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Vol. 138 Issue 15 - 5 February 2015

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Sir Martin Gilbert dies in London

photocopies.
We courted over the copy
machine, Larry Arnn said.
The Arnns agreed that Gilbert
was very focused and very disciplined, but also extremely kind.
One time he telephoned me

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief

Sir Martin Gilbert Winston

Hillsdale College distinguished
visiting fellow, and one of the
most important historians of the
20th century died Tuesday in
London. Gilbert battled illness
following a heart arrhythmia in
April 2012. His last visit to the
college was in the fall of 2007,
and he is survived by his caring
wife, Esther.
He had the greatest capacity
that Ive ever seen to understand
and marshall a story of great
events and all the details connected to them. This made him
always extremely interesting to
hear from and talk to, College
President Larry Arnn said. He
cared very much. He wanted to
get it right. Anybody who was
around him saw in him a very
Gilberts biography of Winston Churchill tasked to him
in October 1968 is the longest biography ever written, and
his work in publishing all of
Churchills documents is even
more extensive. He completed
16 of the volumes and started the
17th before he became ill. Arnn
published the 17th volume of the
documents series last year, and
the college plans to publish six
more.

Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, pictured earlier in his life at left, and at a 2006 visit to Hillsdale at
right. (Photos Courtesy of External Affairs)

He was impatient. If you

were good at working, and understood the importance of it,
you could get along really well.
If things got in his way, and they
would, he would move quickly
and speak abruptly. He was an
intense man, Arnn said.
But you understood that it
was intensity with a great purpose. Had he not had that great
purpose, he would not have got
nearly as much done. It took a

lot of strength of character to do

what he did, Penny Arnn said.
Immense are Gilberts contributions to the intellectual development of many, including
Arnn. As Gilberts research assistant in the late 1970s, Larry
Arnn worked with Gilbert to
gather all of Churchills writings, correspondence, letters,
notes in essence, all of the
great statesmans published and
private works. The late Harry
Jaffa, another teacher of Arnns,

introduced Gilbert and Arnn in

London, and they began working together three days later.
Gilberts hand in Arnns life
exceeds the academic. Gilbert
is responsible for the meeting of
Larry Arnn and Penny Houghton. Penny (Houghton) Arnn
was hired to work on Gilberts
research two weeks after Larry
Arnn joined Gilberts staff in
August 1977. Penny drove to
work in an undependable black
Austin Mini, while Arnn rode a

scooter.
I would go to the basement in the library, now in the
Churchill College of Cambridge,
and I would mark stuff to be
photocopied, Larry Arnn said.
Then, every couple days, Penny and I would take Churchills
and we would go to lunch.
They had to be returned by
nighttime, Penny Arnn said.
Sir Martin only dealt with the

and he was really cross because

he was out in Israel and a journalist had tracked him down at
his private number and telephoned and awoken his baby. He
thought that I had given the journalist his phone number and told
me to never do that ever again,
Penny Arnn recalled. Thirty
minutes later he apologized because he found out where the
number came from and it wasnt
me. He was nice enough to call
back from Israel, which was a
big deal because long distance
calls were expensive. He felt bad
that he balled me out for sharing
a private number.
As a devoted Jew, Sir Martin
Gilbert frequented Israel often,
and committed much of his life
to studying Jewish history and
refuting Holocaust deniers. He
knew personally many Jews who
were persecuted by Josef Stalin
in the Soviet Union.
Survivors of the Holocaust
would seek him out because
he had a lot of information that

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BPU director charged

with drunk driving
Macaela Bennett
City News Editor

Rickie J. Rose, 61, director of

Hillsdales Board of Public Utilities, was arrested and charged
with drunk driving after crashing
into a tree Saturday, Jan. 24, at
7:45 p.m.
Its one of those stupid personal decisions, and it could
have been a hell of a lot worse,
frankly, Rose told the Collegian. Im just thankful no one
was hurt.
According to the Hillsdale
County Sheriff Incident Report,
Roses vehicle hit a road sign
advising there was an upcoming curve in the roadway before
crashing into a tree on Bankers
Road in Reading, Michigan.
Rose consented to taking a
breathalyzer test, which registered his blood alcohol content
as .23 just shy of three times
the legal limit of .08, accord-

ing to the Michigan State Police

website.
Because Rose had a BAC
higher than .17, if convicted, he
more jail time, and other weighter penalties than normal operating while intoxicated cases under Michigans Super Drunk
law.
The incident marked Roses
third time being arrested and
charged with operating a vewas in July 2003, for which he
was convicted, and the second
in September 2005, which was
lowered to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge. Thus, this
was registered as a second offense, and Rose was released the
same night after posting bail set
at $2,500.
Acting City Manager Doug
Terry said the city will review
Roses position with BPU in the
termination of his employment
rests heavily on decisions Rose
makes.

We have certain expectations of behavior on part of all

public employees, Terry said.
We will review acts of past and
present and where he should go
for help to ensure organization,
integrity, and consistency for
BPU so it continues to meet the
needs of citizens.
Although Rose is a city employee, Terry hopes to maintain
a balance of privacy yet transparency regarding the case.
My philosophy is govern by
conscious, Terry added. We
work within the realm of law yet
apply good moral applications in
the way we treat co-workers and
fellow human beings.
Rose said he appreciates the
support hes received from the
city and Terry and is using the
incident as an opportunity to refocus himself.
Roses arraignment in the
Hillsdale District Court was
waived Wednesday, according
to the Prosecuting Attorneys of18.

Q & A: Jason Riley

Jason Riley is a member of The Wall Street Journal
editorial board, and often appears on Journal Editorial
Report on Fox News. He is the author of two books: Let
Them In: The Case for Open Borders, and Please Stop
Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to
Succeed. Riley spoke at the Allan P. Kirby Center for
Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington,
D.C., as part of the Kirby Centers monthly AWC Family
Foundation Lecture series on Jan. 30.
As a conservative, if you
were talking to someone who
was claiming racial injustice,
how do you sensibly respond
to those claims?
Youd have to ask them to deoften today, people look at the
racial makeup of the police force
and if they dont see a proportionate number of blacks as represented in society on that police
force, they assume there must be
racist practices going on. Thats
not necessarily the case. Theyre

looking at outcomes and assuming racism is producing those

outcomes.
A few months back, you had
Jesse Jackson complaining about
the dearth of blacks on the staffs
of Google, Facebook, Yahoo,
Oracle, and Intel, assuming racism was the reason. We know
those companies are hiring from
the most selective schools in
America not only the most selective schools, but the kids that
disciplines of those schools. And

blacks are simply underrepresented in that pool of people.

Theres no evidence that a
black person who met the same
credentials as the typical hire
at Yahoo or Google has been
turned away. All Jesse Jackson
or Al Sharpton is looking at is the
outcomes: whos on staff. And if
they dont see X percentage of
blacks, theyre assuming racism

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Defining marriage
The Lyceum and Symposium
groups and YAF host debate
about gay marriage. A3

An old-fashioned thesis

Womens basketball heating up

The Chargers went 3-0 over the
weekend highlighted by an upset
victory over Grand Valley. A8

CANTUS impresses
Mens a capella group brought
down the house with tight
harmonies and international set
list. B1

Snow plows came out in full force after Sundays snowfall.

Sunday snow slams city

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief

The biggest snowstorm of

this year prevented many college employees from getting to
work Monday.
Two city trucks plowed the
trunk line roads M-99 and a
couple other major roads on
the streets Monday morning at
3 a.m.
We dont believe in chasing the storm, Director of Public Services Keith Richard said.
Rather, we let it subside.
City employees must be paid
double time and a half to work on
Sundays and holidays. Because
the street crew knew the storm
was coming, they planned to get
to work early Monday morning.
It just so happened, Richard said,
that the storm stopped at about
the same time.
On Sunday, the police department dispatched the public services on-call person, who rotates
week-to-week. That employee
surveyed the situation and directed a small crew to do initial
clearing on the main roads.

trucks plowed up and down the

three miles of trunk line roads.
Then, they plow the 19 miles of
major roads followed by the 25
miles of local roads.
The city plows snow based
ume. Because the state trunk
lines are most heavily traveled,
frequently. Accordingly, major
streets are plowed second and
the local streets third, the citys
website reads.
trucks worked on the downtown
area, which includes the downtown streets and city-owned
parking lots. Afterward, they
branched out to dead-end streets
for the bigger trucks to plow.
Richard estimated that the
crew worked for 15 hours on
Monday to clear the roads, and
that everything was plowed by
noon Monday.
However, many citizens said
they believed the citys delay in
plowing to be dissatisfactory.
I found the conditions on
larger streets, such as Broad
Street, to be very poor on Sunday too. There was some plowing, but it was not enough, AsHistoric Dawn Theater thwarts
threat of closing its doors
An outpouring of community
support keeps the Dawn alive.
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counterfeits with science. B4

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

(Hailey Morgan/Collegian)

(Elena Creed/Collegian)

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sistant Professor of Politics John

Grant said. In general, I think
the city government is not as interested as it should be in basic
functions such as snow plowing
and road repair.
On Tuesday, more cleanup
occurred and the city minimized
piles of snow in the downtown
area.
The city is not responsible
for plowing Hillsdales county
roads, but Teacher of Music
Debbi Wyse said the county
cleared her road in a timely manner.
Gravel roads are usually low
priority, and are plowed after all
hard surface roads have been
cleared. Our road was plowed
Monday at 1:30 p.m. I was unable to get to work that day because we usually wait until the
road crews have passed, piling
up the snow in our driveway,
then my husband, Ned, goes out
with his tractor and loader to
clear everything, she said in an
email. The county crew really
did an admirable job on our road
this time, even sanding a little.

Gay marriage
Students argue for and against
legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Pre-med students gain experience at hospital

Rachel Solomito
Collegian Reporter

Previous options for student volunteer work

often consisted of stocking rooms with linens,

The pre-med program has teamed up with the

Hillsdale Community Health Center to expand
the volunteer opportunities available to students
-

volunteering partnership, the experience is more

Dean of Women Diane Philipp, a member of

versity of volunteer opportunities and decided to
able to pre-med program students who are seek-

of personal, human-to-patient interaction is es-

Dean Philipp noticed the need for students

to have experience and for the hospital to have
strong communicators and patient care advocates, so she brought the two together in the
Patient Care Program, GOAL leader junior
Elisabeth Wynia, who helped to coordinate the
tion training in exchange for students volunteer-

no cost to students who volunteer and are part of

As patient care coordinators, our job is to

keep the patients happy and communicate with
them and do what we can to keep the emergency

The partnership between the program and

health center has been well-received by students
The program just tries to prepare you really
Although the new step has been successful
so far, the Patient Care Coordinator Program is
looking to expand even further to other departments in the hospital, as current options for volPre-med students who volunteer at the Hillsdale Community Health Center. (Photo Courtesy of
Os Nakayama)

training session lasts a week and a half, and can

be completed before classes start again by stu-

dean, the emergency room was low on staff who

work hands-on with a patient, gaining valuable

The one nurse who was in charge of running

the rooms and scheduling was also in charge of

I will be meeting with the skilled nursing director about expanding volunteering to the more
student who is considering anything in medicine
should try to get involved in some way in hospi-

College groups host marriage debate

Chris McCaffery
Collegian Reporter
A cordial ethical debate drew
such a crowd to the Dow Leadership Center on Tuesday night
that a live feed was broadcast to

The standing-room-only crowd

gathered to see Sherif Girgis
and John Corvino debate What
is Marriage? at an event sponsored by Young Americans for
Freedom and the Intercollegiate
Studies Institutes on-campus
societies, the Lyceum and the

Girgis and Corvino were defending traditional and sameare frequent debating partners,
defending their views at venues
across the country and planning
a co-written book dealing with
The debate followed the
conventional
LincolnDougsive Q&A session followed, and
both speakers were available
after the event to talk with stuThough Hillsdale is a Christian school by its articles of
association, this institutional
its commitment to honest discourse, said Associate Professor
of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter,
who helped the Lyceum plan and
Hillsdale preserves the
western heritage, which includes
the moral tradition of natural
law, but also includes rational
debate should not be perceived
as though the college is not com-

Sherif Girgis advocates traditional marriage.

Noble/Collegian)

(Breana

Girgis is pursuing a doctor-

The cycle of CCA

planning
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter

World War I led to CCA I, according to

Ludwig von Mises series discusses free

The American Journalism, Yesterday

& Today Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar had a last-minute change
last week when snowstorm Juno hit New
York City, canceling deputy editorial page
editor for The Wall Street Journal Bret
journalists, but none were available, Bell
host Hugh Hewitt, who had spoken the
night prior, and President Larry Arnn
low for Manhattan Institutes Center for
State and Local Leadership Fred Siegel
from here, and he was staying a day lat-

selecting next years four series topics and

each lectures theme, according to Director of Programs for External Affairs Matt
We plan far ahead in terms of the topelse, we start planning the day after
maintenance, athletics department, Bon
With plans made so far in advance, its
In the past, we move a speaker, have a
moved the faculty roundtable and ended
Speakers are typically matched to speWe dont search for a person to build

Suggestions are made by faculty and

students for CCA topics, according to Associate Vice President for External Affairs

A core curriculum requirement, CCAs

further the colleges mission and provide
To advance the education of students
is to supplement the excellent education
theyre getting with the voices of various
As dean of faculty, Professor of Chemistry Mark Nussbaum leads the faculty
representation from the three academic
divisions: the physical sciences, social
We get at least one person who is an
the World War I CCA, we had Tom Conto learn more coming and serving at the
roundtable, its encouraging the students

The best part was meeting professors

I would not ordinarily talk to, CCA II
roundtable panelist Assistant Professor of
In discussing future CCAs, many want
We all thought that particular CCA
could have been handled differently,
Slack said on the professors responses in
Nevertheless, students and faculty, like
Nussbaum, recognize the college has a
They could be better in the sense all
speakers are from conservative viewappointed to hear from a guest who has
a different viewpoint from what they exfrom a variety of perspectives, and lets

ate in philosophy from Princ-

co-wrote What is Marriage?

