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Vol. 137, Issue 22 - 3 April 2014

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Benjamins conquers Latin conference

Abi Wood Arts Editor Junior Joshua Benjamins is moving up in the Latin world. Not only did he take second place in the national translation contests last year in advanced Latin, but this past weekend he joined about 50 other students at a spoken Latin conference in Ann Arbor. No more than five of those students were undergraduates most were professors. The conference hosted Papal Secretary of Latin, Monseigneur Daniel Gallagher, former Papal Secretary of Latin, Father Reginald Foster, and Professor of Lat- Seniors Evan Gage (left) and Emily Goodling (right) were awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and the DAAD, respectively. Gage will spend a year teaching in Turkey while Goodling attends school in Germany. (Photos courtesy of Evan Gage and Rachel in Jason Pedicone. I felt very fortunate to be with these men over the weekend, Benjamins said. Father Fosters pedagogical approach to Latin is inspiring. He is a genius. He doesnt simplify the text at all for beginning students, but rather Caleb Whitmer Evan Brune gets them to read actual Latin Editor-in-Chief News Editor from the beginning. Benjamins isnt exactly a beIn four years at Hillsdale, Senior Emily Goodling went from Senior Evan Gage will travel to Turkey at the end of summer. ginning student. While he came to barely speaking German to receiving the DAAD scholarship. There, he will teach English language and literature, as well as Hillsdale with only four months Its the equivalent of the Fulbright in Germany, Assistant ProUnited States culture. of self-taught Latin under his belt, fessor of German Fred Yaniga said. The 10-month-long exchange program will be funded by the he is now one of the more profiDAAD stands for Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst, or J. William Fulbright Student Award one of the most prestigious cient students in the department. German Academic Exchange Service. awards an undergraduate can receive. You dont see students like It is the most prestigious scholarship in international studies, I think about the men and the women who have taught me at Josh every day, Associate ProProfessor of German Eberhard Geyer said. Im not surprised she Hillsdale and the type of people they are, Gage said. I hope that fessor of Classical Studies Jogot it. I feel that she is among the best students I have ever had in I can emulate that and create a little sense a small spirit of that seph Garnjobst said. He is truly my 34 years of undergraduate teaching. We are very proud of her, at whatever odd Turkish university I find myself at. unique. This is actually the first and the entire school should be proud of her. Gage, a double major in English and History with a religion term that Ive had him in the Goodling, a double major in classics and German, said she felt minor, is a member of the Honors Program. He heard back from class, but Ive obviously known both disbelief and elation when she was notified of the news. Fulbright on Monday, within a half hour of turning in his senior of him and worked with him on These kinds of things are such a shot in the dark, she said. You thesis on Julian of Norwichs Revelations of Divine Love. other projects. hear that people sometimes get these things, but I never thought that The Honors Programs trip to Turkey last summer cultivated Garnjobst added that, in actuitd be me. Its the chance of a lifetime. his interest in the country. ality, a large number of Hillsdale The DAAD will allow Goodling to study at the graduate level at While there, he connected with managers of a Turkish conserstudents, in departments across a university of her choice in Germany. The scholarship provides for vative political magazine. Depending on where Fulbright places campus, not just classics, are high a living stipend, insurance coverage, and travel expenses. Tuition him, he may assist scholars with translating the writings of Rusachievers. Benjamins is a Latin isnt necessary, as all higher education in Germany is free. sell Kirk and Edmund Burke into Turkish in addition to his teachand history double major. GarIn America, were like, We want to be independent! Gooding. njobst said there are a couple of ling said. In Germany, everythings from the government. Gage said his reason for choosing Turkey, of all places, is twostudents who are double majoring The living stipend for last years scholarship was 750 euros a pronged: he loves the Turkish people and he sees cultural simiin the classics department inmonth. According to Goodling, that number changes, depending on larities and differences between Americans and the Turks that he cluding junior Andrew Koperski the location. wants to explore and better understand. and senior Emily Goodling Basically, they give me a lot of money, Goodling said. Its not He is interested particularly in exploring Turkeys brand of and he thinks that cooperation belike Im going to be a millionaire, but its a lot. They really want to civic religion and in comparing it to the United States. tween departments is important. make sure you can afford living there. Seeing a different culture do the things your culture does in We do our best work when Goodling said she plans to study comparative literature. order to propagate a certain identity is fascinating, Gage said. It we work together, he said. Literature without walls is how Ive heard it described, she makes you really stop and consider your own cultural identity. Garnjobst added that opportusaid. Its trans-cultural, trans-historical studies and its across difBut his interest in Fulbright? That began with Annie Dillard. nities like the recent Latin conferferent kinds of media. Im planning on getting a degree, but I dont During last summers trip to Turkey, Gage got lost in the city ence give students the chance to want to get too specialized yet. I just want to read everything. of Antayla. He wandered into a bookstore. The stores owner, a invest in pre-professional devel-

More students allowed off campus

Morgan Delp Sports Editor Due to renovations in Simpson Residence that will turn rooms into new common space, the deans have allowed more rising junior men off campus for the 201415 school year than the originally reported 51. This has helped to slightly relieve the pinch many men have experienced as a result of the administrations decision to return Niedfeldt Residence back to a male dorm and the disproportionate number of women in the class of 2016. However, the Simpson renovations have not alleviated all issues, which Dean of Men Aaron Petersen said inevitably arise every year. A rare situation occurred when last year, as a rising sophomore Joe Srebernak was granted permission to live off campus. Srebernak decided to stay on campus and live in the Park Place apartments. When he and two other rising juniors decided to make offcampus housing arrangements for the upcoming school year, Srebernak thought there would be no issue. But none of the three men were granted off-campus permission for next school year, so they had to void their lease with landlord Carolyn Scholfield. Some students are truly looking for that savings and a little bit of freedom and theyre not being allowed that, Scholfield said. Scholfields father-in-law, Rodney Scholfield, has been renting a home on Oak Street to college students for six years. Her father, Frank Hinton, has rented a home nearby for two years, but had to void a contract with some male students for next year as well. This is Carolyn Scholfields first year trying to rent her family home of 14 years to students. She and her husband are in the process of building a new house for her family. As new landlords, weve never been involved in the process, but for our first time, its discouraging, Scholfield said. We are counting on the revenue. Other area landlords have

Gage and Goodling win Fulbright, DAAD

Fulbright scholar Evan Gage DAAD scholar Emily Goodling

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Physics seniors accepted to top schools

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Toward the end of his senior year of high school, senior Viktor Rozsa wandered into the Washington and Lee University library during one of his breaks at a scholarship competition. Sitting at one of the tables, one of his competitors, senior Dominic DiGiovanni, had his nose in Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics. Rozsa recognized the material, as he also needed to finish some Aristotle reading. Dom, by any chance are you participating at Hillsdales scholarship weekend next week? Four years later, the two have nearly completed their time at Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Science in physics. They are two of four seniors graduating from the program this May. To date, Rozsa is choosing between seven doctoral programs to attend next year. Hillsdale was not an obvious choice for studying physics, Rozsa said. But I came here to study physics in the Hillsdale ac-

Seniors Alex Kane, Viktor Rozsa, and Iakov Boyko are three of the four senior physics majors who have been accepated to prestigious graduate programs. Senior Dominic DiGiovanni is not pictured. (Caleb Whitmer/Collegian) ademic environment, not just for physics. Senior Iakov Boyko, another graduating physics major, weighed the risk of attending Hillsdale if he was serious about continuing physics into graduate school. Originally, the colleges free-market reputation and status as the home of the Ludwig von Mises library convinced Boyko to attend the college. Despite his
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interest in economics, Boyko decided to focus on a major in physics. Coming to Hillsdale I knew I was taking a gamble, Boyko said. I knew what was

needed to continue in physics, like research experience. In retrospect, I think the gamble paid off. I would have said that even if I didnt get into graduate school. Boyko spent this past sumAttorney says not to sell BPU

mer researching at the University of Minnesota where he learned about the University of Chicagos new engineering program. Boyko returned to Hillsdale and told his classmates that the University of Chicago was accepting applications for its first engineering program. Rozsa and Boyko applied to the University of Chicagos Institute of Molecular Engineering in the fall semester. Both have been accepted. Senior Alex Kane was concerned that his resume without summer research experience would negatively affect his graduate school application results. But Kanes skepticism was countered by seven offers to doctoral programs, one of which was his top pick, University of California-Davis. He plans to fly back home this upcoming fall to study in the material science and engineering program. All four men agreed that the small class sizes and long lab hours created unexpected friendships and camaraderie among

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Q&A Marji Ross, president of Regnery Publishing, talks about family and career. A2 YAF pushes Saga reform Young Americans for Freedom meets to push for change in the college meal plan. A2
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Marji Ross, president of Regnery Publishing, visited Hillsdale last week and gave a lecture on How to Write a Bestseller. Ross graduated from Dartmouth College, and earned her masters in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C. Regnery hired Ross in 1999. Since then, Regnery consistently lands 25 to 30 percent of its books on The New York Times Best Seller List each year. Ross was nominated Woman of the Year by the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute in 2005 and has since served on its board. She also serves on the board of Beth Chai, the synagogue she attends with her husband and three daughters. Compiled by Morgan Sweeney. What made you eventually become aware of your conservative political leanings? I started being aware that I was politically conservative when I started working in journalism, both because I noticed the liberal bias of a lot of the media people that I was working with, but also, I became very interested in business journalism, and thats one of the few places where you find conservative reporters and editors in mainstream journalism. I was really attracted to that it

Q & A: Marji Ross

made sense to me. It resonated with my own values and my familys values, and so I kind of came through the conservative door through the economic and financial conservative avenue. Your first job out of college was for a woman who owned a business in a male-dominated industry. What was that like? She did public relations for construction and builders and real estate companies. All of her clients were companies run by men. I learned a lot of things from her, one of which was how to be a peer and an equal as a woman with men in a business world without losing your femininity. I have seen women decide that the only way they could be successful in business was to be a man. She didnt do that at all, and she was very successful. Her clients listened to her and took her very seriously, and yet, she was gracious and approached things from a unique point of view that most men would not have approached from. She was not afraid to be helpful in what is easy to misconstrue as a subservient or service kind of position, but in fact, she was making herself indispensable to those businesses, and they relied on her for very high-level advice. You were very successful at a number of places. What do you think set you apart from your coworkers? I was often just the hardest working person in the building. It wasnt that I was smarter or better or more skilled, I had just decided that I was going to be the hardest working person there. So I would just be as productive as I possibly could. If somebody said, Well, most editors handle two newsletters, I would say, Well, I can do three. If I could be writing special reports and editing a newsletter and ghostwriting a book on the side, great. I could do it all. It was great experience. How do you maintain the balance between family life and a demanding job? My approach to that is to combine everything. I dont believe in trying to divide your work and your family. Maybe some people are good at that. I am not good at that. For me, my solution has been to include my family in everything I do .... We talk about politics, we talk about issues, we talk about the news, we go into bookstores. My daughters, since they could read, will go into a bookstore, look for a Regnery book, put it up on the shelf, stand it up, move the other competition below its a fun game.

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Marji Ross, president of Regnery Publishing spoke last week on the topic of How to Write a Best Seller.
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Senior speaks at political conference

Morgan Sweeney Assistant Editor Senior Abigail Schultz traveled to Las Vegas last weekend to deliver a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership conference. Schultz volunteered one year ago at the same leadership seminar before interning with the grassroots organization, founded in 1985, this past summer at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. I love the work that they do. It hits close to home, obviously, being a conservative and a Jew, Schultz said. They asked me to write a speech this summer, and they were thinking about using it. Then, at the beginning of this year, they asked me if I would give the speech and attend Vegas and help there over the weekend. Schultz gave her speech with another student who interned at the Coalitions California office last summer. They shared what the Coalition means to them, as well as their ideas about how to get their generation involved in the RJCs mission: connecting Republican leadership with the Jewish community and vice versa. I think its really hard to be Jewish, and I think its really hard to be a conservative and a Republican, especially in times like this when its the cooler thing to be liberal, Schultz said. I think having RJC and making it readily accessible for younger people is exactly the step that they need. Many big names in politics spoke at the conference, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Missouri Rep. Billy Long served as the MC for Saturday nights events. Long introduced Schultz and Zobel. When they finished their speech, they introduced Sheldon Adelson, the top donor of the 45,000-member RJC, and the eighth richest man in the world. Hes a Republican Jew, and hes just so passionate about the cause, so that was very exciting that we got to introduce him and shake his hand and present him on stage, Schultz said. Thats something I will never forget.

