bag of chips. “The items are nutrient-dense but also delicious,” said William Persson ’17, Bon Appétit’s marketing manager at Hillsdale. “They’re not some boring sandwich.” The second is a dinner-size salad with a dessert and drink. “The salads are a lot bigger,” Persson said. “They’re more like a full meal with meat and vegetables.” For Café Fresco, Bon Appétit has made up 12 new kinds each of sandwiches, salads, and sides (not including chips and desserts) for its soft opening this semester. Each day, there will be three options of each with choices rotating based on consumer demand. “The key was variety,” Persson said. “We didn’t want people to be bored going there every day.” Apthorpe said every day there will be options available for individuals with dietary

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By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor Senior Daniel Cody won the 2018 Edward Everett Prize in Oratory, an annual speech competition that focused this year on “National Security and Privacy: Principles for Achieving a Just Balance.” This 18th annual competition was judged by President Larry Arnn, Professor of Politics Thomas West, and Professor and Chairman of Politics Mickey Craig. “Arnn announced that he and the judges believed this to be one of the strongest set of competitors since the competition began,” said Kristin Kiledal, department chair of rhetoric and public addres, and the event’s organizer. “The panel of preliminary judges was similarly impressed.” Cody, Weaver, and Carozza were among five competitors who qualified for the contest’s final round out of 21 applicants. Other finalists included freshman Taryn Murphy and junior Ellen

Friesen. Competitors created and memorized a speech on the assigned topic with a 10-minute time limit. “I thoroughly enjoyed every round of the competition and I am grateful for the opportunity. It is awesome to get a chance to present and defend your ideas,” Cody said. His speech centered on the current approach of the government to record everything and then have the ability to access detailed reports when anyone falls under suspicion. This, he argued, calls for policies that will fix the surveillance programs. He stated that people must recognize that these programs are only the vanguards to the new approach to law enforcement and national security. They are the representatives of the immense technologically enabled government power of mass surveillance. To help explain the need for clear principles to guide our government’s use of mass surveillance and limit it, he provided the example

of the precedence set by the United States government in the Telephone Records Program. Founded in 2001 after 9/11, President George W. Bush secretly authorized this program, which required that American telephone companies turn over all records each day so they could be accessed whenever. For each person who falls under terrorist suspicion, their telephone records are collected as well as all of the phone records of who that phone made contact with, as well as who those phones made contact with, as well as who those phones made contact with. Cody ended his speech by asking the audience to imagine what sort of technology will be possible a year from now, with this precedence in mind. He provided a call to action for all Americans to prevent their rights from being washed away by adopting principles limiting the use of mass surveillance. Cody said these ideas are transparency, accountability, and utility. This means not dissolving

what Americans consider to be right, holding programs responsible to the real courts, and doing so without increasing security of other rights. Cody was awarded $3,000 for his presentation. Senior Jacob Weaver received $2,000 for second place, and junior Shiloh Carozza received $1,000 for third. Weaver stressed the strict adherence of the 4th amendment as a means for creating the perfect compromise between privacy and security. This means ensuring that whenever the government is snooping around that it’s with probable cause. He ended his speech with a call for Americans to “hold our representatives accountable.” Carozza’s speech focused on the need for government today to “play by the constitution.” She explained that by respecting individual liberty and the 4th amendment, those truly posing a threat to our country will be sought out and those who are innocent will retain their liberty.

Senior Daniel Cody won the the 2018 Edward Everett Prize in Oratory contest on Tuesday. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

Juniors elect their class of 2019 officers By | Alexis Nester Collegian Reporter After extending the elections through Monday evening because of a tie for one of the positions, Director of Employer Relations John Quint announced the officers for the Class of 2019 on Tuesday. Although Quint announced the elected officers in a campus-wide email on Tuesday, he has not told the position in which the tie occurred. Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said

she has not seen a tie occur in class officer elections in recent years. The rising senior class elected Ryan Kelly Murphy as president. Murphy, who currently is in Washington, D.C., for the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, is a George Washington fellow and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She also volunteers as a children’s ministry teacher at Pine Ridge Bible Church in Quincy. “I have always marveled at the position of president,” Murphy said. “I have really

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respected the people who have taken on that role, people who serve their classmates. I wondered, could God have that opportunity for me to serve in that way?” Vice President-elect Marcus Koperski serves as Alpha Tau Omega’s new member educator, where he teaches new members and manages the active members in his chapter. He also works for the Kendall Contact Center and plays cello in the school orchestra. Koperski said he looks forward to working with Murphy and the other officers.

“I want to be reliable and help Ryan do what she needs to get done,” Koperski said. “Whatever bumps in the road, I know these officers will be able to handle it.” Kathleen Russo, who was elected secretary, serves as Students for Life president and recruitment chair for Chi Omega. She also is a member of the Federalist Society and the cheer team. Russo smiled as she recalled meeting most of the other members at freshman

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Judge Barrett visits campus, speaks on Supreme Court By | Brooke Conrad Assistant Editor In a campus lecture on Saturday, U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Barrett explained the evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court from a relatively ineffective institution to a more powerful and co-equal body of government. “A few years ago, I taught a seminar in modern constitutional theory, and I had several students who were from other countries in the class,” Barrett said. “One of the things they were very interested in was, ‘How come our Supreme Court has so much respect?’ The president and congress know that when the supreme court of the united states says a statute is unconstitutional, generally speaking, that’s accepted. And that’s not necessarily the case in many countries with newer constitutional courts and newer Constitutions.” Barrett, who was confirmed in October as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, has also taught since 2002 at the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she earned her juris doctorate. She teaches and researches in areas of federal courts, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. During the lecture, Barrett discussed early chief justices who became disillusioned with the court because of its

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He said he was the only Republican Senator not to receive a committee chairmanship during his second term. Colbeck said Meekhof told him he couldn’t give him a leadership position because he was “too vocal” against Obamacare and Common Core. “I told him: ‘You know I’m on the Republican side of these issues, right?’” Colbeck said. He was the leading Republican voice against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and specifically Medicaid expansion, which earned him ire from the governor. “I have read all of Obamacare,” he said. “It’s about control. It’s not about care.” He spoke to a crowd of local residents, who grilled him with questions about guns, health care, roads, public safety services, the Article V Convention of States, and roads again. “I resonate with nearly everything he said,” North Adams resident Mark D.

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She said she hopes to bring back to the senior class the charm they fell in love with that day. “By the time you get to your last year, a lot of times you forget the charm of Hillsdale,” Russo. “I want to give that back to the seniors, especially through the commencement speaker we choose.” Class of 2019 Treasurer Andres Torres is a resident assistant in Simpson Residence. He served on Student Federation for two years, first as freshman class representative and then as president last year. Torres’ goal for the next year is to make the most of their budget. He also said he looks forward to working with Koperski on selecting the class gift. The rising seniors elected Faith Witkowski as social chair. Witkowski serves on Pi Beta Phi’s leadership and nomination committee, which selects members for other positions within the house. She is a biology major who would works in the conserva-

Amy Barrett spoke on Saturday about the history of the U.S. Supreme Court Brooke Conrad | Collegian

lack of authority or activity at the time. Oliver Ellsworth, for example, left his job as the U.S. Supreme Court’s third chief justice and his later position on the Connecticut Supreme Court in order to write a newspaper column dispensing farming advice. The court began to change with Chief Justice John Marshall, however, whom Barrett refers to as one of the “greatest” chief justices in Supreme Court history. “When he assumed the role of chief justice, he forever changed the court,” Barrett said. “He’s the one who really solidified the court’s power.” Nichols said. “I fully agree with everything he said about religion and the Constitution, but what he said about roads really resonated with me. If we had politicians like him, we wouldn’t have these problems.” Colbeck proudly proclaimed that the United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy, which caught the attention of Jon-Paul Rutan, a Hillsdale resident who hosts the “Reclaim Our American Republic” podcast. “In Michigan he is going to stay, out of all the candidates, the closest to the principles of the Constitution,” Rutan said. “Principles only work when they’re practiced, not when they’re just preached.” Colbeck also captured the support of Hillsdale resident Penny Swan. “I definitely think he’s the best candidate,” she said. “He speaks the truth. He’s proven that he does what he says he’s going to do.” Nichols agreed: “He’s one in a million in Lansing. I’m sure.” tion genetics lab, and she also works at A.J.’s Café. “Everybody probably knows me because I gave them chicken tenders at one time,” Witkowski said. Newly-elected Fundraising Chair Rachel Umaña is also a member of Pi Beta Phi and currently works as a graphic designer for alumni affairs. As the the acting president of College Republicans, Umaña coordinated fundraising efforts for the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference. “I know the importance of starting fundraising initiatives early and executing them consistently,” Umaña said. All officers expressed excitement for the selection of the commencement speaker and the senior class gift, two of the officers’ biggest responsibilities. “These will be the last parting words for the senior class, the last time the seniors are together on campus, Murphy said. “We should strive to choose someone who captures the values that Hillsdale stands for.”

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He accomplished this through a well-known case, Marbury v. Madison. Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson were political rivals at the time, and Marshall knew Jefferson had an extreme dislike of the courts. He knew that if Jefferson rejected the court’s judgment, it would deal a large blow to the court, so Marshall took the middle road: he ruled Jefferson’s administration had acted unconstitutionally, but then also stated that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over this particular case. “Jefferson won the battle, but it is quite clear that

John Marshall won the war,” Barrett said. “From then on the Supreme Court became a more powerful institution and a more attractive job.” Barrett also pointed out that while the current Supreme court has justices who all went to Ivy League, east coast schools, it was unusual in the early days for a justice to have a law degree at all. She also discussed the chief justice’s power to assign opinions, a task which he can keep for himself, which he often does for the more “blockbuster” opinions, or assign to one of the other justices. Barrett noted that Former Associate Justice Antonin Scalia often published his dissenting opinions because he wanted the law school case books to print them. “Justice Scalia had a lot of color and flare in his writing, so a lot of his dissents did make it into the case books,” Barrett said. “Even those who disagreed vehemently with Justice Scalia really enjoyed reading his opinions because they are very readable.” During the question and answer period of the lecture, an audience member asked Barrett if she could share her “most memorable moment” from the time she served as a law clerk for Scalia. “Justice Scalia was very funny and Italian — he had a great sense of humor and was always laughing,” Barrett said.

“My law clerks and I decided to try to have a joke on him at one point. Justice Scalia loved to hunt. He had a picture of himself in camo holding this wild turkey, so one of my co-clerks went and had mouse pads made with this image of Scalia. He didn’t notice it at first and we were all waiting. All of the sudden, we could hear him with his big belly laugh. He was a very good sport about it.” Several audience members commented on Barrett’s lecture afterward. Vice President of the Federalist Society junior Abigail Allen said it was after Barrett’s confirmation hearing last year when she decided to invite her to campus on behalf of the society. They ended up coordinating Barrett’s lecture with a college visit day for her daughter. “The confirmation hearing certainly made a slash in media, with democrats being actually really quite atrocious to her and questioning whether she can be a faithful Catholic and also be a faithful judge,” Allen said. “But I think what really stood out in all of it was her poise and her ability to respond to all of that response to that in a way that was rational and put-together. So not long after that I sent her an email and invited her to come up to Hillsdale.” Freshman Madeline Peltzer said she has been interested in law school for a long time and

was inspired by both Barrett’s intelligence and humility. “The first thing I noticed was how personable and open she seemed,” Peltzer said. “It wasn’t at all lawyerly talk or super highfalutin or like a whole other language. She was very down to earth.” Freshman Braden VanDyke said he appreciated Barrett’s point about how chief justices shaped their respective courts almost through personality, rather than through legal power over the other justices. “I had an understanding that they were from a legal standpoint all on the same plane, but I liked that she highlighted and accentuated the personality that they brought in, and how their style changed the way the court operated.” Professor of History Paul Moreno also commented on the relationship between justices on the court. “Conservatives especially have complained about the ways in which conservatives get appointed to the court and they end up becoming less conservative,” Moreno said. “There are various explanations for this. Mostly it’s that these people have to work together. It’s not like Congress where it’s 400 people or the one person who is the president. The Supreme Court has a unique sort of small group psychology to it.”

Former Popeyes CEO Cheryl Bacheldersays to not fear mistakes, but learn from them By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor Cheryl Bachelder spoke about leading with courage and humility on campus last week. Former president of KFC and CEO of Popeyes, Bachelder has a few connections to Hillsdale: Her husband, Chris Bachelder, is a member of the college’s Board of Trustees, and one of her three children, Kate Bachelder Odell ’13, attended the college. Bachelder’s talk, Dare to Serve, focused on the rewards and results of servant leadership. What advice would you give to students who want to be successful but wouldn’t call themselves “leaders”? I would say then you don’t understand the definition of leadership. John Maxwell says all leadership is influence. It’s not authority; leadership is influence. In the business I worked in — which is franchising — I had no authority. The only leadership I had was influence because they worked for themselves. And they only follow me if they want to. So

I think people are confused about what leadership really is. It’s a platform for influence. And everyone of us has a leadership opportunity in our home, in our community, in our schools, in our jobs. After you were fired from KFC, you became the CEO of Popeyes. What did your experience teach you about the value of messing up? I think we’ve lost touch with the value of failure and mistakes. Failure’s a pretty strong word — let’s just say mistakes. We don’t learn very much from success. But, boy, lose a game in life or sports and you review the tapes. After KFC I spent four years reviewing the tapes, most of them here in Hillsdale, and going, ‘If I ever got an opportunity, what would I do differently?’ And I’ve said many times that every tenant of my leadership at Popeyes was a lesson learned from my failure at KFC. I never could’ve been so successful without those lessons. They’re the deepest, the richest, the most important lessons. One important lesson was

around confidence to lead out of my own strengths. Women don’t have a lot of role models in senior leadership. So I was constantly trying to lead like guys. I think you need to operate out of your values, out of your strengths. My strengths are all around strategy and innovation. I think I didn’t yet have the authentic confidence in what my skills were. After you left Popeyes, you took a break from work this summer to rest. Why is time like that important? We’re all living in a giant hurry. But it’s in the unhurried space that we reconnect with who we are, what we really believe. None of those things can be rushed. How do you build a pattern of rest and reflection in your busy life? For me, I take a silent day — I try to do it every month, but it probably ends up I do six, seven a year — for total silence from technology, from children, from friends, from my mother. All the jabbering that’s going on in your head. I usually do it in a structured way. I have a topic I reflect on or a book that I’m reading that

I want to think about. And I would tell you that 90 days of energy come out of reflection. It’s powerful how much you’ll get out of that day that will just pour into your life the next couple of months and make you better. How can we achieve influence through leadership? Most people will totally miss their opportunity for influence in this life. I believe every human being is created for a purpose that’s given to them by God. And you better figure that out, because he has one. You are not an accident, you’re not a mistake. He’s got a job for you to do, of some sort, and there are many beautiful jobs. Raising your children is a beautiful job. You might get a job being a CEO. It’s less beautiful, but it’s a cool job. Whatever you’re given, what are you going to do with the platform for influence you’ve been given? Discover your purpose as soon as you can, and do everything in your capability to live it out.

On Baseball and Broadcasting Radio Free Hilldale program broadcast live from the baseball field By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Chargers baseball is bringing something new to the field this spring. Juniors Cole McNeely and Tanner Sizemore and seniors Gabe Prieur and Tyler Creager took to the mic at the Chargers home baseball game this weekend as part of the radio program’s new live broadcasts. McNeely covered every game and partnered with Sizemore on Saturday’s first game, Prieur on Saturday’s second game, and Creager on Sunday’s game. All the broadcasters are new to covering games but said they enjoyed the experience and feel confident in their coverage of the game. “After getting the technical logistics figured out, all of them went well,” McNeely said in an email. “I did play by play this weekend for all four games for the first time so that was a unique challenge, but I picked it up pretty quick.” McNeely had only covered one baseball game before this weekend’s slew of games, which won a Michigan Association of Broadcasters award.

But after prepping for these games and getting the hang of the play by play call, he thinks these broadcasts were even better than his first one. “I personally think they were better in some ways because I did quite a bit of prep work going into these games which gave the broadcasts some structure,” McNeely said. “One of the games lasted about three and a half hours on Sunday so that was a challenge on its own. The key is to try to never run out of things to say and keep it entertaining and informative, which I thought we did.” Scot Bertram, general manager of WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM, was happy with how the broadcasts went. “Baseball can be a tough sport to broadcast on the radio because there’s so much downtime in the action,” Bertram said in an email. “There’s more space to fill. It’s much different than basketball, where there’s always something going on. Cole and the guys did a wonderful job and they’ll only get better.” For the first game, McNeely partnered with Sizemore. Sizemore and McNeely were

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former teammates on the Charger baseball team and have been close friends and roommates. Sizemore had never done any broadcasting before — but he does know baseball. “Once you get talking baseball with someone who knows baseball, the conversation doesn’t need to be forced,” McNeely said. “Tanner has never done anything resembling color commentary before, but for his first time he did a good job. He knows the team and Coach Theisen very well and could give insights others simply don’t have.” Although this was a new experience for Sizemore, he said he really enjoyed being able to watch baseball and talk about it with McNeely. “Commentating with Cole was nice because I knew he had experience in things like this so I knew I could rely on him to carry the conversation and I could just follow his lead,” Sizemore said. “As far as the dynamic with him goes, we’ve lived together the past two years and we joke around all the time, so to be honest I’m surprised we managed to keep it as professional as we

did.” Since both McNeely and Sizemore were formerly on the baseball, they enjoyed being around baseball again and talking about it for hours. “This was the first time I have been able to watch a game from a fan’s perspective so it was just cool seeing all the things that they do that they work on day in and day out that go unnoticed by most fans,” Sizemore said in an email. McNeely loves getting back into the baseball atmosphere after a few years of being away from the game. “It’s just nice being around baseball again,” he said. “I took a step away for a while because after playing it for 15 years I was a little bit burned out by it. I’m starting to love the game again.” Though McNeely is falling in love with baseball game, he is also loving broadcasting and not pining to be on the field again. “Don’t expect to see me out there on Simpson Field,” he said. “I’m enjoying my role in the broadcast booth.”

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CCA Q&A: Daniel Kimmel By | Stefan Kleinhenz Collegian Reporter Daniel Kimmel spoke on the “Comedy of Billy Wilder” at Hillsdale College’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Kimmel is the past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. For many years his reviews appeared in The Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Kimmel has taught film and media courses at Suffolk University and Emerson College. Kimmel is also the author of “The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television,” “I’ll Have What She’s Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies,” and “Love Stories: Hollywood’s Most Romantic Movies.” He has also written on the history of Dreamworks and on various aspects of scientific films. Have you always been passionate about films? I found the birth announcement my parents sent out when I was born. It was a movie marquee with my mother listed as producer and my father listed as director. I was marked from the moment I was born. I’ve been a movie buff all my life and I was fortunate enough to be able to turn in into a career. How has movie storytelling historically impacted our society and shaped our culture? We need stories. It’s a way we remember our past, it’s a way we communicate what’s important to us, it’s a way we challenge what we see in the world. I think storytelling is very much a part of the human condition. You are the author of, “The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television,” can you briefly discuss how FOX radically changed the standards by which network television stations in America operate? In the book I’m talking primarily of the 80’s and 90’s, and I open the book with a story of how two young executives at NBC go into the head of the network and tell him, “We’re leaving to join FOX.” He turns around to the board listed with the big three networks schedule for prime time and he said to them, “I will never put a fourth network up there.” No one believed FOX could do it, and they changed

the rules in terms of what they put on, in terms of what they considered prime time. They changed the way networks dealt with cable television. FOX in a lot of ways changed the rules. They stole NFL football from CBS. They found a way to enter a market everyone thought was locked and cemented. The television market has greatly changed and I think the turning point is the story of FOX. What do you believe is the role of Hollywood with regard to the public and to what extent the entertainment industry should be involved in politics? The people of Hollywood have as much right as all other citizens to comment on public issues. There are stars and directors I agree with and stars and directors I disagree with, and I try to separate that out from their movies. I think Clint Eastwood is one of the great modern directors. I would not necessarily agree with his politics, but that’s one thing, and he has every right to speak out. Everybody has the right to their opinion and it shouldn’t affect the way I deal with you on some other level. How has the legacy of Billy Wilder influenced the art of cinema and why was his directorial style so special? As a director he directed out of self-defense; he was a writer. He had co-written a number of scripts, and he loved some of the people he worked with, and there were some directors he really didn’t like because they would change the lines of dialogue, they would let the actors improvise. For him it started with the words and you didn’t change those words lightly. He turned into a very good director. I do find he has an interesting style, but he is not Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock in that he has great vidsula set pieces. With Wilder, what we remember is the line of dialogue. What effect did Wilder have on comedy in films and do we still see it today? The thing about Wilder is that he made classic comedies and classic dramas. If you look at the dramas, they have their comic moments, and if you look at the comedies they have their serious moments. He kind of merged the two. He showed film makers that they could do both.

