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Vol. 138 Issue 24 - 23 April 2015

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Justice-Templeton
retires after
44 years
Amanda Tindall
News Editor

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Womens basketball welcomes coach

Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter

Hillsdale.

Last week, the Hillsdale Athletic Department announced the hiring of Todd Mitmesser as the new womens basketball head
coach for the 2015-2016 season. Mitmesser
gers this week.
After 24 years of coaching three different collegiate programs across the country,
Mitmesser has found himself coaching a
half hour from his hometown: Coldwater,
Michigan.
Mitmesser said that because he grew up
nearby, he knew of Hillsdale. When he saw
the job opening, he began researching the
details.
The more I looked into the job, the more
I felt that it was a great opportunity because
professionally as well, he said. I was really excited when I heard that Mr. Brubacher
was bringing me out for an interview.
he was happy to see a variety of different
skills in the team.
Theres a lot of talent here, Mitmesser
said. We have players that can do a multitude of things offensively and I think that in
eager to learn the style. The combination of
those two things can really lead to success
for the program.
Hillsdales players were equally excited
to meet their new coach. Junior Ashlyn

Coach Mitmesser. When we interviewed

him, he was very positive and excited about
the opportunity to be at Hillsdale, she said.
He seemed very passionate about making
his players better, but also understood the
schedules.
Mitmesser said he plans to concentrate
on returning to the fundamentals before
teaching his players to run a bunch of plays.
Coach Mitmesser will make us a more
well-rounded team. Im excited about improving our skills as individuals as well as
the potential for our team to be great next
year, Landherr said.
Mitmesser coached high school teams
while studying history education at Berea
College, a liberal arts school in Kentucky.
I just love the game. You put the ball in
the basket a couple times and it keeps you
coming back, Mitmesser said. I played
basketball in high school, from a very young
age actually, and I probably wasnt talented
enough to play at the collegiate level, so I
started coaching.
man and junior varsity basketball, softball,
and boys and girls track at the local high
school. Mitmesser and his wife then moved
to Nebraska where he taught and coached
basketball at three different high schools.
Mitmesser landed a varsity coaching job at
Lincoln East High School and the Nebraska
Coaches Association named him the Coach
of the Year in 2004.

It was after his six successful seasons in

Lincoln that Mitmesser gained the assistant
coaching job at the University of Evansville
with head coach Tricia Cullop.
I am very happy to have worked with
somebody like Coach Cullop for seven
years, Mitmesser said. I learned so much
and we had some success at both of those
schools.
In his three seasons at Evansville, Mitmesser helped the team win a conference
championship in 2008. Mitmesser then
coached for another four years with Cullop
at the University of Toledo where his team
won three division titles and the Womens
National Invitation Tournament championship in 2011.
It was really fun from a professional
standpoint to be a part of that success, Mitmesser said. It was very rewarding to see
the players achieve their goals. It was an experience that you just dont get to go through
very often.
Mitmesser said that seeing his players
develop and succeed is his favorite part of
coaching.
Mitmesser then coached at Stony Brook
University for two seasons. When the head
coach, Beth ODoyle, was offered the headcoaching job at Virginia Commonwealth
University, Mitmesser decided to stay in
Long Island, taking a year off to coach his
children.
Mitmesser and his wife Susan have two
children: Marian, 9, and Edward, 7. He
said that his family was excited to move to
Michigan where they would be closer to his
parents.

After almost 50 years spent

at Hillsdale as both an undergraduate and a professor, Professor of French Ellen JusticeTempleton 71 is retiring at the
end of this year.
Having graduated from Hillsdale in 1971 and completed
graduate work at the University of Michigan before coming back to the college, JusticeTempleton said she has seen
and experienced many changes
since she has been at Hillsdale.
Its been an amazing ride
here, she said. Its been a tremendous evolution of the campus. The physical plant is beautiful now, and there are beautiful
campus buildings. The students
have become even more enjoygot here. I always had good students, from the very beginning.
The best students back then
could hold their own right now,
but the general changeover in
the college is very apparent in
that there are more of that kind
of student.
Justice-Templeton said she
didnt know what career she
Hillsdale, but her time studentteaching at Hillsdale High
School and the education classes she took at Hillsdale led her
to teaching.
I really enjoyed trying to
connect with students and showing students things that opened
up their mind a little bit, she
said. I enjoyed the high school
students. I thought I wanted the
chance to teach more literature

and the great ideas.

The teaching of great literature and delving into great ideas
is exactly what many of her
students said endeared them to
her. Sophomore Kathryn Wong
has taken two classes with her,
and said that she enjoyed them
greatly.
Ive only had her for classes that are literature classes,
Wong said. In both of those
classes, she does an excellent
job of getting us to go beyond
the plots. In a French class, itd
be really easy to just stick with
the plot. She helps us bring together imagery and symbolism
and getting to the deeper themes
of the text, which is something I
really appreciate.
For Professor of French and
the next chair of the department
Marie-Claire Morellec, JusticeTempleton has been both a great
co-worker and a dear friend for
the past 20 years, since Morellec started teaching at Hillsdale.
She was not only a wonderful colleague and a wonderful chair very easy to work
with but also became a really close friend, so I think her
retirement is sweet and sour,
she said. Sweet because were
happy that shes going to be retiring and doing the things that
she deserves to do, but sour in
the sense that we are seeing her
leave, and thats going to be
quite a transition. Weve been
relying on her in so many ways
for so long these are going to
In preparation for her retirement and Morellecs new posi-

See Retirement A2

Proposal 1 faces uphill battle

Macaela Bennett
City News Editor

(Hannah Leitner/Collegian)

Gina Relays history

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor

With the 49th annual Gina Relays starting today, Hillsdale College remembers one of its most
decorated athletes.
The meet commemorates Gina
Van Laar Lanser, the 1988 class
Valedictorian, Presidents Ball
Queen, Outstanding Senior Woman, and the colleges only crosscountry national champion.
Gina is a treasured person
always in my heart and in the
hearts of many at Hillsdale College, said Dean of Women Diane
Philipp, Lansers track coach during her time on campus.
Eight years after graduating
from Hillsdale, Lanser and her
unborn daughter Megan Michelle
died in a car accident.

After her death, Philipp and the

Bill Lundberg decided the college
needed to honor Lanser.
Lundberg recalls asking the
athletic director at the time, Jack
McAvoy, what the team could
do to honor Lanser. Philipp and
Lundberg suggested naming
Lansers best event, the 5K, in
her name, but McAvoy declined
and instead renamed the Hillsdale Relays meet in her honor.
At the 1996 meet, Lansers
parents and husband were named
honorary referees and the Chargers organized it so a cross was
throughout the meet.
The Gina Relays are such a
great way for her beautiful legacy
to live on at Hillsdale, Lundberg

See Gina A7

INSIDE

On May 5, Michigan voters

will choose whether or not to
raise state taxes by $2 billion to
structure.
Although Proposal 1 would
increase the amount of state money Hillsdale County receives for
road work by 70 percent in 2018,
many residents say the bill is too
complicated for them to vote yes.
Its a priority of mine to repair the roads, but I dont believe
this is the best way to do it,
Councilperson Patrick Flannery
said. We should expect better of
our legislature. The major hangup for me is the number of things
attached to it that are not connected to roads.
These extras include: an increased sales and use tax rate
from 6 to 7 percent, a higher
wholesale fuel tax, increased

Its not going into a black

hole, and if it does pass, the
county road commission and city
would see quite a lot more revenue coming in, Leutheuser said.
Roughly one-third of the new
revenue would go to non-trans-

portation projects, such as public

schools.
Hillsdale County Road Commission Manager Stan Clingerman estimates Hillsdale County
would receive about $7 million
per year up from $1.4 million
now by 2018 under the proposed tax system.
Another complaint about the
bill is that it requires four changes
to the Michigan Constitution and
is tie-barred to eight legislative bills that will go into effect if
passed.
This proposal probably raises
more taxes than it needs to and
gives less money to roads than
it could, Professor of Political
Economy and former Michigan
Deputy Treasurer Gary Wolfram said. What is preferred is
a proposal that doesnt require a
constitutional amendment and is
a straight increase in the gas tax
and vehicle registration.
While Leutheuser, who joined
the state legislature after it passed
Proposal 1, said he sympathizes

with frustrations about the bill, he

recognizes improving Michigan
roads is urgent. He added there is
not a backup plan if the proposal
fails.
Theres not something we
can just pull out of our pockets
the next day. I want people to be
aware of that, Leutheuser said.
But I am in the optimistic, honeymoon phase as a freshman that
we would all roll our sleeves up
and get right after it again.
Wolfram said he also believes
the legislature will propose another road-funding option if this
fails in May.
We have a different, more
free market legislature now than
what passed this bill, Wolfram
said. I dont believe it will be
three years until another solution
comes along.
Wolfram said he intends to
research the bill more before deciding how he will vote, but he

See Prop 1 A6

BPU issues health advisory after sewage spill

Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale Board of Public

Utilities issued a No Contact
Health Advisory after untreated
sewage water backed up in a
pipeline east of Logan Street and
spilled out of a manhole into the
wetland area between Logan and
Superior streets and the drainage
ditch next to the Baw Beese Trail.
The BPU cleared the blockage
causing the spill, but the advisory will be in place until April
27 for safety purposes, accord-

The Classics of Hillsdale

Hillsdale classicists win national
award. A2

Setting records
Emily Oren and the Mens 4x400
relay set school records over the
weekend. A8

Shakespeare in the Arb presents Cymbeline

This years student production
runs next weekend. B1

A Drive down country Lane

Country music artists Chris
Lane and Natalie Stovall open at
CHP. B4

(Breana Noble/Collegian)

vehicle registration fees, raised

earned income tax credits, and
more public school funding, according to a March 25 Mackinac
Center policy policy brief.
The brief added that the average Michigan household should
expect a state tax increase of between $477 and $525 in 2016,
but these numbers depend on a
households actual purchases of
taxable goods.
Michigan Rep. Eric Leutheuser said he hears three main
objections to Proposal 1: it is too
complicated, too big, and that
a tax increase is not needed at
all. Leutheuser admits the bill is
more complicated and messier
than he would like, but a redeeming quality is that the money is al-

ing to BPU Director of Water

and Wastewater Operations Nate
Rusk.
After we got the blockage
cleared, we discovered someone
had shoved some sticks down
through the holes in the manhole
lid, Rusk said. So the sludge
started coming out of the two
holes in the lid, which got into
the swamp and fed into the drainage ditch that goes under Logan
Street and toward Willow Street.
The BPU placed sandbags in
the wetland area between Logan
and Superior streets to prevent
the untreated water known as
sludge in the wastewater treat-

ment process from spreading.

The BPU also installed a pump
near the spill to send sludge to the
Hillsdale Wastewater Treatment
Plant, Rusk said.
Well do that until we get
most of it out of there, we did
some today and well do it tomorrow, Rusk said.
Because the Baw Beese Trail
is right next to the spill, the BPU
issued a health advisory to anyone using the trail.
kids on the bike path, and we
didnt want anyone going off the
path into the wetland, Rusk said.
The BPU is currently awaitHillsdale sewage plant to receive
$7 million upgrade
High ammonia levels in
Hillsdales water prompt the
BPU to make changes. A6

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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

ing further direction from the

Michigan Department of Economic Quality, and it contacted
the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph
Community Health Agency for
suggestions for cleaning up the
spill. Rusk said the BPU conducted samples from the St. Joe
River where the wastewater
treatment plant releases treated
out of the ordinary.
Everything was well within
the limits, so thats fantastic, its
really good, Rusk said.

Thank you, Dr. Somerville

Senior Jack Butler professes
his debt of gratitude to English
Professor John Somerville. A5

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A.J.s to stay open all summer, keep quesadillas full-time

Carly Howell
Collegian Reporter
A.J.s Caf will now remain
open during the entirety of Hillsdale summer sessions.
The idea arose during a conversation between Bon Apptits General Manager David
Apthorpe and Dean of Women
Diane Philipp. They discussed
their interest in catering to the
students staying for summer
classes.
Apthorpe said he believes
this change will be a way to improve Bon Apptit as a whole.
He is excited about involving
the Bon Apptit staff, who will
be serving at A.J.s during the
summer sessions. The goal is
to have the menu grow as the
summer progresses in order to
provide more choices for the
students.
This is a good opportuSenior A.J.s employee Gregg Coughlin serves a customnity for our chefs to play with
er a quesadilla. (Carly Howell/Collegian)
the space, experiment, and see

Hillsdale classicists win awards

at national convention
Natalie DeMacedo
News Editor

classics students and Associate

Professor of Classical Studies
Joseph Garnjobst made it to
Stockton University near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the
87th annual convention of Eta
Sigma Phi, the national classics honorary.
Seniors Josh Benjamins and
LaRae Ferguson, junior Sydney Sparks, and sophomores
Rachelle Ferguson and Luke
Martin attended the conference
18 possible awards they could
win, the most of any school in
attendance.
Despite Hillsdales great
success, Garnjobst stressed
that its never us vs. them.
There arent winners and
losers, Garnjobst added. This
is really a celebration of great
work by classicists. We are
very supportive of each other
and they are cheering us on.
He said, unlike many disciplines in which your peers can
be strangely malicious, the
classicist crowd may be one of
the most supportive audiences
you can get.
He made certain to mention
that Washington University
in St. Louis took four awards
and Kenyan College won Advanced Greek. Additionally,
Grace Koch of St. Olaf University tied with Benjamins
Latin competition.
Thats a streak at St. Olaf
that goes back 35 years, Garnjobst said. They have won a
prize every year since 1980.
He said hes proud of how
Hillsdale did because they can
never expect to win.

retirement
From A1

tion as chair, Dean of Faculty

Mark Nussbaum said the department has hired two new
professors for next year, in
preparation for Professor of
French Maria Rebberts retirement in a year. Nussbaum said
hes appreciated working with
Justice-Templeton as well.
She is very level-headed,
Nussbaum said. She is not
easily rattled and is very clear-