He regularly writes on the topic
Girgis has spoken at Hillsdale
He said that presenting an argument as part of a debate can
strengthen everyones under-

familiar with the others arguments, even though they dont

Jacob Lane, ISIs regional director, who oversaw the event,
said that he was impressed with
how Hillsdale students handled
You were able to have a civil
debate about a very contentious

a lot of campuses in my tenure

with ISI, and I dont think Ive
ever met a group of students
more intellectually competent
A video of the event will be
available online from Young
Americans for Freedom later

For those convinced by the

argument, its more powerful to
see it defended against objecopponent, not just a straw man,
makes your own argument more
The real opponent to Girgis
on Tuesday was Corvino, one of
the most prominent intellectual
Corvino is a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University and author most recently of
Whats Wrong with Homosexuality? He also writes for many
national publications to present
the philosophical case for his
Since they debate each other
so regularly, Corvino and Girgis
get along very well and are very

John Corvino argues for gay marriage.

legian)

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Morgan Delp
The editor-in-chief of the Collegian is from
Holland, Ohio, and is majoring in history. She
plans to pursue a career in teaching, journalism,
or both.

Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter

The biochemistry major from West Chester,

Ohio, is planning to be married after graduation.
She will move to Cincinnati, and hopes to work
for a hospital or pharmaceutical company.

Lindsay Kostrezwa

An accounting major from Traverse City,

Michigan, she plans to return home next year to
work as a staff accountant for Plante Moran.

A Hillsdale native and history major, Lantis

plans to enter classical secondary education as a
history and math teacher.

Shelly Peters

GilbeRt
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helped them track down the fate of their relatives. He
was very generous with his time and patient because he
understood what it meant to those people to have some
closure, I suppose youd call it, Penny Arnn said.
Larry Arnn considers himself lucky to have traveled frequently with the greatest tour guide ever born.
Gilbert even planned the Arnns honeymoon, down to
where they should stay, visit, and eat every single day.
We had adventure days, Larry Arnn said.
One time, Gilbert visited the Arnns in California, and

Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter

This year, there are far fewer

applicants for off-campus permission, but there are also fewer
This means there is an excellent chance that the majority of
those on the list will be able to
have their very own off-campus
home.
The list is looking light this
year on the girls side, Dean of
Women Diane Philipp said. The
boys have smaller numbers as
well. We usually have a healthy
balance of students who want to
stay on campus versus students
who wish to go off, and, traditionally, almost everybody on
the list has gotten off.
The criteria for off-campus
permission has stayed the same
since last year. High school graduation year and number of Hillsdale College credits determine
priority. This is to ensure that
for living off campus.

The deans go down the list

and start granting students permission from top to bottom, so
students can start searching for
their perfect college abode.
Those students with 90 Hillsdale credits or above are almost
guaranteed to get off-campus
permission, Philipp said.
The top priority for the col-

him around the city until they reached Mount Scopus.

Gilbert had Arnn close his eyes, and when he opened
them, Gilbert explained that they were at the spot where

vations in Simpson Residence

removing roughly 30 beds, and
future renovations planned for
McIntyre Residence, there will
This led to more sophomores being able to go off campus last
year and will also increase students chances for being granted
permission this year.
The college has built great relationships with local Hillsdale
landlords over the years, and
students can get excellent housing information from the deans
John Repik has been renting homes to Hillsdale students
since 2006, and said he can see
why many students enjoy offcampus living.

I offer properties that provide more bang for a students

buck, Repik said. I dont just
paint and clean up these homes,
but remodel them and make
them unique and fun for the students who stay there.
Off-campus housing in Hillsdale truly provides an affordable
and unique living experience.
There are also off-campus options that are owned by the college that offer some unique perks
such as free trash pickup, school
maintenance on call, and snow
plowing.
I absolutely love living off
campus, senior Casey McKee
said. There is nothing like having a place you can call your
own, and relax with your housemates and friends.
McKee is a resident at the
Bounce House and said he enjoys having the freedom to make
great memories in his place.
My friends and I make meals
together, have people over for
movies, and have long memorable discussions late at night, he
said. We have made some great
memories together.

Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

The Student Federation spent more than its budgeted amount last
semester because of extra funds it found, so they have generously
given to the students who came to them with fund requests. All the
same, the federation is routinely accused of hoarding its money
and is often seen as stingy.
While Student Fed was very cautious about spending money
in the past, many current members of the federation said they are
desirous to spend money on students and want to hear their funds
proposals.
Student Fed money comes from student fees, and it decides how
to give money back to students in the form of campus improvement
and funds for clubs and events, etc.
Treasurer sophomore Jacob Thackston said Student Fed gets
around $50,000 to spend every semester, but $35,000 is already
allocated to publications and some things for senior class and miscellaneous expenses.
That means the federation has $15,000 in the discretionary fund
to spend on students each semester.
We want to spend at least $15,000 each semester, Thackston
said. Right now we have $46,000 to spend, and were getting anstudent fees, so well have $61,000 in like three weeks. Please ask
us for money.
Student Fed has such a large discretionary because of rollover
fees discovered last school year.
A couple years ago we discovered that student fees had been
rolling over, so most of that is still there [in the discretionary],
Thackston said. Over the past semesters weve been spending that
surplus.
But the federation cant spend its money if students dont ask for
it.
The street goes both ways, Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. It takes some effort, you have to propose a week
paperwork.
Manno said he is willing to help students with the process should
they have any questions.
The process and unfamiliarity for sure [prevents people from
coming to Student Fed], and for some people its a little intimidat-

employees Soren Geiger and Kyle Murnen work with

George Washington fellows, student employees of the
and compile the documents.
If we didnt do it, nobody else probably would,
work.
Today is Gilberts funeral in the historic village of
Beit Shemesh in Israel. Visitors will be received for
Shiva in London for the next several days.

is at play.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sued various suburban counties because of the residential housing patterns.
They look at a map and they see too many whites
bunched together in certain communities and
not enough blacks living there. And they assume
something nefarious is going on here.
With the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and the history of events like the Trayvon Martin case, why is it so important for
young people to understand how the media
affects trials and the publics perception of
them?
My problem with how the media has covered
these events has been the failure to put them in
context. Theres a narrative out there a false
narrative that the black homicide rate in America is what it is because cops are shooting black
people. The reality is that 98 percent of black
shootings dont involve cops.
Yet you have these protesters marching all
over the country pretending that our morgues and
cemeteries are full of young black men because
theyre being gunned down by cops. And everyone from the president on down has been playing
along with this narrative.
If you care about black lives and we see
these black lives matter banners all over the
place it seems to me that you would be focused
on the 98 percent of killings that do not involve
the police, not the two percent that do. That two

It was very different, Teigen said. There wasnt much communication within the federation, and there were also some pretty
strong personalities. To their credit, they wanted to be very careful and responsible with what was going on with money, and the
president at the time really wanted to rework the budget. The general
sentiment of the leadership was to be as good stewards as possible
with the money, but a lot of times that ended up being a lot more
selective as to who was warranted money, which in some ways is
good, but as we know with the Tower Light debacle, it can get a little
bit heavy-handed.
It was during this administration that the federation spent very
little, all the while accumulating student fees over the semesters.
In the more recent administrations, Student Fed has made an effort
to be more generous with funds, especially since it has such a large
surplus.
We have this reputation of not being willing to give, which I
would love to change, but we can only really give where the students ask for money, so were limited by the scope of requests we
receive, Thackston said. By and large we really only have the ability to spend on things asked for by students.
At the same time, Student Fed struggles to reach students and
encourage them to ask for money.
room for improvement, we send out fund request emails once a semester, but you know how emails work, most of mine get deleted. I
think its something that needs to be discussed [advertising Student
Fed].
Wed love for people to come to us with small ideas, big ideas,
any way for us to give the funds back to them, Thackston said.
Thackston wants to send out more emails and advertise via
word-of-mouth. According to Thackston, Student Fed cant receive
enough proposals.
Student fees come in for the purpose of going back out to the
students, Thackston said. Thats the primary role of Student Fed,
to give the student fees back to the students.

A philosophy and religion double major from

Bear, Delaware, he plans to enter seminary with
the long-term goal of vocational ministry or professorial work.

until 2007. In 2012, the college received his archive

of Churchills papers to continue the work of compil-

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ing, but theres no reason to be intimidated, Manno said.

While now the federation is very willing to spend money on
students, it wasnt always so generous. Senior Annie Teigen, who
served on Student Fed one year as the Pi Beta Phi representative and
one year as secretary, said there have been years when it struggled to

From Omaha, Nebraska, Bessmer is a biochemistry major who next year will attend dental school
at the University Of Nebraska Lincoln College Of
Dentistry.

From Jacksonville, Florida, West is majoring

in philosophy. He plans to enter law school after a
year of work.

Riley

Fed wants to spend money on

students, needs proposals

Luke Bessmer

Garrett West

A native of Cincinnati, Peters is majoring

in Christian Studies. Next year she plans to be
a teacher for missionary children in Burundi,
Africa.

while traveling around the area, became fascinated with

a casino in San Marino on an Indian reservation. After
Gilbert left, he had the Arnns do weeks of research on
American laws and treaties that allowed the Indians to
have that land. He took an interest in everything around
him, the Arnns said.
On a plane he always sat on the window seat, and
he would send up messages to the pilot if he was wrong

Off-campus sign-ups
lower, chances higher

An economics and German double major, he

hails from Frankenmuth, Michigan, and hopes
to pursue a graduate degree in economics from
George Mason.

Matt OSullivan

Heather Lantis

Presidents Ball 2014. This years presidents ball will

be held on Saturday at 9 p.m. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

From Stevens Point, Wisconsin, he will pursue

Spencer Bell

Julie Finke

The past two Blackboard outages, last Saturday and Monday, were
both due to storage issues with the
online, school-wide service. ITS
and, according to Thomas Phillips,
academic and business services
generalist for Hillsdale College,
they will not recur.
Phillips explained that the collapse of the servers for the most
recent two outages were for the
storage issue, and the ITS said it is
dress them again. The scheduled
outages, occurring much more frequently, are due to updates to the
server, which are regular maintenance issues.
Although it has certainly been
cold at times, the weather has not
been a factor in system performance, Phillips said about the
most recent Blackboard outage,
which occurred the day following
the heavy snowfall.
ITS is working to ensure that
the majority of Blackboard shutdowns are on days where students
are not likely to be on the website,
allowing the most widespread access possible. While its impossible
to predict when unscheduled shutdowns should occur, ITS is trying
ping them from happening, making Blackboard easier to use for
students.

Joe Banovetz

blacks by cops and most of that two percent

ing arrest, people not cooperating with the police,
people attacking the police, and so forth.
The media has failed to make that point clear.
You get a Ferguson, and you get a Trayvon Martin, and we start getting conversations about tensions between the police and black community.
Rarely do we talk about black crime rates, which
I think are at the root of the tensions between the
black community and the police. If you want to
alleviate those tensions, you need to address the
behavior driving those tensions. But we dont like
to talk about that: If youre black and you talk
about it, youre a sellout. If youre white and you
talk about it, youre a racist.
And then you have a whole black civil rights
industry out there who has a vested interest in
blaming all bad outcomes in the black community on racism. So they see situations like this and
they pounce.
Why do you think the crime rate in the
black community is so high?
If you go back to as recently as the early 1960s,
youll see that most black children in America
were raised by mother and father. Today more
than 70 percent are not. And in some of our inner
cities, its as high as 80 or 90 percent. I think a lot
of these outcomes can be traced to the breakdown
of the black family, which began in earnest in the
1960s which is ironic because that is also the
start of the great society programs, which were
aimed at helping the black family.

-Compiled by Vivian Hughbanks

Academy holds
dinner for senior
trip funds
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor

Hillsdale Academy is joining

forces with Johnny Ts Bistro to
host a fundraiser dinner that will
raise money for the junior and
senior class trip to Greece and
Rome.
The dinner, which will be
served at the academy on Saturday at 5:30 p.m., is open to
the public. Tickets are $5 at the
door, an excellent price for a delicious meal, according to Kenneth Calvert, the academy head
master. All proceeds go to fund
the spring educational trip.
The 12-day trip, which is a
culmination of the students high
school education, is during the
academys spring break. It includes stops in Athens, Pompeii,
Rome, Florence, and other cities. The students will learn about
such things as Athenian democracy and Roman Republicanism
and visit various museums along
the way.
We also visit Delphi and see
what Apollo has to tell us, Calvert said. They will spend Holy
Week in Rome, and conclude in
northern Italy to enjoy the music and food of Venice.
Fittingly, there is no better
fundraiser for such a trip than an
Italian dinner, provided by Johnny Ts Bistro. Rick Tropiano,

owner of the restaurant and an

academy parent, said the dinner
will consist of stuffed shells Florentine, pesto and tomato pasta,
rolls, salad, and ice cream for
dessert.
We provide it in appreciation
for Hillsdale Academy and what
they do, Tropiano said.
They do this out of the goodness of their hearts and to make
sure we have a good meal, Calvert said.
The night will also include a
and a silent auction. The majority of the money is raised
be bought through Saturday. In
years past, the dinner has raised
the cost for the students. Thirtythree students and 20 adults will
attend the trip.
The adults always cause
me trouble, Calvert said. Im
particularly worried about John
Miller, who is going on this trip.
And despite minor questions
about whether the trip is a wise
expenditure, Calvert said that
people spend money on many
other things, so why not spend it
on an educational tour.
It really serves as a capstone of all the ancient and Renaissance history and art theses
students have studied over the
years, Calvert said.