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By | Rowan Macwan Collegian Reporter Four members from the debate team competed March 10-11 at Eastern Michigan University and John Carroll University, respectively. The Michigan Intercollegiate Speech League held its state tournament at Eastern Michigan University. The two competitors that Hillsdale sent took home The Director’s Trophy for the highest quality overall in addition to winning third place overall school. Both of Hillsdale’s competitors, senior Mary Blendermann and freshman Patrick Mitchell, made it to the final round of each of their events. In impromptu speaking, Blendermann and Mitchell won first and second place, respectively. Impromptu was Blendermann’s only event. Mitchell won first place in informative speaking. He also won top novice in impromptu and program oral interpretation. Because of how well Mitchell did in his four events, he won third place in Quadrathon, a sweepstakes award. “Forensics has kept me

very busy in the past few weeks,” Mitchell said, “and it was nice to see all the practices with Mary pay off.”

By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian reporter Last Wednesday, the SHALOM Club hosted Liora Bachrach, Midwest Campus Coordinator for StandWithUs, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the world about Israel, to address anti-semitism and how to combat it in the modern world. In her speech, Bachrach called attention to the anti-semitism that still exists in the world today under the guise of anti-Zionism. She described Zionism is a movement for the reestablishment and protection of the Jewish State in their homeland, Israel. “Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism. It is the same face with a different mask,” Bachrach said. “Instead of hating on Jews themselves, people hate on the Jewish State. Instead of saying Jews are evil, they say the Jewish State or Israel is evil. So you can see that Anti Zionism and anti-semitism are actually the same thing.” She also laid out what she called the “Three D’s,” a set of guidelines for determining whether or not a statement is anti-semitic. The first of the “Three D’s” is Demonization, or making Jewish people seem dangerous and undesirable.

Bachrach cited examples such as current portrayals of Jewish people or the Jewish state as octopi, a derogatory image left over from anti-semitic Nazi propaganda, and groups like Students for Justice to Palestine. The Second “D” stands for Delegitimization, or denying Israel’s right to its homeland. “The Jewish people have a right to their Jewish Homeland just as every people have,” Bachrach said. “People want to delegitimize the Jewish people with the end goal of extinction. Jews are accused of taking over the land from the Palestinians, but in saying that you are not recognizing the Jew’s right to return.” The third, “D” is for Double Standards, or expecting more of Israel than of other countries. Bachrach said that in 2015, the UN issued 20 Human Rights Violations to Israel, what she claimed to be an inordinate amount. Meanwhile she pointed out that Syria, which murdured 2,000 of its people that year, was issued none. Bachrach did not contest that the Israeli State committed some human rights violations that year, only that it is consistently and unfairly held to a higher standard than other countries. Bachrach finished her speech with a lesson in com-

bating anti-semitic language and ideas in conversation. She presented the ARM standard, which stands for Address, Reframe, and Message. She urged listeners to address critical arguments, but then reframe them to get the facts across, and finally to end with the message that anti-semitism is not acceptable or factual. Junior Lydia Reyes, an attendee of the speech, said she considered it worth her time. “I think anti-semitism is rampant around the country right now and in the world,” Reyes said. “Any chance we get to arm ourselves against that and to open other eyes to that is worth taking.” Senior Hannah Brewer also attended and greatly appreciated the timeliness of the speech. “I do think it is really important to be able to distinguish between anti-semitic statements and then legitimate criticisms of Israel. We know that anti-semitism has been rampant in the world for all of human history,” Brewer said. “So it is really important to just examine what you believe and why and make sure you have lots of facts, and make sure you are aware if you are legitimately criticizing or if there is an undercurrent of anti-semitism.”

the students hand in what they worked on for those five days. That is like the skeleton. Over break they build upon that and when they come back, they hand in the final project,” King said. “You could tell David took additional time, he used additional resources, and he talked to experts.” The extra time manifested itself in a 61-page report, complete with sample bottle labels, detailed expense projections, weekly revenue projections, and an analysis of risk. The professors that instruct the classes also judge the final projects. The professors narrow the choice down to three projects, but King and Rich Moeggenberg, the director of financial aid, decide who wins the scholarship. The scholarship is funded by the Twardzik Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Endowment, which was created by Theodore Twardzik and his wife Jean Twardzik. Theodore Twardzik was an entrepreneur himself. He began his business career by selling pierogies made by his mom to local stores. Twardzik decided to expand and founded Mrs. T’s Pierogies, a mass

market brand found in stores like Walmart. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 89. Van Note was presented the award during the parent’s weekend honors ceremony by Tim Twardzik, the son of Theodore Twardzik. Hillsdale Brewing Company, a local brewery similar to the one Van Note proposes opening in his business plan, opened its doors this spring after almost three years of well-documented struggle. Van Note said he has been observing that process and trying to learn from it. “The fact that they have been able to put something together has influenced me and made me believe that I have a chance,” Van Note said. “I think the market I would build mine in would be significantly bigger than Hillsdale, and for them to show signs of success is pretty neat. I’ve read a decent amount of sources that say ‘It’ll take twice as long to set up and take twice the amount of capital as you anticipate.’ I haven’t talked to Hillsdale Brewing directly, but I have observed that, and that knowledge went into a lot of different parts of my project.”

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The debate team competed at Eastern Michigan University and John Carroll University. Katarina Torsoe | Collegian

At John Carroll University, sophomores Hannah Johnson and Kathleen Hancock competed in the Lincoln Douglas Debate in which Johnson advanced to the quarterfinal round. Mitchell said his informative speech describes the

tion. In his persuasive, he spoke about the Church of Scientology’s financial abuses. In program oral interpretation, he portrayed our present culture’s outlook on masculinity and how it relates to sexual harrassment and assault today.

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David Van Note stands with his parents and Theodore and Jean Twardzik, who awarded him a scholarship for his brewery business plan. David Van Note | Courtesy

es, and finance. After the day’s instruction, students spent the rest of the day developing the aspect of their business plan that corresponded to what they learned that day. While Van Note is an accounting major, Susan King, professor of marketing and director of the seminar, said students do not need to be studying anything related to business to take the seminar and compete for the scholarship. “This year, I think we only

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had two business majors in the seminar. Most of our enrollment is from the other majors, which is wonderful,” King said. “It’s so heartening to see classical liberal arts majors interested in this entrepreneurship program.” Students had several weeks to refine their business plan after the seminar before making a final presentation. King said the extra work Van Note did over break allowed him to set his project apart. “At the end of the five days,

Federal judge blocks Mississippi abortion law Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a bill on Monday that changed the limits on abortion from 15 to 20 weeks, giving Mississippi the tightest abortion laws in the country. U.S. Judge Carlton Reeves delayed the bill, and critics say it is “unconstitutional.”

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Business and beer: Van Note wins scholarship for entrepreneurial plan By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter Senior David Van Note recently won a scholarship worth one semester’s tuition for the business plan he created during a seminar titled “How to Start and Manage a Small Business.” The Twardzik Business Seminar Scholarship is awarded to the student who develops the most deserving business plan during the seminar. Van Note’s plan was for a brewery based in his hometown of Kent, Ohio, to be called Burning River Brewery. Van Note said he will someday make that plan a reality. “Starting a brewery is hopefully something I can do at some point in my life,” Van Note said. “It’s not something I want to do right out of college, but when I believe the opportunity presents itself, I’d like to take that chance.” The seminar is a fiveday, three-credit class that combines instruction with the practical experience of developing a business plan. Over the five days, six different instructors taught students about small business marketing, management, business law, human resourc-

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Russian President Vladimir Putin re-elected Sunday Russians re-elected Vladimir Putin to his fourth presidential term on Sunday. President Trump congratulated him over the phone, despite specific warnings from his national security advisers not to do so.

Snyder endorses Calley as next Michigan governor Gov. Rick Snyder officially endorsed Lt. Gov. Brian Calley on Wednesday for governor of Michigan. Calley, a former state representative and banker, differs with Snyder on several issues, including gun restrictions.

The Chi Omega house saw hungry guests and a lot of batter last Saturday as it raised $2,600 for its annual pancake fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “The event went really well,” said junior Elizabeth Laux, Chi Omega Philanthropy Chair. “Attendancewise, I was shooting for about 300 people. It was hard to keep track of all the people, but I definitely feel like we hit that. The house was packed from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.” Sophomore Caylee McComb was pleased with the great turn out, as well as the variety of pancakes. “The pancakes were awesome. We had chocolate chip, plain, and strawberry banana,” McComb said. The ladies of Chi Omega had a goal of raising $2000. “Monetarily, we surpassed our goal,” Laux said. “We raised about $2,600.” The funds were raised by selling $5 tickets for the event, along with various online donations. “All of the funds raised in each state stay within that state. So their funds went towards Make-AWish Michigan,” MakeA-Wish volunteer Diana Cook said. “Eighty percent of the funds are directly used towards granting wishes.” Cook was one of two Wish volunteers who attended the pancake fundraiser. “I thought the Chi Omega women did a fabulous job,” Cook said. “They represented Make-A-Wish very well.” Mccomb said having these two volunteers made the event more meaningful. “We got to see some of the faces of those kids who would benefit from our efforts,” Mccomb said. “It’s a great event because everyone in the house is directly involved in raising money, so we know that we each play a part in changing the life of someone with a terminal or life-threatening illness.”

Niedfelt to hold date party

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Niedfeldt is holding a date party on Saturday night in the Searle Center with money donated by its namesake, Phyllis Niedfeldt. “I have been just organizing it and getting the word out,” Niedfeldt Resident Assistant Alexander Green said. “There are around 60 people coming.” This event boasts a formal dinner catered by Bon Appétit, dancing, and an award show based off funny things that have happened in the dorm. Niedfeldt donated the money for the specific purpose of hosting a party like this. “She wants to encourage guys nowadays to work on their manners and bring dates,” said Niedfelt Head RA Sam Cassels, who is in charge of the event. Cassels also said this may reflect dorm culture, since Simpson’s events usually involve athletics. “We’ve never done it before, this is a first time thing,” Green sad. “It will be interesting to see if this is able to continue or not, because who knows if we will have the funding or not.” Emma Cummins contributed to this report.

World’s last male northern white rhino dies A male northern white rhino — the last of the subspecies — died this week, leaving only two females to save them from extinction. The rhino, named Sudan, lived in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.

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After officials “contained” a school shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday, CNN host John Brennan conducted an interview with a student named Jonathan while the school was still in lockdown. Brennan asked the student fundamental questions about the event, including what happened, what he saw, what he was being told, and at what time shots were fired. In addition to sharing his thoughts on the situation and how he felt, Jonathan reported that he heard one person was dead and seven injured.

Genetically modifying foods isn’t a bad thing By | Madeleine Jepsen Science and tech editor When people hear the term genetically modified organism, many think of scientists hunched over lab benches, injecting chemicals into grotesquely shaped vegetables. Admittedly, the concept of changing the genetic makeup of our food can sound intimidating or scary thanks to the abundance of fearmongering about GMOs. Stripping away the scary terminology is the first step to showing GMOs’ positive contributions to agriculture — contributions that outweigh the overhyped uncertainties. GMOs help solve food shortages and malnutrition by providing faster-growing, healthier crops. And no, these foods won’t glow in the dark. The root cause for most of the misinformation about GMOs can be traced to a lack of understanding about the science behind these crops. Kate Krepps, associate field crop specialist for Michigan Farm Bureau, compared the process of modifying plant genes to replacing a page of a book, since all organisms share a common language in their genetic material. “Really, you’re pulling one piece out and inserting another piece that’s found naturally within that plant,” she said. “It’s just like stopping that book on that page, ripping it out, and replacing it with another page from the book. Modified, yes, but still part of the same book.” For thousands of years, humans have used genetic selection: Farmers cultivate seeds from the plants that produce the juiciest tomatoes, the largest ears of corn, and the most tender spinach leaves. They breed cows that can produce the most nutritious milk, and more of it. By maintaining animals or planting seeds that contain desirable genes, farmers have already manipulated the plant or animal’s genome by replacing one set of traits with another. The genetic modification of organisms is merely a more precise and direct continuation of this selection process rather than waiting hundreds of years to achieve the same effect. It’s also a myth that GMOs are produced without supervision, slipping insidiously onto supermarket shelves without safety checks. Bob Boehm, manager of Michigan Farm Bureau’s commodity and marketing department, said there is a thorough research process that occurred for each of the eight GMO products currently on the market: alfalfa,

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canola, corn, cotton, papaya, sugar beets, and summer squash. According to Boehm, genetically modified crops are studied an average of 13 years, with research investments averaging around $136 million before the products are made available to consumers. In addition to the rigorous research required to demonstrate a GMO’s safety, the Environmental Protection Agency ensures they are safe for the environment, the Department of Agriculture ensures that they are safe for farmers, and the Food and Drug Administration ensures they are safe for consumers. Boehm referred to these as the “three-legged stool” of regulation that ensured the safety of any GMO product on the market. Choosing to consume GMO products is up to the individual, but genetic modification is a beneficial process, not a harmful one. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, GMOs allow farmers to produce more nutritious food. For example, genetically engineering rice to contain more vitamin A can reduce vitamin A deficiencies and the resulting blindness that may occur for the 50 percent of the world’s population that relies on rice as a dietary staple. The United Nations projects that the global population will continue to grow, adding as many as 83 million new mouths to feed each year. GMOs will help ensure that there is enough nutritious food to meet the growing needs of the human race. “What we’re trying to do is provide safe food. So as the technology moves, we learn that there’s a better way,” Boehm said. “The impact of technology changes how we do everything. Agriculture is no different.” Although genetic modification is still relatively new to consumers, it serves as one of the best available methods for farmers to combat pests and crop illnesses in a manner that will still be safe for humans. Pests evolve and find new ways to adapt and survive; GMOs are one of many tools that make sure crops survive long enough to end up at the grocery store. Once the misconceptions and propaganda about genetically modified foods disappear, GMOs show promise as part of the solution for providing people with more nutritious, cost-efficient food.

But later reports showed that two, not seven, students were injured (one in critical condition), and the 17-yearold shooter was pronounced dead hours later at the hospital. While Brennan did caution following his conversation with Jonathan that his reports were unverified, other media sites, including The Telegraph, reported that one student was dead and seven were injured based on the student’s interview. Unverified information, though, shouldn’t be aired in the first place. It’s how misinformation is spread and

confusion arises in the midst of an already terrifying and perplexing situation. It’s bad journalism. In the midst of a crisis, especially on television, news stations are looking for whatever opportunities available to cover the breaking news. CNN had already interviewed an expert and needed another face on the camera. Speaking with a witness, especially one who is a minor, should come with extra caution. CNN should have recorded the interview first to avoid reporting incorrect information. It is what people would

expect while reading an article online. TV journalism should be held to similar standards, too. Perhaps worst of all in this interview, Brennan asked Jonathan if he could stay on the line after the student had told him: “I’m going to have to let you go because the police are outside the door right now.” No, Jonathan could not talk. He needed to follow police directions for the wellbeing of himself and his class. Journalists should be proactive about reporting the news, but stories should not come before truth or safety.

Safe spaces hinder college students By | Liam Bredberg special to the collegian American citizens onced respected students of higher education for their dedication and ability to overcome obstacles. Finishing college applications, completing interviews, moving away from home, and starting a new life all require a strong sense of independence and aptitude. However, more and more college students whine about slight discomforts that are thrown their way. This generation tends to shy away from things that every adult has had to deal with at some point in their lives. Its weakness is disheartening. Colleges and universities appeal to students seeking to challenge themselves and become wise and educated individuals. Sadly, however, college students increasingly complain that their education is too challenging and uncomfortable. Hank Berrien of The Daily Wire recently released a story regarding university students’ complaints about professors banning laptops in classrooms and requiring students to take handwritten notes and final exams. He wrote, “In 2017, the Cornell University student government unanimously passed a resolution urging the

faculty to allow ‘greater freedom of student laptop usage.’” U.S. News ranked Cornell as the 14th best university in America in 2017. One would expect that for such a prestigious Ivy League university, students would respect a professor’s decision to make them write by hand. Berrien continues, articulating student complaints that include everything from inability to read their own notes to their hands hurting from writing. Yet another frightening trend among college students is their cry for so-called “safe-spaces” and “trigger warnings.” This leads people to associate a certain frailty to college students that was not previously considered. The movement to censor anything that appears uncomfortable, disagreeable, or contrary to progressive views makes college students believe that everything in the world will go their way. This contradicts the main purpose of a college education: to pre-

pare students for their lives in the real world. When asked about students’ increasing demand for safe spaces during a speech at the University of Chicago, Van Jones, an American political commentator and civil rights activist, said, “I think that’s a terrible idea for the following reason: I don’t want you to be safe ideologically. I don’t want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong.” Everyone has to deal with strife and discomfort. Jones discussed the problem with students’ idea that they can avoid discomfort. He said, “You are creating a kind of liberalism that the minute it crosses the street into the real world is not just useless but obnoxious and dangerous.” Social justice culture leads to intolerance of opposing views. Many students are so intolerant that they would rather resort to violence than engage in the civilized discussion that we should expect from anyone attempting to

“When universities allow students to incite violent protests on school property, they fail to prepare them for the real world.”

educate themselves. This dangerous and divisive practice goes against the ideals this country was founded upon while making it harder to respect any students partaking in the violence. Almost weekly, stories on violence and protests appear from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Davis, and countless other colleges. Universities have turned a blind eye to students’ violent protests, allowing them to effectively shut down the speech of conservative students. When universities allow students to incite violent protests on school property, they fail to prepare them for the real world. Students will think they can continue to live the same lifestyle after they enter the real world. The culture shock of personal responsibility, deadlines, and the tasks that come with adulthood, which these students couldn’t handle in college, can serve as a rude awakening to the spoiled, delicate, and poorly behaved minority of social justice warriors. They are, in turn, making the rest of us hardworking and driven students look fragile and weak. Liam Bredberg is a freshman studying the liberal arts.