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Arnn, judge discuss law

And they feel part of what I do. They feel really proud of me and what I do, and they feel proud of themselves for understanding something, especially when they were young, for having a little part in the adult world. What did you enjoy most about college, and do you have any advice for Hillsdale students about how to make the best of their four years here? I think its really important not to be one-dimensional, if you can. And, even if you absolutely love your classes and your major and all of the things youre taking, its really important to have something else that youre passionate about that you do in your spare time, even if its just so that you can appreciate the difference between your schoolwork and something else. At Hillsdale, you have a unique environment anyway because the curriculum is so terrific and meaningful. You can truly enjoy the classwork as well as all of the other extracurricular activities that are available to you. If you had to describe your successes to someone else in a sentence or two, what would you say? Im proud of my daughters. Im proud of the books weve published.

Academy scores on ACT YAF PUSHES SAGA REFORM

Phil DeVoe Collegian Reporter Hillsdale Academys total ACT average this year was 29.1, more than eight points higher than the national average and more than nine points higher than the Michigan high school average. Students at the academy have been admitted to schools such as Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University, and the University of Notre Dame, in addition to Hillsdale College and the University of Michigan. Our upper school students take four years of the sciences, mathematics, Latin, history, and literature, Academy Headmaster Ken Calvert said. These classes are nonnegotiable, so that we can be sure that every student graduates with a solid foundation of knowledge. Deanna Ducher is the college counselor at the academy and teaches upper-level civics and economics in American history. She has been the counselor to past senior classes, seeing two students off to Princeton, one to Harvard, and many more to Hillsdale and Michigan. Hillsdale Academy students are different, because they get the habits of learning very quickly, Ducher said. Yes, they need to be taught, but they manage the high expectation of homework found at the school. Ducher said many colleges find the primary source document focus of the academy attractive, something she focuses on in her own class and not lost on teachers of other subjects. This allows the students to understand events in history in their historical context. I would say that, often, stuhave a unique opportunity to continue more deeply the growth they have begun through the schools rigorous curriculum, which values the classical and biblical virtues, critical thought, and importance of community, as the college does, Saewert said. Saewert also explained how the traditional documents and Western tradition of study within the academy make them perfect for Hillsdale College, as it prepares them for the similar course load offered at the college. Academy students are often highly involved in clubs and extracurriculars at the college, including music, theatre, and athletics. They balance active extracurricular schedules with their difficult course load, and they create sports teams, music groups, and productions as a tight-knit community, Saewert said. Students graduating from the academy and secondary school are employed in many fields, such as education, law, and medical practice. We do not believe that good test scores make one hu(Courtesy of External Affairs) man, Calvert said. Humanity comes in understanding that dents are as strong in college as God has given us reason and that they were in high school, Duch- God has called us to seek Him er said. and that which is good. Out of Anna Saewert, the colleges this philosophy come graduates admissions counselor for eastern who are sought after by some of Michigan, agreed with Ducher on the best colleges and universities why academy students are attrac- in the nation Hillsdale foretive to colleges. most among them. Overall, academy students who attend Hillsdale College Chris McCaffery Assistant Editor Young Americans for Freedom held a meeting Sunday night for students to discuss the schools meal plan policy and their ideas for reform. Some students think that the requirement to purchase a meal plan is unfair and want to change the long-standing policy. It has to do with finances, Financial Aid Director Rich Moeggenberg said. We couldnt have a meal option without having students on the meal plan to make it economically feasible. YAF thinks that having more competition for students food dollars will increase quality and let students save money. The reason that YAF is involved is that students dont have the option to opt out of a plan, junior Nathan Brand, president of YAF, said at a planning meeting Sunday night that attracted about 25 students. Our intention is to free kids and let them do what they want. Brand organized the meeting, the first step in his campaign to change college policy, when he saw that the mandatory meal plan policy conflicts with some of YAFs core values individual freedom and free markets. He and the other officers in YAF began doing research into the history of Saga Inc.s relationship with the college, the nature and details of its contract, renewable yearly, and the thoughts of college administrators from the presidents and deans offices. Currently, students are required to purchase a full meal plan each semester for the Knorr Dining Room, costing from $2,100 to $2,270 students can save $170 by switching to 15 meals per week or 150 meals per semester and taking less Charger Change to use at A.J.s Caf and Jitters Coffee Cart. Off-campus students may choose a smaller plan for $1,525. Brand does not want to focus on complaining about food quality, and insists that YAFs priority is getting students more options, especially the ability to opt out of buying a meal plan at all. We are trying to do what we can as a student body, in a way that doesnt polarize, Brand said. Saga is a byproduct of the administrations policies regarding food at this school. We see the mandate as creating the quality issues. YAFs first step was a petition, to get some momentum behind their campaign. They set out tables at lunch Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week to ask students to sign the petition asking for a removal of the required meal plan. Were not here to create problems, Brand said. Were here to bring attention to the issue. Saga Food Service, Inc. was first formed in 1954 and serviced many clients in the Mid-

College President Larry Arnn hosted a Q&A session with Judge Edith Jones in Phillips Auditorium on Tuesday night. Jones, currently chief judge of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and is a former White House Fellows Commissioner and former member of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. This week, Jones has been on campus teaching a class to undergraduates and giving students a chance to learn from her 29 years of experience as a federal judge. Tuesdays talk, which included questions from both Arnn and members of the audience, was on the topic Lawyers, Judges, and the Rule of Law. Arnn introduced Jones as famous to people who care about the law and think it means something real. The judge described her conservative stance on the rule of law and the function of the judicial branch in the U.S. government. The proper relationship of the court is to apply the Constitution within certain constraints of what has already gone before, Jones said. Try to be as consonant with the proper principles of democratic government as possible. Jones also discussed her life as an appellate judge in the 5th Circuit, which covers cases in

Judge Edith Jones sits with College President Larry Arnn in Phillips Auditorium. Arnn questioned Jones on Lawyers, Judges, and the Rule of Law. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) Louisiana, Mississippi and Tex- and hope for the best. Rather, the three-judge panas. Jones sees a great variety of Senior Brett Wierenga, who els do not often argue amongst cases, sitting all year-round and attended the event, said her de- themselves. participating in about 450 ap- scription of clerkship was his Id say on 98 percent of caspeals per year. favorite part of the talk. Ive al- es, all three judges will agree, We get criminal law, we get ways been interested in institu- Jones said. People assume that immigration law, we get com- tional clerkship, he said. And all the federal courts are rife mercial law, we get admiralty from this, it sounds fantastic. with political discord, but that is law. We get as wide a variety as This has been totally confirming not the case with the vast majorthe Supreme Court does, Jones in that regard. ity of cases. At a certain level, said. Overall, Jones talk received we all believe in the law and Students planning to pursue an enthusiastic response from we all operate on pretty much careers in law particularly ap- the audience. shared principles. Theres still preciated Jones description of Id love for her to come and a lot of substance to the way in clerks, who assist and receive speak to the graduate students as which we do the law. training from judges. well, graduate student SamanIn general, Jones is optimisA good clerk is somebody tha Strayer said. Its so refresh- tic about the future. who has a zeal for the law, ing to hear somebody articulate Despair is a sin, Jones told Jones said. their beliefs. I hear the Found- Arnn. Therefore, one has an She also stressed the impor- ers in the back of my mind and obligation in whatever era one tance of the ability to work hard. I love that. lives through to stand up for Theyre going to have all Although Jones said she is right principles. Our triumph sorts of subjects thrown at them often publicly criticized for her may be decades away, but unof which they know nothing, beliefs, she noted that conflict less you start a fight, youre she said. So I teach them a lit- among other judges and her- never going to win a fight. tle bit, send them off to research self when hearing cases is rare.

west. Marriott International, Inc. purchased the company in 1984, and sold it in 1998. It was reincorporated as Saga Inc., doing business as Hillsdale Dining Services, which has been in charge of all of the colleges food service since 1998. Saga General Manager Kevin Kirwan declined to comment on YAFs efforts. The ability to offer a better product and the community building that the current system allows are two reasons Dean of Men Aaron Petersen gave for the mandatory meal plan. He says that the school yearly reviews their options for food service, and they are open to suggestions. If there are good and economical ideas and recommendations to review for our meal plan offerings, were always open to that discussion, he said. Some students are wary of the methods YAF is using, including junior Rachel Yerke. I agree with the possibility of reforming the meal plan, she said, but thats something that has to take place between the administration and Saga, with student input, because the contract is between them. Brand also plans to work with Student Federation but thinks YAF might be better able to get changes from the administration. Student Fed has their hands tied, he said. We have a little more flexibility.

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YAF ATTENDS REgIONAL CONfERENCE

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On the Greek Scene

Detailing the news and events of Hillsdales Greek houses
Alpha Tau Omega Alpha Tau Omega is hosting its annual beach party on April 4. Tickets are $1 if purchased in advance, and $2 at the door. All proceeds go to those affected by muscular dystrophy. Pi Beta Phi Thank you to everyone who donated to Pi Beta Phis book drive in March! We collected 584 childrens books that will be donated to local elementary schools. Sigma Chi Sigma Chi is holding a cookout for philanthropy from 4-8 p.m. today. All funds raised go toward Child Abuse Prevention Awareness. Kappa Kappa Gamma We want to give a huge thank you to the Panhellenic council for all of your hard work this week! Also, thank you to Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi for a great Greek Week 2014. Good luck, ladies!

Thirty Hillsdale students attended the Young Americans for Freedom Regional Conference titled A Time for Choosing in Grand Rapids, Mich., last weekend. YAF President Nathan Brand said it helped that the conference was close to Hillsdale. This is the first time weve had one in Grand Rapids, Brand said. There was one last year in Columbus, Ohio, that a few of us went to. Its a regional one, so it just draws regionally. This was the most Hillsdale students weve had go to one so far. Sophomore Christy Allen said the purpose of the YAF conferences is to show conservative students how to combat liberalism on college campuses. It was called A Time for Choosing, so it was about choosing how you want to market the conservative message and how to go about spreading the conservative values, Allen said. Attendees heard from a lineup of conservative speakers, including Allen West, Annette Kirk, Ken Cuccinelli, and Father Sirico of the Acton Institute. Freshman McLain Driver, who also attended the conference, decided Father Sirico was his favorite speaker. Father Sirico was absolutely brilliant, Driver said. Hes like a Catholic Dr. Bauman. He talked about morality and law. Its not something you often hear from politicians. It was quite refreshing to hear. Kate Patrick

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Spotlight In the article, Japanese anime, Narnia, and interstellar travel, Public Service Librarian Linda Moore is referred to as Linda Brown. jamins said, but Im at the point where I know the grammar. Its a matter of translating the grammatical knowledge I have into fluent speech. While this may seem a daunting class, Benjamins has already had experience in spoken French, Spanish, and German, all of which aid him in pursuing spoken Latin. In addition to his recent trip to Ann Arbor, Benjamins also earned the privilege of presenting a paper at the Eta Sigma Phi National Convention April 11-13. A version of the paper, which is broadly about reading and conversion in Augustines Confessions, was also accepted for the American Philological Association, which will meet in January 2015. Benjamins plans to pursue experience with German. She signed up for her first German class in the second semester of her freshman year. Her only other language experience came from learning Latin and Greek in high school. It was the first time I had ever learned a modern language, she said. It was frustrating and exhilarating at the same time. With Latin and Greek, there isnt an act of creation. With modern languages, you are creating and communicating with people. Its like, Im having an interaction! Im making myself understood! Goodling jumped from 101 to 201 and from there to upper-level German classes. Its really amazing, Yaniga said. She has a real talent for languages. She wrote a fantastic honors paper in German for us. She writes exceptionally wellcrafted papers. Shell be no pushover in graduate school. I have high expectations of success. Goodling said her ultimate goal is to teach. rent tenants are staying and have found friends, or we advertise in the dean of mens and dean of womens office, the manager at Tack Properties said. Glen Ziegler and his ex-wife rented up to 10 properties over the past 15 years, including the Yellow Apartments on Fayette Street. I think landlords like it when a name is issued, Petersen said. It has a positive reputation on campus. Throughout the years, Ziegler has had vacancies in his units, but has not noticed a dramatic increase or decrease in students looking to rent or in available alone is something which will escort these students throughout their professional careers their academic careers especially. Yaniga is Hillsdales campus Fulbright adviser. He assists students applying for Fulbright and organizes on-campus interviews. Gage was one of six Hillsdale students to apply for Fulbright this year. They appeared before Yaniga, Assistant Professor of English Patricia Bart, and Professor of Philosophy Jim Stephens, who all constituted this years Fulbright campus committee. They forwarded the interviews results to Fulbrights New York office. In January, Gage was informed he made it through the first round of cuts. Fulbright annually gives out 1,900 grants to students and young professionals for exchange programs in 140 countries worldwide. After the first round of cuts, the New York office sends applications to the Fulbright programs of these other countries. Each applicant gears their application to a particular country. The Collegian regrets this error.

