11.20.14 Hillsdale Collegian

Michigans oldest college newspaper
Vol. 138 Issue 11 - 20 November 2014
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Jillian Melchior back from Iraq

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
Iraqi area, the people were proAmerican and very welcoming to her. She said many felt
let down by America, and she
agreed.
It morally bothers me that
a commitment was made by
America, and then we abandoned them, she said.
Melchior recounted with
great passion stories of traumatized children who only speak
and draw pictures of the return
of ISIS to their communities,
and men who cannot sleep with-
After being captured, raped,

and beaten by ISIS, 19-year-old
Amshed escaped to Kurdistan
with her 2-year-old son, but
her husband was likely killed
recounted the horrors of her torture and escape to National Review correspondent Jillian Kay
Melchior `09, but when she tried
to speak about the loss of her
husband the love of her life
she broke down and could
not speak.
Its too painful, Amsheds
friend said.
On Monday evening, Melchior shared with Hillsdale students and faculty the personal
stories of Amshed and other
refugees she encountered during
a 10-day reporting trip in September to Kurdistan, in northern
Iraq. By traveling there, Melchior sought to tell the stories of
the individuals affected by ISIS
and the plight of Christian refu-
Jillian Melchior `09 spoke to students on Monday about her

personal experiences as a journalist in Iraq. (Courtesy of
Jillian Melchior)
gees, as opposed to the grandiose political outlook upon which

most coverage of the situation
focuses.
People tend to become statistics, not individuals, Melchior said.
Melchior spoke to the religious persecution Christians and

Yazidi Iraqis face at the hands of
ISIS, and voiced her disappointment in Americas handling of
the situation. She said in Kurdistan, a relatively safe part of the
their heads.
However, she spoke of moments of hope and triumph of
spirit of the Iraqi people as well.
Whenever I travel, I always buy honey for my mom,
because it is supposed to taste
different everywhere you go,
she said. The honey vendor
from America. He said, Say hi
to Obama for me! Thank you for
the airstrikes!
As an accomplished world
traveler with a strong sense of
wanderlust, Melchior has traveled to China and Ukraine, writing about religious persecution
and political situations in both
areas.
Before Melchior transferred
to Hillsdale, she partook in a
media tour through Japan and
Korea for a few weeks. This
whet her appetite for world politics and allowed her to focus on
her passion while at Hillsdale,
where she majored in politics
and edited the Opinions page of
the Collegian.
Her favorite courses at Hillsdale were Professor of Politics Will Morrisseys American
Foreign Policy and Comparative Politics, where she enjoyed
learning about different world
dictators.
Some students go through
college and take assignments as
objects in an obstacle course, to
get over and to get to the next
step. She really came to college
to learn, Morrissey said. For
example, she would read
See Melchior A3
Hillsdale: Is the debt worth it?

Hillsdales student debt is nearly $4,000 below the Michigan average
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
Hillsdale College students should
graduate with more debt than most colleges because Hillsdale is a private institution and therefore more expensive, according to national statistics and dozens
the trend.
The Student Debt Project by The Institude for College Access and Success
released its ninth annual report Nov. 13,
announcing that now in six states, the
average college student graduates with
more than $30,000 in student loan debt.
According to the data, only one state
New Mexico averages less than
$20,000 in student loan debt per graduate, with the national average of student
debt per graduate at $28,400. According
to a 2013 Student Loan Affordability
report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, there are more than 38
million student loan borrowers with over
$1.1 trillion in debt.
Michigan is the state with the eighthhighest average amount of student debt,
reporting $29,583 per graduate. This in-
cludes public and private institutions.

While Hillsdale ranks about $4,000
lower than the state average, among private institutions alone it ranks even lower.
Calvin College and Hope College claim
an average debt of $34,978 and $30,289
respectively, according to the report.
Because private colleges costs of attendance are higher than the costs of
public institutions, students who graduate from private institutions like Hillsdale College are more likely to have
in paying off their debt, negotiating payment plans, and applying for home mortgages.
Director of Financial Aid Rich
Moeggenberg said the average amount of
Student debt per graduate

$30,000
Michigan average
including public
and private
$29,583
National average
including public
and private
$28,400
Hillsdale College
$25,502
$25,000
debt per student in the 2014 graduating

class was $25,502, which is lower than
the average student debt per student of
most private institutions.
Our purpose is to make a Hillsdale education affordable. It is part of
the recruiting process, Moeggenberg
said. Were unique. Were one of three
schools in the country who doesnt accept federal aid. If you look at tuition
costs compared to other private colleges,
were very competitive.
Hillsdale graduate Will Wegert `12
majored in marketing and now runs his
own business, Cold Collar, which assists
job seekers with resume building and job
hunting. Wegert said he believes students
should choose to take out loans only if
they truly believe in the education they
are to receive.
Few people consider how much its
of that is, Wegert said. My biggest concern is that people never seem to think
about the value in it, they just do it because everyone else is doing it. In our
parents generation, if you got a college
degree, you could move forward. In our
generation, it can help, but it also [might]
Husband
of college
employee
dies
Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
A Hillsdale County man and
husband of a Hillsdale College
employee was killed in a singlecar crash yesterday morning on a
road near Hillsdale. Brian Gillette,
67, of Osseo, Michigan, was the
husband of Claudia Gillette, aide
to the athletic director of Hillsdale
College.
Gillette was a retiree of Hillsdale Tool, and is survived by three
children, Megan Pauken, Matt
Gillette, and Michael Gillette, and
one grandchild, Elliot Pauken.
Yesterday was Gillettes birthday.
He was just a very loving
man. He was a wonderful man. We
know hes gone to heaven, Claudia Gillette said last night. We
appreciate everyones prayers. Our
Hillsdale College family means
the world to our family.
Gillette was driving a 2006
Chevy Equinox eastbound on
Reading Road near Foust Road
just after 9 a.m. when he lost control, drove off the road, and struck
a tree, according to a Michigan
State Police press release sent
last night to the Collegian by Lt.
Mardella Horhn. Michigan State
Police troopers were dispatched to
the scene.
Gillette was wearing his seatbelt according to police and pronounced dead at the scene. Yesterday, moderate amounts of snow
fell throughout the area and some
roads were slippery.
Many in the athletic department
grieve the Gillette familys loss.
They are such a part of the
Charger family and our heart hurts
for them, Head Womens Tennis
Coach Nicole Walbright said last
night.
The Hillsdale Rural Fire Department, the Woodbridge Township Fire Department, the Reading
Township Fire Department, and
the Reading Emergency Unit also
responded.
Remind everyone that you
love them so much, Walbright
said. Claudia means so much to
everyone in the athletic department. Were here for her in this
time.
The incident is still under investigation, the state police report
said.
See Debt A3
Bon Apptit partners with

local farmers
ing toward people who appreciate it.

After turning down a position
to work in Iron Chef Masaharu
Morimotos New York restaurant, professional chef Ezra Bertakis and his wife Mary moved
back to his grandparents farm
with hopes for a more country
life.
We wanted a more wholesome life that had meaning and
where we could reach more
people, Mary Bertakis said. It
Macaela Bennett
City News Editor
In six minutes SAB sold 100 tickets for the new Hunger
Games movie. On Tuesday, freshman Dugan Delp set up
a table in the Grewcock Student Union and prepared to
sell students $1 tickets for the movie, playing Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Premiere Theatre in Hillsdale.
We just wanted to offer the students a way to see the
movie for a cheaper price, Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. (Photo Courtesy of Anthony Manno)
To accomplish its goal of

primarily using locally-grown
ingredients, Bon Apptit is partnering with Hillsdale farmers
like Ezra and Mary Bertakis,
owners of Chefs Way Organic
Farms.
Located at 5788 Cole Road,
Chefs Way is a 112-acre farm
15 minutes from campus, and it
will soon provide Bon Apptit
with all-organic ingredients as
part of Bon Apptits Farm to
Fork initiative.
Before choosing to partner
with farms like Chefs Way, Bon
Apptit General Manager Jeffrey Every and Executive Chef
Steve Hickman visit the potential farms and tour the plots of
land from which theyd purchase food. After meeting the
Bertakises and tasting some of
their vegetables, Hickman looks
forward to using their ingredients at Hillsdale.
Chefs Way farmers Jim, Ezra, and Mary Bertakis.

(Macaela Bennett/Collegian)
Hickman said. Thats amazing

that we have this [Chefs Way]
in Hillsdales backyard. Theyre
knowledgeable, passionate, and
excited like us. We know theyre
putting their hearts in the vegetables, and thats the same thing
well do when we cook them.
The Bertakises eagerness to
partner with Bon Apptit matches Hickmans excitement to use

Chefs Way ingredients.
Bon Apptit is pretty picky
with what food they take, and
we want to work with people
who have high standards, Mary
Bertakis said. Its rewarding for
us to know our food will be go-
Yorkers, and Ezra always had a

call to come back to the farm.
Now, we want to set the bar for
how to do professional organic
farming.
Former owners of the farm
land, Ezra Bertakiss grandparents also believed in the importance of natural growing and
never used pesticides or chemicals on the land. The Bertakises
want to use this focus on organic
growing coupled with Ezras
culinary background to grow
top-notch produce for chefs like
See Farmers A6
INSIDE
Bright students abroad
Update on Hillsdales Fulbright
scholars. A3
Heap of history
Piles of historical Hillsdale
Mens basketball shows promise

in season opener against the
University of Michigan. A8
The Misanthrope arrives

The Tower Players opened
their new show Wednesday
and it will run through Saturday. B1
City approves fiber optics

contract
Hillsdale City Council
approved a contract between
BPU and ACD.net Monday. A6
B3
(Courtesy of Scott Galvin)
(Elena Creed/Collegian)
News........................................A1
Opinions..................................A4
City News................................A6
Sports......................................A7
Arts..........................................B1
Features....................................B3
Greek life
Students weigh the pros and
cons of going Greek. A5
Check out articles online at

NEWS
A2 20 Nov. 2014
Students vote in new crop of

Student Fed reps
VITA is
vital
Katie Beemer
Collegian Freelancer
Students volunteer to help low-income

families, gain business experience
Seniors Ryan Richert, Richard Willis, Evan Bach,

and Linsday Kostrzewa volunteer to help low-income
families file taxes through the Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance program. (Breana Noble/Collegian)
Breana Noble
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Carol Drews: Tis the season

to stay healthy
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Hillsdales registered nurse Carol Drews sits in her office awaiting students. (Rachel Solomito/Collegian)
Rachel Solomito
Collegian Reporter
A few good pancakes returns

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Breana Noble
NEWS
A3 20 Nov. 2014
Update on 2014 Fulbright students
Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter
Last year, 2014 alumni Evan
Gage and Emily Goodling were
each awarded one of the most
prestigious honors for undergraduates: The Fulbright scholarship.
Gage graduated from Hillsdale College with a double major in English and history and a
religion minor. After basking in
the beauty of Anatolia during
a monthlong Hillsdale Honors
Program trip the summer before,
he applied for the J. William
Fulbright Student Award and
got it.
Today, Gage lives in Tokat,
Turkey, teaching and designing courses in English language
and literature, and United States

culture as part of his 10-month
teaching assistantship. He teachsitesi, a well-known university
nestled in Anatolias Black Sea
region.
Evan has exactly the right
personality to do well as a Fulbright recipient, Associate
Professor of German and Hillsdales Fulbright adviser Fred Yaniga said. Hillsdale is strong in
providing what Fulbright looks
for: A strong background in the
liberal arts, someone who writes
and speaks very well.
A Fulbright scholarship was
also offered to Goodling, a double major in German and classics. She declined the Fulbright
award and accepted the German
Academic Exchange Service,
an equally-prestigious accolade
that pays for Goodling to get
a two-year graduate degree in
comparative literature from Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt
Mainz and provides funds for
a living stipend, insurance coverage, and travel expenses.
Ive been in Germany for alto believe! Goodling said in an
email. In so many ways it feels
like home I love the culture
and the people and the language.
At the same time, however, there
are dozens of little things that remind me how foreign it all still
is like the fact that I cant buy
proper peanut butter anywhere.
Goodling spent part of the
summer working as an assistant
for Hillsdales summer program
in Wrzburg tutoring Hills-
dale College students, sight-seeing in Germany, chatting about

literature, and drinking wine in
old cafs. For the rest of summer, she worked on a vegetable
farm in Kulmbach, a tiny town
near the border of Bavaria and
the Czech Republic, where she
felt at home cooking three meals
a day for Bavarian farmers.
The past few months, in
rent students will be encouraged

by Gage and Goodlings success
and apply for the scholarship.
Interested second-semester juniors should be in touch with
him during the spring semester
to discuss their applications.
Weve broken the ice. We
had two Fulbright offers last
year, and I think a lot more can
follow, he said. Hillsdale stu-
me realize the excellence of

my Hillsdale education, and of
the German department in particular, she said in an email.
I can honestly say that I know
very few foreign students here at
the university who speak better
German than the students in my
graduating class last year. Thats
something to be proud of.
Yaniga said that he hopes cur-
the best students in the country.

