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Vice President Mike Pence to speak at commencement By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Vice President Mike Pence has accepted an invitation to deliver Hillsdale College’s commencement address. “We are proud to have Pence, a man of principled public service, of strong constitutional views, and of deep faith at our campus,” College President Larry Arnn said in a statement. “We are glad to have him back for this culminating ceremony of college life.” The college announced on Monday that Pence’s address to the class of 2018 for its 166th commencement ceremony is at 2 p.m. on May 12 in the Biermann Athletics Center. His selection marks the end of a more than eightmonth search by the senior class officers and the college president’s office for a commencement speaker. “We get a speaker who in his public life, private life, and spiritual life embodies what we strive for here at Hillsdale College,” Senior Class President Razi Lane told The Collegian. “Mike Pence captures our mission, as a father, husband, Christian, and leader of this country. I couldn’t think of a better person to address the senior class than Vice President Mike Pence.” Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs Matthew Spalding said Pence expressed to him recently that he has wanted to visit Hillsdale again and that he chose Hillsdale despite invitations from many colleges this year. “I think it’s wonderful and a great honor for the college,” said Matthew Spalding.“I’ve known him since he was a congressman and have great

Then-Congressman Mike Pence, R-Indiana, speaks on “The Presidency and the Constitution” on Sept. 20, 2010, in Phillips Auditorium. Hillsdale College | Courtesy

respect for him. He will give a serious and thoughtful commencement address. No one should have any doubts about that.” Students and faculty expressed enthusiasm for Pence to speak at commencement, noting it as an important moment for the college. “I think that it’s incredible for the vice president to come to a small school like Hillsdale and address the senior class,” senior Charlotte McFaddin said. “It’s a big deal, and I think it is a testament to the kind of institution Hillsdale is becoming.” Politics department chairman Mickey Craig agreed, observing that national leaders

are becoming more common on campus as Hillsdale’s reputation around the country grows bigger. That may be on purpose, economic department chairman Gary Wolfram said. “I think it says a lot about Pence associating himself with the college,” he said. “Very few schools with 1,500 students have the vice president come as the commencement speaker.” Although Pence’s speech at Hillsdale would mark his first visit to the college as vice president, he previously spoke on “The Presidency and the Constitution” on Sept. 20, 2010, in Phillips Auditorium, as a congressman. Less than

a year later on April 16, 2011, he participated in a town hall on “Economic Liberty and the Constitution” at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. For awhile, Hillsdale has hoped to bring Pence to campus. Arnn said he told Pence he wanted him to speak at the dedication ceremony of the Christ Chapel in 2019, because he “is a dignified figure and serious about his faith.” This year’s senior class officers, however, convinced him to invite the vice president to campus early. Additionally, Hillsdale alumni and students have worked with Pence in the vice

president’s office and when he was governor. Stephen Ford ’10 currently is a speechwriter for Pence. Last year, Pence addressed Notre Dame University in Indiana and Pennsylvania’s Grove City College, a private, liberal arts college that does not accept any federal money like Hillsdale. In them, he called for the graduating seniors to be servant-minded leaders who put to work the principles they learned at their respective institutions. “So I urge you as the rising generation, carry the ideals and the values that you’ve learned at Notre Dame into your lives and into your careers,” he said. “Be leaders in

Bands compete Friday for CHP spot By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Seven bands will compete on Friday for a spot onstage at Centralhallapalooza. The deciding event runs from 8 p.m. to midnight at Grange Hall at the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds. The first band will begin around 8:30 p.m. Three student bands play at Centralhallapalooza each year, elected by an audience vote. Last year’s winners were My Dog’s Name is Keith, Deaf Davey and the Wineboxes, and The Electric Psychadelic Follow @HDaleCollegian

Pussy Cat Swingers Club. “I think it will be really close,” Director of Student Activities Ashlyn Landerr said. “Different bands have different followings.” This year’s competing bands are Penny and the Mandimes, The Wineboxes, The Village Idiots, Roos Roast, BANND, Trophy Wives, and Dick Whiskey and the Shortstacks. Sophomore Zane Mabry, who plays guitar for Penny and the Mandimes, said his band has a “more solid lineup” than last year.

“We have a good selection of music and a good energy onstage,” Mabry said. “I think we will be entertaining to watch.” Senior Callie Ring, who is performing with Trophy Wives, also played last year in a different band. This year, she wanted to get an all-female group. Even though she wasn’t entirely successful — only six of the eight band members are women — the band stuck with a girl-power theme for its music. “Usually when females are in the band, they’re singing,”

Ring said. “I wanted women on instruments.” Each band will play a 20-minute set, and the audience votes on which bands they’d like to see play at CHP. Landherr said she likes to see students get involved with the process of creating CHP. “It’s really cool to see students supporting students,” she said. Ring said they just want to have fun. “There’s a lot of really good bands,” Ring said. “Honestly, we’re just hoping to put on a good show.”

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City Council exempts College Park from homeowner’s association By | Nic Rowan City News Editor

Junior Isabelle Parell sang in last year’s CHP Showdown. She competes again this year with BANND. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

your families, in your communities, and in every field of endeavor, for the values you learned here at Notre Dame, and in these divided times, I urge you to take one more aspect of the culture of this historic institution into the mainstream of American life.” Prior to President Donald Trump selecting Pence as his running mate in July 2016, the 48th vice president of the United States served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013-2017. He implemented the largest tax cuts in the state’s history and advocated for more funding of preschools, voucher programs, and charter schools. Before that, Pence was in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 2001. By 2008, Esquire magazine named him in the top 10 best members of Congress because his “unalloyed traditional conservatism ha[d] repeatedly pitted him against his party elders.” Although Pence has made his way in Washington, D.C., he is a Midwest native, born and raised in Columbus, Indiana. Additionally, he attended Indiana’s Hanover College, a private, liberal arts institution like Hillsdale. After briefly serving as an admissions counselor at Hanover, Pence attended the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and earned his juris doctor. He practiced law and then ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1988 and 1990. He later worked as president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, a state think tank, and had his own syndicated radio talk show and weekly televised public affairs program.

Following Farmington Hills developer Thomas Duke’s request, the Hillsdale City Council adopted a motion to remove a homeowner’s maintenance requirement for the upcoming College Park housing development at the corner of West and East Fayette streets at the April 2 meeting. The ordinance requires owners of individual townhouses to enter into a homeowners association to keep up the exterior of the facilities — things like gardens, sidewalks, and parking lots. Duke proposed to the council that the city remove this requirement for College Park and instead allow homeowners to enter into an optional agreement with Hillsdale College. In the optional agreement, the college would take care of

snow removal on sidewalks and in the facility’s parking lot as well as the upkeep of its lawns. In turn, the homeowners would cede control of the parking lot to the college when there are school events. Duke argued that an agreement like this should be permissible to the council, because in his mind, College Park is not a condominium complex. A firewall is the only connection between the individual apartments, a “roof membrane” is the only unifier of the apartments into one building. “The owners will be smart enough that if in 20 or 25 years, we have a roof leak, we can work that out,” Duke said, in reference to the possibility of this shared element of the building suffering damage. Duke said he originally envisioned the College Park

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Facebook censors alum’s state senate announcement By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, held up a piece of paper during Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony on Wednesday with a post from Hillsdale College alumnus Aric Nesbitt that Facebook had prevented from being boosted as an advertisement on the platform. Zuckerberg said he was unfamiliar with Nesbitt’s case when Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, also brought up Nesbitt’s case, but responded to questions at another point during his testimony that “there is absolutely no directive” to have “any kind of bias” in relaying information on Facebook. Nesbitt, who graduated in December 2001, left as Michigan’s lottery commissioner on March 24 to try his luck running for the 26th District state senate seat. With Gov. Rick Snyder term-limited and in his final year, Nesbitt said he is seeking to return to Michigan’s legislative branch and keep the state’s “comeback” heading in the right direction. “Over the past eight years, Michigan has made a lot of progress,” Nesbitt told The Collegian. “We’ve been cutting taxes and balancing budgets, but I think there is a lot of work still to do to protect Michigan’s comeback.” Nesbitt, though, hit a snag

When he tried to pay for the ad, however, immediately a message popped up, saying the ad “wasn’t approved because it doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies. We don’t allow ads that contain shocking, disrespectful or sensational content, including ads that depict violence or threats of violence.” A Facebook representative made Aric Nesbitt, who graduated in December an apology in a 2001, is running for the 26th District state statement to the senate seat. Aric Nesbitt | Courtesy Daily Caller. on Friday when Facebook “We’re very blocked him from boosting a sorry about this mistake,” the post announcing his camrepresentative said. “This ad paign, making national news. was incorrectly disapproved The incident comes following by our automated systems. several other complaints from We approved it as soon as conservatives that Facebook is this error was brought to our censoring their content on its attention and have turned off platform. the automation that caused “I’m proud to announce my the error in the first place.” candidacy for State Senate,” Nesbitt said he was “flabNesbitt’s post read. “Lansing bergasted” by the message, needs conservative, West expressing concern for the efMichigan values, and as our fects social media censorship next State Senator, I will work could have on elections. to strengthen our economy, “I don’t know what was limit government, lower our offensive or profane about a auto insurance rates, balance conservative message of less the budget, stop sanctuary taxes, lowering automotive incities, pay down governsurance costs, and defending ment debt and be a Pro-Life, the right to life,” Nesbitt said. Pro-Second Amendment “What triggered the autoleader for the people.” mation? Case after case, they

While Galloway Residence is under construction next year, some of its residents will move into a once-beloved off-campus house known as The Donnybrook. The house at 62 Park St. is currently being renovated and served as a campus dorm, and not just for Galloway men. “Eventually, we want it to be veteran housing,” Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers said. “In the interim, it will be an additional domain for those exiled in

C-SPAN filmed Professor of History David Raney’s Sectionalism and the American Civil War course for use in its “Lectures in History” series. Regan Meyer | Collegian

C-SPAN films Raney’s Sectionalism course

Professor of History David Raney taught not only to Hillsdale students, but also to a crew of cameras Wednesday afternoon. C-SPAN filmed Raney’s Sectionalism and the American Civil War course for use in its “Lectures in History” series. Russell Logan, a producer for C-SPAN, contacted Raney in January. He told Raney that his class had been recommended as a good candidate for the series. C-SPAN has filmed a variety of different classes at numerous universities. It filmed its Book TV program “In Depth” with talk-show host Dennis Prager on campus in September 2016. “C-SPAN has taped and aired more than 350 classes to date,” Logan said. “These include three at Hillsdale with Bradley Birzer and Paul Moreno as well as Victor Davis Hanson as a visiting professor.” Raney’s course focuses on the American Civil War. In class on Wednesday, Raney chose to focus on the homefront during the Civil War, specifically the roles of the United States Christian Commission and the United States

his days working at Citizens Against Government Waste, a conservative nonprofit, and his evenings in the Republican National Committee’s phone bank. During his final semester, he also interned in the Michigan House. Politics Department chairman Mickey Craig has stayed in close contact with Nesbitt since he graduated. Craig described him as bright and hard working with “a lot of hustle.” “I know he’s a smart guy with good character,” Craig said. “I think he understands what Republican liberty and free government is. He’s very good at understanding how to try to make sure things are going in a conservative direction.” After Hillsdale, he worked for Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, and Tim Murphy, R-Pennsylvania, before earning his master’s degree in international business from the Norwegian School of Economics. Nesbitt played a large role in several of Michigan’s conservative reforms once elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2010, before he began serving in Snyder’s cabinet. Nesbitt, who served as the House majority leader during his last term and as the House Republican campaign chair in 2014 and 2016, led efforts to balance budgets, lower the state’s debt by $20 billion, eliminate near-

the diaspora from Galloway during the year it’s down.” Rogers said The Donnybrook will likely be renamed. Around 12 men will move into the dorm, while 43 of Galloway’s 88 residents will move into Whitley Residence. The following year, the dorm may become housing for veterans, depending on how many enroll. Rogers noted that veterans who are older than some of the student body might prefer more independence. In the past, the Donnybrook was known for its

residents’ affinity for Irish drinking songs, poetry readings. “There was a group of nine guys that lived there before and they were good guys — faithful, manly men,” Daniel Spiotta ’13 told the Collegian in 2016. “I really loved them and wanted to keep a lot of their traditions alive. The song tradition, the tradition of singing folk songs together in a big group, that was the biggest thing we inherited.” Ethan Visser, a resident assistant in Galloway, will live in the Donnybrook next year.

ly 2,300 government rules and regulations, and cut taxes. “I have a proven record of conservative results,” Nesbitt said. “I was never raised to stand on the sidelines, but to jump in the fire for the citizens of West Michigan.” When Nesbitt accepted the position as lottery commissioner in February 2017, he was the youngest member of Snyder’s cabinet and the youngest lottery commissioner in Michigan and national history. In 2017, Nesbitt oversaw a record-breaking $924 million added to the School Aid Fund. “Aric’s leadership role at the Michigan Lottery demonstrated his long-standing commitment to serving the people of Michigan,” Gov. Rick Snyder said in a statement. “I thank Aric for his dedicated service and wish him well in all future endeavors.” Nesbitt said he is thankful for the foundations he learned while attending Hillsdale College and hopes to bring those principles to Lansing. “Turning our principles and common-sense solutions into a reality has always been my focus,” he said. “With your support, I will take the principles I learned growing up on the farm, at Hillsdale College, and throughout life, and make them a reality in building a better, brighter future for the hardworking taxpayers of West Michigan.”

The Donnybrook to house displaced Galloway men By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor

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say it’s a mistake, but what is in our language is a mistake? There needs to be some transparency here.” The 26th District covers Van Buren and Allegan counties, along with Gaines Township and the City of Kentwood in Kent County. The current state senator, Tonya Schuitmaker, is term limited. Allegan County Clerk Bob Genetski, a former state representative in the area, is also vying for the Republican nomination for the seat. Nesbitt, who graduated in December 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and who Hillsdale recognized with a distinguished alumnus award in the fall, had an interest in politics even before minoring in it at Hillsdale. The Lawton, Michigan, native, who lives just down the street from where he grew up on his family’s sixth-generation family dairy and grape farm, has listened to talk radio since at least the eighth grade and worked as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., in high school. At Hillsdale, Nesbitt served on the Student Federation, was president for the Praxis political economy club, and participated in the International Club and College Republicans. Nesbitt also partook in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Programming, spending

Sanitary Commission. “I always provide time within the semester to talk about the homefront during the war both North and South,” Raney said. “I scheduled this presentation to correspond with the C-SPAN taping. The specific placement of it within the scope of the class was tailored to the C-SPAN group, but it’s something I do cover.” In addition to choosing that day’s class topic based on C-SPAN’s presence, Raney also amended his teaching style. “I knew that the C-SPAN audience was looking for certain content,” Raney said. “This was going to not only be content-driven, but they were looking for primarily a lecture-based approach. I altered things to accommodate that. I did prepare remarks. I had notes that I actually drew from to stay on topic, so I didn’t wander and indulge my occasional forays into related matters.” Senior Grace Moran said the class felt no different from any other day. There were just cameras in the room, and Raney did not have any extra expectations for his students. “He just told us to be on time — and to do our homework,” she said.

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Visser said that he appreciates the culture of inclusion, humility, and faith in Galloway. “I think it will be very important to foster the same culture in Whitley and in the Donnybrook that we have in Galloway,” Visser said. “That starts with the RAs. In addition, I think the two residences should stay in touch with each other. The big thing will be having guys that know Galloway and its culture coming back the next year.”

Students present a pro-life case for contraception By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Contraception can be a controversial topic, but freshman Katherine Wilkins and senior Elyse Hutcheson sought to foster discussion in their talk, “A conversation about contraception: Why the pro-life movement should promote contraceptive use and education,” held Tuesday evening. Wilkins cited the Netherlands as an example of a country with a sex education program that helped to lower the country’s abortion rates and to foster healthy attitudes toward relationships. The Dutch system, which begins in preschool and continues through high school, consists of a week of age-appropriate lessons each year. “The Dutch credit this low abortion rate to their sex education programs,” Wilkins said. “It’s called comprehensive sexuality education. The Dutch system includes lessons in dating, how to break up with someone, what to do when you have a crush, how to tell someone you’re uncomfortable, boundaries, and things like what to do if you’re questioning your sexuality.” She contrasted the Dutch system to abstinence-only-until-marriage systems of sex ed-

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Pence grew up as a Roman Catholic and was a Democrat early in life. During college, however, he became an evangelical Christian and found himself being swayed by the “common-sense conservatism of Ronald Reagan.” After Pence spoke at Hillsdale in 2010, the college published his speech in the following month’s issue of Imprimis. In it, he discussed his view of statesmanship and argues for a limited government and a strong military. “Power is an instrument

ucation, which she said have been linked to higher abortion rates in states with sex-ed programs where discussion of abstinence is mandatory but discussion of contraceptives is not. “Abstinence is 100 percent effective, but not everyone is doing that,” Wilkins said. “We need to teach the people who are doing something different than abstinence. Abstinence is still taught, but it’s not the only form of contraceptive that kids should learn about.” She said the Netherlands average around 7.5-8.5 abortions per 1,000 pregnancies, a rate much lower than the US average of 14-16 and the world average of 34. Wilkins said studies have shown that Dutch teenagers are more likely to use contraception than American teens. Wilkins acknowledged that abortion is a multifaceted issue, but said improving sex education in America will help reduce the country’s rate of abortions. “It’s not a perfect answer, but better education has been shown to reduce the number of abortions,” Wilkins said. “Pro-life or pro-choice, we can agree that abortion should be unwanted and unnecessary rather than unsafe and unaffordable.”

Junior Kathryn Duhadway said it was interesting to learn about the Dutch system of comprehensive education and consider other perspectives on contraception. “It was nice to hear some details about the way their system works,” she said. “I think pro-life people don’t really talk about contraception a whole lot, and there are reasons for that, but some of the things Elyse said I genuinely had never thought about before, so it was good to hear those as well.” Hutcheson focused on addressing objections to different forms of contraception she has encountered in the pro-life movement and how the promotion of contraceptives can help reduce abortion rates. “There are so many wonderful pro-life individuals here who care a lot about that cause, but I’ve never once encountered someone who has said, ‘Maybe we should make condoms more available or educate children about how to have safe sex,’” Hutcheson said. “You see people sending baby socks to congress, but no one’s sending the message that maybe using contraceptive methods may reduce the number of pregnancies that end in abortions.”

She argued that organizations should take a more proactive, intentional approach to promoting contraception as a means to reduce abortions. “Between 2011-2014 abortions declined pretty drastically,” Hutcheson said. “That’s something that should really be celebrated if you’re trying to end abortion, and from what I’ve seen, part of that is from people utilizing more available and less expensive contraceptives.” She said even if individuals oppose hormonal birth control because it prevents a fertilized egg from further development or because of cancer risks, organizations can still promote other means of contraception such as condoms. Ultimately, Hutcheson said contraceptives ought to be acknowledged for their role in lowering the abortion rate. “One way to do that is contraceptives,” Hutcheson said. “Educating people on how to use contraceptives correctly might lead to a decrease in unplanned pregnancies, and more sex education might lead to better responsibility in people who do find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy who believe they are capable of taking care of the child they have.”

of fatal consequence,” Pence said in the speech. “It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. Therefore, those who are entrusted with it must educate themselves in self-restraint. A republic is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.” Lane said the senior class officers spoke with many of their peers, discussing with them what they would like to see in a commencement speaker. For him, Pence is a personal hero, and he said

he is proud and honored that Pence will address his senior class with the help of Arnn and his office. “His track record is one of principles and reasonable conservatism,” Lane said. “Chiefly, I admire him for his civility and respect in every issue he engages. He is extremely respectful and cordial. There’s a careful balance, and he hits it right on.” Tickets to the commencement ceremony will be available only for graduates and their families, Hillsdale employees, and friends of the college. Attendance to the ceremony by underclassmen

and any opportunities to meet Pence still are being discussed, said Emily Davis, media relations and communications manager. As students have waited with anticipation to learn who will be the last to address the class of 2018, Lane said he hopes students will be thankful and eager to share the stage with Pence next month. “My prayer has been the speaker we get is worth the wait,” Lane said. “From my perspective, the selection of Vice President Pence has been absolutely worth the wait.”