Stop smoking outside the library

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Junior Jordyn Pair argues students should stop smoking outside Mossey Library. Hillsdale College | Courtesy

By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Put your cigs out, Hillsdale. It’s time to stop smoking in front of the library. This isn’t a lecture about the concern of cancer or a plea to save young lungs. This is about respect for fellow students. Smokers on campus generally keep a low profile. They don’t litter the sidewalks with cigarette butts. It’s rare the student in the adjacent seat in class reeks of smoke. Still, student smokers have inadvertently chosen one of the most highly trafficked areas of campus to light up. It needs to stop. The colonnade between Mossey Library and Grewcock Student Union traps cigarette smoke and makes it inescapable. Because the area is walled off on one side and has a roof, smoke often travels up and down the tunnel. Sometimes, it doesn’t travel at all. More often, it creates a haze that hangs outside the doors of the library. With several rotating groups of smokers, the presence of smoke is frequent, if not constant. And since

walking through the colonnade is pretty much the only option for those going from Lane or Kendall Halls to the union, it’s easy to get caught in the cloud of smoke lingering outside the library doors. It makes sense that the colonnade is a popular location to smoke. The benches outside the library door, as well as the protection from the wind, make it comfortable, even during the winter. It’s also convenient, nestled between the library and the union. But it’s still an area most students walk through. Smoking there is intrusive and inescapable. Hillsdale College does not ban smoking from campus, although it is forbidden in the residence halls. The state of Michigan, however, passed a law in 2009 to ban smoking in businesses, restaurants, and bars. The results have been impressive. A 2013 study by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services showed the law reduced second-hand smoke levels in the legislated areas by 92 percent. Results like this have a big impact on public health. Exposure to secondhand smoke at work or home increases the likelihood a

non-smoker will have a cardiovascular disease or get lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Even a brief exposure to secondhand smoke can put someone at risk. There is another reason smoking has been banned— most people simply do not want to smell it. Smoking cigarettes has become increasingly stigmatized, and public attitudes have shifted. People once saw it as glamorous but now see it as unhealthy. Although catching a whiff of second-hand smoke won’t have the lasting effects of prolonged exposure, it can cause other problems. As someone who gets sick with coughs or lung infections multiple times a year, often for prolonged periods, I speak from personal experience when I say smoke outside the library causes coughing fits and general lung and throat irritation. Harsh Michigan winters, complete with numbing cold and bitter air, make students susceptible to respiratory infections such as bronchitis. Even if I cover my face as I walk by, I still often inhale smoke, which can be

physically bothersome. And for those with asthma, being affected by smoke can be a year-round problem. We don’t need to ban smoking from campus entirely. There are two simpler solutions. Students who wish to continue smoking on the benches directly outside the library can switch to e-cigarettes. Because e-cigarettes work with water vapor, they don’t produce smoke and are much gentler on the throats of passers-by. They also come with options for nicotine, so students wouldn’t be giving up their addiction. Alternatively, students could stand outside the colonnade. Because the close wall and overhang trap most of the smoke, moving to open air would eliminate most of the problem. Although this may not be ideal, it would certainly be more mindful. So before lighting up, take the extra few steps outside. The rest of the student body (and our lungs) will thank you. Jordyn Pair is a junior studying Rhetoric and Public Address

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When the future belonged to crowds

How one novelist set the agenda for eight years of foreign policy By | Nic Rowan City News Editor If statement is fact, then President Donald Trump will soon be negotiating with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un — yet another one of the president’s moves to reverse the foreign policy strategies implemented by his predecessor President Barack Obama. When a new president takes office, his first actions are often to trash the most hallowed achievements of the former president. For Trump, (this summer’s health care debacle aside) that meant dismantling Obama’s oblique foreign policy techniques. No more strategic patience. Trump replaced inaction with bluster. But of course, this attitude has not sat well with many and it’s starting to show in the outpouring of media love letters to the Obama tenure. About a month ago, documentary director Greg Barker released “The Final Year,” a film bemoaning the loss of Obama foreign policy and implicitly criticizing Trump’s unrefined approach. Released on the one-year anniversary of Obama’s leaving office, the film follows Obama’s foreign policy team as they trot around the world with the president, trying to ensure peace between all nations in 2016. Although it features input from former Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, former Secretary of State John Kerry, and even former President Obama himself, “The Final Year” centers on former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, as he tries to make sense of what it means to be a superpower in the digital age. A Master of Fine Arts student at New York University turned policy wonk, Rhodes became indispensable to the administration as a strategist and speechwriter. He also became nationally prominent when a 2013 New York Times profile portrayed him as the paranoid puppetmaster of America’s soft empire. One particular moment

in the New York Times story revealed Rhodes’ idiosyncratic understanding of foreign policy. Reporter David Samuels asked him to characterize the Obama administration’s challenges in 2016 — issues such as the Iran arms deal, the Cuban thaw, and the Syrian civil war — in terms of the work of a fiction writer. Rhodes answered that he thought of the waning Obama era as material the author Don DeLillo could easily adapt into a novel. “That’s the only person I can think of who has confronted these questions of, you know, the individual who finds himself negotiating both vast currents of history and a very specific kind of power dynamics. That’s his milieu,” Rhodes said. “And that’s what it’s like to work in the U.S. foreign-policy apparatus in 2016.” Scary. DeLillo is arguably the United States’ premier author of history-as-decay. Some of his major works — “Libra,” “Mao II,” and “Underworld” — chronicle American moments such as the Kennedy assassination or a 1980s mass Moonie marriage in Yankees stadium or the 1951 “Shot Heard ‘Round the World Game” between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. DeLillo uses moments where individuals break free from crowds to voice his concerns with empire and what it means to be an American in a world where everything is connected and nothing is comprehensible. Rhodes explained to the New York Times that he saw Obama and himself as negotiators caught in a DeLilloan moment — towering individuals manipulating “the blob” of Washington reporters to support whatever foreign policy he and the president devised. And Rhodes was not exaggerating his importance: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice once described his relationship with Obama as a “mind meld.” “The Final Year” makes the case that this mind meld is The Obama Legacy. Many scenes feature Rhodes alone in the White House basement, typing up one of the Presi-

dent’s speeches (in addition to his other duties, Rhodes wrote nearly every one) and explaining how he and the president are reshaping the United States’ relationship with the world and with itself. In one of these soliloquies — dated right after the New York Times profile — Rhodes

news is a narrative of our time,” DeLillo told The New Yorker in 1997. “It has almost replaced the novel, replaced discourse between people. It replaced families. It replaced a slower, more carefully assembled way of communicating, a more personal way of communicating.”

Underworld, written by Don DeLillo, guided the foreign policy of the Obama administration. Courtesy

sighs at how the press lambasted him for calling itw “the blob.” If only they had read their DeLillo, they would have understood that as “the news,” they are the conduit for the history he’s writing. “People seem to need news, any kind — bad news, sensationalistic news, overwhelming news. It seems that

For Rhodes, to control the blob is to control the narrative of our time. Throughout the film and throughout his speeches for Obama, Rhodes rips words out of DeLillo and rephrases them to fit the agenda of the day. In a notable example, Rhodes says that what makes America globally meaningful is what it stands

for and how it acts, but not the amount of control the nation exerts over the rest of the world. “You have to understand that our new foreign policy is less militarized and more engagement focused,” he said. But what does “engagement focused” mean? In Rhodes’ view, it means signing an unenforceable arms deal with Iran. It means normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba. It means practicing strategic patience in foreign policy, what DeLillo characterized in “Underworld” as a “neural labyrinth.” “It’s not enough to hate your enemy,” he wrote in a section about J. Edgar Hoover’s approach to foreign policy. “You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep contemplation.” Barker’s choice to place Rhodes — and by extension DeLillo — at the center of “The Final Year” changes the tone of what is normally a racially-inflected narrative of the Obama legacy. The Barker narrative recontextualizes The First Black President and his retinue as global actors in the grand drama of history. The rest of us are just left to study what they do. It’s a bit overwrought, but entirely unsurprising. DeLillo could have written this novel. Writing for The New Yorker in 1991, the public intellectual Louis Menand characterized the typical DeLillo character as a paranoid who envisions himself negotiating both vast currents of history and a very specific kind of power dynamics on a global scale. “They approach the world with demands that are too serious; they are too easily affected by tiny changes in the cultural weather; they register deeply impressions that everyone else reflects. And their disappointment sometimes has violent or tragic consequences,” he wrote. Rhodes fits the bill. The Obama advisor has said multiple times that he became interested in foreign policy because of the 9/11 terror attacks. Still a graduate stu-

dent at NYU when he saw the World Trade Center towers falling, he first thought of the cover of “Underworld,” which features the Twin Towers rising into a smoky haze. He knew he had to do something. “I immediately developed this idea that, you know, maybe I want to try to write about international affairs,” he told the New York Times. As Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor and top speech writer, Rhodes was able to do even more than write about international affairs; he wrote international affairs. But even then, he was only a character in the DeLillo novel he wanted to write. Rhodes’ presumptuousness becomes clear in one of the last scenes of “The Final Year.” He’s standing on a hill in Cuba, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. The president has just attended a joint ceremony with the Cuban government, celebrating renewed diplomatic relations between the two nations. “If these two countries can put the past behind them, then maybe we can all do that,” Rhodes says. Maybe so. But likely not. If Rhodes really did aspire to be like DeLillo, he would have remembered the haunting conclusion to the prologue of “Underworld,” in which a raincoat drunk rounds the bases at New York’s old Polo Grounds, celebrating a fleeting victory in which he took only the smallest part. Ever the pessimist, DeLillo leaves his readers with the knowledge that no matter what history’s actors do or accomplish, they will all end up victims to time’s obscurity. Now Obama is gone, and Rhodes is too. Trump and the Republican Congress are blustering their way to repealing and otherwise reordering the mind-meld vision for America. And yet, these new measures will likely be re-reversed in another few years. Like everything else, history is always falling indelibly into the past. Nic Rowan is a junior studying history.

How ‘Sons of Liberty’ predicted the future Stop writing historical hit pieces to further ideological agendas By | Shadrach Strehle Special to The Collegian Postmodern thinker Hideo Kojima in 2001 predicted the future. In his classic work “Sons of Liberty,” Kojima depicts a world where media surrounds the individual with constantly changing and useless information, or “junk data.” This junk data drives the individual to build their own truth and abide by it with slavish devotion. Kojima writes: “Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever ‘truth’ suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.” I agree with Kojima’s thesis. We live in an era where the complete bounds of human knowledge are mere clicks away, where the average person can learn whatever they want in moments. Truth is cheap and conforms to our whims. As news feeds become increasingly partisan and journalism fractures into specialized sources, two people can believe in two completely different and conflicting truths about the world around them. In the quest to shore up these gated communities, everything becomes a tool. Including history. I understand the attraction. History is an easy target. With the entirety of human action to draw from, a savvy researcher can prove almost anything. Look no further than Martin Luther King Jr. Every year, news sources from all over the political spectrum

depict him in the starkest terms possible. With articles like “Martin Luther King Was a Radical, not a Saint,” from Truth-Out, or “Pseudo-Pacifism: Why Privileged People Love Quoting MLK,” from Patheos, serving as prime examples. King becomes a devout Christian, an adulterer, a militant revolutionary, or a pacifist of the first degree whatever it takes to align his mission with the mission of the author. Even the Hillsdale Collegian published such an opinion, titled “Embrace Reverend King, Revolutionary Ideas and All.” Most historical opinion pieces, no matter the source, begin with an opinion. The author hopes to communicate what they believe is historical truth. The desire often comes from an understandable place - a wish to inform the public how a historical figure or event relates to their views. Then the research begins, with the author scouring the internet and library for quotes or passages that support their claim. They find the quotes, plunk the article out, and send the piece in by deadline. Then they move on to their next project, while their work remains online or in print for the world to see and digest. While cathartic for the author, the process is intellectually dishonest. Whenever an author begins with an opinion, an objective for their piece, they write poor history. The nuances and details of history - something that requires years of in depth study to understand and apply properly - become obstacles to

the opinion. Dishonesty stems from the misunderstanding that history conforms to the current reality. That people who

Raised in a world where students view history as a tool for the present, where history teaches us about our lives and how to live them better, the

Postmodern thinker Hideo Kojima wrote “Sons of Liberty.” Wikimedia Commons

lived 50, 100, or 1000 years ago somehow fought the same battles that we fight today; That Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, Otto Von Bismarck, or Joan of Arc could understand or interface with our problems.

author assumes that the issues they are passionate about have historical equivalents. History rarely, if ever, provides equivalents to the current day. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, a French-speaking Swiss author,

once said that “to understand everything, is to forgive everything.” History creates problems for every political ideology. By definition, ideology requires clear cut answers to questions. The more history someone reads, the more nuanced their understanding of a time and place becomes.The lines between the “winners” and “losers” of history blurs and conventional narrative becomes increasingly difficult to defend. The historical hit piece shows no interest in furthering understanding. When an author starts with an opinion before writing a piece, their research focuses on making that opinion a reality. The author boils a historical figure, whose life and times could take years to understand within their context, down to the basest and most partisan elements possible. Who the subject really was does not matter; what matters is that this person agreed or disagreed with what the author believes. Decades of life, condensed into a 1,200-word newspaper article. People should have historical opinions, and should debate the minutia and specifics of historical issues, but actively diminishing history for the sake of feeling secure in your own worldview conflicts with the liberal arts tradition. As people continue to wall themselves into their gated communities, doing everything they can to establish and defend their own truth, this practice takes on an entirely new level of destructive power. As the author leaves the article steeping in the public

eye, moving on to discover the next “hot take,” his words become ammunition. With all human knowledge available to them, the average person shirks other options for the sake of the comfortable one. The walls of their gated community grow, and historical reality becomes increasingly blurry. I ask only that writers try to combat this phenomenon and treat history with the respect it deserves. Take the time to research before forming an opinion, try not to force history to say something it clearly does not, and interact with scholarly work on each topic. History is only capable of so much. As the gated communities continue to grow, the need for non-partisan truth becomes increasingly important. Try not to become a part of the problem. Because the alternative is easy. Very easy. Take Hideo Kojima for example. He makes video games. The “gated communities” passage is from the classic “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.” Kojima made the game in active rebellion against overzealous fans of “Metal Gear Solid,” as well as to wcomment on postmodernism. He never predicted the future, he just responded to the world around him and the direction he saw it going. I am guessing you took my words at face value though. Besides, the truth would have made for a bad intro. Shadrach Strehle is a junior studying history.

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‘Red Indian’ Udder Side flavor stirs community controversy By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief The flavor of the week at the Udder Side is swirling up controversy, as some local residents complain the name of the “Red Indian” soft serve is racially insensitive. The cinnamon-flavored ice cream with a pinkish hue is being offered exclusively Sunday through Saturday as a part of the Jonesville ice cream shop’s weekly promotion. Joining a national discussion over the appropriation of Native American culture, some local residents have complained the flavor’s name is disparaging. Meanwhile, others have gone out of their way to support the Udder Side and grab a small serving for $1.59. “We’re selling the [heck] out of it,” said Julia Bauer, who owns the Udder Side with her husband, Dave. “It’s been more popular than ever. We were busier than normal on Mondays when it was freezing cold outside.” Others, however, are not so eager to buy the flavor. Hillsdale resident Natasha Crall, who said she has Cherokee

heritage, commented on the Udder Side’s Facebook post announcing the flavor of the week and shared the post in the group Hillsdale’s Hot Debates on Sunday. Crall said the flavor was in bad taste, given that Hillsdale County used to be inhabited by the Potawatomi tribe before settlers began coming in 1827. She added that her family loves the Udder Side and suggested it sell the ice cream flavor under a different name. “The National Coalition for American Indians has said that the term red skin is inappropriate,” Crall told The Collegian. “Red Indian: It refers to red skin. It’s bigoted and offensive.” More than 300 people replied to Crall’s comment in Hot Debates before the group’s administrator turned off commenting on the post. Most people said they did not find the name offensive or ridiculed Crall’s questioning of it in the first place. “Just because it doesn’t hurt them, doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt other people,” Crall said. “That wouldn’t fly in other places outside of the Hillsdale bubble.”

Bauer said the Udder Side did not come up with the name Red Indian, and it is not the only shop to sell the flavor in Hillsdale County. Bobbeye’s Pizza Place & Dairyland in Hudson also sells the ice cream flavor under that name. The business did not respond to request for comment. It is the name its maker, National Products, used for the flavor 27 years ago when the Udder Side began selling it. There is no ice cream company with that name now, but Kalamazoo-based National Flavors used to be called National Products before changings its name 10 years ago, according to Najee Lazarus, a customer service representative for the company. National Flavors does sell a cinnamon spice flavor, but Lazarus was unable to say on Wednesday if it had been called Red Indian previously. Dave Bauer would not confirm the name of the company that supplies the ice cream flavor, adding that for as long as he owns the Udder Side, Red Indian will be the flavor’s name. Julie Bauer agreed: “We could change it, but it’s the

name we’ve been selling it as for 30 years. It’d just be the flavor that used to be known as Red Indian.” As a graduate of Central Michigan University, whose mascot is the Chippewas, Julie Bauer said she is familiar with the controversy. She said, however, she thinks the controversy of the ice cream’s name is ridiculous. “I shake my head; I have nothing to say,” she said. “I have never seen anything like that as putting someone down. It’s what it’s called. It’s a flavor of ice cream.” Many people agreed with her. Bauer said one customer earlier this week paid $20 in advance for the next customers who purchased the Red Indian ice cream. Osseo resident Tracy O’Haver visited the Udder Side on Sunday and ordered the flavor after seeing the posts about it on Facebook. She posted that she ordered a Red Indian cone following the complaints made. “It’s just ice cream,” O’Haver said. “I think it’s ridiculous, all the words we have to change. All of our lives we’ve used it. Why does it have to

change now?” Either way, Bauer said the debate over the flavor has turned into free advertising for the local dairy shop.

“It’s what the company originally called it,” Bauer said. “If you don’t like it, don’t eat it.”

Some customers consider Red Indian to be a racist name for an ice cream flavor. Tracy O’Haver | Courtesy

Raiders loot newly installed Hillsdale Blessings Box

By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor Several feet from the fuschia front door of Hillsdale Beauty College, there sits a wooden cabinet with two glass doors. Its shelves brim with packaged food: a bag of rice, a can of beef stew, a box of mac ’n’ cheese — and clothing and hygiene items — a pair of gray sneakers, tubes of toothpaste. Last week the Hillsdale Blessing Box held a variety of essentials, free gifts to Hillsdale residents in need. On Tuesday, it was emptied. Krista Roth, who put up the Blessing Box early this month, said the box brings positivity to the community, but this week, its donations were abused. “Anybody taking what they need please still utilize the box for your needs, but

the ones that are taking car loads, please be considerate to those that really need these items. This wasn’t put up to supply your house weekly, this was put up to help those make ends meet until they can get money to get what they need,” Roth posted in Hillsdale’s Blessing Boxes Facebook group. “This is a positive thing for our community to come together.” Roth and her fiance, Quae Proctor, decided to put up a Blessing Box to help people in the community through hard times, the way they had been helped just over a year ago. While Roth was pregnant and struggling to keep food in the house for her other children, her family helped her and Proctor through their financial struggle. “Now we’re in a more positive place in our lives, and we

want to turn our bad karma into good karma,” Roth said. Blessing Boxes have been popping up across the U.S. for more than a year now, but they’ve just recently made their way toward Hillsdale County. One appeared in Coldwater this January after city residents Daryl and Katie Bontrager put it up in a neighborhood. The makeshift cabinets hold nonperishable food and household items, donations from the community for the community. Before she heard about the boxes, Roth had been passing out baby care packages for single or struggling parents. But after she heard about the trend, she decided to create a box of her own. “I told Quae, ‘I want to do something bigger,’” she said. She reached out to Katie Bontrager, who supplied the box itself. And as she began

City plans first-ever Easter egg hunt By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer The Easter bunny will make its first appearance on the Hillsdale courthouse lawn Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. As part of the Hillsdale Business Association’s first annual Easter event, children can collect eggs to exchange for candy and gift baskets, take a picture with the Easter bunny, and support local businesses. “We’ve been wanting to do something like this for awhile,” said Andrew Gelzer, member of the HBA and event organizer. “There’s not a lot going on downtown this time of the year, so we

thought we’d take a whack at it.” Local businesses plan to contribute to the event through promotions and booths on the lawn; other sponsors include Smith’s Flowers, the Hillsdale Natural Grocery store, and the Filling Station, among others. Small Town Sweet Boutique owner Danielle Brock will provide the candy with funding from the HBA. “Each kid can pick up 10 eggs, which they can bring to the gazebo to exchange for candy and prizes,” Gelzer said. Adults can also buy raffle tickets for a “giant basket” provided by Gelzer’s hard-

ware store, Brock said. Gelzer and Brock have been scheming to get their 1000 eggs into the hands of local Easter egg hunters. “It sounds like a lot,” Brock said. “But we wanted to make sure that kids got good candy — Airheads, candy ropes — not just a Tootsie Roll in each egg or something.” The Easter bunny will also make his way from his temporary headquarters in the police office to take pictures with victorious hunters. “We wanted to make it a safe event for the kids, where they can get some good candy and have fun,” Brock said.

to share about the project, Zetave Young, owner of Hillsdale Beauty College, got word and offered her property for the first location. “We want to help the community,” Young said. “I think it’s a fantastic idea.” After it was put up, Young said she noticed the box emptying quickly, which told her it was serving a purpose. “There must be a desperate need for it because I notice Krista does a great job filling it daily. And a lot of times by the time we close school I see her restocking, and by the time I get here in the morning it’s pretty much empty,” Young said. “So I hope the donations keep coming in so she can keep filling it and hopefully the community keeps chipping in.” Young said someone came in to the beauty college once and said the box was a

bad idea, that people would just take advantage of it. But Young and others at the school disagreed. “If anybody did say something negative, we would say something positive,” Young said. But what about the alleged truckload bandits? Roth said she’ll stock the box with minimal supplies for now. She’ll be keeping an eye on the box, and she asked others to do the same. But if anyone is in need, she said she’d be more than happy to deliver items herself. “I think it’s a positive thing for the community,” Roth said. “There’s so much hate in the world right now. We need more positivity and less greed. And it kind of brings the community together.” She’s not planning on halting the project; she’s working on setting up a new box in

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time, the city kept the truck in storage. When it became to burdensome to store, the city sold it to a museum in Saline, Michigan. The museum eventually sold the truck to a private collector in Jackson, who fully restored

Hanover now. And others are following her lead. Bree Bennett, known as The Hillsdale Supergirl, had planned to put up a Blessing Box even before the first one appeared in Hillsdale. She has an idea for a second location. “I believe the project is a great idea, if it’s placed where it’s needed,” Bennett said. “I have been trying to make another one, and make one specifically for water and crackers — foods that are okay on really hot days — for the beginning and end of Baw Beese trail, but I shall cross that bridge when I come to it!” The handwritten nameplate on the side of the blessing box, Hillsdale’s Blessing Boxes, echoes this energy — by leaving hope for more to come.