REgENCY BALL THIS FRIDAY

Neckties are tied and stockings are donned as the Cravats & Bluestockings prepare for the annual Regency Ball, set to take place this Friday from 711 p.m. in the Old Snack Bar. Senior Audrey Gray, prime minister of the Cravats and Bluestockings, said that the Regency Ball is an annual event that gives students the opportunity to participate in English country dancing, food, and period costumes. The ball is always very well attended, she said. Each dance is taught by a caller and then practiced before the music is added. Even participants with no dance experience are able to quickly pick up the steps and have an absolutely wonderful time. Sophomore Anna Talcott, head of the food preparation, said that the food is based on Regency-era recipes, including cucumber sandwiches, tarts, a tuna bowl, scones, mini quiches, and cheesecakes. The adviser for the group, Assistant Professor of English Lorraine Eadie, said that students should attend the ball because it gives them the opportunity to rediscover the importance of this type of social encounter. This ball is devoted to celebrating an era, Eadie said. There is a certain formality, a sense of ritual to dancing and to dating.This is a ball that reminds us what significant consequences can result from that one meaningful encounter, that one special dance. Besides the ball, the group also hosts events such as the Naval Battle, Christmas Caroling, Cider on the Quad, and the weekly StudentProfessor Teas. Emma Vinton

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opment. Generally speaking, getting a masters or Ph.D. means doing scholarship and high-level research if not as a career, then in graduate school, he said. Thats a huge commitment. We would rather have students go into that situation knowing full well what they need to do and what is expected of them. The conference provided a chance for Benjamins to speak Latin aloud when reading, discussing, and translating the poetry of the ancients. I had never done spoken Latin before the conference, Ben-

graduate studies in classics, although he hasnt yet chosen a school. This summer he plans to study abroad for a week and a half in Italy on the Theodore Bedrick Scholarship. His favorite part of learning the language of Latin is the literature it opens up for him. It is a fantastic experience to be able to encounter literature in its original language, because there are so many dimensions to the poetry that you cant fully appreciate unless you have some grasp of the language, he said. I would say it is not dead yet. There are a lot of people who still speak Latin and love the language.

FALL PULLIAM FELLOW ANNOUNCED

The Dow Journalism Program presents journalist David Satter as the fall 2014 Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellow. Satter recently became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. He will be on campus from Oct. 6-17 to give a public lecture and teach a one-credit course. Satter graduated from the University of Chicago, where he served as the editor of the college newspaper, The Chicago Maroon. He worked as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times for six years, and later served as the special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He has written three books on Russia and the Soviet Union, is affiliated with the Hudson Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is currently an adviser to the Russian Service of Radio Liberty. Evan Brune

GOODLINg
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The road to the DAAD started Goodlings freshman year. On her third day at Hillsdale, Goodling ran into Yaniga at the freshman ice cream social at President Larry Arnns house. Goodling had fallen in love with German opera in her senior year of high school, and brought the topic up to Yaniga. He started talking about Richard Wagner and I was like, What universe is this? Goodling said. Yaniga said Goodling also brought up the topic of German novelist Thomas Mann. She told me she wanted to read his works in German someday, he said. It seemed unrealistic to me, but I told her to take a German class. Prior to her first year at Hillsdale, Goodling had very little

To me, giving other people the chance to have a voice is amazing, she said. I mean, it happened to me. I would be honored to give something back in a teaching position. Geyer said the faculty also hopes Goodling will pursue teaching. With a masters degree in comparative literature, shell be able to cherry-pick any Ph.D. program in North America, he said. The faculty is confident that she will, in not such a long time, join our ranks. For now, Goodling said shes still overwhelmed with the news of the award. I came here and I worked hard, and I was never expecting that hard work to pay off as much as it did, she said. I still cant really believe it. Its humbling.

GOAL PROgRAM HOSTS VOLUNTEER WEEK

The GOAL Program is asking students to participate in National Volunteer Week April 8-12. Their service projects will include building a fence, cleaning up a mobile home park, and renovating and cleaning multiple parks. The week will commence with a picnic for all volunteers. This is kind of a pilot run. We would love to see it be successful and bridge that gap, not only to Hillsdale, but to the nearby communities as well, said senior and GOAL Program Director Travis Cook. Cook is co-leading the undertaking with Jakia Fuller, AmeriCorps VISTA national service member. Fuller plans to involve middle and high school students in volunteering with the college students. They hope to make it an annual event. Cook hopes 100 students will participate. Success is not only the quantitative results of having 100 people but also seeing the joy on peoples faces and seeing them have a good time, meet new people, and come out wanting to do the same thing again. Casey Harper

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found more success in the market. The manager of Tack Properties said that this coming year will be the fourth year for students to rent his two properties on Park and McClellan Streets. He said there was a bit of a learning curve in terms of understanding the timing of the colleges process. For as many years as weve done it, weve only done it by two different methods: either cur-

units. He said it has been steady on both sides. Petersen attributed successful rentals to location, condition of the unit, and price, and said that communicating availability with his office is smart as well. Ziegler emphasized that crucial to success in the renting business, which he also admitted was very hard work, is communication and transparency among tenants, parents, himself, and the school. I like working with the college students and knowing their families, Ziegler said. I like to keep my focus college-centric. For Gage, that country was, of course, Turkey. Associate Professor of History Richard Gamble said he thinks Gage got Fulbright in part due to his travel in Turkey but also, of all things, his natural party-planning ability. Fulbright scholars must be American cultural ambassadors to their host countries, according to the programs website. Gage will be expected to engage with Turkish culture, while also exposing Turks to the United States. That will include teaching conversational English and hosting events and parties, Gamble said. Hes just a natural at hosting these kind of events and making people feel at home and feel like an integrated part of a community, Gamble said. After Turkey, Gage plans on teaching or attending graduate school. He would like to, someday, start a classical school.

SORORITIES KICK Off GREEK WEEK

Hillsdales sororities will finish their Greek Week competition Friday with events including three-legged racing and hula hooping. The fraternities will kick off their competition with a chariot race Monday. Both the sorority and fraternity Greek Weeks see the Greek houses compete in a series of events. Points are earned for winning 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in an event, said junior Eleanor Fina, president of the Panhellenic Council. The house with the most points at the end of the week wins. Its a time for the sororities to all come together and have a lot of fun, Fina said. According to InterFraternity Council President senior Patrick Davenport, Mondays chariot race is another part of this effort. Reading an old issue of The Collegian archived in the library, he discovered that chariot races were featured in fraternity Greek Weeks in the late 1970s and early 1980s and decided to resurrect the tradition. Fraternity houses will build chariots, to be pulled by two men with one riding. They will race four laps around the parking lot behind the Suites at 5 p.m. Monday. Davenport said students are encouraged to come watch and that the event will feature a Saga Inc. meal exchange cookout open to campus. Walker Mulley

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Turkish man named Kamal, tried German, French, and Turkish before settling on English, and the two began talking. Eventually, Kamal asked Gage what authors he liked. Gage replied, Annie Dillard. Kamal said, Ah, and we had this moment, Gage told the Collegian. Then he said, You must meet my American friends. One of these friends was a Fulbright scholar, and that night, during a party at Kamals house, Kamal gave a toast that Gage might return to Turkey. The rest of the group joined in and encouraged Gage to do an ETA, or English Teaching Assistant. Which he is now doing through Fulbright. Id say this is probably one of the highest academic achievements that an undergraduate student can be awarded, said Assistant Professor of German Fred Yaniga. The Fulbright name

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are open to the public, and you should attend them. In a means-focused education the emphasis should be on learning for learnings sake. Theses present an opportunity to gain knowledge about topics that, though sometimes obscure, will broaden your understanding of the world in which you live. You can hear Grace Marie Lambert speak on Marilynne Robinsons Gilead and Housekeeping or Viktor Rozsa on Johannes Kepler and the metaphysics of scientific discovery. There is even an opportunity for engaged listeners to enter into discussion during the open question and answer section at the end of each thesis. If anything is unclear, or if you have an insatiable curiosity piqued by the presentation, you have at your disposal a student who devoted his or her recent life to becoming an expert on a very specific subject to answer any questions. Potential academic benefits to you aside, we just think that attending these presentations is a good thing to do. The work students put into these papers is impressive. Attending their defenses constitutes a sort-of academic solidarity a participation in the Hillsdale College academic community, which is something we all pride ourselves in here. Gamble just emailed out schedule for the presentations. Figure out when you can, and then take some time for your fellow students and attend their thesis defenses.

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The senior honors students, mentally humming the Chariots of Fire theme, made the triumphant trek from the library to Delp Hall on Monday. In the box outside of director of the honors program Richard Gambles office, they deposited their stillwarm theses, the culmination of months, possibly years, of research, writing, and late nights. Over the next few weeks, these same students will defend their arguments before a panel of faculty. These presentations

Saga complaints are misguided and misinformed

meal plans and the food quality at the hands of Saga. Its important to keep in mind that complaints about the mandate and quality of food cannot be separated. If the mandate is dropped, Saga loses income and can do less with what it takes in. As a business, the quality is often tied to income. If Saga takes a hit income wise, they take a hit with the level of quality they could produce. Another link between the mandate and food quality can be found in the concept of economies of scale, or cost advantages due to large scale operations. The cost advantages of a large scale operation are difficult to achieve for any food provider. One of the main reasons almost every student must purchase a meal plan is due to that difficulty. Saga has reached some level of cost advantage. It can make more off a salad they sell than I could if I went and bought the ingredients at a grocery store. However, its advantage is not enough to provide the whatever quality meal YAF is seeking. YAF also asserts that students and their parents are best at making their own nutrition related decisions. This is hardly a revolutionary idea. At any given meal, hundreds of combinations create a balanced healthy meal, and we as students come up with most of them. If even then, our nutritional needs are not being met, parents and doctors are involved to demonstrate need for specially prepared food. The variety students experience is only available due to the forethought of the food service to organize and prepare the foods to be put out. At any given meal, dozens of workers help improve the dining experience by keeping counters clean, wiping and re-wiping tables, stocking dishes, replacing food, the list goes on. On holidays, and yes, even opening day for the Tigers, extra planning and expense goes into festive meals that we wouldnt have otherwise. All three of these factors, plus the fact that the school only has 1400 students, create high costs that lower the profit margin and make it difficult for the increase in quality being called for by YAF and their supporters. To argue that we need only to find a new provider, inject some competition, neglects that the new provider would also face these factors in operations. As already expressed about quality, it does exist in the dining hall. But much like its difficult to call the ingredients of peanut butter and jelly splayed on your counter quality, its difficult to call the myriad options downstairs worthy of Michelin stars. Taking any chance to apply economics, Im going to invoke the information problem at this juncture. Food planners have very little idea of the exact cravings each one of us has at any given time. Their solution is to put out a few prepared meals and then give us free rein of a number of other food components to satisfy our wants. Therefore, in the end, we make our own choices. We choose to come here. We choose to put up with cafeteria food for four years. We choose which meal plan is best for us. We choose what we eat every day. We can also choose to do something to change our current situation, which is what YAF is so valiantly working on. Whether seeking change in such a manner is a wise choice has yet to be decided. One last item of note: A few separate incidents with lettuce in A.J.s and Saga have spurred fervent debate and straight-up whining. In response to that, I offer the fact that, in the A.J.s case, the lettuce was delivered cut and washed from the supplier, as it is downstairs. This is contributed to the wonders of mass production, a process which is by no means free of mistakes. Theres up to an average of 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams, according to The Food Defect Action Levels report by the FDA. At the same time, any other method of extracting lettuce for consumption is vulnerable to mistake. This makes arguing for a new food provider here on campus, well, fruitless. Theres no guarantee choosing a new provider would solve this problem. Our time is precious here, we are students first and foremost, and having someone else prepare most, if not all, of our meals is dividing the labor in such a way to help us excel in our occupation. I say, let those who accuse falsely and fail to look at the whole picture, eat cake.