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Students for Life advocate health through knowledge

Sophomores Abby Liebing, Adrianne Fogg, and Rebecca Henreckson competed in SAB’s The Amazing Race event. Matthew Kendrick | Courtesy

By | Calli Townsend Collegian Reporter With 10 stops and 10 teams, The Not Lost Just Wandering team had a challenge to come out on top in the first-ever Hillsdale edition of “The Amazing Race,” a version of the popular television show hosted by the Student Activities Board on April 7. Not Lost Just Wandering raced against nine other teams, with 50 students total, in a scavenger hunt throughout campus, the cities of Hillsdale and Jonesville. The SAB creative assistant, sophomore Mollie Dill, brought the idea of hosting an Amazing Race event to a brainstorming session at the end of last year. “We thought it would be a really cool thing to do to stimulate the creativity of the students and have a super fun and competitive atmosphere,” Dill said. A few of the locations along the scavenger hunt included a trip to Market House

Supermarket, Mossey Library, and The Udder Side. While at the Market House Supermarket, teams were given a list of grocery items and their prices to find. The total of all the prices served as the clue, telling them the address of their next location. While at the library, competitors were given a call number which would lead them to their next clue. As the teams headed to The Udder Side, they had to pick one team member to eat a medium-sized cup of ice cream. The Hillsdale women’s basketball team carried their cooperation on the court to campus. The team consisted of captain senior Michele Boykin, freshman Clare Mitchell, senior Jessica De Gree, senior Allie Dewire, and junior Brittany Gray. “We all kind of knew each other’s strengths. Jess is good at knowing the city and solving clues. Brittany ate the ice cream. She doesn’t really like sweets, but she didn’t complain. Allie was our

By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor Marilyn Shannon urged Hillsdale women to fend for their health by cultivating a knowledge of female physiology and the tendencies of their own bodies. Sponsored by Hillsdale College Students for Life, Shannon, a biology professor at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, gave a speech titled “Knowing your Body and Caring for it Naturally” to a group of 30 women Monday evening in Phillips Auditorium. She frequently referenced her 2009 book “Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition” as she reviewed the biological process of menstrual cycles and advised the attendees about habits for physical and mental wellness. “Learn your cycle by charting at least your signs and symptoms. Take a comprehensive vitamin to improve your cycles. Be aware of the impact of bodyweight and exercise on your cycle,” Shannon said. Students for Life President junior Kathleen Russo said the information Shannon shared enlightened her to biological facts most magazines and online publications fail to mention when writing about women’s health. “This is a topic that really isn’t talked about. It’s a lot of things you can’t easily Google because so much of women’s health issues are fixed by prescribing the birth control pill,” Russo said. “It’s interesting to learn about a more natural approach. Celebrating fertility is an important part of what the pro-life movement does, and this is one way that we can understand how women

work.” Shannon gave a separate talk Monday afternoon in which she addressed women’s health from a broader perspective, focusing on an overview of the menstrual cycle, an examination of hormonal birth control, and a rundown of natural methods that bring on menstrual relief and management. Shannon recommended, for example, that women load their lunch and dinner plates with colorful vegetables like kale and eggplant to lighten their cycles. She also said women suffering from menstrual discomfort can find relief by taking supplements like fish oil and flax oil. So many attended this session in the Grewcock Student Union’s formal lounge that Russo had to bring in more chairs for the attendees left standing. “No matter how pro-life you are, no matter how much you study, there’s always something to be learned about important topics,” Russo said about women’s health. “You have to sit down and take care of your body sometimes.” Sophomore Adelaide Holmes went to both of Shannon’s presentations and said she enjoyed learning more about her own health. “I appreciated the lectures because it provided women with information that we often do not seek out on our own,” Holmes said. “Taking care of your body is so important for your physical, spiritual, and emotional health, but we often ignore the topic because we feel it’s faux pas. These talks helped start the conversation.”

By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor The tunnel connecting Lane and Kendall Halls is generally one of the least descript areas of the Hillsdale College campus. On Monday morning, however, 15 students turned it into a miniature museum. Each spring, Professor of History David Stewart offers students the chance to a one-credit course on museum studies. For their final project, students research a subject of their choosing and put together a vivid poster-sized presentation to showcase to other students, faculty, and members of nearby historical societies. “The subjects had to deal with something within an American context,” Stewart said. “Something in American art, American history, conservation in America, something to do with America to put on a poster. Other than that, it was pretty open-ended.” The students took full advantage of this flexibility, working with subjects ranging between fashion, literature, motherhood, architecture, video games, history, and more. “They were things that students went, ‘I was really interested in this and I wanted to know more, but maybe it wasn’t right for a term paper,’”

Stewart said. He said it was this type of curiosity, mixed with some individual passion, which spawned most of the ideas for the project. Junior Adam Cieply presented his topic of “The American Arcade: Yesterday and Today” to a continuJunior Adam Cieply presented on the history of arcade games. al stream of onlookers. He Stevan Bennett Jr. | Collegian said he was Cieply, where she presented most of the time when we see inspired by another course her project, “The American something abandoned, the he took at Hillsdale — ethics Cola: Coca-Cola and Amerifirst instinct is to bulldoze of video gaming — and saw can Advertising.” it, so I wanted to figure out the project as an opportunity “My friends tease me and why so many of those towns to research a topic which had say I’m addicted to Coca-Cohad been left standing and played a role in his childhood la,” she said. “I knew already preserved just as they were. and which he though other that it had a very rich histoAnd I do think it’s important Hillsdale students may not ry and a large influence on to preserve what life was like have known much about. American advertising, so it at the time, and they’ve done a He traced the history of the was both kind of personal but really good job of that.” arcade from its origins to its also a chance to spreads some Some students even took modern roles, such as the awareness of the impact that it the opportunity to research arcade and bar hybrid. had of American advertising.” topics tied to Hillsdale Col“As a kid going to arcades Personal interest was a lege. Senior Josh Schmid was it was one of those great social driving factor for senior one such student, presenting interactions, so the fact that Ralston Tucker as well, who on Hillsdale College and The a lot of these modern arcades researched ghost towns in Great War. are being created for the sake relation to the American “Whenever anybody thinks of living on that legacy was identity. of Hillsdale and war thinks something I wanted to talk “I’m a fan of the Wild of the Civil War, so I wanted about,” Cieply said. West. I think it’s really cool, to explore something people Junior Kristin Freeman and ghost towns are a fixture don’t know about,” Schmid occupied the wall across from of that,” she said. “I think said. “World War I is one of

the more obscure wars in U.S. History, so I wanted to do this war some justice. Going in, I knew a lot about U.S. involvement, but I knew nothing about what Hillsdale did.” Schmid said he found bountiful information on the topic, mentioning that all but two upperclassmen men left the College to fight by the time the war ended. Stewart said he has seen a lot of interest from students in the museum profession over the last decade, and this class provides them the opportunity for some hands-on experience and learning. “A lot of students over the past ten years or so have approached people in the department and said, “I like history, but I don’t want to be a teacher. What do I do then?’” he said. “Nationally, this is sort of the obvious answer, although we’ve never done much of it at Hillsdale, so we started offering this class.” Stewart added that this extends beyond just the history department, to areas such as art history and the sciences. Now in its second year, the course is offered every spring. Each student encouraged others considering the class to actually register for the it next year, but Cieply put it most succinctly. “Just take it.”

SAB leads teams on scavenger hunt in Hillsdale edition of ‘The Amazing Race’ driver,” Boykin said. “Whoever was the closest to the clue would figure out what to do. We all had our own little jobs throughout the race.” Junior Andres Torres also led his team, The Incredibles, to fifth place. The Incredibles consisted of Torres, freshmen Veronica Endris, Tom Howell, and Barrett Moore, and junior Michael Whitman. “It seemed really interesting and like a good way to spend a Saturday,” Torres said. “Barrett ate the ice cream for us. He may or may not have gotten a couple brain freezes.” Boykin said the Amazing Race was a great team bonding experience. “I’ve watched the show and it’s something we’ve always wanted to do,” Boykin said. “My favorite part was just kind of hanging out with my friends outside of basketball and the school environment in general, and going through Hillsdale to places I hadn’t been before.”

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Delta Tau Delta raise more than $400 in Un-Baked Sale

By | Nolan Ryan Assistant Editor Delta Tau Delta fraternity raised $400 in its UnBaked Sale last week in the Grewcock Student Union. The sale raised money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, the fraternity’s national charity. “This has been one of our more successful fundraisers we’ve held this school year,” DTD’s Public Relations Chairman senior Peter O’Rourke said in an email. “We’ve learned our lesson from past Un-Baked Sales, and that’s really helped us make this so successful.” According to the DTD website, the JDRF and the fraternity have partnered for charity events since 2012. JDRF funds research for Type 1 diabetes, which affects 1.25 million Americans, according to the website. Junior Andrew Berryhill, a member of DTD, said people’s familiarity with the event was part of what made it successful. “If you say ‘Un-Baked Sale,’ someone will say, ‘That’s the one the Delts do.’ When people were walking by, they would even reference past events. They would say, ‘Oh, you guys are doing that again. I’ll get some.’ That familiarity with the event helped a lot with its success,” Berryhill said. But in addition to campus’ familiarity with the Un-Baked Sale fundraisers, Berryhill believes the community of DTD brought a lot to the table for last week’s fundraiser.. “We had a lot more brotherhood participation than in past years,” he said. “Even when I wasn’t working the event, whenever I passed by, not only were there always three or four Delts there, but also a couple friends. Even people that weren’t Delts were helping promote it to people they knew. Not only did you have a lot of brothers there who were enthusiastic and interacting with the crowd, you had other people that weren’t even Delts reaching out to others.” The DTD members running the fundraiser had to have a balance between “being aggressive, but also being balanced,” according to Berryhill. “You’re asking for money; that’s the aggressive part,” he said. “But you also have to explain what it’s about, what it’s for, and why you’re so enthusiastic and passionate about this project. We saw a lot of that this time around.”

cancer research Trafficking survivor to speak on Thursday Pingpong supports nership brought a lot more Advertised as $3 for sinBy | Annette Nguyen Collegian Freelancer Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution founder Theresa Flores will speak about fighting human trafficking at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Phillips Auditorium. As a survivor of trafficking herself, Flores will talk about her adolescent experiences as a former trafficking victim and her perspective as a Christian on the long road to healing. She will also discuss the SOAP project, her ministry that spreads awareness on

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the fight against sex trafficking through distributing soap bars wrapped with ribbon that gives the National Human Hotline number to high-risk motels. “Human trafficking is not a distant problem,” InterVarsity member Elizabeth Garner said. The tragic reality is that trafficking happens in nearly every zip code, and the majority of victims are children.” After the lecture, students may choose to participate in labeling soap bars with the National Human Trafficking

California deploys 4,000 National Guard troops California Democrat Governor Jerry Brown has agreed to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops to at President Trump’s request. However they will not all be sent to the border and will not obey federal immigration. The President has support from other governors of border states.

Hotline. Small teams will then deliver the soaps to hotels surrounding Hillsdale, Jonesville, Coldwater and Jackson this Saturday. “I think people should attend this event because we as a culture are not as educated about the issue as we should be,” Alexis Pierce said. “We should all help in any way we can even if it’s something as simple as learning more information about the issue.” To find out more about Flores’ ministry visit www. soapproject.org.

Police officer dies after two car crashes Detroit police officer Keith Earle died Monday morning and having been hospitalized for two weeks following a car crash on March 26. Recent reports, however, show that he was in a different car crash less than an hour prior to that crash. Police are now looking into the cause of the crashes.

By | Joe Pappalardo Senior Writer Sunday afternoon found the Grewcock Student Union filled with the sounds of table tennis as Niedfeldt Residence hosted its third annual charity ping pong tournament. The proceeds went to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. The event doubled the previous year’s totals, raising around $120. The Sigma Chi fraternity partnered with the men’s residence, letting the dorm handle the event while the fraternity handled advertising and registration. “I think the unusual part257 dead in Algerian military plane crash At least 257 are dead after an Algerian military plane crashed in a residential area on Wednesday. As the plane began to go down in flames for a currently unknown cause, some tried to jump out. Most of the victims, soldiers and their families, were transported to the hospital.

people in who were willing to donate and participate,” said freshman Joey Sarno, a resident of Niedfeldt and Sigma Chi philanthropy chairman. The resident assistant team, including senior Mitchell Moutard and junior Alex Green, noted that the partnership served mutual interests for the two groups. “Due to the number of guys that have gone Greek in the dorm over the last couple of years, we want to extend a hand of partnership in caring for residents who both live on campus and are in a fraternity,” Moutard said.

gles and $5 for doubles, the tournament attracted around 20 participants, according to Sarno. Sophomore Quinn Crago swept the tournament, winning both the singles and doubles categories along with Jarret Ochsendorf. Despite its relatively low participation numbers, the ping pong tournament will certainly occur next year, according to the dorm’s RA team and residents. “I think Niedfeldt will continue to host this, considering we raised a good amount of money and did it in a short amount of time,” Sarno said.

Tigers’ player struck by 105.6 mph line drive While pitching on Wednesday, Detroit Tigers starter Jordan Zimmermann fell to the ground after getting hit by a line drive from the Indian’s Jason Kipnis going at a speed of 105.6 mph. He is still being examined but there is a visible bump and a right jaw contusion.

Cardboard Zuckerbergs appear on Capitol Hill While Facebook CEO Zuckerberg tesified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, 100 Zuckerberg cutouts sporting T-shirts saying “Fix Facebook” stood outside in protest of “disinformation.” It was meant to protest the spread of fake news and fake profiles on the social media platform.

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I don’t have cancer

Senior Joe Pappalardo had an accident at the gym that made him consider the possible diseases he had. Joe Pappalardo | Courtesy

By | Joe Pappalardo Senior writer My ideal Friday morning is sitting in a dark hospital room waiting for an ultrasound to be over. There are few things like the luxury of a life-determining medical exam after a night of existential insomnia. As a 22-year-old male trying to land a job in the next month, I’m not prepping for a gag-inducing gender reveal party. The only revelation I had this week is that I don’t have cancer. I hope. Two weeks ago, on what was shaping up to be a rare enjoyable Monday, I found myself wincing in pain in the Roche Sports Complex. Specifically, I was in the fish bowl they call a “fitness center,” because I’m not above letting people check me out while I squat. My ego tearing at the sleeves of my extra medium T-shirt, I stood with 250 pounds on the bar at my feet. There is no reason that I shouldn’t be able to pick up an eighth of a ton without injuring myself. As the doctor put it, there’s no reason why I should be picking up that much weight in the first place. Yet I found myself in the health center a week later, holding a pamphlet with “cancer” strategically placed in big bold letters on its front. As the doctor put it, I may have hurt myself lifting, but there was also a slim chance I was just a sore gym bro with a tumor inside of him. In attempting to deadlift 250 pounds, I had strained my 150-pound frame to the point that I would randomly wince in public for the next two weeks. While this made a profound impact on my conversation skills, I began to suspect I wasn’t just sore from an act of sheer stupidity. Last Monday brought me an antibiotics prescription and a long conversation about my tragically short bodybuilding

career. For some individuals, pondering mortality while attempting to find a job in the last month of school is the perfect recipe for a bender that ends in a zucchini field. Not one to stumble upon farms in the nighttime, I spent the week turning down drinks and explaining that antibiotics and alcohol are surprisingly not on speaking terms with each other. Suddenly, the rush from Monday to Friday became a marathon when the bedlam of figuring out plans for the weekend, hunting down a job, and preparing final projects become trivial before a pending hospital appointment. I had to wait until Friday to pose for 63 pictures at the Hillsdale Hospital, six of which the Ambler Health and Wellness Center was kind enough to print out at my request. The silver lining to this unnecessary and expensive photo-shoot is that, to the untrained eye, baby ultrasounds and Joe ultrasounds look the same. Mine are nothing more than blurry black squares, but after some minor edits and a dramatic letter addressed to my parents, I’ll know if cardiac conditions run in my family. Two weeks to the day I limped out of the Roche Sports Complex, I found out there was nothing wrong with me — besides my utter disregard for my physical limitations. I also hung up on a telemarketer offering me life insurance. The gym and I are taking a break, but we might get back together in two to four weeks. In the meantime, I’m waiting to hear back from employers who no doubt will find this all very amusing and not a cause for concern. Joe Pappalardo is a senior studying marketing.

The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff

With finals quickly approaching, students have just three weeks left to get their questions answered and participation points earned. While most questions posed by students are in good nature and beneficial to class, we ask students to take into consideration the following dos and don’ts for the sake of respecting their peers and professors with the limited classroom time left. Do speak up and ask questions

If you missed something simple — like a name or page number — don’t be afraid to ask for a clarification. Usually, a professor can quickly steer you in the right direction and maybe help other people who missed the same point. Don’t go too far off-topic If you’re interested in learning more about something discussed in class, you should ask questions. But if you’re going to bring the lecture off-topic, it’s better to respect your classmates’

time by saving your question for office hours. Chances are, your professor would love to discuss the topic further outside class. Don’t use questions as a chance to grandstand A question ought to be the chance for clarification of the subject, not your chance to show off in front of your classmates. It is not the time to demonstrate your knowledge of something tangentially related, but which brings no value to the class.

Don’t apologize for asking a question Just ask it. You are here to learn, and part of that is asking good, inquisitive questions to better understand the liberal arts we are learning here. Don’t feel bad for doing that. Don’t extend the class period If the professor asks, at the last gasp of class, “Are there any questions?” Do not have any questions. Stay late and talk to your professor after.

Raising a tarantula in the internet age How the anonymity of the internet is destroying civil discourse By | Shadrach Strehle Special to The Collegian Some people take every opportunity they can to put others down, no matter the time and place. Schoolyard bullies, aggressive customers in restaurants, and rage-filled commuters are funny all find time to let other people know how worthless they are. The strength of social convention makes sure that only the brash and socially deaf have an opportunity to ridicule others in public places. The quiet, but equally insidious, among us worry too much about making a scene to scream obscenities in public over an undercooked steak or the actions of an umpire in a little league baseball game. Luckily for those people, the internet exists. Last year, when my schedule was lighter and my depression far less destructive, I asked myself a question I am sure many others have asked: “Do tarantulas recognize and have affection for their owners?” My head was full of images of giant arachnids responding to commands, becoming visibly excited when called, and snuggling with their beloved owners. How cool would it be if, after whistling, a fuzzy eight-legged monstrosity would crawl around the corner, slow and determined, and climb onto your shoulder? Maybe even giving your ear a little nibble? This unbreakable bond between man and arthropod kept me up at night, and I needed to know the truth. Then I met Tom, author of the blog “Tom’s Big Spiders.” His posts, and companion YouTube videos, introduced me to the world of the tarantula hobby. As an arachnophobe, I held strong reservations.

To this day my blood runs completely cold if I so much as see a spider in my house. After getting over this initial problem, though, I became fascinated with his world. He explained the intricacies of breed and temperament, of husbandry rituals, and of the subtle distinctions between web producing and burrowing tarantulas. Listening to his sultry tones, I learned how members of the community abbreviate tarantula to “T” and call young tarantulas “Slings.” Sadly, tarantulas have no interest in showing their masters affection. Most tarantula owners exist in a state of reverse Stockholm syndrome, they view their pets as challenges not as companions. These large, sometimes incredibly dangerous, arachnids do everything they can to make their caretaker’s life difficult. Tarantulas shoot fiberglass like hairs from their back legs, cause muscle damage with their fangs, and their requirements for habitat are so subtle that they give even the most hardened vets ulcers. And yet, these owners love their spiders. They relish in the challenge and take extra time to make sure that their pets stay comfortable. Owners like Tom even go as far as to organize networks to “rescue” abused or abandoned tarantulas. I never once even thought about purchasing a tarantula, but everything Tom did was so genuine and passionate that I became completely immersed. Over the course of two afternoons, I absorbed his easy to read prose and began forming my own opinions about how to properly raise a creature I had no intention of even standing in the same room with. I soon discovered something that shattered this honeymoon experience: a post titled “The Importance of

Respect and Open-mindedness In the Tarantula Hobby.” In this post, Tom made references to numerous emails and YouTube comments he received over his years of writing about tarantulas. Tom discussed occasions when other keepers referred to him as an “idiot” or “completely useless.” With his usual composure and professionalism, Tom requested that other keepers should value input for the sake of keeping their pets alive and well. This left me dejected. How could someone drive themselves to verbally harass Tom? Tom, with grace accumulated from years of public school teaching, believed that these messages merely came from passionate hobbyist who cared deeply about raising tarantulas. However, after a little digging, I came to a different conclusion. Tom opened a previous post, titled “A Nasty Email”, with the line: “Well, it was bound to happen.” This fatalism got me thinking: Why was this bound to happen? As people continue to use the internet to personally attack others behind a wall of anonymity, internet culture becomes increasingly receptive and expectant of ridiculous behavior. Content creators on the YouTube platform turn off their comment sections or refuse to read them. Comments on news articles often resort to ad hominem attacks to make their point, with other commenters responding in kind. Organizations that use social media, including Hillsdale College, now employ specialists who work full time deleting comments that could potentially reflect badly on their image. All attempts to change the way people interact with oth-

ers online usually come from mothers of young children, all desperately attempting to fight the new bugbear “cyberbullying.” With students routinely exposed to media attempting to combat cyberbullying, including the horrendously bad horror film “Unfriended,” most agree that the problem continues to get worse. Even though the slurs thrown at Tom seem tame to most people, especially in comparison to the comments many women content creators receive online, they threw me into a special kind of indignation. I simply cannot understand why someone so genuine and passionate, so dedicated to his craft, and so willing to take time out of his busy schedule to educate others should expect “nasty emails.” As this problem continues to get worse, rolling over and simply accepting online harassment only exacerbates the issue. When an angry customer in a restaurant loudly berates the waiter, most people sit in their booth and stare extra hard at their salad. By expecting this aggression on the internet and simply attempting to weather the storm, we sit in our booths and try not to make a scene. Send people whose work you enjoy encouraging emails. Share content with your friends and family. Do everything you can to support folks who entertain and inform you for completely free. Simply letting, and expecting, cowards to use the internet to harass people concedes to the underlying issues driving people to use their anonymity as a weapon. If Tom can raise tarantulas, you can get out of your booth and make a scene. Shadrach Strehle is a junior studying history.

