4.2.15 Hillsdale Collegian

Michigans oldest college newspaper
Vol. 138 Issue 21 - 2 April 2015
www.hillsdalecollegian.com
BPU director
charged with
drunk driving
Macaela Bennett
City News Editor
Head coach Claudette Charney, coaching the womens basketball team.
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
Charney retires from coaching

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
Claudette Charney, head
coach of the Hillsdale womens
basketball team, is retiring on
April 30 after 13 seasons of leading the Chargers.
Since coming to Hillsdale
in 2002, Charney has built the
womens basketball program,
leading three girls to All-American status, the team to three GLIAC South Division titles, and the
2009 GLIAC championship. She
also capped off personal achievements during her time at Hillsdale
basketball coach in the GLIAC to
win more than 500 games.
Hillsdale gave me the opportunity to be myself as a coach: To
care about and have a passion for
to train great players, Charney

said. I truly believe in what the
school stands for.
Though shes spent 13 years
at Hillsdale, shes spent far more
years coaching in the GLIAC,
making her the conferences
longest-tenured and winningest
coach.
But before her successful
ceptional player on the court.
Shes the most competitive
person I know, senior guard
Kadie Lowery said.
Her competitive edge helped
her break the 2,000-point barrier
during her collegiate career at
Saginaw Valley State University
and Grand Valley State University, a feat only one other woman
in the state of Michigan has accomplished.
After graduating from GVSU,
Charney had plans to teach, but
she was not ready to leave the

game behind. At the age of 22,
she took a part-time coaching job
at Muskegon Community College, where she stayed for three
years while working three other
jobs before she was offered the
full-time head coaching position
at Alma College, a Division III
school.
After leading the Alma team
son there, Charney was offered
the head coaching job at Saginaw
Valley State University. At 25
years old she started building her
Division II career with the Cardinals. Charneys teams garnered
167 wins over her 10 seasons as
head coach.
Charney left Saginaw Valley
to lead the Grand Valley State
University Lakers where she was
named GLIAC coach of the year
in 1998.
After seven years with the

Lakers, Charney received an offer to coach at Hillsdale.
When I saw what Hillsdale
was about, it aligned with me perfectly, Charney said. Hillsdale
offered an opportunity to truly
have the best of both worlds it
the support a competitive Division II team needed.
Charneys quiet intensity has
shaped the womens basketball
program.
She wants to win games,
Lowery said. But even in practice, everything, every drill, is a
competition.
Junior point guard Ashlyn
Landherr added that Charney was
a pretty quiet coach.
She tended to step back and
watch the overall dynamic of the
See Charney A7
Board of Public Utilities

Director Rickie J. Rose, 61,
was charged with one count of
drunk driving yesterday and
sentenced to 75 days in jail and
12 months probation.
The days Rose spends in
patient treatment will count toward his jail time.
Acting City Manager Doug
Terry, who has remained supportive of Rose since his arrest
in January, said it is too soon to
say whether or not the city will
continue to employ Rose after
he completes his sentence.
Rick is a valued employee
of BPU and for years has percient manner, Terry said after
the sentencing. However, we
do take the conduct of our employees seriously, but there are

not enough details to render an
opinion about the future.
Rose was arrested on Saturday, Jan. 24, after he crashed
his car into a tree on Bankers
Road in Reading, Michigan.
According to the Hillsdale
County Sheriff incident report,
once police responded to the
accident, they determined Rose
had a blood alcohol content of
.23 almost three times the
legal limit of .08, according to
the Michigan State Police website.
The incident marked Roses
third time being arrested and
charged with operating a veRoses contract, the Hillsdale
City Council will vote in the
continue Roses contract.
Junior Emily Oren was named GLIAC and D-II national

womens track athlete of the week. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
Shotgun team wins fourth national championship

Morgan Sweeney
Senior Reporter
Courtesy of External Affairs
Stephen Smith:
New dean of faculty
Last week, the Hillsdale College shotgun team went to nationals for the fourth time, and
brought home its third Division
III championship from San Antonio.
Hillsdales 10-person team is
the only one in recent years to
earn back-to-back division titles,
besides Lindenwood University,
a Division I team with close to
100 shooters.
The team has attended the
NRA-sponsored national championship every year since its
2011 inception.
While many students traveled
south or visited family during
spring break, the shotgun team
remained on campus, gearing
up for the annual Association
of College Unions International
Collegiate Clay Target Championships. The tournament is a
marathon for shooters, with almost days including practice and
Morgan Delp
Editor in Chief
Effective this summer, Professor of English Stephen Smith

will serve as Dean of Faculty,
replacing Professor of Chemistry Mark Nussbaum, who has
held the position for three years.
Smith will serve for at least two
years.
Im honored to be chosen,
and I hope to learn from the great
previous deans, Smith said.
Im succeeding Mark Nussbaum, and I hope to continue the
tradition of good chemistry.
Provost David Whalen an-
nounced Smiths appointment

via an all-school email last
Thursday, March 26, the day after Smith accepted the position.
The email detailed Smiths credentials, which include a bachelors degree from the University
of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in
literature and philosophic studies from the University of Dallas, with an emphasis on Thomas
More and William Shakespeare.
Whalen was involved in the
search and hiring of Smith in
2001.
Besides Smiths credentials
as a beloved professor and accomplished scholar, his personal
and leadership skills make him
an ideal candidate, Whalen said.
Tuesday started with the
5-stand competition, which

lasted the duration of the tourcluded all of the other events that
comprise the sport: international
trap and skeet, sporting clays,
American skeet, and Sundays
event, American trap.
were Hillsdale students, sophomores Kie Kababik and Clay

Moniot. Kababik and Moniot
went into a second shoot-off
with a student from Lindenwood. Moniot hit all 15 targets,
Kababik dropped one, and the
we were behind another team by

targets, senior Joe Kain said.
By Thursday, it was really clear
that we had to start shooting better, so it just got more and more
intense until it was over.
One of the most incredible
feats of the week occurred on
Sunday, the last day of
the championships.
dents shot in that
days American
trap event.
Thirteen
of
them
hit 100 of
100 targets: a
perfect round.
Those 13 were
pulled into a shootoff. Of the 13, three
shot another perfect round
of 25 targets. Two of those
emplary performances made

Hillsdale the Division III American Trap Champion.
Hillsdale also won the international trap and sporting
clay events and placed second
in American and international
skeet.
Carl said he
was most impressed by the
teams mental toughness and
u n i t y,
which
pushed
each member
third with 13.
shooter progresses from beginner to

more than technical skill,
becomes the most essential quality for success.

Our shooters relied on their
foundation, their mental process.
It really came together for us in a
beautiful way, coach Mike Carl
said. They just relied on their
fundamentals and the strength of
their mental game. And it won us
the nationals.
Though Hillsdales team
shows great skill each year, its
ed. The team did not perform at
of the tournament.
Kain and Carl say it was the
strength of the team as a whole
that enabled them to pull off the
victory. In order to win, Hillsdales nine shooters (one did not
participate) had to put up three
top scores per event.
Each of our shooters has
their own specialty, Carl said.
On some days, people whose
strongest event was up they
didnt necessarily perform
but we had other people that
See Shotgun A7
Courtesy of Joseph Kain
INSIDE
problem after which its named.
A3
Advanced watercolor
Sam Knechts biannual waterties and joys of working in that
medium. B1
Senators seek to legislate

American heritage
Michigan senators sponsor
bills to reform education, teach
American heritage. A6
Baseball splits series

Chargers sweep Sundays
doubleheader against Wayne
State before dropping both games
of Mondays twin bill. A8
Michigan Pot Hole
(Courtesy of Sam Knecht)
Hillsdale and the Pentagon

Student helps design memorial
stained-glass window for Pentagon. B4
News........................................A1
Opinions..................................A4
City News................................A6
Sports......................................A7
Arts..........................................B1
Features....................................B3
Can Ted Cruz win?

Students debate whether Ted
Cruz could actually win the
presidency in 2016. A5
Check out articles online at

NEWS
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Destruction for reconstruction: building student housing

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
The streets near the Hillsdale

College campus are slowly clearing out as administration removes
houses in order to develop the
area. With many houses gone, the
college hopes to build on or sell
the properties to enhance the approach to campus.
Every visitor has an impression of Hillsdale when they
cer Rich Pw said. Ideally, they
turn up Manning, and then the
college is the jewel, Central Hall.
But either way when you think
about that approach, it hasnt been
very impressive. Were not necessarily looking to build ourselves
everywhere, we just want to be
surrounded by beautiful things, so
it looks natural.
Pw said he hopes to improve
the approach to the school with
buildings architecturally similar to
the buildings on campus. Among
these hopes may be plans for a
new townhouse for off-campus
students.
The students seem to appreciate a variety of housing, Dean of
Women Diane Philipp said. They
like the Suites, and the varieties
of singles and doubles they can
choose. We opted for this townhouse idea and then we met with
a group of students. Weve done
that with almost everything we
build, because students usually
have very good ideas.
Current plans for these homes
include eight single bedrooms,
four bathrooms, a laundry unit,
seating unit, kitchen, living room,
dining room, and more. Six homes
will be connected, totaling 48 residents.
Theres a bit of a Central
Hall theme, nice porches, and really nice parking, Philipp said.
Theyre talking a rod-iron fence
in the front, with really nice landscaping.
Once built, the townhouse will
replace 16 beds being removed in
both Simpson and McIntyre residences, and provide additional options for students living off campus.
When you build residential,
especially when you can do higher
density, other things happen as a
result of that, Pw said. Not

only would that be great for the
college, but it would also give
people who want to move to Hillsdale and live close to the college
the opportunity to do that. At the
same time, they would contribute
to the beauty of the surrounding
area.
Pw said they may also use
some of their new land to create
parking lots for visitors as well as
faculty.
Junior J.P. Zawatsky said his
house will be removed this spring.
Though he loved the house, hes
excited about change.
We have a lot of memories in
that house, a lot of good times, a
lot of friendships being formed, a
lot of family dinners, Zawatsky
said. Its going to be sad seeing it
go, but its going to be good to see
whats new there.
Though the walk is almost 10
minutes longer, Zawatsky said he
is not too upset about the move.
In the backyard of our new
house is a stream, he said. Its
going to be nice and relaxing.
Maybe well put something in
the backyard to make it look nice
and calm. Maybe well have some
music playing.
Mac to be renovated,
more changes in future
Josh Paladino
Collegian Reporter
McIntyre Residence will

receive a complete renovation
this summer and be expanded
to include new amenities and
luxuries.
These renovations will involve a wide variety of updates,
including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and aesthetic
updates, according to Chief
Pw. The work is expected to
take about three months to complete, beginning on May 15 and
Pw.
Pw said that during the
renovations, the womens residence will be unavailable to live
in, but it will be ready for the
fall 2015 semester without any

inconvenience to the residents
who plan to live there.
Associate Dean of Women
Rebekah Dell commented on its
sway over next years housing
decisions.
This will not have a large
impact as it will still house primarily freshman women, she
said.
However, when asked about
forthcoming students dormitory choices, she said, I anticipate it may change the dynamic
of housing decisions in future
years as prospectives visit campus.
In the McIntyre courtyard,
where there is currently an
Dell also said the ends of

change into a lounge with a
kitchenette and study space, and
that the newly-renovated basement will have a study space,
Although many dorms are
worthy of remodeling, McIntyre
was chosen to be renovated next
summer because it is the largest
womens dorm on campus, according to Pw.
The college does have future
plans for more dorms to be restored. Renovations are planned
for Mauck and Galloway residences after McIntyre updates
are completed.
pergola, and courtyard will be

added; this area will connect to
all three living areas, according
to Dell.
Faith in Life lectures aim to

keep academics in perspective
Anders Hagstrom
Collegian Freelancer
The 25th annual Faith in Life

lecture series, entitled Morality
Shrugged, featured guest speaker Dr. Jason Peters and was held
by Wendell Berry, Peters spoke
on the challenges of living a
moral life in academia given
the hyper-technological age in
which we live.
Peters is the Parkander Chair
in Literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
His primary focus in the lectures was his belief that modern
academia has the tendency to be
held as more important, in his
opinion, than it should be.
He elaborated on this idea in
an article he wrote for the Orion
magazine.
We professors are the confessors of an educational creed
that dismisses the value of the
domestic arts and sends graduates out into a world of surrendered skills and purchased
necessities, the article stated.
We are the diploma retailers
who have allowed students to
assume that the machines and
the ungraduated will supply all

their real needs.
Despite the series title of
Faith in Life, the content of Peters lectures was not limited to
a strictly Christian audience.
I thought he presented his
outside Christian doctrine while
suggesting to the audience that
to live well is to live according
to Gods will, said Matt Sauer,
one of the attending students.
This simple but not simplistic
Christian message was at the
heart of his talks, even though
they were not sermons, nor were
they intended to be.
The Faith in Life lecture series started in 1990 with the
same purpose it has today to
teach students how to live faithdriven lives in academia.
Our goal is to connect Athens to Jerusalem, so to speak,
Assistant Professor of Religion
Don Westblade, an organizer
of the Faith in Life series, said.
We want to teach how faith can
be lived out within an academic
career, be that in English, mathematics or psychology.
Jason Peters is an important voice for Hillsdale students

to become familiar with while
learning how to inherit, defend,
and promote liberal education,
he said.
According to Sauer, Peters is
not only a credible authority in
listen to.
Peters is known for his wit
and his dry humor and his honesty in writing, Sauer said. I
think all of those came across in
his talks.
Jason Peters is only the most
recent guest speaker to present
at the Faith in Life lecture series; some of the most notable
past speakers have included R.
Albert Mohler Jr., Ray Ortlund
Jr., and John Piper. Each of these
speakers has brought something
unique to the conversation of
faith in academia.
Peters assertions regarding
the domestic arts and academia
found regarding Peters and his
work on the Front Porch Republic blog, to which he actively
contributes as a senior editor.
with information useful to any

Hillsdale student, according to
Sauer.
The lot next to College Baptist Church is now empty after a house was torn down to
make room for the student townhouses. (Joseph Adams/Collegian)
Storage occupation in
Knorr a problem for all
Kelsey Drapkin
Senior Reporter
joining the Knorr Dining Room

has been closed since spring
break due to storage needs for
food service provider Bon Apptit while the new Searle Center
is constructed.
Its a temporary closure
while theyre doing construction
at the Dow, Bon Apptit General Manager David Apthorpe
said.
Most of what is being stored
equipment that had been stored
in the kitchen facilities in the
Dow Leadership Center. Once
the construction project is completed, Bon Apptit will have a
brand-new kitchen facility for
their catering.
tion thats going on right now,
Apthorpe said. We expect all
new equipment, so its really going to be a state of the art kitchen for the six to eight hundred
people its going to hold. So its
very exciting, but this is kind of
the growing pains part.
Because of the space reduction, students have been strugnior Cody Jessup recounted a
recent lunch experience where
empty tables, so had to get creative.
We had to resort to using
the table where the workers who
wipe down the tables keep their
supplies, Jessup said.
According to Jessup, the two
neatly stacked the cleaning supplies in the corner and pulled
extra chairs down from the back
corner of the dining hall.
Junior Ellen Hogan said she
shares a similar frustration.
Finding a place to sit in
the dining hall has been harder
lately, Hogan said. Students
sprint across the room to snag a
booth or even for a small section

of a long table. It seems that it
closed doesnt help matters.