Historical Society seeks to purchase classic fire truck Following an unnamed collector’s offer to sell a 1931 Seagrave fire truck to the Hillsdale Historical Society for a reduced price, the society is trying to raise $10,000 to bring the truck back to the city. “This truck is a very important part of Hillsdale’s history and we would like to see it come back,” Historical society board member Kathy Fowler said. The Seagrave truck served the City of Hillsdale from the 1930s until the 1950s. It was brought out of retirement after intense restoration to serve once again in 1976. After it was retired a second

the historical society. “He lowered his price significantly and is giving us a very fair deal on it,” Fowler said. To buy the truck and restore the barn behind the Will Carleton Poorhouse where the society plans to store and maintain it, the historical society is trying to raise the money from the community. Fowler originally posted about the truck on the society’s Facebook page, but when it proved popular, she turned created a separate GoFundMe page. “We need to make sure this truck is safe and secure,” she said.

“We need to make sure this truck is safe and secure.” it with original axes, helmets, silver bell, ladders and hoses. According to Fowler, after the private collector who bought the truck eventually found that it did not fit his collection — as most of the trucks he owned were from Jackson county — he listed it online before making a special offer to

The 1931 Seagrave truck served Hillsdale for many years. Hillsdale County Historical Society | Courtesy

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Cascarelli’s fruit store bombing lives on in family lore By | Stefan Kleinhenz Collegian Reporter In the early hours of the morning on Sunday, June 24, 1923, an attack was launched in an attempt to destroy the fruit shop of the Cascarelli family, a hardworking, Italian family living in Hillsdale, Michigan. And the perpetrator is still a mystery today. The Cascarellis found their home in the hushed, quaint town of Hillsdale, one of the few places that accepted Italian immigrants in the early 20th century. Fulfilling their American dream as entrepreneurs, they started their own fruit business with locations in Hillsdale and Albion. The night of the attack, a bomb had been placed on the Broad Street side of

the Cascarelli’s store. In the apartment above the store, the explosion woke Peter Cascarelli, his son, Joe, and his nephew, Frank Cascarelli. While causing great structural damage, no one was injured or killed. Upon hearing the explosion, Sheriff W.H. Bates, who was sleeping in the jail on Courthouse Square, immediately headed toward the scene of the explosion. No one was ever arrested. All that remains is the testament of the Cascarelli descendents who know the oral tradition of that summer night, told to them by the generations before them. Today, Peter’s great-nephew, Robert Cascarelli, lives in the Hillsdale area. Robert and a few of his other relatives carry the family legend through

the oral tradition. He said he grew up hearing the stories from his father, Frank Cascarelli, who was at the fruit store the night of the bombing. Frank told Robert that the blast of the bomb blew both Frank and Joe out of bed and just about every window on the block was blown out. “It was not a small bomb,” Robert said. “It was meant to do damage. The power of that bomb, to do what it did to the whole block, there was intent to do badly on the people.” Robert also understood from the stories of his father that his great-uncle Peter was not someone who took matters to the authorities, he dealt with them himself. “You have to remember that old Italians, like my father, were very closed mouth about what was going on,”

Robert said. The sheriff only knew what Peter offered to him, and it wasn’t much. At the time of the bombing, Peter Cascarelli owned the fruit store on Broad Street in downtown Hillsdale, while his brother, Robert, owned the store in Albion. The location of their fruit stores wasn’t the only difference between the brothers. According to the younger Robert Cascarelli, the family knew Peter was someone not to be messed with. The story that Robert tells is that Peter was asked to pay protection money to the mafia, and he refused. “Italian’s took advantage of their own race,” Robert said. “Peter only had his son Joe, he could be tougher against the group. But Robert had

eight children to protect, he had more to lose.” Peter later found out that his brother, Robert, was paying the group believed to be out of Cicero, Illinois. According to the Hillsdale County Historical Society, at the time it was known as “The Black Hand,” which was a criminal tactic of extortion and a precursor to organized crime and the mafia. At one point after the bombing in Peter’s store in Hillsdale, he got a call from Robert in Albion that “the guy” showed up to collect the money and was at the Stag Bar next door to Robert’s fruit store. Peter proceeded to drive to Albion and confront the man in the bar. “Pete had a weapon on him and walked up to the guy in the bar and stuck the pistol

in this guy’s ear,” the younger Robert said. “My dad told me that Pete stuck it in his ear and made it bleed like hell.” According to the stories Robert heard from his father, Frank, Peter told the guy in the bar, something along the lines of, “You tried to put me out of business, blew up the whole block in Hillsdale, and I’m still not going to pay you. I understand my brother Robert is willing to pay you, but if you ever come back to Albion, if you ever go near my brother, I will kill you.” The guy never came back. “You figure they ran into a toughy,” Robert said, “and they knew he meant what he said.”

Wainscott, Jansen seek Ward 1 seat in vacancy election By | Nic Rowan City News Editor

Following City Councilman Brian Watkins’ resignation at a March 5 city council meeting, Hillsdale residents Ted Jansen and Dennis Wainscott are preparing to face off for the vacancy left by Watkins in his Ward 1 council seat. Watkins’ emailed his resignation to Council, stating that his job as a travelling public relations officer for Toyota is “no longer allowing me to provide the connected and engaged representation the citizens of Ward 1 need or deserve.” Since the beginning of his 2015 term, Watkins

routinely missed council meetings — as excused absences — due to a work and travel conflicts. Watkins’ seat will remain vacant for the remainder of spring and through the summer. Any Ward 1 resident seeking to fill it can apply through a petition available at the City Clerk’s office. An election will occur in November. If more people than Jansen and Wainscott file the petition, a primary election will be held in August to narrow the ballot down to two candidates. Jansen has already filed the petition, hoping to secure the spot both he and Wainscott lost to Councilman Greg

Gun found in student’s bag in Pittsford school By | Nic Rowan City News Editor Pittsford Middle/High School went into a hard lock down when school officials found a handgun in a 13-year-old male student’s bag at 1:43 p.m. on March 14. Police were notified and worked alongside the school to restrain the student, according to the Hillsdale County Sheriff ’s Office. “Some students came to us and said that the student had drugs — pills — in his possession,” Dean Jodi Mallar said. “When we searched his bag, we found the handgun.” Mallar added that the student had not had previous disciplinary issues with the school. According to a HCSO press release, once the school was secure and Sheriff Parker and several deputies arrived, they interviews one of the student’s parents at the school. Parker and the deputies searched the student’s belongings, and upon finding the weapon, removed it from school property. Shortly thereafter, the

hard lockdown was lifted. “It goes without saying this sort of thing means permanent expulsion — he will not be coming back,” Mallar said of the student. According to the press release, while Parker and the deputies continued to interview the student, they also requested the assistance of the Michigan State Police with a K-9 unit as well as a Bomb Squad unit. Pittsford school officials cleared the school a few minutes before school let out and moved all students and staff out of the building so that the sweep could commence. No other weapons were found. All school activities were cancelled for the night and Pittsford Area Schools were closed on March 15. The 13-year-old was turned over to the Hillsdale County Probate Court system until further notice. MSP and the sheriff ’s department searched his home for additional evidence on March 14. The investigation remains ongoing. Parker could not be reached for comment.

Stuchell in this past November’s election. Jansen said in an email that he still supports his positions from his previous campaign, including continued emphasis on Hillsdale’s downtown, in-

lost to Stuchell in the last election. Although this loss disappointed him, Wainscott said he has been impressed with Stuchell’s presence on Council. “I couldn’t have asked for

someone better,” Wainscott said. “Stuchell stands up for what he believes.” Wainscott said if elected, he would hope to do the same. “I don’t want to be a

dependent. I want to be an asset,” he said. As a retired auto parts store manager and an active minister, Wainscott said he believes that he has the makings of an asset for City Council. For the past three years, he has been a frequent participant in public discussion at council and committee meetings. According to his memory, he has missed only two council in the past year, one because of his wedding anniversary and the other because of illness. If elected, Wainscott said he would focus on fiscal responsibility and ensuring that the city’s general fund is provisioned to deal with

an emergency if it should arise. Additionally, Wainscott said he wants to help the city continue to advance its infrastructure projects. “I’m thankful that my street is one of the streets that is being repaired this year, but there are many other streets in need of repair,” he said. “With the people on council right now, I believe we can do it, and I’d like to be part of that.” Above all, Wainscott said his goal is to raise people from dependency to independent and self-sustained living. “I believe that working with city and on council, I can be better equipped to reach out and help the people that need it,” he said.

only part of the The Salvation Army’s involvement in the Hillsdale community. The Salvation Army of Hillsdale, Michigan, runs a food pantry, family ministry, and a church. Store Manager Dottie Dendy said the income from the store helps to raise money for Sal Val’s other programs. “The money that we raise

make sure there is something for everybody.” A plethora of Hillsdale students benefit from those low prices. Senior Samuel Potter says his entire wardrobe other than pants and shoes have been purchased from Sal Val. “In Hillsdale, there aren’t any places to shop for clothing,” Potter said. “I also really

but we get them in donations. Those all go to the Adrian Women’s Prison. We try to make use of everything that we possibly can.” Other items donated at the Hillsdale store find themselves shipped to the other side of the world. Those donations deemed to be unsuitable for resale are bailed and sent to the distribution center in Gaylord. “It all goes to Africa,” Dendy said. “You think of it as just a little rinky dink store, but when you get the whole thing, it’s a big corporation.” Many Sal Val employees said they love working at the Family Store, and the 12 or so employees have become a tight knit group. “Everybody is friendly,” employee Tammi Lemar said. “We all get along well. We’ve become a lot like a family, really.” Sue Shearer said she sees her employment at the store as a helping hand to those in need. “God says help your neighbor,” Shearer said. “To me that’s what this store is doing. It’s helping the people in need, the neighbors. It’s just helping somebody you really don’t know. It makes you feel good inside to do that.”

“I believe that working with the city and on council, I can be better equipped to reach out and help the people that need it.” creased open to new businesses like Meijer, and continued focus on fixing the city’s roads and infrastructure. Wainscott is also planning to file the petition later this week. Like Jansen, Wainscott

Salvation Army Store clothes local community, wardrobes thrifty students By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter

The backroom of the The Salvation Army Family Store and Donation Center is jampacked full of books, clothing, accessories, furniture, and a variety of odds-and-ends. Country radio plays on the speakers as red-polo clad employees sort and price each item. The members of the 12-person staff have their own designated jobs, Sue Shearer handles accessories, Delores Carscadden prices clothing, Beka Herzog runs the front cash register. Together they stay true to the Salvation Army’s mission: to evangelize. Founded in London in 1865, The Salvation Army has been present in Hillsdale County since 1886. Throughout all its programs, it strives to be an international movement and an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. According to the organization’s mission statement, its “ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.” The Family Store and Donation Center constitutes

“To me that’s what this store is doing. It’s helping the people in need, the neighbors. It’s just helping somebody you don’t really know. It makes you feel good inside to do that.” stays here in the county,” Dendy said. “Which is kind of nice because people donate trying to help their neighbors and then, in some places, the money will go to California. Here it doesn’t. It stays in our county.” The store also aims to provide clothing and necessities for those at every income level. “We have beautiful designer things that are priced higher,” Dendy said. “We have a lot of things that for $5 you could come in and buy an entire outfit. So we try to

like used stores. Sal Val is really cheap which is great for college students as well. This one is an especially cheap Salvation Army. I can go in and get as many clothes as I want.” The store can keep prices at a minimum as all merchandise is donated. While some items cannot be sold in the store, the employees try to find a way to make use of everything. “People will donate prescription eyeglasses,” Dendy said. “We save those all up and send them to the Lions Club. We don’t sell magazines,

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Old Carolina: a trip to Pinehurst Golf takes 10th at SVSU Invite By | Ryan Goff Collegian Reporter

While some students headed to Florida for spring break in search of good weather, the Hillsdale golf team headed to North Carolina to play at one of the most historic golf courses in the country. Founded in 1895, Pinehurst Resort is home to nine golf courses; most famous among them is No. 2, the three-time host of the US Open and onetime host of the PGA Championship. The team spent five days playing the different courses of Pinehurst and nearby Mid Pines Golf Club to gear up for the season. Junior Andrew Grayson noticed good things from the team during the week. “Everyone improved throughout the week and I think there are signs of a promising spring ahead of us,” Grayson said.

Under the Carolina sun, the team found great opportunities to improve by playing one of golf ’s best and hardest courses: Pinehurst No. 2. The course was designed by legendary course architect Donald Ross who also designed the other player-favorite, Mid Pines, and features the local terrain of the Sandhills region of North Carolina from tee to green. “The course is very rugged and full of sand and scrub grass once you’re off of the fairways,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist said. As far as playability, the unique rough posed less than half of the challenge to the players according to sophomore Sutton Dunwoodie. Approach shots would roll right off of the green just like they did during the 2014 US Open, the last year the course hosted the event. “Tee to green, it isn’t really that challenging, but then it

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Sophomore Sutton Dunwoodie at Pinehurst over spring break. John Quint | Courtesy

gets brutal around the greens,” Dunwoodie said, “When you hit a green and it rolls off, it was tough to get mad because you think, ‘Wow. That’s what’s supposed to hap-

Charger golfers and staff at Pinehurst Resort, four-time host of a PGA major tournament. John Quint | Courtesy

Baseball from A10 bottom of the sixth, Toth left three runners stranded again in the seventh to seal the afternoon sweep. When the Davis & Elkins Senators (4-17, 0-4 G-MAC) came to Simpson Field on Sunday, they scored the very first run of game one. Eight innings later the Chargers walked off the field with a single-game Hillsdale record 24 runs, thanks to 23 hits spread out over 12 different hitters. Sophomore Dante Toppi and Ring each drove in four runs, while junior Kevin Monson, senior Ryan O’Hearn, and Walts all tacked on two. Eight Chargers drove in one run on the way to a 24-13 win. Sophomore Andrew Verbrugge started the game from Hillsdale, allowing four earned runs over 5 1/3 innings while striking out five. “The offense never let up,” Ring said. “It was cool to see every single guy that got in there compete, get good hits, and play good defense… It’s a team sport and you need every guy doing their part.” Game two against the Senators took a different pace. Davis & Elkins opened the scoring in the top of the first, but sophomore Kolton Rominski settled in, allowing no more runs and only one hit

in his next six innings of work. While Rominski said it was great to provide such a strong performance for the team, he passed most of the credit on. “[Assistant coach Gordie Theisen] called a great game and gave me a great game plan,” he said. “The defense played really well behind me and so all I had to do was throw strikes and let them hit it to them.” Although the Chargers were scoreless over the first four innings, a four spot in the fifth on a Ring double and Crick single gave the Chargers the 4-1 lead, which would be the final, finishing the second sweep of the weekend. “I think it’s a good confidence booster to get everybody back on track,” Rominski said. “We played really good teams leading up to conference play and we just needed something to push us over that edge.” While several Chargers had big weekends, Ring stood out, earning the G-MAC North Division Player of the Week Award. He blasted three home runs — moving into second all-time for career home runs at Hillsdale — drove in nine, and slugged 1.437 on the weekend. “It's always an honor to win an award, but I’m just happy we won four games this

weekend,” Ring said. “If we went 4-0 and I hit .200 I would be just as happy. The most important thing right now for us is to win games and win championships.” Other Chargers were less humble in talking about Ring’s weekend. “He was hitting pretty well before that, but in the four weeks before that he had multiple fly balls to the warning track with the wind blowing in,” Rominski said. “He is an All-American, a great player, and it’s awesome for him to be on my team so I don’t have to

pen at Pinehurst.’” This aspect demanded precision from the golfers both with approaches and chips onto the green, according to Gilchrist. “The most difficult part of the golf course is the green complexes,” Gilchrist said, “The demand for No. 2 is getting and keeping the ball on the putting surface.” By playing demanding courses like Pinehurst No. 2 and Mid Pines, the players were able to sharpen important aspects of their games in preparation for their most recent tournament in Kentucky last weekend and the rest of the tournaments this spring. Even more, the team was able to have fun while they were at it. “Pinehurst is the ultimate buddies trip destination, allowing us to play a new course every day and get in as many rounds as we can before the season begins,” Dunwoodie said. pitch to him… He is a leader on the team.” With G-MAC momentum on their side, the Chargers prepare to host the Trevecca Nazarene Trojans (12-10, 3-1 G-MAC) and the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers (12-9, 2-2 G-MAC). Doubleheaders will start at 1 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday. “We’ve got two of probably the best teams in the South Division coming to town this weekend, so it was huge to get off on a good foot, but we have to take of business this weekend, too,” Theisen said.

Junior Steven Ring earned G-MAC North Division Player of the Week this week. Trish Verbrugge | Courtesy

The Hillsdale golf team traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, to play in the Saginaw Valley State University Spring Invitational at the Kearney Hill Golf Links over the weekend. It placed 10th with a team score of 589, 19 strokes off the winning 570 shot by the host team, SVSU. Senior Liam Purslowe started strong with a four-under 68 on Friday and finished the tournament with a three-under 141, his career low over 36 holes. The low finish was an exciting takeaway from the tournament, but it didn’t come as a surprise to his teammates. “He can go low like that every week,” sophomore Sutton Dunwoodie said. “A lot of guys on the team can. It’s just nice to see someone do it.” For Purslowe, it was important to get a quick start in the first event of the spring. “Only being three back of the leader and having a career-low 36-hole tournament was a real confidence boost for the spring,” Purslowe said. “I hit the ball solid, but I just didn’t make the putts that I needed to in the second round to have a chance of winning.” The Chargers followed in order: junior Andy Grayson (+3), senior Joe Torres (+5), senior Steve Sartore (+10), and sophomore Sutton Dunwoodie (+11). Despite the

overall finish, the team took away several positives as they gear up for a tournament next Monday and Tuesday back in Kentucky. “I feel confident about what we need to achieve as a team in the coming weeks,” Purslowe said. “The guys have been working hard and hopefully that hard work will be reflected in our scores.” Torres said he sees room for improvement, hoping to see a strong bounce back after an underwhelming opening. “Forthe next tournament, we’ve been preparing all week and are going a day earlier to better prepare. We’re feeling very confident with our team. Having played the course last year, we have some experience here. It’s very important for us to have a good showing this week, which would most likely be a top 3 finish,” Torres said. Purslowe will be missing the next tournament, so most of the scoring burden will be spread to the other members. “It will be exciting to see how the team progresses. Without Liam, we’ll have different guys stepping up, and it will be interesting to see who goes low this week,” Dunwoodie said. “The course will be a lot harder. I think it’s a better course than the one we played at last week, so it should be a good challenge.”

