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Vol. 138 Issue 14 - 29 January 2015

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Searle set to open in August

Hotel renovation plans in
the works

Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter

Towering over the Dow Leadership Center is

the silver skeleton of the Searle Center. Below it,
the hotels rooms seek a makeover, should donor
funding pan out.
Were mostly focusing on the Searle Center
for now, but were looking to improve the Dows
rooms at some point as well, Chief Administrative
The Searle Centers construction began in the
summer of 2014 and is expected to be completed
by August of 2015. By then, the more than $10 million building, with an auditorium, dining room, and
conference center, should be operable.

the construction involves thawing the ground out,

which is hard to do with it so cold.
The Dow Centers rooms have not yet seen the
visible and obvious changes of the Searle Center
because the college and hotel are busy trying to
We absolutely need better rooms, Director of
the Dow Center Teresa Heckenlively said.
So far, the college has only completed a model
room that serves to estimate what the renovations
can achieve, while painting a picture of the improved quality of the new rooms.
The model room is mostly to make sure the
renovations wont have too many limitations, and
we hope the room looks good, Heckenlively said.
Heckenlively discussed the issues with the ho-

tels facilities, including the dated condition of the

rooms, and improvements to upholstery, furniture,
decorations, and, especially, bathrooms.
I think that if these renovations were completsaid.
The Dow Center renovations are not slated
said they are hopeful of their groundbreaking. The
Searle Center, the colleges current focus in renovations, must be completed before furthering other
projects.
Renovations on the new building have displaced
events to other buildings around campus, such as
the Center for Constructive Alternatives on American Journalism: Yesterday and Today, which was
the third CCA to be held in the Bierman Athletic

Center.
The new venue offers space and amenities the
smaller Phillips Auditorium in the Dow Center
couldnt.
The athletic department, the catering, and the
maintenance, and everyone has been really great,
and made the Bierman Center very nice for us,
Director of Programs for External Affairs Matt Bell
said.
Searle Center when it is completed. He, like the
rest of campus, said he is excited to see the new
building, and is certain that the improvements will
help make CCAs better experiences for the students and the visiting donors and parents who attend the conferences.

Local company installs stadium Buzzer-beating

lighting for Super Bowl
dunk lifts
Shane Armstrong
Senior Reporter
Hillsdales Qualite Sports Lighting is one
of the premier stadium lighting companies
in the world. Located on Mechanic Street,
Qualite has done stadium lighting for high
schools, colleges, and professional venues
all over the globe, most notably the University of Phoenix Stadium, which is home to
dinals and host of Super Bowl XLIX Sunday.
Residing in Hillsdale for almost 30 years,
Qualite built itself into a leader in the stadium lighting industry. Other professional
venues the company has lit include U.S.
Cellular Field, home of Major League baseballs Chicago White Sox, and professional
soccer and cricket stadiums overseas. Major
college programs also upgraded to Qualites
state-of-the-art lighting, opening up opportunities for both the institutions and Qualite.
Qualite installed lighting for the Frank
Muddy Waters Stadium, home of the
Chargers, as well as Purdue Universitys
new softball stadium, enabling Purdue to

host the NCAA regional tournament for Division I. The Missouri University Tigers,
2013 SEC football champions, also chose
to use Qualite lights to make their stadium
more professional.
To prepare the University of Phoenix Stadium for the Super Bowl this year, Qualite
teamed up with Ephesus Lighting, a leader
We were contacted by Ephesus and were
able to partner to do the lighting for the Sufour months to complete, Qualite President
Nick Page said.
The University of Phoenix Stadium is big
enough to seat as many as 72,200 fans and
has a retractable roof, which can provide
challenges with regard to lighting.
Each stadium is unique, Page said.
Indoor stadiums are on catwalk systems
throughout the top and are typically larger
venues. Outdoor venues are mainly pole
mounted lights and those tend to vary more.
In addition to providing high-end lighting
solutions in some of the worlds best ven-

new LED lights used to illuminate the University of Phoenix Stadium expend only
310,000 watts of energy compared to the
1.24 million watts needed to power the previous lighting system in the stadium. The
switch to LED lighting will save the stadium
up to 75 percent in energy costs.
fer a 30-year warranty on its products. Its
control an entire stadium full of lights with a
computer or smartphone, and offers GreenStar technology, which is known as the most
available. Furthermore, most of the manufacturing for Qualite occurs in Hillsdale.
We do the engineering, design, quoting,
prewiring, labeling, and pole assembly all
here in Hillsdale, Page said.
As a staple in the lighting industry and
in the city of Hillsdale for almost three decades, Qualite is continuing to grow. After
supplying the college with lights for the

lighting.
According to the company website, the

Chargers

Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor

With 59 seconds remaining,

another gut-wrenching defeat
was staring the Hillsdale College mens basketball team in
the face.
After restoring an 11-point
lead with 15:09 remaining in the
second half, Hillsdale managed
to score just seven points over
the next 14:29,
allowing
the
Northern Michigan Wildcats
t o

See Qualite A6
College President
Larry Arnn and talk
radio host, lawyer,
and academic Hugh
Hewitt talked about
national security and
The
scheduled
speaker, Bret Stephens, was forced
to cancel due to bad
The CCA ended yesterday with a faculty

not the Hillsdale way.

Down by six with under a
minute left, the Chargers kept
Even after a potential gametying free throw rimmed out
with 11 seconds left and a possible go-ahead put back layup
didnt fall, the Chargers kept
and Northern Michigan preparing to inbound from under their
own basket, one thing was running through Chargers players
heads.
We were not going to let
ourselves lose this game, forward Kyle Cooper said.
Well-executed full-court
press defense forced the
Northern
Michigan
inbounder Chavis
Mattison to attempt a long
pass, but
junior
Rhett

take
a sixpoint lead.
In those
last 59 seconds, the Chargers
needed to score seven
points a task which
had just taken more than

Smith intercepted the pass and

found senior Ian
Sheldon above
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(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

See Basketball A7

INSIDE
Rockwell Lake Lodge re-opens
With a new chef and new management, the lodge re-opened
this month. A3

Fish and Woodchips

Jerry Rumler carves wooden

Womens basketball takes hit

The Charger womens basketball
team suffers two close losses at
home. A8

The Tower Light

For 60 years, the Tower Light
has been a collection of Hillsdale student creativity and
artistry. B1

Convict escapes Hillsdale

County Jail
Convict escapes jail and is harbored by his girlfriend. A6

gifts. B4

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

(Photo courtesy of Jerry Rumler)

News........................................A1
Opinions..................................A4
City News................................A6
Sports......................................A7
Arts..........................................B1
Features....................................B3

Dont worship Jaffa

Harry Jaffas work, however
great, exists in context. A5

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Forensics, debate, mock trial aim for nationals

It really is tough, said senior second-year
Stevan Bennett
Collegian Reporter

Be it a casual conversation with friends in the

cafeteria or a presentation given in class, speaking
plays an intricate role in everyday life.
Those Hillsdale students on debate, forensics,
and mock trial teams are actively working to
sharpen their public speaking skills while at Hillsdale.
You are going to need to speak in public at
some point, regardless of your job, said senior
mock trial captain Philip Hammersley. Be it communicating with your co-workers or boss, you will
need to be able to articulate your ideas. Competitive speaking allows you to gain experience in this
valuable skill.
Apart from gaining experience in speaking to
an audience, competitive speaking allows you to
learn how to speak under pressure.

come up against people that have radically different views than you do, and Hillsdale kind of sticks
out like a sore thumb. This means we have to go
Unlike competitive speaking at many other colleges, the main goal for these students is not simply winning.
Our team mantra is Truth and Communicasaid. As Hillsdale College students were learning all of these different things about our foundations as a country and being good leaders. So
instead of treating this like a game, were going
to use it as a chance to sharpen our skills in delivering the truth.
Just because the main goal isnt victory, does
not mean that Hillsdale competitive speaking does
not enjoy its fair share of it. All three teams are
having extremely successful seasons, including a
mock trial team that is in the midst of the most
successful season in Hillsdale history.

We went 8-0 last weekend, and that has never

happened before, Hammersley said.
For Hillsdale competitive speakers, this success
is the result of hard work throughout the entire
school year.
For [forensics] we begin prepping over the
summer and begin competing in early September,
and then we compete throughout the rest of the
year, Assistant Director of Forensics and Debate
ment is March 21.
For these students participating in competitive
speaking at Hillsdale, its about more than speakAll of the competitive speaking teams are
more than just an extra-curricular. Rather, it is a
community, Hammersley said. Therefore it isnt
so much of a burden as it is something fun to do.
try it out.
All three teams are now focusing on their postseason runs, and there is no lack of optimism
among their ranks.

The mock trial team at a recent tournement.

(Photo Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)

We want to win nationals, Hammersley said.

Its pretty simple.

Alumnus brings new ideas to admissions

Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter

John Papciak comes back. (Photo Courtesy of John Papciak)

Campus Security
makes cuts
Hannah Leitner
Design Editor

This semester, the Hillsdale

College Campus Security Department reduced its payroll from
70 people to just fewer than 50.
The reduction in aid security
members allowed for the department to cut its expenses by 13
percent.
Director of Security and
Emergency Management Bill
Whorley said despite the cut,
the quality of campus security
coverage remains the same, with
positions covering both east and
west campus, roving and stationary guards in the Roche Sports
Complex, and a stationary guard
in the Biermann Athletic Center.
We are not cutting jobs, but
reducing hours, Whorley said.
This is not a police department.
Theres a vast difference between
us and them.
Previously, student security
employees paired with full-time
and part-time employees during
patrol hours. But with the new
patrol shifts have been cut to just
one guard during each shift, except during weekend hours.
Student dispatcher junior
Megan Prom said many of the
students as well as the full-time
workers are sad to see the guard
number cut.
As a student you are able to
be an active participant in the
community like that, and being
able to help, student to full-time
personnel, I think it made a lot of
students feel a little bit better,
Prom said. Some guys loved
those midnight to four shifts.
Additionally, Whorley said
they shifted from one-hour shifts
to two-hour shifts in Biermann
and the sports complex, allowing
students to work longer shifts as
well as leaving fewer holes in the
schedule.
Do you see the yellow highlights? Whorley asked, pointing
to a schedule laying on his desk.
Those indicate open shifts. It

used to be much worse.

Senior Rebekah Smith said
she personally hasnt felt the effect of the reduction of hours.
The hours I wanted were
still there. Going around the
room choosing hours, there may
have been less to choose from,
but I dont think it hurt anyones
feelings, she said.
Prom said she believes the
new structure, while not allowing
for many experience hours, to be
It allows people to do what
they are supposed to be doing
and there is not a lot of extras
around, so the schedule isnt as
confusing, Prom said.
In addition to the changes in
the structure of assigning shifts,
Campus Security no longer
breaks into student cars, even
when students lock themselves
out.
Previously, tools like the
slim jim, a long skinny tool
used to hook and catch the locks
in cars, were used to open locked
car doors from the outside.
But Whorley said entering
cars has become more of a liability issue. Due to the increasing
car security over recent years, as
mandated by the National Hightion, the tools used to assist entry

Students at Hillsdale can expect more job

opportunities, more chances to develop professional skills, and a stronger connection
with the admissions department in the next
couple of years thanks to a recent alumnus
who has returned to work in Central Hall.
John Papciak `13 is the new assistant director of campus recruitment for admissions.
John returned to Hillsdale at the end of last
semester and brought with him plenty of experience, passion, and new ideas for the student admissions programs.
Papciak came to Hillsdale as a student in
2008, majoring in psychology. He was actively involved in Relay for Life, Sigma Chi,
Student Federation, and the speech team.
However, Papciaks impact was most seen in
the admissions department, where he worked
for four years as a student ambassador and
college marketing assistant.
I have worked with so many students
in admissions, Visit Coordinator Margaret

Braman said. But John was one of my favorites. He was always dependable and very
professional.
Papciaks student experience and dedication to the program made him a prime candidate when this new position opened up at
the college.
Papciak was working as an executive
team leader for Target after graduation, but
admissions job.

ly isnt any other place like Hillsdale, Papciak said. When I came for my interview I
parked in the visitors parking spot, and it really resonated with me. I wanted to be able to
be a part of this legacy again.
After Papciak was hired, he immediately
began contributing new ideas and setting
goals for the student worker admissions prodent call team and student ambassador positions, as well as working on creating some
new opportunities like junior admissions
counselors, graduate ambassadors, and internships. He also hopes to streamline more
of these opportunities and give students the

Admissions Counselor Kelly Scott 14 said.

He brings good experience, creativity, and
enthusiasm.
Papciak said he believes that student ambassadors should be able not to tell, but show
through their actions and demeanor what the
liberal arts mean to prospective students.
I want students to gain a stronger understanding of the liberal arts by working with
our programs, he said. It feeds the passion
and purpose they curate here.
sador program to become a living example
of Hillsdales mission and also a place where
students can acquire skills that will make
them viable candidates for work after graduation. The addition of the new programs will
hopefully make a four-year progressive calowing them to move from call team to perhaps a junior intern.
It is the beginning of a very dynamic
program and Im looking forward to the developments, Papciak said.

Green awarded ODK

Leader of the Month
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

The Omicron Delta Kappa

Leadership Honorary nominated
senior Caroline Green to be leader of the month, thanks to her
academic achievement, superior
leadership skills, and exceptional character.
The ODK Leader of the

and encourage leaders who make

an enormous impact on campus
dar, ODK President Sam Ryskamp said. Caroline Green is
exactly the kind of person who
look for three things: academic
achievement,
extracurricular
leadership, but most importantly
we look for men and women of
character.
Green, who is an economics

and Spanish double major, did

not expect to be nominated, and
I didnt know I was being
picked until I read the email
Annie Teigen texted me and said,
Youre famous! and I thought
Oh no, because I thought I
was being pranked, Green said.
Then I saw the email and I was
so honored. My parents called
me and said nice things. It felt
like my birthday.
Greens many achievements

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority,

leading a bible study, and serving as an resident assistant in the
Paul House for one semester.
Caroline Green has been a
good friend of mine since freshman year and she has personally
encouraged and inspired me in
many ways, Ryskamp said.
Its awesome to see her receive
some recognition.

Every leaves
BAMCO
Evan Carter
Web Editor

and even dangerous to use as an

aide for entry.
Its become more and more
challenging to assist the students, Whorley said. An extra
pair of keys put away somewhere
is a good idea.
Working on security isnt
without perks. The department
recently added a new 2015 Jeep
Patriot, a single-speed, fourwheel drive vehicle, to its patrolWe dont put tons of miles
on vehicles, but patrolling and
driving around blocks puts lots
of wear on them, Whorley said.
Itll not only be nice to have a
vehicle that is new, but also to
help with assisting students.

chance to develop professional skills that

they will use in the workplace.

During Christmas break,

Management Company, ending
his job as Hillsdales general

Spencer Bell and Luke Robson race against time in

Charger Chopped. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

a full-time replacement for Every can be found, Christopher

Gumm will serve as Hillsdales
interim general manager.
Gumm said the next permanent general manager will be
hired before the end of February.
The students and staff at
Hillsdale can expect the same
level of service during this
transition, Gumm said.

After Everys departure,

Gumm stepped right into Everys shoes working with
chefs, the board manager, and
the catering manager.
According to Gumm, chefs
manage the kitchens and schedule workers, so the operations
of Knorr Dining Room, as well
vendors on campus, should remain operationally unchanged.
While few details about
Everys departure are publicly
available, Gumm said Every
had accepted a position in another company closer to his
home.
It was [Jeffs] choice to
leave the job and we wish him
well, Gumm said.

Polar vortex drives salt prices up for winter season

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief

ing a substantial surplus in the storage barn.