Apthorpe said they have been
trying to deal with the space issue, but they are having storage
problems.
One of the issues that were
running into is that the college
doesnt have space, Apthorpe
said. One of the thoughts we
had was to put more chairs
around the table, but theres just
not physical space to move the
chairs that are in existence.
He emphasized that this is a
temporary inconvenience, and
he said all should be back to normal come fall.
Were just excited, Apthorpe said. Were looking at
the end result, and unfortunately,
this is just kind of an inconvenience for all parties.
Professors teach Iron Maiden

Natalie DeMacedo
News Editor
What do The Rime of the

Ancient Mariner, the fall of
Icarus, and Alexander the Great
have in common?
They are all songs by the
heavy metal rock band Iron
Maiden, which students can
study this fall in a one-credit
honors seminar.
The course, spearheaded by
Director of the Dow Journalism Program John Miller, will
tackle the literary and historical
lyrics of the most successful
heavy metal band ever, according to Miller.
They dont sing about sex,
drugs, and rock n roll, but
about literature and history,
Miller added.
Professors across disciplines
will come in and lecture from
week to week everyone
from College President Larry
Arnn to Associate Professor of
Philosophy Nathan Schlueter,
Miller said. The majority of the
guest professors are fans of the
band, although Miller said he
asked Arnn because he would
be perfect to teach on the song
Miller had in mind.
You will get some of the
best professors on campus, and
me, Miller said.

Professor of Theatre James
Brandon, an Iron Maiden fan
since high school, will teach a
class on the song Phantom of
the Opera.
The class should be a
blast, Brandon said. If you
told me as a high school student
that Id be lecturing a class on
Iron Maiden, I wouldnt have
believed you, but I wouldnt
have thought itd be that bad.
He said he discovered Millers love of the band before he
ever met Miller.
I was reading a National
Review article about this guys
favorite Iron Maiden album that
was my favorite Iron Maiden
album, Brandon said. A number of years later I was introduced to this new professor and
made the connection.
Brandon said it is his favorite National Review piece to
this day.
Professor of English Stephen Smith will join their ranks
and lecture on the song The
Flight of Icarus.
I want to look at how the
vision of Iron Maiden compares. Are they more insightful
than Ovid? Dante? Smith said,
laughing. Why would this
myth be as interesting to an ancient poet, medieval poet, and
crazy rock n roll?
Smith added that students
often only associate their professors with high things, but he

said they were once high school
students who loved heavy metal.
I didnt know who
heard Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, Smith confessed.
All three professors said the
class will be fun and intellectually stimulating.
Its the kind of course that
the name and content sounds
like it could end up on a dumbest courses in America list that
conservative academics put out,
but we can get away with it because students here are so wellgrounded, Miller said. Its
not a substitute, its a supplement. Its ornamentation.
The goal of the class is to
look at how great ideas and literature translate into a pop culture medium, Miller said.
As Monty Python used to
say, Now for something completely different, Smith said.
Smith joked that only the
adventurous and daring should
take the course, and Miller added that the class might be easier
for students who are already
fans of the band.
You dont have to be a fan
to join, but you will be when
you are done, Miller said.
College adds Federalist Papers online course

Josh Paladino
Collegian Reporter
With 11 online courses available to the pubAmerican political thought.
Its latest online course offering is titled The
Federalist Papers, and the courses now have advertisements on various television networks.
One reason for having a course on The Federalist is that the book is centrally important to understanding the Constitution as it was written and also
to restoring constitutionalism in our time, Director
of Programs for External Affairs Matt Bell said.
This course functions as an extension of Hillsdales Constitution 101 course, Bell added.
The online class began on Feb. 23 of this year
with College President Larry Arnns lecture on the
Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional
Convention, according to Bell.
Lectures have subsequently been released

weekly on Mondays and will continue through the
lecture, Bell said.
There are 85 total Federalist papers; consequently, a study of all of them would consume extensive
time and resources. The material was cut down because of this.
Due to the nature of online courses, we couldnt
cover the entire book. However, we cover a majority of papers by explaining some of the most important themes set forth in The Federalist, Bell said.
According to the online course description, some
of the topics discussed are the problem of majority
faction, separation of powers, and the three branches of government.
Similar to the other online classes Hillsdale offers, The Federalist Papers originated as an oncampus course. Due to high demand, the course is
now offered online as well.
Hillsdale College now advertises for The Federalist Papers alongside Constitution 101 and other
online courses.
Director of Marketing Bill Gray talked about
Hillsdales promotion strategy.
The focus of the colleges online course advertising right now is the Constitution 101 course, he
said. We are also advertising other courses, such as
The Federalist Papers, on digital channels such as
social media.
Alongside traditional advertisement on conservative talk radio networks, Hillsdale has recently
attempted to publicize the online courses in a new
manner.
The college is testing advertising this course on
selected national TV networks, such as news, history, and religious networks, Gray said. The test
cable television campaign for Constitution 101 will
end in mid-April.
Hillsdale will examine the effectiveness of this
experiment and continue from there.
The course is also promoted to those who have
previously enrolled in a Hillsdale College online
course, according to Gray.
ence.
We try to offer the courses to those who are
interested in similar topics, Grays said. For example, Facebook offers the opportunity to target
ads for, say, American Heritage, to people who have
expressed a direct or indirect interest in American
history.
Gray discussed the marketing plan going forward
for Hillsdale, social media and radio advertisements
will continue year-round as long as they remain effective, while as stated earlier the television promotions will be under review in mid-April.
The commercials and advertisements are effective as the new course has been well received and
the others continue to thrive.
The Federalist Papers is doing extremely well.
It has more than 25,000 enrollments to date, and the
NEWS
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Celebrating Churchills honorary U.S. citizenship

p.m. to 2 p.m. and professional
Churchill impersonator Randy
Otto will conduct a Q&A session as the prime minister from
Hes a great combination,
Soren Geiger, research assistant
said of Otto . He doesnt just
match the style and the look,
but he knows Churchill so he
can actually speak and answer
as Churchill would when asked
a question about Churchills life.
President Trumans grandson
Randy Otto is as good as you
can get right now to spending an
It may be an opportunity for
education, but Geiger said he
hopes Churchill Day will be fun,
too.
more fun feel to it than the norWinston Churchill will be celebrated next Thursday in the
Grewcock Student Union with many festivities. (Amanda
Tindall/Collegian)
Micah Meadowcroft
Arts Editor
Student Union will become a
Churchill was appointed an

honorary U.S. citizen by President Kennedy. To celebrate the
oft-unnoticed national Winston
Churchill Day, the college will
think of, Geiger said. So it

will still be educational on Winston Churchill, his life, the colleges work on maintaining and
quet set up on the Quad.

The college recently appointsenior fellow of the Churchill
an email why Churchill day is
For the same reason we
should still celebrate Washingtheir indispensability to human
freedom. Without Churchill in
would be a darker and more sinister place. Of course he did not
win World War II. That required
on until, as he wrote, Those
who had hitherto been halfblind were half-ready. And after
warn against the specter of communism.
also just going to transform the

union into something a little
Hillsdale and Churchill connections with the Churchill CCA,

the Churchill online course, and
Arnns Churchill book coming
casion of a number of Churchill
sic playing through the speakers,

tor playing Churchill documentaries. There may be some cro-
Its not really celebrated

much, but its an important
day and theres going to be a
lot of big things happening in
the Churchill world on that day
scholarship and really milking
people to celebrate this great

ied, or at least know of. Plus it
will be a nice opportunity for the
community, as well as people on
the outside, to see what Hillsdale
is about, and why we study what
we study.
Hillsdales Churchill Day
worth now. So thatll launch on

April 9. Well also announce a
Churchill scholarship thatll be
unique capacities and position

within the world of Churchill
scholarship.
a huge scholarly resource out

there thats going to be searchable and cheap and downloadable. We are going to launch a
blog from hillsdalecollege.edu
and grad, in the fall. And so

and itll be the place and time to
do all this.
opportunity.
Come and not just learn
see your friends who you may
all going to be there and talk
about that and also get your
picture taken with Churchill,
portunity considering hes been
Senior Andrew Reuss, who
looks forward to Churchill Day
Sir Martin Gilberts papers and

with an established ability to
conduct scholarly outreach and
online courses reaching tens of
These attributes make the college a natural home for the
Churchill Project. The aim of
the project is to do for Churchill
what the college has done for
standing of and appreciation for
timeless truths that are essential
No other institution in the world
has these twin assets. None is so
well-positioned to offer them to
so many people.
Hillsdale studies.
Michigan Pot Hole ice cream to help fix roads

Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
While Michigan may be

known for its rocky roads,
hopefully Michigan Pot Hole
will help with that.
Ashbys Sterling Ice Cream,
the supplier of the scooped ice
cream in A.J.s Caf, introduced
Michigan Pot Hole. That same
-
sley, it went quickly.

The national ice cream supplier located in Shelby Township is hoping to put a focus on
three-gallon tub of Michigan
will be donated to the Michigan
Department of Transportation
It gets people talking about
it and keeps that issue on the
forefront, Ashbys Marketing
Director Dianne Tunison said.
ing companies. I think people

in states especially around the
Midwest that come to Michigan know the condition of our
roads. Its meant to be fun and
another. Its a little tongue-incheek jab at Michigan and their
spring potholes.
Tunison originally thought of
the name in January of last year
as she was bumping along the
roads. From there, they decided
on the ingredients.
name, Tunison said. I know
I needed a dark fudge that was
reminiscent of tar to go with the
name.
The result was chocolate ice
cream with a thick, black tar
fudge swirl containing chocolate cookie crumbles and chocoaccording to Tunison.
Ashbys did not do much
liked the name and from there,

we talked about donating the
one percent to the Michigan
Department of Transportation
According to MDOT Communications Director Jeff Cranabout Michigans crumbling
roads and bridges and how they
that theyre using this opportunity to put a spotlight on Michigans challenges of maintaining its infrastructure, Cranson
said. Whether or not the proceeds from Ashbys sales bring
happy to take anything. Itll do
tention to the problem. The ice
cream sounds pretty good. If
were all for it.
Tunison said the ice cream
season typically ends in September, so Ashbys plans to
speak a little more in detail with
MDOT this fall on their donation.

According
to
Cranson,
MDOT has a way to take donasome from anonymous donors
in the past. The money will go
into the Michigan Transportation Fund that includes all funds
for county and city roads.
The news about Michigan
ing off the hook of where they
can buy it, and the ones who
Tunison said.
For students interested in
getting Michigan Pot Hole,
Grewcock Student Union roA.J.s tries to keep a good
of ice cream, you need to check
you may miss it.
Freshman Brendan Noble and sophomore Josh Hamilton with freshman Brant Cohen, eating Michigan Pot
Hole ice cream. (Breana Noble/Collegian)
Conversing beyond Korean lines

Jo Kroeker
Hillsdale Colleges Eastern
Club presented Growing Up
Korea, North and South in the
ning.
Associate Professor of Engwishes to remain unnamed, rethe Koreas.
to do it before I left. Im from
grew up there. We were born
in the same hospital actually.
Shes here from North Korea.
We thought it was a good way to
connect with more people from
the Eastern Club.
Dean of faculty
From A1
There are many faculty who

deans, he said. Its true that
of talents, and in fact, the college
gether family stories, a song,
Korea when the military tightened control of Seoul following
Korea, said she was grateful for

the talk.
portray not just his life, but also

what it means to be South Korean.
Following a North Korean
attack on a South Korean island
He recalled feeling a blend
insight as I can going into that

culture, she said.
remembered confronting the

moral dilemma of whether or
not he could pull the trigger.
circumstances we inherited,
of the coat we were wearing, not
what we were underneath.
South Korea as the child of
Presbyterian missionaries and
also his trips to both Koreas as
-
presence.
ties, Whalen added.