You cant expect wins like

that, he said. You always
have hard competition and
there are really talented classicists out there.
There were six competitions: Advanced and intermediate Greek, advanced and
intermediate Latin, the Latin
prose competition, and the
Koine Greek competition.
Senior Joshua Benjamins
vanced Latin. Senior LaRae
Ferguson earned second in
Advanced Greek and third in
Koine.
Benjamins said the Latin
prose is unlike the other competitions, where you translate
Greek or Latin into English.
This test requires students to
translate an English passage
into Latin.
The prose competition was
Benjamins said. We translated
a speech by JFK about world
peace.
LaRae Ferguson, who also
took the test, agreed about the
Its very strange. In Dr.
Weaires class, he drills into us
that Latin doesnt have abstract
them, she said.
Students had to take abstract
ideas like love and happiness and determine how
Caesar or Cicero would write
about them in concrete terms.
It requires a much higher
level of creativity, Benjamins
said.
In addition to winning
awards, two Hillsdale students,
Benjamins and Rachelle Ferguson, presented two out of three
papers at the conference. Benpaper on Telemachuss matura-

headed. The area in which Ive

worked with her the most was
in deciding the new core, and
Ive appreciated her levelheadedness and her rationality.
After her retirement, Justice-Templeton said she plans
on relaxing and reading in
Hillsdale, and eventually traveling through the United States
and Europe with her husband.
Its a wonderful thing to be
ending up your career at this
point, she said. I have such

Homers Odyssey. Rachelle

Ferguson said her paper was
on the mysterious pastoral in
Virgils Ecologues.
I look at one image shadows and see it as a pastoral
motif that represents what Virgil thinks of the whole genre,
she said.
In addition to winning
awards, students dealt with
general business, such as
giving reports on what each
schools chapters are doing and
voting on colleges and universities who want to start a chapter next year, Garnjobst said.
They also give out scholarships
to study abroad in Italy, Rome,
or Athens, as well as an archeology scholarship.
They learned about a medieval handwriting app which allows students to tap on a word
written in a medieval text and
instantly transcribe it into English letters. There was even a
session on Greek dancing.
This is the largest collection of undergrad classicists,
Garnjobst said. No one really
questions your major at Hillsdale because they understand
Garnjobst said a college
like the University of Michigan would need 3,300 classics
students in order to have a proportional representation like at
Hillsdale. At a school like that,
students are constantly defending their Greek or Latin majors.
Its nice to have the support
at this conference and its a lot
of fun to be around a group like
that, Garnjobst said.
Benjamins said it was a fun
weekend and worth the many
hours of tedious driving.
Its a great experience to
get out of Michigan and meet
people interested in these
things, LaRae Ferguson said.

wonderful students, and its a

real pleasure to teach.
Morellec said her presence
will be greatly missed.
There is a calmness and
grace about her that hides an
amazing strength, Morellec
said. Shes highly-principled,
very kind, and loyal. Shes always looking in the interest of
students, the department, and
the college. Im going to miss
my friend. And we will miss
her in the department as well.

whats good for next year,

Apthorpe said. This will be a
learning experience, but people
are excited about it.
A.J.s will remain open for
breakfast and lunch while students are on campus for classes.
Apthorpe said that Bon Apptit
will utilize the salad mobile upstairs in order to provide a salad
bar as well. Philipp said she beopening A.J.s for summer sessions.
This will be a good way to
provide meals for students living in the dorms during summer
sessions, Philipp said. Not
every student lives off campus,
and this will make it more convenient for those who do not.
She also stated the economic
A.J.s remaining open will
keep staff employed, Philipp
said. Also, students hang out
in the union anyway. Adding the
food aspect will only promote
more community.
Philipp pointed out that

A.J.s will not only provide food

for students, but also opportunities for summer staff.
Hey, even Ill go over and
get a salad, Philipp said.
A.J.s will be open from
Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.
to 1 p.m., May 11 through June
19. Students participating in
summer classes can add money
to their Charger Change account
via credit/debit card or cash before May 1 and receive a 15 percent discount.
A.J.s has also recently added a full-time option to their
menu: quesadillas served all
day, every day. Freshman Cassidy Syftestad, A.J.s employee,
is happy about the addition.
I am excited about the
change they made regarding
quesadillas, Syftestad said
in an email. The service time
has been extended as a treat for
weeks on campus. It is my favorite food to order at the caf
and now I can order it in the
evenings when I am studying.

Syftestad even thinks that

this change could help A.J.s
business.
I would say it has potential to bring in more evening
business, Syftestad said in an
email. It has been a popular
order so far. Quesadillas are
cheap, quick, and great to eat.
Philipp said a survey regarding A.J.s service will be
released soon. This will allow
students to give suggestions for
even more improvement.
Bon Apptit is so accommodating, Philipp said. Students
give suggestions often, and they
are always willing to improve.
Philipp said she hopes that
A.J.s summer session service
summer community.
Were trying to help as
many students as we can,
Philipp said. Students are so
inundated with emails that this
information is easy to miss. We
hope that through the Collegian,
the word will get out.

Future students must declare

major before senior year
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
Hillsdale will now require students to declare their major no
later than second semester junior
year, beginning with incoming
freshmen in Fall 2015.
Hillsdale faculty approved this
change at an April 2 faculty meeting along with two other educational policy alterations: a rule
requiring a minimum 2.00 GPA
for a minor and a rule requiring
students to use the same catalog,
rather than three different cataments for their core curriculum,
major, and minor. These various
changes will not affect current
students.
According to Dean of Faculty
Mark Nussbaum, the rule requiring a major declaration before the
end of junior year will hopefully
allow departments to better assist
students.

Until a student declares a

major, departments dont necessarily know students are in
that major, Nussbaum said.
terms of advising, to make sure
theyre getting the right courses
in.
He added that the rule requiring students to receive a 2.00 in
their minor at least a C- in each
course will prevent students
from obtaining a minor without
also obtaining some sort of basic
We dont want to have students who are just getting all Ds,
or an average of a D, to say Yeah,
when in reality its nominal at
best, he said.
The third policy change will require that students major, minor,
and core requirements all be completed according to the catalog in
effect at the time of the students
matriculation in other words,
the catalog which was in use when
they started at Hillsdale. Current-

ly, according to Nussbaum, some

students have to juggle three different years catalogs while trying
the year they began at Hillsdale,
one for the year they started their
major, and one for the year they
started their minor.
Rather than have different
catalogs, wed like to be able to
have one catalog be the reference
point for the core and major and
minor, Nussbaum said. He added, however, that alteration of requirements on an individual basis
due to special situations such
as a required class in a catalog no
longer being offered is certainly possible.
If there are changes between
the time they start and the time
they declare their major or minor,
its not unusual or out of the question that there could be a discussion with the department chairman or registrar about exceptions
to this rule, he said.

Community members to
continue AFGM in summer

Madeleine Jepsen
Collegian Reporter

Along with all the delicious

pancakes and community fellowship, A Few Good Men will introduce their new summer initiative
at their semesterly fundraiser A
Few Good Pancakes tomorrow.
This semesters pancake dinner will start at Free Methodist
Church at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow,
with speakers to commence at 6
p.m.
The organization, which has
as many as 70 regular volunteers
each week, constitutes one of the
largest volunteer organizations
in Hillsdale County, according
to sophomore President Jacob
Thackston.
Were pouring well over 200
volunteer hours into the community each week, and all of that is
college students, Thackston said.
Over the summer, our entire
workforce goes away. So what
were doing this year is more or
less raising out of the community
a set of crews over the course of
the summer to do projects that we
just arent here to do.
This year, A Few Good Men

will work with Hillsdale residents

in order to help offset the absence
of college students in the summertime. At the pancake dinner,
speeches by senior Tom King and
Thackston will outline the particulars of the summer initiative
and invite community members
to join the effort.
According to Thackston, leaders of A Few Good Men have been
working since January to plan the
new summer program.
Weve only had two summers
as an organization were relatively young, he said. Weve
tried two different things, and it
just didnt work each time. So this
year we decided were going to
make this work no matter what.
A Few Good Men help with a
variety of projects, ranging from
lawn care to helping people move
into a new house. In an effort to
meet the various needs in the area,
the organization hopes to raise 50
crews for summer projects.
In order to make this plan a
reality, members of A Few Good
Men have reached out to community members, including local churches, businesses, and
schools, with an invitation to the
pancake dinner. Senior Rachel
Zolinski, director of A Few Good
Mens Community Outreach

Reaching the Defenseless branch,

has helped to coordinate efforts to
communicate with local organizations.
We always had that vision of
consistent discipleship and fellowship with the community, but
we didnt know what that would
look like, and it originally just
started with college students,
Zolinski said. Within the last
year and a half, weve tried to
implement this idea where we try
who are here year-round.
Junior Josiah Vega, chief oftutional advancement, noted the
critical role the summer program
will play in the organizations goal
of meeting community needs.
Its really important for us to
get this going because the goal of
A Few Good Men isnt simply
to give college students this kind
of out to get community service
hours done, Vega said. The real
focus of A Few Good Men is to
revive the community, make it
summer program is such a big
deal: not only to knock out those
the end goal of A Few Good Men
and make the community self-

State Senator Mike Shirkey will be attending Instructor in Speech Todd Harceks Fundamentals of Speech Communication
class to give a speech. Afterward, students will have the opportunity to evaluate and give critiques.
The speech will be at 9 p.m. Friday in Dow Room F.

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on his arm.

a strong correlation between anal reten-

bination of cat allergens with the

What is the best part of being Hillsdales new dining service?
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state of health unseen before in the

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maximum-quality part of being Hillsdales new dining service?

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that their current location not be

Upon your money

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I make it! Im sure youre

OK...how do you make this stuff?

motivate you to make the food?

What do you mean?
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City Council that the citys poor

door?
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know what best meant?

but were getting a little off-topic...

to get an interview with the CAL 9000 after

Back Jutler

INSIDE

Simpson wins Greek Week

transportation after a state proposal

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Help!
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Um...sure?

(Cal 9000/Wikimedia Commons)

pairs since streets will no longer be

Q&A with our new food service provider

ing to see the change throughout

Benel Macanett
Urban Editor

CPAC part of new New Core

Re-rebirth of liberty campaign

to raise $8 quintillion
Center on Mars
Religion of Gaetanoism earns
tax-exempt status
score to

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Well miss you, seniors

The opinion of The Collegian ediTorial sTaff

Itll be really sad to see this

class of seniors graduate in a
little over two weeks.
Most of us have friends in
the senior class whether on
sports teams, in campus groups,
or fraternities or sororities.
A new freshman class will
come in, and this years juniors
will become the new seniors, but
there are a number of things in
this class which wont easily be
replaced.
As freshmen, the class of
2015 was the smartest class to
ever be admitted to Hillsdale,
with an overall GPA of 3.75, and

average ACT and SAT scores of

29 and 1980.
If he maintains it in his
last week of classes, Matthew
sdale student to achieve a 4.0
grade point average since 2009.
A true tour-de-force at a college
that prides itself on continually
increasing its rigor and academic prestige.
Moreover, while it is impressive if a single graduation class
has one or two triple majors, the
class of 2015 has four. In the
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just one major at Hillsdale.

Further, the seniors of the
class of 2015 havent only excelled in the classroom, but
theyve served as leaders on
campus. Outstanding Senior
Man and Woman Sam Ryskamp
and Shelly Peters were two particular seniors the deans chose
to highlight. These outstanding
in numerous bible studies and
GOAL programs on campus,
including at the Renaissance
School.
And, the class of 2015 is

very athletic. Particularly, cross

country and track runner Joshua Mirth has earned three AllAmerican honors in his time at
Hillsdale so far, and basketball
player Megan Fogt also earned
All-American and GLIAC honors.
This class of seniors has
been inspiring, insightful, and
talented, and theyve made an
indelible mark on the culture of
Hillsdale.
Best wishes out there, seniors. Well miss you.

Thank you, Dr. Somerville

Jack Butler
Opinions Editor
One of the best things that
happened to me in college was

GOODBYE,
HILLSDALE

Aaron Kilgore
Special to the Collegian

This fall, I will pursue a masters degree at the University

of Michigan. This will mark the end of my seventh year at
Hillsdale with four of those years spent as a student, and
three years as an employee of the college. In what is likely

Professor of English John Somerville in a poorly-taken selfie with

Opinions Editor Jack Butler. Jack Butler/Collegian.

two things upon which I think current students and future

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I
imagine this adage is equally true elsewhere, but it is particularly apparent on a college campus, where everything seems
to happen at a breakneck pace because our frame of reference is a mere four years. In my own time at Hillsdale, Ive
seen old buildings torn down, and new ones raised up; some
professors have retired, while the college has hired more; and
(perhaps more sensationally) weve changed food providers
and expanded the core curriculum. Yet, even as new faces
and characters in the student body steadily take the place of
the old, the underlying continuity of the Hillsdale experience gradually reveals itself in certain trends and patterns, of
which Ill share just one for the sake of illustration.