With this seasons mild winter already well unhas plenty to last until spring, and does not need to

Last winters polar vortex drove this seasons

salt prices up due to the skyrocketing demand. Effects have been felt throughout Michigan, and the
city and college of Hillsdale are no exception.
Last year, the college bought 50 tons of salt
for $3,100. This fall, the price jumped to almost
$7,600 for the same amount.
Towards the end of last season, Director of Purchasing at the Fowler Maintenance Building Jim
Sarles called 10-12 companies looking for more
salt after the college ran out. Salt companies were
charging $12,000 for 50 tons, Superintendent of
Grounds Mike Wiseley said.
We didnt end up ordering at that point,
Wiseley said of last year. We used the rest of our
bagged salt. Its a pain to open each bag, but we
Because of the salt shortage, the maintenance
crew had to mix locally-bought sand in with the
salt to make it last. For the 16 years prior, Wiseley
said, the college used an average of 35 tons, leav-

is a little more than halfway through this years allotment.

The college purchases its salt from Herschs
Inc. in Oak Park, Michigan. The additional eight
tons of bagged salt are bought locally from Nichols. Hillsdale College is only responsible for salting its own property because city, state, and county
governments are responsible for the roads.
The tons of bulk salt are loaded into the colleges salt truck, and other trucks plow the parking
lots, while Steiners salt or brush away snow from
the sidewalks. The maintenance crew of six men
will start work at 4 a.m. after a nights snowfall
in order to have everything cleaned up by 8 a.m.,
pending the snowfall ends by morning.
The city also felt its purse strings tightened in
buying salt for the winter; however, municipalities
go through a slightly different process in ordering
salt. They place their order with MiDEAL in March
of each year. MiDEAL allows local governments
to use state government contracts to purchase ser-

vices and goods, like salt.

Keith Richard, the citys director of public services, said the city usually orders 1,000 tons, plus
a few hundred tons of back-up in a secondary shipment. Last years price was $39 per ton. This year,
the city paid $56.22 per ton, totaling $56,220 from
the Detroit Salt Company.
So far this year we have used 150 tons of salt,
approximately, and approximately 50 tons of sandsalt mix, Richard reported to the Collegian on Jan.
16. The city has most likely used more since that
date. Sand-salt mix is primarily used to add some
aggregate or grip material so that once the salt
starts to work and the de-icing process works, we
are left with a little bit of residual. When it starts to
ice over again, it gives tires a grip and helps people
walk.
The city is maxed out in terms of space at their
storage barn this winter, thanks to reserves from
last season. However, the city is still contractually
obligated to order the amount of salt they ordered
on an as-needed basis in 40-ton allotments, Richard said.
In terms of budget constraints, Richard said his
department heard rumblings that the salt prices
were going to increase this year, and accounted for

it in the city budget with a 1.1 percent increase in

the major street funds winter maintenance budget.
The local street funds winter maintenance budget
decreased by 0.6 percent. The 45 percent price increase still took a hit on the supplies budget, Richard said, but state trunkline funds helped offset
that.
The one drawback is that the bidding process
get, which operates on a different time frame than
most local units of government. That is, the state
while most local units of government operate on a
the results of the bid until August, which is about
Richard said in an email.
The colleges rising salt prices came out of the
maintenance budget, Wiseley said.
We usually try to stay under budget, so we will
be ok, Wiseley said. The vendors always say that
cities and municipalities get priority on salt because they order a lot more.

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Rockwell Lake Lodge re-opens with new management

Morgan Sweeney
Collegian Reporter
For more than a year, the college has been working to improve the advertising and management
of the Rockwell Lake Lodge, the college-owned,
rustic-style retreat facility in northern Michigan.
Some college faculty will travel there this weekend, when the lodge re-opens after being closed for
three months.
In fall 2013, the Collegian reported that the college was talking with several hotel management
cupancy for both the Dow Leadership Center hotel and the lodge. Occupancy for the Dow Center
around 54 percent. The lodge gets even fewer visitors, since it lies four hours away in rural Luther,
Michigan.
We run a college. The college teaches students
things they want and need to learn, Mike Harner,
really in the hotel business. Finding people that un- Rockwell Lake Lodge decorated during the Christmas season. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
derstand that business, especially in the competidures and expanded the buying power of the Dow Resorts, which have had more Forbes Travel Guide
tive arena, was important to us.
The college eventually landed on WHG Com- Center by putting the college in touch with larger- four-star award-winning restaurants than any other
panies, LLC, or Wogernese Hotel Group, a group scale product providers who can decrease the ho- resort in North America. She then worked at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School cafe.
based in Wisconsin that manages hotel properties tels costs.
For the lodge, the college decided a full-time,
throughout the Midwest.
professionally-trained, on-site manager was neces- She did all of the things that you would like to have
WHG has been at work streamlining the operation sary. About the time it began its search, the original somebody do before you have them come in and
manager of the lodge, LuAnn Trombly, contacted manage, Harner said. Shes a highly experienced
of both locations and increasing advertising.
[Through WHG] weve established an online the college inquiring about job positions that might food and hospitality professional, and so now we
- can run that.
presence for our marketing efforts, Harner said.
Previously the only place you could really hear
about the Dow Hotel was via the Hillsdale College 2007, but moved to Nevada two years later for per- ing is that the lodge can now host cooking events,
website. We now have a presence via Expedia, sonal reasons. Trombly earned a degree there from perhaps quarterly or even monthly, in which TromLe Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Las bly can share her knowledge. Thats one of the
places like that.
WHG has also improved housekeeping proce- Vegas and worked for Wynn Las Vegas and Encore ways the college hopes to boost occupancy at the

New exercise equipment

for womens dorms
Kacey Reeves
Collegian Freelancer
The exercise equipment removed from womens residence
halls Jan. 15 will be replaced
with new machines in the coming months.
The college decided not to
renew its four-year lease with
supplier All Pro Fitness when it
ended at the beginning of January, choosing instead to add to
its existing contract with Fitness
Things, the current supplier for
the Roche Sports Complex.
We have no complaints regarding All Pro Fitness and their
service, but it was more eco-

nomical to switch providers and

reduce the number of companies
we were leasing from, Associate Dean of Women Rebekah
Dell said.
This change of contract afMcIntyre, Olds, and Whitley
dormitories. Residents expressed concern when they saw
the equipment being removed,
as many prefer using the small
dormitory gyms to the sports
complex.
It was really convenient to
have that kind of resource in my
home here at Hillsdale. I liked
the privacy it offered, being able
to just turn on the TV and work

out, freshman McIntyre resident Glynis Gilio said.

The house directors met with
administration later that week
to share their residents concerns, many of them presenting surveys that documented
the number of hours the women
had spent using the home gyms.
With this information, the college decided to begin processing
the new lease at once, instead
of waiting until summer as they
originally planned.
Our voices were heard,
Olds House Director Linda
Gravel said.

Marriage debate
to be held

Chris McCaffery
Collegian Reporter

Sherif Girgis, author of What is Marriage?

will be defending traditional marriage with Princ-

A debate on the nature of marriage will come

to Dow A&B on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m.
What is Marriage? is sponsored by the Lyceum
and the Symposium, student groups which receive
funding from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
and the Hillsdale chapter of Young Americans for
Freedom.
Im excited because being a liberal arts school
thats dedicated to pursuing truth, we should be
open to serious intellectual arguments and discus-

Robert George and Heritage Foundation Fellow

Ryan Anderson. Girgis is a Rhodes Scholar and
is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton
University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Girgis last spoke at Hillsdale in spring of 2013.
John Corvino will debate Girgis. Author of
Whats Wrong with Homosexuality? and prominent speaker and supporter of gay marriage, Corvino teaches philosophy at Wayne State University. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, the
LA Times, The New Republic, Commonweal, and
the New York Times.

event, said.

Campus TVs updated

Kelsey Drapkin
Collegian Reporter

The approximately 35 television monitors scattered about

campus displaying pertinent
campus information received an
upgrade over winter break to improve their capabilities and usefulness to all on campus.
Media Production Specialist Scott Pienta is leading the
charge with the changes to the
monitors in conjunction with the
donor making the whole project
possible.
What the donor really had
the vision for was to keep the
students informed campuswide, Pienta said. Its a way
we wanted to kind of tie the
campus together. With 1,500
plus students now, we wanted to
make sure everyone had that information.
The recent upgrade took
place over winter break. Pienta
replaced the old media players
that were dependent upon WiFi
to new media players that are
hardwired into the campus network. The hardwired players
allow the screens to be updated
instantly.
Because there are spots on
campus where the WiFi connection is lacking, the old players
didnt always update as quickly
as they should have.
In addition, many of the
screens had graphic display is-

sues. Because they were given to

the school by the donor at different times, each screen has a different resolution.
We had to basically go
through every screen and de-

screen, Pienta said. Youre

talking 30, 35 screens, and its
kind of a pain.
Since the update was implemented, screens across campus
have been more accurate and
timely. Anita Gordon, aide to
the athletic director, said the
monitors have been working
much better since the update.
Pienta is hoping to do more
with the screens in the future.
A trial run of one of these
capabilities livestreaming an
event was tested last week for
the Charger Chopped event.
Anthony Manno, director of
student activites, was thrilled
with how the streaming went
both on the monitors in the
Grewcock Student Union and
online.
Filming an event live is
his team did a wonderful job,
Manno said. There were some
groups watching it in A.J.s and
over 100 viewers online.
The new players also have the
technology to allow for building
professor who needs to change
rooms for class one day can
have one of the building secretaries put that information on the

screens in that building.

Currently, each campus
building with monitors has its
own welcome screen with information pertaining to that building. Pienta and the donor for the
project see the monitors as a useful tool for parents, prospective
students, and other campus visitors as well.
Another use for the screens
is for emergencies, a capability
Pienta and Campus Security will
be testing later this week and
early next week.
Say we do unfortunately
have a shooting situation or a
the case may be, Campus Security would be able to take over
the monitors from any of their
mobile devices or their main
campus devices to change the
monitors to lock the doors, get
inside, get to the basement
whatever the case may be, Pienta said.
With the improvements to
the system, Pienta said they now
have the capability to make the
screens more interactive mainly
through QR codes. With the
QR codes, passersby could scan
to get information about events
straight to their phone.
As the project grows and
develops, Pienta is steadfast in
keeping to donor intent to tie
campus together and keep all
who walk on campus informed.

lodge by hosting event-type activities that both

echo the mission and purpose of the college and
simply provide entertainment.
Trombly and her staff at the lodge are also working on increasing advertising efforts. They plan
to reach out to businesses in the community who
might like to use the lodge for small conferences.
One of my employees was an HR manager for
a number of years, Trombly said. She also was a
school board president in the area for 12 years, and
so she has a lot of contacts.
They plan to host an open house at the lodge in
April for community members. For now though,
this weekend is the main event.
Professor of Speech Kirstin Kiledal is one of the
college faculty members who signed up for the retreat. She has visited the lodge so many times, she
considers it a home away from home. She and her
husband will be taking their 8-year-old son along
with them.
We like it because it really is an extension of
the Hillsdale experience. You dont feel as though
you are stuck in your room and isolated with regard
to your choices, Kiledal said. You have the ability to interact with everything that is outdoors with
regard to the nature trails or hiking or running or
skiing in the summer, the lakefront, as well.
Harner hopes many more people will come
to feel as Kiledal does about the Rockwell Lake
Lodge.
Theres no reason that a place with great service and wonderful food cant be a draw and cant
be a nice thing for us to run, Harner said.
If things go according to plan, the college may
offer internships through the lodge and the Dow
Leadership Center to future students interested in
hospitality management.

College increases social

media presence
Evan Brune
Collegian Reporter

The team is also setting up a number of blogs to

showcase certain groups at Hillsdale.

the Hillsdale College marketing department busy

and looking forward to the future.
Our Twitter account just broke 10,000 followers, Social Media Coordinator Hannah Strickland
said. Our Instagram has seen the most incredible
growth, though. Comparing our Instagram account
is twice as much as any other school.
The growth is a result of a concerted effort on
the part of the marketing department to increase
the colleges digital presence.
One of the things were trying to communicate
is that the college isnt just an entity, Strickland
said. There are people here.
Director of Marketing Bill Gray said the departimpact of social media, but that theres much more
to the colleges efforts than numbers.
Certainly, the goal is to provide a base to enernothing but positive since Hannah took over.
deciding how to present the different aspects of the
college.
For the main page, which includes social media
sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, its targeted toward potential undergrads and
current students, Gray said. The online courses
and Imprimis are aimed at older audiences.
Strickland said the dichotomy sets up a battle
on how to present the college in a balanced way.
On the one hand, you have a wonderful liberal arts school, but we also have Imprimis and all
these online courses, she said. Its really unique.
No other college does things like that. We also
want to accurately represent the students and faculty here.
One of the goals of the social media campaign
is to expose work published by students and faculty of the college.
Were working on getting photos and tweeting them out instantly. We also tweet the work of
alums and faculty who work for newspapers and
Program] John Miller, for example. Well also
tweet WHIP students work, Strickland said.

of graduates, Strickland said. Jill Frasier, for

example. She majored in art and English. Most
people would say those are useless degrees in the
real world, but shes started her own photography
company and is already booking weddings out a
year and a half in advance.
New blogs will also target the Imprimis and online course audiences.
Were also working on creating blogs for
the online courses, so we can give people a taste
of what you get when you sign up for an online
course through the college, Gray said.
According to both Gray and Strickland, the ultimate goal is to continue increasing the number of
followers on the colleges social media accounts.
Numbers are always what youre looking for
in social media, Strickland said. Its a constant
learning experience, because youre trying to determine what good content is. If you just post a
link, nobodys going to read it. You have to write a
blurb to go along with it.
Eventually, wed love to see a million fans
across all of our social media accounts, Gray said.
I think thats very doable. People are very passionate about Hillsdale College.
Strickland said she has learned some surprising
things while managing the colleges social media.
One of the most interesting things Ive learned
son, she said. If you say, Were excited about
this! or What are you doing? then that makes
people feel like theres someone behind it all.
Growth continues in the marketing department,
especially in terms of staff.
Weve hired two new photographers to increase our photojournalism coverage, Strickland
said. Faces of Hillsdale is already popular, but
were going to try to include more professors.
Gray said the college recently hired a new director of digital and social media, Brad Lowrey.
Hell be starting soon, and hell be working to
expand the colleges digital presence, Gray said.
Overall, Strickland said she has been enjoying
the interaction with students, faculty, and college
fans.
Its been huge, she said. Its really cool
watching people get excited about Hillsdales social media.

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What do Frederick Douglass,

Thomas Jefferson, John Milton,
Jonathan Swift, George Orwell,
Ronald Reagan, and Peggy
Noonan have in common?
Aside from all achieving considerable renown, each began in
journalism.
Attendees of this weeks
CCA on American Journalism, Yesterday & Today heard
much about journalism: How
its Founding Era character both
contrasts and compares with
journalism today; the qualities
necessary for both good journalism and good journalists; the
presence and effects of bias; the
relationship between journalists,

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News Editors: Amanda Tindall | Natalie DeMacedo
City News Editor: Macaela Bennett
Opinions Editor: Jack Butler
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Arts Editor: Micah Meadowcroft
Spotlight Editor: Bailey Pritchett
Web Editor: Evan Carter
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The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to
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society, and government; and

what the future will bring for
journalism.
Though never focused on
directly by any of the speakers,
attendees ought to remember
one truth that emerged from the
CCA: Anyone can be a journalist.
Journalism is not easy. Many
can spout off opinion as rant, but
that hardly guarantees audience.
Meaningful journalism reinforces itself with copious researching, reporting, writing, and editing. Yet it is easier than ever to
gain a foothold in the profession.
Its attendant skills, moreover
gathering facts, marshaling

arguments, telling stories

from clear communication.
Hillsdale College students
have an additional resource:
This newspaper, a legitimate,
respected publication in which
the stakes are nonetheless a
bit lower than a non-collegiate
periodical. Hone your craft here
in whatever subject suits your
fancy: Discover whats happening on campus for News and locally for City News; assess local
or national art for Arts; explore
the interesting and fascinating
in Spotlight; chart the bounds
of human physicality in Sports;

or try persuasion in Opinions.