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If the student section did

not include costumes like a
man-sized strip of bacon, a
ghillie suit, or a six-foot cutout
of Coach Tharp, it would not
be a Charger basketball game.
Thankfully, Hillsdale students
rarely leave this post unattended. But, as students who
have adopted honor and virtue
as a campus code of conduct,
the way student fans taunt opposing players during games is
embarrassing.
Games are public relations

Racism and violence comprise the majority of AmeriJan. 29). This is a painfully shallow assessment.
As a combat veteran, I believe racism is wrong. Unwarranted prejudice, regardless of whether employed for the

Sarah Onken
Student Columnist

that compromises combat effectiveness. Violence applied

herent in the warrior ethos can animate an American combatant to kill when innocents are imminently threatened.

Two weeks ago today, hundreds of thousands of people

trekked to the bustling leviathan
of Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life. Even though
I intern in the Capitol Hill area,
the only signs of their presence
I encountered were occasional
sightings of men in black vestments, some isolated pro-life

tricks to rationalize their actions.

One need not reduce anothers being to kill. In fact, the reality of an opponents humanity is visceral, undeniable, and
inescapable in close quarters battle.
My experience was that although there were vast differences between U.S. and Afghan culture, the humanity of
the soldiers of the Afghan National Army or even the people
Frank Beranek of his 2010 stint in Wardak province, Afghanistan. If anything, they demonstrated a humanity the likes
of which I had never seen before The very idea of conditioned racism would be laughable if it wasnt so infuriating.
However, the enemy was not constrained by the law of land
warfare and yes, often their tactics were in fact savage. I am
a professional soldier, a volunteer, not some conscript that

Thursday night.
I was aware that the March
for Life had occurred, and I was
thankful to see many of my fellow classmates come out for the
March. But in the midst of the
in conservative publications, I
sensed that many pro-life activ-

Johnsons Great Society initiated several welfare programs in

the years leading up to the Griswold and Roe decisions. Though
Johnson himself understood the
importance of the family and
the crippling effect its denigration could have on society, his
massive expansion of the welfare state actually diminished the
importance of the family. When
Roe v. Wade was decided in the government both then and
the wake of the
now increases its
sexual revolution
If the goal of the
a movement
tance of millions
of individuals,
pro-life movement
rights and justhe family and
tice, championed is to eradicate the
community are
the idea of self- deplorable crime
pushed
aside
expression over of abortion, why
as the primary
self-restraint,
means of supand engendered should Roe v. Wade
port.
the breakdown of receive all of the
The real batthe family. The attention? Is it even
tle here is not
case itself relied
against the votes
on
precedent the root of the prob- of nine individufrom Griswold lem?
als. Its against a
v. Connecticut
movement that
(1968), the decideemed the famsion that struck down a state ban ily optional and generated the
on contraceptives by famously social acceptance of pre-marital
ruling that all citizens have a and non-marital sex, contracepright to privacy based on pen- tion, and the killing of the unborn.
in the Bill of Rights. Your guess
According to the most recent
is as good as mine as to what that report from the Centers for Disactually means. The Griswold ease Control, of all women who
decision kicked off a series of obtained an abortion in 2011,
cases in modern civil rights juris- 14.5 percent were married and
prudence that contorted the 14th 85.5 percent were unmarried.
Amendment in accordance with This singular statistic provides an
the sexual revolution.
insight so basic, yet so informaAdditionally, Lyndon Baines tive, on how the pro-life move-

women and children butchered by Muslim extremists is a curious moral stance indeed.
Nathan Siether was a vehicle commander and machine
gunner with Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Division in
Helmand province, Afghanistan in 2008.
It would be easy to assume that taking someones life
based on their beliefs would be racist or prejudiced, except
ether said. Here there is common ground. Let us not forget
that in the Iraq War, we were reacting to someone elses actions These terrorists believed that they had the right to kill
our people and take away the paramount right to life. In the
movie, Chris Kyle states that these people are savages, and
what the author of last weeks article supposes, this is not
racism. It is a kind of conversation with bullets discussing
politics and religion; the oldest form of political discourse
and one lost on many who have not served or understand the
horrors of war. Kyle was not racist, nor did he use this as a
ruse to confuse his psyche in order to pull the trigger. Like
principles, he will rectify his actions, and make rational deciIf, concurrent with the Hillsdale ethos, we are to be men
and women of virtue and knowledge, we cannot blind ourselves to what is, including the dark underside of human nature which the politely-conditioned conscience sometimes
of nice people who largely come from nice places where malicious violence is extremely rare. This often makes understanding just killing and the just application of violence dif-

seconds of a nail-biter. A few

boos to disrupt a free throw or
to disapprove a bad call are expected reactions. Discouraging
an airball chant would discourage the tradition of basketball
fandom. But recall that more
uniform hear the vulgarities
and caterwauls from the student
bleacher and that no one
likes a mean piece of bacon.

ment should proceed being

married matters when it comes to
abortion. The positive correlation
between marriage and choosing
life for unborn children should
receive serious attention.
The government has a fundamental interest in marriage
because marriages typically produce children. These precious
lives are the future of society. The
government will have trouble
securing the blessings of liberty
the posterity is not cared for.
Some government policies
are contrary to the protection and
encouragement of marriage and
intact families. No-fault divorce
laws insinuate that till death
thers can be easily pulled away
from their families with false
allegations of abuse. For single
mothers, a plethora of welfare
programs can take the place of a
husband who provides.
Yet many pro-lifers are mute
on these issues. If marriage and
choosing life are positively related, why not focus on reforming
welfare policy and protecting the
The attitudes of a people may
a Supreme Court decision, but
without the restoration of the institution of the family, the March
for Life is incomplete.
Sarah Onken is a junior studying politics and mathematics.

Dracula Untold: An anti-hero undone

Both the movie and the book on which its loosely based offer moral instruction
Walker Mulley
Special to the Collegian

One need not reduce anothers

being to kill. In fact, the reality of
an opponents humanity is visceral,
undeniable, and inescapable in close
quarters battle.

amount of respect. Its a disappointment to see our entire

school represented by a row or
two of students that denigrate
referees and opposing teams.
A passionate student section
adds to the fun of basketball
games and must increase the

ists honestly believed that overturning Roe v. Wade was the

panacea for ending abortion in
America.
I admire their optimism. But if
the goal of the pro-life movement
is to eradicate the deplorable
crime of abortion, why should
Roe v. Wade receive all of the at-

Michael Aavang
Special to the Collegian

with killing. Yet assuming it is impossible to kill a man with

full knowledge that he is a man not only mischaracterizes the
motives of men Reuss doesnt know, speaking to actions of
which he knows little and has never done, but also implies
that American armed forces are weak-minded dopes, so fear-

not virtuous.
Compared to other millennials, Hillsdale College students

elect to study the higher things,

pursuing an education that improves the heart and the mind.
While the Charger basketball
teams play with impressive
sportsmanship, some Hillsdale

Marching for Life isnt enough to save the family

Reuss is wrong on
the reality of war

prejudice in Kyle and his teammates which predisposes them

events, not just for Charger athletes, but for student fans also.
Parents with their young Charger fans, respected professors,
and families of the opposing
teams are subjected to student
section tastelessness. The choral reprimands that attack opponents family members, sexuality, and physical appearance
make Hillsdale students look

On Feb. 3, Universal Studios Dracula Untold came out on Blu-Ray. Dracula, the novel
by Bram Stoker, came out in 1897. Though
over 100 years and divergent interpretations
separate the two works, both contain useful
moral lessons.
This isnt a review of either work and its
not free of spoilers. It would be impossible
to examine the full moral implications of the
stories without mentioning the endings.
The novel Dracula is a triumph-of-goodversus-evil story. The villainous vampire
Count Dracula comes to England to prey
upon its citizens. A band of heroes whose
friend was an early victim of the Count cast
aside their safety to end this scourge.
Dracula is deeply, frighteningly evil. The
heroes are upstanding Christians, though
tue, mutual support, and, above all, reliance
on God, they kill Dracula and save the day.
The novel is excellent for the moral imagination, because the good shines through its
darkness. It is certainly dark: The vampire, as
depicted by Stoker, is a Satanic parody both
of Holy Communion and of sex. But opposed
to him are characters who, throughout all the
horror, hold onto faith, hope, and love. These
heroes are both virtuous and likeable. The
reader wishes to be like them and this is good
for his soul.
Dracula Untold instructs in a different way. Rather than giving role models to
imitate, it functions like Macbeth, giving an

The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education

cannot rightly understand some things is a sign of wisdom.

Some realities simply lie outside the limits of everyday experience.
Sergeant Michael Aavang, USMC, is a junior studying
politics. He served in Iraq in 2009.

by Forester
McClatchey

example to avoid.
In Untold, Dracula begins as a handsome
prince and doting father. But when the Turks
threaten to kidnap 1,000 Transylvanian boys
including his son he makes a Faustian
bargain, gaining the powers of the vampire
with which to defend his kingdom.

Dracula Untold instructs

in a different way. Rather
than giving role models to
imitate, it functions like
Macbeth, giving an example
to avoid.

He is the epitome of the modern anti-hero:

He is powerful and cool, a ferocious warrior who can turn into a cloud of bats and
dent: Exercising very little delegation, he
prefers to crush his foes personally. He is a
consequentialist, at one point explaining that
he impaled thousands of innocent people in
order to save the even greater number whom
he frightened into surrender.
Following his own moral compass, he defends those he loves by any means necessary.
And he fails. By the end of the movie, he has
killed his wife, his son is taken from him, and
most of his people have been killed. Twice.
You read that correctly. Facing defeat by
the Turks, Dracula drinks his wifes blood,
killing her and making his borrowed vampire

powers permanent. Returning to his castle,

jects. In a chilling scene, he has the haggard
survivors drink his blood and become vampires themselves. With his newly-transformed
vampire army, he lays waste to the Turks and
rescues his son. But then the undead turn on
him, wishing to devour the child for which he
did all this.
In a powerful illustration of grace, monks
his son and drag the young boy away to safety. Dracula, realizing the evil of the vampires,
parts the clouds and they are all killed by the
sunlight.
The movies anti-hero is left dead, wifecharred corpses of the subjects he was supposed to protect.
Our generation seems tired of straightforward heroes. Stokers Victorian heroes are
pass. Moviegoers prefer dark knights, egotistical hedonists who save the day anyway,
and men who will do anything to get the job
done.
I expected Dracula Untold, by making
Dracula the protagonist, to be dangerously
subversive. It was indeed subversive, but
instead of subverting traditional morality, it
subverted the modern anti-hero genre. Dracula Untold provides a useful service by making
the straightforward goodness of the original
novels heroes seem not only appealing, but
essential.
Walker Mulley is a George Washington
Fellow studying economics.

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Legalize gay marriage

JoAnna Kroeker
Special to the Collegian

Fourteen ban it legislatively, constitutionally, or both.

This controversy forces us to consider what marriage is,
and what the state should recognize. Traditional marriage proponents appeal to new natural law theory, the
Bible, civil unions, marriages social function, and the slippery slope to keep marriage heterosexually
exclusive. Yet all fail to support their case.
In their essay, What is Marriage? Sherif Girgis, Robert George, and Ryan T. Anderson answer their
question with new natural law. They call marriage a comprehensive union between one man and one
woman, specially linked to children, that most closely follows marital norms to facilitate childrearing.
This comprehensive union hinges on biological union with a unique reproductive end. The special link
to children is ideally biological. The uniqueness of their biological union and children enable heterople seeks it. Asserting reproduction is the good of sex tacitly claims sex is not a good in itself, and that
all couples engaging in non-reproductive sex neglect its good. Yet most sexually active couples would

and companionship above having children as very important reasons for marriage. These more imConcerning homosexuality, biblical inerrancy deserves attention. Those who believe the Bible inerrant essentially claim, God said it, I believe it, when discussing homosexuality. However, this means
once included) elide this, excusing slavery and womens place in church as contemporary cultural beliefs. Why is homesexuality the timeless exception? Is it because the Bible said so, or because many
consider homosexual sex unnatural, as it contradicts their heteronormative experience, and they consult the Bible a cultural authority for backup?
Many seeking to reserve marriage to heterosexuals suggest the civil union as a viable alternative
union provides but also its status. A Williams Institute study found gay couples likelier to marry if
marriage. Similarly, heterosexual couples given the choice between marriage and a marriage-equivalent
union overwhelmingly chose marriage. If both can uphold marital norms and if desired raise
children, then both couples should have the same choice. Differences in sexual union quality should not
invite discrimination.
Debating Same-Sex Marriage co-author Maggie Gallagher claims legally labeling same-sex unions
marriage will change the public meaning of marriage... as to ...make it harder for marriage to perform its core civil functions over time. But what are these civil functions, and can only heterosexual
couples achieve them?
taxes. Yet does this union have a core civic function outside enforcing the couples marital norms?
Gallagher seems to hint at the civic functions of families (with children), such as childrearing, providing identity among members, and cultural transmission. Government programs such as welfare,
healthy school lunches, breakfasts, and child protective services assume and reinforce this focus. This
is especially true of children who have aged out of foster care: They are more likely to become homehave children out of wedlock. If families improve childrens lives, then a state concerned for unadopted
children should encourage both adoption and same-sex marriage.
Some argue legalizing gay marriage could create a slippery slope, giving polyamorous, incestuous, bestial, and other nontraditional relationships marriages sanction. But this whole debate has
good for children? Healthy for spouses? Consensual? Unlike these unions, gay couples answer these
mous sex between two partners; and involve mutual consent.
Instead of merely pondering what marriage is, we must ask why we marry; our answer will help
clarify what marriage is. As I watch my peers engage and marry, their reasons are clear: We love each
other, and want to spend the rest of our lives together. Heterosexuals and homosexuals alike agree to

Gay marriage is wrong

This is the year that societal institutions will
crumble or stand.
The Supreme Court will decide this year wheth-

Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor

same-sex couples to marry nationwide.

matters, particularly with respect to governmental recognition in this sphere. Although culture
one man and one woman, and a shared life ordered to the unity of the couple and enriched in
the procreation of children. Because a conjugal or traditional marriage is distinct from homoon society. Its proponents have advanced what Sherif Girgis, co-author of What Is Marriage?
A Defense and advocate of traditional marriage, calls the revisionist view, which proceeds
from equality under the law. As the Full Marriage Equality blog puts it: We believe everyone
has the right to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with any and all consenting adult(s) of
their choice (emphasis in original). The blog further says that full marriage equality is a basic
human right.
to Girgis: It cannot distinguish marriage from other human associations. What does uniting
carpool. What does it mean to share love, sex, and residence? Do these alone make marriage?
Girgis says that marriage, as a human good, has an essence and qualities that matter for dekind of companionship that is permanent, exclusive, consensual, a sharing of life in all aspects,
including love, sex, and the rearing of children.

society.
Only a conjugal marriage achieves the comprehensive union, the harmony of mind and
includes unions incapable of attaining a fruitful bodily union, must insist that marriage is an
affective, romantic-emotional union.
The government has chosen to protect the traditional institution because it realizes that both
the raising of children in a family of a married father and mother in which studies have
shown children thrive most concern society and its future. According to a paper written by
Donald Paul Sullins and published by the Catholic University of America, emotional problems
were more than twice as prevalent for children with same-sex parents than for children with
attainment is much higher in children raised in a household with both biological spouses present. Children living with cohabiting couples performed even worse academically than in singleparent homes. Though this is not data for homosexual unions, it does show that children thrive
and fathers are indispensable.

tect all of the millions of kinds of emotional companionships. Once the institutions of marriage
and the family fracture, all other pillars of society crumble as well.
include homosexual unions. Pro-marriage is anti-gay. Incestuous relationships are consanguineous.
on marrying and reproducing with her biological father. If the culture allows for reinvented
nence, gender, relation, number or any other terminology will no longer characterize marriage.
all, and society will suffer for it.

