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Vol. 139 Issue 7 - 22 Oct. 2015

Honors Program becomes ‘Collegiate Scholars’

er is a serious problem for the consent of the governed,” Grant said. Associate Professor of Politics Kevin Portteus added that this marks the first time speakership searches have led to discussing candidates not in Congress. Regardless of who’s chosen, Hayes said the characteristics that led him to propose Arnn are the same needed for anyone to See Hayes A2

By |Breana Noble Assistant Editor After two years of discussion, Hillsdale College’s Honors Program finalized plans to change its name, alter its recruitment process, and get a new director. To emphasize the interdisciplinary aspects of the program, the name is changing to Collegiate Scholars. Additionally, the school closed the program to freshmen. The plan is 30 new members with at least a 3.4 GPA will apply for the program following the end of the academic year and enter as sophomores. Associate Professor of Classical Studies Eric Hutchinson is working with Professor of History Richard Gamble, current head of the program, to assume the role of director after the spring semester. “Honors can suggest — can suggest — that somehow Hillsdale College has to be improved to make it good enough for a certain applicant,” Gamble said. “That’s not the case.” Collegiate Scholars will no longer have core class sections specific to the program. Requirements will not specify Collegiate Scholars take more advanced science and math classes than the core curriculum necessitate as well. Students in the program will still write a thesis, take seminars, and have the opportunity to graduate with honors. Gamble said by accepting students after freshman year, comparing applicants becomes easier because students’ grades come from Hillsdale courses instead of a variety of high school backgrounds. Not having freshmen was a point of contention for current students in the program. “We were upset,” Honors Program co-President junior Luke Zahari said. “It was a formative experience. It was the thing that defined our freshman year and our introduction to a community of learning at Hillsdale.” Gamble said he hopes the seminars and program events will contribute to the development of community among the program’s members. He said he believes the students will make the most of the changes. Recruitment for the program will occur during the spring semester. Interested freshmen of any GPA may enroll in a new one-credit seminar entitled The Libe r a l See Honors A2

Roche and knew her for almost 40 years. She said Roche was a caregiver. She described how Roche called someone who recently had back surgery and lived alone every day at 9 a.m. to check on them. It was only the onset of an illness this month that made her miss a single day. Professor of Law Bob Blackstock and his family were also friends with Roche for nearly 40 years. “She was a really fine lady: caring, giving, always with an ear and the time for someone who wanted to be heard,” he said. “The world is a poorer place without her.” June Roche made Hillsdale her home after she arrived from Colorado in 1971 with her then-husband, Hillsdale President George Roche III. “She always came back to here,” Murphy said. “She loved to go to Denver and hangout with her high school friends, but she absolutely considered

Hillsdale her home, both the community and still at the college level.” Many said Roche was a gracious hostess while she lived at Broadlawn. After 1999, though less closely connected to the college, she remained a member of the President’s Club, attended Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars, and was present at the 25th anniversary celebration for Hillsdale Academy earlier this month. She participated in the Hillsdale Garden Club, met for breakfasts at the Coffee Cup, and lunched with friends. She is survived by four children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Her funeral service is this morning, Oct. 22, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 2551 W. Bacon Road. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Salvation Army and Kyomi’s Gift. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to Maggie Murphy at 3200 Stager Driver, Middleville, Michigan, 49333.

Vacant lots on Manning Street, south of Central Hall, will soon become the site of several new homes owned by college supporters. External Affairs | Courtesy

Construction begins on ‘College Park’ homes By |Amanda Tindall Features Editor The nearly vacant block on Manning Street just south of campus could soon be full of new homes owned by Hillsdale College supporters. One college supporter — alumnus William Brodbeck ‘66 — has already begun construction on one of the empty lots that he bought from the college. The school plans to sell the rest of the lots on that block to interested buyers for personal residences. Named “College Park at Hillsdale College,” these homes will be owned by alumni, trustees, friends of the college, parents, and business and national

leaders. The college originally had nine lots for sale, and seven are still available. It requires those wanting to purchase a lot to present a plan of their home to an architectural review board for approval. Brodbeck, chairman of the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees, has purchased the lot closest to College Baptist Church and started construction on his home. “The most phenomenal thing, I think those who are interested will find this as well, is what Hillsdale has to offer, which is extraordinary,” Brodbeck said. “The concerts, the classes, the speakers for the CCAs — all

these things amount to a pretty remarkable spot, which I don’t think is replicated around at other colleges.” Hillsdale’s Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the plans must fit within specific guidelines to create a fluid transition from the houses into campus. One of the goals of College Park is to create an aesthetically-pleasing neighborhood near campus that allows the surrounding area to blend into the campus. “We’d like to sell those lots [on Manning Street] with certain conditions, essentially deed requirements, that would build the kind of neighborhood that would be ideal,” Péwé said.

“Homes that have a similar style to that of the college — classical. It could be Victorian or neo-classical or a similar style, not modern. They have to be within a certain size that would ensure a particular quality and made out of particular materials. So it wouldn’t have metal siding or something like that.” According to Péwé, the college hopes this development will create an economic bridge between the town and the college. The city of Hillsdale’s Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker agreed, calling the situation a “win-win.” College standards require

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Arnn for Speaker, says Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard By |Macaela J. Bennett Editor-in-Chief For the first time, candidates outside of Congress have been discussed for Speaker of the House, and President Larry Arnn is one of them. During a Fox News segment two weeks ago, Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard senior writer and Fox News contributor, said Arnn would be a quality choice for the position. While Republicans continue to shuffle the deck of candidates since Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced his plans last month to resign and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) turned down the bid to replace him in a last-minute decision, no other candidate has garnered widespread support. As a regular on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Hayes with his fellow panelists discussed the search for a new House Speaker on Oct. 8. During the final commercial break leading into the segment’s conclusion, Baier told

the panelists he wanted to ask about their ideas for a speaker candidate from outside Congress. Hayes had 90 seconds to determine his response, and he said Arnn’s was the first name he considered. “There’s a reason he rose to the top of my head,” Hayes said. “He’s intelligent, serious, and has a background with understanding statesmanship. Having spent hours in the classroom and in lectures he’s given, I know he understands what’s at the heart of the republic.” Hayes said the television segment during which he offered Arnn as a choice was meant mostly in jest, but the reasons he considers him a good candidate are serious. “While principles are being laughed at in the media and in politics, we need someone who can provide big-picture perspective,” Hayes said. “And as someone who knows a lot about Churchill, he knows a little about big things and big battles.” Hayes’s proposal has in-

Shannon wins AEI Scholars Award

By |Nicole Ault Collegian Freelancer

Senior Jack Shannon recently won the American Enterprise Institute’s 2015-2016 Young Scholars Award for his economics honors thesis, which is about the theory of “just price.” Shannon is one of four college students to receive the honor, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and invitation to AEI’s annual spring dinner. Shannon also will defend his thesis before a panel in Washington, D.C. Meredith Schultz, Program Manager of AEI’s Values and Capitalism division, which gave out the awards, said Shannon’s thorough research and unique approach distinguished his thesis. “Jack’s application demonstrated superior understanding Follow @HDaleCollegian

of economic principles and a record of high-quality research in previous projects,” Schultz said. “His research proposal for this award was creative and interdisciplinary — including personal translations of primary sources — and showed the potential to contribute new ideas to this field of research.” As part of his award application, Shannon submitted a prospectus of his thesis project and a statement about his views on free enterprise. “[We looked for] demonstrated academic achievement, significant promise in their field of research, and commitment to principles of liberty, individual opportunity, and free enterprise,” Schultz said. Shannon’s thesis is about the theory of “just price.” The topic’s con-

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duced other media outlets to discuss Arnn’s merits, but Arnn takes the suggestion lightly. “I am more likely to become Speaker of the House of Representatives than I am to become manager of the moon,” Arnn said in an email, “but not much more likely.” Aside from having a close friendship with Arnn, Hayes has other ties to Hillsdale that led him to immediately consider its leader in the speaker discussion. Hayes’s family lineage includes two presidents of Hillsdale College. Also, his great-grandfather was Harold Stock, former owner of Stock’s Mill in downtown Hillsdale. These familial connections meant Hayes spent a lot of time in the city of Hillsdale before understanding the mission of the nearby college. Looking ahead to the continuing debate over who will assume the House’s speakership, Hayes said the job is a “wide open free-for-all” if Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) chooses not to pursue the position.

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While Arnn’s is one of a few names not elected to Congress being light-heartedly tossed around for the speakership, Assistant Professor of Politics John Grant said he believes it’s both a bad idea and unconstitutional to have a House Speaker from outside the elected body. “Article I Section 2 [of the United States Constitution] says everyone in the House needs to be elected, so the idea of having an unelected manag-

Remembering June Roche

died Oct. 16. She was 79. Those who knew her remember the passion and energy with which she sought to bless even strangers she encountered. One of her daughters, Maggie Murphy, recalls when she mentioned a student of hers who had been diagnosed with cancer and was struggling with the loss of her hair. “The very next day she said, ‘Come on, we’re going to get her a gift card to a wig shop at the mall so that she can get a wig,’” Murphy said. “If she saw someone in need, she took upon herself to try and make their life just a little bit easier.” Linda Moore, Mossey Library’s public service librarian, was in a monthly breakfast club with External Affairs | Courtesy

By |Micah Meadowcroft Associate Editor June Roche loved people — to help and to care for them. The first wife of former Hillsdale President George Roche III

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In brief: ‘Ad-Liberty’ your business pitch with Enactus By |Timmy Pearce Collegian Freelancer Enactus is teaming up with Ad-Liberty Improv Club to bring Hillsdale a competition from the crossroads of entrepreneurship and improvisation. The competition will be at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Phillips Auditorium. Enactus is selling tickets for $3 in Grewcock Student Union at lunch before the event and $4 at the door. The competition, hosted by senior Alex Buchmann of Ad-Liberty, will feature six contestants making a sales pitch for a randomly chosen fake product. The clubs will provide each contestant with a slideshow to reference while making a pitch to the audience and four faculty judges. “There’s a lot of creativity involved, but there’s a lot of salesmanship too,” Enactus President Nicholas Brown said. The contest does not permit participants to view the slideshow or know about the product they will try to sell before stepping on stage. Judges will evaluate pitches based on business terminology, confidence, cohesiveness, and entertainment value. Enactus Vice President Abraham Ourth described it as a mixture of ‘Shark Tank’ and ‘American Idol.’ Brown said he came up with the idea after seeing a similar event at a conference several years ago. Enactus leadership said it hopes the competition will become an annual event that introduces students to Enactus in an entertaining and educational way.

AEI from A1 -troversy centers on whether the just price is objectively found in nature or more subjectively determined by the market. As a major part of his research, Shannon is translating selections from medieval Scholastic Domingo Banez’s 1594 work “Decisions on Right and Justice” from Latin into English. Assistant Professor of History Matthew Gaetano, one of Shannon’s thesis advisers, said he thinks Shannon’s research is significant. “For me, this is extremely exciting because very few people in the English-speaking world have tackled Banez’s views of any political questions,” he said. “Most people think of how the scholastics forbade usury, but the issue of the just price has not been studied as extensively.” Shannon said he believes his

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Delta Sigma Phi celebrates 100 years at Hillsdale By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Delta Sigma Phi became the third fraternity established at Hillsdale College on May 15, 1915. This weekend, Hillsdale’s chapter of Delta Sigma Phi will celebrate its centennial with alumni returning for homecoming. “I’m proud of the chapter for getting this far, as it’s truly a huge accomplishment,” DSP President Zach VanOrman said. “Being the president of the longest continuous chapter of Delta Sigma Phi has been an honor, and I’m excited to see all of the alumni coming back this weekend.” Though DSP is not the first fraternity on Hillsdale’s campus to reach its centennial — Alpha Tau Omega is more than 125 years old — it is the oldest continuously active collegiate chapter of the fraternity in existence. “It’s significant for Delta Sigma Phi,” Assistant Dean of Men Jeffrey Rogers said. This celebration comes at the close of several turbulent years for the fraternity. A series of policy violations culminated in 2012, when the administration revoked the chapter’s right to have a fraternity house. “People outside, even

inside the college, thought that the chapter was shut down,” the chapter Faculty Adviser Anthony Swinehart said. “The condition of the house was kind of messy, and there was not as much commitment to the brotherhood as the college would like, so they took away the house — but we were still very active. That’s a common misconception.” Nevertheless, the chapter remained in existence without a base to hold its chapter meetings and philanthropic events. “They really cleaned things up over there,” Swinehart added. The DSP house was reinstated in 2014, and the fraternity has since increased in membership and built good standing with the college. “I feel that the centennial was a rallying point for us when we were struggling and lost the house, having our centennial so close really made the long journey ahead seem worth it,” said senior Paul Wendt, who served as DSP’s president last year. “I am very happy that we were able to make it to our centennial, and I am excited to celebrate our accomplishment with my brothers and our alumni.” According to Swine-

project could have significant implications because it deals with the issue of morality and the market. “This project isn’t offering a specific policy proposal; it’s offering something that changes the terms of the debate about policy proposals across the board,” Shannon said. He added that he wants his thesis to bring together positive and normative economics — economics that has to do with “what is” and “what ought to be.” “We’re very concerned with morality in economics,” he said. So is AEI. Schultz said the Values and Capitalism division wants to promote dialogue about morality and the market. “V&C’s purpose in offering this award is to encourage undergraduates to engage in high-quality research and exposition with the goal of advancing a moral case for free enterprise as the most effective way to bring about a just and flourishing society,” she said. Shannon said he believes his Hillsdale classes have shaped his understanding of the integration of morality and the market. “A narrow education in quantitative analysis isn’t going to prepare you for that,” Shannon said. “You can’t do the actual synthesis because we have this broad core education. We’re used to talking about one thing in terms of another. We have a very broad vocabulary that has the potential to speak across disciplines.” Gaetano agreed and said Shannon’s ability to double-major in Economics and Latin as well as his exposure to a broad scope of ancient and medieval texts in the core curriculum helped him with this particular project. “I think this project comes

out of Jack’s continuing reflections on how to think about the relationship of classical views of the moral life and modern, pluralistic society,” he said. “He’s a real model of what a Hillsdale education is about.”

The second home of the Tau chapter of Delta Sigma Phi at Hillsdale, c. 1920 Mossey Library | Courtesy

hart, the DSPs have a history of being spirited and light-hearted contributors to Hillsdale’s campus life. During the Great Depression years, they did their best to encourage their fellow students: In the 1930s, the chapter held “Prosperity Parties” to lift the mood on campus. “They would have little check books with the Delta Sigma Phi logo, and they would have cakes with dollar is what we need almost more than anything else.” Although Arnn said he’s not considering leaving Hillsdale for Capitol Hill, he agreed that the next speaker will need to solve festering issues within U.S. government. “Many sense that our institutions are breaking down because they are, including Congress,” Arnn said. “Someone who has been elected to Congress should lead the effort to repair that, and urgently.”