Why you should live your education

There comes a point in every Hillsdale students college career when Im tired becomes an acceptable substitute for good or ok as an answer to the question How are you? Its a sort of filler reply, an acknowledgement of the courtesy of the question without presuming a level of intimacy in the relationship which might permit the truly sordid details of your latest academic quagmire. In my experience, this point arrives a little after the period of freshman year wherein you realize that your weekend plans will Erin Mundahl nearly always begin with Student Columnist homework. Perhaps the strangest thing about this is that it doesnt seem strange at all. Hillsdale is a weirdly hardworking place. Constantly surrounded by the paradigm of judicious scholarly activity, we lose sight of exactly how hard we are working. I confess, I like a challenge. As a freshman, the first Saturday I spent sequestered in a Purgatory study room brought a certain satisfaction. I had wrestled with the Heritage Reader and proved my mettle as a student. There is a certain satisfaction in diligence, in grappling with tasks and completing them. Yet this is a passing pleasure. Now, when I look around at my fellow classmates, a heavy dose of discipline has often replaced the joy of diligence. Perhaps some of this is to be expected. The novelty of study wears off and is replaced by a routine. Rather than a challenge, high expectations risk becoming just hard. This is the point which I find worrisome. How does a student maintain her intellectual curiosity when confronted by her education? Is there something wrong with a course load which ends with the seniors staring at each other like shellshocked World War I veterans, unaware of the brutality of their own humor, all echoing the same refrain: Im tired? Here the fatigue is mental, not physical. And while many students would refer to their senioritis and grin, they use the word strangely. In general usage, senioritis is a willful slacking off in anticipation of graduation. Whats strangest is that few students use it in such a fashion. Rather, senioritis has come to refer to a sort of academic fatigue. Its a weariness of having been weighed and found wanting for years on end, a fatigue of throwing yourself against an impossible standard, of struggling to get better without ever being good enough. There is a lot of learning going on, but the liberal arts could be lost. Josef Pieper warned in his book on leisure and culture that the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence. He argued that the basis of culture comes from leisure. But is there time for leisure? Or was it killed, buried in the crush of academic writing, or suffocated under a small avalanche of necessary outside reading? Has it drowned in the sea of ink expended copying out flashcards? Hillsdale throws a veritable intellectual banquet before its students, but we hazard swallowing it so quickly we lack the time to fully digest what we have been served. There needs to be a moment in the crush of studying for reflection, for a life outside of academics. An education so rigorous as to send forth graduates too jaded to interact with culture is fundamentally flawed. We are supposed to save the republic or something like that, using all of the vast potential we have stored up. But after semesters of 70 pages of writing or more, who still wants to? This is the saddest part of the equation. Isnt it a sorry thing to take a curious, hardworking student and push her to the point where all she can say is Im tired? Properly understood, a Hillsdale education must include an ample amount of silliness, of wonder, of unexpected moments. Without a sense of leisure, we could become too tired to live out the education we have worked so hard to gain.

Martha Ekdahl Student Columnist

An anonymous complaint presumably from a Hillsdale student inspired an unannounced visit to Saga Inc. from the health inspector this week, according to a Saga employee. Both the dining hall itself and A.J.s Cafe were found up to code. The anonymous tipster can rest assured that his or her food is prepared safely. What a happenstance we find ourselves in. In the same year our campus food service has beefed up its quality, a student organization seeks to change the entire system, as Chris McCaffery reported in the News section. When Young Americans for Freedom compares Sagas mandated meal plan with Obamacare, they ignore hard truths about the nature of contracted, private association. YAFs crusade is spearheaded by complaints of the mandated

JEB, HILLARY AND THE CASE OF TARNISHED POLITICAL BRANDS

at least a little uncomfortable. Populists of the left and the right like to focus on the more sinister problems of dynasties the suspicion that the elites have rigged the system in favor of a few powerful families. It sometimes sounds like were discussing lines of European nobility swapping out turns on the throne. But in America, where leaders have to run for office, a more useful way to think about dynasties might be to think of them as brand names. In chaotic and confusing marketplaces, brand names are a useful shortcut. People buy stuff from Apple because they think they know what theyll get from Apple. The same goes for Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons and, these days, Pauls. (If Rand werent the son of Ron, his political persona would be very different.) From this perspective, the effort to lump the Clintons and the Bushes into the category of political dynasties tends to distract us from the very real differences in their brands. Lets start with Jeb Bush. For years conservatives have quietly spoken of how we elected the wrong Bush in 2000. Jebs national reputation on the right was always better than Georges, at least outside of Texas. But Jeb lost his first bid for Florida governor and that ruined the timing for him. As a result, George W. was able to successfully trade on the value of the Bush brand first. The trouble is, fairly or unfairly, that brand is tarnished. Among the rank and file of the GOP particularly among Tea Party types no one wants to see another Bush on the ballot. Its not unimaginable that a Bush nomination would spark a significant third-party movement on the right. Bushs problems arent entirely attributable to his last name. For instance, to conservative grassroots activists, his support for the education reform Common Core is a major black mark. But, all other things being equal, the bar would be much lower for him if his last name were Smith. Things are very different for Hillary Clinton. At least within her party, the name Clinton is nothing but an asset. She benefits not only from her husbands successes but also from the sympathy for her generated by his personal failures. More intriguingly, shes aided by many of Barack Obamas failures, too. If Obamas presidency had been more of a success, the left wing of the Democratic Party might balk at giving Team Clinton another shot. Her positioning to Obamas right in the primaries is largely why she lost. But after two terms of partisan gridlock and anemic economic growth, Clinton the technocrat is palatable, particularly given the burning desire to elect a female president. The dynamic would likely change dramatically in a general election. As the Democratic nominee, Obamas failures would instantly become a problem for Clinton, particularly on foreign policy and health care. And the Clinton brand name becomes at best a mixed bag, given that it wouldnt take long for the GOP to remind Washington-weary voters of the sordidness of the Clinton presidency. Hillary Clinton is a much worse campaigner than her husband, and given her omnipresence in American life for more than two decades, its hard to see how she could sell herself as a fresh start. Its less clear how well Bush would do as a nominee. Assuming he could keep the Tea Party right from bolting (a big assumption that might require putting Ted Cruz or Rand Paul on the ticket), Bush would have a lot of appeal to independents and a significant number of Latinos. Ironically, running against Clinton would make things easier for him because only in comparison to her (or Joe Biden) would yet another Bush seem like a fresh start. (Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and editor-at-large of National Review Online. You can write to him in care of this newspaper or by e-mail at goldbergcolumn@ gmail.com, or via Twitter @JonahNRO.)

Jonah Goldberg Syndicated Columnist

Some Republican fat cats are trying to coax former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush brother and son to two former presidents into making a bid for the White House. Democrats have been less subtle. Theyve created a super PAC called Ready for Hillary, which is only slightly less obvious a gesture than constructing a giant neon sign reading Run, Hillary, Run. For obvious reasons, these developments have generated a lot of discussion about political dynasties in America. Thats understandable. After all, in a democratic republic, the prospect of dynasties should make everyone

From the Archives: Bigfoot sightings disputed

Those who stay out late, beware. You might not be the only one strolling home in the dark hours of the night; Bigfoot might be accompanying you. According to eyewitness reports, two separate parties spotted Sasquatch in Hillsdale in the past five years. Even though witnesses are convinced what they saw was a Sasquatch, others think their accounts are unlikely. Among these skeptics is Hillsdale College senior Grant Wolf. Wolf believes populations of Bigfoot do exist but doubts they are in Michigan. He believes they live in more remote regions, such as the Cascade Mountain range and various mountainous regions stretching from Canada up through Alaska, he said. Tony Swinehart, an assistant professor of biology, agreed. It is completely unlikely that Bigfoot lives in Michigan. It is even unlikely that it lives in Northern Michigan, Swinehart said. He added that so far, no hard evidence of the existence of Bigfoot has been presented, but if it were, it would be very important to the scientific world. Finding large animals that have escaped scientific discovery is rare, but definitely not impossible, Swinehart said. So when walking home at night, dont forget to check behind you. Bigfoot may be watching.

The Uses of a Liberal Arts Education

by Forester McClatchtey

Christina Stephens, Oct. 16, 2008

Dont let print newspapers die

Emma Vinton Collegian Reporter
Newspapers have undeniably taken a hit due to the past decades technology spike. Last year, the Council of Economic Advisors reported that the print newspaper industry shed 28.4 percent of jobs in the field since 2007. It concluded that newspapers show no signs that the downward trend will reverse itself in the near future. Newspapers will never again be the sole provider of news because they wont trump the reporting of Internet and television. But if newspapers die, a part of American history and tradition dies too. And America should never go down without a fight. Today, breaking news comes from the radio, TV, laptop, and cellphone hours before it arrives in your mailbox. Your pocket beeps when news breaks, and social media blow up because someone somewhere did something stupid. You need hardly seek the flood of the media; it finds you, whether you like it or not. News is so readily available that the argument has become: People just do not have time for newspapers anymore. In reality, people have time for newspapers, but have lost the patience for them. We can spend an hour surfing the web easily, but sitting and reading a blackand-white for 20 minutes is unthinkable. Instead of licking our thumbs to turn pages, we scroll through cyberspace. Americans have lost the contemplative mindset. Rather than taking the time to sit down and discover news for yourself, news intake becomes a sheerly passive experience as (Dane Skorup/Collegian) the flood of media overwhelms you at the click of the mouse. Internet news may better The challenge facing newspapers will fit large cities. But community and college force journalists to refine their craft and will newspapers would not be the same if online usher in a new age of print journalism precionly. Readers would not care enough to subsion. scribe online as when news comes right to the door. Students read college newspapers because they can more easily access news specific to them than they can online. Print newspaper is also the best reporting mode for smaller communities. If the content and style of news reporting must appeal to the reader, then news delivery must also, which means accommodating all kinds of readers. Despite this, some old-fashioned sentiment runs in American blood. Though many readers prefer the efficiency and immediacy of online news, others prefer hard copy. Newspapers are the ready choice for those who lack access to Internet or computers and for those unused to technology. People will continue to read newspapers because they have their whole lives. But no matter how people want to experience news, we should not let print newspapers die. Americans today believe that were entitled to free news on the Internet. But just as you would pay for a concert or a best-selling book, good news writing costs money. Peoples livelihoods depend on reporting the news. If consumers want well-written, unbiased reporting, we must pay. But the argument for print over screen goes deeper than just preference or convenience. It recalls history and tradition, dedication to small town USA, and loyalty to ones hometown. It remembers days when one would pick the paper off the driveway on Saturday morning and pore through it over a cup of coffee, clip out a favorite article and stuff it in a scrapbook, or draw a black eye and a mustache on some disliked public figure. It recollects when one could hold a tangible piece of history in ones hands and run ones fingers over the big, bold headline, and save it to show to future generations, saying, This is mine. This is my stake to history. And here is my story too. Newspapers hold sentimental value, and therefore, are worth the small subscription cost: less than $3 per week for the Hillsdale Daily News and about $30 a week for the New York Times. Hillsdale students and alumni striving for truth could subscribe to both for about the cost of a daily Starbucks skinny vanilla latte. Newspapers will remain because of those who believe that reading a newspaper is an enjoyable process, those who prefer holding both history and daily life in their hands, and we happy few who cherish the appeal of a printed paper will continue to demand them.