Stressed? Try horseback riding By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief After registering for next semester’s classes, it can feel exciting to explore the new subjects, but it can also feel daunting, too. A whole new semester, just as we near the end of the current one. I suggest adding, if you can, one more course: horseback riding. As the only class offered during the spring and fall semesters that guarantees students can interact with a living animal, horseback riding provides a wonderful opportunity to leave campus, destress, and get exercise. As a senior, I signed up for the one-credit, eight-week sports studies course this semester. Although I grew up loving horses, the one-hour lessons have taught me the mental benefits of caring and working with animals regularly while at school. Although there is a $280 additional fee to take either of the classes, the cost is a steal. Similar lessons could cost upwards of $400.

It takes about 25 minutes to drive to Premier Equestrian Center LLC in Hudson, Michigan, but it is a scenic rural drive and provides a chance to leave the campus bubble. There, after owner Danielle

It’s why clubs bring puppies and kittens to campus. Studies show that petting a dog can release neurotransmitters in the brain that make people feel better. The same is true for horses, and they just might

“Although I grew up loving horses, the one-hour lessons have taught me the mental benefits of caring and working with animals regularly while at school.” Cole fetches the horses for the lesson, students groom and tack their steeds. In the monotony of the daily grind, there is something nice about caring for another living creature — to brush it until its coat shines so that when you place the saddle on its back, the horse is comfortable.

nuzzle back (though the barn has several dogs often roaming around, too). In the lessons, beginner students have the opportunity to learn how to ride their horses, starting with walking and soon moving onto trotting and posting. The key, though, is control. Riders

must pay attention to their horses to keep them away from other riders in the arena and moving at the correct pace. When so many things can feel out of our hands in college, from the next paper’s deadline to an event that needs to be planned to our futures, it is nice to be able to let that go and focus on staying in control of something. Plus, horseback riding is guaranteed exercise for that day of the week (trust me, an hour in the saddle, and you’ll start feeling sore). I look forward to the class every week, and it is a much needed break from the classwork and campus business. Afterward, I am more relaxed and better focused to work on studies. So if you are feeling stressed, the answer might be to add just one more class. I would recommend horseback riding. Breana Noble is a senior studying politics.

Opinions Convention of States will not solve America’s problems

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By | Garrison Grisedale Special to The Collegian With the birth of the Hillsdale College chapter of Citizens for Self-Governance, demands for an Article V Convention of States found renewed vigor on campus. And indeed, many vocal facets of the conservative movement have lent their support. In the words of Mark Levin, our country is “on the precipice of national disaster.” The “only solution”? An Article V Convention. Co-founder of the Convention of States Project Michael Farris said: “A Convention of States under Article V is our only realistic hope of saving our liberty.” And Hillsdale sophomore Weston Boardman advocated for an Article V Convention in last week’s issue of The Collegian. Conservatives such as Levin, Farris, and Boardman see a convention as both our last hope and our silver bullet, the panacea to all of America’s

ills. However, an Article V Convention of States will not solve America’s problems and poses significant risks. Advocates for a convention allege that the people are on their side. While polling shows around 6570 percent of people would like to see a convention, this does not mean those voters support conservative goals. Polls also reveal 68 percent of Americans support a ban on semi-automatic rifles, for example. If conservatism held as much political capital as Article V Convention advocates claim, an easy avenue for constitutional restoration would be through Congress. But there is not a deep-seated yearning for constitutionalism in the American citizenry today. And as Plato’s Republic teaches, the regime is merely a reflection of the soul of the people. Thus, there is a certain risk inherent to any convention. Liberals want to make many more changes to the Consti-

tution than conservatives, and they would be highly motivated to take advantage of any opportunity. True, the ratification process is stringent, requiring the agreement of 38 states. But throughout our history, of the 33 proposed amendments sent to states, 27 were ratified. And would delegates to a Convention have a more robust understanding of justice and human nature than those whose ideas birthed our nation? Surely not. Compare the astute minds attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to our leaders today, and the proposition seems laughable. Even the legislatures of deep-red states tend to diverge from conservative principles. Common Core, for instance, originated in Texas. This is an opportunity for politicians in the mold of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to rewrite our Constitution. Or, perhaps, those in the mold of John McCain and Jeff Flake. God forbid the two sides come to a compromise! Advocates like Boardman

Seniors are honored to have Mike Pence at commencement By | Macy Mount Special to The Collegian Vice President Mike Pence’s willingness to speak at a small liberal arts school in a virtually unknown southern Michigan town is incredible, and we should be grateful to meet him. Pence embodies the values we hold highly at Hillsdale College, and he makes our day of celebration even bigger than it already is. Last summer, I had the distinct honor to intern in the Office of the Vice President, and I had several encounters with the Vice President himself. Each time I spoke with him, I was struck by his humility, his confidence, and his sincerity, and I fully trust that he will approach his commencement address with the same humility, confidence, and sincerity that pervade all of his personal interactions. Pence already demonstrated his understanding of the conservatism that Hillsdale students claim to defend — a conservatism that transcends political affiliation — when he spoke here in 2010. “[Presidential dignity] depends entirely upon character, self-discipline, and an understanding of the fundamental principles that underlie not only the republic, but life itself,” Pence said in the speech he gave at Hillsdale College on “The Presidency and the Constitution.” “We can still astound the world with justice, reason, and strength. I know this is true, but even if it was not we could not in decency stand down, if only for our debt to history. We owe a debt to those who came before.” Pence understands the magnitude of conserving the eternal and universal truths that our predecessors have passed down to us. His politics adhere to these principles, but his conservatism surpasses the realm of laws and leaks.

Before and after garnering national attention, Mike Pence openly and unashamedly defended the Christian faith, even in the face of criticism from political pundits and journalists. From advocating for the pro-life movement, to revealing that he prays with his family every morning, to defending his personal conviction not to eat dinner alone with a woman who is not his wife, Mike Pence has proven that he is a man of strong faith and deep conviction. As a student body that values faith, we should consider it a privilege to host a commencement speaker who defends his faith

“Pence embodies the values we hold highly at Hillsdale College.” to the extent that Mike Pence does. Pence understands and exemplifies the tradition and permanent principles we revere at Hillsdale College. Pence is a good man, and it will be an honor to walk across the stage and shake his hand on the day of our graduation. Some say a speech from Mike Pence will tie Hillsdale College even more closely to the Trump administration than it already is. Whether or not you support the Trump administration that Mike Pence represents is totally your call, but if you believe that Hillsdale College is defined by the people who speak here, then you have a weak-minded view of the impact this school has. I believe Hillsdale College is strong enough to stand on

its own merit. Through our Hillsdale education, we learn how to think, read, write, and speak effectively, and this is why Hillsdale students graduate and do amazing things — whether it’s starting their own small business, attending medical school, running for public office, or accepting a teaching position at a classical school. The identity of this college is found in the education we are given here and in what we do with that education, not in who the class of 2018’s commencement speaker is. A good commencement speaker is a leader who exemplifies the character Hillsdale students should aspire to and the values the school holds dear. Pence does this, but even if this were not the case, I believe the reputation Hillsdale has because of the students who graduate from here far outweighs the impact of one commencement speaker, even if he is the Vice President of the United States. Graduation will be inside instead of outside. People will have to wait in a security line for forty-five minutes. You don’t support the Trump administration. So what? Yes, the purpose of a graduation is to celebrate the graduates and the work we have accomplished in our four years at Hillsdale. A speech from the Vice President at our commencement does not take away from the fact that this day exists to celebrate the successful journey we have all traveled at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale teaches students more than academics. Hillsdale is founded on Judeo-Christian values, values that Mike Pence shares, and if we ascribe to those values, we’ll treat him as an undeniably upright man who wants to encourage us to take our Hillsdale education and do great things with it. Macy Mount is a senior studying politics.

promise this cannot happen. But therein lies the rub: On one hand, they say nothing radical could come of a Convention. On the other, they posit a convention as, in Levin’s own words, “the only solution as big as the problem.” A Convention either can radically transform our country, or it cannot. Advocates cannot have it both ways. Most fundamentally, calls for a Convention misdiagnose the problem. Our problem is not the Constitution; the problem is that we have abandoned it. Erecting more of those “parchment barriers” Madison references in Federalist 48 will not curb the Constitution’s abuses. We need good people to uphold our laws, and our democratic tradition of representative government has not been exhausted. Our problems do not lie in our Constitution, but the people we elect to obey it. We cannot simply pass more laws to make our problems disappear. The promised “quick fix” does not exist.

In support of a Convention, Boardman quotes George Mason. The irony, of course, is that George Mason opposed the Constitution and refused his signature. On the other hand, James Madison, the Constitution’s primary author, spoke out against the proposal to allow for Article V Conventions: “Difficulties might arise as to the form, the quorum etc., which in constitutional regulations ought to be as much as possible avoided.” The complete lack of precedent led to grave logistical worries for James Madison; Boardman is unconcerned. Additionally, the word “revolution” appears three times in Boardman’s article. In the Declaration of Independence, the word revolution is nowhere to be found. Rather than appealing to reason, this sort of rhetoric serves only to excite the passions. Lest we forget, the Ancients defined law as reason free from passion. Flippantly throwing around the word revolution is a dangerous game, and Boardman should

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made national news — some argue that the college furthers the perception of Hillsdale as the intellectual arm of the Trump administration, not the paragon of a liberal arts education you see on the brochures. It’s a fair criticism. Seven of our professors — including College President Larry Arnn — publicly endorsed Trump in the 2016 election. Hillsdale just hired Trump’s now-former National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton to be a lecturer at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and

be more responsible with his language. An Article V Convention is impractical, impulsive, and imprudent. Of course, its advocates will tell you they have it all figured out. Mark Meckler, President of Citizens for Self-Governance, said the idea that a convention could go awry is “literally structurally, factually, and numerically impossible.” In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is forced to live with regret for his mistakes. When asked why he didn’t consider the consequences beforehand, he replies: “Do you really think I went in headlong, like a fool? No, I went into it like a bright boy, and that’s what ruined me!” Let’s hope Hillsdale’s Citizens for Self-Governance do not also come to regret their desires. Garrison Grisedale is a junior studying politics.

Hillsdale isn’t Athens. This is Sparta. from the vice president — too late; you took that cannoli. Now leave the gun. That’s just the nature of this About 100 years ago, college. We like to say that the cynical columnist H.L. we approach education in the Mencken wrote a two senstyle of ancient Athens, buildtence piece that accurately ing spaces for free inquiry. In frames Vice President Mike truth, we’re more aligned with Pence’s conundrum as he the tactics of ancient Sparta, prepares for his 2018 Hillswhich retained order and a dale College commencement specific culture through a speech: “The saddest life is strict and rigorous education. that of a political aspirant Hillsdale College is not a place under democracy. His failure of unbounded conversation is ignominious and his success or a center for opening up is disgraceful.” the minds of its students with Pence can’t win in the eyes unregulated discourse. That of the public — even in our would be the same madness small-batch eyes. And he that allowed never has. demagogues When, as such as AlcibiaIndiana govdes to crash the ernor in 2015, Athenian empire he chose to after 30 short amend the years. Religious No, this is Freedom Sparta. Hillsdale Restoration College is a conAct to favor ditioning camp the LGBT that teaches its community, students how principled to think, if the conservatives students choose cried out to participate. against him. Like Spartan edA governor ucation, which letting himself Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Hillsdale’s 2018 taught its young get pushed commencement. Wikimedia Commons men to hold the around by fatherland dear, empty threats Citizenship. If that name we learn to cling to the good, from those corporate eunuchs isn’t familiar, look up Publius the true, and the beautiful. over at Apple and Salesforce? Decius Mus, the fourth-cenAnything else is foreign — Ludicrous. Cowardly. tury B.C. Roman consul who and not good enough for a When he was picked as wrote a series of fervently Hillsdale student. The only President Donald Trump’s pro-Trump blog posts in early major difference between us running mate in 2016 (goofily 2016. Our school is a locus for and Sparta is that Hillsdale billed as the assuagement for highly educated people who does not force opinions on its “principled conservatives”), support The Donald. students. It simply presents a the rest of the country railed And that’s fine. The admin- way of looking at the world; against him “because he hates istration and the friends of the students can either embrace it gays.” That’s the only thing or abandon it to the Michigan many people know about him. college want to situate graduates in positions of political cold. It’s not even true. influence. Right now, that No matter what he says, But so it goes. Pence is a means supporting Trump. Pence’s commencement politician, and he signed up So be it. These people address will present weighty for this hullabaloo.Whatever helped most of us pay for questions for students’ judgehe does — failure or success ment — so give the guy a — the nation will criticize him our educations with generous scholarships. To all chance. because he’s only a human. those liberally educated After all, these things are Just like the rest of us. soon-to-be-graduating stua parable. If you listen closeFor many students at dents, the ones who are afraid ly, maybe you’ll decipher its Hillsdale, that’s not the whole of becoming implicit in the meaning. problem. By picking Pence as Trump administration just our commencement speaker because they will receive their Nic Rowan is a junior — a choice that has already final collegiate benediction studying history.

Trump should visit the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery By | Joshua Waechter Special to The Collegian An ocean away, amidst the peace and beauty of the French countryside, a memorial stands adorned with the statue of an American soldier. Harriet Beale commissioned this memorial as a tribute to her son, First Lieutenant Walker Beale, who was killed in action on 18 Sept. 1918, at 22-years-old. A simple, mournful inscription is written above the statue’s head: “He sleeps, far from his family, in the sweet soil of France.” Monuments such as this one adorn American World War I battlefields and cemeteries all across north-

eastern France. Millions of young American men fought in World War I, and over 100,000 died in it. Yet visitation to the places where they violently struggled and now peacefully rest is often eclipsed by more recent and more famous pilgrimage sites such as Normandy. In large part, this results from the post-1918 collective national disillusionment with American involvement in a war that was supposed to, as Woodrow Wilson naively put it, “make the world safe for democracy.” In World War II, by contrast, America accomplished nearly everything it had set out to do after Pearl Harbor, and far more American men and American deaths were involved in the effort.

The final result is that Americans today are far more likely to know relatives who fought in “the Good War” than in “the Great War”, and far more likely to recognize names like Omaha Beach, Ste. Mere Eglise, and Bastogne than names like Château-Thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne. As we approach the centenary of Armistice Day, it is important that Americans today remember the ultimate sacrifice made by so many Americans 100 years ago. Many of those soldiers, popularly known as “doughboys,” now lie in the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, the largest American war cemetery in Europe. With 14,246 men resting there, the cemetery serves as

a peaceful and fitting memorial to the men who attacked well-protected and in-depth German trench systems during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Fought from Sept. 26 to Nov. 11, 1918, the Offensive remains the bloodiest battle in American history, with over 26,000 dead and another 96,000 wounded. It was the American Expeditionary Force’s largest battle and played a critical role in the final Allied push to break through the infamous Hindenburg Line and force Germany’s capitulation. Today, tragically large number of crosses and Stars of David beautify pastures once disfigured by shell holes and machine gun nests. Yet, for all

the Meuse-Argonne’s importance to the ending of World War I, the cemetery has never once been visited by a sitting American president. President Bill Clinton came the closest in 1998, when the White House announced plans for him to visit the cemetery on the 80th anniversary of the battle’s beginning. Unfortunately, by September, scandal preoccupied Clinton and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs was sent in his place. Since then, no administration has announced any intention of adding the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery to the presidential itinerary. However, this year finally presents the perfect chance to afford these American heroes the recognition they deserve.

The Trump administration should make plans to visit the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery this autumn to commemorate the centenary of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the end of the War. Such a trip would have the potential to bring Americans together in remembrance of the fallen and reignite national interest in our involvement in World War I, much as Reagan’s Pointe Du Hoc speech did for World War II. The President should not pass up this opportunity to honor World War I veterans and give the nation the unifying, patriotic moment it so sorely needs. Joshua Waechter is a sophomore studying history.

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City Plans plans future renovations for city hall By | Joshua J. Paladino Opinions Editor

Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie requested that city council provide money in 2018-2019 budget for repairs to city hall. “In the past, the condition of city hall was allowed to deteriorate to a point where the city had to spend over a million dollars renovating it,” Mackie said. “So, this expense is to keep the building from getting to that condition ever again.” Mackie asked for $45,000 from Hillsdale City Council to repair city hall If city council includes the money

for renovations in the budget, then they will begin in July, according to Director of Public Services Jake Hammel. He said the city plans to bid out the work to contractors, since his department does not have the workforce to complete the job and fulfill the rest of its obligations, such as repairing roads and parks. The city first repaired city hall two years ago when the roof started to leak. Hammel said the next step for city hall is to repair the exterior. The city has not overhauled the exterior in 23 years. “We have some mortar in places between the brick and sandstone that has eroded

away over time, and some of the caulk and sealant around a lot of the windows has dried up and cracked,” he said. “The

“It’s contributing some cracks on the walls and paint peeling and things like that,” he said.

“We want to get the outside sealed up. We’ll get the brick joints re-mortared, get all the windows and building protrusions caulked and sealed back up nice and tight.” situation we’re in now is we have moisture getting through the outer walls. Hammel said water seeps into the building, causing interior damage.

He said damage to the building remains superficial, so it’s best to start on the project now. The city will save money in the long-term by making proactive repairs to

the roof and exterior, preventing the moisture from damaging the building’s foundation. “We got the roof done. We want to get the outside sealed up. We’ll get the brick joins re-mortared, get all the windows and building protrusions caulked and sealed back up nice and tight,” Hammel said. “That will set us up for the next few years, then we’ll go to work on the interior, fixing up the peeling spots and the cracks and repainting the walls.” Hammel said he estimates the project will take two to three months. The work requires professional masons and equipment, so the city

won’t complete the project inhouse. Contractors will put up scaffolding and lifts. Plus, the project will need the full-time work of at least two people, which the city can’t spare. “We won’t be cost effective is the bottom line,” he said. Hammel said the building will get aesthetic repairs as well. Contractors will power wash the bricks and put a sealant on them They will also sand and stain the doors. The city originally planned to repair city hall in phases, but Hammel said the costs were lower if contractors completed them all at one time.

Charity at Drop-in Center offers haircuts to the homeless By | Alexis Daniels Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale Drop-In Center continues to serve those suffering from mental illnesses in the local community through activities and support groups, promoting empowerment, and recovery. On Sunday, the Hillsdale Drop-In Center welcomed a group from Toledo, Ohio, who gave their time by offering haircuts to homeless people, members of the center, and even some people who just walked by, according to Amanda Crandall, the director of the Hillsdale DropIn Center. She said she was enthusiastic about the services that the group brought to the center and that they reached out to her asking if they could give haircuts to the local homeless. “They get together, they bring meals clothing, they do hair, they do nails,” Crandall said.

The group itself was on par with the center’s mission, which is to empower and support throughout their daily lives. The Drop-In center often reaches out to the community to help those in need. “We have recovery groups, things for anxiety, depression,” Crandall said. “We have a free meal every day, we have laundry services, and it’s free for people to sign up to become a member. They just have to have the mental health diagnosis.” These members were able to receive the services of the Toledo group on Sunday, something which Crandall felt was an uplifting act of kindness. “They were so excited,” she said. “They felt like someone cared about them. And that is the mission statement of the people who came up and said they do matter and people do care about them. They definitely helped. It was a wonderful event to be a part of.”

As a non-profit organization, the drop-in center relies on programs like Medicaid, and state and local grants to fund the center, which makes room for groups such as the one who offered haircuts this past weekend. One of the recipients of the group’s kindness was Vicki Woodby, a board member and volunteer at the drop-in center. “I thought it was a wonderful experience,” Woodby said. “The people were very friendly and outgoing. I got a haircut, which I loved, I got my feet rubbed with lotion, which was very nice. Got my toenails painted they were just a good group of people.” For every member of the center and even members of the community who stopped by on Sunday, it was a heartwarming experience. “They were just all really fabulous people,” Woodby said. “I hope we get to see them again.”