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Senior Jack Shannon will defend his senior thesis at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. next spring Ben Strickland | Collegian

Hayes from A1 effectively do the job. In a Congress where “trivial” matters seem to dominate recent debates, Hayes said the job necessitates someone who will lend perspective. “In a way, the debates are big things, but at the same time, many of the latest battles are just fights over personality,” Hayes said. “We need someone to wrangle this group, and who knows if President Arnn would be successful at that, but what I do know is he brings perspective of where we’ve been and where we’re going, which

from A1 construction begin within 12 months of purchase and finish by 16 months afterward. Residents of College Park will receive a tax abatement during and after the construction of their homes. According to Beeker, this abatement allows the owner to pay only half the property tax, as estimated by the value of the project, for a given length of time. For houses worth up to $500,000, owners will receive an abatement for at least 10 years. For every $100,000 of additional value, they will receive one more year with the tax reduction up to 15 years, Beeker said. Despite the tax abatements, Beeker said College Park will benefit the city by generating more taxable properties. “We hope people will see that Hillsdale is a nice place to live and retire,” he said. Because of comparative values of properties, it will benefit the neighborhood there as a whole.” Brodbeck noted that, because the homes are required to be near the street, with the garages in the back, the residents and students will have oppor-

signs, and ice cream and stuff like that,” Swinehart said. “They’re an important part of uplifting the spirit on campus, I think.” DSPs also have a long history of serving their country. During the first World War, the ranks of the chapter were nearly depleted because so many of its members enlisted in the military. Only one man was left to keep the chapter alive on campus. The first Hillsdale student casualty in World War II, Naval Aviator Bill Gregg ‘39, was a member of the fraternity. “They also contribute a lot in athletics, and that athletic tradition goes way back,” tunities to get to know each other. “We expect to be invited to at least a few parties,” he said, jokingly. Alongside these homes on Manning Street, the college has a higher-density plan for West Street, according to Péwé. Each building will contain six units, owned by private individuals, for friends of the college. The booklet produced for possible buyers of these lots said there are still seven of the nine spots available, with two reserved.

Honors from A1 Arts Tradition to get a feel of Collegiate Scholars. The program is offering four sections, each taught by a professor from a different discipline and will give a deeper look at readings from Western Heritage. Co-President junior Andrea Sommer said she loves the program for the mentorship she received from older students. Not having freshmen in the program, she said, makes it difficult to pass on the favor. The seminar, based on the one-credit course formerly taken by Honors Program students during their first semester, will offer mentorship opportunities to upperclassmen. Six to eight students will have the opportunity to volunteer as tutors to help stimulate conversation in the seminars. Former co-President senior Christina Lambert said this is a transitional year since there were no new students in the program. “Each year it will become the new normal, and it will bring a lot of positive things

Swinehart said. DSP alumnus Chester Marcol ’72 was inducted to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame after serving as place kicker for the Packers from 1972-80. Tom Heckert Jr. ’88 is now the Director of Pro Personnel for the Denver Broncos. “It’s exciting to see our chapter hit this milestone where we are, as we are on the upswing with our house back and rising membership,” VanOrman said. “I’m just truly honored and blessed to be a leader of the important and historic Tau chapter of Delta Sigma Phi.” Events planned for this weekend include an alumni tailgate as well as a commemorative luncheon, which will survey the chapter’s history. Swinehart is in the process of creating a video that highlights the history and traditions of the chapter. “Being involved with this chapter during this historic event is easily the highlight of my time at Hillsdale College,” senior Xavier Pennell said. “I’ve watched Delt Sig grow as a chapter, and seeing the culmination of years and generations of work is amazing.”

that no one expected it would contribute,” Lambert said. As for the name of the program, Gamble said it was one of the hardest decisions to make, but it better encompasses what the organization is. Lambert agreed. “I think the new name and what it will communicate to future students and present students is that it’s a program made up more than just academic excellence,” she said. “That’s a core part of it, but it contains the area of interdisciplinary learning and building membership and community.” That cross-subject investigation is something to which Hutchinson looks forward as he becomes more involved in the program. He said he is eager to foster relationships with the students in the program and expose them to conversations with college faculty. “There are a lot of really great professors on this campus,” Hutchinson said. “What I would love to do is try to find a way to involve a lot of the faculty in teaching seminars, speaking at various events the program hosts to give students a sense of the breadth and depth of the resources that are available here.” Through the transitions, Sommer said program members are trying to remain optimistic. “We go to a conservative school, we’re going to be resistant to change,” she said. “I don’t think the administration would make the changes unless they thought it was the best thing for the college. At this point, I’m trusting the administration, and hopefully, it’s still able to grow and be the beautiful thing it has been in the past.”

Senior Mikayla Brown teaches at Hillsdale Preparatory School By | Madeleine Jepson Assistant Editor Few college students can boast a full-time job in their area of study, but for senior Mikayla Brown, it’s all in a day’s work. This fall, Brown became the music teacher for Hillsdale Preparatory School while entering her senior year at Hillsdale College. Although this is her first official position, Brown is no stranger to teaching music. A lifelong musician, Brown began teaching music when she designed and taught a special education music class while attending Findlay (Ohio) High School. She continued to pursue her interest in music and teaching at Hillsdale College through the music education minor. Brown first heard about the job while volunteering at the school through Music in the Community, a college GOAL program. When she learned that there was an opening for

the position of music teacher, she applied for the position. The school accepted her. Over the summer, she began crafting a curriculum for her students in grades K-8, drawing from her previous experiences with teaching music. Her classes include Elements of Music History, Composition, and Learning Instruments. She teaches lessons according to the students’ grade level. “My main priority is to get kids to engage with music because it’s something that’s really good for you,” Brown said. “It’s excellent for your brain, and if they’re enjoying it, I’m enjoying it.” Brown said her students’ enthusiasm helps to increase her own, despite the challenge of balancing her academic load with teaching music and her involvement with the symphony and percussion ensemble. “Somehow I manage to

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do it, and I think it’s because the kids are so energetic, and being able to pick up on that energy makes me really excited to be there and to be teaching them, and that can power me through the rest of the day,” Brown said. “It’s a really cool connection to be able to engage with young students.” Prior to starting her job at Hillsdale Preparatory School, Brown assisted in teaching music at the Hillsdale Academy last spring. She observed and taught under the direction of Ross Bonjernoor, the director of music and musical theater. This also constituted her apprenticeship for the music education minor. According to Bonjernoor, Brown went above and beyond in her involvement with the Hillsdale Academy’s music program. In addition to the classroom instruction, during which she primarily taught younger students, she also

Brown teaches a class at Hillsdale Preparatory School. Madeline Jepson | Collegian

helped conduct the ninth and 10th grade choir and worked on the school’s spring musical. “She engages students; she is very direct, which is a very good trait to have,” Bonjernoor said. “She’s very organized, and when she sees the goal in front of her,

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she automatically puts a plan together to attack it.” James Holleman, the music department chair, noted how the music education minor helped prepare students for opportunities they may have teaching music as was the case for Brown.

“Mikayla’s a wonderful one to be one of the first because she will be successful,” he said. “Mikayla’s fearless as a musician — she can do anything. She’s very focused, very at it, very fearless, and zero drama. She’s a real pro.”

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Funding approved for further campus recycling initiatives

By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Freelancer

Student Federation approved the Conservation Club’s $160 funding request for a new initiative to begin recycling in residence halls by the end of this month during its Oct. 8 meeting. The initiative — to recycle haircare, skincare, and beauty supplies — divided representatives over whether it was wasteful spending, given the hygienic and recycling habits of men as opposed to women. Some representatives wondered why American Chemical Society or Beta Beta Beta, the biology honorary, are not in charge of the initiative and why Conservation Club limits their scope to dorms. They considered such division of labor inefficient. Conservation Club members, however, did not agree. “It’s part of the mission of every club and organization: ACS, as a chemical society, would want to recycle plastic bottles, like polymers, and Tri-Beta, the biological honorary, would want to recycle paper and cardboard, and at the same time, Conservation Club, conserving the environment,” said junior Bilyana Petkova, vice president of the Conservation Club. “I think

it’s a lot of work. With ACS it takes all of the volunteers to pick up the trash every week, and I can’t imagine Conservation Club, with just 20 to 30 members, picking up trash in every dorm, all around campus, and at the Tri-Beta stations. With distribution, I think we’re being more efficient.” At first, the Financial Committee recommended no funding for the Conservation Club. “We felt that it was not likely to be used in general by a large percentage of students, especially for guys in Simpson or in Galloway, who have two trash cans in their rooms,” said junior representative Ryan Jelalian, a member of the Financial Committee. “We also felt that there are other organizations that do similar recycling initiatives who could reach and provide support and take on the burden financially.” For Kappa Kappa Gamma representative junior Elise Clines, the discussion was a sign of micromanagement on the part of Student Fed. “It seems to me that we have started to almost micromanage clubs, saying that we know best for every little detail,” Clines said. “Why don’t we give them a little bit of freedom?”

Petkova and sophomore Andrea Lee, club treasurer, petitioned for $164.08 on behalf of the club for sturdy, gray storage bins and trash bags for all 19 dorms and Greek houses. “The long-term goal is that the college will actually realize that we need a college-organized recycling program,” Petkova said. “All recycling done on campus is done by students. So the college and the cleaning staff don’t help us with recycling. We have to provide everything ourselves.” As of right now, the scope of the club’s project is collecting only hygienic product waste. ACS recently placed new recycling bins for plastics and aluminum in many of the academic buildings. The biology honorary has nine cardboard and paper recycling stations up the hill. Volunteer members of the Conservation Club are responsible for collecting, sorting, and transporting the recyclables to the plant. Some representatives articulated concerns regarding success rates in male dorms, claiming that the project would not be successful in the men’s residence halls because men tend to use fewer products than women. Others attributed potential

failures to bathroom location: Galloway’s community bathrooms would facilitate recycling while Simpson’s suite-style bathrooms would not as residents would have to walk down the hall to dispose of their recyclables. The Conservation Club, however, already has experimented with recycling in male dorms with positive results. “We did it at the end of the semester, just a box in the lounge, and we got a lot of guys bringing in stuff,” Petkova said. Senior Samuel Holdeman, independent representative and member of the Financial Committee, suggested a compromise: to begin in the women’s dorms and move to men’s dorms if the initiative proved successful. “I think that just creates a double standard: Women somehow are expected to recycle certain things and men, because of their nature, don’t need to,” sophomore representative Christian Wiese said. The concern of a double standard went hand-inhand with the classification of these recyclable items as beauty supplies or products, a label that does not suggest shaving cream or deodorant, and would further undercut

the success of the initiative among male dorms. “I think that as long as the boxes aren’t labeled beauty supplies and put in a prominent spot, there would be moderate success,” sophomore representative Christopher Pudenz said. Despite the lack of recycling efforts on behalf of the college, independent representative sophomore Jonathan Moy said he felt the new initiative lines up with the aims of Hillsdale College. “We should support the college in its mission of calling its students towards the active cultivation of intellectual and moral excellence and humility before our Creator,” Moy said. “I think this is one way we can promote the idea of conservation among students and understand the importance of using our resources wisely.” Independent representative sophomore Christie Mittlestaedt agreed: “I think getting recycling in the dorms is inevitable. The world is a changing place and recycling is big nowadays, and it’s coming to Hillsdale.”

sake of uniformity. “Other than that, you wear them and follow common sense fashion rules,” Negri said, “like don’t wear your hat inside.” For now, the fraternity plans to replace the fedoras with something that will fulfill the reasons for which members introduced the hats. According to Negri, the fedora originally had three purposes: to make Mu Alpha members stand out on campus, to symbolize “classy gentlemen,” and to unify the group. “Sure, they set us apart from everybody else, but the fedora is no longer the mark of a classy gentleman,” Negri said. “The fraternity generally didn’t like wearing them. They no longer were that symbol of unity that we wanted.”

Additionally, some members expressed frustration over a “weird” and “awkward” social stigma associated with the fedoras, according to junior Kyle Shillingstad, Mu Alpha’s secretary. “The hope is that people will see us as who we are as men and what we do on campus rather than as the men who wear hats,” Shillingstad said. Those in favor of keeping the hats did not want to break from the fraternity’s tradition. Others were concerned that the fraternity would be seen as caving to external pressures by eliminating the hats. “We did this for us, not for anyone else,” Negri said. Negri began looking to make the change last spring after members held “half-hearted” discussions

over phasing out the hats. never included in the fraterHe learned that while Mu nity’s bylaws, which he found Alpha split from Phi Mu out while drafting rules for Alpha in 2002, the fedoras the chapter’s updated bylaws. were not immediately intro“That was kind of amusing duced. Discussions over to find: this isn’t the summer on written down Facebook beanywhere,” tween alumNegri said. “We did this ni showed The vehement fraternity for us, not for opposition will vote to and on the anyone else.” strong draft once supthe replacement port for the fedoras is decidof ed. removing the hats. “It’s not really a break from “If it wasn’t serving its tradition because in the fupurpose, if it was giving ture, we’re still hoping to have people the wrong idea of Mu something that is a common Alpha, or it was discouraging element,” Shillingstad said. people from joining, maybe it Some members, however, outlived its usefulness,” said remain skeptical. Keith Miller ’03, who was part “I have found nothing of the founding class. so far that is clearly far and Ultimate- above the hats,” Lehman said. ly, however, “When you’re in a group of alumni left people all wearing the same the decision thing, you feel like you’re part to active of a group. I feel we do need members. something that makes us feel “The that way still.” leadership In some respects, Negri did a great said the fraternity has grown job making closer by supporting the sure no one brotherhood even though in the framembers disagree. He said he ternity felt hopes his brothers will wear their voice the fedoras more as a result. had been Lehman said members silenced,” have answered that wish Sophomore already. Nathan Leh“Now that it’s not required man said. at events, I’ve actually found Negri myself wearing it a little more said the just on my own for fun,” custom of Lehman said. “I’ve seen others wearing wear them too. I’ve seen more fedoras was fedoras on campus.”

Mu Alpha tips the fedoras goodbye By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor It’s hats off for Mu Alpha. The music fraternity voted 15-10 in September to remove the fedora from its uniform. After discussion among members and consultation with alumni, the men of Mu Alpha will abandon the Prohibition-era hat because it no longer fulfills the purpose for which it was originally intended. “We determined something else could do the fedora’s job better, and there was no reason to continue with it,” President of Mu Alpha senior Daniel Negri said. New rules specify that Mu Alphans may not wear their hats during official fraternity campus events such as serenades and concerts for the

Mu Alpha voted to eliminate the fedora, signature to the fraternity, last month. Elena Creed | Collegian

ACS celebrates National Chemistry Week By | Joe Pappalardo Assistant Editor An explosion shook Hillsdale Preparatory School on Tuesday after college volunteers held a hydrogen-filled balloon to an open flame. Following the excitement, students received a lecture about general chemistry and physical science. This week the Hillsdale College American Chemistry Society will join other clubs across the country in celebrating National Chemistry Week. ACS students volunteered this week to perform demonstrations on campus and at Hillsdale Preparatory.