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Back up your hard work

Jordan Finney Collegian Reporter

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A black screen. Your stomach sinks as you hastily beat the power button on the right-hand corner of the once precious laptop that accompanies you to every class, every day of the semester, and, therefore, holds every note, every paper, and every photo youve taken since you got it for Christmas. Theres nothing precious about it this morning. Weve all been there the weekend before finals week, a few days before a paper is due, the night before a class presentation when the inevitable happens. You stare at a black screen and painfully accept the fact that your computer hard drive failed. Its no ones fault except your own Sure, you may throw up your hands and spout off, REALLY God? Today of all days why? like I did when I finally accepted the reality that the Old Testament commentary I had been working on all semester vanished somewhere in the black abyss of a lifeless computer screen. But the black abyss plays no favorites it hides images and music just as easily as semester-long school projects. I remember when our family computer crashed, sophomore Codi Jo Broten said, It was awful because I lost all of my music. I just remember thinking, is this really happening? Junior Laura Rose had a similar reaction when a computer crashed and she lost all the edits to a Jackson paper a few days before it was due. At first I was terrified, but really thankful that I had a paper copy, Rose said. Certainly, though, we cant all be as fortunate as Rose. Nor should we place all of our hopes on the chance that we have a hard copy of every single important image, document, and song however that works when the black abyss appears. Instead, all of us should be using an external hard drive to back up our files. I would rather spend 20 seconds clicking the back up my computer button each evening than find myself staring into a black abyss and cross-examining God like its His fault that I was lazy and irresponsible. And dont convince yourself otherwise with the but Im a broke college student argument. If you dont want to spend the money on an external hard drive, Dropbox and Google Drive are both free. With resources like that, you have no one to blame but yourself if everything is lost when your computer crashes. Take it from me I know firsthand what its like to sit and stare at the black abyss. Spare yourself the shame. Back up your files.

The liberal arts must include opposing thinkers

Garrett West Special to the Collegian
I dare say that if you think that the great injustice in society is that rich people pay too much in taxes and poor people get too much support, you are sorely mistaken, an old friend of mine wrote in a Facebook status. Admittedly, this guy is the antithetical Hillsdale student. He studies economics, but he digs that Keynesian school. He reads a lot of philosophy, but mostly the Bertrand-Russellreligion-sucks-and-hell-yeah-science kind. I get it; he wont have much credibility at Hillsdale. Im certainly not endorsing his perspective. But I think we should pay attention to him and voices like his. Our student body, as a whole, avoids asking the hard questions about what justice requires of our society. We give free-market morality a pass as selfevident and childishly accept the claim that individual liberty is the indisputable telos of our political order. We are often far too caught up in telling each other were right, and not interested enough in questioning our assumptions like we do in every other discipline at this college. We need a more diverse conversation. We need to read John Rawls, G.W.F. Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx seriously. Discourse should engage with the left and with the claims of social justice. As it stands, we treat opposing political theorists as sub-par intellects unworthy of the condescension of a close, thoughtful reading. If we were to engage with these thinkers, then perhaps we would arrive with a more robust understanding of our original prejudices; perhaps we would arrive at different conclusions, ones that we had never expected to entertain. Regardless, to forgo a genuine engagement with opposing ideals is to spite our supposedly liberal education. So let me pose some heavily qualified questions: Is it plausible that society owes certain goods to certain people by virtue of the fact that they are human beings? Is the only thing anyone is owed a negative freedom to pursue happiness however they choose? Does the market take care of justice? Would it even take care of justice in the idealized and unfettered form? Is it just that children born into the inner cities (through no fault of their own!) will have substantially-limited access to education, healthcare, and employment opportunities? I understand there are quick and dirty answers to my questions. If someone owes someone a positive good, then we have to trample his right to life, liberty, and property. Also, Once we start giving people a right to education or healthcare, we open up the floodgates for positive rights to recreation or free ice cream. Again, Just because individuals have an obligation doesnt mean that the government should force them to follow through with it. I promise you: I understand that these are weighty objections. I dont want to ignore them. But to each of these responses there is another rejoinder that deserves consideration. Im willing to hazard an opinion: Our society is not just. The inner-city poor do not have the same opportunities that we did. Some children are malnourished and uneducated, and I think its a cop-out to claim that the market would correct these injustices if we would only let it alone. I dont know what a remedy would look like; I dont know the path forward. Whatever it is, it begins with a thoughtful consideration of political assumptions that ought to be difficult, unsettling, and perhaps painful. That should be happening regularly here on this campus, but its not.

Dezelski deserved to be GLIAC player of the year

Morgan Delp Sports Editor
This Monday, college basketball will come to an end in Arlington, Texas with the DI national championship game. The Hillsdale College mens basketball team ended play right before spring break, but the season officially wrapped up last Saturday at the teams annual banquet. Among a strong senior class leaving the Chargers stands Tim Dezelski. Known to his teammates as Deez and Timmy D, and to head coach John Tharp as that big Polish kid, the Northville native leaves a most remarkable legacy at Hillsdale. The post player with prolific threepoint range was awarded First Team All-GLIAC, Daktronics First Team All-Region, Third Team All-American, and team MVP. The only player in Hillsdale history and in the GLIAC this year to score over 600 points, snatch over 250 rebounds, and dish out over 100 assists, Dezelskis outstanding performance earned Coach Tharps praise as the greatest season that I have ever witnessed. Dezelski more than deserved the honor of GLIAC Player of the Year, being the only player to rank in the top 10 in 10 separate statistical categories in the conference this season. Instead, the GLIAC coaches voted to award University of Findlays Greg Kahlig, the conferences leading scorer (due to a three-game stretch in which he scored 121 points), who finished the year with a total of 14 points ahead of Dezelski. Looking at overall consistency, however, Dezelski clearly passed Kahligs performance. He scored in the double digits in every game this year and racked up 10 double-doubles, not to mention the 66 power player led the conference in field goals made. Dezelski came to Hillsdale as a walk-on, but worked hard every single day of his career to improve to the phenomenal season he had this year. The record books will always hold Dezelski in the highest esteem. His teammates will remember a team leader who strove to win every single drill every single day. Those that played against him will remem-

Freedom is greater than cafeteria reform

strong national defense. My question then is this: have we run out of causes more precious and deserving than a school cafeteria for Last week, I arose from my Im which an organization founded by the graduating in two months and I dont Lion of the Right will unite students? care hibernation to post on Facebook Perhaps the Hillsdale YAF board was about the recent YAF event: Students particularly moved by Buckleys 1961 Essay Why Dont We Complain? or For Saga Reform. perhaps they just havent picked up a My remarks were newspaper recently. more than irate and less Buckleys famous arthan funny, causing my ticle begins with comfriends to question the Hillsdale College plaints for the swelapathy of my seniorage, YAF bears a name tering conditions of a and me to realize that if commuter train with a it is online attention one that means much broken air conditioner, seeks, let wit lie and but it ends with an anlight the page afire with more to many ecdote on former secrepolitical fury. people, myself tary of the Soviet Union This being print, I Nikita Khrushchevs have extinguished my being one of them. 1959 visit to America. keyboard, but do not The YAF forum failed take this as a sign that to find such a validation we will be hey nonny for students vexation. nonnying all the way through the artiOne of the many things the Hillsdale cle. For I mean to talk about something serious: namely freedom, and why I economics department has taught me is find the recent behavior of Hillsdale that all of our actions have an opportunity cost. When it comes to the causes YAF disappointing and despicable. For those of you joining us from of freedom, there are plenty of fish in home, Hillsdale online forums have the sea that need to be fried. Reforming seen a new high in grumbling as stu- our campus cafeteria is not one of them. The list of more worthy causes dents have engaged each other in heated debate concerning Saga Inc.s policy would fill the entire Collegian. Instead and performance. The chorus of com- of a night on the town to discuss these plaints culminated on Sunday with the issues from Ukraine to Obamacare YAF hosted event, Students For Saga freedom was taken to the Grewcock Student Union formal lounge on SunReform. I dont give a flying farmers market day night to listen to students complain on which side of the aisle students stand about an insect in their salad. Hillsdale College YAF bears a name when it comes to their dining experience. I do care very strongly, however, that means much more to many people, about what the letters YAF stand for: myself being one of them. I like to think Young Americans for Freedom. The that a lot of us came out to this school in colleges local chapter stems from a the Midwest because we think freedom greater national organization founded is of the utmost importance so I speak in the living room of William F. Buck- for myself, and at least the 30 people ley Jr. which aims to bring students to- who like my status, when I recommend gether to advocate for the ideas of lim- YAF approach their future endeavors ited government, individual freedom, with greater care, caution, and reverfree enterprise, traditional values and a ence.

ber shaking their heads in disbelief that that big Polish kid just blocked their shot under the basket and turned around to sink a stealthy three. Fans will miss watching the versatility and intensity of Tim Dezelski. No matter what the GLIAC coaches say, hes Player of the Year to us.
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Attorney: selling BPU for road money is unrealistic

Macaela Bennett Assistant Editor Fourth in a series. Hillsdale attorney Kevin Shirk advised the city against selling its Board of Public Utilities to generate road money last week, claiming the costs far outweigh the benefits. The BPU consists of three services: water, wastewater, and electric with a combined annual revenue of approximately $15 million. The entities can be sold individually or altogether; however, BPU Director Rick Rose argues only the electric is marketable. The city began discussing selling the BPU in the 1980s, but it was added to the recent road-funding list after a Hillsdale resident suggested the option at a work session in November. The responsibility of council is that we are the trustees of all the assets of the city, Councilman Patrick Flannery said. One of them happens to be BPU, and thats an investment that weve made, so we need to look at it. The Hillsdale City Council then asked Shirk and City Attorney Lew Loren to research and offer advice about the idea. Although Shirks research concluded selling the BPU is legal, he said council shouldnt consider it a viable option. There are so many contractual and practical limitations that any such sale is not realistic, Shirk wrote in his opinion. The contractual limitations he mentioned include BPUs membership in the Michigan Central Power Agency and several take-or -pay energy contracts with the Fremont power plant and American Municipal Power Inc. These contracts make selling the BPU difficult because a purchaser would have to either meet the membership requirements or buy out all the commitments an expensive choice. Also, the city would still have to pay for several contracts that couldnt be transferred to BPUs new operator. Another impracticality of selling the BPU stems from the three-fifths majority vote needed from Hillsdale residents to pass the proposition. Rose said that before any such vote could be taken, the city would have to determine BPUs value through a study costing around $100,000. Suffice it to say that the voter restriction on any sale of the utilities coupled with the existing long-term contractual commitments of the city makes any potential sale of the utility ill-advised at best, Shirk concluded. Rose added that service quality would likely decrease if outsourced to another operator. Our guys are really dedicated, and we respond fairly quickly; people like that idea of reliability, Rose said. We have people ask us if they can get on BPU lines to get away from Consumers [Energy], because we can get there a lot faster. BPU employee Eric Sheffer agreed that quality increases because employees live locally. Its a benefit that were community owned. We all live in the community, the majority of us live on BPU lines, Sheffer said. We know the people, they are our neighbors, friends, teachers, people we see in church every week. Rose added that a municipally-owned BPU helps recruit businesses to move to Hillsdale. It offers a competitive advantage when sitting down and talking to large power users. Youve got control of your own destiny that way, Rose said. Also, the city tried to save money by outsourcing a BPU service before, and it didnt