By the latter especially, one can
transcend the cheap satisfaction of complaining about the
views of others by entering into
constructive conversation for or
against them.
One warning before entering this world: Dont expect
immediate satisfaction of your
material cupidity. Success will
come from perseverance and
hard work, but those seeking
the easy dollar ought to look
elsewhere. Everyone else, however, should look here. Perhaps
someday your own name will
join the great litany of paragons
who began in journalism.

How to leave the safety of Hillsdale for reality

American Sniper
and killing
the other

feel an overwhelming (probably

unhealthy) pressure to answer
just so. Ive always recognized
the chasm separating our respective worldviews, so I get anxious
about presenting my position
in a way thats relevant without compromising the integrity
of my conviction. I stumbled
through my answer, but was
able to get out something of
substance at last. Why dont
you write more about it to me
in a letter? my friend offered. I
gladly accepted.

Andy Reuss
Special to the Collegian

ings, need to see.

Chris Kyle (portrayed by Bradley Cooper), the famed
screen speaking of and justifying his many kills. His comrades often went even further, mocking the savages as if
dehumanizing speech, attempting to belittle the enemies they
were ordered to kill.
Racism, dehumanization, or the violence of war are not
sary and good, because it allows us to understand what drives
these horrors. We could assume that the actual soldiers or the
actors on the screen, are merely racist, cold-blooded killers
who have no regard for human life. Or we could realize that,
confronted with the necessity of taking another human life,
we would inevitably do the same.
Thou shalt not kill is implicit in the moment when a
man stands face-to-face with another. We do not need a philosopher or anyone else to tell us that this is true. So when a
man must kill another man, he must subdue this most basic
do this by recognizing the face across from his as something
other than that, something less than human. He must silence
the call to do what he must.

A man cannot murder another man.

By seeing the enemy as less-than-man,
as a savage or an intruder or even an
obstacle, a man can take the life of another. This is not merely a trick, but
a reduction of that others very being.
I am not attempting to justify murder, war, or even the
less-than-man, as a savage or an intruder or even an obstacle, a man can take the life of another. This is not merely a
trick, but a reduction of that others very being. It is how a
man who kills might keep hold of his sanity. Unfortunately,
if taken too far and wide, it is also how a man might lose it.
Sniper. In each of Kyles kills, we recognize a calculation:
ing a life, or am I saving others lives? In several scenes, we
see Kyle deliberate over shooting a woman or a child, and are
thus privy to an even more complex calculation. Whereas the
men, fully grown and fully capable, have made a decision to
harder to pull the trigger then, as the line between terrorist
and son or wife becomes so much thinner.
Some have claimed that the movie perpetuates racist, dehumanizing tendencies with its black-and-white, one-dimensional depiction of the Iraqis. But this is less the outcome of
intention than the consequence of focus. It is unnecessary for
a movie to depict explicitly each and every one of its players.
We need not see into the intimate details of an unnamed Iraqi
soldier to know that he was once a human being. We recognize his humanity in the guilt, the struggle to remain sane,
which is demonstrated in the man who killed him.

Valerie Copan
Student Columnist
What gets you up in the
morning, Val? my friend asked
when we were out for coffee this
what do you live for? What gets
you excited for life? my friend
tions. Dont get me wrong, Im
not keen on small talk anyhow
and usually welcome these kinds
of questions. But when one of
my high school friends asks me
this sort of thing, I immediately

have had countless enriching

debates and discussions. I have
been able to relax and actually
be nurtured by a studentry and
professors.
While I was relieved that Id
have an opportunity to think
through and write out more
articulately what I live for,
this interaction did awaken me

Ive certainly been thinking

about the steps following graduation. But as a second-semester
senior, Ive mostly just thought
about the fact that Im a second-

semester senior. Come May, Ill

pack up, leave, and never be a
part of a community like this
again. Then its back to the real
world, the one that holds my
dear friends from public school
days and others like them. I
hadnt thought about that much
until this winter break.
I know Ill have a hard time
leaving this campus. I know Ill
be torn up next autumn when I
go to drop my sister Kristen off
at the airport so she can return
to Hillsdale while I remain. But
I recognize more and more just
how good this is. Im by no
means trying to rush out; I still
want to fully be a part of Hillsdale life while I still have time.
But when May comes, I know I
wont want to rest in the security
of Hillsdale anymore. Im beginning to experience a balance of
appreciation for this dear place
but also readiness as I confront
the challenges that are bound
to follow: Facing old friends
Ive unwittingly left in the dark,
brushing up on basic apologetics, and whatever the heck I end
up doing in the time that follows
graduation.
Valerie Copan is a senior
studying Spanish and art.

GOV. RICK SNYDERS MAY-ISSUE MISTAKE

Evan Brune
Senior Reporter
It was Sept. 8, 1925. Members of the Ku
Klux Klan gathered outside the home of Dr.
Ossian Sweet, a black physician who had
moved into an all-white neighborhood in
Detroit. The mob threw rocks, and eventumember lay dead and another wounded.
Sweet was tried, found not guilty, and
released, infuriating the Klan. To discourage
other blacks from taking up arms to defend
their homes and families, Klan members
lobbied for gun boards to determine who
led to the passage of the Michigan Firearms
boards.
Once these boards were created, blacks
were left to the mercy of board members
who determined the validity of their claims.
Most were denied.
Despite a history of racism and constitutional violations, these gun boards still exist.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder had a chance
to eliminate these boards when Senate Bill
vetoed the bill. Fortunately, after a recent
reintroduction as SB 34, Snyder will soon
have another chance to vote for commonsense gun reform in Michigan.
expanding the ability of Michigan citizens
to acquire a concealed carry license. The bill
removed county gun boards from the decision process, effectively making Michigan a
true shall-issue state.
The difference between may-issue and
shall-issue states in terms of licensing is

in Kyle and his comrades the ethical responsibility to their

fellow man. Yet that responsibility must be forsaken, for
whatever reason, and subdued through the dehumanization
of an enemy.
I do not intend to add to or subtract from the deeds of

The Uses of a

all, we can criticize a movie such as this only because of war,

Liberal Arts

sadness. We should lament that man must clash with man.

We should wish that we will never have to do the same.
Yet we must also have hope. We must have hope that man
will continue to see into the face of that other. We must have
hope that all will struggle to remain sane in the face of death.

in public schools, I had to be

ready to be confronted with
the arguments and questions
from a lot of hurt, bitter, secular
high school friends. Hillsdale,
by contrast, while still seriously challenging me, has been
a sweet haven. What a relief to
be in a place where I havent had
to constantly be on the defense

to a number of things. For one,

for all my talk of wanting to be
a witness, I havent done much
to address such issues on the
home front. Sure, I try to be
a good example, but Im not
asking many questions of my
differently-minded peers; Im
not challenging them the way
I should; it seems I dont even
have ready answers when they
bring their questions to me. Two,
Im reminded of what a different world Hillsdale is. People
say college is preparation for the
real world, and in some ways,
that rings true. But in most ways,
it could not be further from the
truth, especially at a place like
Hillsdale. The College draws to
itself a set of individuals who,
for the most part, hold to a similar worldview. Outside of my
family, Ive never known a community like this. I havent had
to run through the arguments for
Gods existence before moving
on to another theological level
Ive just talked with my peers
about that next theological level
and we track with one another.

Education

we must hope that those called to it will have the strength to

persevere, and the strength to make it back.
Andy Reuss is a GW Fellow studying English and politics.

by Forester
McClatchey

simple. In the former, citizens can apply for

a concealed carry license, but the governing authority can deny them a license for
arbitrary reasons, even if they meet the
requirements.
In a shall-issue state, the government creates a set of standards that a concealed carry
applicant must meet. For Michigan, the applicant must be 21 years old, have no felony
convictions, and complete a training course,
met, the government has no choice but to
issue a license.
The elements of shall-issue have been a

Snyder is nothing more

than a malleable pawn of gun
control progressives, easily
fooled and easily controlled.

part of Michigan law since 2001, when the

basic requirements were set forth. Despite
this, one provision of the old law remained:
County gun boards.
Though the 2001 law prevents the boards
applicant, they have the ability to make
the process painful and time-consuming.
In Wayne County, which contains most of
Detroit, some applicants reported waiting as
In addition to discouraging would-be
concealed carry holders, these boards are an
egregious misuse of time, material, manpower, and taxpayer money.
Despite this, Snyder vetoed the bill,

reasoning that these changes might make it

easier for individuals subject to a personal
protection order to obtain a license. On the
surface, it seems like valid criticism. Nobody wants wife-beating psychos walking
around with a Glock in their pants.
But once other aspects of Michigan law
are examined, his explanation falls apart.
The current law regarding person protection
orders prevents the subject of such an order
less of the reason for the order. In addition,
under the provisions for licensing, any
person with a history of violence or abuse
is automatically prohibited from obtaining a
license.
Furthermore, the continued existence
of these gun boards and the drawn-out,
convoluted process they create serves only
possession of a concealed weapon. Say,
victims of domestic violence who requested
a PPO, perhaps.
lines. In December 2012, he vetoed SB 59,
which would have allowed concealed carry
holders with extra training to carry a handgun into so-called gun-free zones, such as
schools, churches, and large entertainment
venues.
examples serve to illustrate that Snyder is
far from a champion of liberty. Instead, he is
nothing more than a malleable pawn of gun
control progressives, easily fooled and easily controlled. With the reintroduction of the
bill, Snyder has a chance to redeem himself.
Lets hope he takes it.
Evan Brune is a senior studying history.

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Hillsdale College needs an ice hockey rink

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
Hillsdales athletic program is missing the
best game, the game that many Michiganders
grew up with, the game that the state is known
for: The good old hockey game.
Therefore, as its next construction project,
Hillsdale should build a regulation-sized indoor
ice arena, and its next sports team should be a
hockey team.
A hockey team would boost student morale
and Charger pride. At last Saturdays home basStudents devotedly dressed to the USA theme
and cheered loudly the whole game, and showed
passion, pride, and unity by storming the court
after the game-winning dunk.
Students need more chances to show this
games to watch in Michigan Fall weather (i.e.,
freezing rain) and a few home basketball games,
half of which fall on busy Thursdays. A typical
Division II hockey season starts after football
ends in November and continues through March.
It would bring this extra entertainment to campus, especially in the lull between the football

and basketball seasons and after the basketball

ranked Detroit the No. 1 sports city in America,
season fades away as second semester begins.
and in 2010 Forbes ranked Detroit Red Wings
A rink and a team would also attract profans the third-best sports fans in the country.
spective students, especially out-of-staters who
So obviously there are local hockey fans who
associate the sport with Michigan, where Detroit
is known as Hockbringing revenue
eytown, and the Red
to the college,
Waking up in the morning and
Wings have made the
but stimulatheading over to the rink, having
playoffs for the past
ing the local
23 consecutive years. open, clean ice waiting to be skated
economy. An
They would
arena would
on: It seems like paradise, especially
also bring students
help the town
during hard times.
interested in hockey
by creating rink
management
campus. The fact that
jobs as well as
the nearest rink is in
simply bringJackson (and it lacks
ing people who
would surely patronize local businesses.
Additionally, the talent and interest in skating
Likewise, hockey games would entice alumni already on campus demands a rink. Many of
to return, especially members of Hillsdales
Hillsdales baseball and football players once
hockey teams from the 70s. What could be betplayed hockey, as did students not currently
involved in athletics because this sport is missbreakaway and score one top shelf? Or wrecking ing. A rink would also give SAB more chances
someone with a clean check against the boards?
to unite campus through open skate nights and
Building a rink and creating a team from
pick-up hockey games. Professors and their
scratch would be a large investment, but
children would even enjoy using the ice.
wouldnt lack return. Last fall, USA Today
Waking up in the morning and heading over

to the rink, having open, clean ice waiting to

be skated on: It seems like paradise, especially
during hard times. Skating is a stress relieving
activity that everyone can enjoy and a beautiful
This idea has received the same response
since Ive been here: but we have had a rink,
the outdoor ice rink that sat in the middle of the
quad during the coldest months. While outdoor
rinks are fun, they are almost impossible to keep
smooth and depend heavily on the weather.
Craig Connor 77, owner of The Rink, the
outdoor 140-by-75 foot outdoor ice rink where
many students skate on the weekends, said that
on warm years hell only get up to eight days of
use out of his ice; in other years, hell get up to
80.
To unite the student section, to add an attraction for prospectives and alumni, to stimulate
the local economy and bring revenue into the
college, and to add a source of stress relief and
good times for students, Hillsdale should build
an ice arena.
Sam Scorzo is a senior studying English and
journalism.

More Protestants should March for Life Tea Partiers disagree with

moderate Republicans

Catholics need not support life by themselves

Michael Lucchese
Special to the Collegian
Every year, on or around the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme
Court decision, pro-life Americans
descend on D.C. for the March for
Life, a protest against the legalization
of abortion. In 2015 alone, media reports estimate that more than 500,000
marchers were in the District. This
the blessing of attending with Hillsdale Colleges Students for Life.
While there, I noticed something
rather peculiar: Roman Catholics
dominated the March for Life. They
waved banners and held placards with
Catholic slogans on them. People on
the street approached my friends and
me asking us to sign this petition to
encourage the Pope! I could hardly
count the number of men and women
in habits.
Throughout the March itself, many
of my fellow marchers prayed the
Rosary or the Hail Mary and sing
Catholic hymns. The number of students representing Catholic colleges
and high schools absolutely astounded
from local parishes amazed me. Even
our campus delegation to the March
was primarily Catholic.
Not that this is wrong. In fact, I am
very proud of my Catholic brothers
and sisters for standing up against a
culture of death, and I gladly stood
with them. They are truly being a light
unto the world, as Christ commands
us to be. America needs her Catholic
citizens to stand up for what is right,
as they have since the 1970s. What is
troubling to me, however, is the apparent lack of Protestant involvement

with the March for Life. The March

for Life does not need fewer Catholics to march every year, but more
Protestants.
In 2013, Pew Research polled
American Protestants about abortion,
and 56 percent responded that they
believed abortion is morally wrong. A
full 75 percent of white evangelicals

If abortion truly is
one of the greatest evils
of our time, as I have
heard so many evangelicals claim, then we must
stand with our Catholic brothers and sisters
against it.
and 58 percent of African-American
Protestants believed abortion should
be illegal in all or most cases. Even
the 38 percent of the typically more
liberal mainline Protestants who said
abortion should be illegal in all or
ated Americans who responded the
same way. So, why is the March for
Life so dominated by Catholics? Why
does it seem like there are so few
Protestants?
If we truly hold these moral
convictions about abortion, we must
stand up for them. If abortion truly is
one of the greatest evils of our time,
as I have heard so many evangelicals
claim, then we must stand with our
Catholic brothers and sisters against
it. As a Church, we are not called to

with Catholics on every issue Lord

knows, I certainly do not. What I am
asking, though, is for Protestants to
stand with Catholics when they are in
the right. That really should not be a
challenge so much as it is a matter of
common sense.
The good news is that Protestants
are becoming more involved with the
pro-life movement in general, and the
March for Life in particular. At this
years March, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptists Ethics
and Religious Liberty Commission,
and Jim Daly, president of Focus
on the Family, an evangelical pressure group, announced a new drive
to bring more Protestants to D.C. in
2016.
At Hillsdale, we have a unique
opportunity every year at March for
Life. Many students are pro-life, and
passionate about the issue, too. Our
beliefs on abortion transcend denominational differences, and are one of
the things which unites this campus.
We ought to be sending a much larger
group with Students for Life, and that
requires more Protestant participation. Stand up with your Catholic
brothers and sisters! When you hear
them sing Ave Maria as they march
down Constitution Avenue, link arms
with them and sing Amazing Grace.
March for Life 2016 should be the
biggest one yet. We are the pro-life
generation, so lets prove it. Catholics and Protestants are a united front
on abortion, and should be a united
front at the largest pro-life rally in the
world.
Michael Lucchese is a freshman
studying American Studies.