JoAnna Kroeker is a freshman planning to study French and philosophy.

Emma Vinton is a junior studying English and journalism.

Edward Snowden is not a traitor

David Flemming
Special to the Collegian
Having called Edward Snowden a traitor once,
conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt
did not hesitate to do so again when I questioned
his claim during the Security and Privacy session
of last weeks CCA.
not fall. In response, Dr. Arnn quipped to Hewitt
that Thomas Jefferson was a traitor to England.
In all seriousness, however, Snowden, like Jefferson, knew a respectable government mustnt
tolerate embarrassing leaks, but he also realized
that this consideration was secondary to governments duty to secure its citizens natural rights.
Moreover, the Constitution exists to protect our
right to privacy: Privacy of beliefs (First Amendment), privacy of the home against the invasion
of soldiers (Third Amendment), privacy of the
person and possessions as against unreasonable
searches (Fourth Amendment).
These rights are far more sacred than any socalled government rights to privacy because

the individuals resources for securing his rights

are nothing compared to our governments.
While some of us at Hillsdale could get the
opportunity to challenge the policies uncovered
by Snowden in the realm of politics, likely many
more will wonder why the Snowden issue is any
more than only vaguely relevant, considering it
certainly disconnected from a career in mathematics or biology.
Consider Snowdens words: I dont want
to live in a world where theres no privacy, and
therefore no room for intellectual exploration and
creativity. This echoes Hillsdales own Honor
Code: to defend, as the College founders declared, the civil and religious liberty (privacy
included) of the American order; and to live with
intelligent piety as self-governing citizens and
scholars.
During his tenure as an analyst for the National Security Agencys information-sharing
information showing that our government forced
Verizon, AT&T and most other US phone companies to reveal their phone records without any
Snowden exposed many other NSA violatations

release the information, to avoid compromising

American interests abroad.
There is some truth to this, because the sheer
quantity of information released would have
been impossible for a single citizen to safeguard
in a foolproof way, especially because Snowden
was not all-knowing about US foreign interests.
However, Snowden was not some loose cannon. The NSA has revealed Snowdens email
questioning whether executive orders have the
same precedence as federal statutes. Snowden
explains that, leading up to the release, he took
deliberately-planned steps within the NSA and
was told to stop asking questions. Americans
responded with far more fervor to Snowdens

leaked documents and privacy violation claims

than to Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wydens
complaints about the surveillance state, which he
had been raising the alarm about for years.
We must remember that Snowden did not
can media. This perhaps calls into question our
CCA speakers (Hewitt and Groseclose) claim
that conservative radio and TV are always eager
to push back against big government because
they want to break news liberal networks wont.
We must remember that Snowden thought his
best shot at warning the American public was
through a foreign news outlet: UKs The Guardian. Too often, conservative pundits are ever so
selective about which big-government policies
they raise a ruckus about, and their partial selectivity leads them toward a neglect, or dare I
say it encouragement of the policies that lead
government to dictate our lives. Until the media
can do a better job at keeping an eye on the government, we need people like Snowden to keep
the government accountable.
David Flemming is a junior studying
economics.

GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

Dear Editor,

Timothy Troutner
Special to the Collegian

At last semesters Energy CCA

roundtable, Hillsdale faculty engagingly presented on energy and climate
change. Physics, chemistry, and economics professors, responding to other
speakers, highlighted climate changes
reality and discussed the implications.
Unfortunately, the venue was almost
empty. Most donors had left; few students attended. Similarly, mostly faculty members attended Dr. Hayes pre-

and A New Birth of Freedom

of Americans right to privacy, this is one of the

most alarming prospects because private phone
calls have one of the highest expectations of privacy of any form of communication.
Many Americans are glad that they have the
information from the leak, but have voiced their
opinion (which is perhaps disproportionately
loud due to the medias megaphone, if Mr. Grosecloses comments about media bias last week are
correct) that Snowden should have waited until

Crisis
Nicomachean Ethics

evidence a week before.

These low student turnouts demonstrate the extent to which Hillsdale students are aware of the climate change
threat. Global warming is that thing
liberals believe to control our lives or
simply off many students radars. Yet
science department faculty, even at this
bastion of conservatism, will tell you
climate change is real and poses a serious problem to our planets future.
Americans remain woefully ignorant
of basic ecological and environmental
science. At Hillsdale, we profess to be
exceptional, to ask the questions no one
asks, to dig deeper than our contemporaries. Yet we probably get our climate
change opinions from politicians, news
commentators, parents, or just our general social milieu.
How many of us have glanced at
the IPCCs climate change report,
examined statistics on Arctic sea ice

loss, or understand the connection between temperatures at the poles, the jet
stream, and extreme weather?
We dont realize that upwards of 95
percent percent of published climate
science taking a position on the issue
supports climate changes reality; that
the Arctic is warming twice as fast as
the rest of Earth, and the ice is melting
faster than any models predicted; that,
at our current pace, Earth will warm
centurys end, blowing past the twodegree target set to prevent dangerous
outcomes; and that modern CO2 levels
exceed any from the last 800,000 years.
Instead, climate change is revealing human natures worst: The inability
to privilege long-term planning over
short-term preferences, the refusal to
believe our way of life could threaten
others or Earth, and the tendency to
believe those with the loudest voices.
Evading responsibility for the human
footprint, we expect God or the free
market to perpetuate our prosperous
civilization. Modern crises demoncome; even growing knowledge of
climate change has failed to galvanize
global action yet.
A Hillsdale education should lead us
to realize and to try to overcome these
faults in human nature. To escape our
biases, we must examine the evidence
ourselves, and have the determination
to take appropriate action. Those who
do so will realize that manmade global warming presents a grave threat to
the planet and to human civilization.

Our species has inhabited an optimal

goldilocks zone of moderate CO2
levels and stable temperatures for its
entire existence. But recently, weve
consumed fossil fuels at an increasing
rate, taking stored carbon that took millions of years to accumulate and dispersing 9 billion tons a year of it into
the atmosphere. This unprecedented
carbon cycle shift, among other human
environmental impacts, jeopardizes the
conditions that enabled our complex
industrial civilization.
True conservatism demands a skepticism of such radical reshaping of
earths environment. At the very least,
it should instill doubt that industrial
civilizations recent developments
present risk-free opportunity.
Every Hillsdale student should defy
the apathy of received opinion and examine the issue personally. Visit skepticalscience.com, glance at the IPCC
report on climate change, attend the upmate change, or read the impending papal encyclical on the environment and
climate change. Those who carefully
examine the evidence will realize that
the threat is real. However, those who
disagree should at least engage with
mainstream science. An understanding
of the environment and our relationship
with it is a vital part of liberal education today.
Timothy Troutner is a junior
studying history.

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A6 5 Feb. 2015

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Dawn doused in community support

Hillsdales historic Dawn Theater survives threat of closing its doors

Macaela Bennett
City News Editor
An outpouring of support
for local, live-music venue the
Historic Dawn Theater saved
it from closing on New Years
Eve. Since then, an uptick in
business assures its doors will
remain open for now.
Co-owners Jeff and Marcy
Horton decided to keep the
theater open on a temporary
basis after a Dec. 31 closing
announcement induced community members to voice their
support for the business.
Step up Hillsdale we cannot
let this place die forever, one
commenter said on the Dawn
Theaters Facebook status announcing its closing.
General Manager Dave Semmler told the Collegian in early
staying open would be a crucial
one in determining the Dawns
future. Since then, Semmer said
the Dawn has seen an uptick
in business for featured bands,
open mic nights, and private
event reservations.
We got a lot of support from
the community. No one wanted
it to close up, Semmler said.
A couple weeks ago, when
we hosted STD [Silver Tongue
Devils], we had one of the best
weekends ever everyones
pretty happy and they want it to
continue to stay open.
One of the Dawns most frequent musicians at its open mic
nights and a large supporter,
Casey Rowe, attested to the
unique opportunities the Dawn
Theater provides to both musicians and music lovers.
Theres no place around that

offers starting-out musicians a

place to play like the Dawn,
Rowe said. I had just broken
up with a band when I started
playing at the Dawn and I just

Hillsdale City Manager Linda

BroHillsdale City Manager Linda Brown submitted her resignation, effective Feb. 1, to Mayor
Scott Sessions and the Hillsdale
City Council, which accepted her
resignation at its Feb. 2 meeting.
The city is actively seeking a
new manager and accepting resumes for the position.
Even though my contract
does not expire until May 15,
2015, I do not think it is fair to
the citizens of Hillsdale for them
to be without a full time city
manager, Brown said in her letter of resignation to the council.
In the letter, Brown explained
she is unable to resume her duties as city manager following a
recent surgery. Acting manager
ing in for Brown since October
2014, recommended the acceptance of Browns resignation.
The city administration recommends we accept [this] resignation with regret and sincere
gratitude for the years Linda
Brown has served this community, Terry said.
The council approved accepting the resignation with a unanimous vote.
Were in the advertising
stage right now. Our goal is to
receive as many applications and
resumes [as possible] from qualisaid.
The council asked Terry, who
also serves as the city manager
as Hillsdales city manager until
but Terrys contract with Hillsdale will expire in March.
The original intent when
she could return, Terry said.
I imagine she had a change of
heart. We are extremely grateful
for her years of service.
In other business, Terry and

Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter

Jonesville
coffee
shop
Grounded in Grace will move
from Grace Episcopal Church
to Jonesville First Presbyterian
It will celebrate the new location with a kick-off event from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Were excited to see what
new things will come from it
being here, said Cathy Johnson, the interim pastor at Jonesville First Presbyterian Church,
who runs the shop. Although
not part of our initial plan, it
does seem like the right time for

about music.
In addition to its open mic
nights and featured bands, the
Dawn also holds many events
for local groups, like Hillsdale

is a natural kind of artistic brilliance, Peters said. [It] has

everything. Sweet stage, iconic,
ground, place for the audience
to stand and be up close with
the artists, tables and chairs in
the back, refreshments, balcony
upstairs, and a unique style I
wish we could host many events
at the Dawn.

The Dawn

is adorably
Mumford and
Sons-esque.
It is a natural
kind of artistic
brilliance.
Shelly Peters

Hillsdales historic Dawn Theater located at 110 N. Broad St.

(Elena Creed/Collegian)

got up there with my acoustic

guitar and played popular covers. Dave gave me an opportunity to grow as a musician, and
what I am now is a product of
the opportunity he gave me.
In addition to serving as a
stage for him to share his music,
Rowe said he enjoys the crowd
the Dawn attracts since it is receptive to hearing new songs
and developing musicians.

Council seeks new

city manager
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

It seems like everybody

doesnt really care about the
skill set, because its more about
the passion a passion for music that is genuine, Rowe said.

the Public Safety Committee announced their plan for the city to
future.
We had decided based on
some illnesses and vacancies and
have on the ground, Terry said.
Right now, the administraresponsible way to hire another
value is decreased, Terry said.
City council is always looking for new ways to bring revenue into the city with little or
no impact to citizens, Terry
said. In recent past weve seen
a steady decline of revenue coming in to provide those services
[police services].
During public comment at the
meeting, Hillsdale County Commissioner Ruth Brown updated
the council on a very successful
tion meeting, and advertised a
free training event in suicide prevention for all Hillsdale County
residents from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Feb. 12.
[It] tells how to make your
community a Prevention Prepared Community, Brown
said.This is way bigger than me,
Im getting all kinds of people
on board to help. The Prevention
Prepared Community is going to
affect the city of Hillsdale.
Councilperson Emily Stack
Davis also suggested a city-wide
spring cleaning day involving
residents, churches, and local
volunteer groups.
[It could] give people a happy heads up for what spring and
summer will entail, Stack Davis
said. It could be a public day of
where we want our community
to head.
The council agreed to discuss
the idea further in future meetings.
I think it could be a really
neat public services campaign,
Stack Davis said.