Assistant Professor of English
of Smiths at Hillsdale. He then
followed in his footsteps at the
lowing Smiths reccomendation.
Smith was part of the committee
quite a few who combine those

Whalen described a good
all judgment, a strong and deep
sense of the protocols of the academic profession, a keen sense of
fairness and justice, a deep understanding of the mission of the
college, and the ability to keep a
calm head under pressure or crisis.
St. Anthonys Catholic Church

together.
Hes one of the few who is
ley said. It takes a real gift to
departments. He doesnt make
enemies. For many of us, it just
happens.
Associate Professor of Eng-
sions trip after high school,

knowledge his group was under
attack.
The discussion came to a
close with insight into the North
Korean education system and
the status of North Korean refugees. The number of North Koabout 30,000, mostly in China,
ras throughout the U.S. With the
tightened borders of new leadership, the number of new refuAudience members, including friends of the student
speakers and former students of
tion.
Senior Kaitlin McNiel, who
is considering teaching in South
lish Justin Jackson added, He
shouldnt be so nice, charitable,
been stuck with the job.
The other aspect of Smiths
his judgment.
He is really wise about maksaid. As the dean of faculty, hell
be helping to guide us through
the implementation of core curriculum changes coming in the
faculty meetings to guide these
things through, and he will be on
few years.
He thinks things through,
and he thinks charitably about
-
he appreciated the personal acferent from most people in our

community, that most people
wouldnt know about.
After almost four years of
announces the debut of the Eastern Club and represents a send-
continue sparking interest.

We are returning with new
He said he hopes that the
cracks that Hillsdale students
tural awareness.
Two Student Fed

independent reps
replaced
Katie Beemer
Collegian Reporter
There were new faces at the

Student Federation meeting last
week.
cia recently pledged Delta Tau
Delta, the Student Fed bylaws
Student Federation. Freshman
than Calcaterra replaced them
semesters election.
It comes down to I only
portant for the dean of faculty,

always to be charitable.
As dean, Smith will lead faction, this is the direction I wantulty meetings and sit on the hir- about it.
ment. In the faculty searches,
plicants from New York to Cali- rule and knew that it was time
fornia, unincorporated candidates
will deem them worthy or not of mirably; Im proud of what I did
Hillsdale College incorporation. with Student Federation, glad to
think it was the right time for
I think its a crucial part of our me to transition out. There has
- been a lot of heated stuff, a lot of
citement of making a great hire. I strong words, and good debate. I
think it was a good time to transition away and let someone else
- take my spot. I think that I did
take.
what I intended to do, which

was make my point to be there
and stand for the things I want
to stand for. And I can still help
the campus from a better position now.
In addition to being on StuClub, Young Americans for
works as a student worker in the
library.
I wanted to be in Student
Federation because I wanted
to feel the pulse of what hapIts really good to be in touch
ment. I really like to be able to
know that Im making a difference in what happens at this
school.
Young Americans for Freedom.
Additionally, he is working on
starting a Young Americans for
Men.
I wanted to be on Student
Federation because I felt that I
could help with the management
of student affairs, and I enjoy
helping people out to the greatest of my ability, he said. So
I felt that in such a position I
would further be able to help the
student body as a whole.
The two new members were
sworn in this past week and im-
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Behind the stigma is helping campus

the opinion of the collegian editorial staff
Lighthouses new Behind

the Stigma series is an excellent idea, and judging by
attendance records, Hillsdale
students seem to agree. The
sessions have been packed,
with one in the basement of
Lane Hall so full that many
students sat on the ground in
the aisles.
At Hillsdale, there is unnecessary pressure to have it
all together and do it all.
Students feel an unspoken ex-
nearly 10 other bills that will

do everything from hike new
to restore low- and middle-class
family tax credits to pre-2012
Proposal 1 will also focus on
and preventatively maintain-
Jenna Adamson
Special to the Collegian
President Obamas rhetoric.

Only political motives can explain the presidents failure
to recognize trends in increased minority voter turnout. Like
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pouncing on the Trayvon
Martin and Michael Brown shootings as examples of black
martyrdom and endemic police racism, President Obama
to promote income redistribution, universal healthcare, and
federal regulation of state elections as victories against privileged, white oppressors. Its simpler to animate a voting
block when each vote assails injustice.
An even uglier abuse of the Democratic minority voting
base underlies voter ID opposition. As Artur Davis, former
member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said in defense
of Alabamas voter ID law, the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression is the wholesale manufacture of
ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt.
New York Democratic operative Anthony DeFiglio, implicated in a 2011 voter fraud case, described forging absentee
ballots as a normal political tactic that targeted people
living in low-income housing because they would be less
likely to ask any questions. Voter ID laws complicate stealing the votes of the poor, the anonymous, and the deceased.
If only those who cheered President Obamas Selma address could have heard him speak the truth that voter ID legislation empowers minority voters through justice and transparency. The courageous men and women who marched
across the Selma Bridge did not bleed for equality so their
political leaders could manipulate and cheat them. When
Jenna Adamson is a senior studying English and French.
ing disorders is essential to

campus health. Its great that
people have taken the time to
attend their talks. Keep it up.
Ask questions. Help support
a friend or stranger who feels
you are someone who suffers
from these things, you arent
alone and you shouldnt feel
ashamed. You wouldnt be emrun-down, and this is no different.
Its an overly complicated solution for a relatively simple problem
VOTER ID IS
NOT RACIST
the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits race- and color-based

voter discrimination. Overturned, soon to be overturned, or
can lead to a negative feedback

cycle of alienation from which
those with mental illness feel
they cannot escape. In such
instances, only the perspective
and support of others can rescue such distraught souls from
their illness and obviate their
diurnal tedium.
Thats why Lighthouses
efforts to bring awareness to
these issues and provide a support system for those struggling with depression or eat-
Be wary of Michigans Proposal 1
The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to
edit submissions for clarity, length, and style. Letters should be 450
words or less and include your name and number. Send submissions
to jbutler@hillsdale.edu before Sunday at 6 p.m.
Against the backdrop of the Edmond Pettus Bridge in

Selma, Alabama, President Obama recently addressed a
favorite subject for calculated ignorance. The president
lamented that civil rights abuses continue in new laws designed to prevent poor and minority voters from casting
their vote. His implicit target: Voter ID legislation, such as
the Wisconsin law the Supreme Court sustained last week.
Yet from Georgia to North Carolina, the most recent state
with voter ID to release turnout data, black voter turnout remained the same or increased after these states passed voter
ID laws, revealing the opposite of racially-motivated voter
suppression. Persistent Democratic pummeling of voter ID
reform exposes a surpassing devotion to political advantage
over minority justice.
Many Democrats blame the Supreme Courts 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder for new discrimination
threats arising from voting reforms. The decision declared
unconstitutional the Voting Rights Acts Section 4(b) coverage formula, which determined the nine states and parts of
six other states subject to Section 5s requirement for federal
preclearance of election law changes. Section 4(b) rested on
40-year-old turnout statistics that, if updated, would have
shown black turnout equal to or higher than white turnout
in most cases.
The Department of Justice pre-cleared Georgias voter
ID law six years before Shelby. The ACLU, the NAACP,
and other organizations sued unsuccessfully in federal
court, claiming the law disenfranchised the large number
of Georgians who could not obtain a photo ID. The plaintiffs
proved neither that any person would be prevented from
voting nor that the law unduly burden[ed] minority or elderly voters. Despite a massive public education campaign
advertising easily obtainable, free photo IDs, Georgia issued
voter ID cards to a mere 0.23 percent of registered voters in
2008, a presidential election year. Meanwhile, turnout for
black Georgians increased 42 percent in 2008 from 2004
and 44.2 percent in the 2010 congressional election from
2006.
Texas and North Carolina also challenge the voter suppression myth. After Texas passed its 2011 voter ID law,
minority turnout in some rural counties increased by almost
ten times in the 2013 off-year election versus the 2011 election while turnout in most of the minority-dominated urban
counties almost doubled. North Carolinas election law reform included a 2014 soft rollout of a photo ID requirement. Belying the reforms characterization as a modern poll
tax, black voter-age-population turnout rose to 41.1 percent
in the 2014 election from 38.5 percent in November 2010.
As the Heritage Foundations Hans A. von Spakovsky
wrote, If President Obama really believes his State of the
Union claim that the right to vote is still being denied to
too many, he should give Attorney General Eric Holder a
serious dressing-down. The DOJ did not initiate a single
disenfranchisement suit in 2014. During the presidents ten-
pectation to lead three clubs,

have a 3.8 GPA, and serve in
multiple ministries. To admit
to anxiety or depression feels
like admitting to failure or certain inadequacy. Behind the
Stigma seeks to denounce that
misconception.
Mental illness feels very
real and very oppressive to the
person experiencing it, but its
also something its sufferers do
not feel capable of overcoming
by themselves. This tendency
the sales tax by 1 percent (HB
Rachel Solomito
Student Columnist
If youve ever driven on a
Michigan road, youve no doubt
sworn under your breath at some
point as your tires bounced
across a pothole big enough to
swallow the Titanic. Or two. Or
On May 5, voters will decide
on Proposal 1, a controversial
bill that would raise Michigans
Proposal 1 is a mere 100
words in length and effects no
direct change of its own. Instead,
its design will set into motion
however, Republican Gov. Rick

Snyders newest solution isnt
nearly concise enough.
The bill is projected to eventually increase long-term funding for failing roads by nearly
$1.25 billion a year. However,
while talk of the bill has mainly focused on such road repair
plans, Proposal 1 will also generate an estimated $116 million a year for mass transit,
along with additional money for
schools and cities, as reported
by the Detroit Free Press.
It is side projects and sneaky
earmarks such as these that
cloud the otherwise-simple and
effective goal of Proposal 1: To
save the people of Michigan
from the roads of Michigan.
Whether or not funding for
the expansion and improvement
of public transit is a necessary
and good plan of interest to the
public is not up for debate. In
addition to the other bills that

will inevitably arise from the
passing of Proposal 1, public
transit funding is a divisive and
troubling aspect of Proposal 1
that is unnecessary and polarizing.
For example, conservatives
who may otherwise be supportive of a bill like Proposal 1 are
wary of government-funded
projects such as public transportation, especially if theyre not
convinced of its necessity.
Despite concerns, Snyder defended the bills funding allocation for public transit.
Many people depend on
public transportation for their
livelihood to get to work, Snyder recently told MLive. And
we need to see improvements to
the system.
Regardless of the governors
defense, the inclusion of other
projects such as transit and
school funding has undoubtedly
torn voters.
Theres nothing like a governmentally proposed spaghetti
deal, said Robert Terry, a
Grosse Pointe Woods resident
quoted by the Detroit Free Press
who says voters should have
been asked to vote on a tax hike
pair.
I thought the amendment to
Michigans constitution was to

roads, he said. But, no, Lansing just needed to stick schools
in the mix.
It is statements like this
that highlight the issues with
Proposal 1. Hastily drafted by
Decembers lame-duck session,
it is messy and leaves too many
loose ends untied. Nearly $300
million for K-12 schools? $260
million for family tax credit reform? Another $116 million for
public transit improvement?
Whether addressing these
issues in any setting has merit
in itself or not, these projects
have no place in a last-minute
bill aimed at addressing such a
prevalent and pressing issue as
Michigans broken-down and
dangerous roads. If Snyders
goal is to focus on Michigans
future, he should take the time
to do it right and rework the current proposal. In the meantime,
vote no on Proposal 1. Show
Snyder that Midwesterners are
tough. We can brave a few more
potholes in the name of being
economical, but not for long.
Rachel Solomito is a
sophomore studying English.
The misguided outcry over Indianas RFRA

Alex Graham
On March 26, Ashton Kutcher tweeted in
response to the state-passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Indiana are you also
going to allow Christian establishments to
ban Jews from coming in? Apparently confused he added, Or Vice Versa? Religious
freedom??? #OUTRAGE.
Perhaps not all those responding to the
law are such comical straw men, but many
educated voices protested inappropriately.
The law echoes its namesake 1993 Federal RFRA, but differs in the following ways:
It allows for person to refer essentially
to an individual, organization or religious
group, or a company (the worry here is that
uses the unclear language of burden.
Those complaining might have missed
Section 5, in which the exercise of religion
includes any exercise of religion, whether or
not compelled by, or central to, a system of
religious belief. This means there is now a
state law enabling any person to sue for a
burden pawnable to personal belief.
A Christian may refuse to bake a cake for
a homosexual wedding, but the language of
this legislation does not support the Christian
out of hand. The homosexual may sue the
Christian for the burden of discriminating.
sexuality is not an exercise of religion? The
Christian may make a similar claim about
The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education
by Forester
McClatchey
belief-based business decisions. It is simply

a matter of determining burden in a dispute,
a task at which this law only scratches.
President James Danko of Butler University, the institution from which I transferred,
declared vague apprehension about the law:
I fear that some of those who advanced
it have allowed their personal or political
agendas to supersede the best interests of the
State of Indiana and its people.
A Christian may refuse

to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, but
the language of this legislation does not support
the Christian out of hand.
Incidentally, the law protects the interests
of two parties: The state, and its people.
As outlined in Section 8, the government may burden a person, but only if it is
the least-restricting route to the compelling
government interest. That is, the legislation
seeks to protect the state as represented by
its government, and when expedient, to unburden people of infringements upon their
belief-motivated actions.
Danko continued, No matter your opinion of the law, it is hard to argue with the fact
It is curious that Indiana would have already

experienced damage given that the law will
only take effect as of July 1, 2015, according
to the state document. A prophet?
In his piece, What Makes Indianas
Religious-Freedom Law Different? Garrett
Epps of the Atlantic conjectured, this new
statute hints most strongly that it is there to
be used as a means of excluding gays and
same-sex couples from accessing employment, housing, and public accommodations
on the same terms as other people.
Hot on the scent of intolerance, but realizing no language of exclusion exists in the
law, Epps covered his intellectual bases attaching Henry David Thoreaus quote, some
circumstantial evidence is very strong, as
He suggests out of place things, such as
the two points of difference from the Federal
RFRA, indicate injustice afoot.
There is no trout in this law. The two
departures, if problematic, are safeguarded
against by the trump card of the governments compelling interest, and the fact that
in every case there is at least one person on
either side with the ability to make a reasonable case.
Until there is more than a gut feeling,
please do not read your fear into the legislaAlex Graham is a senior studying
English.
A5 2 April 2015
Ted Cruz: Unelectable radical