I am not asking Protestants to agree

JAFFA IS NO DEITY
Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor

Evan Carter
Web Editor
In his well-crafted and rhetoricallypacked opinion (John Boehner can get
the job done, Jan. 23), Michael Lucchese argued that, among other things,
Tea Partiers and moderate Republicans
have the same goals, the actions of
Tea Party members are obstructive and
unnecessary, and that Tea Partiers are
foolish to believe that there is no difference between moderate Republicans
and Democrats. To quote Lucchese: I
Though moderate Republicans and
Tea Partiers are both broadly understood to be politically right-wing, they
are still in many ways fundamentally
different. Generally speaking, moderate Republicans seek to promote the
more right-of-center side of the status
quo. Tea Partiers are reformers, seeking to return American politics to its
constitutional foundations.
Reducing the size of government is
virtually a consensus position on the
right, the only difference being how
much to reduce government. Further,
most politicians on the right support
the Constitution. The difference is
that moderate Republican support of
the Constitution goes only as far as it
is politically advantageous. Take gun
control. While they are certainly to the
right of Democrats on the issue, some
moderates believe that the Second
Amendment is dangerous.
Some moderate Republicans no
longer believe in principle or platform.
Some dont even believe in Constitutional Republicanism, but have instead
been duped into the progressive idea
that America is a democracy. Their
politics have become largely baseless
and, as a result, more focused on the
perpetuation of political power than
the defense of liberty through prin-

had no apprehension of the Absolute. To invest his thought with

work.

Last week, the Collegian noted the death and honored the life
intellectual hero of Hillsdale College. Mike Sabos piece (Harry

Saul being transformed while on the road to Damascus, Sabo

wrote. Reading Jaffas Crisis of the House Divided had a similar
effect on me as an undergraduate.
Jaffa certainly warrants admiration and careful attention, but
comparing an encounter with Jaffas work to a sort of Straussian
quasi-religious experience is unwarranted and counterproductive.
Of course, the metaphor Jaffa used (and which Sabo appropriated) was intended to express something less than religious devotion. But tacit here is the language of discipleship, of proselytiza-

is necessarily borne out within a context. A philosophic project takes place in an intricate web of theoretical give-and-take, an
academic milieu from which it is dangerous to extract an author
and his work. To separate the author from his given surroundings
Jaffas argument for the Founders assertion of an abstract and
ahistorical natural law (and, by extension, a system of universal
natural rights) ran explicitly counter to the conservative intelligentsia of the time. Many of them were strict traditionalist or
paleo-conservatives, emphasizing precedent and custom over
(or to the exclusion of) abstraction or principle. The traditionalists contended that there was a certain violent injustice in the
rhetoric of universals to which Lincoln so often appealed.
And so Jaffa responded, making a strong case for the presence
and intelligibility of a natural law paradigm which remained relevant and viable in modern American politics. (His perception of

cipled and just legislation.

Many Tea Partiers, therefore, see
themselves as reformers seeking to
return the historically conservative
Republican Party to its principled
roots. In response, the establishment
moderates, seeking to maintain their
power, use words like Lucchese used
to describe Tea Partiers: hard-liners,
absolutists, saying that they cannot
win in the long run.
Interestingly, Justin Amash (RMich.), whom Lucchese mentions to
highlight conservative reforms passed
by Speaker Boehner, was one of the
25 hard-liners who voted against
Boehner during his most recent bid to
become Speaker of the House.
While his framing of the issue is
between Tea Partiers and moderates
has been tearing the Republican Party
apart is correct. Though a member of
the Tea Party may see it as reform,
there is no denying that Republican
politics have become cacophonous.
Thankfully, principled politics and
savvy politics are not necessarily at
odds. Politics is a complex art and is,
at times, unsatisfying. There is wisdom
in Luccheses statement that delaying
is more foreseeable is not necessarily
wrong.
Hopefully, principled politics and
savvy politics can unite, and harmony
can reign again in the Republican
Party, really allowing Boehner to get
the job done.
Or moderates could crush the hardliners, pull up their philosophical anthe ever-changing winds of politics,
and be led wherever polls take them.
The choice is ours to make.
Evan Carter is a sophomore
studying politics and journalism.

the precise nature of Founding principles did change, however,

Crisis of the
House Divided, and his second, A New Birth of Freedom.)
The Declaration is undoubtedly an assertion of abstract truths
founded on natural law, and Jaffas project made this argument
credible among those shaping conservative thought. But an
abstract truth has no effective content unless borne out through
time and within a society. An authors work keeps little of its
true substance when plucked from its originary time and place.
To separate the principles of right asserted in the Declaration
monumental achievements; so, too, the concepts at play in Jaffas
intricate body of work.
The universal is inextricably wedded to particularity. The exceptional principles that make liberty possible cannot be made
manifest without tradition, history, and place. A sound refutation
of historical relativism need not be the embrace of dogmatic
universalism.
Sarah Albers is a junior studying politics and journalism.

How I learned to stop worrying and love Hillsdale

Razi Lane
Special to the Collegian
When I left my home in rural North Carolina
for Hillsdale College in Michigan last summer,
I knew I was in for a challenge. What I didnt
know was that I was embracing a journey.
semester experience changed my life in several
important ways that have helped me become a
stronger individual socially, morally, and practically.
The biggest change I encountered upon arriving at Hillsdale was the vast diversity of the student body; in fact, the freshman class represented every state in the Union. As a homeschooled
debate competitor, I had prior experience with a
national body of students. But nothing that could
prepare me for the sight which met my eyes on
Aug. 24, 2014. I remember being overwhelmed,

but also sharing the sentiment with others. As

I watched other students stare teary-eyed after
their families, the reality of the situation came
over me.
I was resolved, though I missed my family
dearly, to avoid nostalgia. My rationale was that
there was nothing I could do about the situation.
I should concentrate on the academic challenges
ahead of me, rather than on what I couldnt help.
Whenever my mother tells me that she wishes
I were with her, I always reply that my being
away at college is best because it helps me to
better myself. Leaving for college is not quite as
I have also met some amazing friends at Hillsdale. Whether Id been celebrating, worshiping, studying, stressed or even in the proverbial
depths of despair, one thing remained true:
I could rely on my friends at college to see me
through. The best part is that this extended fam-

ily will be around for years to come; indeed,

college facilitates lifetime contacts. While subzero temperatures exist outside the brick walls
of the college, it is comforting to know that the
people within are so encouraging and warmhearted.
Perhaps the biggest challenge for me at
Hillsdale has been the deadlines. Last semester I
ricular activities, my library job and volunteer
commitments. Time management was perhaps
the greatest skill that I mastered over the course
with the challenge; I found that, together, we
formed study groups and overcame the obstacles
together. We became a team. Personally, I believe that this is a small illustration of the much
larger game inherent to our lives as humans:
Were all playing for America and, still more importantly, we serve on Gods team that itself

is beyond comparison. College has helped me

to realize that I have an important place within
my society and that I exist as part of a mission
bigger than both myself and my school. Such an
post-high school it necessitates it.
I wouldnt trade my college experience for
anything in the world. In fact, Im quite looking
forward to what the future holds for me there.
My experience has been not only educational,
but life-changing in so many ways from dorm
life at Simpson Residence to the classes in Lane
and Kendall Halls. I chose to attend college
because I thought it would facilitate my mental,
social and physical development; so far, that
has been abundantly true. I plan to stay because,
well, its the people.
Razi Lane is a freshman studying politics and
history.

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A6 29 Jan. 2015

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Hillsdale convict escapes jail

Girlfriend harbors him in her home
Phil DeVoe
Circulation Manager
Erin Todd Kimble, 42, escaped from Hillsdale County
Jail last week with the help of
his girlfriend, Kelly Barnett,
39, who harbored Kimble in
her home.
On Jan. 24, the Hillsdale
County Sheriffs Department
arrested both Kimble and Barnett, extending Kimbles sentence and possibly landing his
girlfriend in a cell of her own.
[Kimble] was allowed out
on work leave, which is pretty
common for low-level crimi-

nals, Sheriff Stanley Burchardt told the Collegian. The

hiding out at his girlfriends
house, made the arrest, and
now hes back for more prison
time.
Burchardt is not sure how
long the prison sentence for
Kimble and Barnett will be, but
see jail time and Burchardt
thinks Kimble will have no
more work leave.
Work leave is granted to
Hillsdale County Jail inmates
whose minor crimes such as
-

tions would otherwise hinder their ability to work. Since

they are only incarcerated for a
small amount of time, the sheriffs department tries to help
them keep their jobs until their
release.
We try to give them a
chance to avoid a minor sentence messing up the rest of
their lives, Burchardt said.
Both Barnett and Kimble
are awaiting trial.

County commissioners review

annual reports
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale County Medical Care Facility announced it

will lose money again this year
at Tuesdays Hillsdale County
Commissioners meeting as part
of a series of annual reports given by community administrators
regarding the countys health.
Denise
Baker,
Hillsdale
County Medical Care Facility administrator, updated the board on
the facilitys situation. She said
the facility only has one empty
bed, an improvement from having 10 to 12 empty ones a few
weeks ago.
Although she noted that exact

ized, she admitted it will lose

money again this year.
Other reports included more
positive updates.
Matthew Shane, District 12
coordinator for Michigan State
University Extension, said the
MSU Extension provided services in various enterprises, including anger management classes
and a thriving 4-H program in
the past year.
The countys 4-H program is
doing really well, Shane said.
2,231 individuals served
thats 24 percent of youth population in Hillsdale which is
way lower in large, urban counties.
Bill Word, county drain commissioner, and Terry Vear, execu-

Qualite
From A1
looks to do more work for the
campus.
The process developing
ite has an excellent product and
they have been very good to
work with as we look at potential
projects, Hillsdale College Athletics Director Don Brubacher
said in an email.
We would love to install
some new LED lights for the
-

tive director of Perennial Park

Senior Center, also gave annual
reports. According to Vear, the
center provided excellent service
to seniors in the county in 2014.
The senior center has in some
way, shape, or form impacted one
in three individuals over the age
of 60 in Hillsdale County, give
or take a couple hundred, Vear
said. Our biggest use of funds is
home care assistance and meals
on wheels.
Motions passed included the
appointment of Commissioner
Bruce Caswell to the LifeWays
Community
Mental
Health
Board of Directors. LifeWays is
a mental health facility based in
Jackson, Michigan, with an ofCaswell has a lot of background in mental health, Commissioner Ruth Brown said.
Thats why they want to get him
on that board.
The board allows Hillsdale
County two commissioner spots
and two positions for secondary
consumers. Commissioner John
Burtka currently holds the other
commissioner spot on the board.
John [Burtka] and I felt it
well was also on the board,
Commissioner and Chairman
Mark Wiley said at the meeting
Tuesday. Theres the potential
for us to possibly lose a commiswant both commissioner seats.
Other motions passed by the
board included extending the
Hillsdale County Medical Examiners appointment for another year and appointing Shelby
Burlew to the Hillsdale County
Planning Commission.
The county commissioners
next board meeting is on Feb. 10,
at which the County Department
Heads will meet before the regular commissioners meeting.

secured by big-time venues like

Super Bowl stadiums, the future
of the company looks as bright
as its lights.

Qualite president Nick Page. Qualite is a local stadium-lighting company that completed the arena lights for Super Bowl XLIX.
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Hillsdale Edition 2015

Get out with your friends on Super Bowl Sunday to enjoy the great food, drinks, and atmosphere being offered by
Hillsdales local bars: Pub & Grub and Broad Street.

Heres to you...

Pub & Grub

Broad Street is planning on offering discounts
on burgers, beer, pizza, and pitchers. Although
many Hillsdale students are used to watching
jazz musicians at Broad Street, that night it
will be all about the Super Bowl, which will be
featured on three flat screen TVs. The folks at
Broad Street are looking out for you by keeping
their doors open past their normal 8 p.m. closing time until the game ends.

Pub & Grub will be expanding its menu

that night by adding chicken wings with
a variety of sauces to choose from along
with Asian buffalo spring rolls. As for
drink specials, a pitcher of Pabst Blue
Ribbon will be discounted to $5 and select
shorts will be just $2.50. The game will be
featured on three televisions so you wont
miss a minute of the action.

Support your favorite team and Hillsdale local businesses by choosing Pub & Grub or Broad Street this Super Bowl
Sunday.

-Compiled by Joshua Paladino

Last chance to stroll down Mulberry Lane

Store closes Saturday
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
Mulberry Lane, a home dcor shop in downtown Hillsdale
known for its antiques, country
style, and variety of loose-leaf
tea, is closing its doors Saturday
with a blowout sale.
The city will lose some of
its color, junior Sarah Albers
said of the stores closing.
Store owner Marlene Miller
decided to close the shop so she
can retire.
Its a lot of hard work,
Miller said. I knew that up
front. Weve had a good, core
customer base that has been
really supportive and kept
things going. Without that, we
wouldnt survive. Its rewarding, all the compliments from
customers. Their excitement
over arrangements and displays
and items keeps you going.
Miller said she learned from
her experience, especially the
importance of hard work and
community. The main reason
for choosing to close Mulberry
Lanes doors now is that she
wants it to end strong.
I actually feel bad that some
people are somewhat upset
about it closing because they
have been so good and so supportive, but on the other hand,
when you physically just cant

keep going, its time, Miller

said. I dont want it to go
downhill and people say, Oh,
gee, thats not what it used to
be. Thats not for me.
Miller hasnt made any commitments as she looks forward
to retirement, but she hopes to

Sarah Albers

Students who often shopped

at Mulberry Lane said they will
miss its unique offerings.
They have an excellent selection of loose-leaf tea and
tea pots, freshman Isla Epling
said. I loved the atmosphere.
Everyone is always so nice and
so helpful Im going to miss
it.
It was very eclectic, very
cute, Albers said. Hillsdale
downtown has a lot of potential, and Mulberry Lane was an
adorable business and something I felt was worth supporting. I remember chatting with
the owner, and she was a lovely
human being.
While the ideal situation for
her would be to sell the store,
Miller says she does not have

Director of Hillsdale Economic Development Mary Wolfram said all closings of business impact communities.
Its unfortunate, Wolfram
said. Its a hard thing for surrounding businesses to have
that empty storefront for them.
Shopping is a critical mass.
People come when theres
something to bring them there.
Eventually, for sure, something
will move in there. The market
works. That can take months
sometimes, maybe even a year.

Businesses just dont sell

that easy, Miller said. You
have to have somebody that has
the money for it, but they also
have to have the passion for
it. You could spend years and
years looking for somebody.
Miller opened the shop in
December 2009. She always
wanted to own her own business, and with the collection of
antiques she already had, she
thought it was time to start her
dream.
It helped having a big accumulation, Miller said. Then
we just added the home dcor.

The city
will lose
some of its
color.

Tea has been a big thing, especially with the college students.
Its a nice mix between antiques
and country dcor a unique
place to shop.
The inspiration for Millers
store derived from her family
members interests and talents.
She became interested in antiques from her grandmother,

Millers entrepreneurial spirit

came from her father, who
owned a general store.
rally, Miller said. Ive been
around antiques all my life.
Thats the style I like. In the
process of opening this store
[I have] changed from Victorian furniture to primitive and
older antiques. They go handin-hand.
While working in human resources, Miller came across a
womans address with the street
name of Mulberry Lane.
I thought, that is a cool
place to live, Miller chuckled.
That always stuck in my head,
so when I decided to do this,
that sounded like it [was] what
the name ought to be. It kind of

Suicide
Prevention
Coalition
meeting
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor

seriously interested, so more

people would have to join in
order to set up a class.