All of our applicants this year
have made very strong proposals and I wont be surprised if
we have one or multiple winners.
This year, six Hillsdale College seniors have applied for the
Fulbright teaching assistantship
uador, Guatemala, Luxembourg,
Forum wins design award

for second time in four years
Bailey Pritchett
Spotlight Editor
After a quick trip to Dallas,
Texas, The Hillsdale Forum
walked away with its second
award for Best Layout and Design in four years.
The Forum is a studentrun opinion magazine funded
by the Collegiate Network, a
long-running program of the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute. At most college campuses,
the CN-funded publication is a
conservative outlet for students
whose voice wont be heard in
the institutional campus paper.
Although at Hillsdale this is less
of a problem, Editor-in-Chief
junior Chris McCaffery sees the
magazine as providing an outlet
that other campus publication
do not.
rum in opposition to other publications, McCaffery said. Its
not creative writing, and its not
the Collegian. The Forum allows students to take what they

learn in class and be the vehicle
for an intellectual conversation to happen in a constructive
way.
The magazine won the same
award in 2012. Collegiate Network rules state that a publication cannot win the same award
in back to back years. McCaffery noted the winning the same
award under different leadership reveals that magazines ongoing improvement, thanks to
the hard work of his staff now
and staffs of past years.
This proves some consistency, he said. Thats one of
the biggest things I wanted to
make a focus was a consistent,
good looking design thats easy
to attain. People were walking
up to us all weekend saying,
This is amazing. Were lucky
because most of the magazines
are designed by their editorial
staff, and weve had a separate
design staff for four years.
Victor Davis
Hansons
daughter dies
Evan Carter
Web Editor
Susannah Suzy Hanson,

daughter of military historian
and Distinguished Visiting Professor of History Victor Davis
Hanson, died last Thursday in
Los Angeles after a brief illness.
She was 27.
She was a wonderful girl,
and the apple of the eye of her
Juniors Meg Prom and Chris McCaffery stand with Intercol- great father, whom she adored,
legiate Studies Institute President Chris Long and Director President Larry Arnn wrote to
the Collegian last night. And
of Leadership Development John Elliott and their second
award in four years for best design from the Collegiate Net- we all grieve with him and pray
for him.
work. (Courtesy of the Collegiate Network)
Susannah Hanson was born
This is Meg Proms second Wes Wright and Chris McCafin Selma, California, on Dec.
year at The Forum, and she is fery, the identity and purpose of
31, 1986. Her father described
now the head designer of the the magazine have become a lot
her life as wonderful though
publication. Even in this small clearer and the process of putoften hectic.
amount of time she has seen the ting everything together has beSuzy was beloved by anycome far more organized, she
one who encountered her infecUnder the leadership of said in an email.
tious laugh and her zeal for life
and adventure, Victor Davis
Hanson said in the obituary he
wrote for his daughter.
Susannah Hanson worked at
the University of Southern California as a research analyst and
biographer. One part of her job
The team placed second in the overall
have a depth and a breadth of knowledge
was to assist with fundraising
sweepstakes debate, which means they
that is well-supported by the liberal arts, as
efforts for USCs graduate opearned the most points of any team present.
well as a way of thinking and a way of arerations, especially their mediThe team has participated in six tournaguing that is inculcated by the liberal arts,
cal school. When not working
ments so far. At their most recent tournaWarner said. For me, the liberal arts and
ment at Bowling Green State University
the kind of education you get at Hillsdale
from Nov. 15-16, the team had members
College and our continual success in impromptu speaking in particular are conthe Open and Novice National Parliamennected.
From A1
tary Debate Association debates.
Debate helps build up your convicDirector of Forensics James Brandon
tions and your beliefs, Ambrose said. Its not help it at all.
said that forensics, or individual events,
also really valuable because it helps develAccording to Wegert, students
consists of 11 different events, including
op your critical thinking skills overall, and need to evaluate why they want
poetry, drama, prose, and others. He said
youre able to really go through and ratio- an education. If students arent
the whole forensics program is very broad.
nally warrant out arguments to an extent responsible about their money
They are different in the way that you
that I dont see anywhere else on campus. and their education, then they
prepare for them and different in the way
Doggett said that, because the teams will regret these decisions later in
you compete, he said.
draw from students of all skills, ages, and life when they have thousands of
The individual events team also attendmajors, it is consistent with the liberal arts. dollars in student loans.
ed the BGSU tournament, their last of the
Everything that you learn here on camIf you fought through all that,
semester.
pus, you use in the debate round, he said. and its still worth it, then do it,
According to Assistant Director of FoYou may not use it every single time, but dont do it because your parrensics Matthew Warner, the team placed
but there is the potential that in any given ents and teachers told you thats
sixth overall out of more than 20 teams,
round that you will have to draw from your what you need to do to be sucbeating schools like Ohio State University
philosophy class, from your biology class, cessful, Wegert said.
and University of Michigan.
from your math class.
Moeggenberg added that
In their tournament at Ball State UniBrandon reinforced this idea.
[taking out loans] is part of afThe ideas and the ways of thinking fording school. Its an investment
ists out of 12 speeches, which is a good
that we learn about here at the college are a Hillsdale education is going to
percentage at a nationally competitive
expressed in competition. To be a debater, pay off in a lot of ways.
tournament.
you have to be able to look at an issue from
Paying for all four years is difIt made me very happy, to show that
all sides, he said. My philosophy for the
we were right there with anybody in the
encourage them to take out more
nation, Warner said.
they have to be learning something, and and more loans. But MoeggenWarner said that among the 11 indisecond they have to be having fun. And if berg believes students should not
vidual events, the team is strongest in imwe bring back little shiny trophies, thats be taking out large loans to pay
promptu speaking.
nice, but its not why we exist.
for school, even for a Hillsdale
In impromptu speaking you need to
education.
Fall tourneys wrap up for debate and

individual events
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor
If competitive speaking is the umbrella

that covers debate, individual events, and
mock trial, the Hillsdale College Debate
and IE teams are certainly not caught in
the rain this fall.
The teams have seen great success in
their various tournaments since the beginning of the semester.
Junior Kevin Ambrose, team manager
for the debate team, explained the two
types of debate that the team practices: the
one-on-one person format.
They debate a yearlong topic regarding some kind of policy that the United
States fed government should implement,
Ambrose said.
The second is two-on-two parliamentary debates, which discuss either fact,
policy, or values.
Western Kentucky University from Sept.
19-21 yielded positive results.
Two of our freshman broke, and one of
our parli teams also broke, which is really
Ambrose said.
Assistant Professor of Speech and coach
of the team Matthew Doggett explained
that to break means that members enter
the play-offs or the outround of the
tournament if they are good enough.
Melchior
From A1
Aristotles Politics not as
something she needed to pass a
test, or just as a book thats an
interesting antiquarian text. She
was reading these books assuming that they might have something to teach her that could help
her understand the world now.
After college, Melchior

worked for The Wall Street
Journal Asia, where she traveled to Hong Kong. After that,
she wrote for Commentary New
York and The Daily, the iPad
publication of News Corps.
She loves learning about new
cultures and places as she goes
along, saying it keeps her on her
toes.
In China, I had to learn
Debt
enough of the language to get

by, and be creative with communication because of my limited
vocabulary, she said. I would
research something politically
controversial. It required me to
stay very sharp. The people there
were wonderful and I still stay in
touch with many of them.
Melchiors travels to dangerous locations have caused concern from her family members.
Her father accompanied Melchior, the oldest of 10 children,

from Wyoming to Ukraine.
her skills and knows that shes
safe. We didnt tell my grandma
about her trip [to Iraq] until afterwards, because it would stress
her out too much, Melchiors
brother Matt, a Hillsdale senior,
said. [My sister] doesnt get
nervous in those situations, but
Spain, and Turkey.

Caroline Green, a senior candidate who hopes to teach English in Spain, said that she thinks
Hillsdale College students
should apply for the Fulbright
scholarship even if they dont
feel they have a good possibility
of being accepted.
Youre always going to have
the chance to visit a foreign
country but the cool part about
the Fulbright program is that it
allows you to be really involved
in a country, she said. Fulbright integrates you into the
culture. You have an opportunity
to help train up a future generation of citizens and have a hand
in what that country will look
like in the future.
I probably would be. She has

lived in a bad area of Detroit for
an internship, and lived in West
Harlem for a year. She does anything.
While in Iraq, Jillian Melchior posted constantly on Instagram, and emailed or Facebook
messaged her family members
often to let them know she was
safe, Matt Melchior said.
Despite having witnessed ter-
at USC, she also helped her dad

run his historical tours in Europe.
Victor Davis Hanson, who is
a fellow at the Hoover Institute
and frequently writes for National Review and other publications, teaches a three-week
seminar class at Hillsdale College every fall semester.
Victor Davis Hanson made
me realize the gravity and the
dignity of human life and I cant
imagine the pain that hed be
experiencing right now with the
passing of his daughter, said
senior Rebecca Robison, who
also took Victor Davis Hansons
class in September.
Senior Kate Bock took Victor Davis Hansons class this semester as well.
In my short time as a student of Dr. Hanson, I found him
to be a man of great character
and intellect, she said in an
email. I truly enjoyed getting
to know him as a professor and
my thoughts are with him and
his family during this incredibly
Remembrances may be sent
to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at 340 W. Fallbrook
Ave., Suite 101, Fresno, CA
93711.
Theres a lot of counseling

that happens for students taking
out loans. We dont want students taking out $50,000-$60,000
loans, Moeggenberg said.
Students who prove they are
invested in their education and
want to better the Hillsdale comble for all kinds of scholarships,
Moeggenberg said.
Dr. Arnn likes to say we like
to have students to help run the
place, Moeggenberg said. We
try to reduce loan debt by looking
for scholarship opportunities. If
you look at other schools, we do
very well in that arena.
While Hillsdales cost of attendance and average debt per
student is much lower than the
state and national averages, the
costs are still high and students
liberal arts education affordable.
But when students believe in the
work they are doing at Hillsdale
and act responsibly, their education may be well worth it.
We have students who are serious about getting a degree, and
the fruits of that will show in the
workforce, Moeggenberg said.
ribly unstable parts of the world,
that Iraq was the most depressing place she has traveled.
No one felt good about their
future, she said. No one felt
like they were on the winning
side.
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March of the
PC penguins
Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter
There are no boys and girls in the Lincoln, Nebraska
public school system only campers and purple
penguins and dogs, greeted by All Genders Welcome
door hangers when entering the classroom.
Administrators at Lincoln Public Schools, the states
second-largest school district, have recommended teachers
use these phrases when referring to any of its more than
39,000 students to avoid creating a gendered space.
This incident is the latest example of modern liberalisms war on gender with all the confusion and nonsense
that war entails.
Dont use phrases such as boys and girls, you guys,
ladies and gentlemen, and similarly gendered expressions to get kids attention, a training pamphlet distributed
to LPS middle-school teachers recommends. Point out
and inquire when you hear others referencing gender in a
binary manner provide counter narratives that challenge
students to think more expansively about their notions of
gender.
The instructions come from an initiative titled 12 steps
on the way to gender inclusiveness produced by Gender Spectrum, an organization that provides education,
training and support to help create a gender sensitive and
inclusive environment for children of all ages, according
to its website.
In addition, National Review Online reports that teachers received a handout from the Center for Gender Sanity
which describes how gender identity cant be observed
or measured, only reported by the individual, and an
infographic labeled The Genderbred Person from www.
ItsPronouncedMetroSexual.com.
Parents want their kids to learn in school mathematics, reading, history, etc. and to enjoy more opportunities
and better lives from education. Most parents in Lincoln,
Nebraska know better than to try to have deep conversations with their elementary-aged children about sex or to
dont want their children to investigate their sexuality, then
why should school administrators and teachers?
Some media pundits have rightly noted that taxpayer-
Sorority girls armed with