Christopher Boyajian
When Ted Cruz announced his presidential bid

last week, the media pounced on the opportunity to
attack his ultra-conservative policies, Canadian heritage, and political antics. They used the opportunity
Attacks from liberal media outlets are hardly the beginning of Cruzs worries, however. His
White House aspirations have a much different beast challenging his presidential bid a problem
that lies not with his policies or citizenship and is far more fundamental than any of the political
chatter that has clouded the media since his announcement. Simply put, Cruz is unelectable.
To discuss Cruzs controversial political antics or his questionable eligibility for the presidency
Hes too radical. Democrats and Republicans

Kristiana Mork
alike renewed their loudest complaint against Ted
Special
to the Collegian
Cruz last week after he announced his intention to
run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. However, as both parties whisper under their breath about his scandalous Canadian descent and
shocking suggestion to dismantle the IRS, they fail to see that perhaps the very characteristic they
hate most will galvanize voters in his favor.
Born to American citizens in Canada, Cruz moved to Texas with his family when he was four
years old. He grew up to attend Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Chief
Justice William Rehnquist in the Supreme Court, was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Limthe Bush presidential Campaign, held posts with the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department during the Bush administration, and now represents Texas as a U.S. senator.
Cruzs experience in law and government on the private, state, and federal levels
set him apart from other likely Republican candidates. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul
alone the general election.

Take a step back and really consider the selection process that Cruz will have
to go through to make it to the White House. First, he will have to win the support
of major Republican donors and eventually the nomination from the Republican
Party, the good graces of which he has never enjoyed.
ship, making a nomination from the Republican Party improbable. This was seen
leadership being blamed for the government shutdown, and reversed the little
progress they had made in the defunding of Obamacare.
His own party members have attacked him for his actions and accused him of
being counterproductive to the hard work of Republican leadership. Karl Rove
gressional majority, in either party, for any kind of action, unless you are treating
your colleagues with some certain amount of respect.
Ted Cruz: Principled winner
business backgrounds, respectively, with little experience in federal administration

and no formal legal training. Of course, as Cruzs opposition points out, experience
means nothing if it will not get the job done.
Cruzs real selling point is not his education and experience, but rather how he
illegal immigrants two major issues affecting the 2016 election. Unlike his softer-spoken Republican counterparts, Cruz abandoned the murky policy positions of
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utter lack of respect for Republican unity does indeed make a good president (it doesnt) is beside
the point. The fact remains that he will never receive a nomination from the Republican Party, much
less its respect.
This brings us to the second stage in Cruzs fairy-tale presidential run: The general election.
Even if Cruz miraculously won the Republican nomination (which he wont), he would be absolutely massacred by media outlets during the general election.
disconnect with American voters. His ultra-conservative ideals alienate him from voters on both
sides of the aisle.
In an article by FiveThirtyEight Politics, Cruz was matched up in four national live polls against
Hillary Clinton and came in last place among all of the Republican primary candidates.
candidate preference. At best, it seems doubtful that Cruz could overcome such low predictions,
even at an early stage.
It is obvious that Cruz has no chance whatsoever of seriously competing in a general election
against Hillary Clinton. Not only for this reason, but primarily for his inability to win the Republican nomination, will Cruz be absolutely unelectable in 2016.
legendary government shutdown. He also fought to rescind the presidents execuon Obamacare or amnesty, let alone action taken against these hugely unpopular programs.
Some critics argue that these steps were too radical. Perhaps thats true. But if he is radical, at
least Cruz stands by the positions he takes. Unlike the stereotypical politician, he does not hide his
achieve it. Some call that radical. Others call it honest leadership.
Many on the right fear that a leader like Cruz would polarize the Republican Party and lead to
another Democratic president. This fear is not without merit. It could be a gamble to nominate a
successful direction for the Republican Party. The time for moderate, electable candidates has
passed. In the last congressional election, moderates were crushed by their more conservative opposition with clear policy goals. This only goes to show how voters are tired of hearing the same
story from Republicans and Democrats alike. Voters are tired of inaction and bickering. They want
honesty, integrity, and action from their leaders. Cruz boasts the best Republican track record of just
that: Honesty, integrity, and action. Some call it radical. I think it might be the ticket to conservative
success.
Kristiana Mork is a freshman George Washington Fellow studying politics and speech.
LETS HONOR
GOOD FRIDAY
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
Tomorrow, the Western Church
currently allows students to miss

out on the valuable class periods
which fall after noon. Rather than
unfairly permitting afternoon class-
insisting on not missing morning

but for many, the observance of this classes, perhaps Hillsdale could
momentous day in the Christian consider and create a policy whereChurch year will begin with the distractions of any other ordinary day. day but also no periods of precious
Unfortunately, this is also the case class time are missed.
at Hillsdale.
There are two chief possibilities for remedying this situation,
be kept as free as possible of any both of which undoubtedly carry
academic pressures which com- the baggage of secondary effects
pete with proper concentration on and require careful weighing of the
consequences, but which may at
end, we at Hillsdale might open this least be useful in sparking discusissue for discussion and earnestly sion.
consider options for a policy which
One option might be to have
would have no classes be held on two short breaks in the spring semester, as opposed to a long spring
Hillsdales current policy ends break and a few short days at Easclasses at noon, which gives stu- ter. As in the fall semester, which
dents the opportunity to observe has both a fall break and a Thanksthe three hours during which Christ giving break, the spring semester
hung on the cross. While a good could have both a spring break
policy, this arrangement still al- and a slightly longer Easter break
lows the academic
that would allow an
routine to detract
entire day free on
Though not
tion on the day of
fortunately, this setChrists death, a day strictly a Christian
up would not perwhich should be college, our school
mit students much
set aside for prayer
time for traveling
and contemplation. has good reason
far away as some
It further opens to concern itself
currently do during
the possibility of with observance of
spring break.
scheduling work,
A second option
meetings, and other Good Friday.
might be to alter
responsibilities on
the second semester schedule so that
some, the policy interrupts obser- classes begin on a Monday rather
vance of the Triduum, the three-day than on a Wednesday. This would
liturgical period which begins on keep the current system of breaks
Maundy Thursday the evening be- intact and also prevent students and
fore.
faculty from missing a precious
Such disturbances are, of course, class period. According to Provost
an unavoidable part of life. At Hill- David Whalen, these extra days
sdale, however, if we have the ability to at least lessen these distrac- the semester for last-minute schedtions, we should work toward that
goal. Though not strictly a Christian
college, our school has good reason back on campus. Now, however,
to concern itself with observance when most changes can be made
online before even arriving, there is
its calendar around the dates of the less of a need for these two extra
Western Church, employs a Chris- days. If we started classes two days
tian chaplain, invokes the name of earlier, there would be room to skip
Christ at convocation ceremonies,
and is even building a prominent
Clearly, no option is ideal, and
chapel on its quad.
there will be objections from some
The chief argument against hav- corner against any proposal. But
- then again, the current policy is not
ing to Provost David Whalen and ideal either. We can begin, howCampus Chaplain Peter Beckwith, ever, by at least being open to conis that such a policy would lower sidering the possibility of altering
the value of students tuition dollars, cause students to miss out on better allow students an observance
a day of their professors valuable
hindered by academic distractions.
faculty to cover all planned material. This is a serious concern, but
Ramona Tausz is a sophomore
one that even the current policy studying English.
does not adequately answer, as it
Our campus needs better security

We tempt fate by assuming that nothing bad can happen here
Daniel ODette
Occasionally on campus, one may
hear someone speaking about the
Hillsdale Bubble. This is referring
to the semi-mythical effect that a sequestered campus miles from a major
city has on how the student body sees
politics, religion, and culture. That
Bubble was popped last Wednesday
when police escorted a man out of
the Mossey Library for stalking a female student. This incident marked
the second time he had been on campus, as well as the second time he
had managed to get inside the library.
While we may all breathe a sigh of
relief that no one was hurt and the
threat removed, a subsequent conversation on Yik Yak has shown that
the Hillsdale Bubble doesnt stop at
politics it extends to the security
of students as well.
Some involved in the discussion
on Yik Yak suggested increased security measures through the use of door
ID-locks like the ones on the doors
of Lane, Kendall, and the Grew-
cock Student Union. However, those

who disagreed stated something that
ought to be found disturbing. Their
mindset is that it was just an isolated incident.
There is truth to what one Yakker
said. Hillsdale is nowhere near the
cities and is so isolated that incidents
would be rare at best. However, the
point of the matter is not the rate of
occurrence but the scale. While the
man was caught the second time he
came to campus, he managed to get
in and out without being detained the
Someone was able to invade our
school and escape.
While a hypothetical is not evidence, it is food for thought, and we
must wonder what would have haptime had not merely been to stalk.
Student lives could have been taken, and that is unacceptable. While
not all tragedies can be prevented,
there are measures that could and
should be taken, but currently are
not. Whether this is merely an over-
or something being blithely ignored

cannot be determined, but now is the
time to act.
Dorms, Central Hall, the sports
buildings, and the Mossey Library
all lack the ID scanners with which
Lane, Kendall, and Grewcock are
equipped. This status quo risks an
incident like what happened on
Wednesday occurring. Is it really
worth student lives to continue on
our present course and spare oura price, after all, and this one would
be in blood.
and pretend this wont happen again,
we play a cosmic dice game. All it
takes is one bad roll for someone to
even if we shut our eyes and nothing
bad happens to us in the near future,
can we live with the responsibility
that it would be our fault if someone
down the line pays for our shortsightDaniel ODette is a freshman
studying history.
Hillsdale needs computer science

Joe Pappalardo
The recent announcement of Computer Science
Professor Rein Zellers retirement presents an awkward discussion to the Hillsdale College community.
Few students could mention the fact that he is the
resident Computer Science professor, or that the math
department commemorated his retirement by dumping
the CS program from its course selection.
Hillsdale may not be the next Silicon Valley, but
the lack of attention given to a CS program at the college is concerning. We cannot ignore that the modern
job climate increasingly demands for people who possess basic programming and problem-solving skills.
Hillsdale College is not an institution purely focused
on getting students jobs, and its resistance to the degree factory trend present in American universities is
worthy of praise. The Princeton Review lists biology,
English, and history as the top three degrees received
at this college, demonstrating a focus on both degrees
in science and the humanities. Convinced that it is the
best preparation for meeting the challenges of modern
life, Hillsdale offers the traditional, classically-based,
This liberal arts concept of a well-rounded student
falls on its face when ACT credit makes mathematics
an afterthought and computer science is hidden under
the stairs like an orphaned wizard. The student body
does not demand courses in CS because the faculty
does nothing to advertise its presence. A highly-selective institution such as ours cannot ignore the widespread growth of computer-related jobs and education
in America. High schools across the country are adding CS courses to their curriculum, even making it required in some cases.
The lack of expansion in the computer science program is partially the result of the campus polarized
academic climate. The humanities majors are perfectly
content to dodge math courses while the average business or science student is still required to attend courses in English, history, religion and philosophy. Yet students of the humanities take for granted the work that
goes on to enable word processors, image editing, and
web page design. In a few years, no one will even be
able to explain what a disk is, or why the computer
labs are so slow (try rebooting).
dream. Many non-programmers hold the assumption
career. The truth is that programmers are trained to
pick up any language their employer presents to them.
Programming is just as much an art as designing a
building, or constructing an argument. People slave for
hours trying to design user interfaces for Microsoft and
Apple, resulting in countless updates to software used
by millions. The code behind computers, ATMs, and
be seen as a disposable accessory of the math or business departments.
If we expect students at Hillsdale to master the libon mathematics, geometry, music production, and astronomy. The ability to code is no longer just a skill
found in the basements of suburban families. Hillsdale
needs a computer science program, even just a minor,
to maintain relevance and meet the challenges of
modern life.
Joe Pappalardo is a freshman studying marketing,
journalism, and computer science.
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ITY NEWS
Hillsdale confronts adult illiteracy
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City to
use $375k
grant
to improve
State
Street
Phil DeVoe
Circulation Manager
(Meg Prom/Collegian)
Bailey Pritchett
Spotlight Editor
A student perspective
I got to show my son that
I got to show
my son that
Mommy goes to
school too. And
if I can do it, he
can do it too.
Amy Moulton
Its never too late to start your
An administrative
spective
Hillsdale Colleges perspective
per-
you are, but it does enhance who

you are.
Yvonne Rogers
A legal perspective
Michigan senators seek state history education reform

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
Watching a Jay Leno seg-
Only one in 1,000 Americans can
First Amendment. People are not

aware of their rights or when their
rights are being violated; with the
backdrop of American government
right now, this needs to change.
State Sen. Patrick Colbeck

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taught.
the set.
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SOFTBALL TEAM SPLITS SERIES WITH TIFFIN

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
ing its opening GLIAC games

against Findlay Saturday, the
Chargers fought hard to take the
second game in its doubleheader
sdale charged back to win the
second 10-4 at Williams Field.