After a spike in foreclosures

around 2007, the city of Hillsdale witnessed an increase in
suicides that the community
now seeks to reduce through
the new Hillsdale Suicide Prevention Coalition.
According to County Commissioner Ruth Brown, Hillsdale needs the group due to a
very bad suicide rate.
We never had a really bad
history of suicides until 2007
maybe 2009, Brown said.
Hillsdale had a spike in foreclosures, and hundreds lost
their houses. With that spike in
foreclosures, then we spiked in
suicide.
Hillsdale College Director
of Health Services Brock Lutz

people, maybe 15 or 20,

Brown said. She added that the
coalition is currently looking

meeting at House of Refuge

Church on Monday, a gathering Brown was instrumental in
organizing.
When a member of our
community commits suicide,
the whole community is impacted, Lutz said in an email.
The group plans to start
a monthly support group for
suicide survivors and parents
of those who have committed
suicide. According to Brown,
the coalitions purpose is to
make Hillsdale a Prevention
Prepared Community, or PPC.
If a person is all the way to
the point of, Im going to kill
myself today, theyve probably gone beyond help, because
theyre in a crisis, Brown
said. What you want to do is
try to help people as much as
possible before they get to that
crisis point.
In order to accomplish the
groups goal of making Hillsdale a PPC, the members need
training. Currently, the group is
working with LifeWays Community Mental Health Center
to foster interest in setting up
a training session in April. In
an 8-hour class, participants
would learn to recognize the
signs and symptoms of people
who might be contemplating
suicide and how to help them.
Right now, only one person is

for grant money to help reduce

the prohibitive $50 cost of the
class for individuals.
Lutz added that the health
of the community impacts the
health of the college.
I decided to go [to the
meeting] because of interest in
addressing suicide in our community and the need for the
college to be represented because we are also a part of this
community, he said.
I think this coalition could
serve the community well by
increasing knowledge of resources for people struggling
with mental illness, decreasing
the stigma of struggling with
mental illness, and supporting
their family members, Lutz
said.

When a member
of our community
commits suicide,
the whole
community is
impacted.

Brock Lutz

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Swim team defeated in last dual meet

Kat Torres
Collegian Reporter
On Saturday, the Hillsdale
College womens swim team lost
their last dual meet of the season
in a tight matchup against Ash-

land University, 105-100.

regular season strong with a 10-4

record, and are currently ranked
5th in the GLIAC going into the
championship tournament on
Feb. 11-14 which will be hosted at Jenison High School near

Junior Hannah Leitner swims the 200 butterfly at the

Jan. 10 home meet against the University of Indianapolis.
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

basketball
From A1

intercepted the ball and found

senior Ian Sheldon above the
three-point line.
Rather than take the lastsecond shot, Sheldon saw senior
Darius Ware waiting near the
basket for the ball.
Sheldon bulleted the pass to
Ware, and the 63 guard exploded to the rim for the gamewinning buzzer-beating dunk.
Students and alumni rushed
the court, celebrating one of the
Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena.
Thats probably the top alltime ending that Ive ever been
a part of, Ware said. That was
ever done and the fact that it was
a dunk made it even that much
better.
After 14 minutes where nearly everything went wrong, for 59
seconds nearly everything went
right.
It was a little lucky but we
deserved a little luck, assistant
coach Brian McCauley said.
The Chargers started the
game well on the offensive end
36-25 lead at intermission.
We played really well in the
McCauley said.

The second half played out

much differently.
Every shot felt good today
but sometimes they just dont
fall, said Cooper, who made his
four other guys on the court who
can hit shots.
Center Jason Pretzer played
sively, leading the Chargers with
18 points on 8-12 shooting.
While many were struggling
Chargers kept themselves in the
game with their defense.
The Chargers held the Wildcats to 43 percent shooting and
26 percent shooting from beyond the arc.
The important part is that we
held them to 58 points, Cooper said. We gave ourselves a
chance even when the offense
wasnt working.
Saturdays victory was especially important for the Chargers
because it provides the team with
some much-needed momentum
going into a tough three-game
weekend starting tonight.
Sometimes all it takes is just
one play to go your way and the
wind gets under your wings,
Cooper said. Hopefully now we
can take this and get on a bit of a
streak. Weve got a big weekend
next weekend so hopefully we
carry this over.
Tonight the Chargers face

Grand Valley State University.

legiate dual meet was at Ashland

and so was my last, senior captain Ali Bauer said. I wish the
outcome would have been different but it was still good closure for my career. The best part
son is the beginning of taper and
the impending GLIAC meet. Im
ready to swim fast.
After placing 1st in the 50
Free with a time of 24.39 and
2nd in the 100 Free with a time
of 53.00 this weekend, senior
Rachael Kurtz is currently
ranked 2nd in the GLIAC for the
50 Free and 3rd in the 100 Free.
Junior Zoe Hopkins took both
the 1000 Free and the 500 Free at
Ashland. Hopkins now ranks 5th
in the GLIAC for the 500 Free
and the 1000 Free.
Ashland is always an exciting meet with a lot of good races
and that held true for Saturday.
It was a fast meet because there
werent any mens teams so
Ferris State in Big Rapids before
returning home to play Grand
Valley at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Following that matchup with the
Lakers, the Chargers will play a
rare Monday game at Saginaw
Valley.
Ferris State and Saginaw Valley are currently tied atop the
GLIAC North Division with
identical 11-1 conference records, but the Chargers wont let
sterling records intimidate them.

there wasnt much time between

races and my muscles were feeling it by the end, Hopkins said.
However the team was in good
spirits despite the loss. Im excitoff a great season.
Junior Sarah Rinaldi made an
impressive showing on Saturday
placing 2nd in the 200 IM with a
time of 2:15.06.
Brad Monastiere, Assistant
Athletic Director for Media Relations has seen multiple swim
teams in his nine years at Hillsdale, and pointed out what makes
this particular group of girls special.
The team did a great job at
improving its depth while getting consistent event wins from
Zoe Hopkins and Rachael Kurtz.
Theres a lot of balance in the
short and long events, which
makes them a tough team to beat
in dual meet formats.
The Chargers now look forward to the GLIAC tournament
on Feb. 11-14.

Anybody can beat anybody

in this league, Cooper said. If
we come with the mindset that
were going to compete and
were going to win a basketball
game then we can win.
Surviving this weekend with
a winning record wont be easy
for the Chargers, but then again,
coming back from a six point
easy either.

Redshirt freshman Stedman Lowry shoots one of his

five 3-point attempts in the game against Northern
Michigan University on Saturday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

A CHARGED UP TRAINING REGIMEN

Breana Noble
Collegian Freelancer

This time of year, strength

training consumes the focus of
fall athletes.
To improve the programs,
the sports administration hired
Athletic Lab, a sports science research and consultant company,
to evaluate the strength training
of Hillsdales teams.
Its something we want to
do better, Athletic Director Don
Brubacher said. We thought it
was worthwhile to bring a consultant in to determine there are
improvements that can be made.
The recommendations were
positive overall. Smaller details suggested improvements to
stretching, form, and safety.
It did give us an expert to
ing and make a couple of safety
recommendations, head softball coach Joseph Abraham said.
Thats critical because we have
no way to supervise all our girls.
Thats important to teach proper
form because theyre lifting on
their own.
Head volleyball coach Chris
Gravel said his players had exceptional form for college athletes according to the report.
You wonder if youre doing
the best thing, and it told us to
keep doing what were doing,
Gravel said.
The reports suggestions are
already being implemented as
junior tennis player Sydney Delp
said her team is focusing more
on dynamic stretching and using
correct form.
Our coach took it seriously,
Delp said. Its helpful because
theres no point in doing hard
work if you do it incorrectly.
Brubacher said Athletic Lab
will return once or twice before
the end of the school year to
track progress.
We are excited to work
with Hillsdale, said Athletic
Lab director of training Michael
Young, who has a doctorate in
biomechanics. Were pleased
how open minded the coaches
and administrators were to our
feedback. Those are hallmarks of

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A7 29 Jan. 2015

a program doing what it takes to

get ahead.
Softball has already looked to
outside help for strength training
as the team hired Volt Athletics
to create unique weightlifting
schedules for each player, according to Abraham.
I have seen great results, and
I am able to lift more weight than
I ever thought I could, senior
softball player Jessica Day said.
Due to renovations in the

athletics college, Hillsdales facilities are world class and some

of the best hes seen.
Offseason workouts focus on
building skills over simply maintaining them.
Its important for us to get
bigger, stronger, and faster, Otterbein said. In football, size
is important. In the fall, we lift
twice [for] maintenance. Now,
were lifting four days a week.
For speed, one thing that is chal-

Redshirt sophomore football players Austin Koneval and

Joe Duff work out in the JAM. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
sports complex, strength training
has altered, according to head
football coach Keith Otterbein.
Last winter, we were restrictroom, Otterbein said. We have
the ability to be in the weight
room more together. More concentration on how were breaking upper/lower body down and
some footwork that we didnt
have the means [to do before].
The base philosophy hasnt
changed, but the chance to tweak
it with the new setup.
Young said for a mid-level

lenging is matching up on the

and creating space. You have to
match up athletically.
Our offseason is harder than
our in-season physically and
mentally, Gravel said. We can
push harder and not have to recover for any games.
This change of focus is reited time, teams have to practice
on courts and coaches must be
creative in practices.
Volleyball incorporates cross
training including cycling, swim-

ming and even sledding.

I like to mix things up,
Gravel said. Theres on-call
hours. They have to keep on their
studies because any time I can
at 5:45. The snowier, the colder,
the better. Well start running up
the hill. They might have to sled
down it so many times.
The offseason addresses challenges to correct mistakes and
start on a better foot for the next
season too.
Were going to the Biermann
Center to get space, Otterbein
said. We looked at last years
numbers when we had the new
setup, and our overall speed took
a step back. This is the way were
ibility, form running, and with
the track coaches to open the
throttle.
Volleyball works out more
than just their bodies, but also
who may have a problem, according to Gravel.
Well focus on it, and well
deal with that as a team, or Ill
ask them to evaluate each other,
and its not anonymous, Gravel
said. If the critique is not correct, Ill call them out on being
too nice. You learn about each
other. It causes bruises, but you
come back stronger.
Likewise, the teams strengthen more than their bodies, but
their relationships too.
You have to have fun playing football, Otterbein said. It
should be because they love the
game, because theres a level of
excellence they expect. If theyre
dreading to work, were missing
the boat. Part of enjoying that is
the enthusiasm you get by being
around your team. We just started, so its upbeat, and we want to
maintain that atmosphere.
Fostering that chemistry
comes from encouraging and
challenging teammates.
We push each other in the
weight room, junior volleyball player Marissa Owens said.
Theyll grab a 45 plate, and Im
like, I wanted to grab a 30. Dang
it! So Ill grab a 45 because I
dont want to spot lower.

BOX SCORES

Mens Basketball

Womens Basketball

Hillsdale: 67
Michigan Tech: 78

Hillsdale: 57
Michigan Tech: 64

Hillsdale: 59
Northern Mich.:58

Hillsdale: 54
Northern Mich.: 57

Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Kyle Cooper (20.8)
Stedman Lowry (10.8)
Rebounds Per Game:
Cooper (10.7)
Jason Pretzer (3.3)
Assists Per Game:
Zach Miller (6.2)
Cooper (1.9)
Field Goal Percentage:
Cooper (54.4)
Nick Archer (52.0)
Pretzer (50.7)

Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Megan Fogt (15.0)
Kadie Lowery (9.2)
Rebounds Per Game:
Fogt (9.1)
Allie Dittmer (5.2)
Assists Per Game:
Ashlyn Landherr (2.5)
Madison Berry (2.2)
Field Goal Percentage:
Fogt (59.6)
Dittmer (48.1)
Kayla Geffert (45.9)

Nathanael Meadowcroft:

Root for
Russell

On Sunday in Phoenix the

Seattle Seahawks will face the
New England Patriots in Super
Bowl XLIX.
If youre not a fan of either
the Seahawks or the Patriots,
you probably dont like this
matchup.
On the one side, theres the
Seahawks who just won the Super Bowl last year, and on the
other side theres the Patriots,
who seemingly always make
the AFC Championship game
and advance to the Super Bowl
every few years.
Which team should you root
for?
Perhaps you dont like the
Seahawks because theyve been
too good the past few years and
you cant stand Richard Sherman. Perhaps you dont like the
Patriots because of their perpetual success and reputation to
look for unfair advantages even
when they dont need them, as
egate scandal.
So let me reword my question who should you root for?
If you cant allow yourself to
root for a team, root for a player.
Root for Russell Wilson.
Yes, he just won a Super
Bowl last season. But is there a
more hardworking and dedicated quarterback in the NFL than
Wilson?
The 75th pick in the 2012
NFL Draft, Wilson entered
preseason training camp as the
third-string quarterback.
A natural leader, Wilson
made his presence felt at practices and team meetings.
His strong play in the 2012
preseason and his hardwork
and positive attitude forced Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll
to give him the starting job.
season, advancing to the second
round of the playoffs only to
lose a heartbreaker in Atlanta on
But rather than hang his head
in his postgame press conference, Wilson focused on his
teams opportunity to have a
championship offseason.

Womens bball
From A8
when the Chargers allowed the
Wildcats to score 12 points in
eight minutes, while only putting
up one Hillsdale point. This run
with 6:30 left on the clock.
With 1:55 left, the Chargers
had battled back and took a onepoint lead.
At that point you have to
basically know that youre not
going to let them score again,
you have to have that mentality,
Charney said. And I dont think
as individuals yet were there.
Unfortunately for the Chargers, they couldnt hold the
Wildcats and the game continued on in a back-and-forth fashion. With 47 seconds left in the
game, the score was tied thanks
to two free throws by senior Megan Fogt. Those were the last
Charger points of the game.
The Wildcats quickly matched
Fogts two free throw points and
pulled ahead by one point. In the

Wilsons oft repeated motto

is The separation is in the preparation. When asked about his
path to success, Wilson quotes
his father who always asked
him, Why not you?
Wilson applies both of these
phrases to his job. Why not
us? was and still is repeated often by Wilson.
When asked about whether
he was nervous for the NFC
Championship game last Sunday, Wilson said that he is not
nervous as long as he is prepared.
After his teams miraculous
comeback against the Green
Bay Packers, Wilson could not
help but weep.
God is so good all the time
man, Wilson said in the onvision after the game. These
guys on the team are unbelievable.
While such postgame comments are expected from practically every professional athlete,
one couldnt help but feel the
authenticity of Wilsons humility and gratefulness.
Wilson is a great man on the
man off of it.
Every Tuesday, his only offday, Wilson visits the Seattle
Childrens Hospital, surprising
kids and families struggling
through tough times and giving
them a needed reprieve from the
harsh realities of life.
In addition to his weekly
visits to the childrens hospital,
Wilson has started the Why
Not You Foundation to help
Pass the Peace against domestic violence and has hosted
a dozen Make-A-Wish children.
Russell Wilson is a man of
integrity. Tom Brady? Regardless of whether he knew about
the footballs being underinColts, his demeanor and actions
do not compare to Wilsons.
You dont have to root for
the Seahawks on Sunday. But
how can you not root for Russell Wilson?
remaining seconds, the Chargers
executed clean plays and with
only four seconds left, junior
Maddy Berrys 12-foot baseline jump shot rimmed in and
out. A Wildcat rebound and foul
sent them to the free-throw line
where they gained their threepoint game winning lead.
Charney said her team needs
to improve on adjusting to the
way the game is being called,
and how the other team is playing.
This improvement will be
crucial as the Chargers head into
a three-game stretch in the next
will travel to Ferris State University to play the Bulldogs (6-6)
who they are currently tied with
in the league. The game will
start at 6 p.m. The team will play
again on Saturday against the
Grand Valley State University
Lakers (9-3) at home at 1 p.m.
On Monday, the Chargers will
travel to Saginaw Valley State
University to take on the Cardinals (1-11) at 6 p.m.