Tharp finishes second in national Coach of the Year voting after tournament berth By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Head basketball coach John Tharp finished in second place for the Fan’s Choice Division II Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year award by Hero Sports. Tharp received 34 percent of the votes, losing first place to Bart Lundy from Queen’s University of Charlotte by just 28 votes, which amounted to less than half of a percentage point. Tharp lead the Chargers to 21-10 record in the 2017-18 season, which ended with a berth to the NCAA tournament — Hillsdale’s first since 2012 According to members of Tharp’s team, it’s Tharp’s action both on and off of the court which make him a great coach. “I really like Coach Tharp. He’s very intense, but he’s good at being a friend,” junior forward Gordon Behr said. “He pushes the idea that

we’re like a family away from home.” Tharp has coached at Hillsdale College for 11 years. He previously coached at Lawrence University for 13 years and played as a point guard for Beloit College. He said one of his goals as a coach is to “make the players the very best player and very best young men we can make them.” Junior forward Nick Czarnowski said Tharp is someone who genuinely cares about the athletes he coaches. “He’s continually pushing me,” Czarnowski said. “He’s put in a lot of time with me. He cares about his players.” According to Tharp, the family-like atmosphere of the team is part of what make the Charger program special. “It’s a very close-knit group of people,” Tharp said. “It’s the idea that we’re here for each other not only for the four years at Hillsdale, but the rest of our lives.”

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Women’s tennis sweeps Ashland for 9-0 victory By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief A shutout win against Ashland University on Saturday puts the Hillsdale College women’s tennis team at 4-4 prior to conference matches. After playing some of the toughest Division II competition in Florida, the Chargers competed at home for the first time this season and defeated the 8-14 Eagles 9-0 in the Biermann Athletics Center for the nonconference match. Hillsdale topped its performance from fall 2016, when it defeated Ashland 8-1. “It’s nice to have that early win, and it’s nice that everyone won,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. “It was definitely a good day, and it was a dominating performance.” Walbright said the whole team had strong performances on Saturday. Junior Julia Formentin recorded her most overwhelming win of her college career, defeating Ashland junior Chelsea Myers at No. 6 singles 6-0, 6-0. “The match was more dif-

ficult than the score reflected, so being able to do that and having such a big win boosted my confidence heading into conference matches,” Formentin said. In doubles, the Chargers took an early lead against the Eagles. At No. 2, freshman Hannah Cimpeanu and junior Halle Hyman joined for a shutout 8-0 victory against junior Natalie Keron and freshman Hazuki Ogino. Hillsdale junior Madeline Bissett and sophomore Kamryn Matthews defeated senior Elizabeth Kidd and Myers 8-1 at No. 3. Sophomore Katie Bell and junior Corinne Prost faced slightly more competition on the court, but still overcame their freshmen opponents 8-4 at No. 1 doubles. “We were coming off of playing some of the best teams in the country in Florida and adjusting back to indoor courts and to different styles and levels of play is always challenging,” Bissett said. “Ashland is a very gritty team and not always the

Junior Corinne Prost (pictured) teamed up with sophomore Katie Bell for a doubles win this weekend. Breana Noble | Collegian

easiest to play, so I was very proud of our entire lineup. Sweeping doubles always helps to set the tone for the match and gives us confi-

dence going into singles.” The victories kept coming, as the Chargers stayed energetic throughout the afternoon, Walbright said.

Football nears Liftathon goal By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College football team held its 38th annual Charger Liftathon on Sunday, raising more than $22,000 so far. Players received either fixed donations from sponsors or a dollar-per-pound pledge based on the weight they lifted at the Liftathon. Even after the event, Team 126 is still raising money for the fundraiser. The team hopes to hit it’s goal of $25,000 with the two remaining days of the campaign. Head coach

Keith Otterbein said the funds will go toward general football operations, including team travel, equipment, and recruiting. Junior offensive lineman Drew Callahan won the award for the greatest overall lift, hang-cleaning 360 pounds. Each player was required to max out on their hang clean. The program record is 425 pounds, achieved by current Arizona Cardinals left tackle Jared Veldheer ‘09. Donors have until midnight Friday to participate in the fundraiser. To do so, they can search “Hillsdale College”

on www.givecampus.com and will find “The Annual Charger Liftathon” with links to donate. “Gifts to the football team during the Liftathon will help in continuing to run a first-class Division II football program in every way, and allow the players to focus on their studies and the game,” the website reads. Once the campaign ends, the team will head out to the practice field for its first padded practices of the spring. “This marks the end of the winter program and starts us into spring ball,” junior quar-

Formentin agreed: “I was the last match being played, but the whole team was right next to me, supporting me and cheering for me, which helped a lot and definitely contributed to my success.” At No. 5 singles, Bissett continued her string of strong performances, winning 6-1, 6-0, while her doubles partner Matthews followed closely behind at No. 4 singles, winning 6-1, 6-1. “Having two seasons under my belt has taught me a lot,” Bissett said. “I love to dig my heels in and compete. Our team always jokes that I’m always the last one on court and have the longest matches, but it usually does end up happening like that. My matches are always a grind, whether I’m winning or losing. Even if I’m down by a set or several games, I will stay out there as long as I can and fight for it.” Bell defeated freshman Camille Ragnot 6-0, 6-3 at No. 1 singles. Hyman and Prost found victory in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots respectively with matching scores of 6-1, 6-2.

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the match more relaxing than past matches. “Walsh is a team that was favored right behind us to be terback Chance Stewart said. The Chargers went 7-4 last the No. 1 team in the conseason and 5-2 in the G-MAC. ference and we thought they were going to be our main The team returns many of its competition coming into the impact and award-receiving players from the previous year conference, so we were ready for the coming season. Its 7-4 to play,” Turner said. Delp said deeper players record was the program’s best made the Chargers more consince 2012. fident on the court. “The players have worked “We only lost matches in hard in the offseason,” Otthird sets in singles,” Delp terbein said. “Spring practice will be important to get some said. “Milan played a really tough kid and lost 10-8 in the young players much-needthird. (sophomore) Michael ed snaps and experience in Szabo competed really well. our offensive and defensive Justin was down in the second schemes.” set and had a really great comeback to close out that match. It was really nice to bounce back for he and I after our Tiffan losses that were devastating.” Ciraci said the Chargers showed up ready to play in their first conference match. Ohio Dominican University, “Walsh is one of those Ursuline College, and Walsh stronger teams in the G-MAC, University. Abraham said he’s looking forward to the oppor- and we knew we had to play well to solidify us as the top tunity to compete in the new team in the conference,” Ciraconference. ci said. “It was a good win. We “Going into the G-MAC, got off to a really good start we’re finally matched up at 3-0 doubles and we really against schools with similar pushed their backs against resources to our program, so it gives us more of a fair shot,” the wall. They weren’t able to come back.” Abraham said. “You can’t ask The Chargers blanked Dafor much more as a coach vis & Elkins University 9-0 on than to be put on somewhat Sunday evening at Ridgeview equal footing with your oppoRacquet Club in Morgantown, nents.” Junior Katie Kish said she’s West Virginia. Hillsdale outplayed the optimistic for the season after Senators 24-4 in doubles play. facing strong competition Mirkovic won No. 1 sinin Florida and having the gles, 6-2, 6-2. Adams was a opportunity to practice on a No. 2 winner, 3-0, retired. field. Hyman took a 6-2, 6-2, No. “I think we’re going to be 3 singles win. Delp played five really good this season,” Kish said. “By the end of that week, sets to win No. 4 singles, 6-7, 4-7, 6-1, 1-0, 10-4. Szabo won we were playing so well toat No. 5 singles, 6-1, 6-0. Katz gether that we’re going to be finalized the shutout with a hard to beat if we’re playing No. 6 singles victory 6-0, 6-1. as a team. We’re all just really “They were much stronger excited and have high hopes last year. It was a pretty easy for the season.” match for us,” Turner said.

G-MAC era arrives for softball By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor The Hillsdale College softball team will play its first games in the G-MAC against Trevecca Nazarene and Kentucky Wesleyan this coming weekend, beginning the season with two strong opponents. “We start off this weekend with four games against two of the best teams in the league,” head coach Joe Abraham said. “These are teams we could beat or they could beat us. These games could go either way.” Kentucky Wesleyan, the defending G-MAC champions, were the first to unseat Trevecca Nazarene as the tournament champions since the G-MAC’s inception in 2011. Hillsdale has played both teams previously as a part of the non-conference season. In the time since the Chargers returned from Florida 6-6 on the season, Abraham

said the team has spent the week preparing for conference play and improving short-game defense, offensive mindset, and situational hitting.

poll, with Kentucky Wesleyan predicted for first and Cedarville University predicted for second. "I think that we are going into it with the mentality that

“...we’re going to be hard to beat if we’re playing as a team. We’re all just really excited and have high hopes for the season.” Currently, Kish and junior second baseman Amanda Marra are ranked second and third in the G-MAC for batting, averaging .500 and .486 respectively. Kish also commented on the strength of the team’s pitching staff. Hillsdale polled third in the G-MAC in the preseason

we're expecting to get some wins,” senior third baseman Kelsey Gockman said. “We think that we can definitely be a very dominant team.” Even in the new conference, the Chargers will face many familiar teams formerly in the GLIAC, including Findlay University, Lake Erie College, Malone University,

Hillsdale is scheduled to face Detroit-based former GLIAC rival Wayne State University at 4 p.m. on Friday at home. WSU is 14-5 this season. “It’ll be one of the hardest matches we play this spring,” Walbright said. “We need a lot of confidence going in.” On Sunday, women’s tennis returns to conference play for the first time since fall 2016 and for the first time in the G-MAC. It faces Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Walbright said she wants to see the team enter G-MAC matches with confidence and play its own game without overthinking it. To say the least, the Chargers, whom G-MAC coaches ranked No. 1 in the conference, said they are anxious to start. “We have been talking about this day for months now,” Bissett said, “so to finally be able to get out there and leave our first impression on the new conference is really exciting.” The Chargers rolled over Findlay University 8-1 on the road on Tuesday. Hillsdale swept doubles for the second straight match and took home five singles wins. Adams and Hyman won No. 1 singles, 8-5. Ciraci teamed up with Delp for an 8-2 No. 2 doubles victory. Clouette and Mirkovic pitched an 8-6 No. 3 doubles win. Mirkovic won No. 1 singles 6-1, 6-0. Adams was a No. 2 singles winner, 6-3. 6-2. Delp won No. 4 singles 1-6, 6-1, 6-2. Szabo was a No. 5 singles winner, 6-4, 6-4 and Ciraci finished No. 6 singles, 6-1, 6-1. “We were surprised when Findlay beat Walsh a few days earlier,” Turner said. “We saw that and we were pretty fired up and ready to play the match. We came out and played great doubles again and played one of the best overall matches that we have played all year.” Ciraci said the match was closer than the rest. “We had some closer doubles matches but we’ve been playing pretty well recently and that showed when we beat them pretty handily,” Ciraci said. Turner said the 3-0 run felt good, but he expects teams to return with a vengeance. “It feels good, but we have to play Walsh and Findlay in the regular season so it doesn’t mean a whole lot right now, to be honest,” Turner said. “I’m sure both teams learned a little bit about us. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they make some minor adjustments and the matches are a little bit closer next time around.” “I was very happy with how we played during a tough stretch there where we had three road conference matches in four days,” Turner said. The Chargers will face Cedarville University at 12 p.m. on Saturday in the Biermann Athletic Center.

Charger Chatter: Will Kruse them after each game. I eat the same thing before games, and on the mound I do the same thing. I turn around look to the outfield, tuck my glove under arm, and tug on my jersey two times. Baseball is superstitious. I have my rituals and comfortable ticks. What do you do to calm yourself before a game or unwind after?

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Will Kruse is a senior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He is a starting pitcher on the baseball team and is studying biochemistry.

Do you have any superstitions or rituals before a game? I wear the same undershirt and compression socks, but I wash

I really focus on breathing or on a focal point. I don’t yell and I’ll try not to get too high or too low. Baseball is a very individual team game. I could make the best pitch or the worst pitch, and somebody could make a good or bad play behind me. I try to do what I can do, but a lot of it is out of my hands. What has baseball taught you? Teamwork and leadership. I’ve been a captain for the past two years, and you learn stuff there that you would never learn in other aspects of life. You need to rely on people and it teaches you how to deal with failure, but it’s also one of

the most fun things you’ll do.

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What has Hillsdale taught you?

As much as it pains me to say, the New York Yankees or the Houston Astros. They both made good trade moves. Houston won last year and didn’t lose anyone. The Yankees can get anyone they want.

The people I’ve met, not the lessons that I’ve learned. Meeting people and making relationships is something you can never get back. Where else do you get to live in a house with your best friends and play baseball? What is your opinion about baseball not being an olympic sport? We have the World Baseball Classic which is just as fun. It really doesn’t bother me personally. Do you prefer the American or National League overall? And who is your favorite team? The American League is my favorite because of the designated hitter. The Detroit Tigers are American League and they are my favorite. Who’s winning the next World

I’ve never had baseball injuries. I dislocated my left shoulder playing football but played the next week. I've been very lucky and I've always been careful with my arm. What is your favorite walk up song?

You have $500. What extravagant piece of equipment are you buying?

Last year my walk up song was Left Hand Free by alt-J, and this year it’s Feel It Still by Portugal the Man.

A dope glove. That’s all pitchers really use. I like having a DH. A lot of pitchers don’t like it but I do because we don’t have to bat.

If you could tell one thing to yourself when you first started baseball what would it be?

If you could be one MLB player who would you be? Max Scherzer. He’s my favorite player and a good competitor. He used to play for the Tigers. He won the Cy Young Award and is all around just really good. Have you ever been injured? What was it and how did you overcome it?

Have confidence. Expect to win and have a drive and be the best you can be. Don’t be passive. There’s a big thing in pitching: never throw something you don’t think you can throw. Trust your stuff and trust your preparation, don’t just throw stuff to throw stuff. Baseball is 90% mental. I wish little Will would know all of the mental aspects of baseball that I know now. -Compiled by Alexis Nester

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Women's tennis sweeps Ashland The women's tennis team hosted Ashland on Saturday, taking every single match, moving the team to 4-4 on the season. A9

Golf opens spring season at SVSU invite The Hillsdale College men's golf spring season started at Kearney Hill Golf Links this weekend where the Chargers took 10th. A8

The Chargers started their first season in the G-MAC with a perfect 4-0 weekend. Trish Verbrugge | Courtesy

BASEBALL OPENS G-MAC SEASON 4-0

By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor With snow still gathered in the shadows of foul-territory of Simpson Field, the Hillsdale College baseball team began its G-MAC era with doubleheader sweeps of both Alderson Broaddus University and Davis & Elkins College this weekend. “Everybody was excited to play at home,” head coach Eric Theisen said. “We’ve been on the road for four straight weeks… so it was good to break that up. We like playing at home, we like our field, we’re

comfortable here, and it was huge to get off on a good foot like that.” After facing an exceptionally tough nonconference schedule, the Chargers (7-13, 4-0 G-MAC) took out some tension on the Alderson Broaddus Battlers (3-12, 1-3 G-MAC) on Saturday. Hillsdale scored the first nine runs of game one, with six different Chargers recording an RBI, including a home run from junior Steven Ring. After the Battlers scored their lone run in the sixth, the Chargers tacked on six more runs — including another

home run from Ring and one from freshman James Krick — to bring the game to its 15-1 final. In all, six different Hillsdale players drove in at least one run, while Ring, Krick, sophomore Jake Hoover, and junior Colin Hites all drove in at least two. “It was good to finally see the offense start rolling,” Theisen said. “We’ve been putting together good at bats and putting good swings on balls for the last few weeks, so it was good to finally see the floodgates open a little bit.”

By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor When junior Anika Ellingson tucks earbuds under her swim cap and cranks up the volume on “Famous Last Words” by My Chemical Romance, her whole body goes into race mode. Ellingson breathes deeply as the punk-rock band blares in her ears. She mentally reviews her swim, thinking through her start, her pacing, her turns. Then she’s ready to do battle in the pool. It’s a routine Ellingson has methodically worked through at every swim meet the Chargers have competed at this season. She’s never abandoned the mental exercise, even when she traveled to Greensboro, North Carolina, where she broke her own school record in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Division II swimming and diving championships last weekend. Ellingson, the only Hillsdale swimmer to proceed to the

championships, swam both the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke. Her record-breaking time of 2:18.44 earned her 20th place in the 200, catapulting her 12 places beyond her finish last year. “I just wanted to break 2:19.00. I ripped into that race like I never have before,” Ellingson said. “I broke my school record by about a second.” As Ellingson emerged from the water and saw her time on the scoreboard, her fist shot up into the air. She said she was not as pleased, however, with the results of her 100 breaststroke. Ellingson finished the preliminary trial Friday morning with a time of 1:03.05 in 18th place, which did not allow her to proceed to the final that evening. “That was a little disappointing,” Ellingson said. “Let’s just say there were a couple tears during warm down that day. It definitely motivated me to do better on Saturday.” Ellingson’s experience in

the 100 breaststroke is exactly what makes the championship a difficult meet. “The challenge is that you are among the best and can be at your best and still miss placing in an event by under a half second,” Kirner said. Kirner said it’s particularly frustrating for swimmers who don’t qualify for the races and then realize their qualifying times would’ve placed compared to the final scores. “It’s very frustrating to know you are that good but not quite up to it in the morning performance,” he said. Both Kirner and Ellingson said Ellingson’s training for next year will focus on helping her achieve better times in the morning swims at big meets. “Anika has drive and determination and such a great feel for the water,” Kirner said. Next year, Kirner said he hopes Ellingson will return to the NCAA championship and place in both of her main events.

By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor

Mirkovic was named Player for the Week on Wednesday for his performance. Adams won No. 2 singles in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1. Hyman was a No. 3 singles winner, 6-2, 7-5. Delp won at No. 4

singles 6-4, 6-4. Ciraci won a long No. 6 singles match, 6-4, 4-6, 1-0, 10-7. Head coach Keith Turner said sweeping doubles made

Ellingson sets school record at national meet

Men’s tennis goes 3-0 in week one of G-MAC play The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team picked up three conference wins in the last week to improve its season record to 7-6 and G-MAC record to 3-0. The Chargers toppled the Walsh Cavaliers 7-2 at North Canton Racquet Club in Ohio on Saturday. Hillsdale swept doubles matches and then seized four singles matches. Junior Justin Hyman and sophomore Charlie Adams won No. 1 doubles, 8-3. Junior John Ciraci teamed up with senior captain Dugan Delp to take down No. 2 doubles, 8-3. Sophomore Milan Mirkovic and sophomore Julien Clouette seized No. 3 doubles, 8-2.