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In brief: Lindley speaks: Men, like women, can be inspired by Austen By | Madeline Fry Collegian Freelancer Jane Austen’s novels boast more than ball gowns and busybodies. According to Assistant Professor of English Dwight Lindley, “Pride and Prejudice” and its companions depict human character in a way from which both male and female readers can benefit. In his lecture “Why Men Should Read Jane Austen” on Oct. 9, Lindley argued that men shouldn’t be repelled by the stigma of femininity in her novels. “Our men today have been educated to favor certain kinds of thinking over others,” he said. Austen transcends stereotypes because she is a master of narrative, character reading, and probability, Lindley said. Aristotelian in her philosophy, Austen uses her knowledge of human character to construct realistic narratives and predict behavior. Studying and emulating these methods enables readers to better understand themselves. Over 60 students, parents, and professors attended the lecture. Almost half of the attendees were male. Sophomore Dustin Pletan said after attending the lecture, he realized Austen’s books are not about women but people. “Jane Austen is so quintessentially feminine,” Pletan said. “I always thought her novels were about the psychology of women, but Dr. Lindley’s thesis made me see the male characters in a new light.” Sophomore Ilsa Epling, an officer of the Cravats and Bluestockings, which held the talk, said she first gained appreciation for Jane Austen through a Hillsdale College high school trip, but the lecture made her even more intrigued. “I know the talk was geared at men, but I was never much of a fan of romance novels as a child,” Epling said. “So to discover Jane Austen and romance novels that were engaging and exciting was a wonderful experience. Then, to come and talk about other aspects besides the romance — like the analysis of the characters and what we can learn from them — is just fascinating.” Already a fan of Austen prior to the lecture, junior Jared Eckert attended the talk to hear more about her narrative style. “Her works have continued to interest me, especially after reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘After Virtue,’ in which he argues that she is one of the defenders of the narrative conception of self. In other words, Austen’s characters, in order to be intelligible, are fundamentally shaped in a large part by their personal history, culture, and relationships,” Eckert said. “For guys not to read Austen is to miss out on some great, worthwhile literature that really explores what it means to be human — what it means to be a good human — in a fruitful way.”

Senior Zoe Norr, ACS program coordinator, said the group celebrates the week “to raise awareness of the importance of chemistry in everyday life.” Faculty adviser Christopher Hamilton said he sees the week as a way to show why chemistry is fun. He also said this year, “Mole Day” on Oct. 23 falls on Friday. On this date people celebrate Amedeo Avogadro’s constant, a number which relates the number of particles in a substance to its chemical properties. “We try to get people to celebrate chemistry,” Hamilton said. ACS volunteers set up

demos in the Grewcock Student Union this week. Each day students may witness a different chemical reaction. On Monday, volunteers mixed chemicals to create polyurethane foam. While students popped balloons at Hillsdale Preparatory, the college got to take part in freezing carnations and marshmallows with liquid nitrogen. On Wednesday they made slime using polyvinyl alcohol and borax. “PVA is a polymer and the borax acts as a crosslinker,” Norr said. “Essentially, cross-linking is comparable to taping together a bunch of long spaghetti strands.” Thursday’s event is titled

“Chromatography and Slushies.” Students have a chance to enjoy the results of mixing liquid nitrogen and fruit juices. The chromatography part involves separating solutions based on their properties. “We use a black marker to put a dot on a coffee filter. Then water is dropped on the center of the black dot,” Norr said. “The colors in the black marker will separate based on polarity. Since water is very polar, the more polar the color is, the farther it will travel on the filter.” ACS will show “Magnets and Total” on Friday and crush up bags of cereal with high iron content and use

magnets to draw out the iron filings. All students are invited to a tie-dye event this Friday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Junior Jonathan Wolff said that students could bring clothes to dye or come to learn about the chemical reactions that cause the dye to bind to the fabric. “When you’re growing up you see [tie-dyeing] and accept it happens that way, but you don’t know why,” Wolff said. “You never really realize that there’s a process behind it.”

Biden says he will not run for President

Shooting claims life of 4-year-old in New Mexico

Assad and Putin meet in Moscow

Paul Ryan contemplates a Speaker run

Michigan House GOP votes to repair roads

Vice President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he will not run in the 2016 presidential race. He defended President Barack Obama’s record in his speech while condemning what he called “divisive partisan politics.”

A 4-year-old girl, Lilly Garcia, was shot and killed in her father’s car on Tuesday in Albuquerque, New Mexico in an alleged act of road rage. Officials are still searching for the party responsible for the shooting.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an outspoken supporter of the Assad regime, in Moscow on Tuesday. This visit marks Assad’s first known trip outside of Syria’s borders since 2011 as the civil war in Syria continues.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) announced Tuesday he would run for House Speaker if all Republican caucuses supported him. On Wednesday, the House Freedom Caucus voted in favor of his candidacy by 70 percent, short of the 80 percent threshold needed for an official endorsement.

In a late-night session on Wednesday, the Republicans in the Michigan House unveiled and approved a $1.2 billion plan to fund roads throughout the state. The proposal brings in revenue by increasing gas taxes and fees.

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Is the US facing another Cold War? By | JoAnna Kroeker Special to the Collegian Tuesday night, Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow to visit Russian Vladimir Putin to show solidarity and express gratitude for Russia’s help in Syria, CNN reported. “Thank you for supporting Syria’s unity and independence,” Assad said. Assad’s rhetoric of unity and independence demonstrates his and Putin’s strategy of eliminating all moderate rebel factions, including ones affiliated with the CIA, in order to pit the government against the extremist Islamic State and portray Assad as the lesser evil. This visit highlights Russia’s prioritizing propping up the Assad regime, which protects the assets it has in Syria, over the resolution the U.S. negotiated with Russia, to combat ISIS. Putin’s revamped military enables him to prop up the government of Assad and engage the U.S. in a proxy war as it tries to combat the Islamic State and topple the incumbent regime. The military has made enough inroads in Syria against rebels (and ISIS to a certain extent) in such a short amount of time that the United States’ four years in the region looks ineffective in contrast. The proxy war between fighting ISIS and protecting Assad is becoming a neo-Cold War between America and Russia, which Putin is using to reveal America’s impotency as a world power and assert Russia as the stronger country. The Russo-Syrian alliance flies in the face of the negotiations of the 2012 Geneva I Conference on Syria, which Russia supported. The negotiations outline the need for a transitional government body with full executive powers to guide Syria to republican government‚ presumably without Assad. Russia repeatedly flouts this negotiation and its conversations with the U.S. on greater cooperation in the region. The U.S. and Russia are again in a Cold War state of mind. Syria has replaced Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, and violation of the Geneva agreement has replaced the violation of the Warsaw Pact in Hungary. The airstrikes reveal that the rebel factions that threaten the Assad regime are Russia’s only targets. Assad’s recent visit to Moscow nullifies all pretenses that Russia’s top priority is ISIS. In fact, combating ISIS is not even Sunni Saudi Arabia or Turkey’s first concern, both of whom primarily support the rebels and the removal of Assad. Only the U.S. is concerned first with destroying ISIS, and second with toppling Assad. The disparity of goals in the Mideast, with some entities benefiting from ISIS presence, has allowed Russia and the Islamic State to continue to gain ground. In addition to diverging interests destabilizing the region, Obama’s strategy of keeping American troops out of Syria has limited American involvement to airstrikes, funds, and training rebels, a strategy which has failed so far. Russia’s “guns a-blazing” strategy has succeeded insofar as it plays upon the impotency of the U.S., props up the Assad regime by attacking rebels, and fights ISIS. Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. wanted to remove Assad but was unwilling to generate effective political or military leverage to achieve that aim, or to put forward an alternative political structure to replace him. This has allowed Russia, Iran, Islamic State and other terrorist organisations to move into the vacuum. And Russia has stepped in with never-before-seen planes and state-of-the art weapons, courtesy of Putin’s 1990’s military reforms. The U.S. is in a disadvantaged position in this proxy war, with a strategy that the president himself has acknowledged has not worked and a power-hungry Russia ready and eager to assert itself as the new dominant world power. Assad’s visit only confirms Russia’s commitment to its interests in the Middle East and the lengths it will go to to ensure that the Assad regime stays in power and its bases are protected. If Russia continues its airstrikes in support of Assad, the war will be between Assad and the extremists: a recipe for an aggravated refugee crisis and heinous human rights violations. JoAnna is a sophomore studying French and English.

The opinion of the Collegian editorial staff that develop on our wee campus are a vital part of our education. And meeting alumni allows us to better understand our heritage and pass it, in time, to younger classes. But not all of last year’s alumni made their visit particularly pleasant. Sigma Chi had issues with alumni getting out of hand at its house. Similarly, the Ice House on Fayette and Park streets was trashed, with parts of its porch left broken.These were not isolated instances. Graduates, we look forward to having fun catching up with you all, but we also ask you to respect

campus. While you will always be graduates of Hillsdale, you’re not students any more. We live and work here. You don’t. It’s important for athletes, clubs, Greeks, and friend groups to reunite, and there are increased efforts to foster these relationships and celebrate campus landmarks during homecoming. For instance, Delta Sigma Phi marks its 100th year on campus, the Tower Light will celebrate 60, and the 1985 NAIA national championship football team will return for a reunion. Seeing the success and hearing the stories of our predecessors post-gradu-

ation reminds us why the challenges are worthwhile. The legacy we receive as freshmen and pass on as seniors will be affirmed this weekend through class reunions, an alumni awards banquet, and an alumni shoot at the Hillsdale range. The college is even bringing in Fox News contributor and 2010 graduate Kat Timpf to entertain alumni on Friday. We can’t wait to share this all with you. So let us know where you’ve been. We’re glad to have you here, because our campus would be incomplete without the perspective you provide. But please, leave campus complete.

Jim Jordan should be House speaker By | Emily Runge Special to the Collegian The search for a new Speaker of the House echoes the Republican presidential primary. The Republicans are a party desperate to please their constituents without a clear leader to get the job done. While the presidential candidates fight on, the House Republicans’ best hope represents Ohio’s 4th District. Congressman Jim Jordan has momentum. Other candidates lack the tenacity to make major policy changes to the House, and Jordan would better respond to the demands of Republican voters. Jordan may be from the Buckeye State, but he shares little else with current Speaker John Boehner. He is a principled conservative who is well-established as antiestablishment and chairs the House Freedom Caucus, the coalition of 40 conservatives responsible for dethroning John Boehner. House conservatives should use this opportunity to capitalize on the momentum they gained in the past month. They have forced the iron gavel from Boehner’s hand and have dashed House Majority

Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) hopes for the office. Jordan, a principled and strategically-minded leader, has effectively challenged the party establishment and won. As other candidates are worried about securing the Freedom Caucus’ support, Jordan should channel his influence into running himself instead of endorsing other candidates. As the national media holds its breath for Rep. Paul Ryan to enter the race, none of the current candidates seem to promise changes to the House that will be satisfactory to Republican voters, who gave Boehner a 21 percent approval rating according to Public Policy Polling earlier this month. Daniel Webster, who looks to be the frontrunner, is as underwhelming as his namesake was great. While he is less right-leaning than the Caucus, he has secured their endorsement by promising to decentralize power, which would allow conservatives to participate more in House procedure than they could under Boehner. Webster as speaker would be an improvement, but it is unlikely he would undertake serious immigration reform or address President Obama’s new pet project, Planned

Parenthood funding. By successfully pulling the Speaker’s chair out from under Boehner, conservatives have made room for reforms, but only if someone like Jordan leads the way. The Tea Party movement sent many members of the Freedom Caucus to Washington, D.C. with the hopes they would help repeal Obamacare, reduce spending, and fix

would most likely still give in to the White House, just in a more democratic fashion. House conservatives must prove they are serious about promoting the policy changes they profess. If Jordan enters the race instead of settling for another Speaker who is marginally friendlier than Boehner, they have a chance to prove that seriousness. Unfortunately, it seems

“If conservatives want to bring about real change in Congress, they must lead it.” our immigration system. Unfortunately, many of these efforts have been thwarted by Republican party leadership. If conservatives want to bring about real change in Congress, they must lead it. It will not be enough to just decentralize power in the House. While conservative members will not have to fear being kicked off committees anymore, they should not expect to get their policies passed without one of their own at the helm. Regular order in the House under Speaker Ryan or Webster

unlikely Jordan will enter the ring. Nevertheless, these are uncharted political waters. Trump’s continued success in the polls, Boehner’s fall, and McCarthy’s withdrawal are all departures from the norm. The unexpected pass of the Speaker’s gavel from one Buckeye to another could make conservative upsets a new normal. Emily is a senior studying politics.

Paul Ryan is the statesman for our time By | Emily DePangher Special to the Collegian While America faced slavery in the 1860s, today the United States faces social corruption, economic loss, and international conflicts. Abraham Lincoln sought to bring back America’s founding principles as slavery tore the nation apart. Who can do that today? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). As the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Ryan has gradually made a name for himself, especially during his 2012 bid for Vice President. A husband and father, Ryan has the familial virtues which

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many conservatives require and admire. He is a devoted Roman Catholic with three children, a wife of 15 years, and has maintained public office since 1999. A relatively young family man, his knowledge of economics and his love for his family is apparent in his speeches. In one speech I attended, his face shone when he spoke of his little girl, but he became serious when discussing the American economy. And he works well across political divisions. His antipoverty plan appeals to liberals and moderates, while his aim to drastically cut federal funding is conservative. Because he puts the worth and prosperity of the nation

above his own political gain, he is able to compromise on particulars when necessary. Compromising on principle, however, is something Ryan has yet to do. Unlike most politicians today, Ryan often mentions the Declaration of Independence and applies America’s founding principles. He does not pretend America’s founders set up a perfect system. Even they did not think that. As Lincoln discussed, both in a private letter and his Peoria speech, the Declaration of Independence was meant to be a futuristic document, channeling the nation throughout the ages. We have to fight for equality of opportunity, but that does not

mean handing out free gifts and welfare to those who do not justly deserve them. Ryan lives up to Lincoln’s ideals in the House Ways and Means Committee. If there is someone who will bring us back to the founding principles of justice, liberty, and equality, it is Paul Ryan. He is wise with money, grounded in familial virtue, and confident in his political ability and experience. He is a man of the future, fueled by the principles of ages past. Paul Ryan stands tall as the new Lincoln. And, while he’s at it… a bid for Speaker of the House, maybe? Emily is a sophomore studying politics.

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Tubman should replace Hamilton on the $10 bill By | Micah Meadowcroft Associate Editor Put the American Moses on the $10 bill. Harriet Tubman led her people out of bondage. She was a slave, a fugitive, an abolitionist, a spy, a suffragette, and one of America’s greatest women. Currency is a means for countries to celebrate their heroes and educate their citizens. America must remember Harriet Tubman better, and the Treasury’s announcement that it will replace Alexander Hamilton’s image on the $10 bill with that of a woman provides the perfect chance to ensure she is. Tubman received 20 percent in a McClatchyMarist poll responding to the planned change. Born in 1822, Tubman escaped slavery to the relative safety of Philadelphia. But the plight of her people called out to her and she set forth to lead her people to freedom. She and her fellow abolitionists established the Underground Railroad, the network of safe homes slaves followed north, prompting William Lloyd Garrison to name her “Moses.” “I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger,” she said. Tubman worked to support the Union throughout the Civil War, believing its victory necessary for the freedom of American slaves. After President Lincoln issued his

Emancipation Proclamation, Tubman took to the front lines as a spy and scout, even leading a raid that freed more than 750 slaves. After the war, Tubman became a suffragist, and fought for women’s right to vote alongside Susan B. Anthony and the other captains of that cause. She died in 1913, penniless but celebrated. Tubman should actually be on the $20 bill, but circumstances have prevented that. The organization that pushed the Obama administration to add a woman to the paper currency lineup, Women on 20s, intended to replace Andrew Jackson. Barbara Ortiz Howard, its founder, saw the opportunity to honor a great American woman and to repudiate Jackson’s legacy of abuse of Native Americans and opposition to a centralized American banking system. In a bizarre irony, due to the Treasury’s desire to update the $10 bill for anti-counterfeiting purposes, America will instead replace Alexander Hamilton and cease to honor his legacy as founder of the national bank. If we are to lose the face of a man so closely tied to the founding of America’s financial system, then let us at least gain a woman’s image who represents another vital part of the American story. Tubman’s life redemptively illustrates the darkness of the American story. Her suffering and the violence she experienced as a slave — head trauma from beatings gave her trouble throughout her life — mark one of America’s ugliest chapters. Her work,

Harriet Tubman and family members outside her Auburn, New York, home, c. 1887. New York Times archive | William H. Cheney

her railroad, her commitment to be a Moses to her people and a sister to her fellow women, show that black night to be merely the passage through a tunnel. As an African-American, as a spy and soldier, as a person in poverty, Tubman represents the larger story of America. She is distinguished by more than her womanhood. “Diversity” is not just the nice word for identity politics. America is a diverse nation united by shared freedoms. We can honor Harriet Tubman and her sacrifices for freedom, and celebrate America’s diversity, by remembering her on the $10 bill. Micah is a senior studying history.