The Drop-in Center provides a community outreach center for the disabled. Nic Rowan | Collegian

Author to discuss new book at library Mitchell Research Center gearing By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor In 1949, John Kozak and his family escaped Communist Czechoslovakia. Now, more than 60 years later, he’s visiting the Hillsdale Community Library to share his — and more importantly, his mother’s — story. From 6-7:30 p.m. this Tuesday, April 17, Kozak will discuss and sign copies of his book, “Through the Eyes of Rose: A Mother’s Flight to Freedom in a Memory Mosaic.” Published in 2009, the book chronicles his family history, centering on his mother’s improbable exit from Communist-controlled Central Europe and her return home to Michigan. Heidi Pruitt, who works in adult services at the library, said she’s seen lots of interest from the community in hearing Kozak’s story, in part because he lives nearby. “I know he has local appeal,” she said. Kozak, a resident of Grosse Pointe Farms, said he wrote

the story to celebrate his mother’s courage. “The book was written as a tribute to my mom who basically defied the Czechoslovakian Communists,” Kozak said. “She was a gutsy 42-yearold woman who only knew one way. And she operated by the skin of her teeth.” After World War II, Kozak lived in Prague with his teenage sister and his mother, Rose, while his father was out of the country for business. When Rose decided to emigrate with her two children, she faced a series of obstacles, including an arrest warrant for her husband, a corrupt guide, and a close encounter at the edge of freedom. Kozak said they journeyed to the Bohemian Forest, but as they neared the border, a Soviet patrol approached them. “I heard my mother tell my sister that we might be caught by Russian patrol and adopted by a communist family but to never give up hope because she would come and find us,” he said. Then gunfire broke out

somewhere farther down, and the patrol raced to check it out. The Kozaks slipped quietly across the border. After the family, including Kozak’s father, immigrated to Michigan, Rose became a U.S. citizen. Kozak said Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1928-1951, congratulated her at her dedication ceremony in 1956. Members of the Hillsdale community have expressed their interest in hearing Kozak’s harrowing journey from Czechoslovakia to West Germany to Michigan. Jessy Bigelow, who said she’s planning to attend Kozak’s talk, said a friend invited her to the event before she’d even heard of Kozak and his book. “After finding out about him, now I’m super excited because the story is very intriguing to me,” she said. “I think it’s great an author is coming to our local library to promote his story.”

up for renovation project

By | Brendan Cleary Senior Writer The Mitchell Research Center’s old building might look newer inside and out, if it receives funding from the city and historic grants. The Mitchell center is the light purple building on Manning Street next to the Hillsdale Community Library and has suffered water damage and weathering over the years. The plaster ceilings in the Mitchell Building are in need of repair. after some water radiators leaked into the wood and plaster, said Bonnie McCosh, the center’s vice president. The ceiling in the ballroom on the third floor need to be repaired or changed, she said. “There’s no way to replicate this kind of plaster design,” McCosh said while pointing out the intricate designs on the ceiling. “It’s very difficult — most old buildings like this have lath and plaster, and that’s kind of hard to repair unless the person knows what they’re doing.” The original designs were created by Italian artisans, but the beauty is also the problem that the city is now trying to

tackle. “The ceilings aren’t drywall, they’re plaster,” David Mackie, Hillsdale City Manager said. “The third floor plaster are ceilings are coming down.” The capital improvement portion of the 2018-2019 proposed budget details the city’s plan to fix the ceilings: “The complete stripping and replacing of the aging materials is planned, replacing the old plaster/lathe [sic] ceiling with new drywall and a fresh coat of paint.” The proposed budget will also allow change the way the exterior looks, but it also serves to keep the house in tact. Mackie said that the some of the outside structure such as the siding and the underside of the eaves are rotting and in need of repair. “The exterior of the building has several areas where the wood has rotted due to exposure to weather conditions,” the capital improvement section continues. “These areas will be repaired/replaced and a complete repainting of the exterior wood siding, soffit and fascia is planned.” The Center is also waiting to hear back from evaluators about whether it would be feasible to strip the paint off

the building to expose the yellow brick underneath, McCosh said. The Center is also exploring the possibility of historic grants to pay for that process. The city council is scheduled to take the proposed budget to a vote early next month. The house has quite a history, and it continues to help other uncover their own history. Charles T. Mitchell began construction of the house in 1868 and finished it the next year, according to Hillsdale’s walking tour pamphlet. The house was left in a will to the city, and in 1908, the building became the Mitchell Public Library. It has since come to house the Mitchell Research Center, whose purpose is to “make collected and donated research records and materials relative to genealogical, historical and archival subjects available; to provide needed or requested assistance to the public; and to continue indexing and compiling research materials for Hillsdale County and beyond,” according to Hillsdale Community Library website.

The Mitchell Research Center is getting ready for a renovation project. Nic Rowan | Collegian

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A cracked sidewalk on Fayette Street. Nic Rowan | Collegian

New city budget projected to include old sidewalk repair program

It is not only the roads in the City of Hillsdale that are cracking, but many sidewalks, too. As Hillsdale looks to invest in its infrastructure, including its nearly $2.8 million investBy | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief

ment in roads, the city also is planning to restart its sidewalk program. After Hillsdale ended the initiative in 2011, City Manager David Mackie announced at the April 2 city council meeting that the city is looking to budget about $50,000 to assist residents with the cost of replacing their sidewalks now that the city is more financially stable. “It’s in the city’s best interest to have sidewalks looking nice,” Mayor Adam Stockford said. “It’s a small thing, but

it’s symbolic of something bigger. It’s a sure sign to show residents: This city is back on track.” If the city council approves the line item in the budget before June, the city would pay 25 percent of the costs to replace a block of sidewalk from its general fund, and the residents would pay for the remaining 75 percent. For those unable to make the costs upfront, the city also could cover the costs and have the homeowners pay their share in their taxes across the next 10 years. “We want as many residents to take advantage of this as possible,” Stockford said. “If you live in the city, we’ll make it happen.” The program replaces sidewalks by block to take advantage of economies of

scale, said Jake Hammel, the director of the Public Services Department. The program requires a special assessment of the sidewalk, a public notice, and the participation of all the property owners on the block. “Just a flag of sidewalk here or there is quite expensive,” Hammel said. “The cost is much more affordable if you do the entire block at once.” City Councilman Bruce

homeowners, not the city, own the pathways, and they increase homesale prices. Hammel also noted replacing the sidewalks would make the paths compliant with the American Disabilities Act. Many sidewalks in the city currently are not, which is one of the reasons why the Public Services Department requires homeowners obtain a permit and have an inspection when

Sharp, who has advocated for the return of the sidewalk program, added that sidewalks in good condition reduce liability risks since

replacing their sidewalk. “We want everyone to be safe, and we certainly want to be handicap friendly,” Hammel said.

location has yet to be revealed, Sattler said she hopes to have the coffee shop opened during the second week of May. She has already begun a training process for new employees, adding to her staff in preparation for the new opening. “Everyone is thrilled, and everyone understands,” Sattler said. “It helps with the excitement going forward.” Sattler and her staff are turning to their customers for the name of the coffee shop, by taking suggestions on the Jilly Beans Facebook page. The Hillsdale location of Jilly Beans is formally named, “Jilly Beans, the Coffee shop on the Corner,” and Sattler said she is hoping to start the second name with the phrase, “Jilly Beans too…” Almost 90 name suggestions have already been posted on the Facebook page, and they are still accepting ideas. The winner will receive a $25 gift card. The menu at the Jonesville location will remain very similar to the Hillsdale location’s

menu, but a bigger kitchen in Jonesville will allow for more baking opportunities, according to Sattler. Another perk will be a designated meeting area, where community members can hold meetings. Sattler said there will be a screen for powerpoint presentations, and other amenities that would cater well to those who are looking to hold meetings. “We will maintain the level of service and quality that people expect,” Sattler said. Julie Crowley, the manager of Jilly Beans, said she is most looking forward to Jilly Beans being able to give a coffeeshop to people who don’t already have one in their town. “It’s not just a coffee shop,” she said. “It’s something that matters.” One of her favorite parts of the Hillsdale Jilly Beans is the customers, she said. “The people that come in almost instantly become friends,” she said. Billie Jo Harwood is a lifelong resident of Jonesville, and she said when she gets coffee,

it is most often at a nearby gas station. She said there have been a couple of coffeeshops that she has seen pop up in Jonesville, but that none of them have stayed. “I’m afraid for them,” Harwood said. “I think it’d be great, but it will be tough.” Gray, however, said that he thinks it is outstanding news. He said he is a coffee drinker, but that most of Jonesville’s current coffee options are at restaurants, such as McDonalds. “It adds another full storefront and gives another draw and another reason to come downtown,” Gray said. He added that the arts entertainment stops, such as the Sauk Theater or Gallery 49 located in downtown Jonesville will create an opportunity for greater community. “It creates another one of those great places you’re looking for in a downtown,” Gray said.

“If you have nice sidewalks and nice roads, you will have nice neighborhoods.”

Between 1997 and 2011, the sidewalk program helped to replace about one side of 20-30 blocks. Hammel added that for the past few years, the city did have a sidewalk program in which the city would remove old sidewalk at no cost. The property owner paid for the new concrete slabs themselves. This “plan B” initiative should still be available in particular cases, should the city approve the sidewalk program. As Hillsdale is a “tree city,” according to City Councilman Bruce Sharp, who has advocated for the return of the sidewalk program, growing tree roots over time often push up against the sidewalk’s concrete slabs, causing them to crack and become trip hazards. Sharp said he hopes

the program will provide for a safer, friendlier community. “If you have nice sidewalks and roads, you have nice neighborhoods,” he said. “People will go out, and they’ll enjoy it. I will walk and talk with the people in my ward. My wife and I will take our dog out and get some ice cream, but there are so many sidewalks that need to be repaired in town.” Although the city council has until June to pass the budget, Stockford said he is confident the sidewalk program will receive approval. Sharp said he looks forward to an even more walkable Hillsdale. “Exercise is good for the soul,” he said. “I’d love to be able to get out and walk more easily, get to know what’s happening in Hillsdale.”

Jilly Beans prepares to open new location in Jonesville

By | Josephine Von Dohlen Assistant Editor Jilly Beans Coffee House announced earlier this month that its owner, Mary Ellen Sattler, will open a new coffee shop location in Jonesville this May. While many details are yet to be revealed, Sattler said she is looking forward to extending her coffee shop to Jonesville, just about one year after she took ownership of the Hillsdale Jilly Beans location. Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray said after the completion of a community survey, many residents expressed their interest in a full-time coffee shop in the community. Sattler said she was then contacted by another business to bring coffee to Jonesville, and around that same time, a building was put up for sale right in downtown Jonesville. “I fell in love with its warmth,” Sattler said. “It will be very similar, very comfy, with a rustic feeling.” While the exact building

Jennings joins Jansen, Wainscott in Ward 1 city council vacancy race By | Nic Rowan City News Editor

Assistant Professor of Economics Peter Jennings has joined City of Hillsdale Ward I residents Ted Jansen and Dennis Wainscott as a candidate to fill in the city council vacancy left by Ward I City Councilman Brian Watkins’ resignation. According to City Clerk Stephen French, Jansen and Jennings have completed the paperwork to be listed on the ballot in the fall election. Wainscott has not yet turned in the paperwork, but told The Collegian that he plans to seek Watkins’ seat.

Since Jennings is the third candidate to fill the paperwork, a primary election will be held in August to narrow the ballot down to two candidates, according to Mayor Adam Stockford.

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

“I don’t want to be a dependent. I want to be an asset.” Watkins resigned at a March 5 city council meeting, emailing his letter of resignation to Mayor Adam Stockford. According to Watkins, his job as a travelling public relations officer for Toyota

meetings — as excused absences — due to a work and travel conflicts. Both Jansen and Wainscott have sought this seat before, first in the fall of 2015 and then this past fall. Both

times they were defeated by the third candidate. Watkins won in 2015 and Ward I Greg Stuchell won in 2017. Wainscott told the Collegian that he keeps seeking this seat because he believes that he can help the community. “I don’t want to be a dependent. I want to be an asset,” he said. 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. Jennings could not be reached for comment.

Located in downtown Hillsdale, Jilly Beans plans to open a second location in Jonesville. Nic Rowan | Collegian

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from A1 project as a binding factor for the city and the college. By making it easier for homeowners to be private, he said, the city could help developers like him improve on housing opportunities for students. “It was my feeling that a lot of this housing was substandard, and I like to see the students have better housing,” he said. “I’d like housing to be a recruitment tool for the school, and I’d like the student housing there to be privately owned so that it’s a great tax base for the city and would act as an economic bridge between the downtown and the campus.” City Councilman Matt Bell, who is the director of programs for external affairs, supported Duke’s proposal. “I think this a good way to show how we do it differently

in Hillsdale,” he said. “We’re more about liberty here than we are about lots of rules, at least that’s what I’ve garnered from the council and the directions we’re trying to go.” Councilman Tim Dixon disagreed, saying he was unconfident in Duke’s proposal because the the townhouses residents aren’t required to work with the college. “If it’s not a homeowner’s agreement, what’s going to require the homeowner’s to sign with the college?” he said. Duke said difficulties like that would be worked out in the future. “Maybe the college just won’t plow their snow, or maybe they’ll get a little lesson from me on the responsibilities of ownership — but that’s between them,” he said. When the city voted on the proposal, every councilman except for Dixon voted to approve the motion.

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After a 12th place finish at the Tennessee River Rumble last week, the Hillsdale College golf team traveled to Indiana for the three-day, 54-hole Greyhound Invitational. The team finished the tournament on Tuesday at 17th overall with a 59-overpar 923. Despite the disappointing overall team results, junior

Liam Purslowe followed up last week’s tied-second finish with a tied-21, eight shots behind the leader. After shooting 78 (+6) on Sunday and losing ground to the field, Purslowe came back with a 70 (-2) the next day and followed that up with an even par 72 on Tuesday. “I just putted horribly in the first round. It was by far the worst putting round I've had all year,” Purslowe said. Purslowe’s putting was key to his comeback, as it allowed

him to take advantage of the position his ball striking put him in and make birdies. “I played pretty much the same all three rounds but became more confident on the greens and sunk a lot more putts in rounds two and three.” Head coach Nate Gilchrist said he has seen consistency out of Purslowe all spring. “He plays with patience and discipline and sticks to his game plan without getting frustrated when things aren't

going as planned,” Gilchrist said. This was the last event before the G-MAC Championships in two weeks on Monday, April 23. The team will be working hard in the coming weeks, preparing for a strong showing at the Championships. “The team is working on short game and attitude to prepare for the G-MAC Championships,” Gilchrist said.

Baseball falls to second in G-MAC after 1-2 weekend against Malone By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor Runs came at a premium for both teams this weekend when a 1-2 set against the Malone University Pioneers (21-10, 11-4 G-MAC) dropped the Hillsdale College baseball team (15-18, 12-3 G-MAC) to second in the division. “It was nice to get the last one, that’s for sure, but we have higher expectations than 1-2,” head coach Eric Theisen said. The low scores on the weekend shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, as the two teams entered the weekend set tied for the conference lead in complete games on the conference season. The lone game on Saturday saw the Pioneers score an unearned run in each of the first two innings. An RBI single from junior Steven Ring brought the game within one in the third, but the Pioneers added a run of insurance in both the fifth and the sixth. Hillsdale mustered one run in the eighth on a single from senior Ryan O’Hearn, but that was the end of the scoring, a 4-2 final. Senior starter Will Kruse kept the Chargers in the game, tossing seven innings, allowing four runs — two earned — and

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Division II Women's Track Athlete of the Year, missed missing qualification for the U.S. Olympic team in 2016 by 0.03 seconds in the 1500-meter run but is training for the 2020 Olympic Games. Eccleston said she was honored to train next to Hillsdale athletes. “It’s a huge honor,” Eccleston said. “I’ve really enjoyed my four years here being an athlete and seeing all these phenomenal athletes ahead of me, and it was something I definitely strived for but wasn’t sure if it would ever be attainable. So it’s a huge honor and I’m very appreciative to the College for recognizing my achievements.” In 1968 the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees voted to adopt the “Charger” nickname to its athletic program.

striking out two. Freshman James Krick threw a clean inning in relief. Pitching has been the story of Malone’s season so far, and they delivered in this game, stranding 11 Chargers on the bases throughout the game. “Their pitching did a good job with mixing,” Theisen said. “We got some hits but we stranded some runners on base, and ultimately our lack of production with runners in scoring position kept us from outscoring them. Their game is to hold their opponent to under four runs and beat you 4-1 or 4-2, and that’s what they did.” Game two on Sunday had a similar feel to the tilt from the previous day. Malone struck for one in the second, before a sac fly by sophomore Jake Hoover tied the game in the top of the fourth. The game was only knotted for half an inning, however, before the Pioneers regained the lead for good, eventually wrapping the game at 4-1. Senior pitcher Phil Carey was the only senior to take the bump for the Chargers, tossing all six innings while allowing four earned. Three batters into the final game of the weekend Ring hit a ball over the leftfield fence to give the

Chargers a 1-0 lead. This RBI was Ring’s 111th in Charger Blue, moving him into second place on Hillsdale career RBI sheet. Hillsdale never checked the rearview mirror after the early bomb, pouring on six more runs throughout the game. O’Hearn drove in two runs while sophomores Dante Toppi and Jake Rhodes, junior Dylan Lottinville, and Hoover all knocked in one more. The real show, however, belonged to sophomore Andrew Verbrugge. The righty from Grand Rapids threw a complete nine innings, surrendering only four hits, walking one, and striking out seven — a career high. Theisen praised Verbrugge, adding that he would’ve been his personal choice for G-MAC weekly honors. “Nine-inning complete-game shutouts are not very common, and he just continues to be great,” he said. Verbrugge was patently humble in his assessment of his start. “I just had to have a sense of confidence and know that I, along with my defense behind me, would have the tools to shut down Malone’s offense and give us a good chance to win,” he said. “Whenever I get on the mound I just make sure

The ‘69 football team, coached by Frank “Muddy” Waters, embraced the nickname as they demolished their way to an 8-1 regular season record, qualifying for the NAIA national playoffs for the second time in school history. The Chargers led the nation in scoring with an average of 33.1 points per game. The team outscored their opponents by a total of 145-8 its the final three regular-season games. But the Chargers didn’t stop there. Chester Marcol, who holds the record for the longest field goal at Hillsdale, was drafted 34th to the Green Bay Packers. He played for the Packers from 1972-1980 and was named Rookie of the Year in 1972. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1987. Archie Robinson played for

the Miami Dolphins when the Dolphins went 14-0 and won Super Bowl VIII. Dick Kraatz was the NAIA's leading scorer for the 1969 season. Holmes helped lead the 2009 and 2010 Chargers teams to NCAA regional playoff appearances and holds the school's all-time record for receiving yardage and single-game reception record with 16 catches in the 2010 NCAA regional playoffs. Holmes racked up 181 catches for 2,444 yards, scoring 17 touchdowns during his junior and senior years. After Hillsdale, Holmes led the Oakland Raiders in receiving yards in 2014. Holmes just completed his sixth NFL season with the Buffalo Bills and has played in 76 NFL games with 115 receptions for 1,582 yards and 15 touchdowns. “It feels amazing [being

I‘m doing my best and worshipping God one pitch at a time, and in the end that’s all that really matters... It was cool to get my first complete game shutout and I can only thank God for giving me the opportunity to get out there and do that.” The Chargers traveled to Allendale, Michigan, on Tuesday, where they dropped a non-conference match to the Grand Valley Lakers (19-3, 7-5 GLIAC) 14-4. Senior Alex Walts opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first, but Hillsdale never fully recovered from a six run Laker second. Walts drove in one more run later in the game and Ring hit a solo homerun, his 112th of his career. The Chargers look to bounce back this weekend when the Findlay Oilers (16-8, 9-4 G-MAC) come to Simpson Field for a three-game set this weekend, as the Chargers look to take back the top spot in the conference. “We did keep our lead over Malone in the conference and 12-3 and in second place isn’t a bad place to be,” Theisen said. “It’s nice that we still have those North Division teams left on the schedule…. We think we’re the best in the North, so it’s about going out and proving it.” inducted into the Hall of Fame],” Holmes said. “Just like in the video when I was talking about seeing all the people in the Hall of Fame on a daily basis walking through the hallways to go to the locker room. It means so much. I couldn’t have ever dreamt to make the Hall of Fame when I first got here and even when I left. It’s pretty crazy.” In 2017 Holmes gave back to Hillsdale and bought new jerseys and helmets for the team’s senior day. “Coach Otterbein came to me with the idea,” Holmes said. “I know that is such a huge recruiting tool and I know it's very important for college teams to have those types of things. I know that when I was playing, different teams would have crazy helmets and I always wished I could do the same thing.”