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Senior Dugan Delp and junior John Ciraci during a doubles match earlier this season. Scott McClallen | Collegian

With substantial offensive backing, senior Will Kruse dominated on the mound, tossing seven innings of four-hit ball, allowing only one earned run and striking out nine. Senior Matt Young finished the effort, striking out one in two innings of scoreless work. “[Kruse] is our workhorse, our ace, our captain, and you just know what you’re going to get out of him,” Theisen said. “You’re going to get 100 competitive pitches out of him and he is going to do the best he can to give us a chance to

win…. He sets the tone for the weekend, and so for him to go deep into game one sets our bullpen up for the weekend.” The Chargers opened the scoring in game two as well, jumping to a 3-1 lead after two innings, thanks to a home run from senior Alex Waltz and a single from Hites. When a strong outing from senior Phil Carey ended in the sixth — five innings, two runs, one earned, three strikeouts — freshman David Toth entered the game with the bases loaded, nobody out, and the score at 3-2. Toth induced a ground

ball to Hites at second, who made a strong play to force the runner at the plate. Toth then struck out a batter for the second out and forced a pop out to end the Battler threat. “Hites made a huge play on that ground ball to cut the guy off at home to get the first out and Toth got a big strikeout for the second out,” Theisen said. “That was probably the biggest inning defensively that we had all weekend.” After the Chargers tacked on two insurance runs in the

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A wrinkle in the plotline: Where the film forgot the novel By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor “A Wrinkle in Time,” it seems, is meant to be a book — and nothing more than that. Last month I warned fans in a Collegian review of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” that Disney’s movie adaptation would disappoint if it departed from the foundations of the book and swapped a story for a soapbox. When “Wrinkle” director Ava DuVernay’s film premiered March 9, the movie proved me right. All its razzle dazzle couldn’t compensate for the weak plot, underdeveloped themes, and severe didacticism that replaced the thrilling tale and powerful themes of the book. I don’t always find it helpful to assess a movie by comparing it to the novel or play or work that inspired it. But DuVernay’s “Wrinkle” didn’t just deviate from L’Engle’s book. It totally defiled it. DuVernay rushed L’Engle’s clear but dense plotline, skimping on important scenes to incorporate pointless montages that

showed off pretty visuals. The Christian themes upon which L’Engle built her novel were scrubbed from the film and replaced with empty sermons on self-love and self-confidence. Oprah Winfrey’s character, a celestial guardian, literally hangs in the sky as a shimmering, larger-than-life hologram as she tells the story’s heroine to stop doubting herself. The book, a staple in the canon of eighth and ninth grade literature, so often delights the adolescent students who make up the majority of its audience. And the story remains generally intact on the silver screen: A self-conscious middle school girl, Meg Murry mourns her father, who disappeared four years ago when he tessered (traveled through time and space to another world) and never returned. In her grief, Meg turns to belligerent behavior, and only her little brother, Charles Wallace Murry, can comfort her. Meg and Charles Wallace stumble into adventure with their friend Calvin after they meet the “Mrs.” — a group of celestial beings named Mrs.

Which (Oprah), Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon). The children and their guardians set out to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace’s father and defeat a being of supreme evil along the way. The plot suffered in the movie, however, because DuVernay focused so heavily on her special effects. The movie raced through scenes that needed to establish the story. The audience was left wondering why, for example, Dr. Murry (Chris Pine) left his family for an experimental and potentially fatal leap into another universe when he seemed to adore his wife and children. DuVernay left out L’Engle’s legwork, which explained that Dr. Murry and his wife decided he could embark on the government-led project, despite the risks. The movie also failed to address Charles Wallace’s intelligence. Actor Deric McCabe stumbled through Charles Wallace’s lines, which were far too complicated for a child actor. With such a performance, Charles Wallace came off as an incredibly obnoxious

know-it-all, rather than a sweet boy genius. When IT, the aforementioned being of supreme evil, possessed Charles Wallace, his suffering generated little sympathy, nor did it suffice to explain why Meg unleashed bravery unknown even to herself to save her little brother. The plot was not the movie’s only, or most epic, failing. Because DuVernay nixed the novel’s Christian elements, she couldn’t incorporate the novel’s dominant theme of self-sacrificial love. She instead pushed a message of self-love, which, of course, isn’t necessarily wrong. It just doesn’t make for a good story, especially since DuVernay didn’t sell the theme well. L’Engle carefully pieced together the idea of self-sacrifice before the motif exploded into the essence of the book at the plot’s climax. She threaded Bible verses into the speech of several of her characters — Mrs. Whatsit even recited Isaiah 42:10-12: “Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein;

the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice…let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord.” It’s no surprise, then, that Meg realizes she can rescue Charles Wallace from IT’s grasp by sacrificing her own life to secure his. DuVernay’s version isn’t as seamless. Meg struggles with self-doubt, the Mrs. teach her about self-confidence, and she then saves Charles Wallace because she believes in herself. Exactly how she manages to defeat the universe’s origin of evil (which had dominated an entire planet and inspired every bad thing that had ever happened on planet earth) is not addressed. Meg simply enters IT, somehow extracts Charles Wallace from his possessed state, and returns with him to the Murry’s backyard moments later. This poor presentation is perhaps why the movie’s major themes feel like didacticism. While L’Engle brilliantly conjured her book’s

raison d’etre from thoughtfully sequenced groundwork, DuVernay blasted her solution of self-love over and over and over. The Mrs. chastise poor Meg, crippled by an awkwardness inherent to her age, when she can’t believe in herself enough to perform the tasks she needs to do. Without this self-love, she couldn’t tesser or see into the future. But after enough pep talks from DuVernay’s favorite celebrities, she shone with confidence. It’s not a surprise that L’Engle’s Christianity didn’t make the final cut of “A Wrinkle in Time.” It is disappointing, however, that DuVernay had to butcher the story to make a movie that burst with stunning visuals, plot holes, and didacticism. Here’s some good news, though. Filmmakers have tried many times to make movie worthy of “A Wrinkle in Time.” They might try again. And hopefully, they’ll learn from DuVernay’s mistakes.

At Hillsdale Idol, students The boulevard bricklayer will sing to support the arts Why we still look, smile, and By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Performers will take the stage with Hillsdale Idol, Unplugged for a second year. The music competition is a fundraiser for the Hillsdale County School of the Arts, a nonprofit that provides opportunities for children in the Hillsdale area to experience music. “Hillsdale is a very poor county, and we don’t have a lot of resources,” said Professor of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter, who organized the event. “We don’t have a lot of opportunity for kids to have contact with string instruments.” The event raised $2,500 last year, according to Schlueter. The top three musicians from last year were invited to compete again this year, in addition to two other local musi-

cians. Auditions were held in January to fill the remaining three spots. “I wanted to make sure the group was really diverse,” Schlueter said. The new musicians competing this year are senior Jacob Coonradt, member of the student band The Wineboxes and high school senior Sydney Davis. Junior Isabelle Parrell placed second last year and will be playing again. Parrell said she plans to play “Royals” by Lorde, “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King, and “Dear Hate” by Maren Morris. “‘Dear Hate’ is kind of my life motto,” Parrell said. “The whole song is about how love is going to conquer hate, even if it doesn’t feel like it.” She said she is most excited to play “Dear Hate” because

she thinks it will move people emotionally. “That’s why I like being involved in music,” Parrell said. “Music is the art that brings out the most emotion in people.” Hillsdale Idol, Unplugged also provides a spot for amateur artists to perform, according to Schlueter. “Music is part of human culture, part of who we are, part of flourishing, in my opinion,” Schlueter said. “It’s important to not just be a consumer of music, but a maker of music.” Hillsdale Idol, Unplugged will start at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Johnny T’s Bistro. Tickets are available ahead of time for $10 or for $12 at the door, which will open at 7 p.m.

shudder at the films of Billy Wilder

By | Anne Ziegler Collegian Freelancer “A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard.” This is how Billy Wilder described his role in 1960, the year of “The Apartment,” for which he won three Academy Awards as not only director, but also producer and screenwriter. Anthony Lane from The New Yorker wrote of Wilder’s legacy, “Over and over, Wilder shows us mankind behaving badly, or using one another as props and pawns, or racing into follies from which there is no escape, and still, like sheep to the shearer, we come back for more.” Wilder’s unique, stylistic twist on the genre of film noir and unconventional themes made his films unprecedented in the cinematic world. Pushing the boundaries of acceptable subject material for film by exploring themes of adultery, alcoholism, and crime, Wilder produced some of the best films of Hollywood’s Golden Era. Wilder wrote a moving script for “The Lost Weekend,” which came out in 1945 and follows one man’s struggle with alcoholism. The alcoholic, Don, pleads for a drink, saying, “Let me have my little vicious circle. You know, the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning.” Don’s last words in the film are, “Out there in that big concrete jungle, I wonder how many others there are like me? Poor bedeviled guys on fire with thirst. Such comical figures, to the rest of the world, as they stagger towards another binge, another bender, another spree.” “Sunset Boulevard” tells the story of a retired movie star desperately trying to make her comeback, and a bankrupt screenwriter whose work won’t sell. When the two

become lovers, the screenwriter’s eventual infidelity leads to the movie star’s jealousy, insanity, and tragic end. Starring Hollywood’s icon Marilyn Monroe, “Some Like It Hot” premiered in 1959. The strong themes of sexual comedy, raucous humor, and cross-dressing completely violated the Motion Picture Billy Wilder coaxed Gloria Swanson out of reProduction tirement for “Sunset Boulevard.” Code, which Wikimedia Commons had been for almost 30 years. where the lines of a window “Some Like It Hot” led to the blind cast deep shadows on a eventual rejection of the code character’s face. in 1968 and the creation of Not only did Wilder write the MPAA film rating system, and direct movies, but he which is still used today. In collaborated with world-class 2009 the American Film Insti- Hollywood stars in order to tute named the film the best produce phenomenal perAmerican comedy ever made. formances. In fact, Wilder “Double Indemnity” is per- directed fourteen different haps Wilder’s darkest film. An actors in Oscar-nominating insurance salesman becomes performances. When working involved in a murder when with actors, Wilder’s method he falls in love with a woman was to consider the limitaintent on killing her husband tions of the actor and bend and living off of the fraudulent the script to those limitations, accidental death claim. As the rather than force the actors to two plot the murder, the mor- perform beyond their ability. al corruption of these characWilder coaxed Hollyters grows more disturbing. wood stars Gloria Swanson After they succeed in killing and Erich von Stroheim out him, the salesman’s depravity of retirement to perform in leads him to another violent “Sunset Boulevard.” Swanact. son would go on to win the The film is marked by a Golden Globe Award for best mood of pessimism, fatalism, actress. and menace. Wilder uses a Billy Wilder’s legacy is unique lighting system to evident from the mark his darken the film, casting shadmovies have made on the ows across faces, dark corners cinematic world. With their of rooms, and alleyways to bold, raucous themes and accentuate the mystery, crime, extraordinary actors, his films and depravity of the film. leave the viewer with both a He also uses a film noir style shudder and a smile. called Venetian blind lighting,

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The beat of their drums Percussion Ensemble performs Saturday

By | Theresa Smith Collegian Reporter When Junior Madison McAfee decided to begin drum lessons last year, she said she thought Stacey Jones-Garrison, teacher of music and director of the Percussion Ensemble, would say “no” because she had never taken lessons before. Instead, Jones-Garrison encouraged her not only to take lessons, but also to join Percussion Ensemble. “The fact that she made me do it was really helpful,” McAfee said. “I joined because she really wanted me to, and it helped a lot.” Now McAfee and the Percussion Ensemble will perform their concert, “Something old, new, borrowed, BLUE,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24 in Markel Auditorium. The concert will include an assortment of pieces arranged by Jones-Garrison, along with student soloists and a performance with the Tower Dancers. The main feature of the concert will be music from the Blue Man Group, an entertainment company that performs globally. In addition, the show will feature some arranged xylophone rags from the 1920s, body drumming, and an original piece written by the students to be performed on plastic buckets. McAfee said she is looking forward to the bucket piece. She said Jones-Garrison gave the students the plastic buckets, and the students collaborated to write the piece. “We made it,” said McAfee. “It’s not like memorizing notes, so I’m excited for that one.”

The Percussion Ensemble performs with Tower Dancers. Stacey Jones-Garrison | Courtesy

Jones-Garrison explained the Blue Man Group portion of the show will be not be a copy of one of their performances. “People need to know they won’t get paint splattered on them when they come to this concert,” Jones-Garrison said. “We’re paying tribute more to the musical aspects of the Blue Man Group.” She once worked with the Blue Man Group in Chicago to build a special percussion instrument out of PVC pipes called a tubulum. In 2016 she built her first tubulum, and then constructed two more over this school year’s Christmas break. “They actually sent me some parts. Special thanks to the Blue Man Group for helping with that,” Jones-Garrison said. Senior Nathan Steinmeyer, who has participated in Percussion Ensemble since his freshman year, said he is looking forward to his percussion solos during the concert.

“I personally think that this is the best selection of music that Stacey has picked for us yet,” Steinmeyer said. “This concert is going to be really cool. People are really going to enjoy it and really find it to be fascinating.” As a beginner, McAfee said it is challenging to play with more advanced percussionists like Steinmeyer. “It’s intimidating, but just really cool to watch them play,” she said. Steinmeyer said Jones-Garrison makes the varying levels of talent “work really well.” “She’s always known the right amount to give the students that if they really tried, they would be able to do it,” Steinmeyer said. McAfee said she would encourage students to join Percussion Ensemble because unlike other musical groups on campus, no audition is necessary. “I had zero experience the first year,” said McAfee. “So you can just do it.”

Aristotle for plebes It’s no ‘Nicomachean Ethics,’ but ‘The Good Place’ raises questions viewers should learn to answer

By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor Eleanor Shellstrop opens her eyes and finds herself in an unfamiliar waiting room. “Welcome!” reads the bright green text on the wall in front of her. “Everything is fine.” That may or may not be true. Eleanor soon learns that she has died and, thanks to her good deeds on Earth, ended up in the “Good Place,” where the good people go. The NBC comedy “The Good Place” concluded its second season in February. In 2016, it won the Critics’ Choice Television Awards for Most Exciting New Series, and was nominated for a number of other awards last year. Season one is available on Netflix, and both seasons are definitely worth binge-watching. “The Good Place” is charming and hilariously clever, and offers simple ethics lessons without dumbing down big concepts. It’s something all Hillsdale students can enjoy. In the first season, Eleanor — played by Kristen Bell — learns how to navigate life in the afterlife. “The Good Place” is filled with an inexplicable number of frozen yogurt shops, flying machines, and a sort of humanoid Siri. Everyone is given a soulmate and a dream house, and curse words are automatically replaced with similar, cleaner terms, like “holy shirt.” There’s just one problem: Eleanor doesn’t belong there. A computer system sorted her into the Good Place after she earned points based on selfless deeds that she didn’t actually do. Realizing that she has been mixed up with someone else, Eleanor confides in her assigned soulmate, ethics professor Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper). In an effort to help Eleanor learn to be a good person,

Chidi agrees to give her lessons in moral philosophy. Others later sit in on these lectures, which are filled with jokes a Hillsdale audience will surely appreciate. “Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?” Eleanor asks in frustration. “Plato,” Chidi replies. This is one of the show’s greatest charms. It makes ethics lessons funny without watering down complex concepts. In a lecture on John Stuart Mill, Chidi explains that according to utilitarianism, a morally correct choice involves that which causes the most good and least pain. He begins to explain that this could be used to justify bad actions when he is interrupted. A breakdancer named Jason, who is not exactly known for being an intellectual, describes an incident from his life with a woman named Sheila, who sold alligators on the black market. “Sheila was gonna get married to my boy, Donkey Doug, and make him move to Sarasota,” Jason says. “It would’ve broken up my whole breakdancing crew, and Donkey Doug was our best popand-locker. So I hid a bunch of stolen boogie boards in Sheila’s garage and called the cops. I framed one innocent gator dealer to save a 60-person dance crew.” “Shockingly, that is a relevant example of the utilitarian dilemma,” Chidi responds. Season one ends with an incredible twist that will leave you asking, as Eleanor often does, “What the fork?” In season two, ethics lessons with Chidi continue. Eleanor and her friends are forced to face moral dilemmas based on their lessons, including a real-life instance of the famous trolley problem. As Eleanor seeks to become her best self, she realizes that

moral improvement involves self-sacrifice, something she never thought about during her time on Earth. In fact, through flashbacks, viewers glimpse Eleanor’s past as a selfish and deceitful saleswoman who screams at environmental activists and uses a friend’s humiliation for financial gain. In the season finale, Eleanor asks herself an important question: What do we owe to each other? For now, the show doesn’t have an answer, except that people do, in fact, seem to owe something to each other. Luckily, “The Good Place” was renewed for a third season, which will presumably explore some solutions. As with many fantasy shows, enjoying “The Good Place” requires a sort of suspension of disbelief, in which viewers are better off ignoring their own theological convictions to appreciate the universe of the show. But that can be hard to do when characters ask moral questions that the show may not be able to answer. “The Good Place” introduces an eternal judge, who is, so far, the closest thing to a god. But without an actual, holy, creator, God-like character, it’s difficult to know how Eleanor can determine what she does owe to her fellow humans. Does the world of “The Good Place” have a source of morality? Is there a creator in whose image humans are created, or a command to love one’s neighbor? We don’t know yet. Nonetheless, “The Good Place” will have viewers laughing as they learn moral philosophy alongside Eleanor and Chidi. Even when everything is certainly not fine, “The Good Place” offers a charming look at some of life’s biggest questions.

Students independently produce G.K. Chesterton’s ‘The Surprise’ with ‘frothy fun, whimsical wit’

By | JoAnna Kroeker Features Editor Surprise! It’s a play not put on by theater students. Sword fights, falling in love all of a sudden, and an unexpected ending: G.K. Chesterton’s play “The Surprise” has all the elements to delight audiences and make them think. Independent students will present “The Surprise” this weekend in Mauck Dormitory. Showings of the 80-minute play are Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. It’s the story of an author who struggles with the fact that he has created characters, whom he loves, but is frustrated that they cannot be autonomous. “I think it’s neat that it’s not a theater department show, or Shakespeare in the Arb, because that shows some drive right there,” stage manager junior Tova Forman said. “It’s unlikely.” The germ of the idea was freshman Seth Winter’s, the vice president of the G.K. Chesterton Society. Over Christmas Break, he considered putting on the play since his schedule was not too heavy. But Winter is the ideas man, and he said he is grateful that Forman and junior Rebecca Carlson, who plays Princess Christina, came on board to actualize the play, from stage-managing to gathering costumes. Getting the actors together was a piecemeal process that happened primarily through word-of-mouth. Seven actors comprise the cast, with junior Karen Fuchs on trumpet, Forman as stage manager, and help from senior Nikolai Dignoti. The play has a range of students: four freshmen, a sophomore, and two juniors. “We’ve got some quirky-ina-good-way people,” Winter said. “All of us are really quirky people.” Quirky people for quirky, Chestertonian characters. “Chesterton is such a fantastic writer, so to hear his voice through all the characters is a fun time,” freshman Gabriel Meyers, who plays Oliver Olivarez said. Winter said the ending is off-the-wall and will leave people wondering, what happened? At first, Forman, who was reading a Google Books preview with pages missing,

Freshmen Gabriel Meyers and Seth Winter practice “The Surprise.” JoAnna Kroeker | Collegian

said she wasn’t sure if she actually reached the end or if Google had lifted out another page. Carlson had a similar experience. “I read it for the first time at the read-through with the cast, and I read it and said, ‘Oh, that changes things!’ I’ll have to go back and reread the beginning now,” Carlson said. “But I think it makes sense.” Forman said the story’s confusion can be endearing. “I love and hate Chesterton’s works because they confuse me, which is quite good,” Forman said. “If he confuses me, he often does so to put me in my place, which is relaxing, because I keep on trying to understand everything about the humor, and then he confuses me, and I appreciate that.” Forman said that given the other things cast members need to memorize and no credits incentivizing them, the question arises: “Why on earth did we put it on?” Her answer is that it’s for their love of Chesterton, and with a fun and energetic group. As it’s a play about artistry that involves putting artistry in, it also makes her think about what she’s doing. “I’m kind of shocked that we tried to do this, but it’s coming together and I think it’s so neat that we’re doing this without the theater department or any credit,” Forman said. Carlson works for the theater department, spending a lot of time there. She

said that she and the theater department agree that there should be as much theater on campus as humanly possible — so long as it doesn’t cause conflicts. For “The Surprise,” that meant scheduling rehearsals that weren’t at the same time as the “The Italian Straw Hat,” in which fellow cast-member Gabriel Meyers has a role, or Tower Dancers, which Carlson stage directed. According to Forman, Chesterton can balance humor and profundity: “He’s very good at being serious and funny at the same time, because they’re not opposites for him.” “The Surprise” has philosophical themes for the philosophically inclined, and, as Forman put it, “frothy fun, whimsical wit” for those who wish to be delighted by imaginative love stories, sword fights, and word play in a medieval setting. The themes presented in the play even fit the religious themes of this weekend: Palm Sunday. Forman, still chewing on the ending, said that she would love to talk about the play afterward. “Theater, music, and art exhibits, and all of those sorts things that are, strictly speaking, optional unless you’re in a particular class, are really worthwhile,” Carlson said, “even though they take time away from homework and ‘serious academic disciplines.’” The event is not ticketed, and first come, first seated.