Sharpie markers swarming
Sigma Chis all over campus is
obnoxious. When these girls
haul bags full of coins into the
union and march up to a table to
dump them all in, its natural to
roll your eyes. Sigma Chi Derby
Days, which occurred at the end
of October, and other Greek
philanthropy events, draw
criticism for seeming silly and
self-involved.
In reality, the events are fun
for those involved, and most
important, raise a lot of money
Jacob Thackston
Special to the Collegian
Its beautiful. Its fun. And it gets such a
dang bad rap around here.
Its snow.
Now before you Floridians and Texans
and Californians come after me with pitchforks or (perhaps more likely) break down
crying, give me a moment. Yes, its cold.
Yes, its going to take over our Hillsdale
lives for several months. Yes, its going to be
a pain at times. All facts; I have neither basis
nor intent to deny them.
But those are realities whether we like
them or not, and frankly, it does us no good
to complain. For us northerners (Im from
eastern Washington), snow has been the de-
In terms of snow experience, we have

the whole spectrum here. There are those
who love and who hate snow. In case its not
already clear: I love snow. But I totally get it
if you dont. Ive lived with it long enough
to know the bad as well as the good. Not to
be melodramatic, but we all have a choice to
make: We can love the snow, hate the snow,
or simply live indifferently to it.
I think you should love it, but if you
arent going to love it, then at least be indifferent to it. Snow can be a blast. It can easily
be turned into one of the most effective noncasualty-inducing projectile weapons ever
Jonah Goldberg
Syndicated Columnist
should be bold and say so, even if it means enduring

petty insults. Being called bad names by people like Joel
shouldnt deter someone from standing up for truth or
children. If not, that dog and the rest of the purple penguin
administrators in the Nebraska public school system will
continue marching toward an education more concerned
with left-wing gender politics than helping children learn.
Jordan Finney is a junior studying politics.
The European Space

Agencys Rosetta project accomplished one of the most
our lifetime. They essentially
moved a clunky machine from
one speeding bullet onto another,
by remote control, from 310
million miles away. Its hoped
this achievement will help usher
in a new era of space exploration
by teaching us how to exploit the
raw materials swirling around
the solar system. Also, it was
really cool.
But it wasnt cool enough
for some feminists who found
the shirt worn by Matt Taylor,
Rosetta project scientist, to be
a bigger deal. Taylors shirt,
McClatchey
by society. The task of Joel and others is to destroy the old

moral framework of America by initiating one child at a
time into the new Rawlsian regime.
Public school systems shouldnt push their genderneutral political agendas on children, few of whom have
gender identity issues when they begin school. Nonetheless, LPS crusades for LGBT rights, distributing gender
literature to elementary and middle schools and launching
a propaganda campaign that exploits children as mere test
subjects for social engineering.
Jonah Goldberg
Syndicated Columnist
Arts Education
himself, especially economically and sexually. The results:

Liberation from sexual norms and traditional family roles,
and a break from older notions that freedom demands
moral restraint and that some loves are forbidden.
so too do the Greek houses

contribute to the philanthropic
efforts of our student body. It is
a good thing when those in need
are helped through upstanding
organizations. If people want
to spend hundreds of dollars
to purchase the handiwork of a
Sigma Chi, or pay to paintball
a DSP, so be it. Let them. Good
for these groups for using innovation and incentives to raise
money for a good cause.
Snow can be a blast.

It can easily be turned
into one of the most
effective non-casualtyinducing projectile
weapons ever thought
up by the human race.
ful. Theres a sense of wonder in snow.

Without going full-out clich (though I have
are alike. But next time youre out while its
snowing, take a moment and catch a few
before they melt. And weep at the beauty.
And wonder.
The ice, too, is a pain. There will be
plenty of complaining that the administration could do a better job maintaining the
sidewalks and walkways, and people have
been hurt in the past. So certainly be careful.

second, drag the mood of those around you
down. So if you have a constructive idea,
go for it, but complaining wont do you or
your friends any good. Shameless plug alert:
Turn that complaining into action. Go out
and help people who dont have any way to
clear the snow themselves i.e., join A Few
Good Mens snow removal team. Honestly,
we have it good on campus.
We have a team of professionals dedicated to keeping campus accessible; we have to
do none of that work ourselves, even though
as young men and women were among the
thing. But there are people in the broader
Hillsdale community who will literally be
unable to leave their homes without someone
coming in and helping them out. If youre
not a fan of the snow even as little of an
inconvenience as it normally is on campus
imagine being actually trapped by it. Action is the truest sign that something genuine
underpins a complaint.
Look, Im not asking you to love snow.
But its coming in fact, its already here.
So bundle up, trudge (carefully) onward, and
along the way, craft a snowman, or launch
a snowball, or help your community. Enjoy
the snow for all that it has to offer, and offer
what you have in the face of the snow.
Jacob Thackston is a GW Fellow studying
philosophy.
Feminists freak out over a shirt
by Forester
And this agenda owes much to John Rawls A Theory

of Justice, which asserts every individual has equality of
primary goods, including material resources and self-
thought up by the human race. It can be built

into forts worth sleeping in (or hiding in, for
the perfect chance to launch one of those
projectiles). Its that which makes Thatcherball and Lantzball possible.
-
possibly, nearly a third of our lives. Yet for

some of my friends here, last year was the
The Uses of A Liberal
worldview. Through this lens, children identifying either as

boys or girls and not vaguely neutral beings is a repressive
mindset that society must asphyxiate and replace.
The general public often exonerates modern liberalism because its representatives claim to be apolitical. LPS
superintendent Steve Joel, for example, recently told told
KLIN Radios Drive Time Lincoln that We dont get
involved with politics. We dont get involved with gender
preference. Were educating all kids and we cant be
judgmental.
Somehow Joel stands on a platform of impartiality,
expertly declaring hes an arbiter of fairness. Meanwhile,
he brands dissenters as judgmental ideologues. Its an old
albeit effective tactic: Earnestly pretend to transcend poli-
and who they would help.

This is just one example of
Greek philanthropy initiatives.
Last week was Dobby Days by
Alpha Tau Omega, to support
the Salvation Army, and tomorrow, Delta Sigma Phi will host
a paintball fundraiser on behalf
of the family of a DSP brother
hit and killed by a drunk driver
in California. The sororities host
events for Make-A-Wish, local
literacy programs, and St. Peters Free Clinic, among others.
Like GOAL programs and
other clubs charitable efforts,
Dont hate on the snow
not circulate controversial documents that distract from

actual learning. But that neglects the deeper problem: LPS
person, now a gender-neutral entity unable to discern uni-
for worthy charities. This year,

the efforts of Sigma Chi, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, and
Pi Beta Phi raised $4400 for
Save the Storks, an innovative
charity that provides medical
services like ultrasounds for
pregnant women to prevent
abortions and offer alternative plans. They operate out of
buses so that they can travel to
where the need is. A speaker
from the organization came and
presented to the sororities and
fraternity, to share with them
where their donations would go
designed by a female friend,

depicts a bunch of attractive,
scantily clad women drawn
from comic books holding guns.
(Slates Amanda Marcotte oddly
described their stances as pornographic poses.)
Rose Eveleth, a science
writer, tweeted in response to a
televised interview with Taylor:
No no women are toooootally
welcome in our community, just
ask the dude in this shirt.
A meteor shower of
hashtagged rage rained down on
both sides of the Atlantic. Shirtstorm! Shirtgate! and similar
bullshirt.
What should have been the
best week of Taylors professional life ended with him weeping on TV as he apologized for
his alleged crime.
Many of my friends and colleagues on the anti-PC right have
responded with understandable
outrage. And its true: Taylors
confession of wrongdoing did
feel forced awfully North
Korean.
Still, the feminists have a
point. Although I like the shirt
(which is now selling like
hotcakes), I would never wear
it to a nice restaurant, never
mind on a globally broadcast TV
interview. The reason I wouldnt
wear it has very little to do with
my fear of offending feminists.
Its simply unsuitable professional attire. Id ask critics of the
feminist backlash, would you
wear it on a job interview? How
about to church or synagogue?

Where feminists seem
remarkably self-absorbed is
in their assumption that only
their sensibilities matter. It is
hardly as if feminist-friendly
career women in STEM professions (science, technology,
engineering and math) are the
only people who might reasonably dislike the shirt. But heres
astrophysicist Katie Mack tweeting: I dont care what scientists wear. But a shirt featuring
women in lingerie isnt appropriate for a broadcast if you care
about women in STEM.
OK, maybe. But why are
feminist motives so special?
What if youre a devout Christian, Muslim or Jew working
in the humanities? What if you
like cartoonishly sexy ladies, but
you hate guns? What if youre
simply the kind of person who
thinks male professionals should
wear a jacket and tie on TV?
In short, feminists want a monopoly on when everyone must
be outraged or offended. A few
weeks ago, feminist idiots rolled
out a video of little girls dressed
as princesses, cursing like foulmouthed comedian Andrew Dice
Clay. Unlike Taylor, they set out
to offend. But that was in support of feminism, so it was OK.
(Id like to see the parents of
those kids tearfully apologizing
for exploiting their kids as cheap
propaganda props.)
We live in an age of diversity,
and race, but by lifestyles and

values. Thats mostly a good
thing mostly.
Like all other good things in
life, diversity comes at a cost.
And a big part of the tab is a lost
consensus about what constitutes
good manners and propriety.
So instead of knowing how to
behave, we spend vast amounts
of our time worrying and arguing about it, with combatants on
every side insisting its Live
and let live for me but Shut
up! How dare you! for thee.
In this age of unprecedented
cultural liberty, weve lost sight
of the fact that common standards of decency and decorum
can be liberating. They inconvenience everyone a little
but they also free us from
worrying about who we might
offend or why. School uniforms,
remember, constrain the wealthy
ones.
For millennia, good manners
were understood as the means
by which strangers showed each
other respect. Now, too many
people demand respect but have
lost the ability, or desire, to show
it in return.
Jonah Goldberg is a fellow
at the American Enterprise
Institute and a senior editor of
National Review. You can write
to him in care of this newspaper
or by e-mail at goldbergcolumn@gmail.com, or via Twitter
@JonahNRO
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The War on Men
Zoe Harness
Zoe Harness is a freshman planning to study business.
DSP IS BACK
Greek life: Promise and peril