29 January 2015

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Charger Sports
Jessie Fox:

Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter
The Hillsdale womens basketball team fell short in two
single-digit losses at home last
weekend against teams from the
Upper Peninsula. The Chargers
lost to Michigan Tech 64-57 on
Thursday and fell to Northern
Michigan University 57-54 on
Saturday.
The Chargers now carry an
overall record of 10-5 and a 6-4
record in the GLIAC.
the Chargers entered intermission with a 5-point lead over nationally ranked Michigan Tech.
The second half began with
momentum as junior Kayla Geffert swished a three-pointer and
sophomore Morgan Blair, the
Chargers leading scorer, followed with her own back-to-back
three-pointers.
But soon after, the Chargers
defense began to slip as the Huskies took off.
There was just a short span

during the second half where we

started to lapse on the defensive
end, senior Kadie Lowery said.
We always say we need to put
together a full 40 minutes of defense and that didnt quite happen.
Tech had a 37-25 scoring edge
over the Chargers, which brought

ney, shot 87 percent at the line

gaining 24 free points.
Its foul trouble, well just
send them to the line and its easy
points with free throws, junior

Kelsey Cromer said.

This was the case on Saturday

and delivered them to a win.

Tech waits for you to make
mistakes and theyre such good
shooters so thats when they bury
their shots, head coach Claudette Charney said.
It was the Chargers own mistakes that lead them to another
loss in Saturdays hard fought
battle against Northern Michigan
University, Charney said.
We stopped our own play,
Charney said. We still feel like
the mistakes were making arent
because the other team is forcing
us into them.
The Chargers fouled 14 times
repeated foul mistakes. NMU,
one of the best free throw teams
in the country according to Char-

When the gym exploded, one

man stood still.
As parents threw up their
ed with USA-garbed students,
John Tharp, head coach of the
Hillsdale mens basketball
team, stood wide-eyed and
speechless after his team beat
Northern Michigan University
on Saturday by one point thanks
to a buzzer-beating dunk.
I was really proud of the

Senior Kadie Lowery looks to pass the ball in a game

against Northern Michigan University on Saturday. (Anders
Kiledal/Collegian)

TRACK TEAM TAKES ON D-I TEAMS

Micah Meadowcroft
Arts Editor

Anytime
you
compete
against a Big 10 school, youre
at really quickly, Hillsdale track
Towne said. We are able to go
to those meets now on a regular
basis with a good chunk of kids
because of how much our program has improved.
The Hillsdale indoor track
at Indiana Universitys Gladstein
Fieldhouse running with Big 10
teams at the 2015 Gladstein Invitational.
Junior Emily Oren placed
fourth in the womens mile at the
meet with a time of 4:55.02, the
fastest time among non-Division
I competitors. She was named
GLIAC womens Indoor Track
Athlete of the Week. Oren is now
ranked 2nd for the mile in the
GLIAC and 4th in NCAA Division II.
Freshman Lane White won
the 400 meter dash with a time of
49.06. Colby Clark, also a fresh-

49.86.
The IU meet was a really
good chance for us to compete
with a lot of bigger schools that
we dont get to run into, Clark
said. We also got to experience what its going to be like
at a championship meet because
they have a similar track. I think
theres a lot of people on the team
who got provisional marks and
a good day. And I personally had
a pretty good race in the 400
didnt PR but got to race with
some good talent so that was a
good time.
Junior Corinne Zehner and
the womens 4x400 meter relay
team won their heat with a time
of 3:52.14, earning them 5th
place.
We didnt run as fast as I
think we wanted to or I think our
coach would hope for, but we got
bumped into the second heat and
that was to our disadvantage because we were out in front we
should have had faster people to
race with, Zehner said. Even
without people to run with it was
a really impressive time in my

Sideline
spotlight

See WOMENS BBALL, A7

opinion.
Senior Joshua Mirth ran the

heat and 16th overall. Freshman

Jared Schipper reached a height
of 4.8 meters in the pole vault,
placing him 8th in the NCAA Division II.
As impressive as the IU meet
sounds, Towne said its a fairly
regular occurrence for Hillsdales
runners, jumpers, and throwers,
and is a testament to the growing
strength of Hillsdales program
and the particular nature of track
If you think about the mens
[basketball] team playing Michigan in the fall, that was a huge
event, and it should be, but we
joked as a staff that and we
realize that we are a non-revenue
sport compared to something like
football or basketball we joked
that if that many emails went
out every time we did that youd
because it happens all the time,
Towne said. Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, they
come here for our meets.
Its not only that Hillsdale has
the opportunity to compete with

these schools, but also that Hilling into a team that can and does
compete with these schools.
Its just a different sport and
mostly its limited by scholarship
limitations, Towne said.
Towne explained that while
in collegiate football theres a
difference of 50 scholarships between Division I teams and Division II teams, both Division I and
Division II track teams are limited to 12.6 scholarships.
Theyre not able to keep all
the good players in Division I,
Towne said. Most of our kids
have been recruited by Big 10
schools, especially our scholarship kids. A lot of them have
been offered money by Big 10
schools.
Two weeks ago Charger innaw Valley Universitys Classic,
getting a feel for the facilities and
track that will host the GLIAC
Championships this year. The
team is on rest this week and
will return with a home meet,
the Hillsdale Wide Track Classic,
on Feb. 6 and 7 in the Margot V.
Biermann Center.

when that happened I was literally in shock, and then it went

from shock to a whole lot of
thanks, Tharp said with a laugh
and a huge smile.
Coach Tharp cares a lot
about winning. Point guard
Zach Miller called his coach
the most competitive person
he knows, which is quite a title. But Tharp cares more for his
players, which is why he is such
Tharps competitive edge is
derived from his serious love
for the game of basketball. A
coach for 21 years and a Hillsdale coach for eight of those
years, he said he loves the Xs
and Os of the game the philosophy of basketball.
Its funny how everything relates back to the game
with him, Hillsdale basketball alumnus Anthony Manno
14 said of Tharp. Manno said
Tharp equates everything from
raking leaves to dealing with a
pesky squirrel in his gutter to a
basketball game against his rival and shouts: Boys, we can
not let them beat us!
Its this unwavering passion
that puts him in a defensive
stance on the sidelines, or on his
big plays. He cares so deeply
about the outcome of the games
that he reportedly doesnt sleep
after a loss or a win.
Miller said its this toughness and thirst that inspires the
team.
Coach wants to win as
badly as we do, and we want to

ery possession and every play,

Miller said.
Manno said he knows Tharp
may look intense and determined on the sidelines, but says
thats not Tharps only side.
The coach Manno knows is
one who approached him at every practice just to ask, Hey,
hows the family? or Hows
school? or Whatd ya do this
weekend?
Hes not asking to pry for
information, Manno said.
Hes the kind of guy where if
you ever sit down to talk to him
multiple times hell ask how
are you doing? And he might
minutes ago, but he wants to
know again.
Tharp is the coach who pushes his team to average a 3.0 in
the classroom. Hes the coach
who invites the entire team,
managers included, to his house
for dinners. Hes the coach who
has taken in a sick player, caring for him at his home until he
recovers.
Were far from perfect but I
think at the end of the day, at the
end of the season, at the end of
games, we all know that we care
a great deal about each other,
Tharp said.
After Saturdays win, crowds
of retired Chargers threw on
that blue and white jersey once
more to play in the annual alumni basketball game. Tharp said
he saw boys that had played
for him who are now successful businessmen or in their third
year of law school, all returning
they shared with their teammates.
Its the things you sometimes forget about when youre
coaching. But this put it into
perspective, Tharp said. I
mean you played a very small
part in their development in becoming a man.
A very small part may be
an understatement.

Charger Chatter: Ali Bauer

sdale. Ive realized since it is
much more than that. But swimming is what brought me here.

Whats the best part of swimming?

Probably that I can eat as many
calories as I want a day and still
port their weights and have a
special diet and our coach is like
Are you eating enough carbs?

Senior Ali Bauer, from Ionia,

Michigan, is one of three swim
team captains. She specializes
in the breaststroke and sprint
freestyle. A biology major, she
will attend medical school next
year at Lake Erie College of
Osteopathic Medicine.
When did you start swimming
and why?
I took lessons when I was little,
and started swimming competitively when my hometown got a
swim team. I started mostly because my parents said youve
tried a lot of sports and youre
not good at them.
Did you come to Hillsdale to
swim?
Yes. Thats why I came to Hill-

Whats the worst part?

We swim fast at two meets. You
compete hard at every meet, but
there are two meets when we
rest, put on a fast suit, and try
to go best times. And if youre
not feeling it one of those two
meets, then it feels like a downer on your whole season. So
basically you have two chances
to go fast. Thats probably the
only hard part about it. As an
athlete, you want to work hard,
you like training, but you want
to do well.
Do you train all year?
In the offseason, we do more
lifting, and more cross-training.
During the season, we still lift
and do dryland medballs,
bands, circuit stuff, a lot of
abs but its more focused on
yardage. Toward the end of the

season, we drop yardage and

work on more intensity/speed
things, and at the very end of the
season, we taper off.

What is a typical week of

practice?
We have two mornings a week:
Those are at six. And then we
have afternoon practice everyday, 3:15-6, and Saturday
practice usually unless we have
a meet. Its about 8 practices a
week, two weights and two dryland sessions.
Is swimming boring?
Its really boring over the summer if youre training on your
own. Thats probably the most
boring swimming gets. It helps
a lot having other people in
your lane. You dont really
talk to them, but just knowing
that someone else is struggling
right behind or right in front of
you helps you make it through
the day. Its a matter of singing
songs in your head. Some pools
are nice and have underwater
speakers. We do not have that
technology here. But the stereo
helps a bit. Keeps it fresh.
Of what swim feat are you
most proud?
Probably when I had a school

record. I had the 200 breaststroke record. I got it my sophomore year, and it was beaten the
end of my junior year. So this
year is redemption year, hopefully.
What motivates you?
Lots of things, obviously. You
love the sport, you love the
team. You do things for so many
years, you cant really imagine
not doing it. And theres always
a reason to be better. Complacency is not my thing.

Do you want to swim competitively after graduation?

No. Not at all. Theres masters
swim programs where you can
keep swimming competitively.
Thats not what I want to do.
Im so looking forward to swimming slow and not caring, for
exercise but not for speed. Its
exciting to be able to do other
things and not worry about how
they affect my swim career. I
can climb the rockwall a few
times, get my forearms nice and
sore, and not worry about how
Im gonna feel at practice later.
So no Olympic aspirations?
No. Im 5 4 and Im going to
med school. I have other goals,
and Im not built for that.

Are you sad your swim career

is ending?
It is sad, thinking at the end
of your career that there are so
many things you didnt do or
that you wont do. Youll never go to the Olympics, youre
never gonna beat that one time
youve always wanted to beat,
but its also comforting that
theres no pressure to do that
either. Not that I felt too much
place.
Are you happy with it on the
whole?
Its been a good ride. There
have been more positive experiences than negative ones. Being
a collegiate athlete teaches you
a lot of things about teamwork.

Even in individual sports, you

train together, you compete together, you still have to learn
being a captain, its broadened
that motherly aspect where you
want to have the best for everyone else even if youre not having a great day.
What would you tell someone
who wanted to start swimming?
Anytime spent in the water is
productive, especially if youre
just starting to swim, at basically any level. The more time
you spend in the pool, the better
youll be.
-Compiled by Jack Butler

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( Laura Williamson/Collegian)

The Tower Light, a shared space for beauty

Since 1955, the Tower Light has grown into a quintessential part of Hillsdale
Andrew Egger
Assistant Editor
In the semesters waning days
one morning they appear suddeninviting covers, stacked in tidy
piles on library tables, on columns in the union, in the window
wells of classroom buildings.
They are picked up, pored over,
pondered, passed from hand to
hand. The student-written poems
and photographs they contain are
peaceful, savage, joyful, plaintive, beautiful. This is the Tower
Light.
The Tower Light has a unique
purpose among Hillsdales campus publications. The news
would still exist without a Collegian to report it, and conservatives would still be opinionated
essays of conservative opinion.
The Tower Light, on the other
hand, is itself a catalyst for creativity, using the prospect of publication to wring literature out of
members of a busy student body,
who might otherwise never take
the time to write that poem, take
that photograph. In a sense, the
Tower Light creates itself.
Its an imaginative space that
writers can project into, said
Aaron Schepps 14, who edited
the Tower Light in fall 2013.
Those pages exist as a potential
future destination for writing.
Senior and current editor-in-

The incentive of having your

work published, I think, is really
and photography.
2015 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Hillsdales studentpublished literary journal. Like
other regular campus publications, the semesterly appearance
of the Tower Light has become
it seems almost a piece of the
campus itself, blossoming autonomously into print indoors
as the trees blossom correspondingly outside. It bears its fruit in
its season, and its leaf does not
wither.
Given this, it is
perhaps surprising
that the Tower Light
was born essentially
by accident. The
Collegian has always been a campus
rum was founded in
2003 to be a political and philosophical magazine. Even
the Pape, during its
short four-year life,

Hill was attending the annual Associated Collegiate Press conference in Washington, D.C., when
he mistakenly walked into a leca panel discussion on weekend
magazine supplements for daily
newspapers. Although the Collegian was, then as now, a weekly
paper, Hill nevertheless carried
the idea back to Hillsdale with
him and convinced his coworkers to give it a shot.
er Light, published in January
1955, Hill wrote, It is our claim

After early rehearsals, performance a success

Three days before Hillsdale students began classes, the

chamber choir was already back
at work.
The Hillsdale College Chamber choir participated in the Celebration of Music Concert Series put on by Trinity Lutheran
Church in Grand Rapids. They
began rehearsals on Sunday, Jan.
11, and continued intense practices until the concert last Sunday.
We started with dinner together, Professor of Music Jim
Holleman said. I made food,
Debbie Wyse had made food, so
we had homemade food. We had
rehearsal Sunday evening after
dinner, Monday morning, Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, Tuesday afternoon. So we
started in two and a half days.
Holleman said the group also
-

Light will take place this Saturnounced. All those interested

please attend.
The publication has several
times jockeyed with Student
Current upperclassmen may remember the most recent example
-

protest cuts to the publication.

The good that came out of
it was we got to see how much
good the Tower Light does on
campus, said professor of journalism Maria Servold, the faculty advisor to the
Tower Light.
Despite
these
controversies, the
Tower Light has
become over the
years a respectable
literary journal in
its own right. College Provost David
Whalen said that
this improvement is
most evident in the
graphic design of the
publication.
There was one
to which it held duryear when the Towing its entire run.
er Light was little
But the Tower Light
more than photobegan its life not as
copied pieces of paan independent literper staple-bound,
ary journal, but as a
Whalen said. The
Collegian-affiliated
improved quality in
weekend magazine.
the graphic design is
In the fall of
extremely helpful,
1954,
Collegian Tower Lights representing last semesters student literary creativity with prose
and lends the publieditor-in-chief Rich and poetry and photography. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
cation a seriousness

Chamber Choir hits the road

Amanda Tindall
News Editor

newspaper to develop a slickcovered magazine edition among

the small colleges of the nation.
legian supplement, the Tower
Light became an independent
publication in late 1956.
Over the years, the Tower
Light has also had its fair share
of controversy. The earliest
signs of dissatisfaction appear
in a single-paragraph, intriguingly context-free announcement
which appeared in the Collegian
on Dec. 3, 1959.
A small demonstration for
the overthrow of the Tower

Jonathan Edelblut, freshman

Mark Naida, sophomore Shelby Ripley, and freshman Jacob
Hann.
The new members had to not
only learn the new music, but the
system of chamber choir, how to
rehearse, how to create a blend of
voices, Holleman said. So they
all jumped in the deep end, and
thankfully no one drowned. They
did a great job.
The choir performed a mixture of new pieces and old ones
performed at the last choir concert. With new members and new
pieces, Holleman said he was
very impressed with their performance.
Basically this semester, with
the new members and then new
music weve already learned,
weve already gelled, so now we
just get to ride that, Holleman
out who we are as an ensemble
any more.
Junior Matt Sauer said he
thought the experience was delightful.
Our hosts were kind, the audience was enthusiastic, and the

performance went just about as

smoothly as we could hope for,
Sauer said. The chamber choir

design simply doesnt provide.