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‘Aslan or Gandalf?’ Students fill Mossey Madness brackets

By | Alexis Daniels Collegian Freelancer Amid the hushed voices and page-flipping in Mossey Library, students passing by a white board covered in different handwriting stop and read the answers to the question, “What is the hardest choice in the 1st round of Mossey Madness?” The board gave them a choice: participate or laugh and keep walking. The board is an indicator of the library’s fourth annual tournament of Mossey Madness, a friendly competition based off the NCAA’s March Madness. Its creator, Public Services Librarian Brenna Wade, said she wanted to bring in the March Madness fun with a twist – literature competitions. “March Madness is the basketball tournament, and people fill out their brackets ahead of time, trying to guess which team is going to win the whole thing,” Wade said. “It’s a really big deal. We play off of that with library-type things.” When Mossey Madness at the Mossey Library was conceived as an idea four years ago, Wade had no idea what she was doing. “I’d seen someone do a book bracket before and I

thought it was interesting,” she said. “It had kind of come up amongst some of our student workers that it was something worth pursuing but we just weren’t sure how we were going to do it because it’s kind of involved.” Once the college subscribed to the qualtric server software, Wade knew that she could pull it off. She began sending out the link that would direct participants to the voting site and began receiving support. “They told me, ‘Oh start small, don’t do a full bracket, it’s going to be way too hard,’” Wade said. “And I was like, I can’t! I do it all the way or not at all.” The small event ended up being popular among Hillsdale students, and it has evolved over the years in efficiency, creativity, and participation. Elyssa Warren, a sophomore and two-year participant in the event, said, “I like it. It’s kind of fun. It’s also really funny to see what people vote for.” The literature topic changes each year. In the first year, books were pitted against each other, and in the second year, it was authors. Last year, Wade pitted plays against movies, and this year, it is protagonists

versus antagonists. The brackets this year were submitted by March 2, and the second voting deadline was Wednesday. There are six rounds, and brackets will be declared on April 4. The most memorable year that Wade could recall was the author’s year in 2016. “William Wordsworth beat out William Shakespeare,” she said with a laugh, “and I was really upset. Wordsworth is fine, but I mean, it’s Wordsworth. He’s just not that great.” So far, Mossey Madness has been a success as well as an opportunity to take a break from studying and voice opinions about who should win out on the first round of the protagonists — Aslan or Gandalf? It has gotten the students more involved in the library as well. “It’s really fun as someone who works at the library,” said senior Therese Burgess, “just to see people get excited about books and about being in the library.” Wade agreed, saying that the first year was the most difficult. “It’s hard,” she said. “It’s always going to be hard. But that’s what makes it fun.”

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Michigan within possible area of spacecraft re-entry

A circuit board. Hillsdale profesors discussed how technology affects humans’ views of each other at a Lyceum forum on Friday. Pexels

Tiangong-1 will fall from orbit, but experts say risk of danger from falling debris is low By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor Southern Michigan is in one of two narrow latitudinal bands where any remnants of the Tiangong-1 spacecraft might land when they re-enter the atmosphere, although most of it is expected to burn up upon re-entry. The spacecraft is now projected to fall sometime between March 30 and April 8, according to the European Space Agency. The Tiangong-1, an 8.5-ton Chinese space station containing corrosive fuels, was launched in 2011 and finished its mission in 2016. Soon after

No re-entry can be 100 percent controlled, but Dolch said the Tiangong-1’s re-entry is considered less planned than usual. The spacecraft is incable of velocity boosts to increase its orbiting speed. The Tiangong-1’s low orbit is close enough to Earth’s outer atmosphere that the drag from the atmosphere gradually weakens the spacecraft’s orbit. After years in low-earth orbit, the spacecraft must eventually spiral down and crash. Because of this reality, things that are in low-earth orbit receive velocity boosts and occasional corrections to

depends upon where it is in its orbit. There have been many other examples of such events with improbable, but severe potential risks, Dolch said. In 1997, the Cassini–Huygens mission was launched, and it ultimately burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere in September 2017 in an event referred to as “the grand finale.” Dolch said the Cassini-Huygens launch was considered controversial because of a small chance that radioactive material could rain down over Florida. “There was something like a 99.9 percent chance it wouldn’t happen,” Dolch said.

“The fact that there’s still some fuel in the tanks may make the re-entry safer because once those explode, the station will be obliterated into smaller pieces. The more small pieces you have, the easier it is for those small pieces to burn up.” that, scientists lost control of the station and initially expected it to fall from the sky in late 2017, according to the Chinese space agency. The general concern about the presence of corrosive fuel remaining at the time when any remaining chunks land on the ground is low, according to Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch. “The fact that there’s still some fuel in the tanks may make the re-entry safer because once those explode, the station will be obliterated into smaller piece,” Dolch said. “The more small pieces you have, the easier it is for those small pieces to burn up.”

their orbits, which is why the space station had a fuel tank on it. The Tiangong-1’s ability to make these corrections, however, malfunctioned at some point, according to reports from the Chinese space agency. Although this malfunction makes the Tiangong-1’s re-entry less controlled, Dolch said it should not be too dangerous. “It’s nothing to get an insurance policy over,” Dolch said. Dolch said the Tiangong-1 could re-enter any time over the next few months, but the exact location of re-entry

“I think the Cassini example was far more risky than this. So that’s how I look at it.” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told The Australian the way to eliminate such risks is controlled re-entry. McDowell said about 40 percent of rocket stages in space now can restart their own engines and alter their orbits. Most satellites bigger than about five tons come with motors that allows their controllers to aim them when the disposing of them, he said. Nobody has ever been hurt by re-entering debris, according to the Aerospace Corporation.

A rendering of a Chinese spacecraft. The Tiangong-1 completed its mission in 2016 and is projected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere between March 30 and April 8. Wikimedia Commons

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‘Lazy’ lawn mowing can help support suburban bee populations Bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects in suburban areas are more likely to flourish when homeowners mow their lawns less, according to a new study. The researchers examined three different lawn-mowing plans and found lawns mowed every three weeks had as much as 2.5 times more lawn flowers, and lawns mowed every two weeks had the greatest number of bees but lower diversity. The study, published in Biological Conservation, had a limited scope, but researchers said their results may apply to other areas with lots of residential lawns.

Instagram, robots, and the human mind Professors reflect on the role of social media and artificial intelligence in everyday life By | Lilian Quinones Collegian Reporter Hillsdale professors combined their technical knowledge and cultural aptitude to address the topic of the Lyceum Friday Forum on March 16, about technology and human identity. Asking a room full of parents and students if they’ve experienced such social media phenomenons as phantom vibration syndrome or fear of missing out, Associate Professor of Physics Paul Hosmer delivered the first of three short lectures, followed by Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address Ethan Stoneman, and Assistant Professor of Theology Jordan Wales. With the question, “In what ways does modern technology rewire or implicity educate its users?” Hosmer attempted to give audience members a top 10 list of the

tion and public discourse. “Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram — each is in the business of circulating meaningful signs,” Stoneman said. “By their very definition, signs are abstract — one level removed. In digital media, the separation becomes so great that something radically different and new is created.” This radical separation gives rise to the simulacrum or the hyperreal. The greatest example of the hyperreal, Stoneman said, is the clone, which no longer merely represents reality, but creates as a representation of reality. Speaking to its effects on his field of rhetoric, Stoneman said modern technology destroys the situatedness of the rhetorical address, and consequently, we now are seeing the emergence of one overarching medium. “In the past, rhetoric was inseparable from concrete relations — the funeral

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” Wales quoted Heinlein and closed the forum by discussing the dangers of artificial intelligence for authentic human interactions — dangers which outweigh their promise to relieve the human condition. “I believe robotic agents that are indistinguishable from human beings will arrive in my child’s lifetime,” Wales said. These robotic agents will imitate human gestures and conversations through the operation of artificial neural networks, Wales said, which is a computer system that simulates the brain’s neural processing. Wales worries that interactions with the robot will lead to a behaviorist account of the human person by giving us a false sense of intentionality. Because its appearance and facial expressions are indis-

“The snaps, tweets, and perpetual newsfeed: This is the procedural rhetoric whose only purpose is unending interaction with signs and sign value, everything is geared toward getting to constantly communicate and toward overexposure.” outcomes of the implicit education through technology, but stopped at number seven because, demonstrating that technology use amounts to a bad attention span, “that’s as far as he could get.” Moving from technology’s implicit education of society, Hosmer traced the influence of technology in scientific discoveries. From Galileo’s telescope to the famous meeting between Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble — when Einstein saw a visual confirmation of his theory of general relativity by looking through Hubble’s telescope — Hosmer said modern technology continues to transform the way in which we see the world, and consequently, how we think about it. Stoneman focused his brief lecture on how modern technology changes communica-

‘Body on a chip’ could aid in testing potential new drugs Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a microfluidic device that can replicate human organs, allowing for researchers to anticipate potential side effects of drugs prior to human trials. The device can hold engineered tissues from as many as 10 organs, allowing researchers to study how a drug targeting a particular organ may affect other organs. The device is described in Scientific Reports, and the researchers said the device could also be used for antibody drugs and other immunotherapies as well.

oration or the wedding toast — but now we have a constant cycle,” Stoneman said. “The snaps, tweets, and perpetual newsfeed: This is procedural rhetoric whose only purpose is unending interaction with signs and sign value. Everything is geared toward getting to constantly communicate and toward overexposure.” Even the creators of these social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are realizing the detriment of this overexposure to the human person, Stoneman said. Concerned parents in Silicon Valley, employees of tech giants like Google, eBay, and Facebook, are sending their children to ‘screenless’ schools where iPhones and other electronic devices are banned, he said. According to science fiction author Robert Heinlein,

Hepatitis C-positive kidneys safe for transplant through new drug More than 100,000 people in the United States were awaiting kidney transplants in January 2016, according to the National Kidney Foundation. A new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine could help increase the number of kidneys available for transplant using a new drug which prevents the transmission of hepatitis C from donor to recipient. The antiviral medication prevents chronic hepatitis C infections in kidney donors, according to the study. The researchers said this could allow more kidneys to be eligible for donation.

tinguishable from those of humans, the robot will “train us to become consumers of others,” Wales said. “A robot will never expand our view of how a human person might be,” Wales said. “They don’t make us think beyond self-selected heights or require a heroic gift of self.” Wales’ concerns were especially impactful for Lyceum officer Sammy Roberts. “Hearing someone that I respect, like Dr. Wales, predict the invention of androids that can almost perfectly mirror a conversation within his children’s lifetime was really astounding and scary,” Roberts said. “But it was also reassuring to hear that no matter how specialized AI becomes, it can’t capture what is quintessentially human to us. There will always be a kind of hollowness.”

Study suggests space radiation is increasingly hazardous Researchers found that large fluxes in galactic cosmic rays are increasing and may reach unprecedented high levels. The study, published in Space Weather, also found solar energetic particle events such as the one in September 2017 release large amounts of radiation that may be hazardous for both humans and satellites. The researchers found that the radiation environment in space is worsening, and that fluxes in galactic cosmic ray fluxes and isolated solar energetic particle events continue to present dangers.

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Hillsdale alumna elected to West Virgina Supreme Court By | Nicole Ault D.C. Correspondent When Beth Walker ’87 road-tripped with fellow Hillsdale students to Washington, D.C., one spring break, she had a blast touring the city and getting an insider tour of the U.S. Supreme Court — but she didn’t realize the trip was a “preview” of her future, as she calls it now. Designed by the same architect, the U.S. Supreme Court courtroom and that of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia resemble each other, Walker said. Since her election in 2016, Walker now takes office in the latter building as a justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court. “Of course, I had no idea what I would do later,” Walker said of her time in D.C. on spring break. (She did, however, know she wanted to go to law school since 7th grade.) A northern-Ohio native, Walker’s ties to Hillsdale preceded her birth; her parents, John and Ronda Doane, were Hillsdale alumni and have served on the alumni board (John, a Hillsdale football player, graduated in 1958, Ronda in 1960). When scholarships came through, Walker decided to attend her parents’ alma mater. At Hillsdale, Walker studied political science and

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among other virtual goods. According to an estimate from SuperData Research, Epic Games has made at least $157 million off this mode. “It’s played 24/7 on every TV [in Simpson],” freshman JJ Self, who lives in Simpson Residence, said. “That’s not even really an exaggeration.” Multiplayer games that allow players to talk to other players have been around for years. The free version of “Fortnite”, however, eliminates the barrier of needing to purchase the game. Because of this, anyone can play if they have an internet connection. This has allowed more than 40 million unique players to play “Fortnite” by early January, the most recent estimate by Epic Games. “I have a buddy who all he does is go to class, go to golf practice, and play “Fortnite” on his PlayStation 4 in his room,” freshman Joe Wagner said. “His roommate also plays “Fortnite” on a separate TV in their room on an Xbox One. He plays all day, and whenever he dies, he yells very loudly, and it can be heard throughout the whole dorm.” This is not an uncommon occurrence in Simpson, the largest male dorm at Hillsdale. There are four lobby televisions in Simpson on which students constantly play “Fortnite”, as well as on TVs and computers in countless rooms. Although Epic Games has declined to disclose sales of “Fortnite” to the public, Epic did say by early January the game had drawn 40 million players across both free and paid modes. The game,

English, a double major that forced her to make a decision about what direction she’d take for her career. She opted for politics, but her English training never left her. At Walker’s swearing-in, one of the speakers complimented her legal writing for its exceptional clarity, remembered Elizabeth Spalding ’88, a close friend of Walker. An ardently-involved student — she was class president, a member of Chi Omega sorority, helped start the student ambassador program, and wrote a weekly column for The Collegian — Walker said her time at Hillsdale helped pave the way for her career, and not just by teaching her how to write and argue. “I had a lot of leadership opportunities at Hillsdale, and that’s the kind of thing that makes you see yourself as a leader later,” she said. From Hillsdale, Walker set off to fulfill her seventh-grade dream of going to law school. She attended Ohio State University, where she put her writing skills to use as an editor for the Ohio State Law Journal. After graduating from OSU in 1990, Walker moved to West Virginia to work for 22 years at Bowles Rice as a labor and employment lawyer. She then worked for several years as an in-house lawyer for the despite being a third-person shooter, is non-violent. When players are shot, they do not bleed. When they run out of health, their bodies simply disappear. This has separated ““Fortnite”” from all other shooters, creating a much more family-friendly game and gaining approval from parents across the country. In an online gaming forum, a woman posted a picture of her pre-teen sons wearing custom-made “Fortnite” sweatshirts that she bought them for Valentine’s Day. She posted the picture with the caption, “I like the fact that if they’re not outside playing with their friends, they’re at least still interacting. I remember being a child and playing Atari and Nintendo in a room all by myself.” Freshman Nate Chambers, who has been playing constantly for the past two weeks, was speechless when trying to put into words how much he wanted a victory. John Thistleton another freshman, who lives on Chambers’ hall and has achieved the elusive “Victory Royale,” was more open about speaking on his “Fortnite” experience. “Every game you lose, you are unsatisfied with the outcome. And if you win, you want to win more,” Thistleton said. Epic Games keeps players wanting more, taking suggestions from their social media followers and Reddit users. To show that they are listening to their supporters, they release a limited-time game mode every few weeks. So far, these game modes have ranged from “Sniper Showdown,” where every player could find only snipers or revolvers, “Solid Gold,” in

West Virginia United Health System. In 2008, Walker was talked into running for West Virginia Supreme Court Justice — and lost the partisan election by 0.6 percent. In 2016, she ran

thought that’s the way judges should be elected,” Walker said). She won by 18 percentage points over the next candidate. “I went from a very close loss to a very big win, so that

Beth Walker ’87 serves on the West Virginia Supreme Court. Beth Walker | Courtesy

again, this time in a nonpartisan election (“I always which every gun in the game is its most lethal version, 50 vs. 50 events, and many more. Some don’t think Epic can’t maintain this rise in popularity, including Owen Macaulay. When asked whether he thinks “Fortnite” will be around this time next year, Macaulay, a freshman Alpha Tau Omega pledge simply said, “I do not,” believing that Epic has caught lightning in a bottle. Although the future popularity of the game may be in question, the current trend of the game is undeniable. Beginning as a niche game, the impact in the mainstream is greater than any video game is on a level that hasn’t been seen in the recent past. Just this past week, online streamer Ninja livestreamed himself playing “Fortnite” with rapper Drake. The stream picked up so much momentum online that Travis Scott, another rapper, joined their game. Soon after Scott joined, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster joined their game as well. In total, more than 600,000 people watched the group play on Twitch, a streaming service that allows people to watch others play video games. After the UMBC Retrievers defeated the Virginia Cavaliers in the NCAA Tournament to become the first 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed, Nolan Gerrity of UMBC described the feeling by saying, “It’s like your first “Fortnite” victory.” Bill Phillips, a freshman in Simpson, no stranger to winning, making sure the fact that he has 17 victories so far be included in this article, said, “Your odds are only 1 percent of winning, so it’s extremely addictive and

was exciting,” she said. As a justice for more than

a year now, Walker has taken advantage of the opportunity to serve the public, and she’s passionate about transparency. “We really think it’s important for people to learn about what courts do and to see the judges are real people,” she said. Toward that end, Walker is active on Twitter, tweeting everything from her thoughts on legal matters and legal news to her March Madness bracket. Evident in Walker’s tweets — and her lively conversation — is a mix of steadiness and humor that Spalding said endeared Walker to everyone on Hillsdale’s campus. “She would lift people up and make them laugh in a good way,” Spalding said, recalling happy times with Walker in the dorm room and the Collegian office. Walker had “the kind of temperament — filled with patience, deliberation, and insight — that one needs to be a great judge” even as an undergraduate, she added. Director of Career Services Joanna Wisely, a friend of Walker’s parents who’s known Walker since her high school years, agreed that Walker balanced ambition with lightheartedness. “I would describe her as dedicated and determined and with a great sense of humor,” Wiseley said. “She was the perfect candidate [for su-

preme court justice].” Walker is “the exemplar of a first-rate Hillsdale student,” Spalding said, noting that Walker’s love for constitutional law classes and attention to detail in her Collegian work signaled her aptitude for a law career. “Beth is a Hillsdale graduate through and through and has carried on the best traditions of Hillsdale,” Spalding added. As she’s carried on Hillsdale’s tradition throughout her career, Walker has brought some Hillsdale with her. She served on the alumni board until she became a justice. Matthew Spalding, Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs and Elizabeth Spalding’s husband, delivered a speech at her swearing-in. And Walker even has hung a copy of Professor of Art Sam Knecht’s painting of the U.S. Constitution’s signing over her desk. “I have a little bit of Hillsdale in my office,” she said. There aren’t many Hillsdale alumni in West Virginia, Walker acknowledged. But to her, it’s always a delight to find a fellow Hillsdale grad. “I love wearing a Hillsdale sweatshirt when I travel, because I always run into all kinds of people,” she laughed. “It’s a lot of fun.”