A students time on this campus

may be brief and frantic in the
broader scheme of life, but as many
here have done before, you are now
laying a foundation on which you
will continue to build for years to
come.
Its a familiar tale, but true enough for most. Freshmen
arrive wide-eyed and full of both trepidation and ambition;
sophomores settle into the comfort of knowing the ropes

tinges of alarm at the prospect of stepping into a bigger

to be getting on with a life full of uncertainty and opportunity.
In that tender transition between the teenaged years and
adulthood, I think theres a comfort in knowing that we
walk a similar path together, and that others before us have
done the same successfully (even if circumstances such as
those above vary from person to person). With this in mind,
I would posit that there are two things you must not take for
granted at Hillsdale, because the passage of time will only
prove more and more how precious they are: What you learn,
and those with whom you learn it.
First, we learn many meaningful and invaluable things at
Hillsdale. It is, after all, why we come to this school, and
why the college is so renowned for its academics and character. And it is certainly true that our students study the Higher
Things and First Principles in the Great Conversation, as is
often said (and worthily so). It should not be forgotten, however, that we also come to know here what it means to live in
a community of like-minded fellows who pursue these things
together with all the joys and troubles which this entails.
Second, we ought to recall that we are called to seek good
companions in all that we do, for iron sharpens iron, and
one man sharpens another, and bad company ruins good
morals. Let me tell you, from seven years of personal experience: Hillsdale is full of good company. If C.S. Lewis was
right in saying that friendship arises from a moment when
we say, What? You too? I thought I was the only one, then
we must cherish and nurture our relationships with those
who walk the good path which God has provided for us.
Ive found this particularly true in a place where so much of
our time is centered on the study of those things which so
potently mold our thoughts and form our character.
Given all this, I have one exhortation for Hillsdale students: Dont lose your sense of wonder in learning or in
friendship. Take a step back from routine now and again, and
refresh your perspective. A students time on this campus
may be brief and frantic in the broader scheme of life, but as
many here have done before, you are now laying a foundation on which you will continue to build for years to come.
Take the time to consider well and appreciate these moments
and opportunities.
Aaron Kilgore 12 has been working with the college since
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ticipated that this college Eng-

Jack Butler, the founder and

version of this article with accomplete without a stop by his

appeared on Hillsdales Student

Why Im not worried about graduating unemployed

Were all apprehensive about the future, but its time we stopped stressing about it
A.J. Maruna
Special to the Collegian
I dont know.
And to tell the truth, Ive never known.
Ive never known what I would do after
college, and I still dont know.
As a kid who entered Hillsdale a detriment to the cumulative test scores and
GPAs of my class, I was focused on surviving. And after four years of hard work, I just
barely managed to do that.
me to preschool, I will be free from academic obligation. I wont have exams to study
for, tests to take, English papers to fail. I
wont be distracted by any relationship with
some pretty girl a distraction I have yet
to experience at all, in fact.
I am free at last, free to travel, free to
write and read free to start a new adventure then scrap it for something better.
And this newfound journey begins, believe it or not, by returning home along with
a surprising portion of college graduates.
Statistics show that half of college students
return home and live with their family,
most of whom work jobs that dont require

The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education

by Forester
McClatchey

a bachelors degree. Nearly one-tenth are

unemployed. So, Im not alone, and neither
nonexistent.
And Ive certainly tried. Ive gotten so
accustomed to companies declining my
candidacy that I half expect to walk into an
interview now and interrupt recruiters burning my resume.
When people ask what Im going to do
after graduation a question all seniors
have heard countless times I feel social
pressure to conform, to receive my diploma
and ship out for a 9-to-5 job in some Godwith conventionality, so when I say I cant
follow half of you into the imprisonment
of some soul-deadening job, know that Im
isnt there a part of you thats always wanted to do something to defy the norm?
seemingly against all rationality, I will be
embarking on this very crusade. My plan?
solutely hilarious choice, if you knew how
unsuccessful I have been in the past.
And yet, I am whole-heartedly convinced writing is the one hobby that brings

me the greatest joy, and I will, in some form

or fashion, probably pursue it my whole
life. This doesnt mean that I wont ever
hold ordinary jobs or that I will remain unemployed as I write. But Im not ready to
sign my freedom away just yet, and theres
nothing wrong with that, so long as aimlessness and irresponsibility dont reign. And I
challenge you to do something of the same,
in whatever capacity that may look like.
Its time to try all that Ive been too busy
or too afraid to experience, and that starts by
devoting my time to writing and hopefully
some adventuring as well. I have all this forof a right triangle and balance chemistry
its like to ride the California surf or carve
Colorado snow.
So the world may balk at my decision,
but I will pursue a life Ive never lived
and I will be feverishly typing, typing a
dream into existence, a new world into the
universe, and a story into reality, all from
the basement of my parents house.
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Hillary Clinton: Bad for women, bad for America

Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
A 2016 Hillary Clinton presidency would be bad for women
and bad for America.
For all her manly pantsuits, Hillary Clinton has always embraced weak-woman stereotypes.
In 1992, when Hillary publicly forgave one of Bill Clintons affairs, she became a bad role model for women. She didnt have to
stay with him. But doing so showed she believed she needed him
to succeed, putting titanium over the glass ceiling. A true feminist
would have dumped the lying cheat and built her own empire.
Her feminist malpractice continues today. After women struggled for years for professional equality between the sexes, she
makes women seem more emotionally and physically delicate
than men. Migraines kept her from testifying before the Senate
about Benghazi. An ailment keep her from her duties as Secretary
of State. And in 2008, she teared up in New Hampshire about the
Hillary: An emotional woman. But a truly professional woman
should never cry in public.
Hillary Clinton as president would also be bad for America.
After the Obama years, we dont need more corruption. But cor-

ruption is the Clinton way.

cording to her former adviser Jerry Zeifman, then the House Judiciary Committees chief counsel. As an Arkansas attorney, she was
She was also at the heart of the 2012 Benghazi scandal. She
deliberately misled when asked about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that led to the brutal murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Pressed about how the
make? If the pressure of being Secretary of State makes her blurt
out statements like this, what will the pressure of the presidency
bring out of her?
According to a New York Times account of the upcoming book
ernments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,
government favoritism from the State Department to foreign nations that donated to the Clintons family foundation through pricey speaking fees was commonplace while Hillary was Secretary
of State.
Nor does Clinton understand economics, as her campaign remarks for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Martha Coakley in

Sen. Rand Paul announced his presidential run, claiming that we need a
In March, Texas Republican Sen. Ted
Cruz announced his presidential run,
win the presidency.
The candidate that best embodies
Republicans is former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Bush has endured much
conservative hate, as well as accusawing activists plan to thwart his primary chances, deeming him a RINO.
cation and immigration. But neither is
enough to write Bush off, as so many
Tea Partiers have. They ought to give
Jeb a chance.
Bush did support Common Core to
raise education standards for Florida
students. Many conservatives misunderstand this as favoring the Common
Core as implemented in states such as
New York or Illinois. But Bushs poCore caricature that many conservatives paint. To Bush, national standards
cannot achieve education reform. He
seeks a broader approach compatible
with conservative ideas, such as market-based competition. He has consistently opposed the federalization of
education, even reducing government
education involvement as in Florida
program.
On immigration, Bush is much
more open to reform than most conservatives. This practically makes him
anathema to the Cruz-Paul voters, who
mostly want increased border security and aggressive removal of current
resident illegal immigrants. But Bushs
position does not totally contradict a
desire for more controlled immigration. He supports better border security
as a prelude to providing illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.

Bushs immigration position could

even earn new Republican voters. Former President Ronald Reagan once
Bushs reformist attitude would challenge Hispanic stereotyping of Republicans as nativists, growing the conservative coalition and ensuring victory in
2016.
On other conservative issues,
Bushs stances are clear. He is golden
on Second Amendment issues. He
once called our constitutionally-enhomeland security act and promoted
Florida.
Bushs bold pro-life stance would
ensure conservative gains on life issues under his presidency. As Floridas
governor during the Terri Schiavo case,
Bush attempted to protect the sanctity
Republicans ought to respect his brave
decision and demand similar conviction in whoever wins the nomination.
Bushs conservatism is apparent on
economic issues, too. He openly supports the Balanced Budget Amendment, opposes a federal estate tax, cut
billions in taxes and wasteful spending as Floridas governor, and seeks
to reduce regulations that prevent
prosperity. His primary economic adfailed liberal economic policies, Bush
would restore economic prosperity.
choice. Maybe his last name scares
you, or his immigration policy alienates you. But he is no progressive.

had a $200,000-minimum speaking fee back then, and Hillary reclass Americans would never have these offers.

Ultimately, Hillarys presidential incompetence will further

damage women. America would not elect another woman presianother Hillary, do we?
Sam Scorzo is a senior studying English and journalism.

Daniel Slonim
Special to the Collegian

proach the 2016 primaries with an

candidate to beat Hillary next November. Maybe it will be Rand Paul or Ted

and that means taking Jeb seriously as

a candidate.
Michael Lucchese is a freshman
studying American Studies.

OUR FOOD HAS IMPROVED

On March 16, 2014, I wrote the second letter Bon Apptit would receive
from a Hillsdale College student. I am a Hillsdale College (Michigan) student
now, my letter read. I am looking for an alternative to the current company
that services the food at Hillsdale (Saga). I heard Bon Apptit replaced Wheaton
if you would consider competing with them. We, the students want to work with

But was the change worth it? Like any Hillsdale student, I know that Bon

semesters of Saga, I got the impression that Saga could serve anything it wanted
and I had to eat it. This had nothing to do with the Saga workers; it was the fault
petit than I saw in four semesters at Saga. While I have not worked at Saga or
Bon Apptit, my conversations with Saga and Bon Apptit management have
transaction it was in Saga. After 16 years at Hillsdale, Saga had simply grown
plans. Since Bon Apptit management knows that the last food service was let
go, it works harder to please students.
Perhaps the only valid remaining argument against Bon Apptit is the transition away from self-serve food items, like stir fry. However, whenever I took the
option more often, and I have yet to feel the same way I usually did at Saga. We

to dorm. When my freshman year ended, I stayed unpunished in Simpson until graduation. But my Olds friends

the rule itself unnecessary.

students leave early. It may cost money to maintain dorm

of many freshmen. This policy unnecessarily hinders what

gether. Some freshmen may not know any seniors closely,

consume information and wisdom from professors and then

go on our way. We share life with our peers, with professors, and with staff. We are united toward a common end.
that end and depart the community to start the rest of their
lives. To deny freshmen this opportunity is to deny the value of Hillsdale as a self-contained community.
But even if no freshmen and seniors were friends, our

freshmen cannot stay in any other college-owned housing

after they have checked out of their own dorm. If the adtion include some of my favorite memories from that year.
I had never seen, rested, and attended a student concert.
clearly respects the students and works hard to provide an

unhappy. But in this matter, our administration disrespects

the freshmen. The policy needs to change.
Daniel Slonim is a junior studying philosophy and mathematics.

Hillsdale messed with my mind

Samantha Strayer
Special to the Collegian

Lane Halls, my feet falter, uncertain

which way to go. It has been two years
since I came to Hillsdale, and I still
ture. Its a simple decision, of course:
Appropriately at these moments, I
lens arresting words to us new stuto mess with your minds. Okay. I was
at a bit confused but intrigued. It was
the last thing I expected him to say.
He meant, of course, that education
with perils. There are no set paths, no

David Flemming
Special to the Collegian

week.

had to sign and write the date as she left; the non-compliant

Approaching the circular brick

David Flemming is a junior studying economics.

But its no surprise that she would think of government as the

main source of employment: Shes been a government employee
for 20 years.
As a result, Clinton is completely out of touch with the middle

Respect the freshmen

GIVE JEB A CHANCE

Michael Lucchese
Special to the Collegian

economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather
spectacularly. But if corporations and businesses do not create

place. There are also no guarantees.

It is entirely possible to leave college
having taken no part in the adventure
nor experienced anything transformative. Thankfully, that is not my story.
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ing as I confronted texts and ideas I

had never heard of before or properly
understood. Under the steady guidance of my faculty, I wrestled with,
among others, the original Big Three,
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; Hegel, his
progeny, the Progressives; and their
offspring, the Administrative State. I
also came to appreciate the intrepid
spirit and sheer moxie of our Founding moment was when I read (of all
things!) Lincolns concluding remarks

tive ideas with a fresh perspective requires an ongoing posture of humility. That, I think, is what C.S. Lewis

And the awe that I felt would not

have been possible had I not trudged
through the previous 20-odd pages of

and the people within it and those who

political speech-making. The last few

paragraphs seemed to come out of nowhere, but thats not true. They were
to come out and be said.
So heres another open secret I
learned: No matter how much I think
I know about a particular idea, person,
or time in history, there is always so
much more to learn. To approach great
texts, fascinating people, and provoca-

So I walked away that evening in

September with the Provosts words
that was going to be knocked around,
apparently. But I understand now what
he meant that day. And that knowledge is etched within my being. Even
though I may hesitate about which di-

the privilege of learning alongside fellow graduate students and many undergraduates as well. It is with mixed
feelings that I approach graduation.
move on, but I freely admit that my
heart aches at the thought.
It has been a wild ride, and I would
not trade it for anything.
Samantha Strayer is a second-year
masters student in the Van Andel
Graduate School of Statesmanship.

Hillsdale police abuse

Kate Patrick
Special to the Collegian
ing. Not for drug dealing. Not even for speeding. It was because our car broke down.
The police who pulled us over represent a worrying trend.
Cops may exhibit aggressive qualities and abuse citizens to
protect themselves from potentially hostile situations, but
this is no excuse to mistreat the innocent. A lack of common
courtesy between police and the American people can turn
potentially harmless encounters into dangerous, traumatic,
or even fatal incidents.
In this particular case, an ordinary night drive became a
nightmare when Dakotas car overheated. He pulled into a
the car would quickly cool down. The car had been acting up
all night and, to make it back to campus without the engine
exploding, wed pulled over several times. Multiple people
had stopped to ask if we needed help.
At this time, Michigan state troopers from the Jackson
Post cruised down Hillsdale Street, pulled up behind our
broken-down vehicle, turned on the blue lights, and beamed
Two state troopers emerged: The male trooper approached the driver-side door and ordered Dakota to place
his hands on the vehicle; the female trooper approached my
side and demanded I exit the vehicle and present my ID.
The female trooper asked me if I had anything illegal in
the car, if I was hiding anything under my seat, and whether
I had weapons. The answer to all three questions was a reThe male trooper asked Dakota if he had any drugs or
weapons. Same answer.

The male trooper proceeded to search Dakota and the

front of the car, even though he had no right to search without warrant.
The two state troopers mistook us for suspect individuals
ity instead of recognizing us as ordinary college students in
need of assistance. After interrogating us about our business
and running background checks on our IDs, the troopers retow truck to us.
what appeared to be suspicious activity, they approached the
situation assuming our guilt and then treated us with hostility, even though the American legal system dictates citizens
are innocent until proven guilty. The police have become
militarized: Cops must keep the peace, but now they hunt
down criminals as if theyre American soldiers hunting ISIS
in the Middle East. Police are so afraid of potentially hostile situations that they treat citizens unreasonably and often
in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York.
The police assume we are criminals until proven otherwise and we assume the police are going to treat us badly.
The result is a vicious cycle of police brutality followed by
citizens reacting violently out of fear and anger.
I dont have a problem with the state troopers for pulling
us over, but I do have an issue with how the troopers handled
the incident. Most Americans arent criminals. Police need
to stop treating citizens as if they were. If cops and citizens
made the effort to deal more courteously with one another,
then there would be less violence and animosity. Until common ground is reached, the unrest will continue to fester,
and the violence will continue to spiral out of control.
Kate Patrick is a sophomore studying history and journalism. Senior Dakota Michael contributed to this article.

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Local priest to speak at

Right to Life dinner
Amanda Tindall
News Editor
Though Hillsdales Right to
Life Celebration of Life dinner often hosts speakers from
all over Michigan, this years
speaker is local: Father David
Reamsnyder from St. Anthonys
Catholic Church will be sharing
his and his wifes personal experience at the 37th annual dinRight to Life of Hillsdale
President Bud Vear chose
Reamsnyder because he and
his wife were told by doctors to
abort one of their children.
Theyre against abortion,
so theyll be talking about the
interactions they had with the
doctors and how they changed
doctors, Vear said. Now they
have a beautiful and healthy
child.
Although Reamsnyder was
unavailable for comment, some
of his parishioners have heard

his story at church.