Sophomore Bekah Kastning
went 4-5 in the game, with big
hits from junior Sarah Grunert
(3-4) as well.
We wasted a good pitching
effort from [freshman] Danielle
Stiene, and we came into the second game a little peeved, head
coach Joe Abraham said about
the teams second-game turn-
around.
Junior Sarah Grunert hit the
allowing Hillsdale to gain an

early lead.
It was really nice to get those
nice to have runs to work with.
The whole team was that much
give up a couple runs, we would
come back and score a couple
more runs.
Seniors Kate Ardrey and Melissa Felkey added RBIs to exinning.
Coming out with hit after hit
game to continue, Felkey said.
weve been up at the beginning
usually weve been a comeback team and it was nice for
the pitchers to have a couple runs
under them. It was nice for everyone because we could relax
and play our game.
Freshman Haley Lawrence makes a play in the game

against Tiffin on Wednesday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
couple runs before Hillsdale answered with runs driven in from

Ardrey and junior Ainsley Ellison, increasing the score to 5-2
more runs before the Chargers

in the sixth and seventh innings.
We made sure we had lots of
energy, in the dugout as well as
Hillsdale 6-2. Stiene threw eight

Reynolds four.
The game ended with a controversial interference call. Ellison drove a hit up the middle
with two outs and Kastning on
second. The umpire called interference and an out on Kastning
made contact as the shortstop
dove for the ball and missed. It
could have been perceived that
the shortstop had no shot at making the play and therefore, the
call should have been obstrucI think the call could have
gone either way, and it went
against us, Abraham said. We
only had two or three hits in the
game, and you cant expect to
win that way.
The Chargers continue league
play this Friday against Saginaw Valley and Saturday against
Wayne State.
Tennis team dominates at home

Hannah Leitner
Design Editor
the spring season on Saturday,
Hillsdale swept the competition
with an 8-1 win over Huntington
College.
Weve been practicing hard
and I think the girls were eager for competition. All courts
played hard and showed a lot of
heart in their wins, coach Nicole
Walbright said.
Sophomore Jada Bissett and
junior Rachel Blaauw demonstrated commanding wins in their
matches. Bissett shut out her opponent, winning 6-0, 6-0, while
Blaauw cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 vic-
tory.
Despite the lopsided score,
some matches showed stiff competition between the teams. Lossay Pierce came back 6-3 and
10-6 for the win. Additionally,
junior Sydney Delp won a close
two-set match 7-5, 6-3 at no. 2
singles. At no. 3 singles, senior
Morgan Delp won a hard-fought
three-set match 5-7, 6-2, 10-4.
Lindsay and I played some
great doubles. We were sharp
and focused and took care of
business, junior Sydney Delp.
I was not too happy with how
I played in my singles match,
but a win is a win even when it
is ugly.
Walbright said that everyone
on the team earned a win at some

point over the weekend. After
putting a heavy emphasis on
doubles play during practice the
past couple of weeks, the Char-
of six singles matches won and

wins in all three of the doubles
matches.
It is nice to see positive results when the team has been
working so hard, Walbright
said.
This weekends success in
doubles play allows the team to
switch from focusing on doubles
to singles.
During the spring, the team
doesnt compete in conference
matches, making the focus between seasons from qualifying
for GLIACs to working on spegame.

The spring season puts a
lot less pressure on your back
and I really think that allows us
to play well, Bissett said. Our
coach is always saying, Lets
have fun and put those things
that we practice into play, and I
weekend.
The team is looking forward
to a restful Easter weekend as
they begin to gear up for the
quickly approaching end of the
nal home match of the season
takes place on April 11 against
Concordia University.
Rachael Kurtz: Two-time All-American
Rachael Hille
Hillsdale senior swimmer Rachael Kurtz now stands alone as

the only Charger swimmer to receive All-American honors twice
in her collegiate career. With her
event at the 2015 NCAA Division II swimming and diving
championships, Kurtz marked
her place in Hillsdale history
leaving the legacy of two AllAmerican titles.
For her to go second time
All-American is a great tribute to
her. She can say she was named
All-American for half her swimming career at Hillsdale, head
coach Kurt Kirner said.
But it wasnt just her awards
and achievements that made
Kurtz stand out on the Charger
swim team. Kurtz led by example, pushing herself and her
teammates to meet their full potential. According to her teammates, she was a source of encouragement that made a lasting
impact on the Charger team.
I played like eight sports,

but at some point, you have to
choose, Kurtz said.
Swimming, she found, was
the one sport she couldnt bear
to give up. From then on, all her
time was spent in the pool.
Coming into her college career, Kurtz had the potential to
do great things. She said her tactic was to set the bar really high
for herself, and always push to
be better.
Kurtz kept improving, but
said she had to learn a hard lesson during her sophomore season: Kurtz raced her best time
during her last race, but just
nationals by .01 seconds.

It was hard not to make the
cut off, but I took it as a learning
experience, she said. But Kurtz
had the opportunity at a Last
Chance meet to try to qualify one
more time.
I didnt think I could do any
better. I decided not go, I had already learned a lot that season,
Kurtz said.
Once I realized that I was
only .01 from qualifying, I
wished I had tried one more
time, she said, After that, I
learned to not let any opportunities go to waste.
That is how she swam the rest
of her career.
me that I could walk onto the

team. Honestly, she is the reason that I am on the team, said
sophomore swimmer MacKenzie Dickhudt, She had such a
big belief in me. All throughout
the season she continued to encourage me and told me that I
could do it.
Growing up, Kurtz was very Senior Rachael Kurtz earned her second All-American
athletic. She tried everything and honor after placing 16th at nationals. (Photo Courtesy of
was good at everything.
External Affairs)
Charney
Moving
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team at practice, and then individually coach players on how

they were doing, Landherr said.
Lowery and Landherr both
said Charney was known for her
one-liners on the sidelines.
Shed say something and the
whole team would crack up,
Lowery said.
Landherr gave an example:
Shed say to do something til
the cows turned blue.
Putting a team together is one
of Charneys strong suites, Lowery said.
Shes great at recruiting,
were such a close team and she
really knew how to keep it that
sdale, Lowery said.
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While she has racked up many

accomplishments and honors, including being inducted into the
Hall of Fame at Grand Valley
State University in 1990, she said
her favorite part of coaching has
been developing players.
Ive won a lot of games,
but to be able to teach and show
student-athletes that if you work
hard for something youll reap
ence is the best part, Charney
said. Seeing the development
of players like Stephanie Heid,
Katie Cezat, who was actually
the NCAA player of the year, and
team All-American this year,
seeing those players grow was
very special.
forward,
Charney
Master of Science Degree in Administration at Central Michigan

University, which she is only one
credit and one thesis short of attaining, and she would like to
stay involved with Hillsdale.
Ive had a great run at coaching basketball, I think that part
of my life is over and that I need
to focus on different things, she
said. Id like to be in the administrative side of things now.
Charney said she chose to
strive for a masters in administration for the leadership aspect it
teaches, which she has used in
her position as the senior woman
administrator and the director of
compliance for the college.
As compliance director she
was responsible for going to the
GLIAC annual meetings and she
You always love those kids

that come in and keep trending
up, Kirner said. She certainly
has been the type who comes in
with a certain talent that keeps
getting better.
Kurtz continued to work
harder, swim faster, and push
herself all the way through her
last race. Lots of swimming is
mental, especially the 50 and 100
meters which I race, Kurtz said.
It all comes down to who thinks
they are going to win, who has
the tougher mindset.
ing on her collegiate career, the
time shes spent working with
her teammates overshadows her
accomplishments.
I think it would be unfair
to say that a highlight is an accomplishment because that is
the thing you get from all your
hard work. Those are great times
and all, but it is the hours in the
pool where its 6 a.m. and no one
wants to get in, but we all get
in together Its those types of
things that I think are the best,
Kurtz said.
Bonding with teammates
spending hours on a bus together
and encouraging those around
her to be their best those are
the memories that matter, she
said.
Her constant encouragement
and honesty are her legacy, said
Dickhudt. That is how Rachael
Kurtz will be remembered: Not
just for her achievements, but by
her character as the ultimate encouragement.
worked closely with Athletic Director Don Brubacher.
She was the most helpful
seven years ago, Brubacher
said. She was very knowledgable about the conference.
Over her 33 years of coaching, Charney said she hopes she
inspired women to pursue athletic professions.
The percentage of female
coaches in the country is becoming less and less. To have an ina great avenue of employment
this is and how its a way to stay
in the game is a great thing.
Coaching is not a job without
thanks, she said: Seeing those
former players successful in life,
having kids, going to weddings,
thats the most redeeming part.
BOX SCORES
Baseball
Wayne St. (Mich.): 4
Hillsdale: 13
Season Leaders
Batting Average
Bekah Kastning (.458)
Ainsley Ellison (.383)
Runs Batted In
Grunert (16)
Ellison (7)
Earned Run Average
Danielle Stiene (2.16)
Kate Ardrey (3.50)
Hillsdale: 9
Hillsdale: 3
Hillsdale: 3
Golf
Tennessee River Rumble
1. Lincoln Memorial (593)
2. Dalton State (602)
3. Brevard (611)
4. Washburn (617)
5. Carson-Newman (618)
6. Catawba (619)
7. Tusculum (622)
8. Hillsdale (632)
9. Walters State (635)
10. Taylor (640)
11. LMU B (641)
12t. Anderson (646)
12t. LMU C (646)
14. Findlay (657)
15. LMU D (679)
Season Leaders
Batting Average
Eric Shankin (.346)
Connor Bartlett (.317)
Runs Batted In
Bartlett (15)
Chris McDonald (13)
Earned Run Average
P.j. Cooley (2.45)
Shane Armstrong (3.26)
Softball
Hillsdale: 0
Hillsdale: 10
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stepped up. Our kids are
such great shooters across the
in the gaps.
Pfaff attested to the closeknit nature of the team.
Shooting in high school
is very much like shooting for
yourself, Pfaff said. Even
though youre on a team, its
just like a group that youre
with. But this is very much

shooting for the team.
For next year, the coaches
are aiming for another national
victory, either in Division
III or II. The team shot in
Division II in 2013 and took
seventh place at nationals.
We kind of like these
national championships. I
truly think that our goal is to
win again, Carl said. If we
go into Division II, itll be
because we think we can win
Division II.
Philip Wegmann:
Baseball
should stay
timeless
When God created the world,
he made mistakes. When God
created baseball, he made perfection.
Now though, like irreverent and ungrateful children, the
commissioner and owners have
instituted new rules for the 2015
season foolishly trying to hurry
the pace of a game designed to
exist outside of time.
But baseball doesnt need
progressive reformation. It
needs only its own immortal orthodoxy.
Of all the sports that matter,
baseball alone escapes the tyranny of the timepiece. Bound
by the two hands of the clock,
basketball conforms to quarters,
hockey obeys periods, and football submits to halves. In each,
the clock does more than just
mark the remaining moments. It
shapes the consciousness of the
players and guides the outcome
of the game.
In baseball, every inning enEach unit of play contains three
outs and every game, nine innings, but otherwise hours and
minutes have never factored
into the sport. Fat ladies, walkoff homers, and shutdown closers mark the end of the game
not obnoxious buzzers.
With his new pace-of-play
apostasy, rookie commissioner
Rob Manfred has forced a temporal construct on a holy institution. Fearful that the length
of a baseball game eclipses the
attention and imagination of the
average American, the commissioner conjured new speed-up
rules.
To hurry things, the batters
box becomes a cage, as hitters
must keep a single foot within
the chalk lines throughout their
at-bat. Then to squeeze the
game through a broadcast window, digital timers countdown
from 2:25 between innings, as if
the traditional intricacies of so
called non-game-action need
only the same time necessary to
boil a runny egg.
In the lesser sanctuaries
of Double and Triple A ball,
a more insidious heresy has
emerged: pitch clocks. These
electronic eyesores force young
pitchers to throw within twenty
seconds of touching the rubber.
They also offer a threatening
message to Major League professionals: Conform to the new
pace of play rules or submit to
the pitch-clock monstrosity.
Last year, the average baseball game lasted 3 hours and 14
minutes. Thats a ghastly sum of
time until compared with foot-
ball, the United States more