John Taylor
Matteo Moran
per se
John Taylor is a senior studying history and philosophy.
Matteo Moran is a senior studying history.
Going Greek: Reject the misconceptions

Dont accept the Greek myths, especially at Hillsdale College
Sarah Chavey
Sarah Chavey is a sophomore

studying music.
Respect the Independents

Greek or Independent: Its someone elses choice, not yours
Carly Howell
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Carly Howell is a sophomore studying English and planning to study journalism.
CITY NEWS
City Council approves
fiber optics contract
Phil DeVoe
Circulation Manager
Hillsdale City Council ratiBoard of Public Utilities and
ACD.net Monday that will peroptic cable pairs in the city of
Hillsdale.
Michigan, and one of only a few
in the nation.
Mayor Scott Sessions told
more than 20 residents and city
ing that he was proud of the
citys progress.
This project will be vital to
the public growth of the city,
Sessions said. Everyone has
the same goal; everything is
Kevin Meeker, project coordinator at ACD.net, spoke
highly of the projects capability
to transfer Internet throughout
the city. According to Meeker,
the project is the next step in advancing Internet, and the speed
nology is worth only $50 to $80.
this size to happen in Michigan,
and I love being on the cutting
edge of technology, Meeker
said.
Founded in 1986, ACD.net
has consistently been on the
cutting edge of technology. The
Lansing-based Internet service
Voice Over Internet Protocol, a
system which uses the Internet
to transmit spoken word. The
service providers contract with
BPU creates a partnership between the two entities that will
lower costs and speed up conIm excited to begin working on this project, especially
since the BPU has agreed to
subsidize part of our costs it
makes it affordable for us and
the people were trying to help,
Meeker said.
ACD.net, which is in charge
of the construction and distribution of the cables, will use its
portion of the cables to bring
high speed Internet to Hillsdale
residents. BPU, which is making the Internet affordable for
residents, is using its portion of
the cables to improve the functionality of its electronic systems to improve communication
and practicality.
Its important to have reliable electronics, and Im very
excited about adding reliability into the electronic systems,
acting City Manager Doug Terry
said.
Each cable is one-third the
diameter of a human hair, and
12 will be grouped together in
12 separate tubes, each of which
measures half a centimeter in diameter. The tubes will be strung
along telephone wires and underground in accordance with a
service map provided by BPU.
BPU will use four of the 12
tubes for its electronic machinery; ACD.net will use the remaining eight for the high-speed
Internet for residents. According
directly into customers homes.
This concept originally
started with improving the interconnection and communication
of electrical equipment in the
city, Terry said. There is also a
our citizens with Internet.
ACD.net will send representatives around the community
to solicit customers for the new
ability and speed should attract
customers, Meeker said.
Volume 1 changes name, mission

Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
Volume 1 Books is no longer

just a bookstore.
The shop at 98 N. Broad St. in
downtown Hillsdale is now The
Book, Art & Spiritual Center
of Hillsdale, or BASCH. By
expanding beyond books to provide creative opportunities for
community and diverse sources
of information, the business
will enable individuals to bemaintaining better relationships
in their families, organizations,
and social groups, according to
BASCHs mission statement.
Were just letting it snowball into whatever it becomes,
employee Deb Connors said.
in that were reaching out in all
directions and trying to respond
to everything and meet a lot of
different needs.
Owner Richard Wunsch legally formalized the name in
June and began hosting activities each Wednesday evening in
November as part of its broadened purpose.
Were going to end up evensaid, describing BASCH. We
Secondhand shop Marilyns Off

Monroe is the ultimate therapy
Owner plans to re-locate, looking for someone to continue stores mission
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
Marilyn Gary, owner of
downtown Hillsdale womens
resale clothing boutique Marilyns Off Monroe, worked in
mental counseling for almost
30 years, but realized this store
was the ultimate therapy after
opening her shop in December
2013.
Women come in here and
they just leave happy, Gary
A6 20 Nov. 2014
because obviously we have lots

of them, but its really different
ways of people gathering whatever information they want and
using it, putting it to use not
just having it on the shelf.
With this new focus on making art, information, and community more accessible to the
Hillsdale area, the skys the
limit with regard to the kind
of activities BASCH can do, according to Connors.
Although its technically a
business, we dont know what
it is yet, Wunsch said with a
laugh. Its name will help it
develop and the people that
BASCH employee Deb Connors takes down the Volume 1 Books sign
and replaces it with the stores new name: Book, Art & Spiritual Center
of Hillsdale. (Photo courtesy of BASCH owner Richard Wunsch)
what we end up with.

With its weekly Any
Wednesday series, BASCH
plans to try to do something
spiritual, crafty, and completely
different every month. Although
Volume 1 Books sporadically
hosted similar events in the past,
BASCH made them established
parts of the stores schedule.
This week, BASCH hosted a dramatic presentation of
Outwitting the Devil, a book
by Napoleon Hill. Upcoming events will likely include a
gratitude workshop on Nov. 26,
a jewelry-making class on Dec.
10, and yoga class on Dec. 17.
Both Connors and Wunsch
intend for BASCH to be an organic community. One of the
Any Wednesday activities
planned for January is a brainstorming session where members of the community will be
invited to give input and suggestions for BASCH activities.
Beyond simply providing
additional opportunities for ar-
tistic endeavors and information, BASCH intends to provide

community and a means for empowering individuals.
If you change your own life,
then things around you change,
Connors added. I think that
part of what I would like to see
BASCH do, is help other people
learn how to be happy.
Wunsch calls himself and
Connors activists.
If you can divest the word of
its political implications, were
activists in the social sense, he
said. But I would not want to
see BASCH characterized too
heavily as a place where were
helping anybody because were
all just operating together, helping each other.
People feel love here, Connors said, and despite alterations
in name and focus, the stores
intangible feeling of family
and community is something
Wunsch and Connors agree will
never change.
good, you feel good. Thats just

can look good and youll walk
out and youll feel good.
The boutique, located at 34 E.
Bacon St., features an old Hollywood glam theme and is open
store with both her own buying
and buy-outs from customers.
By accepting only unique and
uncommon items Gary ensures
her business is distinctly not
just another thrift store. She
says she displays her counseling
license on the wall, and believes
it comforts people to know she
is a therapist.
Were retail therapy, employee Dena Snoes said. We
need to keep this store here and
open for the community.
Its a very social arena just
for women to get out, Gary
added. They come in groups,
and they come with their sister
or their mom. Its just fun and
gether, and they get objective
opinions from us.
Despite opening at the beginning of last years harsh winter,
Marilyns Off Monroe found
great success in the Hillsdale
community.
The women in the community need this store, Gary said.
It has been so well-received.
We dont have any other womens resale. They dont have
anything else like this where
Marilyns Off Monroe owner Marilyn Gary stands at the front of her
store located on 34 E. Bacon St. (Laura Williamson/Collegian)
they can come in and afford to

cessories and shoes. They may
not have anywhere to wear it in
where.
Gary is relocating an hour
and 20 minutes away to be
closer to her children but realizes its essential for Marilyns
Off Monroe to remain open. She
listed the store with Century 21
and is looking for a possible
perfect customer she will continue to operate the store herself
from a distance, coming in two
days a week and letting employee Dena Snoes run the store the
other three.
I dont have to sell it, Gary
said about her search for the perIm making and Im going to be
picky about it just like rescue
animals, you want to make sure
theyre in the right home.
She believes a group or organization, such as a church or
community action center, could
take over the store together and
make it a fundraising effort.
What Im hoping will happen is a group of women take

it over as a co-op, because it
would be so amazing, she said.
For example, the women commissioners at the college that
have their sale once a year
they could take this store over
and make money all year long.
According to Gary, customers continually tell her they want
the store to stay and dont want
it to change, and Gary couldnt
agree with them more.
I created this thing and Im
not going to hand it over to anyone, she said. Its part of me.
It would have to be the right
one.
Whether Gary continues running the store herself or ends up
certain that Marilyns Off Monroe will remain in Hillsdale
just the way it is.
Freshly picked organic beats, carrots, and lettuce from Chefs Way, a Hillsdale farm that Bon Apptit
plans to partner with for its Farm to Fork initiative. (Macaela Bennett/Collegian)
Farmers
From A1
those at Bon Apptit.

After sampling a variety of
the vegetables, Every and Hickman said they were impressed at
how good they looked and how
freshly-pulled they tasted.
The vegetables were so vivid
said. They were just pulled out
wake up your taste buds.
Every said the quality of
product Chefs Way produces
aligns well with Bon Apptits
mission. In contrast to most
Bon Apptit Executive Chef Steve Hickman (left) inspects vegetables
large-scale food providers, Bon
grown by Chefs Way farmer Ezra Bertakis (right).
Apptit makes everything from
(Macaela Bennett/Collegian)
scratch, a standard Hickman attests is rarely found in the food
service business.
To serve 2,500 people that
way is pretty slick, he said.
cent boxes.
Emporium is open Tuesday and And Bon Apptit wouldnt even
I like its selection. The Thursday from 1 to 8 p.m., 1 to allow you to buy anything preowners are a lot more relaxed, 10 p.m. on Friday, and 12 to 8 made.
Hickman added Bon Apptits
Farison said, comparing Battle p.m. on weekends.
high expectations for food qualGrounds to his hometown stores.
ity encompass the entire process
The Battle Grounds Gaming
from when its planted to when
its served.
When food comes in on the
truck, I teach a culture of how
to respect food, Hickman said.
To mass-produce that type of
food from scratch is unheard of
in this business, and thats why
Bon Apptit stands out.
Although Chefs Way has
plans to partner with several
other major food purchasers, the
Bertakises are excited that their
food will be served locally, too.
cal business to work with, Bertakis said. We want to feed the
mind and body, and Bon Apptit
does that at the college.
Gaming emporium sells trading cards, hosts tournaments

Joe Pappalardo
On a Saturday afternoon in
Hillsdale, $1 can buy 100 cards
at Battle Grounds Gaming Emporium. In a world where high
video game prices are turning
kids to cheaper forms of entertainment, the Battle Grounds,
located at 14 S. Howell St., hosts
one of the most popular alternatives card game Magic: the
Gathering.
We specialize in tabletop oriented games and entertainment.
We host a variety of tournaments
for the game Magic: The Gathering, the stores webpage reads.
Battle Grounds opened four
years ago, but was bought last
spring by owners Harley Lundahl and Matt Schmidt.
The store marks individual
cards down to a penny on Saturdays, offering new players the
opportunity to start a new hobby
for less than a dollar. The trading card game is the only product
worth selling, Lundahl said.
Lundahl began playing the
game when it was released by
Wizards of the Coast in 1993.
kind, setting the standard for
Pokemon.
started youd be lucky to see 50
to 60 people playing, Lundahl
said. [Now] Magic is peaking.
This year a Magic: The Gathering tournament in Las Vegas
capped at 5,000 people, and online versions of the game were
released for PC and Xbox. The
games popularity pulls people
from the surrounding states into
Hillsdale each time a new set of
cards is released. The next major
release date is Jan. 23.
Magic isnt the only game
the store hosts, however, Lunthe Warhammer 40,000 and
Heroscape games, which rely
heavily on expensive model soldiers and creatures. He has considered adding video games to
the stores catalog, but the cost
Besides selling cards and accessories, the Gaming Emporium

also hosts weekly tournaments
every Friday night, stores across
the country host tournaments
sanctioned by Magic the Gathering. Prize money and cards are
up for grabs, along with the opportunity to meet other players.
On Tuesdays, a league,
formed by older players, meets
for a few games. Some of these
competitions require buy-in fees
ranging from $3 to $10, with
cards offered as prizes to the top
players.
College students, including
freshmen Gregory Farison, Dean
Sinclair, and Collin Saunders,
visit the store to purchase cards.
Sinclair and Saunders bought
their 60-card decks and boxes
for about 15 dollars, using the Players begin a game at Hillsdales Battle Grounds Gaming Empostores piles of cards in the 10- rium. (Laura Williamson/Collegian)
Womens basketball heats up the UP

Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter
positions that we can go to.
Last weekend the womens

basketball team braved the 10hour drive and foot of snow to
start their season with two wins
in the Upper Peninsula.
The Chargers defeated Illiday and McKendree University
were played at Lake Superior
State Universitys Bud Cooper
Gymnasium.
On Friday, the Chargers
gained a large lead early in the
game allowing head coach Claudette Charney to award playing
time to every player. No player
points from the bench.
Being able to have that depth
is going to be really awesome,
senior Brooke Borowski said. If
there is any time that we get into
foul trouble were not going to be
in a tough situation because there
will be multiple girls in multiple
SPORTS
A7 20 Nov. 2014
senior Megan Fogt led the team,

scoring 18 points and grabbing
seven rebounds. Freshman Allie
Dittmer starred in her collegiate
debut scoring eight points in a
14 points and seven rebounds.
Borowski said that Dittmer
and Fogt will be a dangerous duo
for the team this year as strong
post players.
Allies going to take attention off of Megan, Borowski
said. Teams wont be able to put
all of the pressure on one post
player, theyll have to work on
both.
Five players, including Dittmer and Fogt, scored in doubledigits, helping the Chargers score
the most points in a regulation
Saturdays win came in a
tighter contest against McKendree University, a team that defeated the Chargers last season.
Borowski said the Bearcats play
is similar to the level of play the

Chargers will face in the GLIAC.
Theyre a more athletic team
so it was nice to be in a closer
game to really test our skills as
a team to make us really take
our time and not get rushed with
pressure, Borowski said. It
was great to have that early on in
the season.
Playing time in this game
was spread over fewer players. Still, thirteen players hit the
court and eight different players
scored, including Borowski with
nine points and junior Kayla
Geffert with six. Dittmer came
off the bench to put up twelve
points in her second double-digit
game.
Fogt had her second doubledouble game, leading her team
13 rebounds. In the second half
of the game, Fogt scored her
1,000th career point, making
her the 14th player in Charger
womens basketball history to do
end led her to be selected as the
GLIAC North Division Player of

the Week on Monday.
Despite her successes, Fogt
prefers to shine the spotlight on
her team rather than herself.
Hitting my 1,000 this weekend was really cool, but it was so
said. Our entire team played really well and we had contribution
from a ton of players.
Before the Chargers enter
GLIAC play, they will match up
against Eastern Michigan University on the road next Tuesday.
Ashlyn Landherr said she is
ready for the team to be tested
against tougher competition.
Were all really excited about
how good were going to be this
year and that we have a lot of potential, Landherr said. Eastern
is going to be a good test for us
to see how we match up against a
more athletic and better Division
I team.
BOX SCORES
Football
Hillsdale: 13
Mens Basketball
Scoring Plays
Game Leaders
Points:
Mike Carter 4 yd pass from
Rebounds:
Weekly Leaders
Rushing:
Bennett Lewis 14-35
Passing:
Receiving:
Evan Bach 4-57
Joe Srebernak 4-45
Carter 3-30
Tackles:
Austin Koneval 5-5
D. Galginaitis 3-4
Season Statistics
Assists:
Womens Basketball
Hillsdale: 71
Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Rebounds Per Game:
Assists Per Game:
CHARGER SWIM TEAM TRIUMPHS AT HOME MEET Chargers

Kat Torres
Collegian Reporter
Cruickshank, another senior

short distance swimmer, clinched
The Chargers were also one,

two and three in the 400 IM, with
The Hillsdale College womens swim team won yet another

tri-meet this past Friday.
Hosted at the Jack McAvoy
Natatorium, the Chargers de-
breaststroke, along with junior

Sarah Rinaldi who got the win
Theresa Smith and Peyton Bowen not far behind.

Although Hillsdale does not
have any divers to contribute to
its score, they were fast enough
in the pool to claim the victory
University.
audience for the exciting meet,
which was also a night to honor
the teams seniors- Rachel Kurtz,
Ali Bauer, Cayley Cruickshank,
and Jordan Rucinski. Each had
an impressive evening, starting
off with Kurtzs win in the 100
free with a time of 53.41. Kurtz
-
isher.
In the meet we started off
with some great momentum with
some fast times but slowed toward the end of the meet. The
girls are tired as we have had
meets consecutively for a few
weeks now, collectively, they
did a good job, head coach Kurt
Kirner said.
valuable points to the Chargers

total score. Bauer also swam the
100 breaststroke, placing fourth.
The versatile Rucinski swam
in a number of events, swimming to second place in the 50
500 free with a time of 5:34.38.
Rucinski was also a large conJunior distance swimmer Zoe
Hopkins competed for the win in
seconds ahead of second place.
The enthusiasm from the stands
helped keep her motivated the
entire way through, she said.
My favorite part was how
many people we had in the
stands. There was a good turnout
for the senior ceremony and for
the races. It was really motivating and exciting to have so much
support, Hopkins said.
placeable-a big part of our success the past four years, he said.
I couldnt ask for more from a
group of student athletes great
both in the classroom and in the
pool.
The womens swim team will
travel to the University of Chicago to compete over the weekend.
Hillsdales seniors a memorable

night.
tersweet. The last real home meet
gave me a lot of perspective on
my swimming career. Ive been
swimming competitively yearround since I was eight and come
February Ill be done. Forever,
Bauer said. Its sad because another year always brought more
opportunities to achieve goals
and soon I will be done swimished. Thanks to all the things
swimming has taught me, when
this door closes, so many more
will open.
Kirner also had a few sentimental remarks about this years Freshman Peyton Bowen swims the backstroke leg of the
400 IM at the home meet on Friday. (Anders Kiledal/Colletalented graduating class.
Our four seniors are irre- gian)
McIntyre wins GLIAC freshman of the year

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
Hannah McIntyre may not
but her speed still won her GLIAC Freshman of the Year.
placed 7th overall out of 138 rac-
the Great Lakes Intercollegiate

Athletic Conference Championship.
I try not to overthink it. I just
try to go out and run and trust
try to block it out, because its
really painful, McIntyre said.
She didnt realize how well she
Freshman Hannah McIntyre approaches the finish line at

the GLIAC Conference Championships. (Anders Kiledal/Col-
had run until a coach came over

to tell her.
Shes probably one of the
most pure distance runners on
the team, senior captain Amy
Kerst said.
McIntyre began running in
sixth grade. She had a choice
between sprinting and long distance, and the sprinting sign-up
list was too long, so she chose
cross-country. She excelled in
high school, and her experience
has helped her in transitioning to
a higher level of competition.
Shes had more experience
in a lot of ways with different
kinds of races. All of the freshman are surprised by what they
are able to do, but Hannah seems
like shes making more jumps,
like shes even more surprised
with the progress shes made,
Kerst said.
Though McIntyre said the
transition has been overwhelming, she loved having a team to
welcome her right away.
With all the changes, not just
athletically but also academically and socially, all the decisions and other stressors in their
life, I want to really simplify the
running part, so the whole world
isnt constantly changing,
Hillsdales cross-country head
coach Joseph Lynn said.
The consistency in training

combined with McIntyres outstanding work ethic have led her
to success.
Her work ethic, like a lot of
the girls, is excellent. I see her
in the training room a lot, which
is key in staying healthy. If she
does have a problem she goes
straight to the trainer, senior
captain Chelsea Kilgore said.
cess in cross country, McIntyre
has also found a group of girls
whom she feels at home with.
When asked for a favorite memory with the team, McIntyre said
every day.
We always call her the sassy
one on the team. She has a certain edge to her thats funny and
fun. It kind of goes along with
her running. She doesnt back
down from anything, and she
speaks her mind, Lynn said. He,
Kilgore, and Kerst all smiled as
they described McIntyre.
Hannah is overwhelmingly
positivean infectious positivity, Kilgore said. Her positivity
stems partially from an active attempt. Especially during races,
positive sometimes. During GLIACs, she made the extra effort to
remain positive and simply run.
Her spirit has captured the
team, and they can already tell

her future will be successful with
them.
sonality that shes not afraid to
speak up or speak her mind and
encourage or say positive things
to someone when they need it,
Lynn said.
Kerst said she may take time
to get to know, but it doesnt take
long to see her goofy side.
In practice sometimes shell
do a little dance or sing. She says
the funniest thing in some odd
moment Kilgore said.
Her teammates said they are
excited for her future as she continues to run for Hillsdale.
McIntyres next race will be
Saturday at the NCAA Division
II Midwest regionals hosted in
Evansville, Indiana at the University of Southern Indiana.
The Chargers raced at the
University of Southern Indiana
earlier in the season and McIntyre put up an impressive time
McIntyre said she is excited
but nervous as she attempts to
beat her previous time at the
course and hopefully help her
team place well enough to make
it to Nationals in Kentucky on
earn top
NCAA
academic
ranking
Kelsey Drapkin
Senior Reporter
Hillsdale College earned an
tional Collegiate Athletics Asdemic Success Rate report which
was released last Thursday.
The ASR rating tells the percentage of all student-athletes
who graduate within six years of
their original college enrollment.
The statistics used for Hillsdales
rating are from student-athletes
I am pleased the Academic
Success Rate for our student athletes has continued to increase,
and that we are now at a level
that has earned national recognition, Director of Athletics Don
Brubacher said.
sion II institutions to be recognized with the NCAA Presidents
Award for Academic Excellence,
which acknowledges institutions that reach an ASR of over
90. Hillsdale is the only GLIAC
school among the recognized.
Of those recognized, Hillsdale is in a minority: Less than
half of the schools recognized
have football programs at their
institutions.
This years PresidentsAward
for Academic Excellence honorees are outstanding examples of
Division IIs success in the classHaas, president of Grand Valley
State University and chair of the
Division II Presidents Council, in
the NCAA press release. We are
delighted to share in their successes and commend them for
their continued excellence.
This does not represent the
end goal for academic success
for our student athletes, though,
Brubacher said. We intend to
see the ASR at Hillsdale College
improve in the future.
legian)
VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS RECOGNIZED WITH GLIAC HONORS

Morgan Sweeney
Senior Reporter
Though the Hillsdale volleyball team didnt achieve the

record it was hoping for this
season, several players were
awarded All-GLIAC honors on
Saturday night between conferValley State University.
Junior right-side hitter Haylee
Booms, who had her best season
First-Team All-GLIAC honors
nior, team setter Marissa Owen,
earned a spot on the All-GLIAC
honorable mention list for her
play this season. Finally, senior
Lindsay Kostrzewa received