Theyre not there to cut you

down but show you support. Its
one of those places thats rough
around the edges, but aesthetics arent everything, its the
people just like the sign on
the way into town says.
He added that while he appreciates the crowds support,
one of his favorite aspects of
the theater is an atmosphere that
fosters serious conversations

College. On Jan. 31, Hillsdale

College InterVarsity hosted a
concert with free admission
featuring a pop-folk narrative
band, The Gray Havens.
Senior Shelly Peters, who
serves on InterVarsitys Vision
Team, said the Dawn served as
an ideal venue for the concert
and other events like it.
The Dawn is adorably
Mumford and Sons-esque. It

Aside from the theater being a good concert space, Peters

said she hopes it will help bring
the college and community together.
I believe that the Dawn
could be the genesis of an artistic revival here in Hillsdale,

80s power rock

band that will shoot
live music video. $5
charge at the door.

Lead singers from

Candlebox and
Saliva. $20 general
admission.

Free admission.

Free admission.

binds a community together,

and I hope that unity is on the
horizon at the Dawn.

Community and college partner to

boost students post-high school success
Bailey Pritchett
Spotlight Editor

Of the 82 percent of Hillsdale County students who

graduated high school in 2013,
less than 60 percent of them
pursued postsecondary education. Although this statistic has
improved, Hillsdale County
still sits 6 percent below the
state average. In an effort to
improve these numbers, the
community and college have
partnered to inspire students to
make postsecondary plans.
Two years ago, the Hillsdale
County Community Foundation partnered with the Michigan Career Access Network
to start a local program that
helped students make postsecondary education plans. In
addition to college degrees,
the Hillsdale County Career
Access Planning network procates or joining the military.
Our work force requires
that you have some kind of
postsecondary education, HCCAP coordinator Lynn Burkett
said. Thats why were encouraging kids to have a plan.
Funding from MCAP and
the community foundation
enables HCCAP to encourage local high school students to make plans for after
graduation. One pilot program
through Jackson College, the
Welding and Advanced Manufacturing Program, allows high
school juniors to enroll in the
colleges two-year program.
By the end of their high school
education, WAMP participants
will also graduate with a weld-

the move.
At its new location, the shop
will not have to pay rent, so

board how much the shop earns

increase. Every month, Grounded in Grace Coffeehouse designates a local charity to be the
recipient of 10 percent of its
earnings, so increased revenue
means more money will go to
charity. Some of these recipients include various pantries
and Domestic Harmony.
Our real aim is to provide
a place for people to come and
gather, and the charities are another bonus for us, volunteer
Kathi Boyle said.
Februarys charity is the
Community Action Agency,
and volunteers write on a chalk-

Its a place to
gather and be
comfortable, and
if you want a
crepe and a cup of
coffee, then weve
got that too.

Kathi Boyle

WAMP and all signed up for

the next semester of classes.
Since these students have
enrolled, their GPAs have improved, Burkett said. Their
college GPAs are better than
their high school GPAs, and
their high school grades are improving. And its because they
found a purpose.
According
to
Carmen
Hughes, a Camden-Frontier
High School counselor, making plans for after high school
increases students motivation
to graduate.
I see a correlation between
graduation rates and having
postsecondary plans, Hughes
said. When students are excited about either going into a
two-year or four-year college,
the military, or the workforce,
is obtaining a high school diploma. For students with no
postsecondary plans, a high
school diploma has less meaning, hence increased dropout
rates.
Every year, HCCAP promotes two events that encourage students to pursue education after college: application
week in the fall and decision
day in May.
In November, HCCAP sent
volunteers to Hillsdale County
high schools to help students
Hillsdale College junior Alexis Allen, the GOAL leader of
HCCAP, along with other Hillsdale students, helped more
than 90 percent of Jonesville
plications.
For many of those kids,
plication in their family line,
Allen said. It is important to

each month so visitors can see

how their money is helping the
community.
The atmosphere is casual.
We try to be sure its a safe place
for everybody to come and feel
welcome, Johnson said. You
dont have to be a person of
faith to come and partake. And
its by donation, so if someone
cant afford to pay, then theyre
still welcome to come. Thats
part of the hospitality that we
offer.
Between a donation of several espresso machines from
community members and other
equipment volunteers hope to
obtain soon, like a blender for
frappes and smoothies, the shop
hopes to continue offering a

show these kids that college is

an attainable goal. Its not just
for academic geniuses.
Bob Drake, Jonesville High
Schools academic counselor,
doesnt think students avoid
applying to colleges because
they dont care, but because
college isnt on their minds.
For many students, college is
not a part of family culture and
rarely enters household discussions.

It is important
to show these
kids that college
is an attainable
goal. Its not just
for academic
geniuses.

Alexis Allen

interest in postsecondary education plans, a large fraction of

students fail to follow through
after graduation. Of the more
than 90 percent of students
who were accepted into colleges last year, only about 60
percent of students attended
kett calls this fateful period the
summer melt.
A lot of students get jobs
and think theyre rich when
they start making $7 an hour,
Burkett said. Weve talked
about giving these students
mentors to check in with them
through the summer. Were
problem.
During the school year, Allen plans to create a mentorship
program to connect Hillsdale
College students with what she
calls at risk students: the college-ready candidates who will
likely fall through the cracks if
they are not pushed.
Connecting them with students who know their fears is
huge, she said. We want to
show them that real people go
to college.

The activities we do make

college a reality for these students, Drake said. A lot of
times thats what they really
need. Its not an apathy issue
and not always an affordable
issue.
HCCAP joins in a statewide
goal to see a 60 percent yield of
seniors who will pursue postsecondary education by 2015.
Although schools like Jonesville High School see a strong

greater variety of items.

Another customer favorite is
the shops crepes, which have
fruit options available in local
grocery stores. Boyle said she
mostly stocks pineapple, strawberries, and bananas.
Because I dont work on
Mondays and Wednesdays,
it turns out that making these
crepes has become my baby,
Boyle said chuckling. I really enjoy being at Grounded
in Grace. It has such a different
have free Wi-Fi, neat tables and
chairs, an area where you can do
homework, and an area where
you can sit and talk. Its a place
to gather and be comfortable,

and if you want a crepe and a

cup of coffee, then weve got
that too.
This whole effort is by
Gods grace thats why its
called Grounded in Grace, Executive Board Member Sharon
Dow said. Thats what its all
about. Changing and blossoming and going in the path that it
should. We have spent a lot of
time working toward this point
here. We encourage anyone in
the community to come and participate. Its a happy spot to be.
Coffee is served from 9 a.m.
to noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Crepes and coffee are
served from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m on
Wednesdays and Fridays.

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MENS TENNIS: STARTING FROM SCRATCH

ing to go. Obviously I was under

a time crunch to get a team togetherthere was some pressure on me there, Turner said.

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter

A new varsity team should

take years to build and seasons
of practicing to participate competitively, right? Not at Hillsdale,
according to Director of Athletics Don Brubacher and head
mens tennis coach Keith Turner,
who believe the brand new sixmember mens varsity tennis
team will hit the ground running.
Though they cannot formally
commit until April 15, the six
verbal commitments will form a
complete team.
Im happy with the way its
going. I was able to get some
strong players, so were actually going to be pretty good right
off the bat. It should be fun next
year, Turner said.
I just see the results, and the
results seem to be quite extraordinary actually. From my perspective, it seems that recruiting
has gone probably better than we
ever hoped it possibly could in a
Turner typically connects
with recruits at tennis tournaments and online. Many prospecHillsdale tennis team online and
express their interest there. Turner then travels to a tournament to
watch them play.
Ill go to watch someone
who I know is interested, and Ill
try to make a couple other contacts while Im there, Turner
said.
At Hillsdale, the robust academics both enrich and disrupt
recruiting. In many circumstances, the rigorous academics appeal
to students with good grades. An
estimated 90 percent of the time,
however, Turner must eliminate
recruits simply based on their
grades or test scores.

SPORTS
A7 5 Feb. 2015

Freshman Dugan Delp competes at the 2014 Ohio high

school boys state tennis tournament. (Photo Courtesy of Dugan Delp)

You take the good with the

bad at Hillsdale. The grades
advantage compared to other
schools Ive been at. Ive had
more players interested in Hillsdale than any of the other schools
Ive been at, Turner said. The
honor code and the new facilities
also draw interest to the school.
Freshman Dugan Delp is the
only current student who will be
joining the team. Hes been included in the recruiting process,
and likewise believes the team
will be competitive immediately.
They seem like a great bunch
of guys. Very nice, very smart
obviouslyto be coming here,
and theyre all pretty good too,
which is exciting. When the

kind of rag-a-tag but its looking like we can be pretty competitive in the GLIAC, Delp said.
Following in the footsteps of his
two sisters on the womens tennis team, Delp knew he would
want to join the mens team immediately. Turner recruited him
directly, and the two practice together regularly.
Hes been keeping us in the
loop, asking what we think of
them and watching us as we hit
with them, Delp said, referring
to himself and another previously interested freshman.
Although Turners experienced four different collegiate
mens varsity tennis teams, this
from scratch.
I wasnt sure how it was go-

however, as does Brubacher,

who attributes Turners position
here to a varied background and
mentality of teamwork.
He has a good coaching
background, a varied coaching
background in college tennis and
hes been successful in a number
of schools. And I think the other
factor that hes proven to be true
is that hes a great team person;
hes supportive with the athletic
program and the entire program,
but of course he works really diligently to develop his own program as well, Brubacher said.
Turners program was initiated after careful consideration by
the president, board of trustees,
and administration.
The program was added because there was interest from
prospective students and families
who, it seemed, would do well at
Hillsdale College, and who are
bacher said. The very early indications seem to prove that the
program will thrive.
Tennis players tend to excel academically, Turner noted,
which may account for a portion
of the reason the recruiting has

BOX SCORES

Mens Basketball
Hillsdale: 78
Ferris St.: 85 (OT)

Womens Basketball
Hillsdale: 68
Ferris St.: 55

Hillsdale: 73
Grand Valley St.: 65

Hillsdale: 73
Grand Valley St.: 57

Hillsdale: 56
Saginaw Valley: 59

Hillsdale: 67
Saginaw Valley: 49

Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Kyle Cooper (20.8)
Stedman Lowry (10.8)
Rebounds Per Game:
Cooper (10.4)
Jason Pretzer (3.3)
Assists Per Game:
Zach Miller (6.9)
Cooper (1.7)
Field Goal Percentage:
Cooper (54.9)
Nick Archer (54.4)
Pretzer (50.6)

Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Megan Fogt (12.9)
Kadie Lowery (9.7)
Rebounds Per Game:
Fogt (8.9)
Allie Dittmer (5.3)
Assists Per Game:
Morgan Blair (2.5)
Ashlyn Landherr (2.4)
Field Goal Percentage:
Fogt (53.2)
Lowery (42.7)
Kayla Geffert (41.8)

Charger athletes
enhance play with
cross-training

I think tennis players learn at

a very young age that they have
to learn to prioritize their time,
because so much time is spent on
training and traveling to tournaments, Turner said. The result
has induced an interest in Hillsdale College.
Its very exciting. We have
such an opportunity to create tradition and set precedents. Im really excited to start, Delp said.

CHARGER VIDEOGRAPHY IMPROVES

Evan Carter
Web Editor

Five students sit concentrated,

executing their roles for a basketball game broadcast. Everyone,
except the technical director calling out camera angles, is silent in
the colleges television production center.
Suddenly, a camera operator
in Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena
catches a player making a basket
after being fouled. The player
sinks the free throw three-point
play.
As the play developed, the
technical director had already
switched from a wide shot view of
the whole court to the camera angle underneath the basket where
the player scored. As the player
stepped to the free-throw line to
complete the three-point play, the
graphics operator brought up that
players free-throw shooting statistics, the sound operator adjusted the sound to ensure the roar of
the crowd wont cause sound levels to spike, and the slow-motion
operator prepared a slowed down
version of the clip. A producer
oversaw the whole event.
This scene depicts the work
that goes into producing just one
play during basketball broadcasts.
ber optic lines from both Muddy
Waters Stadium and Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena to the colleges
television studio means that
Technical Media Services (TMS)
can now produce broadcasts in
their television production center
instead by using Broadcast Pix
Granite, a large-scale integrated
production unit. This change has
not only made production easier
to set up for TMS, but has allowed for improved broadcast
quality.
Its pretty comparable to any
sort of ESPN or CBS broadcast,

its just not as polished, said

sophomore Nathanael Meadowcroft, who directs the womens
basketball games. But were
learning and its still pretty
good.
Broadcasts of not only mens
and womens basketball, but
also football and volleyball are
streamed online. Online streams
of games can be found while the
games are in progress by going to
Hillsdales athletical website and

in broadcasts are employees of

TMS who volunteered for the
role.
At the beginning of the year,
we all sat down and had a meeting and [TMS was] like hey
who wants to do slow-motion,
who wants to try directing this
year, said freshman Hadley
Gaines.
Gaines volunteered to be a
graphics operator and manage
the broadcasts on screen anima-

Left to right: Meadowcroft, Gaines, Matko, and Handel

work in the television studio during the Jan. 31 womens
basketball game. (Photo Courtesy of Nathanael Meadowcroft)
clicking the Live Video button
at the bottom of the screen.
The improved broadcasting and streaming abilities of
TMS has also allowed the college to stream special events like
Choppd as well as speeches
from the recent journalism CCA
on YouTube.
All of the students involved

tions.
While some want to pursue a
career in broadcast media in the
future, others just enjoy the experience.
My best experience was not
this past game, but the game before that when we won by one
point and that ending where
everyone just rushed the court

BasketBall
From A8
AC playoffs, Cooper said.
The Timberwolves are a talented team led by USC transfer
Maurice Jones who is averaging
14.6 points and 6.7 assists per
game.
Hes as exciting a player as
Ive ever seen in our league,
On Saturday at 3 p.m. the
Chargers will face Lake Superior
State, a team ranked 21st in the
nation with a 13-2 record in the
GLIAC.