But although todays Tower
Light is undeniably slick from
a design standpoint, its true
strength is in the rectitude of
its mission and the beauty of
its content. This publication exists not simply as a reservoir for
beautiful things, but as a cultural
project in which all Hillsdale students share. More than any other
campus publication, the Tower
Light binds its readers together
as co-participants in the common
pursuit of beauty.
Boys, I should like to say one
word to you, here at this place.
This quotation, taken from
ing novel The Brothers Karamazov, appears as the epigraph in
Tower Light. The quotation is
taken from a scene in which the
young priest Alyosha comforts
a group of young boys who are
grieving the death of a friend,
one of their number.
At the conclusion of the same
issue, Alyoshas speech continAnd even if we are occupied
with most important things, if we
attain to honor or fall into great
misfortunestill let us remember
how good it was once here, when
we were all together, united by
a good and kind feeling which
made us, for the time we were
loving that poor boy, better perhaps than we are.
This is the Tower Light, too.

Busy semester for music

Stacey Egger
Collegian Freelancer

ter will be even more active than

the last, especially because of the
quantity of upcoming student performances. The students have
spent fall semester preparing, so
we start to see more individual recitals, he said.
The department, Holleman

the school and the community.

Thats counting student recitals,
faculty recitals, jazz, guest artists,
the Professional Artist Series, all
that stuff. So it kind of gives a
sense of how active we are as a
department.
Tomorrow, Chris McCourry,
teacher of music and jazz musician, will be performing in

a part of, and Im so grateful to

perform with all of the people in
The Howard Music Departit.
ment is giving students, both in
Holleman said hes glad the the program and outside of it,
much to anticipate this semester.
school to rehearse.
Jim Holleman, head of the he has been here from putting on
I was thrilled with the per- department, said that this semes- 15 or 20 concerts a year to 100
or more concerts every year for
formance, he said. With 11 a
See Music department B2
capella pieces, and with the difnies, there was a consistency of
quality on every single piece we
performed, so I think the group
really rose to the occasion.
New chamber choir member
Shelby Ripley said he enjoys the
caliber of musicianship in the
choir.
January 30
January 31
I felt that we did really well,
Chris
McCourry
Mark Mehaffey: Artists Reception
Ripley said. Considering the
Faculty Trumpet Recital
Daughtrey Gallery,
time we had to rehearse, the naMarkel
Auditorium,
Sage Center for the Arts
ture of illness just running around

Things

To do and see
This week

and stuffy noses have been rampant in the past week I think it
came together well.

Sage Center for the Arts

8 p.m.
Chris McCourry, director of jazz
studies, will show off his trumpet
chops in a faculty recital which will
include contributions from other
music faculty and students,
including Brad Blackham on piano,
Stacey Jones on percussion, Debbi
Wyse on piano, and Joseph Banovetz
on bass.
January 31 March 1
Professional Artist Series:
Paintings by Mark Mehaffey
Daughtrey Gallery,
Sage Center for the Arts
Nationally recognized Michigan
watercolor artist Mark Mehaffey
exhibits his work, which explores an
interaction between abstract and
representational style.

2-4 p.m.
Mark Mehaffey presents his
watercolor exhibition.

January 31
Professional Artist Series: CANTUS
Markel Auditorium,
Sage Center for the Arts
8 p.m.
Hailed as the premier mens vocal
ensemble in the United States
(Fanfare) and winner of the
prestigious Margaret Hillis Award
for Choral Excellence from Chorus
America, CANTUS enjoys an active
schedule of national tour dates,
subscription concerts in its home of
Minneapolis/St. Paul, educational
outreach programs and recordings.
CANTUS is acknowledged around the
world for its programmatic
versatility, artistic excellence, and
charismatic personality.
(Ticket reservations required)
(Compiled by Andrew Egger)

The Chamber Choir practices for their Grand Rapids concert.

(Joel Calvert/Collegian)

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Morgan
Delp

One journalists
attempt to crack

(Photo courtesy of Morgan

Delp)

IN FOCUS

creative writing
I expected my playwriting
class to consist mostly of theatre
majors, or at least experienced
thespians. Being neither, I was
nervous when I took my seat in
the class of six would meet twice
a week for the semester. Indeed,
the rest of the class had previous
experience with playwriting and
acting. Most of them casually
referenced plays I had never even
heard of, much less read.
Although Professor Angells
kind and supportive demeanor
of that nights reading that a huge
wave of relief and subsequent
author Jeffrey Sweet began:
After years of teaching dramatic technique, I have strong
ideas about what kinds of people
are most likely to become real,
working playwrights: actors and
journalists.
Maybe playwriting wont be
so hard for this journalist after all.
I had felt underprepared going into the playwriting class because Hillsdales creative writing
department is, well, nonexistent.
Hillsdale, while emphasizing the
great literary works of history,
has little interest in teaching its
tional prose of their own. I have
read The Iliad and The Odyssey and more modern marvels
like Elie Wiesels Night and
Robert K. Massies Nicholas
and Alexandra. But my writing
has consisted of researching and
commenting on these works.
On one hand, I understand
that most college students arent
prepared, in life experience or
education, to pen the next great
American novel. But if there is
one thing I have learned throughout my four years of experience
in the excellent Dow Journalism
Program, it is that if you want to
be a good writer, you must write.
Practice, as clich as it sounds,
truly does make perfect.
So, in order to be a great
on campus, I have written for
the Collegian. I have become an
editor, held a journalism internship, and taken numerous writing courses, including Advanced
Writing. I can whip up a news
story in record time, and ledes
and concise diction have become second nature. But writing
dialogue? Developing characters
from my imagination? No way.
I can record the conversations
to dream up an interchange on
my own is daunting.
When I read that journal-

ists make good playwrights, and

heard Prof. Angell say in class
that historical knowledge makes
for good playwriting, something
dawned on me. No, I have not
written any plays or novels in my
life. I probably havent written
a short story since grade school.
But maybe I had taken for granted the experience I do have.
Being a journalist, Sweet elaborated, makes a good playwright
because journalists cut down the
excess fat and share only the information necessary to a story. It
what is going on underneath the
characters words and actions, in
both journalism and theater.
As a History major, the entirety of my course work has been
essentially the discovery of lifes
greatest dramas. I have read and
learned about the Revolutionary War, the Ancient Egyptians,
the Russian tsars, the Great Depression, the French Revolution,
and the Holocaust, just to name
a few. I know the players of historys stage: George Washington,
Aristotle, Adolf Hitler, Winston
Churchill, Rasputin, the Apostle
Peter, Robert E. Lee, Sacagawea,
Andrew Jackson, and King Tut,
among many others. The experiences of all these people in
all these different times can tell
me more about writing true hu-

We can all thank senior Tim

Allen for bringing the pop-folk
husband and wife duo The Grey
Havens to the Dawn Theater
again this Saturday. The show
is free for Hillsdale College students and begins at 8:00 p.m. at
the Dawn Theater.
Last year, front man Dave
Radford announced a tour and
asked fans for suggestions of cities or venues to add to the list.

Tim Allen jumped on the opportunity and emailed Radford about

coming to Hillsdale.
He responded within an
hour, Allen said. Now, he said,
the Dawn Theater is their favorite
venue.
This year, campus ministry
Intervarsity is hosting the live
show.
While The Grey Havens explores Christian themes in their
music, they sound nothing like
mainstream Christian music,
Allen said. They have a folksy
feel with jazz undertones.
Allen hopes the concert will

be an invitation for students uninvolved with student ministry

on campus to take another look
at Intervarsity. Who doesnt like
live music? he added.
Inspired by authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, the duo
focuses on bringing a narrative
into every song they record. In
Tolkiens Lord of the Rings, the
Grey Havens is a harbor town
and a refuge for the Elves. The
duos namesake recalls the magic
of fantasy and a storys ability
to carry listeners to a different
realm.
Lewis noted that stories have

the power to steal past the watchful dragons of the human heart,
Radford explains on the website.
People like stories because they
like watching relationships unfold and develop.
In high school, Dave Radford
made it into the Top 20 in American Idol. He met Licia, his wife,
while performing as a solo artist
and their relationship blossomed
after they began performing together.
And theyre very good live,
Allen said.

Popcorn and psychedelia: A Pink Floyd cover show

Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor

The lights in the auditorium

dimmed as smoke began wafting forward from the sides of
the backlit stage. The overlarge
(but apparently harmless) bearded basementdweller to my left began
to stir in anticipation of
the common spectacle:
Echoes of Pink Floyd
was about to perform.
I sat, shrouded in
smog, in Jacksons
Michigan
Theatre.
Echoes of Pink Floyd,
a cover band native to
Michigan, was here for
an annual performance:
had paid tribute to their
muse. The event, billed
as HITS CLASSICS
AND RARITIES WITH
LASERSHOW, summoned forth the antiquated characters of Pink Floyds
heyday, as well as the younger,
consciously backward-looking
generation of Pink Floyds devoted and eccentric fan base.
The seating attendants, hulking and middle-aged, held canned
beers and dimly surveyed the

gathering crowd. The scents of

buttered popcorn and stale hops
became one with the smoke, rising heavenward in a benign sacdelia. The interior of the theater
optimistically characterized
by the proprietors as Spanish by
inspiration was in the process
of renovation, belied by large

both incredibly talented and remarkably small: A button-down

tucked into khakis, a beard, and
wailing guitar solos constituted
his stage presence. Tall and darkhaired, the bands frontman had
an odd habit of thrusting his chin
up and forward, as if to assure his
audience of earnest lyrical enthusiasm. The saxophonist, with the
heroic self-possession
known only to musicians of his species,
wore plastic sunglasses
for the duration of the
performance.

the Pink Floyd tribe,

tattoos clashing beautifully with an old cotton shirt, was seated
directly to my fore. His
forearms were all sharp
angles and dark ink;
spread across his broad
back and upper arms,
however, were cartoon
ors, long faded in the
wash. He had been en(Photo courtesy of Catherine Coffey) thusiastically gesturing
throughout the entire
patches of exposed plaster.
set, encouraging the hefty backup
The setlist, taken primarily singers when he felt it necessary
from Dark Side of the Moon and ceasing only to observe the
(1973) and The Wall (1979), lasers with an occasional awewas executed with loving de- struck pause and a reverent Oh,
votion. The lead guitarist was shit.

In his joy he was not alone.

With the opening of Mother, I
heard a small gasp and faint snifjunior Catherine Coffey, was
wiping her eyes. Its just such a
tender song, she sniffed. Shortly
thereafter, Comfortably Numb
began playing. Sitting next to
me, sophomore Amelia Stieren
song is about drugs. A giggle.
As the three-hour set wore on,
I began to notice how people responded to Pink Floyds music.
The performance was not merely
a spectacle, but an experience
one that brought with it a wealth
of past experience and personal
meaning. An older man, quiet
and still through the greater part
of the tracklist, smiled and nodded at the beginning of Wish
You Were Here. From behind
us, the bands prompting loosened cries of HOW CAN YOU
HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU
DONT EAT YER MEAT?
Great bands possess something more than talent, more than
style. Though Echoes of Pink
Floyd is an admirably competent
cover band, the virtue of their
performance lay simply in the
fact that they loved Pink Floyd
every bit as much as their audience.
Wish you were there.

Endless River: Pink Floyds stream of music ends

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Performing Artist Series with

the world-class a capella group
CANTUS Jan. 31, the musical
The Drowsy Chaperone over
Parents Weekend at the end of
February, and the 4th annual Liberal Arts Jazz festival, which will
feature guest artists such as world
famous trumpet player Vinnie
DiMartino. The Orchestras two
performances will be March 5
and May 7, and the Choir concert
will be April 26.
The announcement of the
CANTUS performance has
caused much excitement among
students. Freshman Brendan
King, who takes vocal lessons
and is a member of both the
Chamber Choir and the main
choir, said, I went to a CANTUS
performance when I was younger, and theyre a wonderful group

Chandler Ryd
Collegian Freelancer

thought.
That reminded me of the second piece of wisdom that was
hammered into my mind over the
course of my collegiate journalism classes: Not only to write, but
also to write what you know.
I may not have studied Shakespeare, starred in a Tower Players
production, or penned a novel in
my free time, but I do have experience in human interactions. I
am an aspiring journalist and historian, and I will use that background, and an eagerness to learn
more, to become a playwright.
I wont expect to craft the
next Romeo and Juliet, of course.
Bryan Morey
Actually, I wont even expect a
Special-to-the-Collegian
crappy off-Broadway play or a
decent amateur piece. What I will
expect is to improve throughout
It truly is the end of an era.
the semester, and incorporate This past November, Pink Floyd
journalistic skills and historical
knowledge into a pastime for The Endless River. Pink Floyd
which I have a growing passion. is one of the most iconic bands
in rock history, and they are one
Morgan Delp is a senior from of the greatest progressive rock
Toledo, Ohio, studying history.
She is minoring in journalism countless budding musicians
through the Dow Journalism pro- over the years, and many of their
gram and is the editor-in-chief of album covers are easily recognizthe Collegian.
able pieces of pop culture. To see
such an important band release

Music DepartMent
Recital. The concert begins at 8
p.m.
For this recital in particular, hes included so many other
faculty members from the music
department and from the theater
department, and one student as
well, Holleman said. The repertoire that hes chosen is both
very interesting and very challenging.
McCourrys recital will feature pieces from composers as diverse as Johann Altenburg, Paul
Hindemith, and Frank Zappa.
Other than recitals, some
highlights this semester include

Intervarsity playing host to The Gray Havens

of gentlemen their vocal quality is impeccable and Im really

excited to hear what they have
to say about vocal technique and
singing in general with the workshop that day as well.
Freshman Collin Saunders,
who sings in the choir and plays
cello in the orchestra, as well as
taking cello and voice lessons, is
very excited about the orchestras
upcoming concert, which will
feature Beethovens Fifth. Its
very fun, its got a great cello
part, and its not, you know, killer
lenging, he said.
Holleman, he said, challenged
mester, which has improved their
comfort and ability. Were not
all on the edge of our seats all the
time now, we can actually kind of
focus more on making music and
not just playing all the notes.
Holleman thinks that the concerts that the department puts on
are a wonderful opportunity for
all students, whether they are
studying music or not. Not only
are they enriching experiences,
but they give students a chance
to support their peers from all
different areas of study. Theyre
able to see these people, he said,
the hard work theyve put in
and the high level at which they
perform And we present everything free of charge, and its just
a wonderful part of the four years
while youre here.

well.
In a sense, The Endless River is a goodbye to keyboardist
Richard Wright, who died from
cancer in 2008. The basis for the
music comes from extra music
made during the recording sessions for 1994s The Division
Bell, Pink Floyds previous album. Over the past few years,
guitarist David Gilmour and
drummer Nick Mason, along
with other musicians and backing
vocalists, returned to the studio to
complete those recordings. Rick

Wrights keyboard parts were all

recorded over twenty years ago,
and the completion of these recordings creates a worthy send
off for one of rocks greatest keyboardists.
The Endless River is mainly
an instrumental album, with only
one song, Louder than Words,
featuring lyrics sung by David
Gilmour. This fact has caused
many to dislike the album, despite it becoming the most preordered album on Amazon. What
those detractors are forgetting is
that Pink Floyd has long been a
band known for lengthy instrumental pieces throughout their
catalogue. In fact, the greatest
facet of Pink Floyd has always
been their ability to craft interesting and complex instrumental pieces. Other people claim
that without Roger Waters (who
left the band after their 1983 album, The Final Cut), it is not
Pink Floyd. Admittedly, I used
to think that, but after hearing
The Endless River I decided
that the post-Waters era is still
distinctly Pink Floyd, just like
the pre-Gilmour era is still Pink
Floyd. While it is true that their
most popular, and arguably their
best, music was created under the

Pink Floyd that emerged after his

departure is still very good. The
Endless River is no exception.
The music of The Endless
River is, like The Division
Bell, calm, ethereal, and relaxed. The anti-government and
anarchist cries of The Wall
(read, the cries of Roger Waters)
are long gone here. Instead, a
grouping of short instrumental pieces dominates the album,
making the album sound rather
like one long song. In that sense,
it is a distinctly prog piece, bestaple of progressive rock.
The overall theme of the album deals with connecting to
the past and to each other. It is
interesting that Pink Floyd chose
to include recordings of Stephen Hawking speaking on the
song, Talkin Hawkin. This
inclusion is a direct reference to
the song Keep Talking, off of
The Division Bell, which also
features recordings of Stephen
Hawking. The recordings are of
Hawking discussing the importance of communication in the
construction of society. Coupled
from the album, Things Left Un-

said, and the last song, Louder

Than Words, Pink Floyd begs
the question, what is communication? Since the only song on
the album to feature singing is
to remember the Floyd music of
the past. It is almost as if, at this
point in their career, the band has
nothing left to say. They have
said it all, and they have said it
well. Louder Than Words ends
with these lyrics: Louder than
words / This thing they call soul
/ Is there with a pulse / Louder
than words / Louder than words.
When there is nothing to say,
communication is still present.
The connections we make with
each other and with the music are
indeed louder than words.
The Endless River is more
It is a tribute to a beloved band
member, and it is a tribute to the
band itself. Musical themes from
across their catalogue can be
heard, and the epic guitar solos
that Pink Floyd is known for are
present, albeit understated. This
album is fully Pink Floyd, and it
is a more than perfect way to end
the career of one of the greatest
bands of all time.
R.I.P. Richard Wright.