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‘Just in case the boys need one’ By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor Clichés are often overused in the sports world, but sometimes they are simply the best way to express what we mean. In the wake of the bus crash which killed 15 members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, the cliché “It’s more than a game” is the best expression to use. The crash occurred in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, on Friday, claiming the lives of 10 players, the head coach, an assistant coach, a stats expert, the team announcer, and the bus driver. As of Monday, 12 survivors remained in the hospital, according to The Globe and Mail, a Canadian paper. Each player killed was between the age of 16 and 21, leaving parents and family members in shocked grief. The community of Humboldt rallied around the families, spontaneously gathering at the team's arena to comfort, mourn, and sit and look out at the empty ice. Still, many residents show their support by wearing team sweaters when they go out. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and legendary hockey announcers Don Cherry and Ron MacLean attended a ceremony on Sunday for those lost. The incident also garnished condolences and mourning from the Canadian Royal Family and the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Perhaps the most powerful outpouring, however, came from those tied to the young men by nothing more than a game. On Saturday the Winnipeg Jets and the Chicago Blackhawks gathered at center ice before their game, observing a moment of silence

while wearing jerseys with “BRONCOS” replacing the last names of players. The public address announcer told the crowd, “In hockey, we’ve learned that you don’t play for the name on the back of the jersey, but for the Crest on the front. But tonight, we play for the name on the backs of these jerseys: the Humboldt Broncos.” After a near minute-long moment of silence and a rendition of “O Canada” which left no attendee silent and no eye dry, the players embraced, not as Jets and Hawks, but as members of the hockey community. Across Canada and the United States the outpouring took personal tones. Thousands of players, parents, and coaches within the hockey family placed hockey sticks surrounded by candles on their porches, “just in case the boys need one,” as many put it on social media. My 11-yearold nephew was one such player. He didn’t know anybody on that bus and probably couldn’t have told you there was a hockey team in Humboldt, but he felt a connection to those young men, even at his age. This community is what makes sports so much more than a game. The key, however, is to remind ourselves of this outside of tragedy. Of course, we ought to come together in times of duress, but we must also remember this closeness in everyday competition. Whether it’s assisting an injured opponent, holding your tongue toward an official, or anything similar, we should keep the greater picture in mind. As any of us know, this is not always easy to do, but it’s what being part of a community is all about.

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MEN’S TENNIS ROLLS PAST DAVIS & ELKINS By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team won its sixth straight match on Sunday against Davis & Elkins 9-0 University in the Biermann Athletic Center. The Chargers moved to 10-6 on the season and 6-0 in the G-MAC. Sophomores Milan Mirkovic and Charlie Adams won No. 1 singles 6-1, 6-2 and No. 2 singles 6-0, 6-0.

Junior Justin Hyman took No. 3 singles 7-5, 6-1. Senior captain Dugan Delp was a No. 4 singles winner 6-1, 6-1. Freshman Gabe Katz shut out Cody Turner at No. 5 singles 6-0, 6-0. Adams and Hyman won No. 1 doubles 8-5. Delp teamed up with Junior John Ciraci to take No. 2 doubles 8-3. Mirkovic and Sophomore Julien Clouette won No. 3 doubles. Head tennis coach Keith Turner said Davis & Elkins

put up a good fight against the G-MAC’s No. 1 ranked seed, but that the Chargers will face more rigorous competition next week. “We’ve got a much tougher couple of weekends coming up with Walsh and Findlay this weekend and then the conference tournament next weekend,” Turner said. Turner said the team is preparing for tough play by playing challenge matches against other teammates. “We are going to play

matches tomorrow against each other and that’s kind of what we’ve done last week,” Turner said. “We’ve had to up the actual amount of intersquad matches these last couple of weeks.” Delp said the team spent their practices preparing physically and mentally. “In order to stay in shape and to be used to the level of competition we’ve been talking about these [upcoming] matches for the past couple of weeks,” Delp said.

“I think talking about it and preparing mentally has been a big part of our practice these last couple of weeks.” Katz said the team is excited to approach the final two matches before the G-MAC tournament. “We’re playing two good teams, but we feel pretty confident,” Katz said. “I think we’ve had some of our best practices of the year in the past couple of weeks.” The Charge face Walsh and Findlay at at home on April 14

and 15. Delp said the team was ready for its final matches before the G-MAC tournament. “Honestly I think being back at home for our last couple of matches and senior day, I think we’re all really excited to finish the season on a high note and then to have some momentum going into the G-MAC tournament,” Delp said.

Women’s track wins two G-MAC Men’s track opens honors, despite tough conditions outdoor season Team prepares for Ball State this weekend By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor The women’s track team battled harsh conditions at the home meet on Saturday, the third outdoor meet of the season. But running in 30 degrees didn’t stop the team from dominating. “One thing we’ve been really stressing is being competitive, just competing, no matter what the conditions are, or the competition is, and I thought we did that really well,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “Especially given, sometimes it’s easy to follow through on something like that if it’s sunny and 75 and its great competition it’s like, 'Oh, yeah, I competed today, Coach.' When it’s dreary and 33 degrees and there’s nobody here that’s a really tough thing to do. But I thought they did a great job this weekend.” He noted Junior Allyson Eads, who was named G-MAC Track Athlete of the Week, and won the 3000-meter steeplechase, making a provisional mark. Senior Alexandra Whitford was named the Field Athlete of the Week, winning the pole vault. “I love this sport, so it was

important to me to give it all I had this year,” Whitford said. With only outdoor eligibility, Whitford has just joined the team for the outdoor season. She broke her foot her freshman year before the outdoor season, so she stayed to compete for one more year. Executing the second best performance of her career on Saturday, Whitford said she spent the first couple meets “brushing off the rust,” though she competed independently for a few meets throughout the indoor season. “It seems that the training Coach Towne put together and all the athletes have been working hard to achieve has started coming together,” Whitford said. “And I saw

that in my performance.” Whitford wasn’t the only Charger to take a win. Senior Ashlee Moran came in first in the 100-meter race, the first time she ran the event this season, as she’s usually on the longer end of the sprints, she said. Teammates freshman Kasja Johannson and senior Fiona Shea raced alongside Moran. Johannson took second and Shea finished in third. “It’s hard to be motivated in that kind of weather,” she said. “Specifically the team as a whole, we really performed, sometimes we do better when we don’t have a lot of competition because then we’re forced to compete, we’re forced to put ourselves out there even if the competition isn’t there for us.” Sophomore Abbie Porter

“It seems that the training Coach Towne put together and all the athletes have been working hard to achieve has started coming together.”

made a season best in the 800 meter, coming in second, while Junior Kristin Freeman and senior legacy captain Rachael Tolsma both performed well in the high jump and discus, respectively, making season bests. The distance runners also dominated, with senior Hannah McIntyre taking first in the 5000-meter race, while senior Amanda Reagle won the 1500, and teammate freshman Christina Sawyer took third. “Our mindset was just to go in and race hard and not really worry about time, which I think both me and Christina did,” Reagle said. “We worked on getting in a competitive race even when it’s not ideal conditions.” She said it was fun to come out with a win, finishing with close to a personal best. “I was happy with the effort,” she said. This weekend the team will travel to Ball State University in Indiana. Moran said she was excited for the rest of the season. “It’ll be nice to put some of what we’ve done in these last few weeks into practice to really head into competition NCAA season,” Moran said.

By | Regan Meyer Collegian Freelancer Despite the chilly temperature, Charger men’s track put on a strong showing at their first outdoor home meet of the season. In just its third meet of the outdoor season, the team tied Michigan Tech for points and saw improvements across the board. “I thought we competed really well,” Towne said. “The weather was not ideal. The high was 33 or 34 and it certainly felt a lot colder than that. I thought we did a really good job.” Towne and the rest of the coaching staff have been focusing on getting their athletes to compete well. “It was really encouraging,” Towne said. “This is something we’ve been pressing for a couple weeks and I thought they did a really good job. We made sure to let them know in the team meetings that we’re really happy and that’s exactly what we’re looking for.” Freshman Adam Wade reiterated Towne’s words. “Our coaches talked about how they were happy with how everyone competed and that everyone did a good job giving full effort,” Wade said. Individual athletes chalked up solid perfor-

mances in many events. “We had a lot of really good things,” Towne said. “It wasn’t necessarily in terms of performances but more from a standpoint that it was the best we could possibly do in that weather.” Sophomore Ian Brown won the 110 high hurdles with a time of 15.43 seconds. “It went pretty well,” Brown said. “It was really gross weather, but it’s actually my best race so far of the year. It comes down to proper warm-up in that kind of weather. Another thing is just understanding that everyone is in the same weather, so no matter what you take advantage of it. You just have to be extra competitive because a lot of other people can be whiny about it. You just kind of have to get over it.” Wade also ran well taking 2nd place in the meters. “It wasn’t a very big meet, Wade said. “We just focused on competing and having a good attitude towards running. In that aspect, I did well in all my races. I didn’t have great times, but I did what our coach wanted us to do.” The team looks forward to better weather this coming Friday as they travel for the Ball State Invitational.

Softball goes 1-3 in tight conference weekend By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Tuesday’s split doubleheader against Walsh University proved to be a battle of the pitchers that left Hillsdale 5-5 in the G-MAC and 11-11 overall after the University of Findlay took two from the Chargers over the weekend. “It’s been the same story all year,” head coach Abraham said. “We get runners on base and for the most part, we don’t get them in. It’s frustrating. We’re still waiting for some people to step up and hit when the chips are down.” Strong pitching from the Cavaliers (17-13, 6-4 G-MAC) in game one proved to get the better of the Charger bats in an 11-0 loss for Hillsdale. Although

freshman pitcher Natalie Walters held the Cavaliers back for the first three innings of the game, two Cavalier homers and two Charger fielding errors gave Walsh a 9-run lead in the top of the fourth. After Walsh extended its lead by two more runs, the game ended after the fifth inning. Junior outfielder Katie Kish, junior second baseman Amanda Marra, and sophomore shortstop Sam Catron each went 1-for-2 in the effort, and the fourth and final of Hillsdale’s hits came from Walters. Same as in the opener, game two remained scoreless for the first three innings through the efforts of freshman pitcher Erin Hunt, who allowed a single hit and struck out nine in seven innings of work. Although the Cavaliers threatened to

score in the top of the third, Hunt worked her way out of a difficult situation to keep the game scoreless. “They had the bases loaded, one out, and their hitter who had hit two home runs in the same inning the game before was up to bat,” sophomore shortstop Julia Huebner said. “That Erin struck her out was huge, and then she went on to strike out the next hitter.” In the bottom of the fifth, Hillsdale bats made up for lost time, stringing together a series of hits and capitalizing on errors to bring around four runs in the 4-0 win. A single from Kish brought home senior third baseman Kelsey Gockman, sophomore outfielder Victoria Addis scored on a sacrifice fly from Marra, and a two-out single from sophomore Sydney San Juan

scored Kish and freshman outfielder Sarah Wojcik. “Losing the first game really lit a fire under us,” freshman catcher Madison Stoner said. “Going back into game two, we were just in such an intense mood that I don’t think we could’ve lost that game.” Over the weekend, the Findlay Oilers (19-16, 9-1 G-MAC) won both games against Hillsdale. Hillsdale started game one strong thanks to a two-out, 2-RBI single from junior shortstop Jessica Taylor that scored Kish and Marra. Although Hillsdale outhit Findlay 8-7, the Oilers converted more hits into runs, resulting in a 5-2 loss for Hillsdale. “Our pitching is mostly good, our defense is fairly solid, we do a great job of hitting when nobody’s on base,” Abraham said. “That

only leaves one part, and that’s hitting with people on base, and we’re just not doing it.” Game two was a similar story in which the Chargers sandwiched the Oilers’ six runs with two of their own in the first and seventh innings in the 6-2 loss. Kish went 3-for-4 in the effort and San Juan went 2-for-2, each with a run scored. Marra and Walters each went 1-for-4 with an RBI apiece. Findlay also outhit Hillsdale 14-10 over the course of the game. “We got 18 hits in the two games, so about 9 hits per game, which isn’t outstanding, but that’s pretty good,” Abraham said. “Typically, if you’re getting that many hits, you’re going to win games.” This weekend, the Chargers will play two home doubleheaders: one against

Davis and Elkins College (813-1, 3-4-1 G-MAC) Friday at 3:30 p.m. and one against Alderson Broaddus University (1-23, 0-6 G-MAC) Saturday at 1 p.m. for senior day. “We came into this season really optimistic and looking for everything to go smoothly and we’ve had a few hurdles,” Huebner said. “But like our coaches say, it’s about that door being presented to you and choosing to push through adversity and not letting it control you. I think the fact that we beat Walsh at home and going into a couple more home games this weekend for senior day is really going to help us push through to the end of the season and get some more wins.”

Charger Chatter: Corinne Prost What is your earliest memory of tennis?

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Corinne Prost is a junior on the women's tennis team. She is from Peoria, Arizona, and is studying American studies.

I was 10 years old, and I remember getting really excited about seeing my neighbors come home with tennis rackets. I learned with tennis, that it’s just you, the court, and your opponent. I had been playing soccer for a while, but I preferred being more of an individual in a sport. When I discovered that there was a sport that I could get all the points, I got really excited because I wanted more playing time. I remember going to my first clinic and remember getting to compete so much rather than watching on the sidelines. What inspires you to be a better player? Losing doesn’t bother me much, because when I’m on the court, I take away my stress by giving it to God. It

makes competing easier because no matter how well I do, I know that I’m giving my best to Him. I don’t consider losses a a complete failure, but as an opportunity to get better. What is one of the greatest misconceptions people have about tennis? I think people think tennis is a lot easier than it actually is. They don’t realize how physically demanding it is. For example, a player can sprint anywhere between 3-5 miles in a single match. Tennis is a huge combination of strength, being cardiovascularly in shape, and requires a great amount of hand to eye coordination. How has tennis formed you as a person? I think it has given me a lot of structure in my life, and it’s made me

mentally stronger, like what happens with any sport. I’ve been able to take on more responsibilities with a lot more strength. I think I’ve gained a lot of more perspective and am not as demoralized by setbacks, as I was when I younger before I started tennis.

from your swing. It’s funny because that’s the question that I get the most regarding tennis, ‘How do you choose your grunt?’ People don’t choose their grunt, it’s really just how you exhale.

Singles or doubles? What are the different stresses?

I bounce a lot on my toes before a shot. All the professionals have their tics to destress. I think the tics come from the pressure to make your shots and structure your points, to not let your opponent have the advantage, to maintain calmness. The stress is also particular to the type of person you’re playing, the type of match, and the tournament. For example, a couple of weekends ago, my teammate’s opponent had this thing where she had to bounce the ball like 20 times before she grabbed the ball.

I prefer doubles. I really like being at the net. I love my volleys because I think it’s more satisfying to put away a ball at the tent. You usually play doubles with a teammate that you’re really close with and can build off their shots, but still see a lot of action. Why the grunt? Ha, everyone grunts! That’s the best way to get more momentum

Do you have any tics on the court?

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Baseball The Chargers dropped to second in the G-MAC after a 1-2 weekend against Malone. Findlay comes to town this weekend, as Hillsdale looks to regain the top spot. A8

Track & Field The men's and women's track and field teams braved the elements this weekend to put on a strong showing at the first home meet of the outdoor season. A9

HILLSDALE HALL OF FAME WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor

Hillsdale College inducted three former athletes — Ashlee Crowder '13, Amanda Putt Eccleston '12, and Andre Holmes '11 — and the 1969 football team into the Hall of Fame at the Searle Center on Saturday. The Athletic Hall of Fame Committee chose the members of its 20th class for their contributions to all aspects of the Hillsdale College athletic department while at Hillsdale and beyond. “Our student-athletes past and present exhibit immense effort, discipline, and integrity, and it’s an honor to recognize their outstanding achievements,” Hillsdale College Athletic Director Don Brubacher said in a press release. “We’re proud of the excellence Amanda, Andre, and Ashlee have achieved both in the Chargers uniform and after leaving Hillsdale’s campus.” Crowder helped lead the Chargers to GLIAC volleyball championships in 2009, 2010, and 2011 when the team won the school's first NCAA Division II regional championship and advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four. A three-time All-American athlete, Crowder holds the record for all-time kills for Charger volleyball at 1,703

(Above) The 1969 Hillsdale College football team joined the Hillsdale Hall of Fame on (Above) Ashlee Crowder '13 addresses the crowd after officially being inSaturday. Hillsdale Athletics | Facebook ducted into the Hillsdale Hall of Fame. Hillsdale Athletics | Facebook

Andre Holmes '11 (center), a Delta Sigma Phi while at Hillsdale, poses with past and cur- Amanda Putt Eccleston '12 poses with Athletic Director Don Brubacher rent members of the fraternity at his induction ceremony. Scott McClallen | Collegian while being inducted on Saturday. Hillsdale Athletics | Facebook

and holds two GLIAC Player of the Year awards as well as a 2010 Midwest Region Player of the Year award.

Crowder currently works as a coach with the University of Indianapolis women's volleyball team.

Women’s tennis extends G-MAC sweep streak to five

Hymann wins third G-MAC weekly honor By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief For its fifth consecutive match, the women’s tennis team refused to let a match point land in its opponent’s score. Marking its eighth consecutive victory, Hillsdale College defeated 9-0 both Alderson Broaddus University (0-6, 0-2) on Saturday and Davis & Elkins College (4-8, 2-2) on Sunday in the Biermann Athletics Center. Ranked No. 47 nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, the Chargers are dominating their G-MAC opponents during their first season in the conference. They are now 5-0 in the conference and 10-4 overall this season. “It’s our year of success,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. “We are a strong team this year. We have really good tennis players. Everything came together in this recruiting cycle. It’s not a fluke or that they’re getting lucky. They’re working hard and getting the results we’re hoping for.” Special recognition this week went to No. 1 singles player junior Halle Hyman, who the G-MAC office recognized as the Player of the Week for the second week in a row and the third time this season. She has won her past five singles matches and eight straight doubles matches with freshman Hannah Cimpeanu. “As winner of eight straight matches, Hillsdale continues to shine as one of the best teams in the Great Midwest,” Ben Schlesselman, G-MAC commissioner for strategic communications, told The Collegian. “Under coach Walbright, the Chargers are in the mix for a conference title and have a top-50 national ranking. Hyman has the unenviable task of going up against each team’s No. 1 every match.

She has won five straight in singles and is now 7-3 in her last 10, putting her firmly in the conversation for player of the year honors.” In defeating Alderson Broaddus on Saturday, Hillsdale broke a modern record for the longest winning streak by a Charger women's tennis team with seven wins. Doubles teams set the pace for the weekends with a combined score of 24-3. Cimpeanu and Hyman teamed for a 8-2 victory on court one. At No. 2, junior Madeline Bissett and sophomore Kamryn Matthews won 8-1, and the combo of junior Julia Formentin and sophomore Katie Bell made its debut this season at No. 3 with a 8-0 shutout victory. Hyman won her No. 1 singles match 6-3, 6-0. The Chargers blanked the other five courts, winning 6-0, 6-0. The single flights winners were Cimpeanu at No. 2, Bell at No. 3, Matthews at No. 4, Bissett at No. 5, and Formentin at No. 6. On Sunday, the Chargers kept up their fight against the Davis & Elkins Senators. In doubles, Cimpeanu and Hyman won 8-1 at No. 1. Bissett and Matthews shutout their opponents 8-0 at No. 2, and Bell and Formentin won 8-3 on court three. In singles, Matthews at No. 4 had her fourth 6-0, 6-0 victory in her past five matches. For her fourth consecutive win at No. 1 singles, Hyman won 6-2, 6-3. Cimpeanu

finished 6-2, 6-0 on court two, and Bell at No. 3 ended her match 6-2, 6-2. Bissett at No. 5 won 6-1, 6-1, and Formentin at No. 6 was victorious 6-1, 6-0. While the women’s tennis team has swept its G-MAC opponents thus far, next weekend could tell a different story. The team plays Walsh University at noon on Saturday and the University of Findlay at 1 p.m. on Sunday at home. Like Hillsdale, the teams came from the GLIAC, and Walbright said they will be stronger competition. “We’re ready for it,” she said, “but we’ll be challenged more than we have so far.” The team is continuing to work on its doubles play and build up its endurance with footwork drills and playing plenty of points to last the two days of tough tennis, Walbright said. She added that she expects Hillsdale will face the teams again the following weekend at the G-MAC tournament. Should Hillsdale win and stay ranked in the top seven teams regionally (right now, it’s No. 6), then it will receive an automatic bid for the NCAA Division II tournament, which would be a first for the program. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves,” Walbright said. “We’re trying not to be overconfident. We just want to be successful at each match as they come.”