Turn back to turntables “We both know it’s not fashionable to love me.” The first words on Lana Del Rey’s new album, “Honeymoon,” drip with irony as they make their way into 30 enchanted listeners’ ears. They sit, crowded into a living room like sardines in a can of briny sonic revelry. The conversation crests as the first song comes to an end; a bottle of $3 wine makes its way around the room. Silence falls as the next track begins. Those words apply to vinyl records themselves, too. An advance copy of “Honeymoon” — let’s consider it an elopement — spawned this late-night listening party after a student happened upon it. He paid $42.64 for the twodisc record — four times the cost of a digital copy, eight times the cost of his monthly Spotify subscription — in short, a completely unnecessary expenditure for a college student who regularly resorts to the dollar menu at Taco Bell. As each track scratches its way out of the beat-up old Crosley’s speaker system, the atmosphere in the room sinks deeper into a trance, punctuated by random bits of conversation and laughter and seasoned with the scent of Virginia tobacco smoke. Each guest receives something different from the experience: some are there for the community, others for the wine, while the true believers are relishing the opportunity to hear the album before its official release date on vinyl, a medium that promotes a more memorable experience. The album itself has two levels of significance here. On the one hand, it represents

the honing of a craft, the development of a musician’s artistic style through the successful fusion of the haunting lyricism of “Born to Die” and the more upbeat, Dan Auerbach-assisted vibes of “Ultraviolence.” This long-desired synthesis has garnered numerous favorable reviews, and in this sense it’s the next step in a story and in a career. The story of any artist, however, depends on the reciprocal relationship between the music and the listener — a relationship which has become strained in recent years. In our generation, the everyday music listener has sold out, going the way of fast food and mass media. First with Napster, then with iTunes, Pandora, and now Spotify, it has become increasingly easy to take an à la carte approach to music that elbows out the artist’s creative voice one 99-cent download at a time. We throw together a couple tracks from one artist and a pair from another, and so on and so forth, and soon you have something you can listen to while you study and work out and eat a romantic dinner and go on a road trip and tune out your roommates. Rarely do we make the effort to listen to an entire album from start to finish — fast songs, slow songs, overplayed songs, and songs that are quite understandably not quite so overplayed. In other words, the vinyl album doesn’t conform to our immediate preferences. An album is more about the artist’s vision than it is about our enjoyment. As a rule, that doesn’t fly with our generation. It becomes the artist’s exposition — their talent, their emotion, and their soul, all coalescing to make a series of overlapping

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vignettes that make a unified work of art — one which we are permitted to share, if we so choose. This is where the vinyl record has clawed its way out of obsolescence and found its niche in modern culture, within the ranks of music listeners who appreciate the artist’s vision for how the album was meant to be experienced, and who don’t mind a little sophistication. Sure, they could be listening to it on Spotify just the same, but they chose to spend a little extra to buy the record; they chose to take the time to lift the needle, to place it delicately on the outermost ring, and to sit back as the communion between performer and audience begins. According to the BBC, 4.6 million vinyl records were sold in the United States in 2013, nearly 500 percent more than five years earlier. In Britain, 389,000 vinyl albums were sold, a 50 percent increase. Across the globe, the industry reckons that sales of vinyl added up to $171 million, compared with $55 million five years earlier. These numbers suggest that maybe there really is something about taking that trip to the record store that makes the extra time and expense worth the trouble. Maybe this trend of “vinylism” is a luxury only afforded to the paradoxically upper-middle class hipster crowd who insist on returning to the inconvenient and obsolete in order to make a cultural statement. But no matter the reason, one thing is certain. The respect we show to our favorite artists when we dedicate our time and money in this way can increase our appreciation by more fully honoring the original intentions of the authors. If vinyl encourages this attitude of reverence and participation, then maybe it’s worth scouring your parent’s attic for that old turntable, ordering your favorite album off the Internet and giving “vinylism” the old college try. Colin is a senior studying economics.

Our currency is no place for a woman By | Josiah Lippincott Special to the Collegian The $10 bill is no place for a woman. At least, not yet. Unfortunately, a female gracing the ten seems inevitable in light of our political class’s obsession with identity politics and victimization. When Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced this summer that he was replacing Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a yet-unnamed woman, he called it a triumph for our “inclusive democracy.” Because nothing screams democracy like an unelected bureaucrat making unilateral decisions. Being on the face of a bill is a high honor, reserved for only the greatest political figures in our nation’s history. American currency isn’t just a sign of our economic prowess, it’s also one of our largest public memorials. Our elected representatives ought to deliberate on who best represents the country before bestowing this honor. Since the standardization of our currency in 1928, however, this task has fallen to bureaucrats. This is the embodiment of progressive administrative rule. But the lack of deference to republican government is not the worst sin Lew committed in replacing Alexander Hamilton on the ten. That honor is reserved for his commitment to placing a woman in his stead. Being placed on a dollar bill ought to be a result of merit. But for now, that’s a problem if you want a woman there. Make no mistake, there are many successful women in our history. But we don’t just put successful people on our money, we put only the greatest of the great — those figures who created or saved the Union, or guided it through times of intense troubles. And when it comes

to women, America simply doesn’t have an equivalent to a Queen Elizabeth or even a Margaret Thatcher. Take Harriet Tubman, a likely choice for the honor of being on the ten based on online polling. She saved many blacks from slavery and served as a useful Union spy. She even lead a military expedition at Combahee Ferry during the Civil War, the first female to lead troops in the war. Those are notable accomplishments,

It’s not just Harriet Tubman: no American woman and few men from Hamilton’s generation or any other comes close to reaching that level of political greatness. Therefore, the only reason to award a woman a place on the ten has nothing to do with achievement and everything to do with politics. This obsession with identity creates faction and destroys the public

“The decision to award a woman a place on the $10 bill has nothing to do with achievement and everything to do with politics.” but they are simply no match for those of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was a war hero and a political genius. During the Revolution he raised and trained his own artillery company and demonstrated his courage and tactical acumen at the battle of Harlem Heights. Washington promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel and retained him as a senior aide. Hamilton co-authored the Constitution and served as one of its premier defenders in the Federalist Papers. He opposed slavery and oversaw the creation of a political union strong and principled enough to one day defeat it. During his tenure as Treasury Secretary he did nothing less than save the republic by fixing its credit problem and putting its shoddy finances in order. He spent 30 years in public service in the continental convention, presidential cabinet, and Congress.

sense of a common good. Liberal principle pits differing groups against one another with narratives of victimization and oppression. Women, we are told, need to be on our currency because “their” accomplishments haven’t been recognized enough. This is absurd. Individual women are not representative of all women everywhere. Identity should not be more important than accomplishment. That’s the problem with placing a woman on the ten. The decision to do so emphasizes what someone is over what they’ve done. It undermines the classic American dedication to merit and ability in favor of tribalism. We can do better than that. We can hold off on putting a woman on the ten until one of them earns the honor. Josiah is a senior studying politics.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor,

The recent letters published in the Collegian I perceive to be a failed attempt at civil discourse. The first letter, written by Kolbe Conger, made an appeal to the Honor Code in an attempt to bring to light what Conger perceives as a disturbing trend within campus culture: the denigration of AfricanAmericans and those who belong to the LGBT community. The second letter, written by Alex Buchmann, also appealed to the Honor Code, but attempted to disprove Conger’s claim. All very well and good up to this point. Conger made the case that the use of certain offensive language towards AfricanAmericans and members

of the LGBT community is prevalent here on campus, but failed to substantiate his claims with hard evidence. Whether he did this to avoid personal attacks or because he does not have sufficient evidence, I cannot say. However, I agree with Conger, that regardless of the outcome, this is a discussion we must have here at Hillsdale. Whether or not we as a whole are adhering to our own Honor Code is a serious matter indeed. Buchmann, however, responded to Conger with an arrogant ad hominem attack, and maligned him on the basis of his status as a freshman. He also failed to substantiate his refutation of Conger’s argument. This, my fellow students, is why — as they say on the Internet — we can’t have

nice things. Far too often, when someone says something we don’t like, we at Hillsdale College immediately try to tear them apart. For example, the second letter rationalized its personal attack by appealing to the Honor Code. Where does the Honor Code give us permission to participate in what is little better than a verbal street fight? Regardless of my views on the subject at hand, this type of response to a legitimate question destroys any chance of civil discourse. Perhaps the “dangerous forces” Buchmann speaks of are already within our walls. Daniel Visnovsky, sophomore

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Airport manager ‘had no idea’ he was to be let go By | Natalie C. McKee Senior Writer Former Hillsdale Municipal Airport Manager James Scheibner said he was surprised when City Manager David Mackie decided last month not to renew his contract. On Sept. 29, 2015, Scheibner received a letter from Mackie saying that the city would not renew its contract with Scheibner and his business, Hillsdale Aero. The letter blindsided him, Scheibner said. “I didn’t get the memo,” he said. “I had no idea.” The letter didn’t contain any reason for not renewing his contract, which expired in the spring of 2014, but Scheibner said that because Michigan is an at-will employer, it has no legal obligation to explain why he was fired. “That’s what my legal counsel told me. They can hire and fire if they want,” Scheibner said. Mackie told the Collegian he couldn’t detail all the reasons for not renewing Scheibner’s contract, but some of his concerns included the safety of the

airport and Scheibner’s ability to enact Mackie’s vision for the airport. “I want it to be more professional as opposed to a local place for a local pilot group,” Mackie said. “The airport does more business than people would recognize.” Mackie said Scheibner and his business have been there a long time, and it became ap-

“We worked on the fuel systems that had been neglected for many years and weren’t certified. Scheibner admitted that he hadn’t changed the fuel filters in while, but that was because the fuel flow wasn’t high enough to warrant it. Mackie also said the fire extinguishers were expired. “From what we’ve uncov-

said. “I thought we were on the same page with the vision. For 20 years everything is fine — I don’t know why didn’t I get the memo.” In retrospect, Scheibner said he should have fought harder for city money to make improvements at the airport, but that came with political consequences as well. “It’s kind of tough. Damned

“They’ve helped with this process and provided me some back up,” Mackie said. “The last three city managers had concerns but could not move forward because they had no group to rely on to support them.” Jeff Buchhop resigned from the Airport Advisory Committee in the spring, and expressed similar concerns to those of

“He’s not a fit for the new direction, and based on what I’ve seen unfold, I’m confident I made the right decision.” parent to him that to move forward in this vision of having a more professional airport, he needed different management at the airport. “He’s not a fit for the new direction,” Mackie said. “And based on what I’ve seen unfold, I’m confident I made the right decision.” Since Scheibner’s termination, the airport employees and pilots have emptied the terminal, painted buildings, put in new cabinetry, furniture and equipment.

ered, people weren’t at risk but are much safer today,” Mackie said. Scheibner said he knew the fire extinguishers were expired, but it was an issue with their supplier. He added that over the last few years, the mandate he’s heard from the city is to tighten the budget and not spend much money. “I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, and the building they are now fixing up was slated to be torn down,” Scheibner

if you do and damned if you don’t,” Scheibner said. “I’ve worked through four or five city managers and none of them seemed to have a problem. If the city wanted me to spend money and turn it into a nice shiny palace, I wish I would have been given the chance. I’ve never had any formal review of performance.” Mackie said his decision to terminate Scheibner was made possible by the help and support of the Airport Advisory Committee.

Mackie in his letter of resignation that the Collegian obtained. “James Scheibner was very negative about any suggestions for airport improvement,” Buchhop wrote. “After a while I came to realize he was not interested in spending money on maintenance items which were his responsibilities under the airport manager’s contract.” He recommended the council visit the airport and put out bids to find someone to take Scheibner’s place.

“It became apparent to me that we were unlikely to make any real progress in promoting the airport or the local economy through the airport with the managers we have in place,” Buchhop wrote. Mackie said he met with Scheibner a couple times before making the decision, but Scheibner said that based on their conversations, he had no forewarning of Mackie’s decision not to renew his contract. “The AAC members are in the middle of it. It’s like a bad divorce and all your friends are still friends with both sides,” Scheibner said. Scheibner will take the portions of his business he can utilize without the airport and continue them. “I don’t necessarily need an airport to do it, but it worked better that way,” Scheibner said. For now, Mackie is working on naming an interim manager and ironing out logistics. Mackie said that in the next couple months people will see changes that they can be proud of at the airport.

Toy Story: Ohio realty group redevelops historic factory By | Kate Patrick City News Editor The looming factory building behind Saucy Dog’s Barbeque in downtown Jonesville, built to be the J.J. Deal and Sons Carriage Factory before becoming the Kiddie Brush & Toy Company — making Holly Hobbie and Barbie dolls until 1972 — is now being redeveloped into an apartment complex for lowincome families and senior citizens. This is thanks to a redevelopment initiative led by Peter Jobson of Excel Sterling Realty Group. Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray expects the success of the $6 million project to prompt redevelopers to consider other buildings in Jonesville for redevelopment. “There’s been pretty tremendous progress there, there were some later building editions that have been demolished, and they’ve removed most of the old pavement on the property,” Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray said. “They’ve done environmental clearing on the inside to clear lead and asbestos. They’re doing roof work now, and there’s been tremendous progress over the summer.” To make the project feasible, the city of Jonesville entered in a public-private partnership with Jobson

and helped acquire federal historic tax credits for the building, which was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. “This one had a pretty complicated mix of incentives, and the developer has kept at it for several years, it’s certainly a partnership of the city, the state, and the developer,” Gray said. “It requires all groups to be motivated to work together to make it happen. It’s happening because people have been committed to the project for a lot of years. The original applications were under way before my time here.” According to Jobson, the “Heritage Lane” complex will feature 44 apartment units, some loft units, a library, business center, community room, and classrooms to “offer residence enrichment classes depending on their needs.” This isn’t the first historic building Excel Realty has refurbished, and it won’t be the last — Jobson is currently working on various other redevelopment projects in Michigan, and is preparing to build a senior home in downtown Hillsdale. Rent rates are currently unavailable, Jobson said, but “will be very affordable for qualifying moderate income applicants.”

The building, built by J.J. Deal in 1893, began producing Deal automobiles in 1905 until the company closed its doors in 1915. Only two Deal automobiles are left in the United States, one of which is on display in the Jonesville City Hall. The Kiddie Brush & Toy Company moved into the empty building in 1924, making children’s toys until 1972, when the J.R. Headers Company moved in to manufacture automobile engine headers. Since the early 2000s, however, the building has remained vacant. The redevelopment is slated to be finished in June 2016, and Gray believes that the success of the project will draw more developers to Jonesville to repurpose old buildings. “There’s another privately owned building in front of the Kiddie Brush, we’ve worked with the property over there and we hosted a walk-through for redevelopers to look at that,” Gray said. “Some of the feedback we got during that walk-through was that the Kiddie Brush had been approved but developers wanted to see that that project was going to happen before they started. So hopefully some other things will follow.”

The Kiddie Brush & Toy Factory at 117 West St. will become an apartment complex.