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work. From 1993 to 2000, an outside operator ran the wastewater, and Rose said it cost the city an extra $150,000 a year. In addition to the arguments about cost and quality, Rose said that BPU is Hillsdales only revenue-generating entity, and it often returns profits back to the city. I think BPU does a lot for the community that they dont even realize, said BPU employee Trenton Morrill. The BPU gives 3 percent, about $500,000, of its gross revenue to the city every year, and helps the city pay for special projects. The board bought the city a hot patch machine to fix potholes and gave $150,000 for the airport a few years before that, Rose said. Its just another thing that we kind of stepped up and did for the city because they didnt have the funds. Weve always been here as a resource for the community, and thats something that is going to help us and the community grow. Also, BPU decorates Hillsdale with Christmas cheer every year. The previous decorations were really embarrassing, Rose said. We bought new ones and put them up every year. We felt it was a public good since it drives people downtown. In addition to BPUs many recent donations, the city has relied on BPU for service since Hillsdale first started using electricity. Basically, weve been here since electricity came to town. We started with streetlights downtown and power for that came from a steam-driven generator at Stocks Mill, Rose said. Then, the city decided they wanted to provide its own street lights and electricity, so the board was created in 1893. Why would you want to sell something thats worked for a 125 years?

meth lab crimes

Taylor Knopf City News Editor

Two of the three people arrested Feb. 25 charged with running a methamphetamine lab accepted plea bargains Monday before the Hillsdale County Circuit Court, while the third chose a jury trial. Scott Allen Mullins, 45, will stand before a jury on July 22 for five drug-related crimes and two firearm offenses. Mullins is charged with the delivery and manufacture of meth, operating a meth lab, possession of meth and ecstasy, possession of marijuana, maintaining a drug house, felony firearm, and possession of a firearm as a felon. Mullins daughter Brianna Michelle Peiffer, 23, and Ricky Lynn Osborn, 35, accepted plea bargains offered to them by the Hillsdale County Prosecutors office. Both plead guilty to the possession of more than 12 grams of pseudoephedrine and face a maximum of two years in prison. Both Peiffer and Osborn confessed to buying pseudoephedrine to give to Mullins to make meth in exchange for some of the final product. Osborn made a video appearance before the court from the Hillsdale County Jail. He is being held because he is on parole until his sentencing set for May 5. Peiffer is out on bond until her sentencing May 12. As part of Osborns plea bargain, he must be willing to testify at Mullins trial. Although testifying at her fathers trial was not part of Peiffers plea agreement, Prosecutor Rodney Hassinger said she may still be called to testify. According to Hassinger, Mullins has two prior felony convictions that could increase his prison time to a maximum of 60 years, if convicted of all his accused crimes in a jury trial. Hes in denial, Hassinger said. Mullins is the one we have the best case against. He doesnt want to spend seven years in prison, which is the plea were offering him. All three were arrested Feb. 25 by the Hillsdale County Sheriffs Department after a warrant was issued to search Mullins residence in Hillsdale County. Officers found materials used for making meth as well as the finished product during their search of the house.

Humans of Hillsdale:
Taylor Knopf City News Editor There is an unconscious and intoxicated male, said a voice over the intercom. The dispatcher reads an address and continues. Hes been beaten by another male who is said to have left the scene. Officer Dustin Zimmerman slams the brakes of his cop cruiser and pulls a 180 in the vacant road. The engine groans as he races two miles across town to the scene of the incident. The air reeked of burnt rubber as his car screeches to a halt behind his sergeant, who arrived at the scene first. The officers hurry inside the house, but the now-conscious victim claims he is fine and doesnt want to press charges against his alleged attacker. Zimmerman works the 12hour night shift for the Hillsdale City Police Department. His colleagues and friends call him Dusty. His sergeant said hes a real go-getter. He is known as the traffic guy for the high number of drunk driving arrests hes made. Zimmerman likes to describe himself as 6 foot 2 and bullet proof; however, he may appear slightly shorter in person. I stay busy by stopping cars, Zimmerman said. The best way to intervene and to be proactive starts with traffic. I think traffic is the gateway to all other sorts of crime. Zimmerman patrols the quiet streets of Hillsdale at night, making sure everything is in its place and is always alert, ready to answer a call. He pulls into a car dealership and drives through the line of luxury vehicles, shining his high-powered exterior flashlight along the row of tires. He said they are often known to go missing on these high price vehicles. One thing I like about working for the city is that you learn your territory very well, he said. You know who is supposed to be somewhere and who is not supposed to be there. Zimmerman grew up in Hillsdale and went to the local high school. He played football at Albion College for one year before transferring to Kellogg Community College, where he studied applied science. He worked at the Hillsdale County Sheriffs Department for two years and has been with the city police for two years now. While knowing a small town well is an advantage when po-

BPU crew workers install an underground electric transformer for a private residence on Barber Street Wednesday. (Taylor Knopf/Collegian)

Officer Dusty Zimmerman

licing, it can also be uncomfortable. Its very difficult being a police officer in a small community, Zimmerman said. Everyone knows everyone here. Even off duty, Im still a cop. I see people Ive arrested or made contact with in local establishments all the time it makes it tough. Being a cop can be a social handcuff. Zimmerman said he always tries to understand and relate to the people he pulls over or arrests. He likes being an officer, because he enjoys problemsolving, action, and people. You have to be a chameleon to get victims to relate to you, he said. And theres an absolute tone of discretion in all situations. Youre allowed to be the type of police officer you want to be. He continues on his regular patrol over to Hillsdale College. He points out houses hes often visited on a rowdy Saturday night. Occasionally officers are sent to Hillsdale College off-campus parties when they become a disturbance to neighbors, but all Zimmerman asks for is honesty, respect, and cooperation. I dont like to pick on the college, he said. You respect us, and we will respect you.

Zimmermans patrol covers everything within the Hillsdale city limits. He checks on the college campus, businesses, residential areas, back roads, and even graveyards. He pulls into a graveyard, drives to the center path, and puts his cruiser in park. Here, he said, is where the most memorable moment of his career took place. It was there that he found a man parked in his car, writing a suicide letter to his family. Zimmerman stopped a tragedy that night. Although he takes his job seriously, Zimmerman also knows how to take a joke. People call us po-po or piggies, he said. But there is no type of word you can say thats going to make me flip a switch and turn into the hulk. He also said that hes never eaten a single donut as a cop. Maybe Im just trying to break the stereotype or something.
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Jacques announces candidacy for 58th district state rep

Jeff Jacques 02 of Jonesville announced that he will run for Michigans 58th District House seat. Our movement away from [freedom], to more government interference and dependence is disturbing, and its important to draw a line in the sand, Jacques said. Jacques said he wants to focus on economic issues. I do have an intimate understanding of what the small business owners goes through, so some of the pedestals of my campaign are to lower taxes, lessen regulation, and create a more friendly business environment, Jacques said. That is going to allow businesses to hire and expand and create growth. Consequently that will increase the tax base and that is what we will need to rebuild. Jacques was involved in several business ventures in a range of markets before he decided to run for state representative. Hillsdale [College] does not teach you to sit on the sidelines and watch the world go by, he said. It teaches you to jump in the fray and grab life by the horns. Jacques said he supports the second amendment, traditional marriage, and is pro-life. After growing up in Jonesville, Jacques attended Hillsdale College. It was there he met his wife and earned a degree in economics. This race is going to be won by winning the hearts and minds of the electorate, Jacques said. -Casey Harper

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Manno leads Charger teams training

Vivian Hughbanks Collegian Reporter The womens basketball team started offseason training on March 24 with senior Anthony Manno at the wheel. Manno has been working as an intern for head mens track coach Jeff Forino since the beginning of the semester, programing, coordinating, and running workouts for the mens and womens basketball and womens swim teams. He also works with middle distance and steeplechase track athletes. I dont even consider it work because I have so much fun doing it, senior Anthony Manno said. Its very rewarding to watch athletes train extremely hard and enjoy it. The basketball teams train four days per week for an hour and a half, beginning with a full body warm-up, and expanding into agility, acceleration, change of direction, and plyometrics drills. Our whole workout is focused on muscle building and strengthening, freshman basketball player Becca Scherting said. Were doing a lot of game-like explosive lifts and conditioning exercises. Last, Manno moves the basketball team into Olympic weightlifting, general strength training, and metabolic conditioning. The workout is now half an hour longer than before. Although the workouts are Landherr said. His workouts are going to be very good for us, and with his help we will all be a lot stronger by next season. Swimming lifting workouts take place three days a week. Manno begins with warm-ups, followed by Olympic weightlifting and general strength training.

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BOX SCORES
Softball 4-8 overall Ohio Dominican: 11 Hillsdale: 2 Ohio Dominican: 2 Hillsdale: 1 Season Leaders: Hits: Bekah Kastning: 12 Ainsley Ellison: 9 Kate Ardrey: 6 Sarah Grunert: 6 Home runs: Grunert: 2 Kastning: 1 Ardrey:1 Courtney Day: 1 RBIs: Kastning: 7 Gordon: 4 Ardrey: 3 ERA: Grunert: 2.74 Klopfer: 3.94 Ardrey: 5.03 Tennis Davenport: 7 Hillsdale: 2 Hillsdale: 7 Aquinas: 2 Baseball 8-18 overall Hillsdale: 5 Malone: 2 Hillsdale: 6 Malone: 3 Malone: 8 Hillsdale: 4 Ohio Dominican: 6 Hillsdale: 5 Hillsdale: 4 Ohio Dominican: 3 Ohio Dominican: 9 Hillsdale: 1 Season Leaders Hits: Luke Ortel: 34 Tad Sobieszczanski: 27 Nolan Breymaier: 27 Connor Bartlett: 24 Home runs: Lincoln Reed: 1 RBIs: Chris McDonald: 16 Bartlett: 13 Ortel: 12 ERA: Dan Pochmara: 0.77 Joe Chasen: 2.35 Jake Lee: 3.86

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Fifth-year senior Anthony Manno (left) and trains members of the womens swim team. (Photo Courtesy of Sydney
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Track competes in rust-buster

Ty Etchemendy placed 7th in the triple jump with 14.46 meters. For some competitors, this meet was the first chance to compete again. Junior Matt Perkins competed after sitting out for an entire year due to an injury. I had to work the conference meet and stuff and that is just hard, but it gave me a lot of insight, Perkins said. I grew through the experience and it taught me to be patient and realize that [competing] is a gift, and I think that is something that a lot of athletes take for granted. Besides the 1500, Perkins ran in the 4x4 for training purposes. Many track athletes use these early meets to train, not necessarily worried about winning, so that they are peaking for conference and nationals. I was actually surprised with my fitness level because I havent been doing a lot of miles and to just pop off a 15-minute 5k was good, Perkins said. I was happy with it but not satisfied. It means I have things to look forward to. Junior Shena Albaugh also ran in the 1500, beating her personal record by 19 seconds. At first I thought that I ran really slow, she said. I didnt feel satisfied with it. I was a couple of seconds off, but I still felt like I put my heart and soul into it. I turned out pretty well, but Im still hungry for that provisional qualifying mark. The first outdoor meet meant the chance to do throwing events like javelin that are not done during indoor season. Regardless, sophomore Nathan Nobbs threw a lifetime best in the javelin. They have to wait two-thirds of the year to get a chance to compete, Forino said. They get seven weeks outdoor. The whole rest of the year they are training for those seven weeks. I was very pleased with those guys. The weather is an important factor for competing so the team tries to travel to better conditions, which is why they travelled to North Carolina last weekend and are travelling to Kentucky this weekend. I anticipate some things that didnt go well for people, like the throwers and the technical people, will be able to come back and have better results this weekend, Forino said. The teams are ready to move on to next weeks meet with an eye on conference. It was our first outdoor meet so it was a rust-buster, Perkins said.

longer and more challenging, we are really able to push ourselves to the next level with his coaching and encouragement, sophomore point guard Ashlyn

He has also constructed their dryland training, which occurs twice a week. Manno has a personal fan club in the swim team, and I

wasnt sure how seriously wed take him, sophomore Naofa Noll said. He started us off with 30 squats - which he called a warmup and I called torture - to teach us the proper technique. I could barely walk for two days after that, but Im confident the new program he developed will challenge us and benefit us more than what weve done in the past. From the internship, Manno has gained practical experience that he sees as invaluable for future career development. He meets regularly with coaches to determine the best training methods to use for each team. This summer, I plan on becoming a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the NSCA and a Level 1 Certified CrossFit Coach, Manno said. Combining these things together will build a good foundation for coaching in the future. His involvement has been both beneficial and encouraging to team members hes helped. Manno brings an uplifting energy to the workouts and he is so helpful when it comes to learning new things, Scherting said. He knows his stuff!