Eccleston won three national NCAA Division II titles, securing first place in the mile and 800-meter at the 2012

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Culture Bryan Simmons: A light in the windowless costume shop By | Nolan Ryan Assistant Editor Down in the depths of the Sage Center for the Arts, there’s a windowless room full of fabrics, clothes, and cheerful student workers. On any given day, Bryan Simmons will be pinning dresses on mannequins or sewing buttons onto a coat, all while humming to whatever might be playing on his radio. This is the costume shop, the place where all of the apparel for the theater department’s productions are created. James Brandon, chairman and professor of theater and dance, says, though there are no windows, “there’s a positive vibe there” because of Simmons. But most students probably don’t know Simmons, the man responsible for creating the detailed and dazzling costumes for Hillsdale’s stage. Bryan Simmons, costume designer and lecturer in theater, was described by senior theater major Brooke Benson as the “heart and soul” of the theater department. Simmons came to Hills-

dale in 2002 after a year of freelance costuming work. His wife, Jill, actually attended Hillsdale as a student — and worked in the costume shop — before she graduated in 1985. Since coming to teach at Hillsdale, Simmons has mentored many students and designed costumes for every show performed in Markel Auditorium. His wife often comes into the shop to help later on in the costume-making process. “Getting to watch them work together is fabulous,” Benson said. “She’s so quick. He’s got these magnificent, wonderful designs, and she has his designs ready.” Bryan and Jill even worked together outside of the costume shop to create Benson’s wedding dress. But Simmons also works well with the other theater faculty and students. Benson said she sees a good relationship between Simmons and Lighting Designer Michael Beyer, as the two have worked closely for so many years. They have always done well collaborating, she said.

“In general, that’s not normal; that’s not common to have that kind of relationship and understanding between designers,” she said. “It’s really wonderful to see, and Bryan really tries to foster that.” His job, Simmons says, has both challenges and rewards. As the only costumer on campus, he wears many different hats. “One of the challenges of being a one-man shop, basically, is that I’m not just the costume designer,” he said. “I have the responsibilities of designing the costumes — coming up with the visual look — but then another component of my job is the shop managing, making sure the costumes get built, purchased, or altered. I’ve got two pretty distinct jobs that are linked together. But I could be just a teacher, I could be just a designer, I could be just the manager of the shop. That’s the challenge of weaving all of that together and still hopefully pass on the knowledge to others.” Even though he is spread in multiple directions, Simmons says Hillsdale is fortunate to

Shakespeare in the Solarium By | Isabella Redjai Collegian Reporter Take a journey to Shakespeare’s 16th-century Italy and venture into the Mauck Residence Solarium, far from the dreary weather for this spring’s annual Shakespeare in the Arb production of “The Merchant of Venice” on April 14t-15 at 2 p.m. An enduring Shakespearean comedy, “The Merchant of Venice” develops a traditional message of justice and channels, according to the production’s director, junior Molly Kate Andrews, “an economy of human relationships through both trade, physical transaction, and grace, that as observed through Christian living.” Andrews chose the play due to its interesting parallels and themes and cut the script in multiple places to provide a more concise storyline for the audience. Controversially, the comedy is known for its anti-Semitic rhetoric, although ambiguity lies in whether the mockery in Shakespeare’s work is toward that of Christianity or the Jewish tradition. “If the audience goes away comfortable, then we did the play wrong,” Andrews said.

“The play is a commentary on Venice itself as it was full of different cultures living together at the time. Trade

Sophomores Stephen Tanquist and Mitchell Biggs practice “The Merchant of Venice.” Molly Kate Andrews | Courtesy

keeps the people together, while religion seperates them, although there is something deeper uniting the people.” Stage manager sophomore Stephen Tanquist reiterated Andrews’ sentiment.

“Our reading of the play is that ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a critique of anti-Semitism, rather than a reflection of Shakespeare’s personal views,” Tanquist said. “No matter the way it is read, it will make people uncomfortable.” As found in the name, Shakespeare in the Arb is typically located in heart of Slayton Arboretum, creating a romantic and enchanting setting for the plays. Due to the uncertainty of weather conditions, for the first time the Shakespeare in the Arb production will evolve into “Shakespeare in the Solarium,” a location change to the solarium of Mauck Dormitory. Freshman Kirby Thigpen, who will be playing Portia in “The Merchant of Venice,” said, “I think Mauck will actually be a great setting, because it will be more intimate and the audience will actually be able to hear what we are saying.” Andrews and Tanquist agree that the cast for “The Merchant of Venice” is particularly special and tailored for this rendition of Shakespeare’s work. “It’s the cast, the people,

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By | Brendan Clarey Senior Writer Students, faculty, and community members have the unique opportunity to hear big band jazz that’s straight from the middle of the last century this weekend. The Harry James Orchestra will be performing at 8 p.m. on Saturday, in the Searle Center along with several student jazz combos while audience members can listen, eat hor d’oeuvres, and dance to the sounds of big band jazz. “It’s going to be high energy, lots of fun, a unique event,” music department chairman James Holleman said. “It’s up

in Searle — this is the first time we’ve ever done anything like this.” The featured student jazz combos, Thursday Morning and Rob Roy, will play before the performance after the doors open at 7:15 p.m. Part of the reason that Hillsdale brings so many groups to campus is for the jazz musicians who play on campus: Director of Jazz Ensembles and trumpet teacher Chris McCourry said the Howard Department of Music brings so many excellent musicians to help musical students develop and strive for excellence. “A person can really only

grow if they’re surrounded by people better than them,” McCourry said. Hearing professional musicians inspires music students to try harder, reinforcing what professors encourage them to do every day and making them work harder at their instrument, McCourry said. The Searle Center will have tables and audience seating as well as a dance floor on the side of the stage. Tickets are needed for entrance and are available for free by contacting the Sage Box Office, but they are limited.

have someone in each of the three areas of technical theater, as well as other professionals. “Our department is pretty amazing in the fact that we have a lighting person, a scenic person, and a costume person,” he said. “We have a historian, we have directors, we have a dance instructor. It’s pretty amazing for a college our size to have that many trained people. We’re pretty darn lucky.” Another challenge Simmons faces is balancing time and skill. “We try to have a cohesive vision of where we’re headed, and we try to make it more than just throwing it on stage,” he said. “We try to make it well-thought out and united in whatever the show is supposed to be. You run into things like not enough time, not enough people who have the skills. One of my favorite things is teaching people who can’t sew and then showing them little steps that they can build on to do that. It’s something that is so exciting, but when you only have so much time to get something done,

how do you balance teaching somebody versus sitting down and doing it?” But for Simmons, the reward outweighs the challenges. And that reward in his mind is getting to teach students new things they can use in theater. “The reward is when somebody comes in and you’re able to give them some new tools,” he said. “When they’re able to use them, they can make something and see it on stage and say, ‘I was a part of that.’ I really like that. I wish that could happen more. That comes in with the teaching part I like so much.” The dynamic between theater professors and their students is one of a close mentorship. The theater professors all insist that their students call them by their first names, including Simmons. For the recent production of “The Seagull,” Simmons was able to work with a theater major more closely. Benson chose to do her senior project in makeup design, one of the things Simmons teaches. “When you do a senior project, you have an advisor

who gives you the outline of your project and mentors you as you go through, does check ups and things like that,” Benson said. “Because of the time crunch, makeup has been something kind of put to the last minute. With ‘The Seagull,’ Bryan was really excited to have a completed design. It enhances the costume design; it works in conjunction with it. Working with Bryan was really great because my job was to synthesize with everything he created.” Benson is not the only one who enjoys working with Simmons. Her husband, junior Austin Benson, agrees that Simmons is an easy person to work with. “His pedagogy is very gentle. You never feel like you’ve made some sort of crucial error. He’s always willing to guide you,” he said. Brandon said Simmons is a vital member of the theater department. “He has tremendous skill, and he’s great to work with. I’ve mostly worked with him as a director over the years,” Brandon said. “He’s extremely

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Celebrating the last four years with ‘The Last Five’ ‘A Quiet Place’ pairs horror and parenthood By | Joe Pappalardo Senior Writer Getting a hand squeezed until it’s purple and refusing to breathe for 95 minutes on a Friday night is the only way to view “A Quiet Place.” If a pregnant friend is present to soak in the mother-protecting-her-young narrative, it’s a trifecta. Director John Krasinski stars as family man Lee in his new horror movie, a work of love featuring his wife Emily Blunt as Evelyn, an expectant mother in a post-apocalyptic world besieged by blind alien creatures who kill anything they hear. The film is an enthralling family drama sprinkled with moments of sheer terror, showing the talents of child actors Millicent Simmonds (who is deaf) and Noah Jupe. Like “Get Out,” another genre-bending horror film made by a former TV star, “A Quiet Place” stands on its own against its many influences and contemporaries. This is no cheap jump-scare adventure. The film hints at “Alien” and “Stranger Things” without succumbing to mere imitation, and its development of every character is far from forced, demonstrating the skills Krasinski learned from his experience as Jim on “The Office.” Simmonds’ scenes in particular are fascinating because the sound is completely cut to reflect her perspective. In a world where sound is fatal, the girl cannot even hear herself breathe because of her defunct cochlear implant. The most notable quality of “A Quiet Place” isn’t its use of panoramic and claustrophobic shots to convey peace and terror respectively or its gradual unveiling of the terrifying four-legged aliens in a manner similar to “Jaws.” Viewers will instantly notice that there is almost no noise at all for the film’s opening minutes. This isn’t done purely to introduce the characters and setting — it’s the mode of the entire film. There are only 90 lines of dialogue, less than one utterance a minute. Only two audible screams erupt the

entire movie. With a real-life married couple on screen, and a real-life deaf child playing their daughter, the characters display chemistry and a genuine bond. What separates this survival story from movies like “The Road” is the heavy use of subtitles and sign language. As one character is in fact deaf, and the family can’t make noise, they communicate through signs as though they’ve used them for years. In the silence of the film, the characters demonstrate just how far a couple is willing to go to preserve their children. They even attempt to bring a new life into a world where a single cry of a baby could get their entire family killed. “A Quiet Place” is not a horror movie that scares its audience into never leaving home alone again. Instead, it challenges the limits of what a parent might sacrifice for a son or daughter. “Who are we if we can’t protect them?” Evelyn says of her children. Her question seems pointed more at the audience than her security-obsessed husband. What will a parent do to protect a child? In some cases, that might mean fighting an armored lightning-fast alien creature with a shotgun and a farm ax. It could also require distracting the monster with an oven timer while an unborn child threatens to be born at any moment. These moments are a few of the sparse bursts of intensity that have “A Quiet Place” leading the box office at the moment. For an hour and a half, “A Quiet Place” whittles down the issues of the outside world to a complicated yet honest representation of the relationship between parent and child. If horror movies are a turn-off for some moviegoers, this is one that deserves a chance. There are few things that compare to a mother racking a shotgun as she smiles at the daughter she’s sworn to protect. Bring the whole family, even expectant mothers, and a change of pants.

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Simmons’ first experience with the theater was in helping build sets for his high school’s drama department. He eventually got a degree in interior design and worked in a showroom for architects and designers. It was there he discovered he liked working with fabric more than wood, metal, or other materials typically associated with scenic design. He went back to school for a degree in technical theater with an emphasis on costume design. Simmons came to Hillsdale because he wanted to work in a small community, something a larger school would not give him. But regardless of what he is working on, Bryan Simmons always comes back to students and teaching. “It’s so clear that Bryan wants what is best for the students and is willing to take the extra time to guide them and answer questions,” Brandon said. “That comes through. The students that work closely with Bryan understand that he brings a lot to the table for them.”

collaborative; he’s easy to get along with; he’s very communicative. He understands my ideas, and he expressed his own ideas very well, so I feel like Bryan and I can come to a rapport very quickly as to the direction a show is going to go.” As a director, Brandon said Simmons is reliable and never misses a deadline for costumes. “I’m always confident in the process with Bryan,” he said. “He’s one of those designers where I might say something three months before the show opens, and I know that it’s never been forgotten. I’m not just throwing ideas out into the air; he listens and responds.” Brandon said he enjoys going down to the basement of Sage to check in with Simmons and just spend some time with him. “We enjoy talking about the show, but we also enjoy talking about the college, the country, and the arts,” Brandon said.

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that make it unique,” Andrews said. “If any actor were different, the play would be very different.” Tanquist — who as the stage manager handles scheduling conflicts, ensures all actors are on set on time, keeps track of lines, writes notes for actors, and provides overall support for Andrews and co-director sophomore Mitchell Biggs — says the actors are putting in a lot of work with rehearsals, and there has been great progress. “This week, I am going to rehearse every day for about three hours, and then we have dress rehearsals for five

hours,” Thigpen said. Apart from the location change, Tanquist says the way Andrews and Biggs have run the production this year is significantly different from that of last year’s production of “The Taming of the Shrew” with directors Noah Diekemper ’17 and senior Nikolai Dignoti. “Molly Kate is an English major, and she has been planning this production since last summer, so she has taken time to really understand and read the script, especially as she has cut the script,” Tanquist said. “Her reading and vision for the play as a whole has brought a different approach than in the past.”

By | Calli Townsend Collegian Reporter Senior Glynis Gilio on Thursday will fulfill her 10-year-long dream: to perform the musical “The Last Five Years.” Gilio’s passion for singing developed in middle school when she attended a fine arts camp in northern Michigan. During the those two summers she learned about Jason Robert Brown and his 2001 musical “The Last Five Years.” It was then she decided that someday she wanted to perform it. “I listened to the music and I loved it so much. Later, when I did show choir in high school, a girl sang from that musical, and I knew I wanted to play Cathy at some point,” Gilio said. “This show just kept popping up in my life.” Gilio will perform in McNamara Hall in Howard Music Building at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. In 2016 Gilio watched a concert performance of the musical and decided she would love to perform it in that way. So when her singing teacher, Teacher of Music

Melissa Osmond, asked her Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt. what she would perform for Gilio will be singing as Cathy. her senior recital, Gilio had an When picking the person to answer. perform as Jamie, Gilio looked “I told her, ‘I have this very for someone with strong voambitious idea of a concert cals and serious commitment. version.’ “His Missy songs are told me, challeng‘I want ing,” Gilio you to said. “I do what knew I you’ve needed always somebody wanted who saw to do,’” what I see Gilio in it.” said. After “And hearing I’m sophodoing more Ian it. It’s Brown wonsing at derful last year’s to see spring somerecital, she thing knew he that would be you’ve Senior Glynis Gilio and sophomore Ian perfect for held so Brown perform Thursday. Facebook the part. close to “He’s your heart for so long come to been right there along with fruition.” me. He was very enthusiastic “The Last Five Years,” a about it from the beginning,” love story between a couple Gilio said. “I can’t say enough from New York in the 1990s, about Ian.” has only two characters: Jamie When Gilio asked Brown

to join her on the stage, he said that he thought it was just a song, not an hour-andfifteen-minute musical. But he knew he wanted to sing with Gilio, so he said yes. “Glynis has been great to work with. She’s very easygoing and well prepared and helpful,” Brown said. “And obviously very talented.” The two will be accompanied on stage by sophomore Samuel Musser on the piano and senior David Schwartzman on the violin. “We’re not doing a fullstaged version; it’ll be a concert version. There’s not costumes or anything,” Gilio said. Sophomore Sheridan Michaud said she is looking forward to see her fellow Kappa Kappa Gamma sister and fellow track teammate perform together in the show. “I think they’re both very, very talented, so it will be a very dynamic performance,” Michaud said. “She is really involved in campus, so I think a lot of people are attending. I know all of Kappa is going. She is amazing, and everyone is looking forward to it.”

Seniors to tell stories through art By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief What do you get when students studying art, English, Latin, and math walk into a gallery? “Ars Poetica,” the poetic arts — a reference to the Horace poem. The senior art show featuring Katie Davenport, Madeline Greb, and Elsa Lagerquist begins Sunday with a reception from 6-8 p.m. featuring the artists, food, and music. Showcasing the women’s best pieces from their four years of college, the gallery features more than 50 works, many of which draw their inspiration from literature, film, and graphic novels. The show runs through April 19 in the Sage Center for the Arts’ Daughtery Gallery. “We’re all inspired by stories and narratives,” Greb said. “That’s the thing that unites all of our work. We’re all inspired by telling a story.” Barbara Bushey, the art department chairwoman, said Davenport, Greb, and Lagerquist are all hardworking and that their understanding of other disciplines has given them knowledge to connect their artwork with literature and different subjects. “They have a deeper verbal understanding of things than many artists,” Bushey said. “They can take their visual ideas and translate them to

other verbal things such as a novel.” Davenport’s collection will feature several drawings, specifically many of her illustrations inspired by some of her favorite pieces of literature such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” She has a watercolor painting based on T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland,” as well. Davenport will also have several landscape paintings from her travels to Nicaragua on missionary trips and to Israel. Closer to home, she is including a piece of Downtown Hillsdale. Davenport said having gallery space is nice, but something she has learned being an art major is that it is okay to fail. “You have an image of something in your head, and then it won’t turn out like that,” Davenport said. “Before, I might say, ‘Why bother?’ But you learn from each failure. You get tools for the next one.” Davenport now is preparing the tools she will need when she leaves for the country Georgia after graduation to teach English. She said she thinks her artistic abilities will come in handy. “Art breaks the language barrier,” she said. “You draw something, and everyone knows what it is, no matter what language you speak.” Greb, the triple major in the group, said her pieces in-

clude several photographs and graphics as well as a couple of drawings, paintings, and some hanging scrolls paintings on which she has worked. Greb said her interests in Latin and math are useful in her artwork. “They all sharpen your observation skills,” Greb said. “In Latin, you’re synthesizing Things can get messy when senior art major, Elsa details into Lagerquist, is dying fabrics. a whole. Elsa Lagerquist | Courtesy In math, day, 30-hour project to sew a you’re doing lots and lots of dress inspired by the Henry iterations to get closer to the James novel “The Portrait of answer. The same is true in a Lady,” which she is contemdrawing.” After graduation, Greb said plating putting in the gallery. After graduation, Lagershe hopes to teach English in quist will move to South South Korea. Bend, Indiana, to teach As for Lagerquist, she sixth-grade girls literature and said textiles interest her. In maybe art, too. addition to some paintings, “It’s been really neat to look many of her pieces are surface at all the work from the past repeats — patterns that could four years and enjoy them all,” go on forever — that would Lagerquist said. “Seeing the translate well to fabrics. For her Collegiate Scholars thesis, body work, I get to learn more about myself, what I like, my Lagerquist even took a fivestyle, and choices.”

Alumni release album, ‘Lost Mary’ By | Nic Rowan City News Editor Somewhere in early April of my freshman year, I found myself attending the 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Anthony’s nearly every weekend. This was not because I loved the semi-Latin liturgy. I had found a place to drink, sing, and smoke indoors on late Saturday nights. Most current Hillsdale students are too young to remember The Donnybrook, but those who do knew that in its final 2016 gasp, the house became synonymous with dissolution. Crazy things happened there. Crazy people lived there. I remember one late winter night, taking off my shirt and running around the house yelling about Jeff Mangum — all because some girl said “no balls” if I didn’t. Behind all the madness lurked David Johnson ’17 and Luke Martin ’17. Friends called them DJ and Sparty. DJ was entirely deaf in one ear and could play guitar like no one else on campus. Sparty knew how to raise hell. The two got into a lot of trouble that year and dragged

a bunch of their friends into trouble too, but never with malicious intent. Maybe there was no intent: They were wild. They were also secretly writing a series of folk songs that would eventually become the project Lost Mary. The duo dropped their eponymous release today through 2016 alumnus Joel Calvert’s label HOT SALAD RECORDS. Lost Mary will host a listening party at 7 p.m. at Rough Draft Thursday. The album is a sad one and plays with the wistful indie-folk sound of unrecognized potential. According to DJ, this is no accident; Lost Mary is an elegy to his and Sparty’s college years. “A lot of the stuff on the album is either old songs or old ideas,” he said. Both DJ and Sparty said they have moved on from the style of songs they were coming up with at when they lived at the Donnybrook and then later at the Boondocks. They’re into the blues now. Even when they were recording the album, the two could feel their affinity for playing and writing folk music fading. The project eventually

became a statement of the past, a catalogue of what college had meant to the two. “We were literally drunk the entire time,” DJ said of the recording sessions. “It wasn’t like ‘Oh let’s pop a beer open and drink while we record.’ It was more like, ‘Let’s finish that bottle of wine in the morning and then move on to the next one and then the next one.’” Sparty said this lifestyle affected their sound. “It isn’t conducive to recording or performing or to singing — your voice gets shot immediately,” he said. “I think we drank too much.” DJ agreed. “We were really glad that Hillsdale was over,” he said. “And we wanted to just decompress and work on this music.” Sparty clarified, however, that they were not drunk the entire time. “We were definitely hungover for much of the album,” he said. Because the album was recorded so quickly, the two said they were dissatisfied with their efforts. “When you record a song, you have to let it ferment,”

Sparty said. “You got to let it sit to let it sit.” A lot of these songs did not sit. The two made sure to add, however, that Joel Calvert’s production made the album a fun experience that they hope their friends and listeners will enjoy — even if it’s no longer the musical direction in which Lost Mary is moving. “As a first album, it’s good. I mean, it’s good enough. You can’t have a first album be great,” Sparty said. When I interviewed DJ and Luke, it was like going back to those Donnybrook days. They were covered in house paint and smoking Pall Malls in the basement of the Donnybrook. Empty beer cans surrounded them. The room smelled vaguely of urine. Sparty and DJ have continued on — both in life and their music — accepting behind the past, hollowed out by memories both good and bad. Their Donnybrook and everything it stood for existed in a place between dream and reality. Of course it had to end. Lost Mary is a fitting eulogy.