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Water pools on the floor of the Kiddie Brush & Toy Factory at 117 West St. Madeline Barry | Collegian

Sunlight floods the inside construction on the factory. Madeline Barry | Collegian

Workers use scaffolding to tear down modern additions to the factory. Madeline Barry | Collegian

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Local employee resigns over Confederate flag Hillsdale resident and Bob Evans employee Wesley Rogers: ‘It wasn’t coming down, no way.’ By |Phil DeVoe Assistant Editor Hillsdale resident Wesley Rogers resigned from his position at the Hillsdale Bob Evans plant after the company’s corporate office told him to remove the large Confederate flag he flies from his truck or be fired. “We believe the flag is offensive to many of our customers and employees,” Bob Evans spokeswoman Angela Payne said. “We concluded that such behavior was contrary to our corporate culture of inclusion and asked the employee to remove the flag while in the parking lot, or to park his truck outside the lot. The employee rejected both options and resigned. ”

Rogers, who could not be reached for comment by the Collegian, told the Hillsdale Daily News that the plant, located at 200 N Wolcott St., only received one anonymous complaint before his managers gave him the ultimatum.

According to one of Rogers’s former co-workers, Rogers has been flying the flag since early 2015 without a problem. Now, after Rogers’s resignation, the plant supervisors announced a new policy change that prohibits all employees from

The flag is a representation of his Southern heritage, Rogers said, and not a support of the history critics of the flag say it represents. “They were misunderstanding me,” Rogers told the Daily News. “A lot of

from a sausage plant in Hillsdale before his job at Bob Evans for refusing to take down his Confederate flag. Rogers said he isn’t worried about finding a new job. He told the Daily News that while he needs to support his

“They made it clear. Whoever flies the Confederate flag will face termination.” “They said they were doing their best to follow up on a complaint, to make [the person who lodged the complaint] more comfortable,” Rogers told the Daily News. “But I wasn’t comfortable with it. I said ‘it wasn’t coming down, no way.’ Then they showed me the way out.”

flying the flag on company property. “They made it clear. Whoever flies the Confederate flag will face termination,” the co-worker told the Daily News. He also said that employees raised the issue and questioned supervisors, but received no explanation.

people think that it’s racist. It’s not racist; it’s my heritage. I grew up in the south, in Virginia. It’s been made into a symbol of hate. I’m not hanging it because I’m a racist. I’m hanging it because I’m a Southerner.” Payne told The Associated Press that Rogers resigned

family, the Bob Evans plant is “not where [he wants] to be,” and he will find work elsewhere in the country with his work experience. “I felt like I had the right to express myself,” Rogers told the Daily News. Since the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

massacre in South Carolina earlier this year, businesses have stopped selling the flag and started prohibiting use of the flag on company property. The Michigan International Speedway suggested spectators leave their flags at home, and Amazon.com, Inc. and eBay Inc. have removed products associated with the flag. Paul Monahan, Hillsdale Bob Evans plant manager, declined to comment and directed the Collegian to Payne.

Princesses and pumpkins have a ball Hillsdale businesses host annual Awesome Autumn Festival By | Thomas Novelly Assistant Editor To promote downtown commerce and celebrate the fall weather, the Hillsdale Business Association held its fifth annual Awesome Autumn street festival Tuesday evening. Local storefronts kept their doors open past normal hours and offered free goods ranging from candy to pumpkin spice chai lattes to entertain Hillsdale residents. This year, new additions to the festival included artists from the surrounding area and a photo-op with Disney princesses provided by the Liberty Princess Company. Jane Stewart, owner of Smith’s flowers and president of the Hillsdale Business Association, said she was happy with the new additions, and is pleased with higher attendance to the festival this year. “We’ve added more things each year. This year is no exception,” Stewart said. “We’ve added a costume contest, the live princesses out front, and 10 artists accompanying local businesses. Everything

has grown including more people that come out.” Stewart begins coordinating with business owners and brainstorming ideas for the festival almost half a year in advance to involve as many business owners as possible. The Hillsdale business association has a committee that only focuses on this event,” Stewart said. “We don’t reinvent the wheel every year, but we start four or five months out to contact businesses and think of creative ideas.This helps businesses so much based on exposure, this is another great way to get a foot in the door.” Massage therapist and wellness consultant for Therapeutic Massage, LLC Tressa Weaver-Rich said she’s seen an influx in business due to the promotions she hands out during the event. “Business has definitely grown as a result,” WeaverRich said. “Year after year we get a good return.” While Weaver-Rich was impressed with the amount of exposure her business received, she said the highlight for her was seeing children’s reactions to the

Disney Princesses provided by Hillsdale College junior Gianna Marchese’s Liberty Princess Company. “This little girl looked up at Cinderella and said, ‘I’ve seen you in the movies!’ with the most starstruck look on her face,” Weaver-Rich said. “It was so sweet and genuine, it made my day.” In addition to meeting Disney royalty, festivalgoers watched artists from the Gallery 49 Artist Co-op in Reading, Michigan create artwork and sell their art pieces. Hillsdale resident Kendra Bonjernoor said the festival was more than just a chance to see businesses, but also a chance to bond with owners, employees, and each other. “It’s a great way to check out the local stores and for them to share some hospitality with the community,” Bonjernoor said. “My daughter and I are enjoying strolling downtown together and spending time together. This is a great event.”

Pumpkins decorate the sidewalk in Hillsdale’s annual Awesome Autumn Festival.

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Cinderella meets a young fan in front of the Historic Dawn Theater at Hillsdale’s Awesome Autumn Festival. Liberty Princess Co. | Courtesy

Farmers Market Spotlight: Gina Gray

Cozy inside and out: Hillsdale Farmers Market vendor sells bread and mittens By |Amanda Tindall Features Editor In the frigid, early-morning Saturday of fall, local vendors for the Hillsdale Farmers Market wake up early to assemble in the parking lot under the shadow of city hall and come together for commerce. Gina Gray, the head cook at Hillsdale Community Schools at Gier, has come to the farmers market to sell her bread, scarves, and mittens for the past three years, warming the hands of all who come by. She stands underneath the bright pink and lime green poster of “G’s Edible Creations,” an edible arrangement business that was her kick-start.

“I’ve always loved cooking,” Gray said. “And I’m a cook by trade. I just started at the market with a basic Italian bread and a garlic bread. And then just kind of spread out. The

tens made from recycled sweaters given to her, or that she buys at Salvation Army or Goodwill. ““I had a friend who suggested it to me one day,” Gray

has several customers who buy from her year-round. Lee Krauss, a local resident who attends the farmers market on a regular basis, is one of those year-round customers.

fin bread, an orange cranberry loaf, the cinnamon rolls, which he called “angelic,” and an Italian bread. “The orange cranberry loaf makes the world’s great-

“The ironic part is she can’t eat any of this, she has an issue with gluten.” cinnamon rolls and pumpkin rolls are new, and this year, I added hard rolls and the rye bread and the English muffin bread.” While she began with the baked goods three years ago, she now also sells crocheted scarves and cozy, warm mit-

said. “She said, ‘You really ought to try to make those.’ I had seen them before, so I did a little research and came up with them.’” Gray said she’s working on continuing her business into the year, even after the farmers market closes. She already

“It’s so great that you know what’s in it. You can’t buy her stuff and leave it on the shelf for two weeks,” Krauss said. “So there’s no preservatives. I love her variety of product.” Krauss enumerated many of Gray’s products, including a dill loaf, the English muf-

est French bread,” he said. “It stands up to the egg wash and cuts a nice thick loaf, and it’ll take all the syrup you want.” Krauss revealed that, although Gray is excellent at baking, she can’t eat many of her products. “The ironic part of this

that she can’t eat any of this,” Krauss said. “She has an issue with gluten — she realized that soon after starting at the farmers market.” Krauss and his wife place orders with Gray, and she brings them right to the door. “She’s extremely effervescent,” he said. “She’s one of those people that you run into in life. She’s just a positive person. Buying from her is cheaper than what you’d buy at the store, and you’re supporting a local person who’s talented instead of buying from someone from lord-knows-where.”

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Chance Stewart| 17-29, 206 YRD, 2 TD, 2 INT Joe Reverman | 19 ATT, 92 YRD Trey Brock | 7 REC, 111 YRD Brian Newman | 5 REC, 53 YRD, 1 TD Kegan Smith | 1 REC, 8 YRD, 1 TD GLIAC Standings North Division 1. Ferris St. 2. Grand Valley St. Michigan Tech 4. Northern Mich. Northwood 6. Wayne St. Hillsdale 8. Saginaw Valley

Conf. Overall 6-0 6-0 5-1 6-1 5-1 5-1 3-3 4-3 3-3 3-4 2-4 3-4 1-5 1-6 1-5 1-6

South Division 1. Ashland 2. Tiffin Ohio Dominican 4. Findlay 5. Walsh 6. Lake Erie 7. Malone

Conf. 7-0 4-2 4-3 3-3 2-5 1-5 0-7

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SUnday, oct. 4 Emily Oren-18:21.90 Michigan Intercollegiates Kristina Galat-18:26.30 1. Hillsdale-17 2. Wayne St.-50 Allysen Eads-19:02.40 3. Mott CC-71 Kathryn Royer-19:05.60

Joseph Newcomb-26:43.50 SUnday, oct. 4 Anthony Wondaal-26:44.80 Michigan Intercollegiates Luke Daigneault-26:46.50 1. Hillsdale-20 2. Wayne St.-46 Isaac Harris-26:51.80 3. Mott CC-70 Nathan Jones-27:30.90

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GLIAC Standings Conf. North Division 9-0 1. Ferris St. 7-2 2. Grand Valley St. 6-3 3. Saginaw Valley 6-3 Michigan Tech 4-5 5. Northern Mich. 4-5 Northwood 3-6 7. Wayne St. 8. Lake Superior St. 0-9

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Club baseball completes inaugural season By | Zoe Harness Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale Baseball Club completed its 10-game fall season last week and although its successes are not necessarily reflected in the box scores, the 15-member team accomplished a great deal in their inaugural year. Club president sophomore Stevan Bennett said their real victories are in successfully launching an on-campus club, the learning process of self-coaching, and the camaraderie of the team itself. The year started slow for the Chargers, as they lost their first five games. In the second half of the season, however, they won two games. Their current league, which is based in Ann Arbor, is not intercollegiate, but consists of adult players of varying ages. “It was evident a lot of guys hadn’t played in a while,” Bennett said. “Most of us hadn’t seen a live pitch in four or five years.”

The team only had the opportunity to practice three times before the beginning of their six-week season. The club is now in the process of planning scrimmages in the spring during the off-season, and Bennett says the team members hope for future improvements in many other areas as well. One of these goals is to become part of the National Club Baseball Association which focuses on intercollegiate play. This year, Bennett believes the best experience was simply getting the organization off the ground. “It’s cliché, but watching everything come together was great. There was a lot of work that went into it,” he said. Bennett began the process of forming club baseball at Hillsdale last year. He knew there must be other students like himself who had played baseball since they were very young, and who probably missed the joys of playing the

game: competition, teamwork, fun, and friendship. “As a senior it was fun to have a final chance to swing a bat and crouch behind the plate a few times,” senior Dominic Restuccia said. “We got to participate in a great American tradition, and it was a grand old time had by all.” Although Bennett initiated club baseball at Hillsdale, he credits his teammates for seeing it come to fruition. Baseball is the tenth club sport organized on campus. This year there were no tryouts for the 15 men who participated on the team. Bennett hopes more men will be interested and the club will grow enough to justify a tryout. “Anyone interested in playing should join. We are competitive. We want to win and improve, but it’s a ton of fun. We joke that all the other teams hate us because we have so much fun. Most importantly, we make it doable with school,” Bennett said.

one started last year as a freshman. My oldest one had committed to her job here, and my husband works overseas a lot, and it seemed like it was a good time to move here. When I arrived here, I just sent some emails and asked if they needed help somewhere. So I’m teaching the physical wellness dynamics class, and I’m doing strength and conditioning coaching. It’s a little bit different, mostly because the recruiting is really different. Before, I was always on the other side, working with high school kids getting ready to go to college, not finding them, so that’s really very different.

Prigmore — they both want to get into BUD/S Navy SEAL training. So I’m teaching them to swim, which is really a lot of fun. I want to have a class that’s a BUD/S preparation class. And they’re so different from the girls because they just do whatever you say to do. So I’m working with them a couple days a week.

Members of the Hillsdale Baseball Club pose for a team photo after the first win of their inaugural season Stevan Bennett | Courtesy

Charger Chatter: Laura Peter

Assistant women’s swim coach Laura Peter is currently in her first semester at Hillsdale College. She moved to Hillsdale in February after spending 20 years in various coaching positions in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In addition to her coaching duties, she teaches a section of Physical Wellness Dynamics and coaches students in strength and conditioning. How did you end up at Hillsdale? I was in Virginia Beach for 20 years, but my oldest daughter graduated in 2014 from Hillsdale, and she loves Hillsdale, and decided she wanted to stay here, and my youngest

What’s the best aspect of your job? Getting to know the girls. I think it’s when you make that connection. I really enjoy the teaching, so when I get a chance either in the weight room or on the pool deck with one of the girls to really get through and have them sort of have that moment where they say, “Oh, I can do this better!” To me that’s what it’s all about. I just really love that. I have two young men — Jordy Smith and Nathan

How have you teamed up with swim head coach Kurt Kirner? Basically, a lot of what I’m doing for him is providing a backup. He’s never really had a real assistant coach before. Some of that is a learning curve for him too — figuring out how to delegate and share some of the responsibility. Then there’s the aspect of bringing a mature woman into the equation — I bring different skills. I had a bunch of the freshman girls over for dinner last week — I’m providing that nurturing, and that’s a nice balance. The other thing is that what I do the best is a lot of technique work. That really was my main emphasis: stroke technique. And so, for example, I was working with the girls on turns and giving them a lot of feedback.

What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? Everything is new. It’s not just the team which is new, but a lot of the girls have been here for four years, so I’m new to them, but it’s kind of hard walking into an established program. Then, teaching a class which I haven’t taught before. It’s learning everything all at once. It’s no different from freshmen starting out here — you’ve got new people, you’ve got new surroundings, everything is just new.

How did you first develop a passion for swimming? I ran track and cross-country when I was in college. Then after school I thought maybe I really loved exercise science, so I started taking anatomy classes and started doing triathlons. I really loved the technique aspect of swimming — that you could actually teach the right way to do it, and a lot of it carried over to me and made sense because of my running background. So I got into swimming because that was so specifically technique-oriented. I swam masters and then competed triathlons.

When did you start coaching swimming? When my girls were little they needed a coach for some reason, and I started coaching at a YMCA. Then I started coaching age group club swimming (any kids between the ages of 5 and 18). Then I had the opportunity to work with a couple of really great coaches and got involved in coaching masters swimming, which was for adults. I had a program in Virginia Beach for about 15 years. What’s really neat about masters for me is it’s anybody between the ages of 18 and 80. So at any given practice you might be teaching 12 swimmers but you might be teaching somebody to swim, you might be working with a 70-year old who’s had a heart attack, you might be prepping somebody for a meet, all sorts of stuff like that. That made masters really fun. I did a lot in the 8-12 age group, and I worked with a young guy who was an assistant coach at Auburn, and he brought in a lot of very new ideas. He’s the one who convinced me to get my CSCS, which is certified strength conditioning specialist. So that was a lot of fun.