violent and popular past time.
In 2013, the average NFL game
lasted 3 hours and 12 minutes
on an average of just 11 minutes
of actual game play.
While these new rules might
shave a few minutes off, they
wont substantially shorten
baseball and they wont attract
new fans. Instead, theyll fundamentally transform the mental
element of the game.
Baseball is the sport of intelthan philosopher, even Red Sox
slugger David Ortiz understands
that. Infamous for an excessive
batting routine, he steps out
after each pitch to readjust his
batting gloves before reentering
the box. Big Papi explains that
hes not slowing the game down
when he steps out. Rather his
mind is speeding up, anticipating the pitchers next move.
Invisible to the undisciplined
eye exists a constant mental
struggle between hitters and
pitchers, a game-theory battle
that demands brains as much as
brawn.
The new rules balk this cerebral baseball ballet. Putting the
tage cheapens the strikeout and
the game. Without moments to
decline and pitching will ascend
to dominance, and the game will
Worst of all, Commissioner
Manfreds progressive vision
cuts at the heart of baseball. As
a historical institution, the sport
has remained constant over
more than a century. And aside
from the designated hitter heresy, it has remained pure.
Every player who steps on
as the players who came before
they compete against opponent
both in the dugout and in the
record book. In the same way,
when fans punch their ticket
at the ballpark, they commune
before them.
The timeless game, baseball
preserves the past for the future. Enduring emotional bonds
overlap the elements of the
game giving it permanency. We
love baseball in the same way
we cherish the memories of our
With his new rules, Commissioner Manfred severs these
bonds. Baseball was made perfect. Then he ruined it. Now he
needs to change it back.
2 April 2015
Charger Sports
Baseball splits series
Stevan Bennett
The Hillsdale College baseball team experienced the brutality of March in Michigan last
weekend as the Chargers (8-16,
3-5 GLIAC) battled through
wind, rain, snow, and hail on
their way to a split of a fourgame set with the Wayne State
Warriors (9-12, 3-5 GLIAC).
The series opened on Sunday
due to cold weather on Saturday,
but the delay did nothing to cool
the Charger bats as Hillsdale ex-
It can be tough playing in

conditions like that, sophomore
Eric Shankin said. Especially
for pitchers it can be a real problem trying to keep their hands
warm.
Hillsdales starter, junior Lucas Hamelink, was hit unusually hard, perhaps a result of the
nings while striking out three.
This meant that the Chargers
had a hole to dig out of, and they
second inning.
Shankin doubled to left with
for extra bases on their way to a
on a groundout by Walts. Then
Hillsdale wasted no time

starting this barrage of runs, as
junior Connor Bartlett led off
called out on a bang-bang play

the third.
Freshman Alex Walts hit his
met and ruled that the Warriors
bottom of the third inning, one

of six Chargers who tallied at
least one RBI in the game.
It was a great feeling to put a
couple runs on the board for the
team, Walts said. It felt great
seeing how thrilled the guys
were to see me succeed in that
at bat.
Senior Shane Armstrong contributed a solid pitching effort,
of the bag, and the Chargers

were awarded the run.
Ultimately they got the call
right and thats what matters,
head coach Eric Theisen said.
The second game of Sundays

doubleheader was played in conditions that caused exasperation
the Chargers with three runs in

the eighth and ninth, but Hillsdale did not let the game slip
away.
After an error put Bartlett on
that stuck around through snow

and hail were treated to an incredible game, which ended in a
being huge, and so its a good

thing they did.
The Chargers played catch
up for the next few innings un-
to second. Sobieszczanski then
disappearing beneath a pile of

teammates.
going to fall, so it was a surprise
one, Sobieszczanski said.
For as well as the Chargers
played on Sunday, they struggled on Monday, dropping both
games of the doubleheader.
tight one, but the Warriors pulled
Track runners strong at season opener

Evan Carter
Web Editor
meet, the Chargers continued to

build on their successful indoor
States Raleigh Relays. Many of

marks ran personal best times in
Junior Emily Orens 3K
Hillsdales RBIs came from

Bartlett, Bennett, and Breymaier
in a comeback effort put togethHillsdale was put in a position to complete the comeback
thanks to a tremendous effort
by junior Jacob Gardner, who
innings after replacing freshman
Will Kruse.
Warriors 14-3, a game which
Wayne State.
The Charger offense strugfreshman Jared Tobey who alnings while striking out six.
We just werent ready to
go on Monday, said Theisen.
This week were going to make
sure we sweat the small stuff so
that were ready for this weekend.
wood this weekend for doubleheaders on both Friday and Saturday.
Junior Tad Sobieszczanski slides into third base in a game against Wayne State
University. (Photo Courtesy of Jenny Bals)
Maurice Jones second-place

were two of the meets standout
performances. Both athletes hit
mark, and Oren currently holds
the fastest steeplechase time
I think as a whole group, we
got out of it what we needed to,
head coach Andrew Towne said.
Although better than the Sophomore Madison Estell jumps at a home meet last
weather in Michigan at this time year. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
of the year, the conditions in
On the mens side, junior
each day, with wind also play- running a two minute personal
ing an important factor. While ters (155) and freshman Jared best, while teammate freshman
not optimal for any runner, cold Schipper no-heighted.
a greater affect on sprinters and eled to the meet, three women for the national meet.
- athletes competed with sophotance runners. Still, conditions
- racing with her was helpful durdidnt phase Charger athletes.
man Rachel Tolsma competing ing the race.
in the hammer throw and senior
She stuck with me for four
had to run in the same thing, Heather Lantis competing in dis- and a half miles, maybe more,
cus.
Galat said. That helped me so
Chase said the meet was a
much.
rust buster, but he also thought Tolsma showed great potential
Senior Joshua Mirth also
at the meet.
meet, setting up a good rest of
The distance and middle- running 29:38, more than a
the outdoor season.
distance runners also had a good
For us its not an end all, but showing with six of the teams
an extended practice situation,
ter shape than I was last year
Towne said. So I feel we got from the 3K steeplechase and and the year before, Mirth said.
out of it what we need to at this
The race felt pretty relaxed acpoint in the season.
tually.
weekend, assistant coach Joe
hurdles performance, Towne Lynn said. I thought our ath- national meet, both Galat and
highlighted sophomore Sarah letes stepped up to the chal- Mirth plan to concentrate on
lenge.
Junior Kate Royer and freshtable performance for the sprint- man Amanda Realge ran the sights on Hillsdales mens and
ers. Freshman Fiona Shay was 3K steeplechase with Oren. It womens 5K records.
knocked down during her warmOther notable performancof them had competed in, and es included sophomore Caleb
prepare for her leg, in which she
meter run and senior Amy
On the mens side, senior
exandra Whitford had a rough Luke Hickman and sophomore
The Chargers next meet is on
meet.
Saturday at Oberlin College for
Im chalking it up to getting
back into the outdoor scene,
Whitford said. Whitford suffered an injury during last years
outdoor track season.
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Charger Chatter: HEATHER LANTIS

ing. When I got to college, there
were more throwing implements
that were introduced to me. So
since the beginning.
What other sports did you play
before college?
ball, and a little bit of soccer.
Heather Lantis is a senior

studying history with a minor in
mathematics. She is a thrower
for the womens track team
and vice president of the senior
class.
When did you start focusing
on track?
school, but Id say my junior
year in high school is when I realized it was something I wanted
to do in college. I kind of fell in
What is your personal record

for throwing?
It is 42.19 meters for discus.
I set that last year at our GLIAC
conference meet. Discus isnt
thrown indoors, and we just had
weekend.
What is your favorite thing
about throwing?
I think when you get a perfect
release off of the discus, thats
throw, it just feels really good.

That feelings pretty wonderful.
Whats the best part about
track meets?
ing all of the other people compete, because during practices
its a pretty separated sport in
general, because theres long
distance runners and sprinters
and whatnot. And so its fun to
and support one another, and
also compete yourself because
pretty phenomenal; it kind of
competitions.
What are the track teams
greatest strengths?
I think our biggest strength is that
the team. So across the board
since Coach Towne came on

my freshman year. As of right
now, thats especially seen by

our indoor we got second in
nationals for indoor and then
for cross-country as well. So you
like to do outside of athletics?
pretty stellar athletes in multiple
that capacity, and then also Im
of working on gaining depth in

-
Gamma womens fraternity, and

naissance school. Im also the
What has been your favorite

moment as a Charger?
this year.
Charger athletics has been in my

family for a really long time.
My father was an All-Amermy brother played baseball and
football here as well. And so I
think just becoming part of the
Charger athlete community was
ored by, because its been such a
ly got to kind of become a part
of that family. So I think thats
just to compete under the Hillsdale College name and join in
What kinds of things do you
How do you balance sports

and academics?
Growing up being a three-sport
prepared me for athletics and academics. I think just being really
well-prepared and on top of your

game both in academics and in
athletics takes a lot of commitlearning to do and so its kind of
become second nature. And also
just maintaining a healthy perathletics arent the most important thing in the world, and on
the other hand academics also
arent the most important thing
focusing on that more than my
performance in those two areas.
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The performance art of painting

Students in Sam Knechts advanced watercolor class explore its joy and challenges
Amanda Tindall
News Editor
Its a race against the clock.
The paper must be wet as the
artist quickly mixes his paints.
Its matter of working with the
medium instead of against it.
Lines can bleed. Colors can stray.
For many students in Professor of Art Samuel Knechts Advanced Watercolor class, taught
every other spring, this is both
the joy and challenge of working
with watercolors.
She wet the whole paper,
painted all these layers while it
was still wet, Knecht said. The
moisture of the paper causes the
colors to bleed around and create some interesting effects, but
then shell work over this with
additional strokes and color to
develop the painting more. Well
work with shadows, with various
patterns and so on.
Knecht said he takes both beginners and and more advanced
students in the class.
The prerequisites for the
course are either Drawing I or
Design I or permission of the instructor, so we want to make sure
that someone taking the class
starts out with some somewhat
decent drawing quality and may-
be some compositional sense

gained from taking design, he
said. Watercolor is a kind of
performance art. It is not forgiving. When you put the color on
the paper, it soaks in and youre
stuck. People working in watercolor learn how to build a picture
layer by layer, starting out light,
and gradually deepening the colors.
Senior Tyler Rose Counts,
an English major minoring in
graphic design, is taking watertime since second grade.
I really enjoy the colors and
the layering. Its really beautiful
to look at, she said. The most
challenging part has been that
you have to do it really fast before the paper dries, so if youre
doing the sky project where its
this huge wash, its kind of stressful if theres that much space that
you have to cover before it dries.
So youll kind of paint and hyperventilate.
Knecht said he doesnt throw
the students into this regimen of
washing and layering without
some preparation work.
I have a program of beginning exercises where theyre
not really under the pressure
of building a picture, he said.
They just do some exercises and
abstract design kind of problems,
where they gradually get used to

how the medium behaves: how
much water to use, how much
color to load into the mix to get
the desired color.
One of the classs advanced
students, junior Forester McClatchey, said one of the greatest
challenges of watercolor painting is the clichs that surround it.
There are so many clichs
about watercolor, McClatchey
said. The most true are that its
for you instead of trying to control it. Its a very unforgiving service. With sculpture or oil painting you can remove a mistake by
scraping it away. But with watercolor, once you put the pigment
down and it dries, youre done.
The production of these pieces are unique to each artist. Each
student mixes colors in different
ways and layers them differently,
Knecht said.
Its been fun to see the versatility of watercolor and how
different people emphasize different aspects of the medium,
McClatchley said. Some people
paint in a way thats more aqueous and translucent. Others use
a lot of paint and make it more
colorful and intense.
Junior art major Phoebe
Kalthoff is even entering some of
her watercolor in the student division of the Michigan National
Watercolor Society Competition.
tion is allowing student entries.
four months I took watercolor,

my heart kind of sunk a little bit
and I thought, Why am I an art
major? I thought this was what
I was good at. Why am I doing
this?
After those four months,
Ahern said, she grew to appreciate the medium, allowing it to
just be, instead of trying to control it.
The risk it involves, you
have to make some bold moves
to do something really dazzling,
she said. You could ruin the picture, you also want to entrance
the viewer. The most rewarding
part about it is when you take a
risk and it works out.
For many of the students in
Knechts class, overcoming the
challenges of watercolor has become one of the greatest rewards.
The best summation of how
tricky watercolor is was stated
by John Singer Sargent, Knecht
said. Hes quite well remembered for virtuoso portraits of
high society folks in the Gilded
Age. He was a brilliant watercolorist. He once remarked about
water color, Its like riding a bicycle backwards.
Painting by senior Hannah Ahern (Courtesy of
Sam Knecht)
Painting by senior Kinsey Devenport (Courtesy of
Sam Knecht)
shop in Southern California

where my grandparents live,
Kalthoff said. Watercolor was
Painting by junior Tracey Brandt (Courtesy of
Sam Knecht)
with. My dad will tell you, the