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Spring brings ‘fireworks’ blooms in arboretum By | Calli Townsend Collegian Reporter Like pieces gathered into a collection of art, the Slayton Arboretum has dozens of different trees in its collections. Hillsdale is home to many interesting trees, including three special tree collections: the witch hazel, the lilac, and the magnolia. “I try really hard not to have a monoculture here to avoid the diseases,” said Angie Girdham, the campus horticulturist. The witch hazel collection is perfect for the arboretum, because of its growing conditions. They require partial shade and can thrive in either wet or dry soil. “With an arboretum, you

have a lot of trees so you need something that can grow in harmony with other trees, and there are a lot varieties that are really beautiful,” Laurie Rosenberg, a horticulturist and program coordinator at Hillsdale College, said. “Witch hazels bloom like exploding fireworks.” The witch hazels are not only special because of how they bloom, but when they begin to bloom as well. “They bloom in the fall and early spring when other shrubs are not blooming. Witch hazels complement the lilac collection because lilacs bloom in late spring,” Rosenberg said. The lilac collection is the biggest collection in the

The Slayton Arboretum is home to a variety of trees including the Weeping European Larch tree. Calli Townsend | Collegian

arboretum, but Hillsdale’s magnolia collection has many uncommon forms, such as the sweet bay magnolia. These trees stand three in a row alongside the pond in the arboretum. “Sweet bay magnolias are really big trees and very mature so they are considered valuable. Kids love its big leaves,” Rosenberg said. On the north side of the pond in the arboretum stands the bald cypress tree. These trees are not typically found in Michigan because they prefer swampy conditions. “It’s not a super valuable or rare tree, but there aren’t any cypress swamps in Michigan, so this is valuable for here,” Rosenberg said. “This is about as far north as you would find this kind of tree.” What makes these trees even more interesting is their roots. As the soil becomes more saturated with water, the roots struggle to get air. To compensate, the trees grow what Rosenburg calls “knees.” “The roots that come out of the ground are called knees. They are just extensions of the roots,” Rosenberg said. Oak trees are another type of large tree on campus, but they are owned by the city. “The huge oak trees along Galloway drive are considered to be valuable because they’re very old. You can’t replace them, so they don’t want to expand the parking lot,” Rosenberg said. These large oak trees are one of Hillsdale city forester Gary Statchowicz’s, favorite trees. As Hillsdale’s city forester, he has a passion for these trees and wants to keep them around. “If the college wanted to take down the trees for the parking lot, I would say ‘no way,’’’ Stachowicz said. Stachowicz explained that over the last 30 years, trees

and vegetation have become more valuable. In the late 1970’s, Hillsdale adopted a city-wide tree ordinance, making it so if a person wanted to cut down a tree, they would have to pay for it. The cost of the tree would be determined by an evaluation of the tree’s size, species, location, and overall condition. The money would then go towards a tree fund to replace trees on major or side streets. “We’d rather not lose our resources though,” Stachowicz said. “I don’t want people thinking they can just buy all these trees.” Regardless of the complex equation that goes into the tree-evaluation process, trees are not cheap. Stachowicz gave this example: a burl tree that is 54 inches in diameter would be worth $37,000. There are three near the post office in town, and they are some of his favorite trees, along with the oaks on Galloway Drive. Parking lot expansion is not the only thing threatening these oak trees, however. Lately, an increasing number of cases of oak wilt has been reported. “There’s an invasive disease coming,” Girdham said. “Our city forester is going out of his way to preserve the oaks.” Oak wilt is transmitted by beatles and can kill an oak tree in just one season. To prevent this from happening, the oak trees can only be pruned at certain times of the year. East College Street is also home a unique tree: the gingko. These hardy trees were once thought to be extinct but were later found in China, preserved by Buddhist Monks. “Gingko trees are a little bit unusual. They’re pretty popular now, and are known to be present from fossil records,” Rosenberg said. “They’re resistant to diseases and insects and don’t have any pests that

Both the bald cypress tree (top) and the sweet bay magnolia (bottom) can be found near the pond in Slayton Arboretum. Calli Townsend | Collegian

have evolved with them.” The gingkos on campus can be found in front of the Sage Center for the Arts, on the west side of the library, and across the street from Broadlawn. Girdham said Penny Arnn loves her gingko tree that lives across from Broadlawn. The unusual rubber tree also has a home near the Roche Sports Complex. “I planted it for a different variety,” Girdham said. “You can see the latex in the leaf when it’s torn. The only downside is it has no fall color.” An interesting tree that Girdham planted is a hardy

coffee tree. “They get really wide, like over 100 feet wide,” Girdham said. “I planted it in hope that he’ll amount to something spectacular. They start off really scrawny.” This spring, the witch hazel will bloom in fire-cracker fashion, the coffee tree will grow into something spectacular, and the knees of the bald cypress tree will expand for more air. These trees, young and old, scrawny and large, colorful and bland, all contribute to the wonderful variety on campus.

Applied Math Club trains students in data analysis and programming By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief How can email use an algorithm to sort out spam? How can a math model predict traffic flow changes with the introduction of self-driving vehicles? How can data analysis help states to create a renewable energy plan? The Mathematical Contest in Modeling puts to work everything on which the Applied Math Club has focused since September, when the club held its first-ever meeting, to answer questions like these. The club takes the theoretical and tries to use it to solve problems in the real world, from business decisions to the best way to set up a March Madness bracket. The students have the opportunity to learn skills including data analytics, modeling, and computer programming that are useful in math-related career fields. “We’re not just thinking about math because it’s homework,” said Mark Panaggio, assistant professor of mathematics and the club’s faculty adviser. “It’s because you enjoy it, and you enjoy the challenge of solving a problem. We’re growing that love of math.” In January, three teams of three students from the Applied Math Club participated in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling competition. Over four days, the groups each spent more than 30 hours writing a five-page report on several challenges such as developing models to

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track changes in the number of foreign language speakers to determine where a company should open international locations. The contest’s results are expected to become available over the next several weeks. Last year, two teams from Hillsdale College competed in the competition against students from all over the world, though mostly from China. One team received honorable

“It’s given me a real appreciation for the types of real-world problems and strategies to tackle them.” mention, finishing in the top half of teams and beating 4,000 other teams. “That’s pretty impressive, because some of these teams have coaches and study all year round for this,” Panaggio said. “Our students were just thrown into the fire.” Students studying applied math, or not, meet weekly at noon on Tuesdays in Dow Science 110B (though next week’s will be on Monday because of a speaker). Typically

Panaggio presents a problem to solve, often a past challenge of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, and the group discusses how it would use equations, data, or computer programming to solve the problem. “It’s given me a real appreciation for the types of real-world problems and strategies to tackle them,” said junior Gill West, who is studying applied math and philosophy. “We don’t necessarily have time to solve the problems, but we talk about how to approach them and set them up. Once you know how to solve it, it’s just a matter of typing it into the computer programming software.” Panaggio added that he hopes the Applied Math Club eventually can work with departments on campus to assist them with data analysis. The club also has speakers address the club about two to three times a semester. Recently, Professor of English Patricia Bart shared with the group how she uses computer programming in her research analysis of middle English literature. Others have discussed in what careers and field students can use their mathematical skills. “It has made me understand what I can do with math,” said sophomore Emma Clifton, who is studying applied mathematics. “It’s not just abstract concepts, but it’s how can we use this in day-today life?” Panaggio began working with students to start the

Recycling metals from e-waste may be more cost-effective than mining Discarded electronics is one of the fastest-growing categories of waste, and new research suggests that recovering valuable metals from e-waste may be less expensive than obtaining these same metals through mining. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, used data from Chinese recycling companies to calculate the expense for extracting metals like gold and copper from e-waste.

Sophomore Emma Clifton participates in the Applied Math Club. Breana Noble | Collegian

club after a graduating senior expressed that he had wished he had more opportunities to learn about data analytics and computer programming as an undergraduate. He said the club still is figuring out what it is looking to accomplish and the group often is discussing about what the students want to learn. One area of interest for many students is computer programming, Panaggio said. “You’re not going to graduate with an applied math major as a software developer,” Panaggio said, “but the hope is that you at least know the basics of programming so that when you go out in the workforce and need to learn Java, you at least have the

Study shows Earth’s bedrock may be substantial source of nitrogen As much as 26 percent of the nitrogen in natural ecosystems comes from bedrock, according to a new study published in Science. The finding contradicts the long-held idea that the nitrogen available for plants to use came from the atmosphere. The researchers said this is the first study to unearth this nitrogen source. Their study has implications for improving climate change projections, they said.

foundations.” West found that to be the case when he interned as a data analyst last summer and had to learn Python in the weeks leading up to the job. “The applied math program focuses a lot on how to think problems through,” West said. “Majoring in computer science can be proof to employers that you are able to the work, but that’s where the Applied Math Club comes in for Hillsdale students. It’s: ‘Look what I learned on my own and in this group.’” With Panaggio’s assistance, students have found resources to create programming study groups and learn languages such as Python, and some students have had exposure to GNU Octave and MATLAB.

In the club, the students may write down in English the steps a computer programmer would take to solve the problem to become familiar with the thinking process. Clifton said overall the Applied Math Club provides a hands-on opportunity to relate the theoretical with the real world. “You see how math requires knowledge of other things,” Clifton said. “You use common sense to see if this really is coherent. Does it make sense to have negative of something? When you are determining the amount of money of something, you have to ask, ‘Is that reasonable?’”

Questionable science brewing Autoimmune responses linked to behind California’s coffee labels migration of gut bacteria in body A California court recently ruled A team of Yale researchers has that the state’s retailers must label discovered a link between a particular coffee as a carcinogen. The chemical type of gut bacteria, Enterococcus in question is acrylamide, which is gallinarum, travelling to other organs produced as a byproduct when coffee and autoimmune responses, according beans are roasted and is also present in to a mouse study published in Science. foods such as fried potatoes. A review The researchers said their work is a of 1,000 studies in the Lancet Oncolo- step toward reducing this inflammagy indicated that there was no consistory response and understanding the tent link between drinking coffee and source and mechanism of inflammamore than 20 types of cancer. tion in autoimmune diseases.

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Inside Hillsdale’s dorms, campus-wide games By | Kasia Ignatik Collegian Freelancer

Thatcherball. Statue golf. Naval battle. Names like these are practically institutions on Hillsdale’s campus. To balance hard, intellectual study with lighthearted entertainment, Hillsdale students play a variety of official and less-official games. While games such as the naval battle are planned, many other games, such as “assassins,” are less institutional, and students spontaneously play such games as “sardines” and “murder in the dark” for fun, simple Saturday nights. The most recognizable of these games is “assassins,” which guys in Simpson Residence have the option to join. Everyone on campus can usually tell when it’s being played because male students will lurk around warily while friends shout at them, “Have you been killed yet?” Junior Andrew Lohman, one of the dorm’s resident assistants, is one of the main organizers, or “gamemakers.” According to Lohman, this game has been played in Simpson nearly every year for five years. Lohman explained the game: Everybody who signs up to play is assigned another specific player to pursue as a target, and a “kill” is made by tapping a spoon somewhere on the target’s torso. Once a person has been tapped, they are out of the game. Spoons were chosen as the tagging item because “a spoon is a blunt object, and it provides personal, close contact, forcing you to actually look into the eyes of your killer,” Lohman said. Lohman said “assassinations” can be made anywhere on campus except bedrooms (“so people can sleep”), the cafeteria (“so people can actually enjoy meals”), and classrooms with professors (“but, if the professor leaves

in the middle of class, you can go right ahead and get your man”). While there are rules about safe zones, Lohman said there are no rules about anything players say in the game. Apparently, lying about your motives is often used to achieve an assassination. “Assassins” doesn’t always have a buy-in, but through a general consensus, Lohman instituted a $1 buy-in for this year’s game. “We do it if it’s what the guys want,” Lohman said. “It’s so the winner can have a prize outside bragging rights and also so we get people who actually want to play, not just people signing up other people as jokes. It’s not as intense if people don’t take it seriously. But the money’s not why people play.” The game ends when all the players except one have been “assassinated” by spoons. “Our most recent game was over relatively quickly compared to some games. It was only five or six days long,” Lohman said. “We’re anticipating another game later this semester. The people who didn’t join this round realized they were missing out.” A less-involved group game played on campus is “sardines,” a game like hideand-seek where one player hides and everyone else seeks. When somebody finds the hiding person, he or she has to hide with them — and so it continues until there’s only one person left and a crowded hiding spot. Sophomore Stephen Tanquist has played sardines twice. “Both times it went on for several hours, which I wasn’t expecting,” Tanquist said. Tanquist said that he’s played both games in the Grewcock Student Union at night. “It doesn’t work during the day because people are around,” he said. While you might not think

that the Grewcock Student Union has too many places to hide, Tanquist said otherwise. “Every time, you expect you know everywhere people will hide,” Tanquist said. “I have a routine, a way of searching that sweeps through the whole building. But most of the time I still miss the person who’s hiding.” Tanquist said that the first place people usually try to hide is the elevator. But some people get more creative. “Once somebody emptied the trash can, took out the bag, and put it in the guys’ bathroom, and hid themselves inside the trash can,” Tanquist said. Space is also an issue, so sometimes people have to spread out around the general area if the first hiding spot is too small (like a trash can). As far as Tanquist knows, the game isn’t widely played across campus. “I’ve only ever been involved in it,” Tanquist said. “I’ve never come across a game. Sometimes in Lane and Kendall things will be dark and people will be running around, but I never see that in the union.” The game Tanquist observed in classroom buildings Lane and Kendall halls could have been “murder in the dark,” a game often played there, according to sophomore Zachary Palmer. “As far as my knowledge goes, this game was born in Niedfeldt my freshman year,” Palmer said. “I never knew it existed before then.” Palmer said he has played murder in the dark at least 20 times with big groups of people. He also said you have to set aside at least two hours to play. According to Palmer, murder in the dark is like the party game “Mafia” translated into action. Instead of the anonymously designated Mafia choosing victims by pointing, all players are let loose in dim halls to wander

until the players acting as the Mafia physically tag them to put them out of the game. “People do this groupthink thing where they try to be with other people,” Palmer said of this part of the game. “It’s suspicious if somebody’s alone, or walking too slowly — everything you do is suspicious.” The game goes on with periodic conventions for guessing who belongs to the Mafia until either a majority of Mafia members remain or the non-Mafia members, termed “townspeople,” vote all Mafia members out of the game. “Politically, it’s a mess,” Palmer said. “Every game I’ve played, the townspeople don’t understand that they shouldn’t wantonly accuse people. Nine out of 10 games, more townspeople are killed by their own kind.” The need for strategy applies to the Mafia, too. “Mafia are caught when they’re sloppy at killing or just make a verbal mistake in public — when they claim they were somewhere and somebody else knows they weren’t there at the time,” Palmer said. So what makes a good Mafia member? “The best ones hide and play people off each other. Sometimes they sacrifice another Mafia member to throw people off the trail,” Palmer said. “You get to see who’s good at manipulating other people.” Tanquist gave a no-frills reason as to why exactly Hillsdale students get together to play games like sardines, assassins, and murder in the dark. “Both times I’ve played sardines,” Tanquist said, “it’s been a spontaneous act because it seemed fun at the time. And it was fun.”

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Unsung Heroes: Tom and Sabine Young take in foster children By | Ethan Visser Collegian Freelancer The kitchen is full of life. A puppy yips and plastic utensils clatter in the kitchen. Two small children sit in highchairs, faces covered in scrambled eggs. Another sits at the table. A puppy with legs too long for its body frolicks, lapping up the bits of egg littering the floor. This is lunchtime at the Young house. The Youngs have had four foster children, two of whom they just officially adopted. After their own children left home, Tom Young and his wife, Sabine Young, decided to welcome in foster children. They knew that Hillsdale needed foster families and said they felt called to provide a home for children in unfortunate circumstances. The Youngs live five minutes from the college. Tom has worked in the maintenance department for 12 years and operates a private RV business on the side. Sabine runs a daycare from home. “We wanted to give a child a better home, a home they can look back on and say, ‘Things were different there,’” Tom Young said. But the process has not been easy. After deciding to become foster parents, Tom Young and Sabine Young went through a long process before being cleared by the state of Michigan. Case workers interviewed them and their extended family at length while conducting deep background checks. In addition, they had to complete the nine-course Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education Program, or PRIDE. After completion, they finally received their foster care license from the state. Then, they just had to wait. After months without a word, Sabine Young received a call asking if they could foster a child. “I called Tom Young and said, ‘Are we ready to do this?’” With the OK from her husband, their new daughter slept in their home that very night. Despite the inconvenience and frustration, the Youngs didn’t complain about the long process. “Our case workers were great and the state does everything it can for these

children,” Tom Young said. Even after completing the process, the the state still restricts the Youngs in certain areas. They can’t cut their kids’ hair or take them out of the state without asking permission first. He admitted that this can be frustrating: “We do everything to take care of the children and we still have to ask for permission to do small things,” he said. While the state does its best, the process is also tough for the children. They get removed from their homes, wait for a family, and often anticipate returning home. “The kids get caught in the middle of everything,” Tom Young said. Nevertheless, the goal is to reunify the children with their parents. “The state works hard to give the parents every opportunity to earn back custody of their children,” Tom Young said. Tom Young explained that the majority of children are removed from their homes due to their parents’ drug abuse. As a result, drug rehabilitation and scheduled tests provide opportunities for parents to regain custody of their children. While the reunification process is well-intended, it often results in broken hearts. The parents have the opportunity to visit with the children on a monthly basis, but they routinely miss meeting times. “I hated telling the kids that they might see their parent today when I knew the odds were high that they wouldn’t show,” Sabine Young said. “It was heartbreaking to watch them let down again and again.” For the Youngs, seeing the children hurt has been by far the hardest part of the process. “I can’t believe that anyone would make anything more important than their children,” Tom Young said. The opposite is true for the Youngs. They have made countless sacrifices for the children. Sabine Young quit her job to raise their foster children and the year of waiting to officially adopt their kids put the whole family in limbo. Sabine Young tried to describe the most rewarding part of fostering children but before she could begin, a little girl ran in from the next room calling, “Mommy, Mommy!” As tears welled in her eyes, she said, “Hearing them call me ‘Mommy’ is the best part.”

The men of Simpson Residence duke it out in the naval battle in Lake Winona. The Collegian Archives

Mach from B6 to a student walking by. “Thanks, John. I know I can rely on you,” the student responded. “They know they can rely on me to insult them,” Mach said, chuckling. “They love it.” Mach can banter with these friends just as easily as he can brag about them like a parent would: “She got a standing ovation!”, “He was accepted to Ohio State University’s dental school!”, “She’s from Frankenmuth, Michigan, and they voted her queen for a float!” Mach said he tries to make an effort to go to many of the students’ music and dance concerts. As senior Susena Finegan walked by, Mach chased her down and apologized: “I had to tell her that I’m sorry I missed her concert on Saturday, because I was in the hospital.” Interactions like those make him Finegan’s favorite security monitor at the gym. “He calls me ‘Finny’ and ‘Irish,’ and he constantly asks me about my life,” Finegan said. “He remembers little details about little encounters, which shows he cares about

the students he comes into contact with, and it makes me really appreciate our conversations.” Mach said he appreciates them too. “Every one of them is wonderful,” Mach said. “In a school of 1,500 kids, they are all so hardworking and talented and driven and Christians. They’ll tell me that they’ll pray for me, and you don’t see that at other places.” Because Mach engages with them, many students invest in him, too. Laux, a Frankenmuth native, once brought him the city’s special Bavarian chicken seasoning because he mentioned that he and his wife like it. Likewise, knowing that Mach enjoys the musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” junior Cole McNeely offered to take him backstage of a nearby performance since McNeely knew the actor playing Raoul. Mach was unable to attend, but McNeely brought back a poster and program signed by the actor plus a candle from the set. “He treats me well,” McNeely said. “It’s the little things. He invests in me, so I invest back in him.” Mach said his affinity for

people is somewhat surprising. He spent 33 years in a semi-truck cabin with just a radio to keep him company for the more than 3 million miles he traveled. “Maybe I’m starved for conversation,” he said. “Everyone has got such a different story.”

Instead, Mach studied business management at Valparaiso University in Indiana, intending to take over his father’s Ford Motor Co. dealership in Northville. When Ford sought to turn a nearby Mercury dealership into another Ford one, a legal battle followed. While the

More than 60 visitors to the Roche Sports Complex signed a get well card to John Mach, who works in security and was in the hospital last week. Breana Noble | Collegian

Mach grew up in Wayne, Michigan. In high school, he planned to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point — and even had the recommendations he needed from two members of Congress — but he blew his knee out in a football accident and his dream had ended.