Students soundtrack, Gregory Alan Isakov

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
Folk singer Gregory Alan Isakov enraptured the city of Ann
Arbor and about 30 Hillsdale
students on January 18 with his
performance at The Ark, a notable folk music hall. The percozy venue.
The atmosphere was very
nice and pleasant, and it felt
very intimate between him and
the audience, Junior Christina
Lambert said. He really enjoyed
sharing his music with us.
Isakov played both acoustic and electric guitars and was
backed by another guitar, a cello,
a drum set, and occasionally a
banjo. He also switched between
microphones, a technique which
pleased the audience.

It sounds like hes on an old

radio, sophomore Laura Williamson said.
Isakovs most memorable moment occurred during his studentbeloved song The Universe.
Sophomore Savannah Falter
memorized a portion of the refrain: The universe is wounded,

During the song, Isakov and

his band turned off the lights and
sang in the dark.
It sounds kind of funky, but
it was the most beautiful thing in
the world, Falter said.
The only light on the stage
was an illuminated globe. Isakov
and his band hope to perform in
planetariums in the future, Falter
said.
Whenever he goes to a planetarium, Im going meet him
then. And its not going to be a
school night its going to be, like,
a Friday, and its going to be

fantastic. My wedding could be

there! Falter laughed.
Falter also described some
of the older couples who were
watching as relationship goals.
Lambert believes part of her
love of Isakov stems from memories associated with her years at
Hillsdale.
He became the sound of so
many parts of sophomore year,
Lambert said.

From writing papers to driving, each of his songs reminds

her of something else. She even
knows them well enough to
know when he changes something about them. She appreciated most how genuine his voice
was and how deeply he seemed
to enjoy the performance.
We like the songs, but he
likes them more, she said.

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chef
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years old, I was always digging
in her spice cupboard, always
trying to make things better,
Trombly laughed. I did it from
a young age.
Trombly attended Le Cordon
she gained the education in
culinary arts that she always
dreamed of. While there, Trombly also worked at the Winn
and Encore, a Las Vegas resort
where she prepared banquets
for up to 5,000 people. She said
that though she gained a wealth
of foundational techniques at
Le Cordon Bleu, she simultaneexperience at the Winn and Encore, where she had the opportunity to learn from professionals.
Once she even worked with a

Admissions
From B4
Thats a skill which translates
well into sales, public relations,
teaching. I know a lot of alumni
now that work at think tanks, govketing positions.
Similarly, Aaron Tracey, 14,
who studied business marketing,
has found admissions a nice transition.
Whats made it easy is Im
starting with great people, Tracey said. Im not a student anymore, but Im still in the student
environment and working with
people who are also making that
transition. Im able to talk to professors, employees Ive grown a
relationship with. Hillsdale is a
big school in terms of connection.
I want to go into sales, and youre
selling a college education. Thats
something people are learning
intangibly, but its the experience youre selling. I saw this as
a great opportunity to give back.
Previous counselors have furthered their education by attending seminary or graduate school
or solicited a variety of jobs from
teaching to working for a think
tank, according to Lantis.
For Ashleigh Dunham, 07,
who studied marketing management, admissions were a great

chef from Iron Chef.

Just like somebody can sit
down and draw a picture, I can
take a basket of ingredients and
make something really good out
of it, Trombly said.
cer Mike Harner, who re-hired
Trombly, said Tromblys unique
combination of experience

She gained a wealth

of foundational
techniques at Le
Cordon Bleu.
lodge.
She has great experience on
both the food side and the hospitality side, he said. We expect it to be wildly successful.
With LuAnn back in place there,
well be able to more aggressively market the lodge and do a

start. She moved into event planning and fundraising for nonprofits after two years as a counselor.
Currently she is the director of
corporate development for Forgotten Harvest in Detroit, the
number one food rescue program
in the country.
Dunham became interested in
admissions when her mentor told
her about the skills and connections developed from the job
It was a perfect job to support
her into a job of philanthropy,
Dunham said. Knowing that is
what I wanted to do eventually, I
followed in her footsteps.
Dunhams experience in admissions and learned organizational and people skills would
contribute to obtaining her present position working with corporate donors to secure volunteers
and the communitys charitable
support.
Key skills I learned in admissions was to cultivate relationships, being able to communicate
effectively the ends of an organization, and learning how to plan
my work, Dunham said. The
believed in the mission.
Pursuing a mission in which
she believed also brought Shannon Armbrust, 10, who majored
in Christian Studies and also studied Economics and Spanish, to
admissions and to pursue her education through a fellowship program with Trinity Forum Acad-

lot more program-wise up there

to bring people to the property.
Director of the Dow Leadership Center Teresa Heckenlively worked with LuAnn when
pressed her excitement to have
her back as chef and manager of
the lodge.
The experiences and training
she has had since she left sound
amazing, she said.
Trombly may be a Frenchtrained chef now, but she said
farm-to-table,
close-to-home
cuisine is still her specialty. She
plans to adjust the lodge menu

twist.
Trombly plans to continue
combining her love of regional

regional culinary traditions of

Michigan and Midwest America.
I have several salmon dishes, and of course walleye, on
the menu, she said. Its about
where youre at. Were in the
Northwoods, but yet its going
to have beautiful plating and a
little more of a contemporary

developing the talent for picking

and crafting fresh produce that
would earn her the title of side
dish queen. She may know
how to prepare French cuisine,
but the side dish queen is still a
Michigan girl and according
to her, youll know it when you
taste it.

emy in Washington, D.C., which

combines theology, philosophy,
and cultural studies to understand
life in response to Gods call.
While admissions were a challenge for Armbrust in the beginple, she said she gained knowledge about herself.
I saw recruiters who couldnt
sell their product because they
didnt believe in it, Armbrust
said. I learned it is important for
me to work for a company I am
excited about.
After two years with admissions, Armbrust joined the nine
month fellowship where she was
further educated, especially focusing on the role of fathers in
contemporary and Biblical society. Upon its completion, she was
ager and events coordinator.
I have done everything from
event planning to accounting to
recruiting to development, Armbrust said. The variety of the
tasks is similar to admissions, and
its similarly an organization I am
able to sell because I not only believe in it, but I am a product of
it.
For Colleen McGuiness, 04,
who studied speech communications and journalism, however,
admissions became a career. After working six years, McGuiness
left to labor in a trade association
to use her communication skills

picking fresh, organic foods

and using them to create masterpieces. She has already been
in touch with local farmers and
farmers markets in the lodge
area to ensure she will be able
to have fresh supplies for her art.
Tromblys culinary journey
may have taken her to Las Vegas, but what makes her truly
unique is the passion she began cultivating back home in
Michigan, where at the side of

only to return to recruit for the

college and further connections
with alumni.
I was looking for something
different, McGuiness said. I
learned a lot, but I missed Hillsdale.
In the next months, McGuinesss focus will turn to creating
a network of alumni and parents
services.
I ended up loving it, and it
ended up emerging into a career,
McGuiness said. It naturally is
evolving into working with alumni. A lot of alumni Im working
with now, some I recruited and
knew in admissions, so it was fun
to see what theyre doing in their
careers and with families.
McGuiness plans to remain in
higher education and believes her
role may become progress toward
development and fundraising.
Thats one thing I know for
sure after leaving, how much I
missed working for admissions
Guiness said. Hillsdale is unique
in higher education. Theres few
missions as important as this
one.
Although pursuing development, McGuiness still utilizes her
journalism skills as a ghost freelancer for senators in Washington
state too.
Working for the college,
theres endless possibilities,
Tracey said.

off-cAmpus
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my life, Ryskamp said. I was

kind of frustrated afterwards,
thinking, they cant expect me to
know deep questions like what
is the good and why I am I
here. So then I thought Id put
their money where their mouth
is and come here so they could
teach me the answers. So I came
to Hillsdale, and when I came
here, I realized those questions
are important because theyre a
way to live. The only way to answer those questions is to live in
a community.
Harper agrees, saying the
only way to really complete
your education at Hillsdale is
by struggling and growing with
friends whom you can trust and
share your experiences, eurekas,
and endeavors.
This group of friends has
made my Hillsdale experience,
Harper said. I learned more
about the good, the true, and
the beautiful through my relationships with them than in the
classroom. Its like when you
learn a foreign language the
best way to learn is immersion
in a foreign country. If you really want to understand what
Hillsdale means about learning
truth and becoming a better person and rising to self-government, the best way to do that is
in community with other people
who are striving to do the same.
You have to immerse yourself
with other people, if you really
the good life.
Sophomore Sam Clausen,
who participated in the First
Ever Best Ever Bounce House
Talent Show with Harper and
Ryskamp, has maintained the
mission of friendship and community in his Simpson suite,
which earned the name The
Wigwam by his suitemates and
friends across campus.
The Wigwam, which throws
regular parties called Powon a Saturday night, says Clausen. At the latest Powow, partygoers competed in a Frozen Tshirt contest, ate snacks, jammed
to music, and caught up with
friends from every social circle
at Hillsdale.
Its been a way to reach out
on campus and say what Hillsdales culture is and shape how

To balance his playfulness,

Jerry also creates sentimental
pieces. He fashioned a Spartan
cane for a friend after a stroke,
and built a set of Christmas boxes
for each of his children who, to

RumleR
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tell it, Mary Jane said.
One day, Jerrys brother Steve,
husband of Mary Jane, accidentally cut the Adirondack chair
Jerry had given him with a saw.
Jerry played furious at the little
dent in the arm of the chair. The
next time Jerry created a piece
for Steve and Mary Jane, he added a dent to the arm so it would
be already ruined.

boxes with gifts when they come

home for the holidays.
He does so much with his
pieces other than what you see.
He puts his heart into it. His
heart, and his personality, and
his fun-loving, and his sense of
humor, and sentiment as well,
Mary Jane said.
His generosity stretches be-

awesome it is, Clausen said.

Relationship-building is huge.
As much as we talk about whats
good and true and beautiful, the
real thing we learn here is how
to live a decent life. In my opinion and my experience, relationships are the most important

In a way it feels like

were a family now.
thing.
last semester at Hillsdale, Ryskamp looks back on his four
years and considers the bonds
with his friends akin to the bond
of family.
In a way it feels like were
family now, Ryskamp said.
We came in all little kids, and
now were supposed to be adults.
Its cool when you can have a
group of friends and respect the
way they live and how they treat
serious issues, and also have fun
and build a raft and sail on Lake
Winona. It was a great raft until
we ran out of duct tape.
Community is what makes
us who we are, Ryskamp says.
Thats why when a student
chooses a college, he should
evaluate the community of the
college, because it is the relationships with fellow students
and professors that will change
and mature him.
You can know everything in
the world about everything, but
if you dont have relationships,
you dont have that much,
Clausen said. Even Paul says
that even with all the virtues you
might have, if you dont have
love, you have nothing.
For Harper, who now lives
and works in Washington, D.C.,
the close friendships forged
through CARNAGE are a gift
world.
Its important to note that the
biggest reason for the success of
our friend group is that it was
orchestrated by God, Harper
said. That was a big reason for
CARNAGE, to keep our friend
group strong. Now that Ive
been out in the real world Ive
discovered its a lot harder than
youd expect. The thing about
Hillsdale is theres such a high
density of awesome people that
I dont think youre ever going
to get again. Thats just not how
it is in the real world.

yond gift-giving, however. He

shares his time as well. With each
of Mary Janes children as well
as with his own, Jerry helped
ing each child on blending and
shading techniques.
Mary Jane and Steve now own
their own cottage, just down the
road from the Fish House. Jerry
it for Mary Jane, and the three
remainder of the cabins front.
two.

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Houses groups
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www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Life after
Central Hall

Off-campus
shenanigans:
Part one

Fish and
woodchips

Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

are forged through CARNAGE.

Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
Each year, the admissions department holds
tor of admissions Jeff Lantis said. Who better to
articulate the mission than a graduate that studied
and experienced it both inside and outside the
-

Planning is the number one thing because you

reciting poetry in Phillips Auditorium on a chilly

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter

of friends regularly gathered to hang out.

-

present myself, the college, and be independent.

ings, extending as long as Santa Clauses, and anything else.

eight feet, dance across
the front of the summer cottage tables, andmost importantly
in northern Michigan. Artfully chairs.
painted and masterfully crafted,

get along.

See Admissions, B3

Most of them are specialized for

-

LeAnne said.
LeAnne started going to bed early,
-

baseball bats.
at his alma mater, Michigan State

Yelling Roommate! at each other across the

had to get the pine tar off. I tried to

I ended up getting some bug and
Former admissions counselor Ashleigh Dunham
receives a check for her nonprofit Feeding
America. (Photo Courtesy of Ashleigh Dunham)

lege.

Despite his talents, Jerry does

all of the guests signed the chair,

all the girls had already planned all this stuff out,

gift. Other notable chairs include

a Winston Churchill chair designed for President Larry Arnn

ed to organize the games. Out of that CARNAGE

bein. Both LeAnne and Mary Jane

Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor

teacher of Mary Randall preschool on campus.

- pieces from Jerry.
-

Rockwell
chef returns

Chairs are not the only pieces

the fair and earned a dollar prize. Jerry personalizes. Because Mary
Through the years, people around
out shoes, Jerry made her a Santa
and recognize Jerrys pieces.

reputation for crafting sides and salads.

They said I could pull side dishes out of my

See Rumler, B3
-

See Off-campus, B3

PEOPLE WOULD
PAY A FORTUNE
FOR THOSE FISH

SAMANTHA FLETCHER, JUNIOR

Describe your fashion sense.
Eclectic, colorful, whimsical, and functional.
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
A sundress that I bought full-price; it went on sale weeks later.
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
What I refer to as the yacht club look. Boys in their pastel J.
Crews, khakis, and Sperrys.
What is your favorite item of clothing?
My dads naval aviator jacket.
Who inspires your wardrobe?
The weather, Peggy Carter, Dean Winchester, and my mother.

dish queen started simply: by learning to garden

Circumstances during Tromblys teenage years

home.

See Chef, B3

CAMPUSCHIC