Second-Team All-GLIAC honors.
Booms began the season by
earning Player of the Week for
the GLIAC South Division with
her impressive hitting percented by no hitting errors. Booms
-
ed
First-Team
All-GLIAC,
mation that our record doesnt
end. Booms holds the team-high

hitting percentage, however, at
works very hard, and although

our record didnt show it, I think
having three people earn awards
is proof that we did positive
things this year.
Owen, a team captain, had to
lead in more ways that one this
season. From the beginning,
she was designated the teams
full-time setter in an offensive
set-up it hadnt used in recent
years. Her 917 assists make her
games this fall, Booms made 41

kills with only nine errors.
Its a big honor to be award-
Charger volleyball. She also set

a new career-high for blocks this
season with 53. Like Booms,
on the team. Only junior outside

hitter Emily Wolfert racked up
Owen is grateful for the award,

but shows more concern for the
status of the team than for her
own accolades.
I think as a team, we all
would have liked to extend our
season and still be playing. But
overall, we did some good things
this year that we want to build on
for next year, Owen said.
For Kostrzewa, team co-captain, this years award wasnt
knee injuries since her freshman
year when she was red-shirted
because of them. Last year was
play all the way through and her
perseverance was rewarded with
First-Team All-GLIAC honors.
be given this recognition and for

all of my hard work rehabbing
and getting back on the court to
pay off Kostrzewa said of this
years award.
Kostrzewas teammates share
an admiration for her dedication
to the team and to personal excellence.
Lindsay has always been the
perfect example of a Hillsdale
College volleyball player. She
always puts her best effort into
everything, Booms said. Shes
a source of inspiration for everyone and her positivity is contagious.
The Chargers will suffer a
loss with the graduation of their
three seniors.
For now, the volleyball team
takes a break from training until they return to school next semester. In January, the women
will begin off-season training
by reinstating practice and doing court, pool, and even snow
workouts to stay in shape and
prepare for a few tournaments in
the spring.
20 NOVEMBER 2014
Charger Sports
(Photo Courtesy of Scott R. Galvin)
FOOTBALL FALLS SHORT

IN SEASON FINALE
Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
The Hillsdale College football

teams season came to an end on
Saturday in disappointing fashion, falling to Wayne State in a
tight ballgame on the road, 20The Chargers entered the
fourth quarter with a six point
lead and a chance to go up by two
possessions, but Wayne States
Anthony DeDamos returned an
tion to take the lead.
tween winning and losing, head

coach Keith Otterbein said. That
big turnover, it was humongous.
In a defensive struggle you cant
afford to do that.
Wayne States physical and
athletic linebackers caused problems all day for the Chargers.
[Wayne State] moved their
linebackers around a lot, offensive lineman Justice Karmie said.
Theyre phenomenal athletes.
We had a couple decent running
plays but we couldnt get the running game going like we wanted
to.
Wayne State put two extra
safeties in the box throughout the
contest, hampering Hillsdales
-
ground.
Theyre legitimately strong
and they got their safeties involved, Otterbein said. They
played more man-to-man deond down so it made it pretty
tough to run the ball.
With the loss, the Chargers
Otterbein and his coaching

staff have a lot to do before next
August comes around.
Weve got to look at our
football team and make some
evaluations on whether weve
got the right guys in the right
spots, Otterbein said. Weve
got to put our best players in
their best spots to make us the
best football team we can be. We
have to discuss position moves,
then we have to discuss and determine where out most critical
needs are in recruiting and invest
our scholarship money there.
The Chargers are losing 20 seniors to graduation, six of whom
are starters.
Its tough to lose that senior
leadership but we have a lot of
guys coming back, Karmie said.
We had a really young team this
year so honestly just the feeling in the team right now is that
were hungry and were tired of
being mediocre for the last two
years.
Otterbeins team will be hard

at work this offseason to improve.
[Well] challenge our current
players to attack the weight room
and develop that kind of strength
where, when people look at us on
tape and when theyre done playing us theyll go and react, Oh,
those guys were strong, Otterbein said. Weve got some great
potential. Our young guys have
got to get bigger, stronger and
faster in the offseason.
The team knows improvement doesnt simply mean getting stronger.
We have the ability to play
at the highest level, we just
need to improve on our mental
approach, quarterback Mark
LaPrairie said. Everything we
do this offseason needs to pour
chemistry, from weight lifting to
to class with teammates.
Otterbein thinks his players
are on the right track already.
In terms of being prepared
mentally, physically and emotionally, they did a great job,
Otterbein said. Our seniors did
a great job of keeping the family together through some tough
times.
A long offseason awaits Hillsdales football team, but the
Chargers are ready to attack it to
Redshirt sophomore quarterback Mark LaPrairie hands the ball off to redshirt sophomore tailback Bennett Lewis. (Photo Courtesy of Sheridan Markatos)
Chargers show promise at

University of Michigan
Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
The Hillsdale College mens
basketball team travelled to Ann
Arbor to take on Division I powerhouse the University of Michigan on Saturday and hung with
the Wolverines for much of the
game before Michigan pulled
away for a 92-68 win.
We saw a lot of good things
in certain stretches and then
we had bad stretches too, junior forward Kyle Cooper said.
There are a lot of positives to
build on but were also going to
learn from the mistakes and continue to improve.
The Chargers got off to a fast
start, jumping ahead 10-2 in
large part to redshirt freshman
Stedman Lowrys hot shooting.
We had nothing to lose,
Lowry said on his teams mindset entering the game. We were
pretty good game plan and it was
just a great atmosphere.
Lowry scored 11 of Hillshooting from behind the arc.
Stedman [Lowry] can really
play, head coach John Tharp
said. We think hes going to be
one of the great scorers weve
ever had in our program.
in 28 minutes of action.
The Wolverines responded to
Hillsdales fast start with several runs of their own, jumping
the Chargers werent about to go
Top: redshirt freshman Stedman Lowry shoots a 3-pointaway quietly.
After a back-and-forth start er. Bottom: Redshirt junior Garrett Jones goes up for a
to the second half, Cooper led shot. (Photos Courtesy: Scott R. Galvin)
the Chargers on an 8-0 run to
second half.
proud of, the Chargers know
Cooper is our guy, Tharp there are many things they still
that was as close as the Chargers
said. Were going to keep play- need to improve.
would get.
We want to take the posiWe started actually guarding ing through him throughout the
them on defense, Cooper said entire year and he has to be that tives and continue to build on
them and we want to take the
on his teams fast start in the sec- good game in and game out.
Coopers teammates were not negatives and clean them up in
ond half. Once we slowed the
game down and started running surprised by his strong perfor- practice, Cooper said. Its just
about cleaning up things that we
good offense it force them to mance in a tough environment.
Hes a beast. I knew he can control.
play half-court offense with us.
The Chargers will see the
In the half-court we were really could go off like that, Lowry
well prepared for the way they said. Hes one of the best D-II court next at Cedarville on Tues- day before the team returns to
ran offense.
nitely
going
to
see
that
this
year
Hillsdale to host Salem Internable-double, pouring in 28 points because hes a monster.
While there were plenty of game in the newly renovated
and grabbing 10 boards. Twentybright
spots for the team to be Dawn Tibbets Potter Arena.
one of his 28 points came in the
Charger Chatter: football captains

freshmen?
The four captains of the football

team from left to right: Dan Pittman, Butch Herzog, Tim Moinet, and Alex Fogt. The captains
recap the season and give advice to freshmen.
Overall, how do you guys feel
about the season this year?
Pittman: We set out a lot of
goals, and I think we came up
short on a couple of them. We
had a lot of injuries and had
plays that didnt go our way,
but overall I couldnt be more
proud of our team. I think a lot
of people would have counted
us out with all the injuries, but
we were in every game.
Herzog: It hurts when you put
all that effort into a common
goal, and you fall short, especially your last season, but I
wouldnt trade the experience
for anything.
What were some of the goals

you set this year?
Fogt: Coming in every year,
our biggest goal is to win the
GLIAC conference, thats one
of the big ones, and obviously
with our record that didnt work
out, but on a personal basis the
guys get better every day, thats
one of the big things everyone
did pretty well at this year and
continued throughout the year
and never gave up.
Moinet: We all had common
goals my freshman and sophomore years we won GLIAC
rings, and we had potential to
do that [this year], so to fall
short in that was disappointing.
Did you have more injuries
this year than usual?
Fogt: It always seems like that,
it just keeps building up, but
there were more key injuries

this year, guys we lost that were
going to be a big factor for us
because of how young we were,
guys who had the experience
went down early. That made
some of the younger guys who
werent as experienced come in
and play a big role for us.
Would you say over all four
years its hard to balance football and academics?
Pittman: Its not easy, youre
balancing two full-time jobs.
Were there for about 6 hours
Freshman year was the hardest,
cause its a new place and were
not used to how Hillsdale does
everything, and then you have
football. After that you kind of
get into your own routine and
to balance it, and its not too terrible.

Moinet:
come in and its mind-blowing,
you dont know how to timefreshman year, you learn how to
pace yourself and plan ahead. I
agement when we have football,
whereas in the spring semesters
I push things off.
Herzog: Im still recovering my
man year. After you pass the
core classes and get into the
stuff you really like, it makes
everything easier, whether
youre in football or not. Taking classes and doing football
grind, but you get in a groove.
You get used to it. You just have
for you.
Do you have any advice for
Pittman: I would just say the

biggest thing is that four years
goes by a lot faster than youd
think, so take every opportunity as a gift from God. Were
so blessed and football is the
greatest sport and youre never
going to be around people who
love and support you more. Just
really embrace it and cherish it.
Fogt: We had a lot of guys who
had a chance to play this year,
so the biggest thing is to stay
hungry. Weve had two losing
seasons in a row, and with the
team coming back [next year]
we have guys with a ton of experience, and a lot of guys that
are still eager to go out there
and win and have a love for
the game. Im excited, I have
huge expectations for next year.
Were pretty excited for what
we have in the future. Its a good
program here. At the banquet all
the seniors talked and it was obvious how special this place is
and how special our program is.
Moinet: Just keep grinding.
to feel bad for yourself and want
to quit, but knowing the rewards
youre going to get from playing football here and getting an
worth all the hard times and all
the struggles. Go through that
grind every day and put your

heart into it, thats the biggest
thing.
Herzog: Keep your mouth shut
and just work hard nothing
is going to replace hard work.
They have so much talent and
I couldnt be prouder of how
much theyve grown so far. Stay
humble. It feels good to know
you can do something hard, you
know, like you can accomplish
abilities after college.
What do you plan to do after

you leave Hillsdale?
Fogt: Im planning to go to grad
school, I want to go to Ohio
State for physical therapy.
Pittman: Ive always wanted to
go to law school, I have to take
the LSAT, and I guess well see
after that. Im pretty sure Im
going to do the WHIP program
next year, and see if politics is
something Im interested in.
Herzog:
cial manager down the road.
Moinet: Im getting an exercise science degree. I want to go
to physical therapy school after
Hillsdale.
-Compiled by Kate Patrick
B1 20 Nov. 2014
(Tracy Brandt/Collegian)
The Misanthrope and haute couture

The classic French play gets an update in the Tower Players production
Natalie deMacedo
News Editor
waiting for the right

time.
The play opens
her butt look big, but I

dont know if Im okay
with that synthesis.
But there arent just
truth-tellers and liars
Senior Leslie Reyes
described her character, Arsinoe, as a prude
and a hypocrite.
Everyone
fears
her, Reyes said. She
is the friend no one
wants to have because
she will talk about you
behind your back.
Arsinoe is completely infatuated with
Alceste and burns
with envy because
she doesnt have him
Reyes said.
During one prac-
tice I followed him so intensely

he ended up falling over the
couch, Reyes added.
She said Arsinoe thinks Alceste shares her virtues and morals, but shes a shallow character
ridden with vice.
Reyes had plenty of praise
for her fellow actors. She said
Pomerantz has mastered speaking in couplets and not allowing
for the natural sing-song the
rhyming words create.
Ive see the most growth in
Coffey. This is a completely different character that she usually
plays, but she has done such a
good job, Reyes said, adding
tatious, young woman that C-
chic Paris apartment.