Junior Nick Archer goes up for a layup in a game against

Northern Michigan University. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

after we got that winning shot,

winning dunk, said senior Brad
Hamilton, who directs the mens
basketball games. Not much
can compete with that, that was
pretty intense.
While this is only the second
school year sports have been
broadcasted by the college, students are getting the opportunity
to serve in a directing role with
no previous experience. Hamilton and Meadowcroft have both
enjoyed their work as technical
director this year.
Since everything is live, you
just have to make a decision what
to cut to. So thinking ahead very
quickly is a good skill to have,
Hamilton said.
Junior Margaret Handel, who
often serves as slow-motion operator, taught herself how to use
the studios slow-motion machine.
It was a lot of pushing but-

Junior Ashlyn Landherr brings the ball up the court in

a game against Northern Michigan University. Landherr
cross-trains for basketball by practicing Tae Kwan Do.
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Rachael Hille
Collegian Freelancer

While members of the Hillsdale womens basketball team

warm up before games, shooting from the line and stretching,
junior guard Ashlyn Landherr
separates from her teammates to
complete a unique warm up.
Landherr arrives at the gym
about
an hour and a half before
out how to work, Handel said.
each
game
to do a short Tae
For those interested in television broadcast, Director of TMS Kwon Do routine.
Ted Matko said that since the
colleges broadcast studio uses hold a paddle for me, and then
much of the same equipment as I do a variety of kicks to get me
larger production studios do, the warmed up and loose, Landherr
skills acquired by students many said.
Landherr uses Tae Kwon Do
the skills acquired working on
as
a
form of cross-training to get
the broadcasts are translatable to
careers in the broadcast industry. her ready for game time. When
Dawn Tibbits Potter Arena Landherr was younger, she did
Tae Kwon Do competitively beand right now the broadcasts of fore she became serious about
basketball games only use three basketball. She tried this routine
camera points. So, in the future before a few home games last
Matko hopes to use one of those year, and felt that it prepared her
camera points have a sideline re- well for the game.
There are quite a few things
porter at basketball games.
I
think
kicking helps me with,
But the increase in the comLandherr
said. It gets me loose,
plexity of the broadcast will only
come when Matko believes that especially after sitting on a bus
the production team has mastered for hours before an away game.
It works out the tightness in my
all of their current jobs.
I want to get good at what we legs. It also gets a good stretch
do here before we move onto the in and works on my quickness,
which helps a lot defensively. On
next [thing], Matko said.
top of getting my blood pumping
and my body ready for the game,
it also just pumps me up and gets
me excited to play.
Many athletes have unique
They are a really great hard- ways of preparing their bodies
nosed system team that guards for games in and out of season.
and runs their stuff well, Tharp Cross-training has become insaid. There isnt much rest for
the weary right now.
and positive results have begun
The Chargers have shown to show in their performances.
they can hang with the great There are many different ways
teams, but they need to start de- that an athlete can cross-train.
feating them.
Whether it is a football player
Were playing good basket- running track or a cross-country
ball weve just got to clean up runner doing a pool workout, athour turnovers and make sure we letes tend to cross-train to focus
take care of the boards more con- on their bodies as a whole rather
sistently, Cooper said. These
are a huge couple of wins for us their sport.
if we can get them.
Athletic trainers encourage
their athletes to cross-train.
It is good because it allows
muscle confusion so the body
doesnt plateau, said Pete Benjamin, assistant trainer at Hills-

dale.
By using different muscles beyond those that are dominant in
able to strengthen and grow as
a whole to both increase performance and decrease the potential
of injury.
Redshirt sophomore Steven Mette, placekicker for the
Charger football team, is a big
proponent of using yoga as his
cross-training, both in and out of
season.
Doing yoga is one of the
can do while training, Mette
and has always been my key to
preventing injuries and keeping
my body ready for game day.
Another common cross-training method is getting in the pool
for those athletes that put lots of
strain and miles on their muscles.
John Wierenga, a senior on the
cross-country and track teams,
uses swimming as a recovery
workout.
pool is that you are not pounding like when you run, or get on
the elliptical, or bike. Its easy on
your muscles and is really good
for recovery, Wierenga said.
Wierenga said using the pool
as cross-training is also a great
way of getting an aerobic exercise.
You get your heart rate up.
You are not putting the stress on
your muscles and your legs. That
Cross-training has proved effective in many different ways,
across various teams. After the
success of her routine last season,
Landherr has kept the tradition
for each home game, as well as
at away games. Not only is this a
good warm up, it is a real intimidation factor for the other team.
Its fun to do it on the court
in front of the other team as they
warm up, Landherr said.
From yoga to swimming to
Tae Kwon Do, each athlete can
and enhance their athletic performance through cross-training.

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Charger Sports

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Womens basketball completes 3-0 weekend

Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter
-

After a month-and-a-half long

drought, the Hillsdale College
added a second win at home to
their record.
The Chargers defeated rival
at Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena.
The win was the second of a
three-win weekend that began

games at home this weekend, beginning tonight as the Chargers

Shane Armstrong:

AC tournament that begins in

A super Super Bowl

While the New England Pa-

half was a chess match with

of these teams earlier in their season.
Landherr said her team is althroughout the entire contest,

Geffert scored nine.

The win was a full-team ef-

XLIX was the most watched

deserved to be.

Chargers exceeded last seasons

number of wins and stand with
in the GLIAC.

Lakers. Landherr said the teams

teams strength while other teams

Pete Carroll has received a lot

of criticism about his decision
to throw the ball at the one

sdales

three-game

mance turned into football fans

winning

on the sidelines, in Glendale,

and in living rooms across the

game where we were consis-

while taking occasional shots

was selling shoes at Footlocker

at the beginning of the season

lead.
Head coach Claudette Char-

gained their 11th road win at

Russell Wilson should have

been the hero. He was the
back all season. If Wilson had

shooting teams. The Chargers

bounds and had three assists off

the bench.

Sophomore Morgan Blair shoots a 3-pointer in the game

against Grand Valley State University. (Photo Courtesy of
Jenny Bals)

CHARGERS FALL SHORT AGAINST TOP TEAMS

in regulation, the Chargers used

Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor

overs down, all of a sudden that

transition from those two teams

Close games have not been

kind to the Hillsdale College
mens basketball team this season.
ing two tight losses on the road
against GLIAC North Division

score and all of a sudden we win

-

Chargers forced a miss but Fer-

doing enough of the little things

The Chargers also struggled

to take care of the ball, commit-

ers.

eleven of New Englands defenders would have been forced

I dont disagree with Carrolls
thought to go through the air,

since the Patriots neglected to

call a timeout to let the game

making it an even greater ending.

ing for four touchdowns to set
the record for the most career
-

was thrown.
Tonight, the Chargers begin

Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena.

To a certain degree this is
-

thats a thing weve got to

which found the bottom of the

net.

Hillsdale hosts Northwood

-

so we decided to shoot the ball

the Chargers in the North division.

This is the biggest weekend
for us of this whole season right

gers were held scoreless over the

In the shoes of a New Eng-

against the Cardinals due to foul

felt like we hit more than we

one last chance to win thanks

After watching the game it is

hard to think of an element that

balls used against the Colts and

-

thrown. It will be hard for future

New England to win back-to-

the game for the commercials

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his new truck that he earned for

a reason. The NFL gained more

fans and will look to break its
own record next season.

Charger Chatter: Lane white

-

of got me into it. I did track in

The workouts. The workouts are

I would like to go to nationals

with most of the team, of course,
-

more and get better grades.

for those is kind of rough.

It was nice. The coaching here
that to the coaching. I cant
see what we can do.

I think Coach Towne was a big

lieved in me, and he was one of
the few coaches that I could feel

ested in getting me better, and I

Lane White is a freshman from

Dayton, Ohio. He plans to major in exercise science and attend graduate school to study
physical therapy. As a member
of the track team, White runs
the 400m and 200m races. He
was recently named GLIAC
Mens Track Athlete of the
Week.

their running workout in.

that. It was nice to get recogniformances, and we still have
more to come.
-

and Coach Towne still believed

in me when not a whole lot of
coaches did.

friends Ive met on the track

lot of fun.

hundred.

because I know I wont have

thing I would like to do.

I would like to take them down

one time.
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Sharing his love for musical theatre

Phil Simmons choreographs Tower Players Drowsy Chaperone
Amanda Tindall
News Editor

they let me audit all the major

-

College theatre department, and

-

The theatre department pro-

Phil Simmons as Underling in another production of The Drowsy Chaperone. The professor
at Eastern Michigan University is choreographing the Tower Players production of the show.

(Photo courtesy of Phil Simmons)

CANTUS concert draws clapping crowds

The mens choral ensemble performed a globe-trotting collection of traditional music to hearty applause
Kelsey Drapkin
Senior Reporter

placed

audible

to convey the

mance,

and

Saturday evening, the all-

capella group CANTUS per-

never

done

thing he did
not recall oc-

C A N T U S
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CANTUS performed to a full house Saturday at College Baptist.

(Sarah Borger/Collegian)

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Things

To do and see
This week

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.

February 6
Hillsdale College
Violin Virtuosi Concert
Markel Auditorium,
Sage Center for the Arts
8 pm
Advanced violin students
from the studio of
Melissa Knecht in a
showcase concert
of works by Sarasate,
Paganini, Brahms, and
others.

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Mehaffey unveils his vibrant paintings

Macaela
Bennett

Expressing
beauty through

(Collegian File Photo)

IN FOCUS

scrapbooking
YOU scrapbook?! many
said when I told them about the
subject of this column.
The last time I evoked such
a shocked response was when I
told my father that I, his last hope
for a jock in the family, wanted to
join the dance and cheerleading
team during basketball season.
Shocking, I know. For someone whos opted to play club
soccer, IM football and basketball, and write for the campus
newspaper instead of a more artistic publication like the Tower
Light, I dont seem like the type
to scrapbook.
At an institution where we
are encouraged to pursue beauty,
were all searching for ways to
express and share it. Some do this
through dance, art, design, reciting poetry, or playing sports. Although I seldom have time for it,
one of my favorite ways of making and sharing beauty is through
scrapbooking.
Im not talking about the
online kind where you upload
photos and insert them into set
places amidst cute designs and
pre-chosen fonts. Im referring to
the kind where I sit at table cluttered with glitter, buttons, ribbon,
stacks of paper, and glue sticks
for hours over a series of days to
create an album featuring photos
from special events like vacations
or weddings.
The last time I did this was
over Christmas break to make
a book for my friend Nicoles
Christmas present. She traveled
to New Mexico with me for part
of her holiday break. There, we
visited Native American merchants in Albuquerque, hiked
mountains two miles high, sledded on sand dunes, and babysat
my nephew for a day without
permanently harming him or ourselves.
Most importantly, it was the
few hours together since parting
ways for college. Just as we were
discovering the beauty of a new
places, we were re-discovering
the beauty of our own friendship.
I wanted a way to preserve our
photos and snippets of comical
conversation, and the best way
possible was using the medium
of scrapbooking.
I loved the opportunity to sort
through our snapshots, choosing
which ones to include and thinking about what they would mean
to her when she looks back upon
them in the future.
Then began the giant puzzle
of how to organize and present
them. I felt like I was exercising
both my logical and my creative
capacities by transferring the
inspiration from my head to a
concrete page whose limits constantly seemed to restrain my un-

containable ideas.
Many days later, I completed
ished pages to my sister. I laughed
as I explained the quotes from an
Eminem look alike with whom
Nicole and I shared a shuttle and
elaborated on stories about falling into a cactus and frantically
plucking out the thorns before
Nicole could see.
By making the effort to decorate these pictures, I demonstrated their importance to myself
and everyone looking at them.
They then induced questions that
prompted me to remember and
share stories that I would have
otherwise forgotten.
Just like dressing up for important events and choosing just
ing up a scrapbook page symbolizes an important event worth
investing effort in.
While scrapbooking is a beautiful endeavor, its also a creative
activity for even the artistically
challenged (which, surmising
the many shocked responses, inWhen I asked Micah if I could
write this column about scrapbooking, this papers advisor
piped up from across the room,
Scrapbooking! I love it its
the only craft I can do!
Much of the intimidation felt
in regard to composing a song
and skill required to knit a blanket
or paint a master copy is reduced
with scrapbooking. This is partially because no one is going to
ask you whats that supposed to
be? The subject of your masterpiece the photo is already
present, you just have to add a
few things to it. So without the
pressure of normal art projects,
scrapbookers still get to exercise
their creative faculties without
worry of being judged for their
bulging seams or disproportionately drawn hands.
While pictures say a 1,000
words, its frustrating when
someone fails to appreciate a trip
or experience the way we did because were constantly trying to
make them see what the pictures
dont show the colors, sounds,
smells or images lying beyond
the boundaries of the frame.
Scrapbooking allows you to
add those things in. Perhaps not
in the same way, but adding in
quotes, pamphlets, tickets, or
stickers gives you the power to
share more of the narrative.
Macaela Bennett is a junior
American Studies major. She is
minoring in journalism through
the Dow Journalism Program
and is the editor of the Collegians City News page.

Music departMent
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on campus.
Looking forward, Holleman
encourages all to take advantage
of the opportunity to see upcoming performances of the student,
faculty, and professional varieties
to enhance the Hillsdale experience outside of the classroom.
As the CANTUS concert concluded after a standing ovation
and an encore performance of

America the Beautiful, baritone Mattew Goinz gave the

audience a similar charge going
forth: May anthems continue to
rise from your heart, spring from
your lips, and brighten your day.

Laura Williamson
Collegian Reporter
When you step into Hillsdales Daughtrey Gallery in the
Sage Center for the Arts, you are
met with an explosion of color.
Vibrant strokes of paint characterize featured artist Mark Mehaffeys pieces. He uses both watercolor and acrylic to display his
artistic abilities, and has both abstract and representational work
displayed in the gallery.
Theres something powerful and inescapable about Mehaffeys work, said Professor
of Art Sam Knecht. We see
glimpses of everyday life. Hes
not counting on lofty subject
matter to defend this art, but visual values.