Do you have a coaching philosophy? My philosophy with coaching is to aim to teach them all the things that they need in order to be responsible for their own training. To give them those tools, so that they know what they’re doing, they know how to do it, they take it on board so they can say, “Oh, my body’s telling me this, I think I need to work on this.” I want them to know what it is that they’re supposed to be doing and understand why they’re doing it so they can take it with them. And that’s not always true with a lot of coaches. You’ll see a lot of coaches that are very control-oriented, but that’s kind of old-fashioned swimming. And that might work with some sports, but when you’re working with an individual sport, that you want them to do for the rest of their life, they really need to be able to know what it is that they’re doing, and to take responsibility for it. Then they become invested in it. -Compiled by Ramona Tausz

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Undefeated Ashland flies past Hillsdale in 52-21 rout Fifth-straight loss has Chargers searching for answers

By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor The Hillsdale College football team gave up 639 total yards of offense — its second-most allowed ever — as the eighth-ranked undefeated Ashland Eagles soared past the Chargers 52-21 on Saturday afternoon. “We’ve all got to play better. We’ve got to coach better and we’ve got to play better,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “We all have to do our job better against a good team, but, that being said, that’s a good football team. Give credit where it’s due. Ashland has a lot of tools.” Redshirt freshman quarterback Chance Stewart, in his second collegiate start and first start ever on the road, completed 17 of his 29 pass attempts for 206 yards and two passing touchdowns. His 7-yard rushing touchdown with 6:36 remaining in the first quarter brought Hillsdale level with Ashland 7-7 at the time, but the Eagles rattled off 38 straight points before the end of the third quarter to put the game away.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Chance Stewart evades a tackle in Hillsdale’s game against Ohio Dominican on Oct. 10. Stewart threw for 206 yards and two touchdowns and also rushed for a touchdown. Brendan Miller | Collegian

Stewart said his first two starts went “okay.” “There’s lots to learn from. The offensive line is playing great and giving me a lot of time to do my job,” Stewart said. “The offensive playbook is coming along. It took a while to get a hang of it, but I feel like I have a good understanding of it now.” Otterbein recognizes his young quarterback is progressing. “He’s showing a lot of

composure on game day. He didn’t get rattled as the game separated, he just stayed within what we’re trying to do as an offense so those are very bright spots. He’s a pretty mature young man,” Otterbein said. “He’s used to the setting and the limelight and he’s handling that part of it very well. He continues to work hard on the schematic part of it and you’d expect nothing less. He’s a great kid.” Saturday’s loss was Hills-

Division Player of the Week after averaging three kills per set on the weekend. Wolfert now holds 1,035 total kills on her career. “I knew I needed four more, but I tried to not think about it or count in my head because I knew that would put way more pressure on it,” Wolfert said. “But it was funny because my dad and grandpa were in the stands across the net from me videotaping every play just in case it happened, so I figured it must be coming up and that was fun.” In their first match on Friday afternoon, the Chargers fell to No. 9 Rockhurst by just two points in a tight fifth set. The Hawks jumped out to win the first two sets but Hillsdale fought back to win the next two and drive the match into a fifth set. “Against Rockhurst we actually did not pass well, it was something that we worked on all week, but we lost our ability to pass the ball,” Gravel said. “When you’re playing a team of that caliber it makes it tough. We were gritty, we pushed it to five which gave us a chance to win, but we did not play our best ball.” Despite Hillsdale’s uncharacteristic passing performance, freshman outside hitter Paige VanderWall managed to slam a career-high 19 kills against the Hawks. Her fiery performance was sparked by her familiarity with the facility. “Rick had been talking to me about how I had been guiding my shots instead of really going after them,” VanderWall said. “And being at Sports Performance Facility

where I used to play every weekend, I was just like, ‘This is my comfort zone, I might as well go for it,’ and the whole team was really good at helping me out to get those hits.” Later Friday evening, the Chargers bounced back from the loss to take down Drury University in straight sets. VanderWall stayed hot as she recorded 10 kills and five blocks. On Saturday, the Chargers played their second five-set match of the weekend but saw more favorable results. Their match against the Truman State Bulldogs gave the Chargers a case of deja-vu as they fell behind 0-2 in the first two sets. Once again the Chargers buckled down and pushed the match to a fifth set where they applied what they had learned during Friday’s loss. “They didn’t see it coming, they were complacent and we were fed up and weren’t going to let it get away from us,” Wolfert said. “We knew that everyone had to bring their best game, and to come out right off the get-go. At first we actually didn’t do that, we let a few points slip away, and that was really a wake-up call.” Wolfert said the Chargers then picked up their offense and began to serve aggressively, causing the Bulldogs to crack under the pressure as Hillsdale secured their 15-10 victory. Wolfert had a spectacular showing against Truman as she set season-highs with 19 kills and five service aces. She also recorded five digs and three block assists. Wolfert had a .457 hitting percentage

dale’s fifth defeat in a row, dropping the Chargers to 1-6 on the season. “We’re a really resilient group,” senior left guard Justice Karmie said. “Obviously if we’re focusing on our record we’re going to be miserable. The season hasn’t gone the way we thought it would but every one of those guys out there is out there because we want to win and because we love playing football.” With four games still

remaining in the season, the Chargers have not started thinking about next year. “There’s only so many snaps in a college football player’s career, and to pull those away from a kid who is in that situation where you think you want to get snaps for a younger kid, I’ve never believed in that,” Otterbein said. “You owe it to Team 123 to prepare and compete tooth and nail right down to the end of the last snap of the last

game. That’s just the mentality that I was raised in the game with.” Otterbein’s players are focused on making the most of their final games of the season. “We have a four-game season left,” Karmie said. “The younger guys have to think about what kind of momentum they want to take into next season, and the older guys have to think if they want to be remembered as the team who started out 1-6 and then just curled up, or do they want to be the guys who said, ‘Alright, we’ve got four games left. Let’s do something with it.’” Hillsdale will play the first of their four remaining games on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. when they host the Tiffin Dragons, which are 4-2 in the GLIAC this season. The Chargers are preparing to deal with Tiffin quarterback Antonio Pipkin, who is “one of the most dynamic football players in the GLIAC right now,” according to Karmie. “They’ve got a really athletic quarterback that is really good at picking and choosing his times, if you’ve got guys covered, to tuck it and run,” Otterbein said. “If you put all your eggs into stopping him the other guys are good enough to hurt you too. On both sides of the ball this team makes you be very assignment sound.”

Volleyball goes 2-1 in crucial crossover tournament Senior Emily Wolfert becomes 8th Charger to record 1,000 kills By | Jessie Fox Assistant Editor In one of the most crucial weekends of the season, the Hillsdale College volleyball team did exactly what it needed to do. The Chargers went 2-1 at the Midwest Region Crossover Tournament after falling to Rockhurst University and defeating Drury University and Truman State University. Teams from the GLIAC, the Great Lakes Valley Conference, and the G-MAC competed this weekend in Aurora, Illinois to determine how many teams from each conference will make it to the NCAA tournament. “Our fate was in our own hands,” said head coach Chris Gravel. “We did what we needed to do. Going in we needed to beat Drury and Truman, and we wanted to beat Rockhurst. I didn’t tell the players that, but that’s what we needed to do to set ourselves up for later.” The top eight GLIAC teams recorded 14 wins while the top eight from the GLVC recorded 13. Senior middle hitter Emily Wolfert shined, scoring her 1,000th career kill on Friday afternoon. Wolfert became just the eighth Charger to complete this feat. Wolfert was also named the GLIAC South

Freshman Kara Vyletel (middle) celebrates with freshman Taylor Bennett (left) and senior Emily Wolfert (right) after scoring a point in Hillsdale’s 3-0 victory over Wayne St. on Oct. 9. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

to top off the performance. Over the course of the weekend, the Chargers saw a few of their key players struggle, but embraced the opportunity to bring players off the bench and try out new lineups. “We showed our versatility. We knew we had versatility and we do train that way incase we run into these situations,” Gravel said. “This weekend we needed to perform, we needed to go 2-1 at least and without our abilities to switch like we did we never would have gotten to that point.” Sophomore defensive specialist Brittany Jandasek made her return to the court

this weekend after recovering from surgery. Jandasek led the Chargers with 15 digs against Drury on Friday. As Jandasek changed into the libero jersey, senior Jenalle Beaman returned to the front row to play some offense, racking up eight kills on the weekend. Senior Jordan Denmark also improved this weekend as she was pulled off the bench to slam four kills against Truman. Junior Sam Siddall also came up clutch for the Chargers. “In two huge pressure situations, Sam Siddall came in and executed to a tee,” Gravel said. “Against Rockhurst she came in and gave us a chance to win, dead-cold off the

bench, then against Drury she had some quality contacts also that allowed us to put them away.” Gravel said there’s no telling what lineup will emerge as the best option for the weekend. The Chargers will hit the road to take on Grand Valley on Friday at 7 p.m. and Ferris State on Saturday at 5 p.m. “They’re all pretty solid matches but I think we’re excited for them because we just played three solid matches,” Gravel said. “We had lots of compliments from opposing coaches from both sides of the conferences and officials too, saying ‘Wow, you’ve got another strong Hillsdale team here,’ and yes, I think we do.”

she works hard over the season she should be a serious contender at the end of the season,” Kirner said. Freshman Erla Sigurjonsdottir was also victorious, winning the 50 freestyle in 26.01 seconds, and placing second in the 100-yard individual medley. Junior Emily Shallman added a significant amount of points to the Chargers’ total, winning three events: the 100 IM in 1:03.01, the 50-yard butterfly in 27.07 seconds, and the 100 freestyle in 56.05 seconds. Her three wins for the night crowned her highest-scoring duel meet of her career thus far. “My mentality going forward is just to have fun and enjoy swimming,” Shallman said. “I swim the fastest when I’m relaxed and having a good time. This year I’m not going to put pressure on myself to go certain times. I’m just excited to race and to see what our team can accomplish this season.” Senior captain Zoe Hopkins

won both the 200 freestyle in 1:58.33 and the 500 freestyle in 5:17.69. She dominated especially in the 500 free, winning the race 10 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Hopkins said she was pleased with her team’s winning performance. “It gets old diving into a cold pool at 6 a.m. multiple times a week, but that is the last thing I think about when I see our team succeed,” Hopkins said. “When we win, it helps get some momentum for the team going into other meets. We all get pumped and excited for more racing, and it helps push us through training.” Senior Jennifer Wheeler brought in a win for the Chargers in the 100 butterfly and also placed third in the 200 freestyle. The Chargers will use their newfound momentum tomorrow as they swim against Calvin College and Grand Valley State University at 5 p.m. in Grand Rapids.

Swim team takes down Albion in first meet of the season

Freshmen make big splash in the pool for Chargers By | Kat Torres Collegian Reporter

The Hillsdale College women’s swim team started its season with a 150-129 win against Albion College at home in Jack McAvoy Natatorium on Oct 9. The meet confirmed the team’s strength, with upper and underclassman alike showing potential for the rest of the season. The Chargers blew the Britons away, particularly in the sprinting events, clinching the top three spots in the 200-yard freestyle, 50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard freestyle, and 100yard breaststroke. “We have regained a lot of quality depth that we have been short of the last two

Senior Jennifer Wheeler races in the butterfly in a meet against Albion College on Oct. 9. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

years,” head coach Kurt Kirner said. “All of our freshmen are versatile and talented enough to make us a much deeper squad.”

The freshman class is proving to be a solid asset, with Anika Ellingson standing out in the 50 breaststroke and the 100 breaststroke. Ellingson

won both events, with a time of 31.18 seconds in the 50 and 1:07.55 in the 100. “Anika Ellingson has a real competitive breaststroke. If

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Volleyball puts up winning weekend Chargers go 2-1 at the Midwest Region Crossover Tournament. A9

Swim team wins first meet of the year Chargers defeat Albion 150-129, swim again tomorrow in Grand Rapids. A9

CROSS-COUNTRY SPRINTS TO THE FINISH LINE

Men take first and women second in final meet before GLIAC Championships By | Evan Carter Web Editor The Hillsdale College men’s cross-country team finished first and the women’s team second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Championships meet on Oct. 9, bringing the Chargers’ regular season campaign to a close. While the women placed second in the meet, they finish the season ranked No. 1 in the NCAA Division II coaches poll for the fourth week in a row. The women’s race included five teams and 40 athletes, while the men’s race was even smaller with only three teams and 29 athletes. Even though the race didn’t have big competition, it was still an important race for a number of runners “on the bubble,” who are unsure of whether or not they will make the GLIAC conference team. “We went in and got accomplished what we wanted to from the meet,” head distance coach Joe Lynn said. Lynn had a number of different race plans for the team, with race plans even differing within the men’s and women’s

squads. Many of the athletes on the bubble treated the meet like a regular race, while the top men and women ran it as more of a hard workout, either practicing racing strategy or pacing teammates. “You put yourself in different situations so that, come championship season, if you get out too fast or you get out too slow or something’s not perfect, it’s not a new situation for us,” Lynn said. On the men’s side, Lynn was proud of the “high level” at which they raced even though Intercollegiates wasn’t a typical meet. Junior Luke Daigneault agreed. “I think it was a step in the right direction,” Daigneault said. “We still have some things that we’re rounding out in our training. It’s definitely not a move backwards.” According to Daigneault, who finished fourth overall in the race, the meet was lowkey, but still a nice victory. Although cross-country is often thought of as an individual sport, the men ran as a team. “We were really tight as a group honestly,” Daigneault said. “It really goes into the thing we were trying to do,

and that’s racing in the hills, because that’s what we have to do at conference.” Although results are somewhat misleading because not all of the men were giving full race effort, the team’s gap from first to seventh place was much smaller than it has been in past weeks — only 53 seconds. Freshman Santiago Quintana, one of the runners on the bubble, had a breakout race, running a personal best 8K time and placing seventh on the team. Quintana said he looks up to junior captain Joe Newcomb for inspiration on what it means to be an elite runner. Despite the team’s improvement, Daigneault said the race’s results don’t guarantee success later in the season. “Our team still has a lot of work if we think we have any chance at being top five at the regional meet,” he said. On the women’s side, Lynn called the race “quality,” even though it wasn’t a typical meet. Junior Meredith Didier was another bubble athlete who gave full effort in hopes of making it on the team’s GLIAC conference squad.