Modern, simplistic
furniture sit quietly
before an Eiffel Tower peeking through
a balcony terrace at
sundown. Alceste, the
male lead, wearing
black skinny jeans
and hipster glasses,
discusses how one
ought to behave in
society with his companion Philinte .
Should we never
part with any word
that isnt from the Junior Catherine Coffey and senior Aaron Pomerantz in character for
See Misanthrope B2
heart? Or consider it Molires Misanthrope. (Elena Creed/Collegian)
uncouth and most ab- way to get along in socisurd to speak the naked ety in terms of personal
truth?
interactions. He said
Alceste, played by Molieres questions in
senior Aaron Pomer- 1666 are just as relevant
antz, believes in telling today as they were 350
the truth 100 percent years ago.
of the time, no matter
Pomerantz explained
what the consequences, that the synthesis to AlPomerantz said. On the ceste and Climnes
other hand, his love-in- polar opposite views of
terest Climne, played truthfulness is shown in
by junior Catherine the character Philinte,
Coffey, thrives on lies.
who believes you should
She lies through lie when you need to.
her teeth, Pomerantz
I think we should
added. Shes a duplici- question the synthesis,
tous, nasty person.
Pomerantz said. Of
Angell said the play course you should never
asks great questions, tell your girlfriend that
Freshman Glynis Gilio sits on the left side of the couch in The
such as what is the best her pants do in fact make Junior Nicholas Gibbs sits on the right side of the couch in The
Misanthrope. (Elena Creed/Collegian)
Misanthrope. (Elena Creed/Collegian)
A suit-jacket with shorts. A
face-encompassing hat. A glittering chartreuse jacket.
High fashion meets the Tower
Players in their latest production,
The Misanthrope by Molire.
The 1666 play was originally set
in French High Court, but director George Angell has brought
the performance into the modern
day.
The show opened last night
and will run through Saturday
each evening at 8 p.m. with a
matinee performance Saturday at
2 p.m.
I picked it because I wanted
to do it, Angell said. I was
Hillcats shaking it up
Faculty jazz band to bring something secret to concert
Evan Carter
Web Editor
I cant really say what it is
yet, but Im going to start a new
way of presenting this music and
its going to happen on Friday,
said Chris McCourry, director of

jazz studies and trumpeter for the
Hillcats. Its going to be revolutionary.
This Friday at 8 p.m in McNamara Rehearsal Hall, the Hillcats
will be taking a new approach to
the presentation of the music of
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The Hillcats is a faculty jazz
combo comprised of Chris McCourry on trumpet, Jon Gewirtz
on saxophone, Arlene McDaniel
on piano, James Ball on bass,
and Larry Ochiltree on drums.
While McCourry refused to
divulge exactly what this revolutionary new way of presenting the jazz will be, he said that
he wants people to be at the concert and experience it instead
of making up their minds on the
new approach based off of what
they hear from others.
Ive been thinking about
cided Im going to go ahead and
do this because I really think its
going to help the way jazz is presented, McCourry said.
According to McCourry, this
new way of presenting jazz is going to be the way jazz is presented
from Friday onward at Hillsdale.
McCourry hopes this revolution
goes far beyond Hillsdale and he
plans to promote it everywhere
he goes. To the best of his knowledge, McCourry said that this is
is being attempted.
Though the presentation will
be new, the music theyre playing is part of American jazz tradia career spanning more than four
decades in which he composed
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Things
To do and see
This week
Wednesday through Saturday,

Nov. 19 through 22
The Misanthrope, by Moliere
Tower Players Production
Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.,
matinee Saturday at 2 p.m.
Markel Auditorium
The classic comedy of manners and
morals by the greatest French
playwright of them all.
Friday, Nov. 21
The Hillcats
Hillsdale College Faculty Jazz Ensemble
McNamara Rehearsal Hall
8 p.m.
Hillsdales Faculty Jazz Ensemble
performs the music of Joe Henderson.
Saturday, Nov. 22
Poet and the Beat
The Historic Dawn Theater
8:30 p.m.
Rock, Pop and Blues: Poet & The Beat
offer a little bit of everything! Stop in
musicians! Enjoy a warm atmosphere
Sunday, Nov. 23
The Ragbirds
Tibbits Opera House, Coldwater, Mich.
Its rare to hear something new and
exciting in the realm of folk/roots
music, but the careful alchemists of
The Ragbirds have given us just that,
wrote Bryan Rodgers of Homegrown

Music Network
Every Sunday
Hillsdale Roller Derby Dollz practice
The Stadium Roller Rink
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
$5 entry
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(Compiled by Vivian Hughbanks)
ARTS
20 Nov. 2014 B2
Spanish class performing student-written work
(Photo courtesy of Anders

Kiledal)
IN FOCUS
Anders
KiledAl
What
makes good
ture.
Dugan Delp
are turning her little idea into a

-
literature, but do their best to
never has she received such a
photography: a few thoughts
vacation at the beach), and have

ended note, leaving the reader
curious and desiring more. In an
-
ther getting the shot or losing
Each member of the class

-
coming to a better understanding

take the images the extra mile.
The camera does not make the
Forester McClatchey
Special-to-the-Collegian
Earlier this semester, after
months of silence, King Kend-
emcee just beginning to resusci-
offering. The birds sat silent on
of Kendricks voice had faded,

side and uttered bemused huh.
less automatic and more calcu-
etition of the
chorus.
reader, let me
general
that the voices
talented artist
breathes
life
cause it is a job. There is still a
i do not be-
self-love and overcoming negaLamar becomes abridged here to

sage. Kendrick calls it blatant,
ages achieve this. Certain subjects lend themselves to this bet-
after reaching a certain critical

mass of fame and shifting his
song is the natural end of Ken-
the great entertainment-industrial
of this scramble, considering the

Anders Kiledal is a biology
major. He is the photo editor for
the Collegian.
this understanding of Kendricks
Sauk performing Charlie Brown
commercials, and the scenes that

have been taken out are in this
Andrew Egger
Collegian Reporter
MisAnthrope
about the true meaning of Christ-
From B1
and bring it back to its origins. I
this.
latest artist claiming to bring auine that hes different. Id like to
the strings of soul, still resonates
As soon as he released it,
email.
listeners concern that Kendrick

-
savior.
The trajec-
this
this sort of backlash after deviating from their earliest musical

aesthetic.
The aesthetic of i is certain-
limne is.
a different culture, an insight into

a different form of art and litera-
Kendrick Lamar, i love myself
exciting animals.
the talent these students have, the
good.
dents, she suggested the class do
egories. Across all of these there
ing that all of these images have
elaborate it.
music comes from.

If this is the case, I think hes
this.
hillcAts
From B1
costumes.
and so beautiful to look at, she
-
the time, but Im not.

Lasch said she acted some in
high school, but nothing at this
fessionalism.
Its
reing.
There ever and so beautiful to
is no sense
look at.
these freshmen
doing
here? Lasch
said. It could have been intimidating, but it hasnt been.
ville.
lent numbers of adults and teen-
is something thats much

Its all the music from the an-
Even devoted Peanuts fans
still true to the original, so thats

been kind of fun, he said.
derson in this concert be-
thesauk.org.
takes them
off-stage
and
back
home.
This is a
great chance
that
isnt
-
heels.
embarrassing, Lasch said.
if for nothing else, come for the
fake, decorum? As the drama of

love and its triangles unfold, the
Freshman Jonathan Edelblut on couch surrounded by other cast members of
Misanthrope.(Elena Creed/Collegian)
Spotlight
B3 20 Nov. 2014
The good bikers

Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor
No, Chief Administrative
Hillsdale faculty and staff that
rode motorcycles together over
But no shenanigans doesnt
One of the funniest times
we ever had was when we went
to Manitou Bar and Grill near
Everybody who has a motorcycle is constantly comparFriendly competition and a

shared love for motorcycling
spurred the three to organize
Douglas Jeffrey, Vice Presibeen riding motorcycles for
long trips on touring motorcyGoldwing now and for several

years, Ive ridden it out to Calibuilt for long distances, not for
-
This book, saved from the burned rubble of Vivian Lyon Moores house, contains the minutes of one of Hillsdales earliest literary societies. (Macaela Bennett/Collegian)
Hillsdale history in a heap
Macaela Bennett
City News Editor
lot left, said Arlan Gilbert, former Hillsdale professor and now
Three days after America lost

JFK to an assassination, Hillsdale
She was the
We had just about come to the

terrible truth that a president of the
United States could be assassinated in our time, the colleges 1964
-
have an interest
in the local
our college historian and professor, Vivian Lyon Moore Frau

Moore, as she was fondly called
While living in Hillsdale, her

interest in compiling genealogies
led her to save many documents
about the happenings in the city
have an interest in the local hiswe would have a lost a lot of the
Public Service Librarian Linda
Coupled with the tragedy of

Moores death was the concern
over losing mounds of college
In that total and consuming
perhaps hundreds of early and
cal documents and papers of Hillsdale College, Hillsdales March
Efforts were made to rescue or
salvage the more important papers
but practically nothing could be
Even when I began at Hillsdale, many said we dont have a
sition as an assistant professor of
The Collegian reported on

-
First, Gilbert said not all of the

ing to the college were give to the
University of Michigans Bentley
Library, where they can still be
Second, Gilbert said most of

the documents she collected per-
Until recently, many mourned

Hillsdale losing much of its early
history to the ash heaps of that
at several other institutions including: University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Notre
-
After spending much of his retirement from teaching researching the colleges history, Gilbert
believes the loss incurred from the
Attendance for the coordicording to Pewe, it was orga-
in the group motorcycles are

more than a mode of locomowhole philosophy of motorcycle riding is a great sort of philosophy to have: It all has to do
-
It all boils down to managing

that gathered whenever pos-
Some nights there were big

Some women quilt for re-
clubs, or events they did not coordination and often-hectic

portray Hillsdales importance in schedules of the Hillsdale College faculty and staff that particthe documents lending evidence to
the colleges admirable reputation provided camaraderie for those
are found in other libraries and hisTheyre what you would
torical societies across America,
where Gilbert found them to write
professors and administrators,
ing that so many important archives were lost spurred a renewed interest in collecting and
have more than recovered, Gil- VanOrman, Pewe, and he all
-
wanted to ride a motorcycle, but

only recently found themselves
My wife and I, ever since
getting married, always wanted
Though the motorcyclists
love to ride, they come together
over the growl of engines to eat,
Were all just a bunch of
From B4
This year, the store will have
a drawing for a Christmas dinner
and
dinner, pies, and accompanying

nations and consignment items,
Hillsdales newest and certainly most glamourous resale

shop is Marilyns Off Monroe,
I specialize in things that are
lot of t-shirts or hoodies because
you can get them anywhere,
A prime destination for vinstreet seeing someone else wear-
cago Road, just past the Jones-
uring!
vintage clothing section, its
kin
ture, home accents, dishes, and

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torcycle rider as a teenager in
thrifting
Pancakes
Waffles!
Kendall Halls, the riders would

gather, motorcycle engines
churning, to determine that
tragedy we thought it was, he
First Hundred Years of Hillsdale