little sunsets I used to paint for
him were all identical.
ever, Kalthoff has grown in her
watercolor abilities.
I took Watercolor I when I
was a senior in high school, but I
took it for credit here, she said.
Knecht only offers it every two
years, and I couldnt take it last
time because I had a full schedule; but I love it. The projects in
Watercolor II continue to form
the skills we learned in Watercolor I. He just kind of gives us our
projects, and we work on them
by ourselves. Its basically just
painting, which I love.
For other students, getting
used to watercoloring was a little
rockier.
This is my second watercolor class with Professor Knecht,
senior art major Hannah Ahern
said. Previously to that the only
watercolor was the little Crayola
pack when I was little. Watercolor class will expose you as far as
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personal and commercial work ranging from photography and
illustration to product design and beyond.
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(Compiled by Andrew Egger)
Painting by junior Phoebe Kalthoff
(Courtesy of Sam Knecht)
ARTS
2 April 2015 B2
IN FOCUS
Andrew
Kern
Confronting
life: art is not a
sedative
This is a place where art, apwe cant turn back time. As I was proached properly, can come
going away to college, I remem- through in an unexpected way.
ber thinking, So that was high We often tend to label artists who
school. And then, turning twen- talk about pain as angsty. But
ty: So those were the teenage some problems do not go away
years. Sometimes it hits me that until theyre addressed.
those are years Im never getArt is no sedative. Rather, art
ting back. By no means do I miss is valuable precisely because it
them, but I also know that I didnt reveals the way things really are.
make of them what I might have. It tells us the things we dont want
Weeks before coming to to hear, which are sometimes exHillsdale, I watched the movie actly the things we need to hear
Boyhood
most: things to
and I saw exexperience and
actly what I deGreat art uses our own be transformed
scribed above
We abuse
pain to help us see what and by.
play out. The
art when we
movie deliv- where we are. After it brings approach
it
ers an image us into the reality of our situ- as an opiof growing up
a blinder
ation, it gives us the power ate,
by following
which enables
a boy named to improve by showing what us to ignore
Mason and his we must accept before we our problems.
family
over
Art is useless
can heal.
the course of
that helps us
twelve years.
pretend life is
His
mother
okay when it
drives his life
isnt.
as she travels through relationGreat art uses our own pain to
ships and homes. As a kid I hated help us see what and where we
the feeling that I wasnt in control are. After it brings us into the reof my destiny, and I hated it for ality of our situation, it gives us
the power to improve by showing what we must accept before
this is it. She looks back over we can heal. Even more, art
her life and cries, saying, I just can show us that there are other
thought there would be more.
things to be found in life than
She said it so well. While am- what we have experienced by
biguous, her choice of the word embodying a hope that is more
more was simple and relatable. than naive fantasy.
When were young, we hold the
notion that life always offers ful- Mason has passed into this place.
places. Its the thought that the
life we crave is at the end of the
next path. But eventually we go
down enough roads either to realourselves a slave to our desire. So
hits us? Often we try and bury
the knowledge of it or run from
it, even if we dont admit thats
what were doing.
Yet the darkness we hide from
is immovable. There is no undoing what has been done. And
when you come to suffering in
life there are only two options.
You can pretend the cave isnt in
front of you and make your home
in the doorway, or you can go inside and come out the other end.
the desert, sitting next to a new

friend. His friend comments that
them. Mason replies, Yeah,
I know, its constant, the moments its like its always right
now. The comments highlight
the reason we turn to the kind of
art that drives us from self-deception. Were not in control of the
world, but art can help us choose
how to face it.
The return of King Kendrick

Forester McClatchey
trived album. Lets begin there.

On his sophomore LP with
a major label, Kendrick Lamar
plunges his hands into the history of black music and pulls out
heavy, ambitious themes of racial
iniquity, cultural appropriation,
Afrocentrism, and self-loathing
in the African-American experience. As he stitches together fabParliament and Miles Davis, the
desperate wish that his audience
understand the history of his
rap album more self-conscious or
anachronistic in its aesthetic.
Heres the important part,
though: in Kendricks hands,
the contrived nature of this album works. Rather than feeling
forced, each warbling guitar,
verbal invocation of the funk,
and sampled background scream
somehow feels authentic. With a
guest list including George Clinton, Ronald Isley, Snoop Dogg,
and Thundercat, To Pimp a
forward, freighted with decades
of collective experience and
the contrivance, nothing seems

cheap. K. Dot did his homework
on this one.
summation. The precision and

polyvalence of each line provides
an incredible wealth of interpretive possibilities. For example,
a general spiritual narrative of each mention of the yams in
Kendrick descending into and King Kunta may refer to Afriemerging from temptation, and can cuisine, drugs, power, monblends this anagogical story with ey, or anger, or all these things at
the more literal story of Kendrick once. On These Walls, Kendconfronting the immoral tangle rick raps about three separate loof racial consciousness, sexual cations simultaneously with lan
politics, and race-associated pov- and precision.
erty in AmerThe sheer
ica. Allegorivariety
and
cal characters
ambition of the
populate the rumbles inexorably forward, album cannot
album, reachbe overemphaing out to drag freighted with decades of
Kendrick back collective experience and rick drops brief
into the vortex
- spoken-word
from which he
bread crumbs
has climbed. spite the contrivance, noth- t h r o u g h o u t
The
most ing seems cheap. K. Dot did the album that
memorable of his homework on this one.
comprise
a
these characpoem that he
recites to Tugirlfriend Lucy
pac Shakur in
(Lucifer) and
the last song,
an uncle named Sam (white capi- Mortal Man. Beyond the fact
talistic America). Kendrick also that no other living rapper would
engages history with passion and dare to try something like this, he
perspicacity on King Kunta, a interview between Pac and Kensong which takes the story of an drick is riveting and nuanced. For
eighteenth century slave named listeners less interested in esoterKunta Kinte (whose foot was ic street scholarship, King Kunchopped off as punishment for ta and Wesleys Theory offer
attempting to escape) and uses the albums most head-bobbing
it as a vehicle for examining the beats.
politics of the rap game.
I think many hip-hop fans
sighed in relief when they heard
down to a simple one-sentence
quality because lets be honest the manner in which Kendrick hyped this album threatened
edness. In an interview with
Rolling Stone he declared (without irony): This album will be
taught in college courses someday. I genuinely believe that.
Even Lamars rival Drake predicted this album would be the
last great concept album of
hip-hop.
I have to admit, I remained
listen until about three quarters of
the way through King Kunta,
when the beat dropped away and
left in its wake a deep and anonymous voice. By the time you
hear the next pop, it intoned,
the funk shall be within you.
Pop. A swaying female chorus
what else the funk. Kendrick was gone, vanished behind
His absence for the rest of the
song didnt matter. By then he
had me.
Forester McClatchey is a
junior from Atlanta, Georgia.
He is double majoring in art
and English. He is a painter
and a rapper.
I love you, Father John Misty

Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor
Hipsters have a high priest.

His name is Father John Misty.
Josh J. Tillman, known to
the laity as Father John Misty, is
an archetype of our generation:
ironic, well-educated, idealistic,
improper, and above all wary of
man released his sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear,
in February. In it, he transforms
incongruity into a species of virtue: mingling the sacred and the
profane with a sure hand, he is in
turns vulnerable and inscrutable,
vulgar and subtle. He brushes
Andrew Kern is a freshman is good.

In I Went To The Store One
from Charlotte, North Carolina.
He plans to major in philsophy
and minor in journalism. He time he met his wife Emma and
loves Lana Del Rey very much.
itself. In one sense, the song
deeply idealistic, even romantic;
in another sense, it is the product of a self-awareness that is
soberingly realistic. We met in
a parking lot, Tillman sings. I
was buying coffee and cigarettes
/ Firewood and bad wine long
since gone. But the coffee, cigarettes, and bad wine brought him
people / I never thought itd be so
simple.
Her love hasnt solved his
problems if anything, its
made him less stable, jealous,
rail-thin / Prone to paranoia something more than material

but it has made him happy. There goods remains inarticulate: Is
is, for Tillman, a goodness to this the part where I get all I ever
knowing and loving Emma that wanted? Tillman asks. Who
goes past the circumstances of said that? Can I get my money
- back? Modern consciousness
tinued failures, and even the dys- has little upon which it may satfunctions of their relationship.
isfactorily fasten its longing, few
Of course, Tillmans scope objects adequate to the task of
ranges
begratifying its
yond the perneed to love
sonal.
The
and
believe
albums lead
and exist.
The American culture
single Bored
And
it
of
mindless consumption would seem
in the USA
brings Till- brings contentedness, not that love, bemans incilief, and life
sive critique happiness. Such a culture are a few steps
to bear on has no meaning, despite des- removed from
A m e r i c a n perate efforts to give it sig- artists like Tillculture. Charman.
Model
acteristically,
ironist that he
the tone is something more than mate- is, the loves
s o m e h o w rial goods remains inarticu- and truths at
both aching
the heart of his
and sardonic. late: Is this the part where I artistry remain
His songwrit- get all I ever wanted? Till- only indirectly
ing delivers a man asks. Who said that? evident. Adheavy blow
d i t i o n a l l y,
to the peoples Can I get my money back? much
social
of Pinterest,
commentary
to all lov
particuers of the
larly that of
ambiguously beautiful and the Tillmans stripe indulges in
platitudinously true: Ive got all apathetic doomsaying. But his
morning to obsessively accrue / lyrics are laden with references
A small nation of meaningful ob- and symbolism, preoccupied
jects / And theyve got to repre- with the mundane circumstances
sent me, too.
within which he and we alike
The American culture of undergo lifes most profound exmindless consumption brings periences. Tillmans artistic culcontentedness, not happiness. ture is saturated with sleight of
Such a culture has no meaning, hand, subtle irony, and delicate
despite desperate efforts to give referential meaning. Indirection
is the direction of contemporary
culture. Why not be straightforward? Why not love and believe

openly?
Our generation is confronting a crisis of morality and
identity without the sure, culturally foundational resources that
were at hand for our parents and
grandparents. We have consequently turned not to family or
its traditions intractable and
invaluable as they are but to
art, literature, and culture for our
grounding. Intellectualism has in
some ways supplanted piety as
the mode by which we gain access to meaning and belief. Witty
cultural references are a sort of
social currency, the token by
his compatriots. Sarcasm, particularly when used to critique, can
alienate; but it is also a way to
examine tender truths and cherished realities without disturbing
the universe.
To believe, to trust, to love,
is to risk all. Our generations
thought and art are not operating
within a culture of action, but of
aware and equally self-critical as
individuals and as a culture. Our
everyday, like that of Eliots tora hundred visions and revisions;
our everyman is expected to have
/ To roll it towards some overwhelming question.
Do we dare? Yes, but not without the subtlety and strength of
those who have come before us.
Your professors listen to cooler music than you.

Assistant Professor of Psychology
On his walk up the hill, Assistant Professor
of Psychology Collin Barnes rages to KrokoMachine, or Monuments Gnosis. In the
car, Barnes turns to Rufus Wainwrights Want
One, Aimee Manns Lost in Space, and Badly
Drawn Boys Bewilderbeast. While at work,
Depeche Mode, Above and Beyond by Aeges,
or The Contortionists Language.
Dutton Kearney
Assistant Professor of English
Even though my weekend errands jam is

running through the Dale with my woes on a
loop, Drake is rap-lite compared with Kendrick
Lamars new record, the best rap album of the
21st century. Sophomore efforts from two of my
favorites have been uneven: Courtney Barnetts
is excellent; Purity Rings offering was like a
hairball, which is to say, ack. Ive found brief solace in the soundtrack to Hotline Miami 2, which
is every bit as good or better, if thats even
gles: Lord Hurons Fool for Love, The Bright
Light Social Hours Sweet Madelene, and Built
to Spills Living Zoo. As far as YouTube favorites, St. Joes Trio is building up momentum like
Joe Bonamassa in his early years, and I hear that
Catherine Coffeys EP will be available this summer. Finally, I know Im not supposed to have
heard Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell yet, but
I have, and theres nothing else this year that will
top it.
John Miller
Director of the Dow Journalism Program

My favorite album right now is Further/DeepUnburned by Whitehorse. Concerts Ive seen in the
last year or so: Sigur Ros, Lucero, Afghan Whigs,
and The Church. Im supposed to see Sufjan Stevens in Grand Rapids in April.
Gary Wolfram
Professor of Political Economy

Gary Wolfram is famous for his band pick of
the week, a long standing tradition from his Introduction the Political Economy class. The band
pick this week is Lewis and Leigh, a London
based duo. Wolfram says he tries to catch groups
before theyre overwhelmingly popular, taking
credit for recommending bands like Maroon 5
years before they made it big. Besides classic
rock, his favorite genre to listen to is modern indy
rock, enjoying bands like the Lumineers and the
Georgia Satellites.
(compiled by Chris McCaffery)
Collin Barnes
Spotlight
B3 2 April 2015
Microscopes provide peerless lens for research

Madeleine Jepsen
Collegian Reporter
other types of microscopy just

because its so small. Usually the
Among Hillsdale Colleges numerous academic bragging points,

the science department boasts two
specialized microscopes used in
student and faculty research. Both
the atomic force microscope and
the scanning electron microscope
provide highly detailed images for
very small samples.
Senior David Galginaitis used
the scanning electron microscope,
or SEM, to complete his biology
research project, which examined the wax morphology of willow tree leaves. The microscope,
which uses a beam of electrons to
create a detailed image, allowed
Galginaitis to examine the tiny,
crystalline structures on the leaves
to help determine their relationship to other species of trees.
The microscope played a critical role in gathering image data of
the structures for his project, as he
tion, he said.
Both students and professors
use the SEM, which is kept in the
biology department, for research
purposes. Galginaitis will help
to teach proper techniques to the
next student to use the microscope
for a project.
The microscope also requires
technical upkeep, some of which
is performed by off-campus experts.
Theres a lot of maintenance
that goes into it, but we hire in
look at it when things arent working like they are supposed to, he
said. In general, its just making
sure that the vacuum is sealed inside before actually turning on the
microscope.
Another high-powered microscope, the atomic force microscope, is kept in the physics
using the SEM to get clear pic- department. Used for research
tures.
in multiple disciplines, the AFM
You cant really see it using provides detailed information
face of the sample is.