Ive heard Father Davids
story before in mass, and Ive
seen little Cora, junior parishioner Mattie Vander Bleek said.
They have a beautiful story
that upholds life.
Besides the speech, Vear said
the banquet will include two
aspects unique to this years
good scholarship recipient.
Libengood was, for many
years, not only on our board, but
also the treasurer of the local
group, Vear said. She lives in
Maryland now, but we decided
wed like to award a scholarship
to a student in college or going
to college. We got a late start but
we do have a very worthy recipient. Ive also written a brief
history about the Right to Life
of movement, and that will be
available to anyone who wants
to get one at the banquet.
The dinner raises about

$5,000 to $7,500, which is then

given to the pro-life advertisement campaign of Right to Life
of Michigan.
Im always shocked by the
amount people give, Vear said.
We have some very big contributors through the organization. We planned the event at the
recommendation of Steve Casai. He recommended we have
it on the Tuesday just before exams because the study day is on
Wednesday, and he thought that
would be an excellent time to
have it.
President of Students for Life
junior Nicole Chaney will be at-

ProP 1
From A1

gives it a 40 percent chance

of passing since many dislike
its complexity.
sion, Wolfram said. There
are better propositions that
could be put together but are
there better propositions that
and with this new legislature,
I dont think we know. If you
think youll get a better deal,
vote no, but you dont know if
you will that is the uncertainty.
Clingerman agreed with
Wolfram that the proposal faces harsh odds.
In my professional opinion, its an uphill battle,
Clingerman said.

other students.
They are donating free tickets to any college students who
want to go, Cheney said. We
have about 17 students going
right now. Its a great opportunity to have conversations with
pro-life people from around the
state and hear the speakers.

Potholes on corner of Marion and Oak streets in Hillsdale.

(Macaela Bennett/Collegian)

High ammonia levels in Hillsdale

water prompt sewage plant upgrades
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor

Due to high levels of ammonia in Hillsdales water for

the past two years, the city of
Hillsdale will spend approxi-

around for a long time, but

there has been some new technology introduced as well as
new regulation, Terry said.
Currently, the plant uses
ties out of the water. Part of the
plants improvement plan will

deteriorating equipment and

equipment at the Hillsdale
Wastewater Treatment Plant.
construction costs are not yet
determined, there is no date for
beginning the plants improvements.
We will be borrowing
money from the state of Michigan Revolving Fund; it will be
a revenue bond, acting City
Manager Doug Terry said. We
will borrow through a revenue
bond and pay it back through
water and sewer fees.
Some of the plants infrathe technology was last updatSewage treatment has been

tering, Terry said.

BPU Director Rick Rose
said the high ammonia levels have been a problem for
the past two years, and if the
it could get a court order from
the Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality, which
would force it to confront the
issue.
We started getting high test
results for ammonia about two
years ago, and a year ago this
last November we had a meeting in Jackson to talk about it,
Rose said. We agreed we really needed to get something

done. Some of the plant is in

really bad shape.
Because the BPU reports
to the DEQ monthly, the DEQ
knows Hillsdale is working
to remedy the situation. Even
though the ammonia levels are
still high, they are not hazardous.
As long as theyre aware
of it and know were working
problem, Rose said.
Other improvements include
installing a generator, replacing three rectangular primary
ers with one round secondary
anaerobic digester, said operator Mike Simons.
In Hillsdale wastewater
treatment, untreated water undergoes treatment in the pri-

with chlorine, and released into

the St. Joe River. The materiare referred to as sludge, the
byproduct of wastewater treatment.
Anaerobic digesters
which treat sludge and prepare
it for other uses, such as farm
fertilizer emit methane gas,
but the refurbished digester at
the Hillsdale plant will recapture methane and use it as an
energy source to provide some
heating and electricity at the
plant, Simons said.
We are very excited to be
given an opportunity to upgrade our wastewater treatment
facility, Terry said. The renovations planned for our existing facility will help ensure
environmental compliance for
many years.

Council changes public

burnings ordinance
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
Due to repeated complaints
from Hillsdale residents about
public burnings, the Hillsdale
City Council restricted the right
to hold public burnings which
from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. every
day. The Public Safety Committee is now reviewing the amendment to the city code after councils discussion at the Monday
meeting.
Originally, you had to come
into the station to get a permit,
and we issued about 700 permits
a year. After you picked up an
initial permit, you just had to
call, Hillsdale Fire Chief Kevin
Pauken said. Midnight is the
cutoff point. We get occasional
in the morning.
Councilperson Adam Stockford disagreed with the resolufor public burnings, saying it restricted basic freedoms.
I dont want to see our citizens not be able to barbeque on
a Saturday at noon, Stockford
said. I also have a problem with
the midnight cutoff. Why cant
we just leave it to the discretion

solids, oils, and grease from

the water) and treatment in the
move biological matter) before

City Attorney Lewis Loren

said the city needed to establish
a standard so citizens wouldnt
burn at inappropriate times of
day, but at the request of Councilperson Mary Beth Bail, the
council sent the amendment
back to the committee for further review.
In other business, the counorders, which permanently prohibit parking from South Howell
Street to East Hallett Street and
from East Hallett Street to South
West Street and South Howell
Street. Hillsdale Police Chief
Scott Hephner said two people
contacted him about having

Water is oxidized at the Hillsdale Wastewater Treatment Plant.

(Kate Patrick/Collegian)

Hillsdale Wastewater Treatment Plant operator Mike Simons.

(Kate Patrick/Collegian)

driveways because parking on

the street obstructed their vision.
I went and observed and
there is a legitimate parking hazard, Hephner said.

The council approved both

council also approved an amendment to the airport engineering contract to begin taxiway
construction at the Hillsdale
Municipal Airport. Acting City
Manager Doug Terry said the
amendment adds surveying and
staking to the contract, which
are both necessary to begin construction.
The contract has been reviewed by legal counsel. What
we are seeking is council approval of this contract we
work until after council approves this, Terry said. Time
is critical to have the stream of
money set in place for reimbursement.
After approving the amendment to the contract, the council approved the grant contract
between the city of Hillsdale,
the Michigan Department of
Transportation, and the Federal
Aviation Administration. The
grant contract allows the city to
receive $1.35 million from the
FAA and $75,000 from MDOT
for the airport taxiway construction. The city of Hillsdale will
Terry also requested the
council hold a special meeting to
for the Hillsdale city manager
position.
I am making a request for a
special city council meeting to
interview at least two of the prospective candidates and allow
the public to sit in and ask questions, Terry said. As many
council members as possible
should be present. This person
will be working for you.
After discussion, the council decided to meet at noon on
Saturday, May 2, to review at
least two of the city manager
candidates. All council members are expected to attend, and
the public is invited to attend
and ask questions of the candidates, which will be facilitated
by Terry.

Hillsdale men died in historys deadliest maritime disaster

Evan Brune
Senior Reporter
The reverberating boom and
the quiet darkness of the early
morning hours on April 27,
dreds of former Union prisoners
of war into the cool waters of the
Mississippi River, where they
desperately grabbed onto each
other and drowned in groups. It
was the deadliest maritime disaster in history.
The sinking of the SS Sultana 150 years ago resulted in
the loss of 1,800 men, many of
whom spent years suffering in
Southern POW camps. Many
of the men were from the 18th
Michigan Volunteer Infantry,
which mustered into service in
Of the 1,800 dead, at least 27
were from Hillsdale County.
The Sultana disaster is

and maritime history, but its

also important to understand
the limits of technology and
government, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Miles
Smith said. Its not surprising,
because the government botches things up. Look at Hurricane
Katrina and its aftermath. This
is another example of that.
College historian Arlan Gilbert had an additional take on
the tragedy.
The Sultana disaster tells
us something about human nature, Gilbert said. All of these
men were former prisoners who
had suffered through the worst
prisons of the war. Then, in a
couple of weeks, theyre freed
and killed in this disaster. Its
ironic.
The Sultana, constructed in
powered riverboat intended for
cotton trade in the Deep South.
At the end of the war, the Union
army needed to move men and

materiel up the river, and because the U.S. Navy had too
few ships to accomplish the
task, civilian-owned riverboats
like the Sultana were contracted
for the job.
The Union offered riverboat
captains a bounty to transport
discharged Union troops north
at a rate of $5 per enlisted man
to the Bureau of Economic Research, the average wage for an
$1.50 per day.
Sultanas captain, James
Cass Mason, met with Lt. Col.
Reuben Hatch, a quartermaster
in Vicksburg who was charged
with arranging transportation
for recently released Union
POWs. Hatch made a deal with
Mason: if Mason agreed to take
1,400 soldiers, Hatch would
take a kickback and Mason
would pocket the rest of the
money, which amounted to at
least $7,000. Mason accepted.
Two things went wrong,

however. When Sultana approached Vicksburg, one of

the ships four boilers sprung a
leak. Mason, not about to lose
out on the most lucrative deal of
his career, ordered his mechanic
to make a hasty repair.
The second mistake came
when the Sultana began to take
on passengers. An apparent
clerical error led to the loading of every Union parolee in
Vicksburg onto the ship, totaling more than 2,100 men, far
exceeding the Sultanas legal
capacity
Rather than off-load troops,
Mason ordered his crew to
place heavy wooden beams under the decks of the ship, which
groaned and sagged with the
weight of thousands of troops
and 120 tons of sugar.
The owners of these boats
were just trying to line their
pockets, Gilbert said. Not
only did he have all these people and cargo, he had horses,
pigs, etc.

The Sultana began her illfated trip north on April 24,

sissippi River current, strengthordered his crew to build pressure in the boilers beyond safe
limits in an attempt to increase
speed.
In the early morning hours
of April 27, the Mississippi
River rapids bobbed the boat
from side to side. The water in
Sultanas four boilers, which
were interconnected by a series
of pipes, sloshed from one side
of the ship to the other. Finally,
the ever-increasing heat of the
metal boiler casings met one
of the rushing torrents of water created by the rocking of
the ship, causing a massive increase in pressure.
The weakened boilers exploded, ripping the ship apart
and throwing crowds of prisoners into the Mississippi, where
they drowned en masse.

The Civil War, at the end,

was entirely chaotic on a macro-social scale, and this is a
consequence of that chaos,
Smith said.
It is unknown exactly how
many men died in the sinking,
since the ship was overloaded.
toll at 1,800. The Sultana explosion killed 300 more than
the Titanic tragedy and 200
more than the torpedoing of the
USS Lusitania, making it the
deadliest maritime disaster in
human history.
These men just wanted to
go home, Gilbert said. They
had boiler problems earlier,
and the ship wasnt well-maintained, but they wanted to be
home. Probably, that hurry-up
mentality at the end of the war
contributed to this disaster.

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Tennis team closes spring season

Hannah Leitner
Design Editor

four-year player since the program was revived in 2011.

With a long list of accomplishments both on and off the
court, Peirce said Morgans role
as leader and role model for the
team is one-of-a-kind, and she
will be missed.
Its going to be hard to see
Morgan leave, but shes taught us
well, Peirce said. The three rising seniors--me, Sydney [Delp],
and Rachel [Blaauw]--just hope

The Hillsdale College womens tennis team wrapped up

their spring season after falling 5-4 to Davenport and 6-3 to
Aquinas this past weekend. The
two losses brought the Chargers
spring record to 2-3.
Friday brought stiff competition on the singles front. Junior
Sydney Delp earned a 7-6, 6-1
win at No. 2 singles. At No. 5
singles, junior Jada Bissett battled back from a 6-1 loss in the
In doubles, both Sydney and
Morgan Delp at No. 1 doubles
and junior Lindsay Peirce and
sophomore Dana Grace Buck at
No. 2 doubles won their matches
8-4.
It was very competitive,
head coach Nikki Walbright said.
The girls all had good spirits,
and it was good to have a hard
challenge. It was just unfortunate
Saturdays

match

against

the team, despite strong performances from several players.

Out of the three wins attributed
to Hillsdale, two can be attributed to Bucks strong perfor-

Junior Sydney Delp celebrates after a match last fall season. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
mances, bringing home wins in
both singles and doubles. At No.
4 singles, she won 6-0, 7-5, contributing the only singles win of
the match. Then at No. 2 doubles,
she again teamed up with Peirce
to pull out an 8-3 victory.
longed to the Delp sisters at No.

their competitors 9-7 in a toughly

fought match.
We were down 7-4. It was
one that we could have easily
just let go or given up, Sydney
said. But I think we both, even
though we never said it to each
other, wanted to end on a winning note.

even though it wont be close at

all.
Now the team looks forward
to training hard during the summer months in preparation for
the fall season, in which the team
will welcome four incoming
freshman athletes.
We want to come back in
the fall ready to go right away,
Peirce said. We dont want our
preseason to be a warm-up or a

This past weekend, the Hillsdale College golf team placed

ninth out of 15 teams at the GLIAC Spring Invitational in Nashport, Ohio, their last tournament
of the semester. As a team, the
Chargers shot a total of 621, only

match together, the duo defeated

It was a great tournament,

and I was very proud of everyone, especially considering our
last GLIAC tournament results.
There was a lot of improvement
all around, said senior captain
Matt Chalberg.
Chalberg is referring to the
GLIAC Golf Championship in
Georgetown, Kentucky, on the
weekend of October 10th, where
the team placed 14th out of 15
schools. Since this is the teams
berg was happy to see the team
they could be competitive within
the GLIAC.
Im especially proud of Joe
Torres, who tied for the sixth best

Steve Sartore, freshman team

member, tied for 22nd, but second on the Hillsdale team, with a
score of 153. Sartore joined Torres, Chalberg, Brad Mitzner, and
fellow freshman Logan Kauffcomposite score used for determining place.
was shot by a graduating senior, meaning the team has good
chances if they continue to shoot
this well next year. Chalberg
added that its good to have so
many of the teams top golfers
returning, because they can continue to develop the talent they
already have.
Itll be sad to see Brad graduate, said Chalberg, a senior himself, but returning to play with
the team next year. Ive enjoyed
playing with him this past year,
and hell be missed.
Sartore, with four years of eligibility still ahead of him, is excited for where the team will be
next year.
Its nice to see us place well
for the last tournament, and I
cant wait for next year. Im happy with how we performed this
past weekend, Sartore said.