College, for the colleges 100-
great that the alumni magazine

ments, photographs, or papers pertaining to the college that could be
Pumpkin
Every Thursday night at 6:00
Using these detailed records
The obituary said Moore began teaching at Hillsdale in 1909

as a piano instructor and German
Now Featuring!
husband told her, No, theyre
made duplicates of many of her

papers, so theres a good chance
pers into her room, so when the

house burned, we lost a lot of col-
along for the ride that day overheard a lady whispering to her
The store is the perfect desver, photos of Marilyn Monroe

pepper the walls between splenThough its only been open for
nearly a year, the business is doI have a masters in counseling, and I had a private practice
counseling agency for many
about thrift stores is that you

ferent from what other people
are wearing, but also a cool
style and not what someone
Julie Boyce (top) holds a package of fire starters created

at a general department store or by a client of Key Opportunities. Treasure, etc. (below) is a
something, junior Elizabeth reseale store in Jonesville, Michigan. (Hughbanks/Collegian)
One store Green regularly

frequents is the Salvation Army
Family Store in the Kroger shopproceeds from family store sales
ies, and Christmas festivities,
along with other operations of
munity, employee Katherine
The Salvation Army store is a
staple for college students, providing everything from hallow-
ams and I decided that our room

was a little empty, and we both
right down, and he goes, Oh
there was absolutely nowhere to

sit, junior Nicholas Gibbs told
Chief Rogers comes in and says,

so I hear you guys have this nice
to Salvation Army, we found a

The two carried the couch
Residence on their shoulders,
Awhile later, Dean Pete
And then just leaves, I didnt

Salvation
Army
features
Second-hand treasures of all

shapes, sizes, colors, styles, and
I found a red velvet jumpsuit
that had legs and short sleeves - it
goes over and sits down and and
but it was really awesome, and I
to get out of that because I had

enough, and this was my second
love, so I said Im going to lease
a storefront and Im going to
Gary did just that, and
cleaned, decorated, and staged
vacant for a long time, and it was
just to get this place ready, she
glam theme going on, with MariReasonably priced, the store
features quite a few designer labels, and operates on direct buyThis is a social place; people
that I am a therapist, this is the
B4 20 Nov. 2014
Spotlight
From Cuba to
State Street
Amanda Tindall
News Editor
The Frudakis family has
owned the little shop at 146 State
St. since winter of last year. Before the renovations, it was just
a little convenience store. Now,
with two small red tables, scones,
pies, and other baked goods, it
has become a lovely small-town
market.
The couple has remodeled and
repaired the market over the past
year. Vivian Frudakis makes all
of the food the pies, dinners
that customers can order to go,
scones, and many other treats.
When Vivian Frudakis immigrated from Cuba as a child, she
had a little cookbook with only
of State Street Market with her
husband, Associate Professor of
Art Anthony Frudakis, she has
taken those basics of cooking and
opened up a world of delicious
goodies.
Ive always loved to cook,
Frudakis said. I started around
seven or eight. Id make stuff
from my little cookbook. It was
my pride and joy. I used to make
my mom breakfast for Mothers
Day. Like pancakes or eggs or
something. I think my dad probcakes, I remember that.
She began working at the age
of 15 as a dental assistant in a
community that needed Spanishspeakers.
Graduating college with a degree in marketing, Frudakis eventually became a purchasing agent
for the Trump Organization at the
time they were opening up the Taj
Mahal.
I was in charge of the seating
for the hotel, for everything that
went inside the hotel, Frudakis
said. That was during the hustle
and bustle of buying things for
the hotel. The seating, the safety
deposit boxes that needed to be
forms. I still have the brochures
and things for advertising for
boxing matches. I have books of
all the stuff from there.
After moving to Hillsdale and
giving birth to her daughter, Frudakis began working part-time in
human services.
I was a parent educator part
time, so when she went to school,
I became full-time as a community health educator, she said.
Long-time family friend Bobbi Byrd said Frudakis has always
had this love for both people and
food.
Shes a wonderful host,
Byrd said. Ive eaten at their
home a number of times. Shes a
wonderful cook. I stopped in their
home, and shed make scones
and they were just amazing. Her
family has always just been like
family to me.
Frudakis said the creativity
of making the food is one of the
exciting parts of running the market.
The sandwiches was something that, I looked through reci-
State Street Market owner Vivian Frudakis bought the store on 146 State St. last December.
pes, and looked through recipes,
and my husband Tony served as
my guinea pig, she said. We
tried breads galore.
After trying all the different
kinds of bread, they decided to
make their own. Frudakis also
makes her own fresh whipped
cream.
Im a sort of connoisseur of
coconut cream pie, Byrd said,
jokingly. She made her own

whipped cream, and put it on top.
I found that it was the best coconut cream pie Ive ever had.
Some sports teams, including
the tennis team, enjoy the to-go
food made by Frudakis.
My tennis coach has gotten take out order from her a
couple times for away games,
said womens tennis team mem-
A month of man madness

Breanna Noble
Niedfelt Volunteer Extravaganza
Honoring Thanksgiving, Niedfeldts November goal is serving
the community for 400 hours.
We talked about some philanthropic event and decided why
not up the ante and make it a
month-long? senior House Director Ray Willis said.
Each student must complete
about eight hours to achieve the
goal.
Even Phyllis Niedfelt, after whom the dorm was named,
writes to the house about her
Spear throwing
competition
volunteering at a Mississippi veterans home and contributes her

hours.
If the dorm accomplishes the
feat, there will be a celebration
with wings.
Its amazing to see 50 guys
getting together and making a
positive impact, freshman Jacob
Weaver said.
Galloway Man Month
Galloway guys spend November earning man cash by
ing something with Duct tape and
using power tools, competing to
win a prize with the most cash.
In addition, Galloway has
Man Events of the Week where
the men on Feast nights compete
in contests like making snow angels without shirts to earn more.

We want to do something
fun as a dorm, freshman Nathan
Lehman said.
The competition aims to represent Galloways motto, Gentlemen. Scholars. Heroes.
Its good stuff: walking a girl
to her dorm, Doan said. It emphasizes chivalry. We implement
that into man month.
Simpson No Shave November
While the Movember Foundation started No Shave November
in 2004 to raise awareness of
prostate cancer since hair falls
out during chemotherapy, Simpsonites practice it for Hillsdalian
reasons.
Pay for a
We study higher things, senior RA Connor Gleason said.

The great philosophers are great
men with great beards. What better way to honor [them] than taking one month and donating it to
great facial hair?
While this explanation may
sound far-fetched, according to Illinois State Universitys Vidette
Online, the events origins can
be traced to ancient Greece. Plato
proposed to be educated properly,
one must imitate the most knowledgeable, so the young Guardians
spent 30 days each year copying
the look of gods, commonly depicted with beards. Aristotle even
stated beard-growing traditionally is an ethics practice.
It is the mark of a
patient and rugged soul.
-Mike Pope, senior
dinner
The great Abraham Lincoln
Facial
Hair
men, shear not the hair from
-Alex Reuss, sophomore
ber junior Lindsay Peirce. You

can tell that its fresh and that its
most of their ingredients were
homemade, handmade. It makes
a difference
Its a really cute little sandwich shop, you walk in and shes
selling little candy bars and baked
goods, Patrick said. The people
who work there are so kind, and
they make their own sandwiches,
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
and are always checking on you.

The sandwiches are so good.
Frudakis said her various
careers and life experience has
taught her many things.
Coming from Cuba to the
United States, I probably learned
the importance of an education,
something that you love.
Vintage is key
Vivian Hughbanks
Assistant Editor
A cheerful voice greeted me
when I ducked out of the pouring rain into Key Opportunities Consignment and Vintage
Center. The young woman
gave me a crooked smile and
returned to arranging tea cups
on a shelf near the counter. It
was just about closing time,
and with a nod from her sua door in the back of the store.
Key Opportunities, one of
the many consignment and resale shops in the Hillsdale area,
is located just a block past Olds
Residence at 400 N. Hillsdale
St. The shop helps sustain the
operations of Key Opportunities, Inc., a vocational rehabilitation center that assists people
with developmental, physical,
and mental disabilities in developing job skills. One application of training is at the resale
shop, which features furniture,
home accents, housewares,
dishes, and luggage.
We have individuals who
work at the consignment store
who are building their skills to
work in retail sales, customer service, pricing, marking
things, handling money, said
Julie Boyce, Director of Key
Opportunities Inc. We want
to build skills and tasks that individuals know how to do that
they can then make those skills

transferrable to communitybased employment.
The center brings together
employees from around the
county to learn skills both at
the center on Hillsdale Street,
and at subcontracted positions from local manufacturers. While Key Opportunities
has existed for 39 years, the
consignment shop opened four
of open positions within the
community.
It started because the industry in Hillsdale had gone
down so much, said Chris
for Key Opportunities Inc. A
lot of businesses went out, we
had been doing a lot of that
in house, so we were trying
to think if were not going to
have the industry here, then
what can we do so that we can
still put our people to work and
still bring money into our organization?
Key Opportunities Inc. also
partners with Hillsdale Market
House on a school program
for local students referred by
Michigan rehab. In the program, students learn skills like
bagging groceries and customer service.
They learn to run a cash
register, and the learn to greet
people, and how to respect
someones space. It seems
See Thrifting, B3
(Morgan/Collegian)
ASHLEE MORAN, FRESHMAN

Describe your fashion sense.
A little color and some polka dots never hurt nobody
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
A striped crop top- not sure what I was thinking at the time
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
Not ironing clothes
What is your favorite item of clothing?
I love wearing vests- I cant do without vests
Who inspires your wardrobe?
Francescas, Banana Republic, and J. Crew
Photos by Elena Creed
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Michigans oldest college newspaper

Vol. 138 Issue 11 - 20 November 2014

Jillian Melchior back from Iraq

After being captured, raped,

Jillian Melchior `09 spoke to students on Monday about her

gees, as opposed to the grandiose political outlook upon which

Melchior spoke to the religious persecution Christians and

Hillsdale: Is the debt worth it?

cludes public and private institutions.

Student debt per graduate

debt per student in the 2014 graduating

Bon Apptit partners with

ing toward people who appreciate it.

To accomplish its goal of

Chefs Way farmers Jim, Ezra, and Mary Bertakis.

Hickman said. Thats amazing

partner with Bon Apptit matches Hickmans excitement to use

Yorkers, and Ezra always had a

Mens basketball shows promise

The Misanthrope arrives

City approves fiber optics

(Courtesy of Scott Galvin)

Check out articles online at

Students vote in new crop of

Students volunteer to help low-income

Seniors Ryan Richert, Richard Willis, Evan Bach,

Carol Drews: Tis the season

A few good pancakes returns

Update on 2014 Fulbright students

and literature, and United States

dale College students, sight-seeing in Germany, chatting about

rent students will be encouraged

me realize the excellence of

the best students in the country.

Forum wins design award

the Collegian. The Forum allows students to take what they

Susannah Suzy Hanson,

Fall tourneys wrap up for debate and

If competitive speaking is the umbrella

After college, Melchior

enough of the language to get

Her father accompanied Melchior, the oldest of 10 children,

Spain, and Turkey.

I probably would be. She has

at USC, she also helped her dad

Theres a lot of counseling

The Place for Fun

Open at 11 a.m. Tuesday

We are open Tuesday

Campus philanthropy is far-reaChing

Newsroom: (517) 607-2897

Sorority girls armed with

In terms of snow experience, we have

should be bold and say so, even if it means enduring

The European Space

by society. The task of Joel and others is to destroy the old

himself, especially economically and sexually. The results:

so too do the Greek houses

Snow can be a blast.

ful. Theres a sense of wonder in snow.

been hurt in the past. So certainly be careful.

Feminists freak out over a shirt

And this agenda owes much to John Rawls A Theory

thought up by the human race. It can be built