The flurry of matches began on Oct. 10 when the Chargers fell to the Northwood Timberwolves, 7-2. “I don’t think we played our best,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. “We definitely have room for some improvement.” Despite the team’s loss, Walbright mentioned good individual wins by freshmen Halle Hyman at No. 1 singles and Madeline Bissett at No. 6 singles. The following day, the Chargers defeated Saginaw Valley 6-3. “It was a really good, exciting day,” Walbright said. “The girls showed up to play and it went really well.” The Chargers remained on campus during fall break in order to maintain their training and competition schedules. Thursday’s match against Northwestern Ohio proved difficult for Hillsdale, as the Chargers fell 6-3. Senior Sydney Delp said

because the team stayed over fall break, they “were able to stay focused,” allowing the team to get extra match play against Northwestern Ohio, a non-conference team. On Friday, Hillsdale faced Wayne State in their last dual match of the fall season. The Chargers’ 5-4 win over the Warriors marked the first time in Walbright’s career as coach at Hillsdale that the Chargers defeated Wayne State. “They are a good team, and it was a really exciting day,” Walbright said. “The girls definitely came out ready to play. It was the best match, top to bottom, that our team has played all year.” The match came down to a tie-breaking match played by freshman Madeline Bissett. After dropping the first set, Bissett fought and won the second and third sets to secure the victory for the Chargers. “When I was down 2-5 in the second set, I looked over at my team and coach and

“I know I took my cross-training really seriously, so I was prepared,” Didier said after her first race back from a minor injury. “I was just surprised how fast I was going through the race, and who I was running with on my team.” Like the men, the women’s race results don’t necessarily reflect a normal race. Still, the women shrank their gap between first and seventh place to 1:07 at Intercollegiates. In the two weeks between the Michigan Intercollegiate Championships and the GLIAC Championships, the team has been intensifying its training in preparation for not only the conference meet on Saturday but for the rest of championship season. Lynn has high hopes for his team at the conference meet, and believes that the women can win and the men can place in the top four or five teams. The meet will take place in Kensington Metropark in Milford, Michigan, about one and a half hours northeast of Hillsdale. Junior Joseph Newcomb placed second at the Michigan Intercollegiates with a 26:43.5 in the 8K. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

Women’s tennis set for GLIAC tournament after big victory

Chargers will face Wayne State in opening round tomorrow night By | Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter Closing out their regular season with a 5-4 upset win over the defending GLIAC champion Wayne State Warriors, the Hillsdale College women’s tennis team is gearing up for the GLIAC tournament. After a series of matches held before and throughout fall break, the Chargers closed the regular season with a conference record of 7-4, good enough for sixth place heading into the GLIAC tournament. The Chargers will face Wayne State for the second time in a week in the opening round of the tournament tomorrow night.

Senior Sydney Delp (right) hits a forehand as doubles partner senior Lindsay Peirce (left) prepares for the return in a match against Findlay on Sept. 13. Carsten Stann | Collegian

knew that I had to do it for them,” Bissett said. “I knew I was going to have to toughen up and grind it out.” With a big win under their belts, the women now focus

their attention on the threeday GLAIC tournament set to commence tomorrow evening at the Midland Community Tennis Center. “I think our team is peak-

ing at just the right time,” Delp said. “We hadn’t played our best tennis yet in the season, but now we are. It’s what makes us just feel so good going into the tournament.”

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Alumna poet returns to Hillsdale Visiting Writer Kjersten Kauffman ’08 to speak on poetry, the writing experience

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Features Editor

When Hillsdale alumna Kjerstin Ostlind was a senior in 2008, she wrote two theses — one, a typical thesis on a Roman poet. Her second, a compilation of her original poems. The combination of these two aspects of her undergraduate career have led Kjerstin Ostlind ’08, now Kjerstin Kauffman, to her work in poetry today. “I never did get a classics major at Hillsdale, but I had intended to, so I think a lot of the classical poets deeply influenced me,” Kauffman said. “Now I see a ton of influence from Hardy and Frost. That comes more from graduate work. Different seasons of life have different people. I think that the classical poets were really shaping.” Kauffman will arrive at Hillsdale today, and will be giving lectures in the days leading up to homecoming weekend. Her husband will also be giving a talk during their time here. While at Hillsdale, Kauffman wrote for the Tower Light and took a creative writing class taught by Professor of English Daniel Sundahl. “She would press hard her writing,” Provost David Whalen said. “Her writing

was never about the grade. It was about ‘this one particular sentence that just won’t do what I want it to do.’ It was an exquisite exercise in the detail of writing.” Sundahl affectionately recalls a day when both Nicholas and Kjerstin Kauffman walked into his office and told him they were engaged. They had told him the news before they even told their own parents. As 2008 graduates, the Kauffmans married just after graduation, and Nicholas spent a few years teaching at a high school in Colorado. During this time, Kjerstin Kauffman worked at Borders Book & Music Store and as a teacher’s aid. In 2009, she attended the Sewanee Writer’s Conference in Tennessee. “I think it was at Sewanee that I met a bunch of writers from Hopkins,” Kauffman said. “That was probably part of the reason Nick applied for the Classics Ph.D. program at Hopkins, otherwise I don’t know if he would have necessarily considered that school, but that’s where he ended up

applying and being accepted.” During this time, Sundahl had an opportunity to recommend Kauffman to a program. “My old teacher Dave Smith, who is the chairman at the MFA program at Hopkins, came to visit campus, and it was the perfect opportunity to recommend Kjerstin to the program,” Sundahl said. Kauffman said she applied, was waitlisted, and then accepted at the last minute. At this point, Kauffman had an 18-month-old while beginning her master’s program.

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Kjersten Kauffman ’08 returns to Hillsdale this weekend to read from her poetry and speak on the writer’s experience as part of the Tower Light’s 60th anniversary celebration. Kjersten Kauffman | Courtesy

The Hillsdale College Pep Band, a staple at home football and basketball games, now boasts more than 30 members. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

Hillsdale pep band: a staple of school spirit By | Anders Hagstrom

Collegian Reporter “Pep band is fun, but it’s not fun to suck.” This motto, coined by pep band director junior Hank Prim, has guided the band through its journey from lesser-known campus club to its current standing as one of the most widely-recognized and appreciated ensembles at Hillsdale College. According to junior Conor Woodfin, assistant director of the pep band, the group had only 15 students in fall of 2013. Nevertheless, after two years of consistent growth, the band now boasts more than 30 members and has its sights set on reaching 50 before spring of 2017. The band charges up the crowd at Hillsdale basketball and football home games with classics like Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” as well as new additions like Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling.” “One of the biggest improvements we’ve made this year is our new music selections,” alto saxophone player sophomore Brant Co-

Junior Braden Kelley Jordyn Pair | Collegian

hen said. “Conor Woodfin has put in a lot of work to find us relevant pieces to play.” In addition to selecting music to purchase, Woodfin personally transposes some pieces for each of the 10 instruments in the band. While transposing music is time-consuming, Woodfin said he enjoys the task — plus, it saves the pep band money. According to Woodfin, the pep band has nearly doubled its music collection over the past two years. “We’ve really wanted to focus on playing relevant music,” Woodfin said. “We have plenty of cliche pep band pieces, so most of our new additions are songs immediately recognizable from pop culture.” Students attending football games this year may have recognized new pieces like Fall Out Boy’s “Light ‘Em Up,” Avicii’s “Hey Brother,” and Fun’s “Some Nights.” The changes made in music selection have resulted from a shift in members. According to Prim, the band lost onethird of its members when the class of 2014 graduated. “We were essentially sent back to square

one in the fall of 2014,” Prim said. “It was my first year as director, and there were only 10 of us. Some of us had fewer than three years of experience playing an instrument.” Prim and the other members of the band immediately focused on recruitment. “We set up a stand at the Source and sent out emails to the music department, but we definitely found the most success through word of mouth,” Prim said. “We wanted to recruit as many underclassmen as possible to ensure that when a class graduated, the pep band wouldn’t be gutted again.” By the spring of 2015, the band doubled to more than 20 members, the majority of whom were well-experienced performers involved in a number of other ensembles on campus — students like sophomore Dean Sinclair, whose band August Hotel has frequently played at Hillsdale events. “I joined pep band because I love the style of music we play,” Sinclair said. “And it’s the only ensemble on campus that gets you an audience, but doesn’t make you wear a tux.” The pep band’s appreciation of informality, however, does not result in a lack of

Junior Michael Zabik Jordyn Pair | Collegian

quality. “Everyone in pep band is really invested in the band’s success,” junior trombone player Shaine Timmins said. “Everyone wants to be there and wants to sound great.” The band’s improvements have allowed the group to gain an excellent reputation on campus. “We’ve started being invited to official school pep rallies and other events,” Cohen said. “It’s really encouraging to see us gaining ground like that.” “We’ve had a number of people, from parents of athletes to referees, even Dr. Arnn himself, approach us after games just to tell us how much we’ve improved over past years,” Prim added. The band is grateful for the appreciation. “We’re really proud of how far we’ve come in the last two years,” Prim said. “As we keep growing and improving we need to remember that we’re just a group of fun people, playing fun music, having a fun time.”

Junior Hank Prim is pep band director Jordyn Pair | Collegian

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Fuerst in the Big Apple

Professor’s compositions performed in New York City By |Brooke Conrad

Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale’s own Associate Professor of Music Mathew Fuerst may be best-known on campus for assisting with student compositions, but he is also an acclaimed composer in his own right. His works are regularly featured in performances throughout the United States and even Europe. Most recently, the Amernet String Quartet performed two of Fuerst’s compositions — “String Quartet No. 1” and “String Quartet No. 2” — at a Sept. 24 concert at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City’s Kaufman Music Center. “I thought they did an excellent job,” Fuerst said. “I enjoyed working with them and look forward to working with them some more.” Although “String Quartet No. 2” premiered at Hillsdale College in 2013, this performance served as its New York premiere, and was lauded by the New York Classical Review as standing out “for its focus, direct communication, and force.” According to Fuerst, the inspiration for the piece was a fascination with the Big Bang and Multiverse theories. “String Quartet No. 1” was originally commissioned by the New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute and premiered in 2011. According to Fuerst, it was at a New York City Ballet performance of this work that he had one of the most memorable moments of his composition career. At the end of the performance, he got to stand and take a bow on stage at the Miller Theatre — the same stage on which many incredible artists, such as Stravinsky, Balanchine, and Copland, had stood. “I just thought, ‘What the heck am I doing here?’” Fuerst said. Fuerst began composing around the age of 8 or

9. He remembers being “blown away” by hearing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” and then using his allowance money to buy a record of some of Beethoven’s music. “I decided from then on that I wanted to do to other people what that music was doing to me,” he said.

Fuerst studied music at the Interlochen Arts Camp, attended a high school that specialized in the arts, attained his bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, as a piano and composition major, and then attained his master’s degree and doctorate at The Juilliard School. Fuerst has composed mostly for violin and piano, but also for orchestra, wind quartet, solo piano, voice, and “basically for whoever asks.” He has written pieces for two Hillsdale College faculty members in particular: Director of Keyboard Studies Brad Blackham and instructor in percussion Stacey Jones-Garrison. “His music is not easy,” Blackham said, “but it’s very satisfying once you learn it.” Blackham describes Fuerst’s music as rhythmically-driven and having a “real infectious energy.” Fuerst composed a song cycle called “Struwwelpeter” for Blackham and Adjunct Instructor Kristi Matson. The work is based on poems by Heinrich Hoffman, which are similar to the Grimm fairy tales, according to Blackham. Blackham describes Fuerst’s style as “traditional, but not stodgy.” He appreciates Fuerst’s refusal to join a recent trend toward a pop-crossover style in classical music. Fuerst had never written for percussion until Jones-Garrison asked him to compose a piece for percussion and piano, and he presented her and Blackham with “Broken Cycles.” Jones-Garrison describes his music as “unexpected,” “forward-thinking,” and “fierce.” “He never writes what you expect, and I think that’s a very good, refreshing thing,” she said.

Oct. - The Visiting Writers Program features poet Kjerstin Kauffman 7:30 p.m. Thursday Reading from her Poetry Heritage Room 6:30 p.m. Friday “Advice for Poets: The Writer’s Experience” Heritage Room

Oct.  &  The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra Concert 8 p.m. Saturday 3 p.m. Sunday Markel Auditorium Sage Center for the Arts Reservations Required

Associate Professor of Music Mathew Fuerst frequently has his compositions performed in both American and European venues Mathew Fuerst | Courtesy

Weekend orchestra concerts to In review: ‘Pan’ feature Bernstein, Prokofiev, and Sibelius

‘Peter Pan’ retelling ‘will leave viewers scratching their heads’ By | Chandler Ryd

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By | Katie Scheu

Collegian Reporter When Music Department Chair James Holleman tried to explain the climax of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, his favorite piece from the orchestra’s upcoming concert program, words failed him. Instead, he resorted to his natural mode of communication and began to conduct an invisible orchestra, humming the melody to make his point. The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will be performing its first concerts of the semester over homecoming weekend at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25 in Markel Auditorium. The program is comprised of Leonard Bernstein’s overture from “Candide” and Sergei Prokofiev’s suite from “Lieutenant Kije,” followed by Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. “For this first concert, I like to have a concert that has some meat on its bones for the orchestra, that gets them engaged,” Holleman said. When selecting literature for these concerts, Holleman has many factors to consider, including the educational growth of the group, the ensemble’s strengths and weaknesses, and how the music fits in with the repertoire for the year. Concertmaster junior Stevan Lukich spoke to the educational challenges the symphony poses. “I think that the Sibelius is the most challenging piece because of its length and breadth,” he

said. “It requires a lot of concentration from the entire orchestra just to make it through the piece, plus, Sibelius indicates a very wide array of dynamics and colorations. Getting the voicing of the different sections of the orchestra correct is tricky, as are the many transitions in tempo and style.” With this level of difficulty, the orchestra maximizes each rehearsal they have, and this year, they have more time than usual. In years past, they have performed their first concert over Parents Weekend, but this fall it was moved to homecoming weekend. “That’s just the way the calendar fell,” Holleman said, explaining that the theater was unavailable for concert rehearsals due to the Tower Players’ production of “Twelfth Night.” The dress rehearsals and performances will prevent orchestra members from attending some homecoming events, including Mock Rock and the football game. “I can tell you as someone who’s in orchestra and loves going to see and partake in Mock Rock especially, I’m really bummed to have to miss it,” trombone player sophomore Jacob Hann said. “I have a lot of friends who will be participating and I can’t go to support them.” “It is a little disappointing, but it’s nice for the Tower Players to perform for the parents,” oboist sophomore Brigette Hall said. She also explained that the extra rehearsal time will allow the orchestra to jell more.

Kauffman, From B1 “I think an MFA was like a dream,” she said. “ If I had to do something really exciting and cool, that’s what I’d do.” Even as a young child, Kauffman said, poetry was a language toward which she was inclined. “I think poetry’s always been a part of my life,” Kauffman said. “I’ve always responded to poetry in that way. I can remember my mom reading me Christina Rossetti when I was a kid, and loving that, ‘Who can see the wind/ Neither I nor you.’”Halfway through the MFA program, Kauffman’s middle child was born, so the two-year program took three years to complete. Upon completion, she taught creative writing classes at Johns Hopkins University. “I thought that was really profound to be able to write while having young kids and being pregnant,” she said. “It’s a time which for most women is

While Parents Weekend guarantees a large audience at the concerts, the homecoming crowd threatens this trend. Holleman has sent letters and emails inviting music alumni to not only enjoy the concert, but to also take part in a music department tailgate and the jazz afterglow. The concert should be on everyone’s calendar, whether an alumnus or current student. The orchestra has been hard at work, and they have a lot to share. “This is serious repertoire played by 18- to 22-year-olds, who are there because they love it, not because they have to be,” Holleman said. “There’s a small handful of music majors on stage, and these people are playing difficult repertoire at a very high level. That’s exciting at a school of this size and in this community. That’s who we are. Come hear who we are.”