Three Hillsdale College athletes have been awarded the

GLIAC Commissioners award
in recognition of their success
both athletically and academically. Senior Megan Fogt and
juniors Emily Oren and Kyle
Cooper are among 12 GLIAC
athletes recognized for their successful performances during the
winter 2014-15 season.
One of the most prestigious
awards in the GLIAC, the Commissioners Award has been
handed out since the 2007-08
athletic seasons. These awards
are handed out at the end of each
of the three seasons. The award
goes to student-athletes who
carry an overall grade point aver-

Freshman Steven Sartore tees off at a tourney during the

fall season. (Photo Courtesy of Hillsdale College)

age of at least 3.5, are of junior

or senior standing, and are top
contributors to their respective
teams.
It is cool to be recognized
for working hard in the classroom and on the court, and for
the league to recognize that is a
special award. I am pretty proud
of it, Cooper said.
ory that three Hillsdale students
have received the GLIAC Commissioners Award in the same
season. Megan, Emily, and Kyle
all are exemplary representatives of the award, with their exceptional athletic and academic
achievement, Hillsdale Athletic
Director Don Brubacher said.
We recognize that the rigors of
a Hillsdale College education
make it particularly challenging

for our students to compete for

scholar athlete awards, which
makes us exceedingly proud of
the accomplishments of these
students.
Only six male athletes and
six female athletes are recognized for this award each season,
meaning a quarter of the 12 recipients are Hillsdale College
students.
I think its really awesome
and is a testament to how hardworking all of the athletes are,
Oren said. It is not easy going to
school and being an athlete, so it
is nice that people can recognize
that we can work hard in both aspects.
nior All-American Megan Fogt
has received the Commissioners
Award. Fogt is a back-to-back

jumped 11.06 meters in the triple jump, and freshman Hannah

Watts ran the 800 meter in 2:20.
The Charger men also had a
number of memorable performances at the meet.
Senior Cassidy Kaufman
jumped 13.27 meters in the
triple jump a personal best
mark for him by a foot and a
half.
Sophomore Caleb Gatchell
was one of three Chargers to
break 2 minutes in the 800 me-

and Sam Phillips ran the steeplechase. In a reversal from last

week, Wondaal bested Phillips,
running the event in 9:40 and
coming in second place.
Miller is impressed with how
his athletes are handling the
long season and end of the semester academics.
Even with the academic
rigor in their lives, theyre
not complacent, Miller said.
Theres really good focus within the team right now.
Today, Friday, and Saturday,
the Chargers will be hosting the
49th annual Gina Relays. The
three-day meet is widely regarded for its middle-distance
and distances races and attracts
some of the best athletes in the
nation. Former Charger middledistance runner, Matt Perkins,
described the atmosphere at
Gina Relays as special.
On April 29, 30 and May 1,

recipient and currently holds the

highest overall GPA of any Charger student-athlete.
Academics have been my
number one priority since coming to Hillsdale and its nice to
see hard work pay off, Fogt
said. I am just so appreciative of
all of the people that have helped
me to get to this place in my academic and athletic careers.
I think it speaks so highly of
not only the school itself but the
excellence that is promoted and
demanded by the not only the
professors, administration, and
coaching staff but by the students
themselves, Fogt added. Hillsdale prepares its students so well
for the future and I think having
three Commissioners Award
winners is a testament to that.

From A8

second in the race.

I think if I would have been
upfront I would have won the
race, I was going faster than
[the winner] was the last 200, I
just wasnt in a good place tactically, Gatchell said.
Junior Nick Shuster jumped
1.91 meters in the high jump.
For the second week in a
row, freshmen Tony Wondaal

Season Leaders
Batting Average
Luke Ortel (.345)
Vinny Delicata (.344)
Runs Batted In
Chris McDonald (29)
Connor Bartlett (23)
Earned Run Average
Shane Armstrong (3.60)
P.j. Cooley (3.68)

Softball
Hillsdale at Ashland
L, 9-0
L, 5-1
Hillsdale vs. Walsh
L, 6-4
W, 5-0
Hillsdale vs. Malone
W, 6-3
W, 12-3
Hillsdale at Lake Erie
L, 4-1
W, 6-2

Shane Armstrong:

L to R: Seniors Mitchell Gatt, Dan Pochmara, and Shane Armstrong. (Photo

Courtesy of Shane Armstrong)

More than any other sport,

baseball is a game played by
guys with superstitious belief.
You never mess with a good
streak. If you think that you
are winning because you dont
shave or change your socks,
then you are.
The latest superstition to hit
the game: facial hair.
The beard fad in baseball un-

during the Giants World Series

run in 2010. Fans all across
baseball were mesmerized by

Track

a good position for the postseason.

Freshman Jared Schipper
placed seventh in the meet,
jumping a height of 4.96 meters.
Senior Alex Mexicotte ran a
22.15 second 200 meter at the
meet, but his event coach, Nate
Miller, believes he can break the
22 second mark.
He and I are both looking
for a better performance in the
weeks to come, Miller said.
Those on the teams travel
squad, who didnt travel to
either the Mt. Sac Relays or
LSU, went to the Al Owens Invitational at Grand Valley State
University.
In addition to Molly Orens
provisional qualifying steeplechase time, junior Francesca
Krohn ran two personal best
times, including running under
60 seconds in the 400 meter
dash; sophomore Maddie Estell

Baseball
Hillsdale at Saginaw Valley
L, 3-0
L, 6-1
W, 5-4
W, 12-0

San Francisco Giants closer

Brian Wilson let his facial hair

CHARGERS EARN GLIAC COMMISSIONER AWARDS

Rachael Hille
Collegian Freelancer

BOX SCORES

weekend. So were really excited

to have out four freshmen. They
will be great talent and just an
extension of our personality and
just what our team stands for as
a whole.

Golf team takes 9th at GLIAC tourney

Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter

SPORTS
A7 23 April 2015

the Chargers will be hosting the

GLIAC conference track meet.
The weekend after that, Hillsmeet for any athletes trying to
qualify for the national meet.
May 21, 22, and 23 the
NCAA D-II national meet will
be held at Grand Valley State
men and seven women individuals as well as the mens
and womens 4x400 meter relay
tional meet.
As the end of the season approaches, Towne expects some
athletes to step up in the next
few weeks.
I think we have some kids
that are positioned well at the
conference level and national
level, Towne said.

where #fearthebeard became a

trending topic on Twitter.
But the superstition goes
both ways. The New York Yankees are the winningest team
in Major League Baseball history and they do not allow their
players to grow any facial hair.
In 2013, the Boston Red Sox
rode their team full of burly
faces to a World Series Championship.
Major League players that
grow facial hair obviously get
the most attention because they
play on television everyday and
the world is watching, but facial hair is something that has
affected every level of baseballeven here at Hillsdale College.
Some of the Hillsdale baseball
guys who can grow facial hair
on the team are taking full advantage during the season.
Three guys in particular, senior
right-handed pitcher Dan Pochmara, redshirt junior righthanded pitcher Mitchell Gatt,
and myself, have gone razorless
since the month of December.
There are a number of reasons for baseball players to
grow facial hair. Some do it

Baseball
and
beards

because they are lazy, others

grow it for tradition and charity during no-shave November.
But whatever the reason, facial
hair is something that can create a bond among friends and
teammates.
Additionally, the characteristics of a beard can give insight
into the type of person that is
growing it. Much like people,
beards have their own personality.
All three beards on the
pitching staff have been growing since the beginning of the
semester. The facial hair growing on the face of Dan Pochmara is named El Presidente. El
Presidente has its own brand of
kept beard with a fun side.
The name of my beard is
The Amish Stallion. The name
comes from my inability to
grow a good mustache.
is worn by Mitchell Gatt and is
known as the Set-up Man. The
name comes from Gatts ability
to masterfully navigate his way
through the eighth inning of a
baseball game and because his
tiful mane of hair on his head.
Some uneducated people might
call this look homeless or
caveman-like but they could
not be further from the truth.
Beards are a great way to
express yourself and can carry
tradition. It makes sense that
the sport of baseball is full of
men with lengthy facial hair.
Next time you watch a game on
television or come and watch
your eye out for some beards
and see what they are trying to
tell you.

Gina

From A1

said. Its so great to hear

from other coaches and runners,
Ill see you at the Ginas, or,
Are you going to the Ginas? It
just shows the honor and respect
that we all have for her.
Lansers legacy is not only
honored during this spring weekend when dozens of schools
across all three NCAA divisions
congregate on the Hillsdale track
to compete, but also anytime
anyone walks the halls of the colleges sports complex where Lansers picture has its place in the
series of All-American Chargers
posters, and her Hall of Fame
plaque hangs on the brick walls.
During her four years at Hillsdale, Lanser racked up seven
All-American titles and four AllAcademic honors. She also set a
new school record for the 5K and
in 1987, she became the colleges
only National cross-country
champion.
She was a phenomenal runner truly one of the best athletes Hillsdale has ever known
in a long history of outstanding
competitors, Philipp said. She
was a coachs dream, she could
run anything from the 800 to the
10,000.
Philipp described how Lan-

ser maintained incredible control when running: She was on

a mission, and it was beautiful to
witness.
Throughout her collegiate
career Lanser maintained a 4.0
GPA.
She was truly a liberal-arts
girl, Philipp said.
Phillips added that Lanser is
remembered amongst friends and
teammates for her strength, beauty, and humility.
race, which was most often in
one of the top positions, she
would always turn around and
reach towards her teammates
coming in behind her. Her humble and gentle words inspired
and comforted. She always gave
praise to her teammates and glory
to God, Philipp said. She was
and continues to be a role model
for all of us.
Lundberg also saw this humility.
She was one of the best of
the best of our students, he said,
but youd never know how
much success she achieved
youd have to pry it out of her.
The Gina Relays begin today
at 3 p.m. and continue through
Saturday afternoon.

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23 April 2015

Charger Sports
Softball fighting for
GLIAC tourney spot
Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief

Pitching leads Chargers to Sunday sweep

Stevan Bennett
Collegian Freelancer
Great pitching lifted the
Chargers to two wins over the
Saginaw Valley State Cardinals
on Sunday, after dropping the
Saturday.
The story on Saturday was a
base en route to a 3-0 loss in
the series opener, and then left
second half of the doubleheader,
which Hillsdale lost 6-1.
tion, head coach Eric Theisen
said. We were really just a
-

Despite the two losses, Hillsdale starting pitching was effective on Sunday.

helped us to save the bullpen for

Sunday.
The lone Charger run of the
by junior Luke Ortel in the ninth
When the Chargers arrived
on Sunday for the second set of
ning Hillsdale doubled their run
ing one run on a groundout by
junior Connor Bartlett and adding another on a double by junior
Chris McDonald.
The Chargers added another
run in the second inning on a
double by Ortel.
threw 4 1-3 innings, allowing
four earned runs on seven Cardinal hits.
1 1-3 innings, allowing only two

hits.
Senior Melissa Felkey at bat in a home game against Tiffin University. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

lowed by throwing 7 1-3 innings

runs, only two earned, on 12 hits.

Both of our starting pitchers gave us a chance to win,
Theisen said. They fought

against Ferris State and Grand

Valley State Universities.
Hillsdale sits perilously in
eighth place with a 12-10 conference record after splitting
lege on Tuesday. The Chargers
need to win three of this week-

fer all contributed two hits each

uted eight RBIs total.
We hit really well, Grunert
said of the win.
Chargers battled back to win
the second 6-2.

a good chance at continuing

their season.
or a little over it, head coach
ing Walsh and Findlay splitting with Ashland added up to
a disaster for us yesterday: We

it.
Hillsdale split with Walsh
University on Saturday before
wins Sunday. The Chargers lost
to Walsh 4-6 before blanking
sdale won 6-3 and 12-3 thanks

the top of the league, you have

said.
Looking ahead to this weekend, Hillsdale will face Ferris
State, ranked two spots behind
Hillsdale with a GLIAC record of 8-11. Saturday brings a
ers, ranked fourth in the league
at 13-8.
gled this year. But the league

I love the idea of being

The Chargers entered the seventh inning trailing by a run, and

quickly recorded two outs.
A string of two-out hits by
Bartlett, McDonald, and sophoCharger runs, giving Hillsdale
a one run lead heading into the

win.
only allowing one Cardinal hit,
giving the Chargers a 5-4 victory.
to be another shootout, with the
Chargers scoring in the top of

who threw seven shutout innings

against the Chargers on Saturday.
even begin to see how those two

Junior Jacob Gardner had

different plans, however, as he

cus on the wins.

lineup, throwing eight scoreless

to win the award two weeks in a

and striking out seven.

and do your best to throw up zeros, Gardner said. I was able to
go out there and do that thanks

Gardner said.
The Chargers will play the
Grand Valley State Lakers in a

this point, Theisen said. We

the day, allowing no baserunners
sweep of the doubleheader.

we have to go out and treat it is

business as usual until the end.

EMILY OREN, MENS 4X400 SET SCHOOL RECORDS

Evan Carter
Web Editor

Despite falling, Galat found a

way to place third in her race
in 16:30 only one second off

This past weekend, the Chargers split not two, but three ways,
traveling to the Mt. Sac Relays in
California, the Louisiana State

assistant track coach Joe Lynn

The athletes that traveled to

end. Towne highlighted junior
Sarah Benson as two solid
Zehner was .01 seconds off her

as the Al Owens Invitational in

Grand Rapids.
Highlights of the weekend

hurdles and Benson had a good

Senior Heather Lantis threw

school record (16:17), a school

ter relay (3:10.79), and a national
-

Only seven distance and

to the Mt. Sac Relays, but they
-

ed off the Northwestern State

for anybody to beat anybody,

ball, not football or basketball,
-

two, where Hillsdale racked up

seven runs.
The pitcher was putting the
ball right there, so it was easy to
tee off on. We play well in good

7 2-3 innings on Wednesday

against Findlay, allowing only
one earned run.
Many on the Hillsdale squad
believed that these two starts
warranted a GLIAC Player of
the Week award, but the award
instead went to Saginaw Valley

record. Also on the record set-

2:12 and head track coach Andrew Towne called it, one of the

and Colby Clark.

runs along the inside of the track;
at one point in the race, she was

Junior Corinne Zehner ran the 100-meter hurdles in

14.02 at the Hillsdale Invite, earning her first place and
the GLIAC Athlete of the Week. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

for us, Chase said. We broke

a school record, and it put us in

See TRACK, A7

Charger Chatter: morgan delp

When did you start playing
tennis?
I started playing when I was
tennis so she had us in tennis lesup at. We loved it and played it
ever since. It was kind of the
one thing we always did, even
when we were playing other
tennis. My parents were really
supportive of it, but never really
Morgan Delp is a history major and journalism minor who
will be graduating this spring
and teaching social studies and
journalism at her alma mater,
Toledo Central Catholic, in the
fall. She will also be the assistant coach for the schools
womens tennis team. Delp
earned second-team All-GLIAC honors all four years of her
collegiate career.

coach. This past weekend we

houses, and her parents were
so kind and hospitable. I think

cousins so a lot of people.