Casey Harper Spotlight Editor

The mens and womens track teams competed last weekend in North Carolina, coming away with a decent performance to kick off the outdoor season. It was nice to get down to warmer weather, Hhad mens track coach Jeff Forino said. Every time you go to a meet, six or eight guys do really well, and six or eight dont. Theres a lot of promise for the team to be really solid. Freshman Julia Bos placed 8th in her heat of the 5000-meter run. Senior Matthew Raffin placed 19th in the 110 hurdles. Sophomore Matthew Harris took 2nd, pole vaulting 4.6 meters. Senior Maurice Jones placed 11th in the 200-meter dash. Freshman

VOLLEYBALL HOSTS FIRST SPRING TOURNEY

Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College volleyball team has played two of its four tournaments of the spring season. On March 23, the team went to Indianapolis for the first tournament. Sophomore Emily Wolfert said the tournament gave them a chance to work on different lineups and combinations, and play a mix of GLIAC and GLVC teams. On March 29, Hillsdale hosted a tournament. Its been a while since we hosted a tournament, but Ive done it enough times that the tournament will pretty much run itself, head coach Chris Gravel said. Every problem that could come up, I have already had, so I can avoid them. Wolfert said Hillsdale played Lewis University, the University of Findlay, and an alumnae team from Hillsdale. The best players this college has seen were put together, Wolfert said. They really challenged us, but it was fun to see them again. The team began training the first full week of this semester but started regular court practices a few days before spring break. Gravel said he has been pushing the players hard in training and they have responded well. I love how strong we get, junior Marissa Owen said. We jump higher and dig for balls we couldnt get before. Owen said the spring tournaments are different than the regular season because they have a more relaxed environment. Teams often break apart into two different teams to get more court time and experiment. Its nice to take some of those risks you wouldnt normally take, redshirt junior Lindsay Kostrzewa said. She said the spring season allows players to become more aggressive and try things out without the consequences that come from losing regular season games. Gravel said the team didnt like how the previous season ended. The loss of the first game of the GLIAC tournament has motivated the players to train harder. We wont be a young team for the first time in a while, Gravel said. The spring season is a buildup for next season, Gravel said, and the Chargers are headed in the right direction. We take pride in every game, Kostrzewa said. We want to leave knowing that we played our best.

Tennis wins last spring season match

Hannah Leitner Assistant Editor Charger tennis finished the spring season with a strong victory over Aquinas College, after playing two matches over the past two weekends. Hillsdale beat Aquinas 7-2. On Friday, March 21, the Chargers fell 7-2 to Davenport University. Head coach Nicole Walbright said that the team was inconsistent with their play, and the loss was a bit of a disappointment. Overall we have a lot to work on, Walbright had said after the match. We were kind of up and down the whole time. Despite the losing record (1-5), which included three DI losses, sophomore Lindsay Pierce said the Davenport match as well as previous matches were an opportunity to grow and improve for next season. While I think it has been a challenge, I think it has been a good challenge, Pierce said. With the Chargers first victory of the spring season recorded, the team feels confident that their hard work has finally paid off. While there were many standout plays of the match, Walbright said one of the most exciting moments was the no. 2 doubles match when Pierce and fellow sophomore Shannon OHearn won a tough match 9-7 against Aquinas Ariana Kabodian and Marjeanne Bothma. Although OHearn wasnt original-

ly scheduled to play doubles, due to illness freshman Dana Grace Buck wasnt able to compete, giving OHearn the chance to step up and earn a win for the Chargers. It was awesome to get out there and help our team get the victory, OHearn said. Coach Walbright said that the match against Aquinas was probably the best-played match of the season. It was nice to see all of the hard work from the season come together in the final match, Walbright said. I think it gives us something to build on and we will be able to expect a little more out of them next year. With all the matches complete until fall season, the team looks forward to working hard during summer to come back strong in the fall.

Charger Chatter: Luke Ortel

about baseball? I just love being able to play a college sport because I am competitive and I like that aspect. My favorite thing to do during the game is to hit a home run or make a great play in the outfield. What do you think your biggest strengths are as a team? As a team, I think that weve definitely been through our ups and downs, but I think that it has helped make us stronger because of the difficulties that weve been through. I think that we can definitely use the hardships that weve been through this year to gain a little competitive edge over other teams. Do you have any pregame rituals? Not before every game, but sometime before the game I like to take some time to myself and think about the game coming up, and visualize myself taking a few at-bats and getting a hit off of each pitch the pitcher throws. Its something I started doing in high school and have continued if I have time to relax before the game, even if it is just for five minutes. Who is your favorite baseball player? My favorite player is Curtis Granderson. I started liking him when he was on the Tigers, and I still keep track of him. I think that he is a really class guy. He handles himself well and he plays the game well. I like how he carries his good character on and off the field. Curtis played centerfield, and I wear number 28 because of him. I was hoping that I would be able to get the number in college. I lucked out. What do you like about playing center field? Center field is great. I love playing center field. Probably the best aspect of it is the great view. You can see where the pitcher is setting up and you have a good idea of the strike zone from where he is throwing. I always have the leftfielder and rightfielder asking, Hey, where was that one? I have a great view of the whole game. I like to cover a lot of range. What is your walk-up song? My walk-up song is 1901 by Phoenix. It has a good instrumental beginning. Thats why I picked it. It has a good guitar intro. What is the best baseball advice you have ever been given? Couch Buster, my high school coach, always used to say, You cant just throw your gloves out on the field. What he meant by that was, you have to come to play every day. Even my coaches before high school would say things like, On any given day, any team can win or lose. Thats the great thing about baseball, which is really true: The best and strongest team doesnt always win, because of how intricate the game is. You cant just throw your gloves on the field, you have to be mentally in the game throughout the whole game. I like to remember that before each game, that you have to come to play and work hard every day, every single pitch. How do you balance sports and academics? I am used to it and Ive been doing it for a long time. Honestly, I couldnt imagine my life any differently. I feel like I would be bored. I just always look ahead in the week and make sure I have my priorities down at the start of the week. At this point it is just my second nature to be able to plan and adapt to that. Do you have any future plans? This summer I am going to be playing in the Great Lakes League with an Athletes in Action team in Ohio. I was excited I was invited to do that. - Compiled by Emma Vinton

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Hillsdale College sophomore Luke Ortel is centerfielder for the Charger baseball team. A native of Troy, Mich. and graduate of Bishop Foley Catholic High School, Ortel is batting a .343 average this season with the most hits, runs scored, and stolen bases of the team. Ortel is a fan of the Detroit Tigers and a financial management major. When did you start playing baseball? I have played organized ball since I was probably 8 years old, 7 years old, something like that. The first team I played on was just a Troy little league team. Actually, I remember before that, playing on a tee ball team when I was even younger. What is your favorite part

The softball team hopes that on April 10 they can host their game against Urbana. Wednesday, April 2 was their first practice on grass this year. I think home games will help us turn around our season, said freshman Jessica Knepper. It will give us some confidence playing on our home turf.

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SOFTBALL LOSES CLOSE DOUBLEHEADERS

Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter daughter going up against Goliath himself, Abraham said. And we just about slayed him. Going into Tuesdays games against Wayne State, Hillsdale had lost the doubleheader to Ohio Dominican University on Sunday. In the first game, Hillsdale fell behind 3-0 going into the

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Hillsdalians assemble team for 3-day relay

Walker Mulley Collegian Reporter Youre speeding comfortably along a dirt path and then suddenly youre jumping into a creek, wading across, and taking off again. Welcome to the Great Lakes Relay. The Great Lakes Relay is a three-day race which crosses the varied terrain of Michigans Lower Peninsula, including hills, a swamp, and a river crossing, according to greatlakesrelay.com. Senior Matthew Van Egmond is organizing a team composed of current Hillsdale students and alumni to compete in this summers relay. Van Egmond ran on the last team, predominantly composed of Hillsdale students and alumni, which competed in 2010. The race takes runners through remote parts of Michigan, Van Egmond said. You might as well turn your phone off, he said. Youre not going to be able to post anything on Twitter. The race is taxing, Lecturer in Economics Lewis Butler said. Butler ran the Great Lakes Relay three times, including in 2010 with Van Egmond, and is considering joining this years team. Its one of those things thats fun when its over, but in the middle of it, you really question what it is that youre doing, he said. At the end of the day, youre just sore, and youre dirty, and youre tired, and then you do it two more times. The course is not marked, Butler said. Instead the runners follow written directions. Van Egmond said following the directions is one of the toughest challenges the runners face. Run-

The 2010 Hillsdale team gathers for a group photo at the Great Lakes Relay. Hillsdale runners are creating a team for this summers race. (Photo courtesy of Lewis Butler)

ning faster isnt enough if you get lost, Butler said, so experience with the course is helpful. Teams of up to 10 runners compete in the relay, according to the website. Theres like 1,000 people moving in a horde across Michigan, Butler said. The runners, wearing short running shorts, swarm small backwoods towns, filling pizzerias and bars that sport such names as Spikes Keg of Nails and The Wild Turkey. For many runners, drinking forms part of the attraction. Its an amazing experience, sober or drunk, said Hillsdale alumnus Alex Ralston 11, who competed on the 2010 Hillsdale team. Ive done it both ways. Both Van Egmond and Ralston said they enjoyed the camaderie of the relay. You get to meet a lot of great people, Van Egmond said. They said the atmosphere is more fun than standard track meets. I see it more as a vacation than as a race, Van Egmond said. The relay, which benefits the Michigan Special Olympics, is sponsored by the Lakeshore Striders Running Club. With river crossings, camping overnight, partying, and getting lost over the roughly 270-mile course, the Great Lakes Relay offers a unique experience. Its just really hard to capture the whole experience, Butler said. Itd be like, Tell me about your experience at Hillsdale. Youd just be like, Well, its kind of crazy.

Ohio Dominican scored 2 runs in the fifth inning, 3 runs in the sixth inning, and 3 in the seventh to win the game 11-2. In the second game, sophoThe Hillsdale College wommore Sarah Klopfer kept Ohio ens softball team lost both Dominican scoreless until the games of the doubleheader to the sixth inning. no. 7 nationally-ranked Wayne Sarah Klopfer pitched an exState University. cellent game, but we only scored The Chargers lost the first one run, Abraham said. Its game 0-3, only able to hard to expect a shutout every get two hits off of Wayne time. States pitcher, Lyndsay Ellison scored in the third Butler. inning on a single by Ardrey, Heach coach Joe giving Hillsdale a 1-0 lead goAbraham said Butler is ing into the sixth inning when one of the best pitchers in Ohio Dominican scored. the country, and has been The Panthers scored again shutting out most teams. in the bottom of the seventh Hillsdale began the to win the game 2-1. second game up 1-0 when We really need to hit sophomore Ainsley Elmore in clutch situations, lison scored on a double Grunert said. We have the by freshman Bekah Kastpotential to do a lot more ofning. fensively. There arent many Hillsdale was scheduled pitchers at the DII level to play Tiffin University on that she cant hit, AbraSaturday, March 29, but due ham said. There might to weather, the games were not be any. rescheduled for April 15, to Wayne State took the be played at home. lead 2-1 in the top of the Hillsdale plays at Malone third inning, but Hillsdale Sophomore Sarah Klopfer pitches in University on Saturday, April was able to tie the game Sundays game against Ohio Domini5. in the bottom of the fifth can. (Photo Courtesy of Brad Monastiere) We handled Malone pretwhen sophomore Danielle ty easily last year, Abraham Garceau scored on a doubottom of the third inning. said, but apparently they have ble by Ellison. Home runs by both sopho some good freshmen. The game remained tied, Hillsdale then plays Ashland forcing extra innings, until more Sarah Grunert and junior Kate Ardrey in the bottom of the University on April 6. Wayne State scored two runs in third brought Hillsdale within We are not scoring enough the top of the eighth inning to one point of Ohio Dominican. runs to win games right now, win the game. We kind of spiraled out of Ellison said, but that will come We were Davids grandcontrol at the end, Ellison said. around.