Samples examined by an AFM
Based on the data collected, range from small electronic chips
specialized software reads the and nanotubes to bacteria and skin
data and converts it into an image samples. The image data takes
A lot of our
equipment that we
have is the same
type youd see at a
big Division I
research university.
Sophomore Joshua Ramette uses the Atomic Force micro- ofthe samples exterior. A color
scope for his independent study. (MadeleineJepsen/Collegian) gradient on the image represents
the distances of various points on
a typical optic microscope, the the surface, with darker parts indiabout the surface of a sample.
Sophomore Joshua Ramette AFM produces extremely accu- cating a lower height, and lighter
works with the AFM microscope rate data about the exterior of the parts indicating a higher height.
as a part of an independent study sample.
We can say Oh, how high is
An atomic force microscope the sample at exactly this point?
for his physics major. Ramette,
who has become somewhat of provides a topographical map of and we can get an actual number
an expert on the topic, will pres- a sample surface, Ramette said. for that, whereas in an optical
ent his methodology in a talk on When you insert a sample, it runs microscope, you cant just look
a small probe across the surface
April 9.
Rather than providing a photo- of the sample, and collects height nanometers high right there, Ragraphic image of the sample like data, essentially how high the sur- mette said.
of the highest detail of any microscope available.

Ramette will attempt to produce
atomic resolution, a painstaking
process.
The effort is well worth it for
the researchers and the college
overall. Dean of Natural Sciences,
Christopher Van Orman, noted
that state-of-the-art equipment allows both students and faculty to
perform important research in the
sciences.
Were very well equipped. I
think that a lot of our equipment
that we have is the same type of
youd see at a big Division I research university, he said. All
of our equipment is at that level.
The difference is they have many
more of them, because they have a
lot more people, but we have the
same level of equipment as they
do. Were very fortunate.
Q&A
janine livernois
Josh Paladino
Collegian Reporter
Janine Livernois is currently the director

Her story of serving women in the
community started in her own home
long before her work with this
years she spent taking care of women
in her home she simultaneously worked
184 pieces circle the design of the window, commemorating those who died in the Pentagon attack. (Photo Courtesy of David Roberts)
window
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16 years ago. God got ahold of me, I became born again,

and that desire to help other women was so prominent
for me. And my life had a passion to be able to express
to other women what God had done for me. Knowing
that because I hit rock bottom and was hopeless, God
saved me and I wanted to be able to share that with
other women. So I dedicated myself and my home to the
Lord and He began to bring women to my home.
How did women know that your house was available
in 2002. Prior to the attacks, religious services were held in the

cafeteria, the creation of a chapel
would be a historical addition
and an eternal monument to the
United States Military.
A week before the two-year
anniversary and chapel dedication, David and Dennis were
granted special access to work
on their designs in the Penta-
gon. They created four patriotic

line the right side of the chapel.
David and Dennis Roberts had
several members of the their
company, as well as special military visitors, help assemble the
pieces.
We invited anyone who had
lost loved ones to come and lay
a piece in the design, Dennis
said.
Top military personnel were
in attendance in the ceremony,
as well as Secretary Rumsfeld,
Vice President Richard Cheney,
and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. After accepting a
the Pentagon during the attacks
on behalf of the Department of
Defense, Rumsfeld spoke on the
work done in the chapel.

Rumsfeld publicly thanked
Dennis Roberts, for helping to
create a place of beauty and a
place of peace.
It was a huge honor and the
biggest opportunity our company has ever had, Dennis said.
Creating these pieces was a
moving experience.
Five stayed long-term, over a period of 15 years. One of

met her through my in-laws who help inner city kids. Her
boyfriend left her, she needed to pack up and live some-
chess
Were you involved in any Christian ministry before
opening your home to hurting
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naments, he thinks that for now,
its all about students of any level
coming out to have fun.
Ive played since I was little,
but I mostly just like to tinker
around, Smith said. Im not
very good, but I like strategy
games.
Abram said that it is easy to

learn the basics and begin playing.
It is a deep game and one can
truly never stop learning, he
said. At the elementary level,
it teaches strategic learning and
creative thinking- two highly
transferrable skills. At a higher

level its a game of memory and
recognition.
Abram has been interested
in chess since he played in high
school. Today, one of Abrams
best friends is a professional
chess player. According to
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Abram, professional chess players have a lot in common with

taxi drivers as they both use
geospatial reasoning. Just as taxi
drivers memorize routes in a city,
chess players memorize board
routes and moves that they use
when they play.
I had no relationship at all to God. Me and my husband

moved to a farm out in Pittsford; six months later he had
a massive heart attack and died. I had no family and no
How did you transition from helping women out of
What I was praying for is that God would make my farmhouse into a transition home. I was contacting other
agencies, thinking if I could join them, then they could
purchase my home and renovate it to meet their needs.
I would just live there and not have to work outside of
(current CEO of Life Challenge), that he was running
residential recovery homes. So I got ahold of him, and
He asked me November 2013 if I would be interested in

this in plan yet, but I said yes.
Now you work full-time at Life Challenge so you had
market, and the very next day someone came, knocked

on the door, and wanted to know if I was interested in
selling. It sold in November 2013 the same month I devember 2014 we decided to remodel the Tastes of Life
B4 2 April 2015
Spotlight
Students conduct
giraffe research
Hannah Leitner
Design Editor
What do cows and giraffes

have in common? Probably to
most people, the similarities
between these two mammals
majors senior Daniel Kish and
junior Mikalah Smith, these animals will hopefully be the key to
a groundbreaking senior research
project.
We are doing original research, Kish said. This hasnt
been done before.
Judilee Marrow, veterinarian
at Binder Park Zoo, brought the
idea for the research to Kishs attention.
Because giraffes typically
live in warmer climates, during
the winter months they must be
housed inside a buildingwith
ment instead of dirt puts stress on
the hooves of the giraffe, causing
stress fractures to occur.
The real challenge of the project appears when veterinarians
try to detect whether the hoof is
fractured or not. Because the giraffes display no physical signs
of having a fracture, the only way
to detect the injury is through an
x-rays a very costly procedure.
Unless Kish and Smiths research discovers a cheaper alternative.
Looking for key proteins that
fracture, Kish started the project
not by working with giraffes, but
by working with cows.
Because dairy farm cows are
typically housed in barns with
play many of the same problems
as the giraffes.
Also, the cows have more
exposure to previous research.
As a result they have more information readily available for
researchers, and for the purpose
of Kishs research, knowledge
about the entire DNA sequence
of the cow, which is needed to
create a primer to detect the protein produced due to a fracture.
For Kish, protein detection
with the cow was successful,
but the translation of the research from cow to giraffe raised
a problems: the full DNA sequence of giraffes has not been
fully recorded, so there wasnt

primer he needed to use to detect
the protein.
We were hoping that the
genes had been conserved
enough through evolution that
by the time it got to giraffes it
should be similar to the cows,
Smith said.
Kish said that not getting the
expected results could be frustrating especially when he had
been working on the project consistently since last summer.
Its kind of like this empty
feeling, Kish said. You put in
all this work and it just doesnt
work, and you dont really understand why.
Picking up the project from
behind Kish, Smith looks to
search on the cows into relatable
terms for the giraffes.
But this wont be easy with
missing DNA data. The students
are left to guessing and picking
giraffe DNA sequence to use for
primers.
Developing primers and optimizing primers when there is
associate professor of biology
Jeffrey VanZant said. Its like
youre shooting in the dark.
trating guessing game, Kish said
it took him a while to realize
that all the information, whether
planned or not, was valuable information.
Nothing we get is bad results,
they just arent favorable. Kish
said. But they all tell us something, but they just might not be
the ones we were hoping for.
VanZant said the end goal of
the research project is not the
outcome, but rather what the students learn along the way.
Here at Hillsdale our objective is to teach and to get them
ready to go, VanZant said. We
arent here to train students to go
on to future levels, but we are
here to teach.
Smith said that although they
end of her senior year, the project would still be a success. Kish
agrees.
Its just the feeling of doing
something else that no one else
has done thats made it tolerable.
Sophomore Chess Club Vice President Linnett Mbogo evaluates her opponents moves.
(Sarah Borger/Collegian)
Chess club welcomes rookies, kings, and queens

the administration. The club has
established Peters as president,
Mbogo as vice president, Nakayama as treasurer and junior Mary
Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter
boards atop the union tables last
Wednesday afternoon. When he
saw them, senior Os Nakayamas
face lit up and he exclaimed, We
have chess boards its a start.
It was a good way to

beat them out
intellecutally.
club playing chess in the union

Wednesday afternoons. Last
Wednesday the players used
wooden boards that the Student
Activities Board had in storage.
the chess club has only a few
members, but hopes to attract the
rest of Hillsdales chess-playing
community by playing in clear
sight for students to notice said
club president and founder, sophomore David Peters.
Eventually it would be great to
Senior Os Nakayama contemplates his next move at
be in AJs, just a really chill time
the meeting last Wednesday. (Sarah Borger/Collegian)
where people can just stop by,
Peters said. Thats my vision for Linnett Mbogo thought of the idea took action as he sought an adviit.
simply because they both love sor, William Abram, math profesPeters, along with sophomore playing the game. Peters quickly sor, and gaining approval from
Clare Smith as secretary.

Peters, as well as all of the
other club members, have never
competed in a chess tournament,
but have played since they were
young.
It was a game I always played
with my family, said Nakayama.
It was a good way to beat them
out intellectually.
Though Abram said the club
could eventually compete in tour-
See Chess, B3
United in Memory, Stained in Glass

Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter
Carolina. Dennis company donated the piece to the U.S. Army, and
created a design template where
On the day of the two-year each chaplain had the chance to
anniversary I stood right in the place a piece on the the window
window where the plane had hit,
junior David Roberts recalled.
On the day of the
Instead, I was looking at the
stained glass window we placed two-year anniversary I
in the chapel that week.
David and his father Dennis
stood right in the
Roberts designed and placed all
in the Pentagons memorial chapel
to honor the victims of the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
The main window behind the
altar was designed in 2002 by 400
United States Army chaplains and
chaplain assistants lead by Dennis team at a conference in South
window where the

plane had hit.
and then keep one as a memorial

keepsake.
Some of the very chaplains
who ministered to the grieving
families and their loved ones on
Corps for eight years, and worked

for Pan-American airlines before
stumbling into the design industry. He has designed stained glass
windows for churches and chapels since 1982. After reluctantly
agreeing to create a stained glass
window for a local glass company,
he was asked to do more work because of his beautiful craftsmanship. The majority of his work is
for local churches and chapels,
but the highlight of his career was
being able to honor the victims of
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian) the attacks. When he designed the
Junior David Roberts and his father designed and placed
the stained glass windows in the 9/11 Pentagon memorial glass window, he had no idea it
would one day sit in the Pentagon.
chapel. (Photos Courtesy of David Roberts )
We donated all the pieces and
Sept. 11 put this window together women who lost their lives in ser- offered this as a free opportunity
by hand, Dennis said. This was vice to their country.
for the U.S. Army chaplain conDennis served in the Marine ference, Dennis said. We had
a tribute to honor those men and
MICHELLE MCAVOY, SENIOR
done similar team building events

for other conferences before, but
nothing as emotional as this.
The piece showcases a colorbald eagle, and the Pentagon.
The phrase United In Memory decorates the top of the glass.
There are 184 red pieces
circling the design, David explained. One for each of the victims from the attack.
Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld commissioned that
Flight 77 impact sight of the Pentagon, and David and Dennis were
hired to add four more windows to
compliment the main one created
See Window, B3
CAMPUSCHIC
Describe your fashion sense.

Bold colors and classic pieces.
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
My gold, polyester Juicy Couture jacket that was purchased from a
thrift store for $1. It only makes it out of the closet at Halloween.
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
Crop tops.
What is your favorite item of clothing?
My collection of gingham shirts.
Who inspires your wardrobe?
My life coach, Julia DeLapp.
Photos by Hailey Morgan

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Michigans oldest college newspaper

Vol. 138 Issue 21 - 2 April 2015

Head coach Claudette Charney, coaching the womens basketball team.

Charney retires from coaching

to train great players, Charney

she was not ready to leave the

After seven years with the

Board of Public Utilities

do take the conduct of our employees seriously, but there are

Junior Emily Oren was named GLIAC and D-II national

Shotgun team wins fourth national championship

Courtesy of External Affairs

Effective this summer, Professor of English Stephen Smith

nounced Smiths appointment

Tuesday started with the

5-stand competition, which

were Hillsdale students, sophomores Kie Kababik and Clay

we were behind another team by

emplary performances made

third with 13.

shooter progresses from beginner to

becomes the most essential quality for success.

Courtesy of Joseph Kain

Senators seek to legislate

Baseball splits series

Michigan Pot Hole

(Courtesy of Sam Knecht)

Hillsdale and the Pentagon

Can Ted Cruz win?

Check out articles online at

Destruction for reconstruction: building student housing

The streets near the Hillsdale

result of that, Pw said. Not

McIntyre Residence will

fall 2015 semester without any

Dell also said the ends of

pergola, and courtyard will be

Faith in Life lectures aim to

The 25th annual Faith in Life

the ungraduated will supply all

Jason Peters is an important voice for Hillsdale students

with information useful to any

joining the Knorr Dining Room

booth or even for a small section

closed doesnt help matters.

Professors teach Iron Maiden

What do The Rime of the

me, Miller said.

often only associate their professors with high things, but he

College adds Federalist Papers online course

Lectures have subsequently been released

Celebrating Churchills honorary U.S. citizenship

Student Union will become a

Churchill was appointed an

think of, Geiger said. So it

quet set up on the Quad.

also just going to transform the

Hillsdale and Churchill connections with the Churchill CCA,

sic playing through the speakers,

Its not really celebrated

scholarship and really milking

people to celebrate this great

worth now. So thatll launch on

unique capacities and position