What are you going to miss
most about being on the tennis team?
sport at the college level, but

take bigger responsibilities. You

Do you plan to keep playing

tennis?

we stuck with it.

Who all in your family plays
tennis?
-

balance tennis, Collegian, being in a sorority, and all the

things that you do for the past
four years?

ing aspect of tennis. There are a

tive play for adults, leagues and
looking forward to playing for
How have you managed to

that the support and encouragea lot. My coach realizes that

play doubles together. We did

it all through high school and
really fun doubles partner too
and energetic, and I love playing with her. We also know what
to say to each other, to help each
other.

and people at the Collegian real-

What is your biggest takeaway from being on the tennis

team?
I guess it kind of goes along with

ing all the things that you do, it

how well a coach can balance

What has it been like having

your sister (junior Sydney
Delp) on the team?
because we get to play doubles
together. There have been few

If you could do anything differently in your tennis experience at Hillsdale, what would
that be?
-

also caring about her athletes

ic lives, which has been really
cool to see how Coach Nikki is
supportive each of us players.

safe, consistent player. I was

year, that would have been

great.
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Action, romance, and humor: Cymbeline has it all

Shakespeare in the Arb presents Cymbeline next weekend
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
Secret marriages, contemplating suicide, and crossdressing
are the stuff of many of William
Shakespeares plays. They are all
found in Shakespeare in the Arbs
production of Cymbeline.
Running Friday, May 2 and
Saturday, May 3 at 1 p.m., the
three hour show will be performed outdoors unless inclement weather moves it to Maucks
Solarium. Student players take
the audience back in time to the
17th century and the open air
Globe Theatre with the convenience of production in the Slayton Arboretum. The play is di-

rected by seniors Maran McLeod

and Julie Finke.
Open-air Shakespeare is
classic, McLeod said. It really
creates a communal experience
where the actors and the audience are experiencing it all together, as opposed to here is the
audience sitting in these seats and
here is the stage. I think it helps
bring the audience into the world
that Shakespeare is describing.
Produced as early as 1611,
Cymbeline is a tragic comedy,
also known as a romance, according to Provost David Whalen.
The plays protagonist is Imogen, daughter of the King of Britain, Cymbeline. Imogen marries
a man named Posthumus against
her fathers wishes, causing him
to be sent into exile. While away,

Posthumus becomes paranoid

his wife will betray him, and between trickery, lies, and suitors,
the play tells of the journey the
two lovers take to be reunited.
Many readers consider it
one of his more mystifying plays
with a large, epic, sweeping plot
that contains wildly improbable
events and juxtapositions of character, Whalen said. Its easy to
enjoy it in light of light and probthe idea of the grandest and
most luminous of Shakespeares
themes: forgiveness, reconciliation, reunion, loss, suffering,
resignation. Its entertaining, but
at a deeper level, there are some
profound human meanings being
contemplated.
McLeod and Finke chose

Sophomore Shelby Ripley and junior James ORourke cross swords in Shakespeare in
the Arbs Cymbeline.
(Breana Noble/Collegian)

Cymbeline for Shakespeare in

breaks the run of comedies from
the past several years, but also
provides a positive tone during
edy because we spend so much
time doing the play, and a Hillsdale semester can be stressful
with all the academics youre
involved in, Finke said. Doing something that is funny or
lighthearted, particularly during
students. We didnt want to do
something that would be dark
and depressing, but something
that would be fun, but also have
some of the deeper elements.
The play incorporates many
of the aspects and themes from

Shakespeares other works into

its plot as well.
Youll have a woman dressing up as a man, a woman taking
a potion that makes her appear
dead like Romeo and Juliet, you
have some King Lear moments,
an evil queen, a beheading, a full
battle scene, Finke said. Cymbeline is just everything.
Sophomore Dani Morey,
who plays leading lady Imogen,
says Cymbeline is her favorite
Shakespeare play and one of the
reasons she chose to attend Hillsdale College.
I saw a production of it and
decided that I had to come here,
so when I saw they were doing it,
I was elated and had to try out,
Morey said. Its like Shakespeares greatest hits. It takes all

the plot points of Shakespeares

normal play and condenses them
all together, and the female lead
is a very strong, compelling character. Its been a treat to explore
her.
While Shakespeare in the Arb
has practically no budget, according to McLeod, the informal
production provides the opportunity for all students to enjoy the
well-known writer.
What I love about Shakespeare in the Arb is that it really
is a forum where everyone can
enjoy Shakespeare, McLeod
said. Its not where you have
to be an English major studying
Shakespeare, and you dont have
to be a theatre major studying

See Shakespeare B2

Directors Maran McLeod and Julie Finke lead the cast of Shakespeare in the Arbs
production of Cymbeline.
(Breana Noble/Collegian)

Stages of Life in art

Winners of $1,000 prize to be announced Tuesday
Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
It gives such divine materials
to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
This ending line of Walt Whitmans This Compost was the
inspiration for sophomore Cecily
Parells entry in this years thematic art competition.
Parells work, a wet-clay
sculpture of a cow skull, represents death, which she called
the great provider of life.
Without death you dont
have the elements to go back into
the soil to be renewed and made
into something else, Parell said.
This years theme is Stages
of Life, and the three winners
of the 17 submissions will be
announced at the opening of the
student art show on Tuesday at
4 p.m. There will be a prize of
$1,000 awarded to the best drawing and painting piece, $1,000 for
the best sculpture, and $1,000 for
the best digital-medium piece, as
judged by the entirety of the art
faculty.
Associate Professor of Art

Barbara Bushey said this years

entries were some of the strongest shes seen.
All media are represented,
she said. I think that divvying
up the prize money was a good
thing, because somebody who
worked in sculpture might think
its too hard for me to get to
the point where its done, and
someone in photography might
think I can do a whole lot but I
might not be considered because
oil paintings take more time. We
thought dividing by media might
encourage more people to participate, and we were right.
The contest began in 2007,
and topics over the years have
included Shakespeare, mythology, biblical love, the American
founding, portraits, hands, and
energy.
The art faculty had all sorts
of ideas for how we would have
approached energy, but it didnt
work so well, Bushey said.
Junior Forester McClatchey
submitted a 30 by 36 oil paintwards the surf.
The theme was Stages of
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baby sea turtles hatch its a terrifying experience for them less
than four percent survive, he
said. I didnt want it to be stricthas a bleaker tone than some of
the other submissions. From the
perspective of the birds diving
down to get them, they are allowing their chicks to survive.
McClatcheys piece took him
a month of nightly work to complete, and Parells piece broke
three times during the process.
I have a collection of skulls.
My dads a veterinarian and my
original interest here was biology. Ive been doing skulls for a
while. It helps me to learn the anatomical features, she said. Its
fun to sculpt skulls because they
are so fragile. Its a challenge.
Mine broke three times. With
wet clay you have to work really quickly and if one part is too
thick or too thin, or if you dont
put a break in there, like I didnt
in the eye socket, it will pop off.
One caveat to the contest was
that students were not permitted
to seek any advice or approval
from an art department professor.
McClatchey saw this as both a
There were certain mistakes
that I made that I couldnt see till
some risky moves that I probably
wouldnt have been permitted to
do by professors.

Things

To do and see This

week

April 20-24
Senior Art Exhibit #4: Halcyon Days
Daughtrey Gallery
Sage Center for the Arts
Seniors Erin Dellinger, Kinsey
Devenport, Olivia McAlexander, and
Michelle McAvoy will present a senior
exhibit of their best work from their
time at Hillsdale College.
Erin Dellingers work will range from
pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations
to sculpture and charcoal drawings of
pieces will focus mainly on photography
and will highlight a few of her
watercolor and oil paintings. Similarly,
Olivia McAlexander will display
photography and illustration style
pieces. Michelle McAvoy will
feature graphic design work
ranging from posters to branding
projects, and she will display a
collection of photography.
April 24-25
Hillsdale College Big Band
Sage Center for the Arts
Markel Auditorium
8 p.m.
The Hillsdale College Big Band presents
its spring concert with guest artist
Christopher Vadala on saxophone.
Ticket reservations required.

April 25
Vintage in concert at the Underground
Broad Street Downtown Underground
55 N Broad St.
8 p.m.
This classic rock, pop, country, motown,
and blues band brings their smooth
harmonies to the Underground
Saturday night.
April 26
Hillsdale College Choirs Spring Concert
College Baptist Church
3 p.m.
The Hillsdale College Choir and
Chamber Choir present their
semesterly concert on Sunday at
College Baptist Church. The choirs
will be accompanied by the Hillsdale
College Symphony Orchestra and will
feature Karl Jenkins The Armed
Man: Mass For Peace. No ticket
reservations required.
Hillsdale College Choirs Spring Concert
Sunday, April 26 | 3 pm
College Baptist Church
April 28-May 9
Awards Ceremony & Opening April 28
at 4 p.m.
Daughtrey Gallery
Sage Center for the Arts
This professionally juried exhibit
features all levels of student works from
spring semester studio courses.

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Orchestra bringing year to conclusion

(Photo courtesy of Micah
Meadowcroft)

IN FOCUS

Micah
Meadowcroft

The end of the

semster: Dont

let papers stop you from writing

Slow down. Enjoy reading
the newspaper. Sure, its hell
week and youve got a helluva
can sleepor ingest whatever
cocktail of stimulants and supplements and fumes youve replaced that with before studying

journal, or a personal poem, or a

love note, or that sonnet you want
to get published, or that story that
might just grow up to be novel.
Theres more than the vignette

you very much, or a spray painted

four letter concrete cave painting,
or a few pages for your favorite
and remember life is bigger than seminar. It is all of this, and it is
this. Go check out this weeks also the term paper.
cartoon. Breathe.
It can even be the term paIn all the research and late per you didnt put the preparanights, eyes bleary and bloodshot, tory work in for. That makes it
harder to be comfortable, harder
Carpal Tunnel, you have likely to care about quality when youre
ceased to think of this as writ- focused on the clock face, but it
ing. This is survival and you are can, and must, be done.
Have fun writing your essays.
Care about how you say what
of time and professor promised you say. Dont just write because
death of grade. The grey number you have to. Make the decision
in the corner of the Microsoft to take your assignment as an opWord display
portunity, not a
is the enemy. It
burden. Youre
refuses to grow
supposed
to
and
laughs
about
Im not here to say you write
at your tears. should have started sooner, how economic
You
never
conditions in
smoked before done your homework, read late 19th centhis week, but more, taken better notes. You tury
France
now you hope can tell yourself that. Term contributed to
cigarettes and papers may very well have the rise of comwriters go to- to be this not-divine and not- munist political
gether in more particularly-funny Dantean movements in
ways than lung descent that ends with you southeast Asia?
cancer. Youre
First, thats acsceptical that curled in the corner of the tually probably
H e m i n g w a y library basement, hoping the a super interestwas thinking books arent actually talking ing topic and
about a term and thats just the caffeine maybe I need
paper when he and the sleep deprivation and to go Wikipegave his fa- everything will be ok soon. dia binge now.
mous alcoholic But writing doesnt.
Second,
just
authorial adbecause youre
vice, but youre
bored doesnt
willing to try it.
mean your proBesides, you
fessor has to be,
wont even have time to edit, so so make those sentences varied
you dont even have to sober up and interesting and that argument
before the weekend.
tighter than a pair of your high
It doesnt have to be this way. school jeans. Third, entertain
Hell week might. Im not here to yourself.
say you should have started soonEngross yourself in not just
er, done your homework, read the topic, but the words and
more, taken better notes. You can phrases and rhythms and structell yourself that. Term papers ture of your paper. Even if your
may very well have to be this argument wouldnt convince a
not-divine and not-particularly- three year-old, dont let your
funny Dantean descent that ends sentences go to waste. Ignore
with you curled in the corner of the fact that your professor has
the library basement, hoping the to read your paper for their job,
books arent actually talking and and make your prose compelling
thats just the caffeine and the enough to keep them interested
sleep deprivation and everything in, if not what you say, how you
will be OK soon. But writing say it. Bonus points if you write
doesnt.
not just with verve, but with
In all the pain of this week, witwhimsy too.
of the one after that, dont forget that writing can be fun. Im
not just talking about trolling
on facebook, or texting the girl
you havent quite got around to
growing the gonads to ask out to
lunch, or those Shakespearean
fridge magnets. Its not just a

Micah Meadowcroft is a junior from Vancouver, Washington

majoring in history and minoring
in journalism through the Dow
Journalism Program. This is his
last issue as the Arts editor for
the Collegian.

ShakeSpeare
From B1
theatre formally. Julie is a biochem major, and Im a history
major, and yet, everyone can enjoy Shakespeare, and its something everyone should study,
have fun with, and read aloud.
Its been a pleasure getting the
chance to work with it.
While these directors may not
be pursuing theatre in the future,
they are no strangers to the world
of Shakespeare. Both have participated in Shakespeare in the
Arb three of their four years at
Hillsdale.
McLeod has a background
in dance and acting as well as
friends with connections to the
Royal Shakespeare Company,
which inspired this years monologue training.
Instead of reading these
monologues as just a monologue,
weve been able to apply different workshop techniques, Finke
said.
Additionally, Finke attended
Shakespeare summer camp for
nath, who plays Philario.
Working with Julie on this is
a lot of fun, Kunath said. Shes
a good director, very accommodating. Before, we were working
together as actors, so now its
director-actor relationship, so its
slightly different.
McLeod and Finke said they
have enjoyed working with all

the actors and using their talents,

knowledge, and resources to create the best production it can be.
Junior Daniel Negri has experience in theater combat and became a valuable asset to the show
in choreographing battle scenes
and leading the warriors.
I had done Macbeth in high
tain for that, so I knew a little bit
about choreography, Negri said.
Each pair of actors develops
their own routine with directorial
advice from movement learned
Negri said.
theatrical combat gives you an
opportunity to slip in a bunch of
From battles with action to
romance and a trio providing live
music, Shakespeare in the Arbs
Cymbeline has it all.
Thats one of the things thats
beautiful about Shakespeare
in the Arb, Finke said. Its so
much the Hillsdale and liberal
arts experience. You dont do it
to have a purpose from it; its not
just a means to an end; its an end
in and of itself. We enjoy it because it is what it is, and thats a
beautiful thing.

Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter
The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra is making prepMay 7th in Markel Auditorium,
featuring solos by senior Hannah
Taylor and sophomore Stevan
Lukich and an accompaniment of
well-known and hidden classical
treasures.
Conductor and Music Department Chair James Holleman, has
created a set list consisting of
classical favorites such as Franz
Liszts Hungarian Rhapsody,
and douard Lalos Le roi dYs
Overture, as well as pieces
that will be new to most listeners, such as Ottorino Respighis
Fountains of Rome. The set
list has provided the orchestra
and soloists with a pleasant chal-

lenge, and they have risen to the

occasion in their bi-weekly practices.
The orchestra members have
really taken initiative in coming
prepared to rehearsal and then
remaining focused for the duration of the rehearsals so that we
plained. This concert features
several really vibrant, yet classic
pieces that present intricate parts
for each orchestral section. As
each section realizes the importance of their part during rehearsals, when all those elaborate parts
come together, the individual
players and sections improve
and of course, the orchestral experience as a whole improves.
The brass section in particular
will be utilized more in this orchestra performance, primarily in
Respighis Fountain of Rome.
The piece begins and ends
with strings and woodwinds,

but in the middle there is a fullfor the low brass section, which
will really showcase our talent,
said freshman Jacob Hann, who
plays bass trombone. This piece
pieces Ive played in the past, but
thats what makes it fun.
Both of the soloists look forward to playing their pieces and
are excited for the challenge their
pieces have provided in practice.
For Lukich, performing his piece
has been a goal since he began
playing the violin.
Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch
was at a summer music camp
back in 8th grade, Lukich said,
Every since then, Ive always
really loved the piece and wanted
portunity to study this piece last
semester and to compete with it
as well.

Taylor, who will be playing

Eugene Goossens Oboe Concerto, Op. 45, is prepared but
uneasy. Ive been playing oboe
in the orchestra since freshman
year, so for 3 years now, Taylor
the thought of performing in front
of a large crowd. However, I am
absolutely grateful and thrilled to
have this opportunity to perform
with such a talented group of musicians.
proud send-off for senior members of the orchestra, as well as
an exciting conclusion to a hectic
to be able to share this work with
solo is poetic. It goes out with a
bang and ends on a happy note,
so its a great way to start the
summer!

The restrained Passion of Kindred

Sara Chojnacki
Special to the Collegian
According to Michael Angelakos, the man behind indietronica giant Passion Pit, no
one wants you to be successful
in this world. If you know anything about Angelakos private
life, which was rendered public
by 2012s successful Gossamer and a tell-all interview with
Pitchfork Magazine, then this
cynical comment wont surprise
you. Angelakos suffers from
bipolar disorder, and the mornPitchfork decided to jump off the
Brooklyn Bridge so he could go
out on a high note. But in light
of Passion Pits newly released
album, Kindred, its harder to
believe that Angelakos still really
means it.
track of Kindred, is a celebration dedicated to Angelakos
wife, Kristy Mucci, for helping him through the darkness of
his mental illness. Gossamer
revealed a guilt-ridden and directionless Angelakos buried
beneath cheery pop melodies.

Kindred, in a mere 38 minutes,

covers the three years he spent
trading guilt for gratitude.
Angelakos has said that the
honesty of Gossamer helped
him confront his demons, but in
Whole Life Story, he exposes
the other side of the coin, apologizing for the spotlight he put on
his wife when he shed light on
his own issues. Ultimately, he
urges her to accept the limelight:
Weve got nothing to hide / Just
give it some more time.
Sonically, Kindred is calmer and less frenzied than previous Passion Pit albums. All of
the hand claps, snaps, galactic
electronic starbursts, and bright
tones are readily available for the
bands veterans to enjoy, but these
are markedly subdued. Dancing
on the Graves is the biggest departure from Passion Pits previous canon of jingly dance jams.
It sounds like an intro that lasts
the length of a song, which may
disappoint some fans who listen
for all the bells and whistles of an
electronic parade. Its the closest
thing to acoustic that you could
ask of a Passion Pit track, with
Angelakos vocals taking center
stage, accompanied by a softened
synth and light keyboard. Across

the entire album, Angelakos

voice does more of the heavy lifting to give us the ear candy that
Passion Pits electric light show
usually provides.
This is especially true of
Looks Like Rain, a melancholy prayer that features a trilling falsetto rather than a clamour
of synth. The instrumental interludes sound like a Passion
Pit song played in reverse, reminding us of earlier albums
but staying consistent with the
theme of progress. The lyrics describe Angelakos wish that the
clouds of his mental instability
would disperse forever. Theres
a kind of acceptance that, even
not always be as bright as the
song would suggest. The theme
of salvation appears again in
My Brother Taught Me How to
Swim, which presents us with a
washed away all my sins. Here
he struggles with the concept of

track on the album; thematically

it resolves the nine previous
songs, but its heavy-handed treatment of Angelakos voice is unlike anything else on the record.
In it, he resolves to continue
making music, but causes us to
question the direction in which
Passion Pits next work will go.
Kindred is an album which
rewards us on each repeated listen, and, like its title suggests,
develops a warm familiarity and
intimacy. Although the album
takes a more somber approach to
Passion Pits classically euphoric and airy sound, morsels like
Until We Cant (Lets Go) and
Five Foot Ten (I) deliver the
shimmering dance tracks that we
want from Passion Pit. Kindred
has much of the sweetness of past
albums, but with less danger of
giving its listener a sugar rush.
Sara Chojnacki is a senior
studying English and French
from East Troy, Wisconsin.

love saved has him, but afraid to

give away the love he has tried
for so long to accept.
The severely auto-tuned Ten
Feet Tall (II) is the most suspect

Choir sings for peace Sunday

Shane Armstrong
Senior Reporter
The Hillsdale College Concert Choir and Chamber Choir
will perform their spring concert
at College Baptist Church at 3
p.m. Sunday. It will be the choirs
second concert of the year, which
will display the talents of singers
with all different levels of experience.
The concerts centerpiece will
be Karl Jenkins The Armed
Man: Mass For Peace, which
will be performed with the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra.
Senior choir members will be
honored with an introduction and
will receive a rose. The seniors

opening stanza before being

joined by the rest of the choir.
The Concert Choir is made up
of over 100 students while the
Chamber Choir is composed of
29 members.
It is cool when we have over
100 members in the choir, because there are a lot of professors and other students that are
in class with members and come
show their support, said James
Holleman, chair of the music department.
The concert will be open to
the public and free for everyone
in the community. Because there
will be only one performance,
reservations are not required.
The concert will be a good
opportunity to see what choir
students have been working on
during the semester.
For me, choir is a great place

to let all of the stresses of your

just focus on music, freshman
Madeline Conover said. I love
getting to perform challenging
pieces with wonderful people.
In total the concert will consist of seven pieces, and will be
something that faculty, students,
and community members can all
enjoy together.
My favorite part about choir
is being able to be part of something that makes something so
beautiful. Choir has provided me
with an outlet to be creative and it
is a good way to free your mind,
freshman Elizabeth Turner said.
For the seniors in the concert
it will be the last chance to share
their musical talent with the student body and the community as
a whole. For the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors it will be an

opportunity to show everyone

the hard work that has been put
in by the group during the year
and leave for the summer with a
job well done.
Being in the choir has been a
great experience. Its a good time
plan on being a member in the
future, Conover said.
The walls of College Baptist
Church will reverberate with the
best voices Hillsdale College has
to offer Sunday.

Big Band bringing it this weekend

Jo Kroeker
Collegian Freelancer

Hillsdales Big Band will

perform their spring concert this
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Teacher of Music Chris McCourry, the band director, is bringing
in guest saxophonist Chris Vadala, who currently is the Director
of Jazz Studies and a saxophone
professor at the University of
Maryland.
The concert will feature pieces from last semester, this semester, and even some that McCourry was not initially sure the band
could handle.
This is the best the band has
been in the four years Ive been
playing with it, senior double
bassist Joseph Banovetz said.
Many of the jazz concerts feature guest artists, and this one is
no exception. Vadala performed
with the internationally recog-

nized Chuck Mangione Quartet

and has recorded or played with
jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald,
Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Ray Charles.
I like to bring in guys who are
the students can see what the real
deal is like, McCourry said.
McCourry explained his excitement for Vadalas acceptance
to solo with the big band.
I played to death with his
CDs. I dreamed about doing solos with Chris Vadala. Now its
going to happen, McCourry
said. He was like a rockstar to
us.
McCourry is not the only
musician thrilled to play with
Vadala.
I am very excited to play
with him. Hes kind of a big
deal, said sophomore trumpet
player Luke Zahari.
I can say without a doubt that
he is a saxophone juggernaut. I
can tell that hes going to wow
the audience, Banovetz said.

Vadala will solo on the last

band will play: Take The A
Train, A Night in Tunisia,
Quintessence, Children Of
Sanchez, and Down By the
Riverside.
The concert will mix classics standards like Take the A
Train and Corner Pocket with
contemporary standards like
Blues and the Abstract Truth
and Down by the Riverside.
They like playing the hard
stuff, McCourry said. Were
doing a couple of Oliver Nelson
charts. They go this is so cool,
this is so cool. Once they start to
learn the contemporary language,
they get really excited.
Im looking forward to
Blues and the Abstract Truth
by Oliver Nelson and Corner
Pocket a la Count Basie, said
Zahari, who will solo in Corner
Pocket.
The old folks will enjoy
The Best is Yet to Come and
Stompin at the Savoy, Mc-

Courry said. Banovetz is looking

forward to Stompin at the Savoy as well.
Im playing a bass feature;
its basically just a chance for me
to show off, Banovetz said.
The eclectic set will highlight
big band jazz through the 20th
century, and introduce the audience to a wide variety of sounds
and styles. Because of this, there
will be something for everyone
to enjoy.
As long as theres a strong
reaction, love or hate, Im good,
said McCourry.
With the big bands enthusiasm high, and the presence of renowned saxophonist Vadala, this
years spring concert promises
a night of great tunes and great
energy.

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Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter

The future plans in the works,

such as the chapel, dorm renovations, and new outdoor tennis
courts, are only a portion of the
administrations plans for the future of Hillsdales campus.
The master plan, which includes all the projects the college
hopes to eventually accomplish,
includes renovations from the
Knorr Student Center to near the
Sports Complex. While these
projects remain only ideas still,
having not been fully architecturally mapped and designed and
require funds not currently in
possession, Chief Administrative
transform campus.
It provides an idea of what
might ultimately happen and it
gives us something that can be
dale College is a lifelong commitment. Students and alumni
are always to be of service to
the college, and the college is always there to help them and be

a service to them. These buildings are a part of that. What we

build affects the functioning and
excellence of the campus, and
its also crucial to the functioning and excellence of its outreach
programs.
The school plans to give
Knorr a $5-million renovation.
Well have a colonnade or
something like a colonnade that
would blend it in with the outIn addition to the buildings
aesthetics, the outside space of
place will provide use of the
outdoor area for all four seasons,
tios will be extended to create
space behind Knorr and before
the quad.
There is the intention of
beautifying the exterior and also
rendering that area into giving
it porch-like elements that create comfortable and appealing
spaces that allow students to sit,
David Whalen said. The students do a good job of squeezing

high-tech classrooms providing

the capabilities for students to
participate in events or classes
taking place at the Kirby Center
in Washington, D.C., classrooms
and seminar rooms for marketing presentations and graduate
classes, and room for the new
radio station and program that
launches in July.
Additionally, the college
hopes to increase its $4.5 million
from 340 ft. to 800 ft. Central
Hall is scheduled to be renovated
with a backside addition so as to
be accessible from all sides.
This proposed project brings
everything together Searle din-

Conceptual design for the entryway of the Knorr Student Center.

(Courtesy of Richard Pewe)

as much use of the outdoors as

they can. It might be nice to have
extended semi-covered porch arBoth the inside and outside of
Knorr will be renovated.
presentable, but its still in a
place thats not on the reading,

The space will hopefully allow for networking and closer

communication between students
and college visitors.
Well be more visible, Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray said. The
opportunity to interact with stu-

dents will increase just because

they see you. Theres going to
Searle Center. Itll help create a
space for all the people that come
to campus that they have a space
to do business, and the students
there, so natural relationships can
form.

expansion, Knorr, Dow into

said. Thats the goal: they had
a planned, everything looks like
it was placed in the right spot.
Theres a harmony. We try to
make our architecture beautiful
that represents what we were and
are.