Machs won the lawsuit, Ford threatened to appeal and said Mach would never take over his father’s business. They sold the business after a doctor diagnosed his dad with Parkinson’s disease. “I wanted him to enjoy the rest of his life,” Mach said. “I told him I would be okay.” But Mach was unemployed

for a year and a half. He said affirmative action programs were becoming popular at the time, and as a white man, he was not what job recruiters were seeking. One day, Mach was watching an auction on television. One item being auctioned was to spend a week with Michigan Gov. James Blanchard. Mach called in, bid, and won it. He shared his story with the governor, who sent him to check for an availability in the governor’s office. Once again, Mach didn’t fit into the minority category the interviewer needed to fill. “He said: ‘You’re just a white guy. All those positions are taken,’” Mach recalled. So, unemployed, he and his wife had to sell their home and move into an 800-squarefoot house their church owned. The downsize forced most of their furniture into the basement, where a sewer leak ruined everything. “I decided I was never going to go broke again,” he said. Mach then started his own business. He bought a truck and began hauling all sorts of items, often driving 20 to 40 hours at once. He also leased his services to other companies that had

the authority to send him longer distances. During one delivery to Florida, police stopped Mach because the company he was serving had not paid its licensing in the state. The fine was $400. Mach called the company only to learn the person in charge was busy enjoying his boat on a Saturday morning. Police handcuffed Mach, and he spent a night in jail before he finally paid the license fee from his own pocket. He still made the delivery on time, and eventually, the company reimbursed him. After more than three decades on the road, Mach said he became tired of his road trips — and the traffic tickets. That’s when he came to Hillsdale with his wife. Now, he says he would like to spend more time with her and show her new places, since he was away so often as a truck driver. “She looks like a million bucks,” Mach said. “She just sparkles. I want to be with her more and travel with her.” But Mach says he loves his job, and it’s the people that are keeping him here. “I love these kids,” Mach said. “It’s why I do this.”

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Hillsdale College students who served in the U.S. Army’s ambulance corps during World War I. College Archives | Courtesy

Alumnus reminisces about Hillsdale during the 1960s By | Isabella Redjai Collegian Freelancer

Librarian tallies Hillsdale’s WWI vets

after that point. There are names that still need to be added, but it’s an ongoing process.” Around this time during Moore said The Collegian’s the spring semester 100 years old war columns during ago, only 12 upperclassmen World War I, which listed men remained on campus updates about Hillsdale stuafter 192 male students enlist- dents involved in war efforts, ed to serve in World War I, and other online records were according to Professor Emerhelpful as she researched itus of History Arlan Gilbert’s alumni to add to her list of second volume of Hillsdale those who served in World College history. War I. As of Nov. 21, 1918, 249 “I think a lot of times, and men and women were on acrightly so, a lot of the attentive service, according to The tion is paid to the service from Collegian archives. the Civil War, but there was Now, 100 years after World certainly an awful lot of guys War I’s conclusion, a new who went off in World War I,” challenge remains: ensuring Moore said. accurate documentation of the Moore said deciding who veterans of Hillsdale College. fits the criteria for the list can “When you try and name be difficult, since some vetereverybody, you leave a lot ans came to the college after of room for errors: people their service. Many Hillsdale who went off home, maybe students made significant conthey didn’t enlist immeditributions to the war efforts ately, maybe they did serve although they were not enbut didn’t have contact with listed in the military, which is the college after that, so any the case for those in organizakind of an actual name list tions such as the Young Men’s you have, by its nature, is Christian Association. not going to be complete,” “There are a lot of womPublic Service Librarian Linda en in the nursing fields in Moore said. “So I decided, World War I, but if you don’t ‘Well, maybe we should start count those who went over to seeing if we can get some kind provide support to the troops, of a master student list.’” you don’t have any women’s Although Moore’s database names because they couldn’t of Hillsdale College’s veterans be in the military,” Moore began with investigations into said. “Nursing is one of the the college students’ involveways they went ahead and ment in the Civil War, she did that. I looked at service expanded her list after coming in kind of a broader sense across a list of 500 Hillsdale than strictly being enlisted. students who served in World If you were working with War I during her research. YWCA providing support to “This last year or so, I went the troops, I figure that’s good through old newspaper artienough to count as having cles looking for names to add served your country during from World War I service,” that conflict.” Moore said. “There are some In terms of direct U.S. 300 or so names that got addmilitary service, however, ed from that. Now, my master Professor of History Thomas list has just a little over 1,100 Conner said it wasn’t until the names, but that only goes up spring of 1918 that America to World War II. That doesn’t first contributed substantial include Korea, Vietnam, or military involvement toward any of the other engagements the war effort. Earlier on, a embarrassed that I didn’t say from B6 anything to him. We somehow found out who the car only one stopped to conbelonged to an in the middle front them. of the night ended up wash“We are really throwing ing this guy’s car that we had these eggs by this time,” egged.” Zimmerman said. “But As for the sprinter from nobody stopped and and we the egg incident, he stood hit a lot of cars. Finally, this about 20 feet away in the one car came to a screechDow Upper Lounge as Ziming halt. There was an open merman recounted his story. field down there and the “When Larry tells the three of us started jogging story, he says it’s the fastest out through the field. All of half mile that I had ever run,” a sudden there was a fourth Zimmerman laughed. “He guy in this field.” embellishes it a little bit but Zimmerman, who ran that’s the story.” distance for the Hillsdale The Frat and the track team, said the individuFiretruck al kept gaining ground. The fraternity members of “This guy is catching Delta Tau Delta had game in us,” Zimmerman said. “I’m the 1960s, at least according thinking there is nobody to Howard Smith ’68. between here and Ann Arbor “On Friday afternoon, we who can run faster than I had a firetruck,” Smith said. can, but this guy is catching “They brought all these coeds us.” from all over the campus to One of the three managed our parking lot.” to veer off a different way By coeds, Smith meant leaving Zimmerman, his ladies, lots of ladies. Between friend, and the guy chasing 50-100 would ride on that them in the field. fire truck to the Delt house “I’m running a bit fastevery Friday. er now but this guy is still “It was an old-style getting closer,” Zimmerfiretruck,” Smith explained. man explains. “Finally, I “It had a big, old, clangy bell glance back and this guy has and ladders on the side. It stopped running. So I dive was outstanding.” into a ditch on the side of the Although there were other field and this guy just keeps aspects of Hillsdale that walking. He didn’t see me, Smith knows and loves, that but I saw him.” firetruck will forever hold a The individual who place in his heart. chased Zimmerman that “Just the memories of night was a fellow member of Hillsdale, the Greek life, and the track team. the fun we had, to be a part “He was a sprinter and of all that was pretty amazI was a long distance guy,” ing,” Smith said. “And trying Zimmerman said. “He to make my grades every almost caught us. I was so

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small amount of Americans volunteered to fight for the British or French armies before the United States officially entered the war. “It took us the better part of a year to get our army over there to Europe and trained,” Conner said. “The United States had a tremendous military impact on the outcome of World War I, but the only meaningful fighting we did was between May and November 1918, basically in the last six months of the war.” Of the Hillsdale men who did enlist, several were honored for their heroism. Four received the French Croix de Guerre, an award for distinguished bravery: Lt. Stephen Jessup, Sgt. Marcus Bostwick, Lt. Ralph Jones, and Pt. John Bishop. Bishop also earned the American Distinguished Service Cross, an award for those whose meritorious service was above other awards but did not meet the criteria for the Medal of Honor. Conner said compared to World War II, World War I generally receives less public attention. “This is a 100th anniversary, but I don’t have the sense that Americans have thought much about it,” Conner said. “It saddens me because I think, frankly, this is the last chance that Americans will have to learn about the first world war. This is what we call a teaching moment, and a 100th anniversary should be a big deal.” In the meantime, Moore will continue adding names to her list Hillsdale students who enlisted in the war, one search at a time. “It’s always kind of interesting as you go through,” Moore said. “You have some names of people who went missing in action, or died in plane crashes, and you get to find out what happened to some of them.” semester and being on the Dean’s list. But the fire truck was pretty neat.” Advice for the Aimless When asked what advice she would give to current students, Florence Silvernail ’58 had a few life lessons. “Participate in everything you can,” Silvernail advised. “Keep your friends beyond college, and listen to people when they tell you to eat right and exercise. Dave Trippett ’58 challenged students to stand up to their professors. “Keep an open mind,” Trippett said. “Questions your professors. Don’t let them just feed you whatever they’re feeding you. At Hillsdale, we don’t have to worry about that as much, because you have a good exchange. Even with good leadership, you still should question those professors.” Jim Mitchell ’68 said students should strive toward a certain goal. “Develop a goal and stick to your plan,” Mitchell said. “You’ll get rewarded for it down the road. Do what you like to do and you’ll never go to work a day in your life. My goal was to first graduate and then I wanted to go to California. I did it and I never left.” Dave Plagman ’68 offered similar encouragement. “Find your passion and make it your life’s work,” Plagman said. “I worked for major corporation and I hated all my jobs. My advice to you Hillsdale graduates is find your passion.”

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C.G. Appleby recalls his mother asking him, “Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond?” when questioning whether University of Michigan — his family’s alma mater — or Hillsdale would be the right choice. Originally from Saginaw, Michigan, Appleby chose to study at Hillsdale College. He graduated in 1968. Post-graduation, after attending law school at American University and University of Virginia, Appleby went on to be drafted into the Vietnam War, and was awarded with a Purple Heart award and two bronze stars of valor. After his service in the Vietnam War, Appleby clerked for NASA and the U.S. General Accounting office in Washington D.C. He went on to the consulting firm Ed Booz Hamilton as the second top lawyer in the firm, retiring as the Executive Vice President in July 2011. Most interestingly, the stories concerning Appleby’s time at Hillsdale include his memories as a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, his role as a part of the small, close-knit community of friends and professors on campus, and studying politics. “I was an ATO, and we’ve had the old President’s house for a long time. When I was there at Hillsdale, there were five fraternities,” Appleby said. “I lived in the ATO house for one year and then lived at a cottage near Baw Beese Lake we called ‘The Hill.” Even in the 1960s, Appleby recalls the days of date parties and events the fraternity house would put on, standing out as some of his most fond memories in the fraternity. “We had tremendous parties at that house. We once had a date party called

‘Pajama-Rama’ at the ATO house, and all the dates came in their pajamas,” Appleby said. “At that time, we always had great rock bands come to the fraternity house, and I had played in a small rock band in high school, so I would play on the drums.” Some of the ATO events Appleby remembers also signify certain signs of the times of the 1960s. “One of the parties at ATO was the ‘Vietnam Go-Go,’ where guys and girls had to wear military uniforms and nurse outfits. Even though we were conservative, we never supported the war,” Appleby said. “When I did arrive in Vietnam, I had no idea what it was going to be like.” Apart from fraternity activities, Appleby said that there were not very many activities to do off-campus. “When I was there, Hillsdale was still very small. My parents would come into town, and there wasn’t really any good place to go,” Appleby said. “There was a bar downtown where lots of folks would go, and I do remember a diner with a neon guy outfront. Other than that, there was not a lot to do off-campus.” Similar to the current dynamic of Hillsdale community, due to the small town and lack of recreational activities available, this would lend to tighter-knit relationships with both students and professors alike. Appleby refers back to a specific memory he had with the head of the English department, his roommate, and a friend of his: They all agreed to chop down a Christmas tree at the house of another English professor. Appleby said to “get to know professors that well” is a “Hillsdale thing, and not usual.” Remembering bonfires,

athletic games, and other social gatherings, Appleby emphasizes the special community that not only was alive when he was a student, but remains true to this day and warrants appreciation. “You get included in life at Hillsdale. You can’t help it you see the same people, have the same professors, and frequent the same places; this all really brings you into a community.” When describing a particular moment in his education that remains in the memory of Appleby, he said that although he cannot remember a specific moment he does recall feeling shocked to enjoy politics as much as he did. “I was a politics and history double-major and took a range of business classes,” Appleby said. “I was not a straight-A student by any means, but by the end of college, I knew what was going to be important to me in my lifetime.” Appleby emphasizes how the liberal arts education he received at Hillsdale, allowing him to get a taste of multiple disciplines, contributed to the great success he enjoyed later in life. “I’ve spent time all around the world, and think back to art and music courses I had to take, but didn’t want to take,” Appleby said. “You may not appreciate it while you are in college.” After accomplishing and receiving accolades in a variety of manners after graduation from Hillsdale College, Appleby looks on his times at Hillsdale fondly and with an appreciation for the education he received. “My professors made me feel comfortable in what I was trying to do. They showed me that you can be successful and will be successful if you choose to be,” Appleby said. “You have to have the drive and ambition, and if you do, then you will be successful.”

Senior women lead the charge against trash by going plastic-free

Senior Lauren Barlass uses glass containers to cut out plastic wrap. Lauren Barlass | Courtesy

By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Seniors Lauren Barlass and Randi Block are garbage queens. The housemates opted to start a zero-waste lifestyle in October, switching out plastic and disposables for glass and reusable bags, after Block saw a video promoting it. “Living zero-waste means that, to the best of our ability, we don’t buy anything that can’t be recycled indefinitely,” Barlass said. The average American produces just under four and a half pounds of garbage every day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And while glass and metal can be recycled indefinitely, Block said, plastic must be “downcycled” to a lower quality, meaning it ends up in a landfill eventually, too. “Plastic is the end product,” Block said. “There’s nowhere to go from there. All the plastic you use in this lifetime is going to outlive you.” President of the Conservation Club Andrea Wallace said that many people don’t consider the energy it takes to make a product. “They often don’t consider the energy and resources required to make the item they are throwing away,” Wallace

said. “Especially in the case of plastic, production contributes to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are warming our climate, whether you like it or not.” Block and Barlass have transitioned to shopping with reusable glass jars and produce bags. They also began eating vegan, since most meat and dairy products only come in plastic packaging. Although most vegetables come plastic-free, Block and Barlass have struggled to find zero-waste cauliflower because it usually comes wrapped in plastic. Block said that in addition to helping the environment, the lifestyle has taught her to ask questions and stand up for herself. She said that some stores or restaurants will put food, such as cheese from the deli counter or a take-out ice cream, into reusable containers if asked. “It takes a lot of confidence to do that,” Block said. The housemates buy from Hillsdale Natural Grocery, since it sells bulk food that buyers can load into their own containers. Barlass also suggested buying from local sources, since farmer’s markets or smaller businesses tend to be flexible. Block said that buying zero-waste has impacted the

way she thinks about food, since she is buying more raw ingredients than pre-made food. “It’s been really rewarding,” Block said. “Food is much more flavorful. It’s caused me to expand my horizons in cooking.” But, she added, if they forget to prepare it can be easy to slip into old habits. “When you’re on top of it, it’s really easy,” Block said. “When you’re not, it’s really not.” Wallace said it’s possible to cut back on waste, even in college. “Be diligent about recycling your packaging from Kendall’s grab-and-go, don’t use lids and straws when you go out to eat, don’t use cheap plastic water bottles,” she said. “The first step in going zero-waste is refusing items you don’t need to use, especially single-use plastics, so there are plenty of ways to start that in a college environment.” Both Block and Barlass said they plan on continuing living zero-waste. They said some easy ways to cut back on waste is to use reusable produce bags and to buy toothbrushes with a bamboo handle. “You’ll never be able to look at grocery shopping the same way,” Block said.

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John Mach sits at his desk in the Roche Sports Complex. Breana Noble | Collegian

Unsung Heroes

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John Mach invests in relationships at the Roche Sports Complex By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief

Tuesday night was John Mach’s first day back at the security desk in Roche Sports Complex. He had been in the hospital for four days last week due to some health concerns, and when he returned, he received a get-well-card signed by more than 60 gym regulars — so many that a folded piece of paper was slid into the card to hold all the names and messages. “Get well soon, the sports complex needs your happy face, sir,” senior David Stone wrote in the card. Another note signed by a student so familiar to Mach she left only her first name, Rachel, read: “Looking forward to more conversations!” Receiving that card brought Mach to tears. “Gosh, I didn’t know so many people cared,” Mach said. “It made me feel good.” The 71-year-old former truck driver may work security, but students and community members said he does much more than make them

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feel safe. Greeted by his smile and sarcasm, sports complex visitors pass by Mach on their way to and from working out, but not before talking about a favorite hobby, their career aspirations, who they’re dating, or life in general. “He is the most joyous person I know,” junior Liz Laux said. “He always knows people’s names, and he gets to know them personally. He makes you feel special.” Mach started at Hillsdale College three years ago, after he and his wife of 51 years, Ginger, moved to the area from Westland, Michigan. They wanted to be near their son, who works in anesthesiology at Hillsdale Hospital, and their grandchildren, who attend Hillsdale Academy. While Mach often teases the people he regularly sees at the sports complex — “You’re dating him?”, “Here to lose?” — it all comes from a place of love. “‘Loser’ was written next to your name on the bathroom wall, but don’t worry, I cleaned it off for you,” he said

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Students enjoy the sunshine in front of Central Hall in 1968. Winona Archives | Courtesy

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Fifty years after their graduation, members of the class of 1968 return for their reunion and spring convocation. Nanette Hoberg | Courtesy

The stories we tell in reunions By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter California. Idaho. Florida. Ohio. Michigan. Alumni of the classes of 1958 and 1968 traveled across the nation to celebrate their 60th and 50th reunions, respectively, this past weekend. They came to relax, rekindle relationships, and reminisce about a simpler time, a time when the college mascot was the Dales and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was still on campus. A Borrowed Train for Breakfast It was 2:30 a.m. in 1968. Five members of Alpha Tau Omega were walking back to the college after a night of drinking beer at Martin’s Bar in downtown Hillsdale. One of those ATOs goes by the alias Will Cover. The Chronicle-Telegram out of Elyria,

• Meet one of the ’58 alumni, C.G. Appleby • Unsung Hero: Tom Young adopts his foster children • Linda Moore tallies Hillsdale veterans of WWI

Ohio once told this story using the pseudonym Cover. We’ll follow the Chronicle-Telegram and protect this casanova’s true identity. “We were all starving to death and the only restaurant open was in Jonesville, Ma Bell’s,” Cover said. “Nobody had a car, but this rich kid from Grosse Pointe said he’d buy everyone breakfast if we could get to Jonesville.” An idea struck Cover as the group walked across the railroad tracks downtown. “I said, ‘See that engine? I can run it.’” said Cover. “And they all said, ‘Yeah, right.’ I just said, ‘Hope aboard boys.’ We got a couple cases of beer and off we went.” How did Cover know how to work a locomotive? He paid for all his education working on the railroad in the summertime. “Best thing about having

beer on a train is you don’t have to steer,” Cover said. “Those tracks will take you where you want to go. We had a nice time and then we backed the train all the way back to Hillsdale and left it.” The next day the Hillsdale Daily News said the police were investigating the theft of a New York Central engine. “I went, ‘Oh man, I’m in trouble now,” said Cover. “If I got caught, I’d be getting out of jail next Monday.” Cover had one thing he wants Hillsdale students to know. “Beer is God’s way of showing that he loves us,” he said. “Make sure you put that in there.” Fastest Between Here and Ann Arbor The Dale can be rather mundane. For decades, students have had to create their own entertainment. While

current students might amuse themselves with Fortnight, Doug Zimmerman ’68 and a few of his buddies, found entertainment with a few cases of stolen eggs from the Curtiss Dining Hall, the Slayton Arboretum, and a good throwing arm. “One Saturday evening right at the beginning of track season, two of my buddies and I really didn’t have much to do,” Zimmerman recounted. “So we borrowed a couple cases of eggs from the dining hall. And we went down to the Arb and started just started throwing eggs, kind of lobbing them into the Arb.” Chucking eggs over the fence of the Arb wasn’t enough for Zimmerman and his friends, so they moved to the corner outside the Olds Residence. Although Zimmerman and his buddies hit plenty of moving vehicles,

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Campus Chic Compiled by | Isabella Redjai

Egger Stacey senior

Isabella Redjai | Collegian

Is there a unifying aesthetic that you try to attend to in your wardrobe? There’s really not, and that’s why I have so many clothes! I used to really like vintage clothes specifically from the ’50s, and I still use those pieces in my everyday style, but nothing really unifies my style.

Do you have any style muses? Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn were once huge inspirations for me in high school. I’m from St. Louis, and because of the swing dance culture there, my style became very ’50s-inspired. Also, my little sister Bonnie inspires my style; she’s so chic.

What places do you know will reliably provide clothing pieces you love? I love Ann Taylor, although I typically buy it secondhand. At H&M, I always know I can find pieces I will like! Other places I know I can find great pieces are Poshmark, Goodwill, and my mom’s closet.