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a complete blur, but I have these poems I wrote and even essays and things. I was doing all this work during that time. I really treasure that just as a record of that time in my life, that season and that experience.” Sundahl said Kauffman has matured and changed as a writer as well. “She was very focused on theology and formal in her writing,” he said. “Her poetry has become more maternal, and I mean that in the best way.” Despite the joys of writing with this inspiration, Kauffman said this time also presented some challenges. “I was really fried,” she said. “I was really busy. It was logistically challenging. It worked out because my husband was teaching, so we both had more flexible schedules than people typically have, so that worked out nicely.” Beyond these challenges of working with graduate school

Joe Wright’s “Pan” is a bombastic blend of borrowed ideas, superfluous pop culture references, and colorful interpretations that never cohere. There are plenty of good ideas on display, but most of them fail because they pop in and out of the film with no development or sense of importance. And it doesn’t help that most of those ideas find better execution in other films. “Pan” tries to rethink the Peter Pan narrative, but ends up overcomplicating it. Without reason, writer Jason Fuchs pushes the setting of the Peter Pan narrative out of the early 20th century and into the World War II era. During the London Blitz, a flying pirate ship from Neverland swoops out of the sky and snatches an orphanage full of boys, including 12-year-old Pan, played by first-time actor Levi Miller. The pirates, led by Hugh Jackman’s maniacal Blackbeard, toss Pan in a pixie dust mine where he meets the future Captain Hook (Garrett Hedlund), now with two hands. They escape Blackbeard with the help of Indian princess Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara), who informs them of a prophecy in which Pan becomes a sort of superhero. The prophecy is Fuchs’ attempt to establish narrative progression, but cheeky allusions to the source material distract the plot. Wright repeatedly makes baffling directorial decisions that result in distracting and unnecessary scenes. As the flying frigate leaves Earth

and life, graduate school also presented difficulties within itself that were not present in a Hillsdale education. “I had heard Dr. Whalen say a number of times that Hillsdale was having a different conversation, that it’s just on different terms,” Kauffman said. “We’re not just having a more conservative or liberal arts angle. It really is a different conversation with a different language and different terms.” Pragmatically, Kauffman said she had to learn how to interpret things through a feminist or a gender studies or a race lens. This all happened in her first year, when she was thrown into the language by teaching, which she called her crash course in the language of the other conversation. “In the end, I really affirm the education I had at Hillsdale,” she said. “It was painful. I think that was a challenge. It had some almost spiritual ramifications. This is the way

with the orphans, Wright decides to toss in a superfluous (and tone-shifting) action sequence where British fighters fail to shoot down the escaping pirates. In the Neverland mine, the slaves chant punk rock lyrics from the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” And when Pan and Hook meet Tiger Lily, the Indians, for whatever reason, explode into puffs of color a la the Color Run when they die. None of this matters. While many of the film’s scenes seem superfluous, others seem copied and pasted from other, more successful films. The mining sequence mimics George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” in its brown color palette and thematic dichotomy between Blackbeard and the plebeian miners. A later jungle setting evokes James Cameron’s “Avatar” when dragon-like birds attack Pan and Hook. And the final encounter between Pan and Blackbeard looks almost identical to any swordfight from Gore Verbinski’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” when the characters start dueling on the ship’s prow and swinging from sail ropes. All of these elements work better in other films, but they fall flat in “Pan” because none of them have primacy. Nevertheless, “Pan” does succeed in its actors. For a debut performance, Miller grounds the film surprisingly well in Pan’s unremitting search for his mother. His search, in fact, is one of the only story elements consistent throughout the film. Mara stands out as the most

that I think knowledge is. This is the way that I think education should be done. And these things are completely different and aren’t even interacting with my view of what the liberal arts is or should be, and how do I respond to that.” Ultimately, much of the content in her writing comes from an interaction with other texts and things that she has read. These works, she said, have become a part of her in a way that naturally flows into her writing. “To me, it’s so comforting to see, once the poem’s on the page, that, ‘oh, all these other texts are a part of me,’” she said. “It’s just so deeply absorbed into my mind and into my being that, there it is, in the poem.”

nuanced character, sliding into Tiger Lily as easily as she does her more complex roles in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Social Network.” Jackman characterizes Blackbeard through quick and exaggerated movements which work for a darkly comedic effect, but he becomes too much of a caricature by the end, even for a children’s movie. Hedlund gives the poorest performance as Hook, relying more on the character’s archetypal swashbuckling charm and wisecracks than on his own interpretation. In short, “Pan” might have been a good film if it had settled on its own identity rather than borrowing from everywhere else. A few strong performances lend small amounts of consistency, but without visual substance, “Pan” will leave viewers scratching their heads to figure out what just happened and studio executives wondering why it didn’t sell.

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One of the senior citizens at Drew’s Place follows along with the hymn “Trust and Obey.” Jordyn Pair | Collegian

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see how they still remember the hymns,” she said. “Singing hymns is one of the ways that we praise God, perhaps one of the most tangible ways we praise God. There’s something really unifying about that.” Singing, however, is just as important to the residents as it is to the students. “I was thinking today about how a lot of these people are here, and this is the last place they’re ever going to be in their

lives, and just how comforting it must be to hear — each hymn has a message to it — just to hear that message,” said Landskroener. “And especially just to see young people liven up the place, even if it’s just two or three of us.” The group desires to increase its numbers. “I think the more the merrier, really,” Reichard said.“We need more singers. It brings joy to the old folks when they have a lot of young faces to look at.” Southgate says she hopes the group will

Marie Landskroener assists senior citizens with their song books. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

continue to foster relationships between the college and the surrounding community. “College is a very self-centered stage of life, because we’re so independent,” she said. “I think it’s good to see people who are very dependent on help that also have a lot to give. It’s only natural for college students to become isolated in a bubble, but this is a good way of branching out a little bit.” Landskroener said she wants to see the group become a major part of the GOAL

program. “I hope that when freshmen come in they hear there’s orchestra, there’s choir, and there’s also this volunteer program,” she said. “I hope to make it a regular thing for many people.” For more information about joining the group, contact Landskroener at mlandskroener@hillsdale.edu.

From desk to podium: former student returns to teach English By | Madeleine Jepsen Collegian Reporter With his love for literature, radio, and sports, Andy Brown ’97 is a man of many passions. Analyzing both Homer and home basketball games is all in a day’s work for Brown, lecturer in English for Hillsdale College and sportscaster for WCSR. When the college needed additional teachers for Great Books classes in Spring 2013, Brown brought his passion for teaching to the college. “They were able to make a schedule for me that fit what I could do, and accommodate me that way,” Brown said. “When that worked out, I was in and excited to try it.” In addition to teaching evening classes at the college, Brown spends his day teaching students at Camden-Frontier, where he teaches high school English courses and introductory composition courses for Jackson College. Although Brown stated that balancing his teaching jobs can be difficult, he said the task has grown easier over time. “It’s very challenging just from a time standpoint,” Brown said. “Now that I’ve taught the courses multiple times, it’s easier because I’ve prepared the courses and I don’t have to study quite as much as I did the first year. It is challenging, but it’s definitely worth it.” This extra effort has not gone unnoticed by his students, such as sophomore Mary Dorroh, who enrolled in both of Brown’s

Great Books classes. “Professor Brown’s teaching style is very conducive to discussion. He really focuses on fostering a discussion with the class,” Dorroh said. “He asks a lot of interesting questions and lets the whole class feed off of each other’s ideas, and it’s just really good.” A lifelong Hillsdale resident, Brown attended Camden-Frontier Schools while growing up, and graduated from Hillsdale College in 1997. Associate Professor of English Debi Belt said she still remembers Brown’s time as a college student. “He was a thoughtful, funny, energetic and smart kid,” Belt said. “He was a thoughtful student, and one who enjoyed both extracurricular activities and the material he was reading for class.” Belt recalled a story from when Brown was in her class that she still tells her students today, in which Brown asked whether the use of first person pronouns was acceptable for papers. “I remember Andy coming up after class and asking, ‘Do we use I in this class?’ and I said ‘yeah, why?’ and he said, ‘Because I used it in Sundahl’s class, and I got busted!’” Belt said. “I still remember that because it was so funny and so perfect. When students ask me anymore about using I, I tell that story, because he said it better than I could.” After obtaining his master’s degree in English from Western Michigan University, Brown teaches at the same schools where he

first learned to analyze literature. “I’m proud to be back. This is the department I went through,” Brown said. “To even get to teach here part-time is an honor for me. I really mean that. It drives me to work really hard so I can live up to the standard that all of my professors had when I was here. It’s a high standard, so it’s a lot of work, but it’s definitely worth it.” Along with his love of literature, Brown also enjoys sporting events as both a coach and sportscaster. He has coached high school football in varying capacities for 13 years at Camden-Frontier, and watches his fifth and seventh-grade sons’ games. He also hosts “Time Out with Andy Brown” on 92.1 FM for WCSR, and covers play-by-play for Hillsdale College football and basketball games. He first started working for WCSR as a college student, 21 years ago, while covering college sporting events. “Radio is my lifelong passion,” he said. “I started at WCSR when I was a student here. Greg Carambus and I were the first people to do Hillsdale College sports on the local cable access station through Hillsdale College. I used that experience to segway into the job at WCSR. So I really got my start in broadcasting here.” Despite the apparent challenge of managing jobs in broadcasting and teaching, Brown stated that his enjoyment of his work helps to make everything doable. “The thing that makes it doable is that I love this stuff. I love working with students,

Alumnus Andy Brown ‘97 teaches English classes at Hillsdale, and he is an announcer for WCSR. Andy Brown | Courtesy

I love students, I love teaching. That’s not work for me, that’s what I love to do,” he said. “When you’re doing those things that you’re passionate about, it’s all enjoyable, and it’s all something you feel good about doing every day.”

Students learn diplomacy with board game in honors seminar said. “The competition is so tough in this class that we sneak around outside of class making alliances, deals, spying, and consulting just so we can make one move the next week.” While Negus has never played the game, he has an important role in giving advice to any player willing to stop by his office. “It is really nice that we can take a break from our work and enjoy a nice cup of tea while talking over strategy for the game,” Cohen said. “He tries to be fair to everyone who comes to his office and he works to be as unbiased as possible.” While the class is game-centric, only a portion of each class is actually spent executing moves on the board. The rest of the class is focused on discussing what could be learned from that week’s move, and discussing the WWI history readings assigned for the week. “We have really started to learn how complicated it is to build relationships with other

countries,” sophomore Joe Pappalardo, who controls Germany, said. “We compare what we saw in World War I to modern examples like Russia and Turkey fighting over Syria.” Negus noted that the game contains many lessons, including the importance of negotiation, the delicacy international relations, and the necessity of intelligence agencies working with foreign ministers. “Playing this game is a way for my students to understand these things that happen on a massive geopolitical scale, that decide the fate of the world, are just a grand scale of things that we might do from week to week,” Negus said. Right now it is unclear if the class will be offered again next year. For the time being, this year’s players will continue to shout, spy, and negotiate their way to domination. “You’re not allowed to break the law or the Honor Code,” Negus said. “Other than that, away from the board, there are no rules.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Samuel Negus oversees students playing Diplomacy during the seminar he teaches. Stevan bennett | Collegian

By | Stevan Bennett Assistant Editor Every Tuesday night a ruckus echoes through the third floor of Lane Hall. It is not, however, caused by a football game or a presidential debate. Rather, it is the result of an honors seminar focused on a board game. Diplomacy is a World War I domination board game, along the lines of Risk or Axis and Allies. Unlike these games, Diplomacy focuses more on the player’s diplomatic interactions with each other, rather than their interactions with the board or the roll of a die. Visiting Assistant Professor of History Samuel Negus, who doubles as game master and professor, explained the importance of

communication and diplomacy between players. “Unlike Risk, you start with very few pieces, and building pieces is very hard. No single player has enough pieces to win the game by working alone, so you have to work to get allies,” Negus said. “Since there is no chance built into the game, all of the skill is away from the board and outside of class.” The students have completely bought into the game, and use a variety of diplomatic tactics outside of class to bring the other players to their side. “The complexity of the game adds pressure to everyone and I think we all want to show that we have what it takes to win a war and take over the continent,” sophomore Brant Cohen, who is playing as Russia,

Students learn about diplomacy through board game, strategizing both inside the classroom and out. Stevan bennett | Collegian

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Singing students grace Drew’s Place By | Jordyn Pair Collegian Freelancer A small group of Hillsdale College students goes to Drew’s Place, a local retirement home, every Sunday afternoon to lead the residents in singing hymns. The group was originally started by the GOAL program and is currently run by junior Marie Landskroener. The group meets from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. on Sundays. Although the group has been active for years, its numbers are small. “Usually there only two or three of us, which isn’t very many, and I would like to see a lot more come,” said Landskroener. “Last week there were five of us, which is a great number, and there were a lot of residents out.” Around 15 to 20 residents attend each week, according to Landskroener. “The residents love it,” she said. “It’s so cute. Every time

they thank us; every time they say ‘come back.’” However, participants say it provides more than just entertainment. “Music is not something that’s absolutely necessary in our lives,” senior Audrey Southgate said. “It’s an added blessing, an added gift. They’re well-fed and wellcared-for in other ways, and that’s really great, but if we can have something else to bring joy, in this case praising our Savior together, that’s a really good thing.” Southgate said she has been involved with the program since her freshman year and considers it the highlight of her week. “I get joy out of it,” freshman Quinn Reichard said. “Maybe it’s selfish of me to say I get joy out of it, but when you’re dedicating your time to others, you get a certain sense of purpose out of that.” Reichard has only attended for a few weeks, but is already

a hit with the residents, who begged him to play a piano solo before he left. He says that having the opportunity to create beauty is what makes volunteering a blessing. “I’m not trying to say that what we do here is particularly beautiful,” he said, “but it’s a little something at least. It gives them a chance to hear a little something.” Others find importance in the work in other places. “I think that it’s important for communities to have an exchange between young people and older people, for younger people to learn from older people, and for older people to see younger generations growing up in the church,” Southgate said. She said singing hymns is important to her, as well. “It’s really encouraging for me to see people who have lived their lives in Christ, to

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Personal blunder of paper writing: I needlessly repeat myself when I write: I’ll make a point and then restate the point in different words, imagining that I’m adding something new. (Sort of like I just did.) I think the root of this issue is that I’m not as precise as I should be with the logic of my argument. In my editing process, I have to go back through my draft with a more mathematical, less wandering mind, evaluating the exact purpose of each sentence. Then I can cut what is unnecessary and make the whole paper more concise and effective. Main tutoring advice: Write intentionally. Know the structure of your paper, and let the reader see your design. Every paragraph (every word, actually) should be there for a unique reason.

Best class taken at Hillsdale: I think my favorite class so far has been Great Books II with Assistant Professor of English Lorraine Eadie. She picked amazing literature for us to study “Hamlet,” “Great Expectations,” “Housekeeping,” and more, and truly inspired me in the way that she revealed the profound beauty of each work. (That said, I’m currently taking Later Shakespeare from Professor of English Smith, and that class is moving by leaps and bounds to the top of my favorites list. There’s nothing quite like soaking in the majesty of Shakespeare’s tragic soliloquies and then watching Prof. Smith magically unveil fourteen layers of meaning behind the words.) Madeline Fry | Collegian

Personal blunder of paper writing: Once upon a time (ok, maybe last week), Debbie set out on her semesterly quest to capture The Universe, or at least a galaxy, and lead it home on a 15-page leash. Predictably, the universe escaped her clutches, and a rather deflated Debbie sank back to earth with a reinforced respect for the universe, but no paper to show for it. Then one day, (yesterday actually) while walking with eyes on the ground, she happened to notice tiny dewdrops sparkling in the grass. Upon looking closer, what should she discover but that there are galaxies in dewdrops, too! (And dewdrop galaxies are much friendlier to 15-pagers). So Debbie learned for the umpteenth time that smaller is better. The lovely thing about the universe is that it’s fractal: you won’t miss anything by looking closer. Main tutoring advice: Good writing is basically clear thinking on paper. All those fancy stylistic flourishes come later (and only if they actually help you get your point across better).

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Best class taken At Hillsdale: One of my favorites has been Philosophy of Education with Professor of Education Jon Fennel. It’s basically a friendly monster that chews up everything you thought you knew about epistemology and spits it back out. In a good way.

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