From programming computers to pursuing PhDs in the humanities By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Of three professors with a computer-programming experience, two are now professors of English or religion at Hillsdale. Before Associate Professor of English Dutton Kearney decided on a career as an English professor, he taught himself computer programming while working for an insurance company. His specific project involved using two computer languages — SQL and UNIX — to make and improve databases of injury-related information for insurance companies. At one point, Keaney learned a new computer-programming language over the course of 72 hours in order to take on a new project. “You’re continuously training and learning, and it’s exciting because it’s something brand new,” Kearney said. “Computer programming is a lot like learning a foreign language.” Based off Kearney’s work with improving the programming for the databases, the insurance companies could then improve the timeframes of expected recovery from different types of injuries. This allowed the insured workers to return to their jobs as soon as possible while still giving them sufficient time off for recovery. For Kearney, though, the rewarding part of the job was the challenge of the programming. “You spend days or weeks or maybe even months putting code together, and then you brace yourself and hit ‘run,’ and then it works, and that’s just fun,” Kearney said. “It’s not physically building something, but it tricks the brain into thinking that you are constructing something, that if you can make it elegant and have it work, and be able to create a user interface that anybody else can use too, that’s a challenge too.” One day, though, as the novelty of the new projects and programming languages

wore off, a realization struck him: Kearney said he realized he wanted more from his career than an office cubicle, chasing the promise of a higher salary and a corner office. He left his job and was accepted into a doctorate program in English, enticed by the promise of new literature to explore — the passion for literature that he had already pursued as an undergraduate student and wanted to return to. “I had stopped learning at my job, and it was just maintenance, so it lost its freshness,” Kearney said. “Whereas going to study the literature of the western world…” For Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Reinhardt Zeller, computer science was not his primary academic interest. Before he found computer sciences, Zeller studied economics, and taught at Bowling Green State University and Iowa State, where he offered business and statistics courses. He then left to pursue graduate coursework in statistics, and worked on a econometric modelling project that left him with a new interest: computer science. Zeller used computer modeling to simulate how liquid crystals would react to different environmental factors while pursuing doctoral studies in computer science — a technology he said would one day be present in flatscreen televisions. “I could write parallel programs that would run more efficiently on these high-tech machines,” Zeller told the Collegian. He then shared his passion for computer sciences with Hillsdale students until his retirement in 2015. Whereas Kearney’s and Zeller’s interest in computer programming stemmed from their professional work, Assistant Professor of Theology Jordan Wales said his own interest in computer programming developed when he was in high school, and stemmed from a philosophical interest in capturing reality within a model. “I remember building a cathedral in a 3D computer game because I liked this

idea of a world that could be entered into and explored,” Wales said. This interest followed him to college, where he studied engineering and focused on robotics. He even went abroad to study cognitive science on a Marshall Scholarship. “Cognitive science is kind of like a mixture of Neuroscience computer science artificial intelligence philosophy of mind philosophy, biology, and computer science,” Wales said. “But there were certain questions, like what is the flourishing of the mind what does a good life look like? Is there a soul? How does God fit into it? I became frustrated because there were certain questions that couldn’t be asked within the domain of cognitive science.” He used his remaining semester on scholarship to study theology at Oxford before returning to the United States, where he had a National Science Foundation scholarship to pursue a doctoral degree in computer sciences. He began working in a laboratory that aligned with his interests, and engineered robots that could recognize and move pieces on a tic-tac-toe board. He said the research wasn’t particularly interesting to him, and conversations with his friends about larger questions in life led him to withdraw from the computer sciences program and instead, study theology at the University Notre Dame. While his field of study changed, Wales said theology required a similar approach in which individual components of study were always viewed in light of the whole. “The mode of thought that one must have as an engineer or a scientist or a theologian is a very synthetic mode of thought where the parts must always be understood in light of the whole,” Wales said. “For me it feels like a continuous development or refinement of the way I wanted to approach this yearning for reconciliation of the parts and whole and the desire to capture whole.”

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Despite the spills, coffee cups add a splash of style By | Sarah Schutte Collegian Freelancer Mugs are a lot like babies. They make messes at inopportune moments, they can be attractive only to the owner, they start to smell if you don’t wash them, and you have to handle them with care. Even though a water bottle might be significantly easier to tote around, some brave Hillsdale students defy the odds and define their style with ceramic mugs. Mugs make a distinctive visual statement. “Carrying a mug instead of a paper to-go cup is like wearing clothes of your choice to class instead of a mandated uniform,” junior Ellen Freisen said. “[It] detracts from the convenience of your morning routine, but more than makes up for it in potential originality.” Junior Katarina Bradford agreed. “There is nothing like sipping dark, German Dallmyr coffee in a cup from Germany while delighting in German class,” she said. “It’s all about the aesthetic.” Some people carry the same mug consistently, but for others this can be a struggle. Senior Ryan Asher has been through quite a few since the

beginning of junior year. The green computer programming mug, a ’70s relic, met its demise in the solitude of a Dow Science bathroom, an incident its bemused owner deemed “humiliating.” More impressive was the untimely end of his second mug. “I used a mug that had famous first lines of novels on it. That was a big hit on cam-

drink held within. “I am very particular about my mugs having thin rims—it retains the flavor of the beverage better.” Disdaining teacups, Freisen generally prefers black or green tea, “but coffee always makes an appearance when I start writing term papers.” Her current mug of choice? “I got a squirrel mug this Christmas that says ‘brighteyed and bushytailed,’ which isn’t quite as inspiring as the beatitudes, but the squirrel is honestly a lot cuter than Blessed Pier Giorgio, so I might throw that into the rotation.” Mugs are remarkable way to catch a tiny glimpse into someone’s soul. Does the person carry their mug around daily or only every so often? Now look at the designs. Consider the shape and size. Pick up on the hues and intricacy of the pattern. Take note of pictures and quotations ringing the outside. “I like to switch up the mugs depending on what I am drinking and what mood I am in,” Bradford said. “I have to admit that sometimes my daily mug choice depends on the outfit that I am wearing... yes, I might coordinate my mug to my outfit. It is one of the many factors that goes into

“Carrying a mug instead of a paper to-go cup is like wearing clothes of your choice to class instead of a mandated uniform.” pus, given intellectual interests at Hillsdale,” Asher said. “I dropped that one in the colonnade in the middle of a class exchange, right outside the library. It shattered into a million pieces; there were lots of ‘oohs and aahs’ from students on the way to class. That was much more fulfilling than breaking a mug all alone in the Dow Science bathroom.” It might be worth asking Asher how his current mug, emblazoned with the Colorado state flag, is faring. For Bradford, using the right mug is imperative to proper appreciation of the

Junior Ellen Friesen poses with her favorite mug. Ellen Friesen | Courtesy

choosing my daily mug.” Watch for her favorite one, porcelain painted with strawberries, and ask her about its German ancestry. Bradford also has tragic, mug-shattering tales, courtesy of long cross-country flights, so this leaves senior Dani Ruedisueli standing with a nearly perfect record of intact mugs — but only nearly perfect. “During my freshman year I had my mug hooked onto my backpack,” Ruedisueli said. “As I was walking up from MacIntyre I slipped on the icy crosswalk in the middle of the road. I fell on my side and my bag slammed the ground. My cup survived, but it now has a decent sized chip on the bottom edge.”

Ruedisueli commented on the weird stares people give her religious-themed mug, but what matters more to her is the sense of hominess so small an object can bring to the hectic days of college. Carrying a mug demands thoughtfulness and carefulness. This doesn’t mean everyone who carries a mug will be careful and thoughtful, but it shows they care about and enjoy what they are drinking. They have taken the time to plan out their day (pro tip: coffee is a dollar or less at AJs and Jitters if you BYOM). Asher takes pride in his dexterity while holding a mug: “I’ve learned how to walk quickly to class with a full mug of coffee, holding books in one hand, and I can still

open doors. I’m proud of that accomplishment. The little things add up.” Transporting a full mug requires self-awareness, and like Freisen said earlier, it gives one a chance to make a statement. But even more than originality or uniqueness, a mug it is a silent, welcoming invitation to conversation, and those holding them have an interest in the people and the world around them. “My Penguin Christmas mug received much attention in Dr. Stephens’ Ancient Philosophy class last semester,” Bradford said. “When I started bringing Benny to class last December, he received a lot of compliments. He’s a keeper.”

Thank you for not smoking Classics students present research at honorary national convention in the Old Snack Bar By | Nolan Ryan Assistant Editor When entering the Old Snack Bar, stillness permeates the air. Just a half dozen students quietly study at the booths on any given day. The silence is jarringly different from the third floor of the library where the most social students tend to study. The phrase “You could hear a needle drop” was invented for this place. But the Old Snack Bar was not always like this. The Knorr Student Center was built in 1964 to act as a student union as a result of increased desire for such a space among the students. By the 2000s, not as many students used the building, but the Old Snack Bar still acted as a space for students to study and hang out. Ben Liebing ’08 attended Hillsdale toward the end of the Old Snack Bar’s popularity. “When I was there, it was used a lot,” he said. “I could tell it was starting to tail off. A lot of the freshmen — a lot of people — still hung out there, but it was on its last legs. There was a certain group of people who would study there, and they would be there all the time.” At that time, students ate their meals at the dining hall on the other end of the Knorr Center. They spent lots of their free time in the snack bar, according to Liebing. “Back in the day, you could smoke in there,” he said. “It became known as the smoking lounge. If you wanted to smoke inside, you could go smoke and study.” Associate Professor of Classics Eric Hutchinson, who graduated from Hillsdale in 2002, also recalls when smoking was allowed in the building. “The room was often a haze,” he said. In addition to having the reputation of being a smok-

ing lounge, Liebing also said swing dances were held there every wek, just as they are today. But one tradition that has been lost through the years were student concerts called “coffee houses.” These concerts were open mic nights for students and their bands. According to Liebing, who participated in the “coffee houses,” students would sign up to perform in shows featuring several different bands. Sometimes, he said, students would host concerts during big events such as Parents Weekend or Homecoming, at which times about 100 people might attend. Hutchinson said when he was a student, the Knorr was the only “non-classroom building on campus.” “Anything where you needed a moderate amount of space on campus was going to happen there,” he said. In addition to the concerts, the Old Snack Bar used to have a jukebox, according to Public Services Librarian Linda Moore. “The snack bar served the same function as AJ’s does now,” she said in an email. “It’s principle function was to give students a place to eat when the cafeteria was closed.” While “coffee houses” are a thing of the past, students still gather to perform music in the snack bar on a regular basis. InterVarsity Ministries runs Soma, a time of Christian worship through song every Thursday night. Niedfeldt Head Resident Assistant Alexander Green helps lead these worship nights. The Old Snack Bar is a great place to hold Soma’s worship nights and occasional speakers. “We use the Old Snack Bar because it’s right in the middle of campus and because the Dow Center supplies some of our equipment,” he said in an email. “We often have speakers or other events, so it’s great to have

the versatility of the room whether we need furniture or not. Although it is not fancy, it provides a convenient place to meet. The acoustics in there aren’t half bad, either.” For Green, he appreciates that the room is not too fancy. If anything, it enhances the desired atmosphere. “The room provides a nice place to gather closely,” he said. “I actually appreciate that it doesn’t have anything fancy because it helps me to remember that people can worship God in any setting. Paul sang in a jail, why can’t we sing in a snack bar?” Hutchinson said the snack bar is a much less busy spot these days, but it still serves similar functions as it once did. “It’s much more of a niche spot than it used to be,” he said. “People would often stay in there all night and camp out. You could go in there any hour of the night and find giant stacks of books on tables. It was one of the big non-library study spots on campus.” Hillsdale’s campus has changed through the years, but the snack bar has held a similar role in the daily lives of students. It has weathered through the college’s history. Hutchinson recalled one time he was sitting in the lobby outside of the snack bar, which is now the computer lab. It was September 11, 2001. “President Larry Arnn came in and briefly talked to everybody,” he said of the fateful day. “He announced that classes would not be cancelled, and we would keep doing what we were doing.” Amidst the changes of campus and the larger national culture, Hillsdale students are still doing what they do: spending time in the snack bar studying, singing, and dancing, but certainly not smoking.

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The Eta Sigma Phi Honorary Society for Classical Studies selects four students each year to present classical studies research projects at its annual national convention. This year, two of those are from Hillsdale. Senior Katie Hillery and John James ’17 will present their research to fellow Eta Sigma Phi members, faculty advisers, and graduate school professors at the 90th Eta Sigma Phi Convention at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from Friday to Sunday. Hillery and James worked with classics professors Laurie Ward and Joseph Garnjobst, who assisted in both the research and editing processes. Hillery researched an image of Hercules from the Via Latina Catacomb in Rome. In her paper, Hillery explored the complex connection between paganism and Christianity portrayed in the image from a historical perspective. “This image shows the parallel themes between the

legendary figure of Hercules and what Christ represents — being trained in virtue and enduring suffering,” Hillery said. “Those aspects of the myth of Hercules are also fulfilled by the figure of Christ.” According to Hillery, these common themes suggest a harmony between pagan and

“It will be nice to get connected within the classics community” Christian culture. “The convention will be a good opportunity for me to network and meet professionals and scholars,” Hillery said. “It will be nice to get connected within the classics community.” Hillery plans to double major in history and classics. After graduation, she plans on studying classical archeology, history, and classics and eventually work in curation for a museum. James researched the Gorgias, a pre-Platonic speaker. Before Plato coined the term “rhetor,” Gorgias’ peers

labeled him as a sophist. The term later developed a negative connotation— they are typically viewed as individuals who learned to speak against philosophers and win argument without necessarily arriving at truth. In his research, James found that “rhetor” better defines Gorgias. “I am excited to present this research,” James said. “I am also interested in discussing the questions I’ll receive and talking about it with people.” James earned a Bachelor of Arts in classics while studying at Hillsdale. Garnjobst has taken students to the Eta Sigma Phi National Convention since 1998. In the past 10 years, 18 Hillsdale students have been selected to present their research at the convention. Garnjobst currently serves as trustee for Eta Sigma Phi, and Ward serves as the faculty advisor for Hillsdale’s chapter of Eta Sigma Phi. “This is a major asset for our students,” Ward said. “Any time you get to revise papers and work on public speaking and presentation skills, you benefit from that.”

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communal table, so just overall the community feel rings pretty true.” The 30-seat restaurant focuses on being an “everyday” stop that brings people great food at great prices. Lea said their mission is to be a neighborhood place that people can enjoy and come together to do things for the community. One way the restaurant cultivates a relationship within the community is through “Burger Wednesday.” Partnering with local nonprofits, Gather sells $5 burgers, which aren’t on their normal menu, when people bring in a donation. “It’s a neat way to spotlight local nonprofits as well as get them a little bit of momentum in the goods they are collecting,” Lea said. Their seasonal menu changes several times a year. They are currently on their second winter menu and will debut their spring menu the

first week of April. In order to source ingredients properly, Lea said that they have had to get creative. A current favorite on the menu is a yam dish, which is a confit of sweet potato, pickled pearl onion, maple and brown sugar aioli, nori dust, and sesame seed. Executive Chef Jessi Patuano said in an email that she enjoys working with fermentation and dough development throughout the menu, and that she is slowly expanding menu items that would include these flavors. While not exclusively, Patuano brings many Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors to the Gather table. Late in the summer of 2017, a friend introduced Jessi Patuano, a Long Island-raised chef who had worked in several Detroit restaurants, to Kyle and Lea. “It was love at first sight,” Patuano said. Since then, Patuano said that working with Kyle and Lea has been like a dream come true.

“They are supportive, considerate, and respectful owners,” Patuano said. “They are by my side day in and day out and make me feel like an important part of the team.” For Lea and Kyle, their approach to ownership is hands-on. During the day, Lea works on books and accounting for the restaurant while Kyle finishes any odds and ends. In the evenings, Lea is often hostess or helping with serving while Kyle bartends. “We wanted to create jobs for ourselves, not just create a restaurant, we wanted to work in it,” Lea said. Lea will speak on campus at the “Unleash the Entrepreneur” presentation on Monday sponsored by the Career Services Office and the 1844 Society. “It’s definitely a dream come true and it is neat to realize how much planning and working hard can make that happen, obviously with a lot of support from friends and family,” Lea said.

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Alumna’s eatery cultivates community By | Josephine von Dohlen Assistant Editor When Lea Hunt and Kyle Hunt opened Gather, a restaurant in Detroit’s Eastern Market bringing together people and local ingredients, in May 2017, they fulfilled a dream that first started growing nearly a decade before. “I had always wanted to open a coffee shop or something of my own,” Lea Hunt Hunt ’13 said. High-school sweethearts, the two celebrate their 12th

year together this month and will have their fifth wedding anniversary in August. After the two completed summer internships in college, Kyle expressed interest in opening a restaurant, to which Lea Hunt quickly agreed. “We went from there and sent ideas back and forth throughout college,” Lea Hunt said. Kyle played basketball at Lake Superior State College and Lea Hunt played basketball at Hillsdale College while majoring in marketing man-

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agement, saying the courses that she took made business more approachable. “I feel like all the business courses that are intertwined in that degree really helped lay the groundwork for being able to wrap my brain around what we wanted to do,” Lea Hunt said. As restaurant co-owners, food has played a large role in their relationship. “Wanting to open a restaurant, we always would go out to eat at restaurants and try to find interesting places, places that are our style,” Kyle said. “A lot of the time we would

go to four different restaurants and get one dish at each restaurant. It’s been a fun time trying to try out new restaurants, but obviously doing it with Lea, but experiencing different cities and restaurants.” The name, Gather, comes from gathering food from the market and gathering people together, Lea Hunt said. Also, the verse in the Gospel of Matthew which says, “where two or three gather in my name, there am I also.” “The name hit a lot of stones for us,” Lea Hunt said. Kyle said their style is

“minimal,” which reflects the aesthetic of their restaurant. The restaurant has found ways to reclaim lots of pieces for the furniture around the restaurant with items such as school chairs, table legs, and even the façade of their bar. “Everything we try to do is sustainable, from places here in Detroit or elsewhere,” Kyle said. A large part of their approach, however, is locally sourcing seasonal ingredients for their menu. “There are a lot of farmers right in our backyard,” Lea Hunt said. “We source as

much as we can from a lot of Detroit farms, and then Michigan. In the city here, there’s a big urban farming resurgence. So it’s really cool to support our neighbors who are trying to do something as well.” GROW Eastern Market and Keep Growing Detroit are two companies that help Lea Hunt and Kyle to continue to bring local produce to their restaurant and ensure connections with local farmers. “I think Detroit right now has a really strong undertone of working together, a com-

By | Jake Sievers Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale dorms and fraternities alike are raving over “Fortnite”. While “Fortnite” first went on sale this past July for $40, it wasn’t a big hit at first. To attract more interest, the game’s marketers decided to create a free version alongside the paid game. Since the release of the free version in late 2017, Epic Games Inc., the creator of the

game, has had a difficult time keeping the “Fortnite” servers running. This is most obvious in the latest numbers released by Epic Games in February, stating that had been 3.4 million concurrent players playing “Fortnite” in early February. This means that at one point, across consoles and PC, there were 3.4 million players playing at the same time. This number is very similar to the concurrent players total of the Call of Duty series after a new

release. The difference between Call of Duty and “Fortnite”, however, is that Call of Duty’s popularity is at its peak when the newest game is released. “Fortnite”’s popularity has been consistently trending upward and shows no sign of stopping. The free version is modeled as a 100-player fight to be the last person or team standing, similar to the concept in the book “The Hunger Games.”

Friends try to outdo each other for bragging rights, and viewing parties form whenever someone is among the final 10 players remaining. “Fortnite” is a combination of a building game like “Minecraft” and a traditional shoot-‘em-up, like Call of Duty. Although the free version is vastly more popular, Epic Games has been able to monetize this game mode by selling character costumes,

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Eoin Lyon Is the whole outfit all authentic? As authentic as I could make it. The socks are not technically kilt hose; I think they are actually soccer socks. And the flashes I actually made myself. All you need is a pair of scissors and Wal-Mart felt. Are you Scottish or Irish? Both. As far as I can tell it goes back as far as you can have anything that can be identified as Irish or Scottish. Tell me about your hat. They emerged maybe as late as the eighteenth cen-

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tury. The flat cap, which is the common name for this, was originally known as a bonnet, which originated in Northern England. But Northern England would have been strongly influenced by Scottish culture. And to this day it’s still called a bunnet. Do you have one hat or multiple hats? I have two. This one I wear everyday, the other one which I got in Ireland, I save for special occasions. What is the pouch for? This is a sporran, its because the kilt doesn’t have any pockets, so that’s what you wear.

And what is the dagger for? As to the dagger, that’s the skindu, which literally translated means, black knife. That I’m wearing it on my left leg is a conventional thing. Apparently if you wear it on your right leg that means you think you’re ready to use it, left leg you’re in good company. How often do you wear your kilt? Around here whenever I can think of a good Scottish or Irish holiday. I wore it the day before St. Patrick’s Day. I will usually wear it to formal events, like I did for President’s Ball.