(Sarah Borger/Collegian)

Mehaffey really walks the

tight rope between abstract and
representational. Therein lies the
fascination, Knecht said.
Mehaffey himself commented
on the dual nature of the show.
Its a split show, half abstract
and half representational, Mehaffey said.
Mehaffey said he is honored
to have been asked to exhibit
his work at Hillsdale. He met
Professor Knecht through the
Michigan WaterColor Society.
They crossed paths about a year
ago and Knecht asked him if he
would be interested in showing
at Hillsdale. Knecht put the idea
before his colleagues and they all
agreed.
Barbara Bushey, Head of the
Art Department, said there is no
regular procedure for choosing

artists for the Professional Artist

Series.
The timing was perfect for
Mehaffey, who just returned
from Italy and China.
Mehaffey refers to his artistic
career in terms of brush miles
and his brushes have seen many
miles all over the world.
Ive gone through a lot of
brushes, Mehaffey said. It
voice.
This is, in part, due to Mehaffeys artistic process.
Im internally inspired
One painting inspires another.
One on top of another. I could
live three to four life times and
And in the end:
I will die with a paintbrush in
my hands. Happy.

(Joseph Adams/Collegian)

Hillsdale students compete at small college invitational

Morgan Sweeney
Senior Reporter
Hillsdale art students are returning to compete in The Small
College Invitational Art Exhibit.
The winners will be announced
Sunday, and a cash prize of
$1,200 doled out among them.
Students from Siena Heights
University, Hillsdale College,
and Ohios Cedarville University will travel to Spring Arbor
University this Sunday for the
competition , where awards will
be given to the top artists in
each category: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and
graphic design.
The submitted pieces will
remain on display in Spring Arbors Ganton Art Gallery for just
under a month.
With this consortium of small
liberal arts colleges, Spring Arbor hopes to instate a friendly
competition among schools that
agree on the qualities that make

good art. Hillsdale and Spring

Arbor started a similar competition of six schools more than
20 years ago, but, over time,
encountered a bias toward postmodern and modern expressions
in art that they found frustrating.
We eventually became quite
disenchanted ... with how other
schools had the shows juried,
Professor of Art Sam Knecht
said. Their judges had a decidedly modernist/post-modernist
slant, and our students would suffer undeservedly in the judging.
We put up with that for a long
time and then, about four years
ago, decided not to continue with
that group.
Spring Arbor invited its own
students and interested students
from the three other institutions
to submit up to two digital representations of their artwork, along
with text explaining each piece,
at the end of the fall semester.
We did our best to get the
word out each one of the respective faculty in their classes,

Knecht said, But the submisweek, so that tended to thin the

ranks of Hillsdale submissions.
Still, of those that submitted,
ten Hillsdale students were accepted for their work. Two pieces
by senior Anders Kiledal made
it into the show: a photo and a
graphic design piece. Seniors
Hannah Ahern and Kristen Carl
submitted charcoal drawings,
which will appear in the show
on Saturday; juniors Elizabeth
Davis and Isaac Dell and sophomore Katherine Frank submitted sculptures; sophomore Tori
Swanson submitted an oil paintHelmick, Rachael Kurtz, and Michelle McAvoy, and sophomore
Laura Williamson submitted
photographs.
Ahern and Swanson both
created their pieces in one of
Knechts classes last semester.
Knecht described Aherns charcoal rendering of the Laocon
as faithful to its subjects, yet

transcend[ing] photography.
He spoke of Swansons painting
of the cemetery north of Hillsdale as luminous in its radiant
qualities of light and color and
not gloomy at all.
Swanson, though only a sophomore, has already declared her
art major. Her oil painting was
the product of her second class
air, or painting done outdoors.
painting, and the most rewarding
according to Swanson, was capturing the light as it appeared on
the ground.
It was challenging because
of the light shining through the
trees. There were a bunch of
shadows from the leaves on the
ground, but there were also spots
of light, Swanson said. That
was kind of tricky, getting it to
grassy hillside with the spots of
light accurately.

Super Bowl opinion: Katy Perry did pretty well

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
At 8 p.m. on Sunday night
118.5 million people tuned in to
watch pop songstress Katy Perry
roar during the Super Bowl XLIX
halftime show. Perry topped
Bruno Mars 2014 halftime audience by almost 3 million viewers to claim the title of the most
watched TV show of all time.
The show was slightly dulled
guest appearances of rapper
Missy Elliot and guitarist Lenny
Kravitz, but Perrys stellar vocal
performance and fun showmanship proved she deserved the
record-breaking audience.
Perry began powerfully,
a massive lion while belting
her single Roar. Wearing a
dress emblazoned with sequined
traption like she was in a Roman
choice brought Katniss Everdeen
from The Hunger Games to
mind for much of the Twitter-

verse. Maybe Kravitz, who plays

Cinna in the movie adaptation of
The Hunger Games, was responsible for the Girl on Fire
vision.
Seconds after the end of
Roar, the stage transformed
into a silverish blue checkerrines dancing in their respective
squares. The coordination between Perry, her backup dancers
and the stage lighting produced
a unique optical illusion, making
moving along with the beat to
Dark Horse.
Kravitz then helped her out
with I Kissed a Girl. This song
was the low point in the show.
Regardless of where you stand on
the social issue why bring this
controversial topic into the Super
Bowl halftime show? Especially
when little kids are watching and
will no doubt turn to their parents
with questions pertaining to why
Katy Perry kissed a girl and liked
it. This 2008 hit song was not a
crucial piece to her lineup and it
should have been left out.
Missy Elliot took the spotlight to sing her two most popu-

lar songs but were they well

known enough for this Super
Bowl? Not really. While teens of
the early 2000s probably loved
the throwback, this age group is
far from making up all 118.5 million viewers. Someone more relevant should have taken the stage.
It was weird watching a now
43-year-old Missy Elliot crumping to songs popular almost a
decade ago and watching Katy
Perry jump up and down throwing in an occasional Yeah!
while wearing what looked like
an oversized sweatshirt (a poor
Thankfully a stage transiput the show back on the right
track. Emerging in a more Katy
top and skirt, Perry now stood on
a beach, looking like a Teenage Dream. This was when the
MVPs (as Perry has deemed
cartoonish-looking sharks and
beach volleyballs danced around
in the background, immediately
creating Twitter buzz and instigating fun meme creations.
The audience then contrib-

uted to the singing of her upbeat

hit California Gurls before her
featured her stepping onto a
shooting star for a ride in the
sky around the phoenix stadium
dome draped in a silver evening
gown with giant stars on it (Not
the best look, especially considering its the Super Bowl. She
probably could have worn any
designer and any amount of diamonds she wanted, but she stuck
ride on the star prevented her
from dancing she was forced
to stand pretty still but she
wasnt out of breath nearing the
end of the show and the audience
could tell: her voice sounded
strong and clear.
around the dome and her God
bless America goodbye gave a
show.
Overall it was a good performance. Taylor Swift would have
done a better job though.

Five students win concerto competition

Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter

CANTUS performs last Saturday in College Baptist as

part of Hillsdales Professional Artist Series.

Knecht is excited for students

to see the exhibit.
Its useful for students to see
an artist evolve, Knecht said.
Mehaffeys evolution is apparent in his painting style. Professor Knecht noted Mehaffeys
earlier work is mostly abstract
and that now he is transitioning into a more representational
style.
While Mehaffeys style isnt
consistent in all of his works one
element remains, whether they
are abstract or representational
pieces. That unifying factor is his
use of vibrant color.
His representational work is
still informed by a love of bold
patterns, Knecht said.
Mehaffeys use of color and
pattern is not the only thing that
captures an onlookers attention.

were announced as winners of

Hillsdales Annual Student Concerto/Aria Competition. Sophomore Stevan Lukich and senior
Hannah Taylor were named
Grand Prize Winners and will
have the opportunity to play a
concert with the orchestra on
May 7. Junior Taylor Flowers,
senior Kirsten Hall, and senior
Claire Ziegler were also named
winners and will play in a concert accompanied by the orchestra on March 5.
Twenty-one students auditioned for the competition on Jan.
21 in front of three guest judges:
Sarah Cranor, a 2007 Hillsdale

graduate, Dr. Leon Gregorian, a

professor of music at Michigan
State University, and Dr. David
Abbott, a professor of piano at
Albion College.
Gregorian said he found the
two grand prize winners to be
very good, and was impressed by
the students musical capabilities
as a whole group.
We heard about 20 perform-

that only two were music majors, Gregorian said.

James Holleman, professor of
music at Hillsdale, said he enjoys
having guest judges at this competition because it gives the music program a chance to open its
doors and show the quality of its
students. Holleman said the guest
judges also provide objectivity,
something that would be hard for
the Hillsdales music faculty to

bring to the table if they judged

their own students.
Instrumental variety abounds
among the winners: Lukich plays
the violin; Taylor the oboe. Flowers plays the piano, Hall plays the

The students chose their audition pieces last semester, and

went through the necessary steps
to get the pieces approved for audition. The students will play the
pieces they auditioned with in
their upcoming concerts, while
being accompanied by a full orchestra.
Lukich played Scottish Fantasy, a composition for violin
and orchestra composed by Max
Bruch.
Im really excited and really grateful to perform this piece
with orchestra, he said. When
you can play a piece with the

orchestra you really get the composers intentions, the whole picture of the piece.
Ziegler and Flowers, who
were also winners of last years
competition, agreed that playing
with the orchestra is an amazing
experience. Ziegler called it a
whole other world, while Flowers said it was exhilarating.
Both are excited for their second
concert.
Taylor chose to play Oboe
Concerto in One Movement,
composed by Eugene Goossens.
Theres a variety of different colors and tones in the piece.
Theres aggressive sections and
lyrical sections. Theres just a
full range of notes in general for
the oboe, Taylor said. Its probthere is.

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Campus climbers

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Students connect while climbing campus rooftops

carried up from ground level.

Conversations with friends
that would stretch for whole
evenings. One long conversation six hours with a female
acquaintance, Joy, who would
become his friend, then his
girlfriend. When he married her,
his bachelor party featured a trip
up a building.
It was just kind of a rite of
passage, La Prade said.
The buildings that dot
Hillsdales campus do not often
students. For most, these structures dorms, union, library;
Kendall and Lane, Howard and
Sage are merely the setting
for student lives, the backdrop
against which the daily activities of meals, classes, and
socializing take place.
But while La Prades story
is perhaps unique, his hobby
of choice is certainly not. For
many Hillsdale students, climb-

Roofs are great

places for good
convesation and
you can learn, often youll get
upperclassmen passing down
how to get onto particular buildings, senior Wes Wright said.
Its a way for younger
students to show upperclassmen
that they are up for adventures,
sophomore Don McChesney
said.
for such an absurd, yet compelling hobby: Because its there.
Some buildings are popular
destinations: the library, the
sports complex. Others are more
the stuff of legend: its been a

while, for example, since anyone found their way to the top
of Central Hall. Some students
get a leg up from an unusual
inside track.
As student head of security,
I got keys to the clock tower,
La Prade said. We spent a lot
of time walking around the
whole campus.
Even the more common
climbs present unique challenges.
The library is too visible,
said Garrett Holt 14, former
head RA of Simpson. Central
Hall is under lock and key, you
might plummet to your death
off the Sports Complex. But I
would say the most challenging
ous reasons.
Relationships between
climbers and campus security
have always been complicated,
with varying degrees of friction
over the years. Back in the early
2000s, as La Prade remembers
it, nobody cared.
William Whorley, director of
campus security, has a frostier
view of the hobby. The biggest
problem, he said, is the risk that
climbing buildings poses to
student safety.
Heres the problem that I

think exists: they have very little

fear of their mortality, Whorley
said. Thats okay, provided
common sense enters the equation. Id like to help students in
those interests in the right way.
Damage to infrastructure is
also a concern, but Whorley
emphasized that student safety
We can repair the roof;
the human body, he said.
Whorley pointed out that
campus tourism doesnt have to
be a surreptitious activity.
If you want to go see the
sights, he said, come see me.
For most students, however,
the appeal of climbing isnt
simply the climb itself, but the
bonds of friendship generated
by the experience.
Just be wise, Holt said.
Dont abuse it. Roofs are great
places for good conversation
loon launchers). Some of my
best times at Hillsdale were
chillaxing a roof with some
good friends, looking out over
our beloved campus at the end
of a long day.

BOurBOn
From B4
solve. According to Baron, that
was the original question: Could

My reaction was, Oh cool,

now weve got drugs, alcohol,

these bourbons and their forgeries?

So, over the past summer,
Courtney spent six weeks in the
lab working out and applying a

in the same lab, Banovetz said

in an email.
Courtneys research method
and results developed slowly, a
result of long hours and meticulous work.

and differentiation between the

characteristics of one distillerys bourbon and another.
Id get to Strosacker around
8:30 in the morning and work
said. Sometimes I would be
there until 10:00 at night. While
I was working, the lab smelled a
little bit like bourbon.
Courtney shared the lab with
seniors Kelly Tillotson and Joe
Banovetz. Banovetz was researching his own thesis, using
spectral analysis to differentiate
between various types of gunpowder.

component in bourbon congeners, a certain type of molecule and determined a way

to identify those, Baron explained. Its a process thats
used for identifying aldehydes
in humans as an indicator of
lung cancer. We took that process and applied it to the bourbons.
So, using a technique originally used to detect cancer and
with little academic precedent
or material to work with, Courtney set out to detect counterfeit
bourbon.