WHIP gives tours

Vivian Hughbanks
Collegian Reporter
WASHINGTON ---- Walking down a subterranean corafternoon, Senator Tom Cot-

away in the basements endless

brick walls.
Thats just his temporary ofiel Sunne told me. The 114th
Congress is still in the process

Natalie Stovall and the Drive and Chris Lane will headline for Centralhallapalooza this Saturday.
(Photos Courtesy of Natalie Stovall and Chris Lane)

many freshman members are in

A Drive down country Lane

Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
All his life he was an athlete.
Even in college, Chris Lane was
a baseball player. It wasnt until
knee surgeries hindered him from
professional play that Lane decided to learn guitar. In the next
few years, he transformed from
an athlete whod never sung in
front of a crowd to a professional
country singer.
I went from playing baseball
in a stadium to playing music in
a stadium, Lane said. Its not
something I ever dreamed about
doing as a child.
with brotherly competition rather
than music and guitars.
We always had competitionswho could score the
most touchdowns, or who could
hit the most homeruns. There
was always something we were
competing over, either sports or
girls, Lane said.
Lane said some have claimed
that he always strives to be the
center of attention, but he believes thats simply a result of the
competition. He and his identical
twin brother now perform together, often confusing the audience
by their looks. Chris sings and his
brother plays the drums.
We still give each other a
hard time. If I mess up the vocals,
he gives me a hard time. If he
messes up the drums, I give him
a hard time, Lane said.
Lanes interest in country performing was originally piqued by
country star Keith Urban.
The only reason I wanted to
learn how to play guitar was because Im a huge Keith Urban
fan. I covered a lot of his songs

Small majorS
From B4
ness. To Blum, this wide variety
proves sociologys value. Students ask me, what am I gonna
do with a sociology major? and
my answer is anything you
want, he said. Thats what
were supposed to be doing as a
liberal arts college.
The department of philosophy and religion, whose constituent majors count small

inspired me the most to want

to play and sing, and Im very
thankful for that Lane said.
Lane and his brother formed
a band with some more experi-

Theres nothing
like having people
sing the lyrics of
your song back
to you. Its such a
good feeling.
enced performers. Despite the
novelty of the band, they began
attracting crowds.
Once people started coming
out to shows, I just decided to try
to write my own music. I had to
songs were pretty average, but I
guess people liked them and Im
grateful for that. I just put out a
record of all self-done stuffno
promotionand it became popular that way, Lane said.
One of his favorite memories
Nashville, Tennessee playing on
the same stage as many of his favorite artists.
However, he said an even
greater thrill was his decision to
pursuing music.
Music is my greatest achievement because it kind of came out

songs to cover is called Let Me

Love You.
I love singing that and people
love to sing along. I love the connection that you can make with
the crowd, and the way a song
can make you feel. Being on
stage is my favorite part of the
whole process, Lane said. Im
looking forward to playing for a
college crowd. College students
always seem to be the most wild,
they seem to have the most fun.
With energetic blonde hair, a
personable southern accent, and a
natural charisma, Natalie Stovall
was born to perform on stage.
Ever since she was four and her
grandmother saw an advertisement in the newspaper for violin
lessons, the stage has enticed her.
I was kind of a ham and the
was always my least favorite, and
if I was giving my mom a hard
time about it, she would take me
to the park. She knew if I could
draw a crowd, I could play all
day, Stovall said.
was as a child performer in the
Opryland Kids Club. In college,
she formed a band and toured
Nashville during the summers.
After graduating from Berkley
College of Music with a major
in vocal performance, Stovall
and her drummer reformed the
band and expanded their performances.
They often perform for the

be doing sports for a really long

time, and I didnt overcome that
fact until college, Lane said.
Now, he loves performing
more than he would ever have
imagined. One of his favorite

for the navy troops there, marking a highlight. Even more remarkable was her experience
with George W. Bush.
I was invited to sing for the
president at the White House, and

separately (in 2014: six for philosophy, six for philosophy and
religion, and 3 for religion; in
2015: 5 religion, 2 philosophy
and religion, and 7 for philosophy) but are under the same department, has experiences similar to other small majors.
Like physics and sociology,
few students come to Hillsdale
-

jors get hooked from the Intro-

Grewcock Chair Tom Burke

said. In fact, hardly anybody
does. So few kids have any real
philosophy class before they
come here. Most eventual ma-

Also like physics and sociology,

philosophy and religion department majors are well-equipped
for post-graduate life. This year,
three philosophy graduates have
been accepted into philosophy
post-graduate programs (with
one accepted to programs in
philosophy and theology). Other
students with the major go on to
do all sorts of things: business,
teaching, graduate school, law
school, ministry, mission work
quite a variety, Burke said.
In a sense, its like any other

female to be invited to the correspondence dinner, Stovall said.

Looking back, Stovall said
that her greatest achievement was
pursuing her musical dreams.
Its not an easy road, and
there have been a lot of set-backs.
But I still believe I was born to
do this and I know this is what I
was meant to do. Im not going
to give up on that, Stovall said.
Senior Alex Fogt watched her
I think my favorite part about
seeing her perform was during
ing a pair of beads in the front
row and came over to where I
was. She leaned down close, took
a picture with me, grabbed my
beads, and wore them for her entire show. That is the moment I
became a huge fan of her as one
of the newest talents in country
music, Fogt said in an email.
Some of her favorite songs include the crowd pleasers Devil
Went Down to Georgia and
Baby Come On With It, as well
as a new song called We Are.
Theres nothing like having
people sing the lyrics of your
song back to you. Its such a good
feeling, Stovall said. She hopes
to linger after the show to meet
students.
Since Natalie is still up and
coming as an artist, she is super
personable with all of her fans.
She is also extremely talented
these days among artist Her motwhich are obvious in each of the
shows I have seen her perform,
Fogt said.

major. You can do anything you

want with it. Its not training for
a job, its a liberal arts degree.
What the major is is not
necessarily indicative of what
theyll do in their career.
Despite their relative size on
campus, these and other minor
majors have impacted both campus and the lives of their holders
in major ways. Above all, they
prove yearly that theres more to
academic life at Hillsdale than
majoring in English or economics.
Not that theres anything
wrong with that.

courage and chivalry, as best I

understand them, to a 10-yeartors from the visitors center,
we stopped in the old Supreme
Court chamber where the highest court in the land met until
1860, when it was moved upstairs to the original chamber
for the Senate.
My favorite spot was the
Old Senate Chamber because
so many of the great compromises happened there, reSwanson 14, who interned in
during the spring of 2013. It
harkens back to a time where
Senators actually listened on

Sunne is an intern in the ofthe Washington Hillsdale Inconstituent tours of the Capitol
regularly, sometimes more than
one in a day.
On this unusually warm
Thursday, we took the stairs
building where members of
congress are often interviewed
on camera. Several camera
crews set up, as the coffered
rotunda dome glowed in the
spring light.
interns on the hill this semester.
Senior Bri Hearn works in the
Senate Committee on Health,
sions, and sophomore Emily
CA).
I usually give one to two
tours per week depending on
the season so I have lots of
chances to try out different
facts and gauge constituents
Hill is far from rare, but they
arent often receiving a tour.
Earlier in the semester, Barbara Grassley, Sen. Grassleys
wife, scheduled a tour through
of her coworkers, and tagged
along for Sunnes tour.
She knows a lot of pieces
of capitol history, Sunne said.
And she also got us through
security and into the Members
Gallery to watch the Senate.
We hopped on the miniature subway that connects the
buildings and the Capitol and
cleared security before entering the Capitol Visitors Center.
A tour of the nations Capitol is an essential element of
any visit to Washington, D.C.
For interns on the hill, providing the tours is a memorable
siah Kollmeyer 14 particularly
enjoyed hosting his own family for a tour when they visited
Washington among the many
other tours he led while internMI).
I was giving a family a tour,
and we stopped for a fairly long
conversation by the plaque listing the passengers of Flight 93
siah Kollmeyer 14. I wound
up explaining the meanings of

any area on our tour of the Capitol is the Brumidi Corridors in

the Senate wing. Built in the
1850s, the vaulted hallways
are covered in murals depicting
symbols of Americas heritage,
designed by Italian painter
Constantino Brumidi.
Its off the beaten path, so
the hallways arent as crowded
and its just as beautiful and
stately as any other part of the
Capitol, Sunne explained.
Its also used more by Congress than the other areas of the
tour.
The building is packed with
paintings, murals, and friezes
The National Statuary hall is
home to just some of the Capitols statue collection, which
includes two historymakers
from each of the 50 states.
One of my favorite parts of
the tour is the painting by John
Trumbull in the Capitols main
The painting depicts Washington handing over the resignation of his commission to the
Maryland state legislature, representing civil rather than milinecessary to start a republic.
Our tour visited the chamresentatives before returning to
Before taking a group for a
tour, interns study the history
of Congress and architecture of
the Capitol in order to lead the
tour and answer any questions.
It took me a little over a
week to learn the basics about
the statues, architecture, and
rooms of the Capitol, Dediscussing obscure Supreme
Court cases or bringing in a fun
factoid about a major American
adding onto the material I use
for my Capitol tours.
Swanson uses this experience regularly as part of his job
as Executive Director of the
My time on the hill taught
me to value the quality of your
interaction with someone,
Swanson said. If you treat a
constituent with respect, they
will almost always listen to
what you have to say. That kind
of respect wasnt always prevalent in DC.

B4 23 April 2015

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Q&A with alumna Caroline Potter, the paleo queen

Caroline Potter 12, ne Cheatum, is a Nutritional Therapy

Practitioner living in Hawaii.
Her upcoming cookbook AllAmerican Paleo Table, where
she presents healthy, grain- gluten- and sugar-free twists on
classic American dishes, is available for pre-order on Amazon.
How did your time at Hillsdale
lead to your nutrition and culinary work?
While in my junior year of
college, I was diagnosed with
an auto-immune disease, Type 1
diabetes. After college, I decided
to pursue a career in nutrition so
that I could better understand my
disease, but at the same time help
others towards a healthier lifestyle. I always knew I wanted to
own my own business eventually
in life but didnt know that moment would come to me at the
age of 23. When I married my

husband, who currently serves in

the United States Navy shortly,
after graduation I realized that I
would be moving a lot and wanted to create a business that was
much work anywhere I have access to a kitchen and my computWhat was the process of putting a cookbook together like?
More work than you can ever
even imagine. Basically the past
three months have been like taktime in my life. Once you get past
the initial stages of developing a
book proposal, getting signed
on by a publisher and creating a
great idea, you have to test recipes and re-test and re-test. I was
usually on my feet for about 16
plus hours a day, and lets just say
there are lots of dishes! Because
this is a paleo-friendly cookbook

and all recipes are grain, gluten

dients are much different than
your average ingredients and it
a recipe. I also wanted a broad
range of recipes so that people
with all health issues and allergies can still enjoy each recipe.
There is also the photography
part, which is super fun for me,
but also a lot of work.
What inspired this cookbook?
I started the idea of a cookbook
writing down random thoughts
when my husband was deployed
almost two years ago. I realized
that all my favorite foods were associated with memoriesmemories of weekends making breakfast together, backyard summer
barbecues, or Christmas morning cinnamon rolls. I wanted to
create a cookbook that for those
of use who eat grain, gluten and

these memories we hold dear and

the foods associated with them.
The cookbook really is more
than just recipes, its about coming together around the table, enjoying life and good food. It will
bring back childhood memories
and the comfort foods you love
back to your table simply made a
whole lot healthier.
What are you working on now?
I am still in the editing process
of my cookbook so very busy
with that, but looking to get back
into using my nutritional training and doing more personalized
consulting. I also have a few
secret projects in the works and
notebooks full of ideas as usual.
There is so much I want to do in
life, I wish I had more time in the
day and didnt need any sleep.
Q&A compiled by Micah
Meadowcrotf, Arts Editor

Alumna Caroline Potters 12 new cook book All- American Paleo Table is available for pre-order on Amazon.
(Photo Courtesy of Caroline Potter)

Pursuing truth in the smaller academic corners of campus

Jack Butler
Opinions Editor
When the class of 2015 graduates on May 9, the assembled
spectators will hear certain majors spoken aloud dozens of
times. Last year, 35 students
majored in English, 33 majored
in economics, 29 in history, and
22 in marketing management,
according to the 2014 Graduate
Placement Report.
But every once in a while,
those who pursue truth in the
smallest majors offered on campus will sneak in between piles of
economics and English majors.
Since 2010, this has meant majors such as computational math
(four total graduates), Greek
(eight), philosophy and religion
(six), religion (13), and physics
(15). And in that time, only one
person has graduated with a European Studies degree.
In addition to physics, philosophy and religion, and religion,
sport psychology and sociology
are also in a relative minority on
campus. So what is life like this
for students in these minor majors? Why did they choose their
their future hold? Despite studying in areas somewhat neglected
here, these students are largely
content with their majors.
Perhaps the smallest major on
campus is also one of the newest: sport psychology, which
graduated one student last year
and will graduate another this
year. According to Sports Studies Professor and Head Womens
Swim Coach Kurt Kirner, sport
psychology mostly consists of
psychology classes taken up the
hill, the sports studies core, and
just one sport psychology course
to unify the major. Its a brand
new major. Its also a hybrid major, Kirner said.
Yet other mainstays of campus have remained consistently
small, such as physics. Therell
never be many people at Hillsdale majoring in physics, said
senior physics major Amy Kerst.

Kerst, whose major graduated

four students last year and will
graduate three this year, is aware
of the size of the major in her academic life.
-

You basically know

everybody in the
major and you also
know the professors
very well.
ly because you basically know
everybody in the major, and you
also know the professors very
well.
Despite, or perhaps because
of, this, physics majors often succeed: All of last years graduates
were accepted into and had to
choose from multiple physics-,
engineering- and science-based
PhD programs at elite universities. Kerst attributed this to the
majors career focus.
Professors here are good
at encouraging students to get
summer internships at other universities because we dont have
the labs or resources that grad
schools want, she said. That
looks good on paper.
The sociology major, which
will graduate three students this
year (a bit low; 4-6 is more typical), is also not on the radar of
most incoming Hillsdalians. A
lot of people come here with other priorities, Professor of Philosophy and Culture Peter Blum
said. We dont have people coming here to major in sociology.
Senior sociology and religion
double major Hannah Wiekart
agreed. I dont know anybody
whos come to Hillsdale for a sociology major.
The faculty size only Blum
and two part-time lecturers teach
sociology courses also limits offerings, as does pre-existing
prejudices against sociology that

hold it somehow practically defective, or politically defective.

Theres the prejudice that sociology is overwhelmingly politically left-leaning, Blum said.
But that hasnt always been the
case.
Wiekart has noticed similar
campus attitudes. Sometimes
you do get comments. People talk
down on it as a major, she said.
At Hillsdale, you have the main
majors, and the little ones get neglected.

Below are the numbers of students who

have graduated since 2010 with some of
Hillsdales smallest available majors.

We attract some students who

15

some who take the core class, and

some as non-majors attracted by
class titles and subjects.
The last of these was the case
her religion major early, entered
into sociology with classes that
intrigued her. Now, shes glad she
added the major.
It challenges the way we
think about everyday interactions, she said. Youre not just
understanding human nature
philosophically, but trying to understand it practically.
Like for physics, those associated with sociology accept pros
and cons to the small major size.
Its both an advantage and a
disadvantage, Blum said. Students dont have quite as many
people to discuss with, but its
advantage not to have as many
to deal with. Wiekart echoed
Blums assessment. You do you
really get to know the professors, she said.
Like physics, sociology still
manages to prepare students well
for life after Hillsdale, though
with less of a direct career focus. Sociology majors have gone
onto grad school, social work,
cluding enforcement: one major
works at a police department in
Washington, D.C. tracking serial killers), law school, and busi-

See Small Majors, B3

4
6
8

13

Computational Math

Greek

13
15

Religion
Physics

Philosophy and Religion

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