In the beginning, we werent

really sure what we wanted to
do with it, Courtney said of
just applied it and hoped that it
would work. We werent sure
what to expect.
Bourbon is a complex spirit,
composition. Each distillerys
product is distinct in both these
respects. As a result, each bourbon has a characteristic chemicernible from other bourbons
and from counterfeits.
Bourbon is made up of alcohol, also called ethanol,
Courtney explained. Everything else thats in the bourbon
is called a congener. Those
come from the distillation process and the time aging in the
bourbon barrels. I was hoping
that, by analyzing the congeners
in several brands and individual

(Salem Baer/Collegian)

Konrad La Prade 05 remembers spending a lot of time on

roofs.

ing campus buildings is just as

alluring as ever.
The climbers are generally
male and often from Simpson.
They, too, view their pastime
as a rite of passage, with older
students passing their gradually accrued knowledge to their
greener acquaintances.
In the same way that there
are routes up a mountain that

bourbons, I would be able to

identify the particular brands of
bourbon.
Using 10 different distilleries
bourbons among them Makers Mark, Woodford Reserve,
Wild Turkey, Knob Creek, Bulleit, and Jim Beam the chemical properties of each were
determined, the data aggregated
and analyzed, and the results
formed into a usable technique
for differentiation between authentic and forged bourbon.
The results look good so far.
Courtney, though still cautious,
is optimistic.
This is completely preliminary, Courtney said, but for
individual distilleries, I have
had promising results for being able to differentiate between
them using a particular congener.

mr. T
From B4
wife, Well, if ever I blew an interview, it was that one. But they
hired me.
Dow placed Miller in the engineering department of the
company, because working in research and development required
a Ph.D, but he didnt stay long.
I developed a few patents in
engineering, so they said, You
belong in research and development, Miller said. So, here I
am with a masters competing
with Ph.D.s. But I got a reputation for being creative, and I succeeded.
His creativity led to the creation of more than 20 patented
devices through Dow Chemical.
It was during his career that
Miller indulged in his passion for
cars, a passion that had developed
early in his life.
My family came to Detroit
to work in the auto industry, he
anyone ever talked about. My
uncle rebuilt a 1954 Triumph
TR3 that I bought it for $500. Altogether, the family had 12 cars.
It was the culture when we were
growing up.
I bought a 1955 Ford Thun-

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track for a year with Bill Lundberg and then left for three years
before returning to the academy
in the fall of 2002. He has been
teaching at the college for nearly
six years.
Because of my experience
draw to Hillsdale when I got offered the job at the academy. I get
to combine my passion of working with kids K-12 with teaching
at the college which is awesome,
Roberts said.
Since his return, Roberts has

(Photo courtesy of Ben Stickland)

Andrew Egger
Assistant Editor

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this kind of community, French
said.
I was initially attracted to Hillsdale by seeing the relationships
my siblings had when they were
here, French said. Coming here
and seeing the incredible community they were able to build, thats
kind of what I wanted to come
here for.
As much as we talk about
whats good and true and beautiful, the real thing I feel like we
learn here is how to live a decent
life, Clausen said. In my opinion, and in my experience, relationships are the most important
thing.
The Boardwalk girls feel the
same way about community as
the Wigwam, which might be why
they are such good friends. Junior
Christina Lambert, who lives in
the Boardwalk, believes that in
the pursuit of truth, goodness,
and beauty at Hillsdale, theres
something about having friends
on a common mission with you.
Its like when C.S. Lewis in
The Four Loves talks about how
friendship has to be about something, so youre doing something
together, so were learning together, Lambert said.
derbird for $500, worked on it,
and sold it for $3,000, he said.
It was a lot of fun, but once the
kids came, my wife said, Well,
its time to be an adult now. So, I
stopped playing with cars.
Once he established himself on
the career path at Dow Chemical,
Miller couldnt help but get back
into the hobby of car collecting.
When I worked at Dow, all
these bonuses are coming in, so
I said, I gotta get into cars. I
learned that Mercedes SLs were
cool, so I got into Mercedes.
One of them was a 190 SL.
They made them from 1955 to
1961. I sold it for $40,000. Now,
$100,000. Makes me wish I was
a little more patient, he said,
laughing.
He later moved from Mercedes
to his current car, a 1954 MGTF.
Miller said. I traded my 1962
250 SL. It was rare, because it
had a fuel injection system, but it
was a nightmare, because the engine was so complicated. I traded
it for the MG, which was in a
museum. It runs perfectly, which
annoys me, because I like it when
my cars need me.
Miller retired from Dow
Chemical in 2004, but still wanted to teach.
While I was at Dow, I loved
teaching, he said. I taught
physics at Delta College because
continued to invest in the community. He coaches the academy
track team, teaches a history and
philosophy of physical education
class at the college as well as being the assistant headmaster and
athletic director at the academy.
I think the fact that he decided to come back to Hillsdale for
a career shows a lot about how
great the community is. I enjoyed
taking his class and having him as
an instructor, said college senior
Sean Bennett.
Whether he is teaching, coaching, or leading athletics, Roberts
continues to instill the lessons he
learned into future contributors to
the community.

The Boardwalk, in Lamberts

people who actually live in the
house.
The Boardwalk represents
a place where community and
house is a place where you can
have a great conversations and
have fun with friends and cook
and bake with friends, Lambert
said. Its not really the people
sleeping there that contain the
circle, its a place you can invite
people and develop friendships.
We joke we have a lot of honorary
housemates on campus.
French says the easy brothersister relationship between the
Boardwalk and the Wigwam is
testimony to the importance of
community at Hillsdale.
The relationship with the Wigwam is something very special,
French said. They store stuff in
our house during break and we
have a war going on between the
houses of stealing stuff.
But more than just hosting
Powows and engaging in prank
wars, the Boardwalk and the Wigwam are cultivating a community
to enrich their education and support those around them.
These past couple months Ive
been realizing how incredible this
community is, French said. My
friends have made my Hillsdale
experience.
I wanted to teach. I didnt make
very much money as an adjunct
professor, but it was enough to
buy a 75 Corvette.
Because of his conservative
nature, Miller applied for jobs at
small private schools like Adrian,
Albion, and eventually Hillsdale.
I wrote a blind letter to Frank
Steiner here at Hillsdale, he said.
He and Mark Nussbaum picked
me up, and it turned into 10 years
of teaching. I love it.
Professor of Chemistry Mark
Nussbaum said Miller is an asset
to the college.
Ted is friendly, down-to-earth,
and tremendously helpful, Nussbaum said in an email. He brings
real-world experience from Dow
Chemical Company that our
chemistry and biochemistry majors appreciate, and he has become our go-to person with regard to chemical safety.
Miller developed a passion for
Hillsdale and its principles, a passion which convinced his nephew, sophomore Frank Beranek,
to attend.
I wouldnt be here if it wasnt
for my uncle, Beranek said.
One summer a few years ago
when I told him I wanted to go
back to school, he asked me to
visit Hillsdale before deciding
ited campus, I was immediately
convinced I had found where I
belong.
It is valuable having an alumnus who knows what it takes to
be a student athlete at a place like
Hillsdale teaching and coaching
students here now. I think the
fact that he has been through it
is important to his students and
athletes, said senior P.J. Cooley,
who took Roberts class.
Roberts fell in love with Hillsdale while representing the
Chargers on the track. Now he
continues to show his support by
working with student athletes.
Most alumni give back by donating money. Mike Roberts gives
instead his time for the young
people in Hillsdale.

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Off-campus
shenanigans:
Part two

Evan Brune
Senior Reporter
Science Lab Director Ted Miller, affectionately
known as Mr. T by his students, works and plays
more than most.
He is on his second career, having taught at Hillsdale for ten years after a 30-year career at the Dow
Chemical Company, where he developed more than
20 patents. Along the way, he developed a passion
for cars, music, and teaching.
Miller grew up in Detroit, where his parents ensured he got a good education.
I grew up relatively poor, but I was able to go to
private school, because my parents scraped together
the money to send me, Miller said. After that, I
went to the University of Detroit.
Once he completed his masters program in physics, Miller applied for a job at Dow Chemical, where
he ran into a few problems.

Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
Its October 2014, and Facebook is full of pictures featuring the hashtags #betterthanboardwalk, #InstaWigwam, and #boardwalkbabes >
#wigwamweirdos. Two groups of friends the
women of the Boardwalk and the men of the Wigwam decided to see who could have more fun
over fall break, documenting the competition via
Instagram and Facebook.
Sophomore Sam Clausen, who lives in the Simpson suite called The Wigwam, called the intense
back-and-forth a friendly competition.
For fall break most of the Boardwalk went down
to Cincinnati, and we decided to go with Spencer
to Frankenmuth, so we had a little friendly competition to see who was going to have more fun,
Instagram, because of course thats the best way.
When the Boardwalk and the Wigwam returned
to campus, they had dinner together and compared
their adventures.
It was kind of cool because we could talk about
What in the world were you guys doing when
Eric, Spencer, and Luke were wearing lederhosen
posing in front of a big German man, and what was
Elizabeth doing when she was falling out of a hammock, or something, Clausen said. Were pretty
good friends with all of the Boardwalk], we like to
be able to pick on them for things that they do in
a kind of brother-sister way, and they do the same
to us.
Junior Rebecca French of the Boardwalk tells
the story of how she and her freshman year roomStrickland and Eric Walker. Little did they know
that the friendship would grow into a huge community stemming from the off-campus Boardwalk
house and Simpson suite Wigwam.
It started freshman year when Elizabeth and I
became friends with Ben and Eric, French said.
Im not sure how that friendship really started,
its just grown a lot over the years. A lot of people
have been added on to it. Our group of friends, if
you will, is like 40 people, and theres no lines to
see what the core group of people. The Wigwam is
more than four people, and the Boardwalk is more
than 11 people.
Clausen, his roommate sophomore Luke Robstarted throwing what they call Wigwam Powows because they wanted a good way to invest in
the community of Hillsdale.
Last year, Garrett Holt, Spencer Bell, Ben, and
Eric had decided to be suitemates, and they got together and wanted to name their suite because of
the off-campus houses where people go and have
fun and name their houses, Clausen said. They
said, we want to be a place where people can go to
have fun, lets name it, so they called themselves
the Flagship. They threw parties mostly when Garrett was supposed to be on duty so he could still be
with lots of people. Those two guys left, so Luke
and I decided to be suitemates with Ben and Eric,
and we wanted to carry on that tradition of having
people over and making it a fun dorm room and a
dorm room you can actually go visit not just a place
where we sleep.

place because I had a degree in physics and they

only wanted people with biochemistry degrees, he
said. The guy didnt want to talk to me, and I got
really mad and told him that it was ridiculous that
he wouldnt see past my degree. He said, All right,
lets sit down and talk. When I got home, I told my

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An old-fashioned thesis
In her senior thesis, Yancey Courtney researches
a method to combat counterfeit bourbon
meets their needs, Baron said,
in addition to being interesting, creative, and original. Its
Senior Yancey Madison so much fun.
Courtney is a whiskey girl.
Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor

she has had the opportunity to

write and research a senior thesis on the subject.
Courtneys thesis adviser,
Professor of Chemistry Lee
Baron, said that Hillsdales
small campus allows students
to work closely with faculty
while they pursue research on
topics they love.
You can often work together and tailor a unique research
problem or a whole project that

Kentucky and
bourbon go handin-hand.

The topic seemed natural to

Courtney: A chemistry major
uninterested in medicine, her
research and practical experience could give her a leg up
for future employment in the
bourbon industry. In addition,

it would allow her to stay close

to home. After all, she lives
next door to the Woodford Reserve distillery.
Kentucky and bourbon go
hand-in-hand, Courtney said.
Its Kentuckys signature
drink.
Practical
considerations
aside, Courtney recognized a
real need for an industrially
feasible method for bourbon
distilleries to identify and cull
imposter spirits. Counterfeit
bourbon is a problem for the
whiskey industry, one that
Courtney intended to help

See Bourbon, B3

(Photo courtesy of Ted Miller)

From Chargers
to Colts
Shane Armstrong
Collegian Reporter
The drive down West Carleton Road that leads
to the city of Hillsdale greets passersby with a sign:
Hillsdale, its the people.
That sign reminds Hillsdale Academy Assistant
Headmaster and Athletic Director Mike Roberts
of why he decided to settle in the city of his alma
mater where he has lived for more than 13 years.
Being a student athlete at Hillsdale was a great
experience in every way, Roberts said. I discovered Hillsdale because of sports and then came to
for me.
As a Charger, Roberts was a three-time All
and in the classroom.
At the time it was a goal for me to be an All
American. It wasnt something I thought was possible but it was something for me to shoot for and it
is something that I am still proud of, Roberts said.
During his time at Hillsdale, Roberts developed
a love for the town while discovering a passion for
teaching and administration. The rigor of Hillsdale
academics along with the time commitment of athletics equipped Roberts with essential skills to create a successful career in administration.
Since Roberts took over as athletic director at
the academy in 2002, the school has earned 45
Conference Championships, 12 District Championships, and nine Regional Championships. They
also had 25 student athletes who went on to compete in NCAA athletics.
I think all the time how being a student athlete
helped me, Roberts said. I had a full plate in college and that trained me to do my job. With education in general as well as administration, working
with people and my college experience made a
good segway into what I do now.
After he graduated in 1998, Roberts coached

lullabies, the foursome decided to name their suite

The Wigwam.
Its been really cool because its been a way
for us to have a platform for what we want people
to think of Simpson and Hillsdale, Clausen said.
People come to our parties, and we like to think
its lots of fun and ridiculous, and that people probably shouldnt be doing these things like 70
people in a dorm room just shouldnt work but
it does. Some [who come] you do know really well
and some come in and I have no idea who they are.
Its been a way to reach out on campus and get a
foothold and say what Hillsdales culture is and
shape how awesome it is.

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Miller poses next to his 1960 Mercedes.

Senior Yancey Courtney conducts an experiment as research for her senior

thesis on bourbon. (Madeleine Jepsen/Collegian)

See Roberts, B3

DEANCHIC

REBEKAH DELL
Describe your fashion sense.
Classic with a bit of a fun edge.
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
My worn out pair of jeans from high school.
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
Poor pattern mixing. There are so many ways to do it well!
What is your favorite item of clothing?
A dressy black jumpsuit from ASOS.
Who inspires your wardrobe?
Right now its Cameron Diaz and travel images from Italy and Morocco.
Photos by Hailey Morgan