Hillsdale ball teams hopeful for first home games

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Baseball endures thrillers, finishes week 3-3

Caleb Whitmer Editor-in-Chief A runner on first, two outs in the 7th, the game tied at three, junior Nolan Breymaier launched a triple into center field, putting the Chargers up one. Hillsdale held on for another half-inning, winning the second of a three-game series against Ohio Dominican University on Tuesday. That was playoff intensity baseball, said head coach Eric Theisen. Hillsdale (6-6) won three and lost three in the past week. They took two of a three-game series against Malone University (8-4) on Sunday and Monday. In the Ohio Dominican (5-5) series, the Chargers lost their first game on Tuesday, won the doubleheader, and lost Wednesdays afternoon game. Were getting there, Theisen said. Were trying to get more consistent. Senior pitcher Matthew Reck took the mound for the opening game of the Malone series. He pitched a complete game, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out six. That was huge, Theisen said. He set our bullpen up for the rest of a long road trip. Hillsdale won the game, 5-2. The Chargers got four RBIs from four different players in the second Malone game and they capitalized on Malones errors, scoring runs on both of them. Malone pulled ahead early in the third game. Hillsdale matched them hit-for-hit; both teams ended up with nine, but couldnt even the score. Malone won the game, 8-4. Both Hillsdales games on Monday against Ohio Dominican were decided by one run. Both winning runs were scored in each games final inning. The first game saw four lead changes. Down three in the top of the 6th inning, the Chargers managed two runs off hits from sophomore Luke Ortel and senior Adam Ladzinski. Sophomore pitcher Chris McDonald, who started the game, gave up one run in the bottom of the 6th, but made it out of the inning otherwise clean. Senior Nolan Nunez hit Hillsdales game-tying run, scoring freshman Jake Lee. Hillsdale went on to load the bases, but, with two outs, Ortel grounded out to second, ending the inning. Theisen sent in Hillsdales closer, junior Dan Pochmara, for the bottom of the 7th. Pochmara got one out. But then Ohio Dominicans Anthony Raschilla hit a walk-off homer, and Hillsdale lost, 6-5. The doubleheader was equally intense. Hillsdale scored three runs in the 3rd to put the score at 3-2. Ohio Dominican chipped a single up the middle in the 6th, tying the game at three. Then Breymaier hit his triple, scoring what would prove to be the game-winning run. It wasnt over yet, however. With two outs in the bottom of the 7th, Pochmara again found himself facing Raschilla. But this time he got the strikeout and the Chargers got the win. There were a lot of emotions going around, Theisen said. It was fun to come out on top the second game. Games like that are why you play the game. Of the final Ohio Dominican game, Theisen said, They just played better than we did. The Chargers lost that game, 9-1. Hillsdale plays a three-game se- Senior Matthew Reck throws a complete game ries at home this weekend against against Malone. (Photo Courtesy of Dave Bartlett) Ashland University.

The Hillsdale College baseball team hopes to play their first home game of the season on Saturday, April 5 in the event that the baseball field dries up in the next few days. Due to poor field conditions, the softball team has already rescheduled several home games. The first 14 of the teams 26 league games will be away. The dirt is the issue, said head softball coach Joe Abraham. It took so long for the snow to melt so the dirt is muddy. But even then, the frost below

sits down there and the frost keeps rising so the dirt continues to be too soft to play on. Although the softball team is accustomed to playing outside during the early winter months, this season is making them stir crazy. Abraham said the team usually starts practicing on the field in early March. This year, practice on the grass was pushed back an extra month. Its rough, said freshman Cassie Asselta. I hate not playing home because it gets your momentum for season and when youre expecting to be home or away it sets your tone.

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First senior art exhibit on display in Daughtrey

Teddy Sawyer Assistent Editor Senior Sarah Chasen dubbed her upcoming joint senior art show energetic because the show combines a variety of fine and digital arts and pushes the limits of the mediums represented. Seniors Joe Craig, Allison Land, Jennifer Scharl, and Chasen will hold a grand opening for their senior art exhibit on April 6 at 7 p.m., and their show will remain open in the Daughtrey Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts until the following Sunday. Each of the students has a medium of focus for Craig, drawing; for Chasen, painting; for Land, graphic design; and for Scharl, photography but they also dabble in others. We should have an equal showing of all our mediums because we have a diverse group of people, Land said. The senior exhibit is an opportunity for the students to present a large body of their work and even, on occasion, to sell some. I mostly have drawings as well as some sculpture, painting, and design, Craig said. It comes down to developing my skill to show what I want to in my work and communicate what I want.

Senior recital season begins

Phil Devoe Collegian Reporter After months of practice, excited and nervous senior musicians will perform for peers, parents. and professors the culmination of their collegiate musical work and, for many, the final step in their music major. The next three weeks are dotted with senior recitals, ranging from oboes to sopranos, exhibiting all theyve learned. Seniors have spent the semester working hard to prepare for their recital, Professor of Music James Holleman said. This time of the year is certainly the best for them in terms of performances. The recitals give seniors a chance to demonstrate what they have learned in their music classes and lessons. The recitals are either one full recital, or a half-recital combined with a written portion. Holleman explained that many juniors are doing performances this year, in addition to the seniors. This allows them to practice for their senior recital, though some non-majors elect to do junior or senior recitals as well. Senior recitals also give students a chance to play pieces in their various instruments and try new, unconventional styles. I read a book in which someone playing the violin made it sound like water, birds, and wind in the trees, senior Deborah Ross said, and I decided that I wanted to be able to do that Ross performs violin predominantly but also trumpet and voice. She said she has been singing for longer than she can remember. She also explained that the recitals are not judged, but music department students and faculty attend, and the performers family most often comes. I'm always slightly nervous before a performance, but I'm excited, too, because this is the culmination of my music experiences here, Ross said. I finally get to present what I've learned. Students who are neither majors nor minors can perform a recital if they choose. Since approximately 25 percent of campus is involved in the music program, major or not, many students are interested in recitals, both as audience and performer. Holleman said students will often group up for a recital to increase the audience size and guarantee them a spot performing but at a slightly less rigorous level. Others have individual recitals but incorporate other instruments for variety in sound and repertoire. I loved learning about music theory and figured if I was going to put that much effort into studying for it, why not major. I chose voice as my instrument because singing has always been my favorite musical activity, senior Emily Whitmer said. In addition to singing soprano, Whitmer played violin and flute throughout high school. She began singing in 10th grade with private voice lessons, and singing became a concentration after she joined the college choir and took music theory classes. Chamber choir has been the highlight of my time here at Hillsdale, Whitmer said. Her recital follows a chronological timeline of classical music from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. To accompany her singing, Whitmer has a string quartet, a guitar, an oboe, and a cello performing in her recital on April 3. Professor Holleman gave me a good reminder the other day, Whitmer said. He said to look around the room: there is nothing but love. Everyone in the room is here to support the performer, not critique her. That is very comforting to me and very true.

Senior Sarah Chasen works on a painting in the Sage art studio. She is one of four artists exhibiting their work at the Daughtrey Gallery. (Laura Williamson/Collegian) In selecting exhibit-worthy work, students choose not only the art of which they are most proud but the pieces that show the spectrum of their ability as well. Something we all seem to have in common in the show is that were all very energetic artists, Chasen said. Even Jens photography is very bold and comes off strong and dramatic. None of us is really quiet or reserved each of us likes to push the envelope; each of us has been told at some point to calm down and has a strong sense of individuality. Craig said the art show has also allowed him to look on his past work and notice the subtleties and differences in the schools of his various professors. These differences helped to develop his work and interests. He said they also reveal what room is left for improvement. Chasen said she has seen growth in her art as well. In fact, she is exhibiting two large drawings of the same nude model that she drew when Studio Incamminati came to visit. Im really excited about those because it something that I never expected to get to do here, she said. Also, Dr. Knecht said it was bit edgy, and he said to put them in anyway, and Im excited about that because I like being a bit edgy.

Getting your one-act together

Sarah Albers Collegian Reporter At Hillsdale, the more overwhelmed you are with classes and extracurricular activities the better. Haven't slept in three days? Good for you! Forget to eat? At least your four different club leadership positions can provide you with intellectual nourishment. This involvement is good, but according to senior Mason Stuard, it can also lead to serious time concerns when planning rehearsalsespecially for the upcoming one-act plays. Many students from outside the Theatre Department were cast. Bringing new students into the department, while providing many with an opportunity to discover or rediscover theater, comes with its own complications. Getting everybody's schedule to mesh is always a problem, Stuard said. What I like about casting students within the Theatre Department is that, on the audition contract, we specify that you give us time priority. That can't always be done with non-majors. In addition to contending with busy schedules, inexperienced actors must also overcome personal reservations. Sophomore Jason Klicker has been involved with the Improv Club on campus before but never in a full-length production. He was cast in both The Marriage Proposal and the Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, directed by Stuard and junior Jennifer Shadle respectively. Sure, I have self-doubt, Klicker said, but on stage, I can't have that. That's why I think that Improv Club is such a great training ground for theater. Junior Jack Butler, cast in the play 'Degas, C'est Moi,' directed by senior Anne Peterson, has no such doubts. My main concern is going to be memorizing my lines, Butler said. The strategy so far has been reading the play once a day. Professor of Theatre George Angell noted that the influx of new faces is both necessary and welcome in the Theatre Department. Anybody can audition, Angell said. Everybody needs to start somewhere. We're always trying to cast some of the roles in our major stage shows with new blood, and we always have students who are need of growth and development. Especially for beginning actors, the primary goal is to become comfortable with yourself as well as your role. Shadle said that she often sees beginning insecurity give way to confidence and creativity on stage. The key with inexperienced actors is letting them know that it's a safe space, Shadle said. Once you get the script out of their hands and they know the blocking, they bring the little things to life. Angell also noted the process of dynamic growth that occurs when actors begin to find their place on stage. At first, the need for safety often inhibits their engagement with the character and the audience. The most common problem among beginning actors is wanting to do it 'right,' Angell said. What they don't understand is that there is no such thing as 'right.' There is only 'as good as you can do it,' which is by definition 'right.' Some students have happily decided to give up on the idea of a quantifiable objective. Always have fun, Klicker said. For others, like Butler, the goal is decidedly more concrete. I would love to be Daniel Day-Lewis, Butler said. But I don't think I ever will be. The one-act plays give many Hillsdale students an opportunity to participate in the theater program who would not otherwise have done so. Despite the time constraints and growth pains, these budding actors and actresses look forward to their experiences in the Theatre

BIG BAND CONCERT

The coming weekend, April 5 and 6 at 8 p.m., guitarist Jim Dragoni of Philadelphia will play two concerts with the Hillsdale College big band in Markel Auditorium. Jim was the guitarist with Mose Allison for many years, Professor of Music Chris McCourry said. Nowadays he plays concerts with guitar legend Larry Coryell as well as performing as a soloist at Chriss in Philly. Chriss is the only jazz club of note left in Philly, according to McCourry. The band will have at least 17 students performing in addition to MCCourry and Dragoni. The set list includes, but is not limited to, greats like Come Fly With Me, Us, and Ivory Blues.

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Pictured above Senior Mason Stuard directs his one act; Sophomore Tori Zajac works in her script; students including sophomore Catherine Coffey, junior Leslie Reyes, and sophomore Karen Harju gather to block out the first parts of Stuards play. (Sarah Albers/Collegian) Department. I think it's fantastic that somebody like me gets to be part of the theater, Klicker said. There is a lot more of an opportunity [with the one-acts] for outsiders to get cast. It's a good doorway into the acting world.

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From the eye of the storm to homecoming

Lillian Quinones Collegian Freelancer Forty years ago, you may have seen a mug shot and headlines touting the Free Joe Pearce campaign. Today, Joseph Pearce is famous for his biographies of literary giants like Solzhenitsyn and Shakespeare. In his autobiography, Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce explores his conversion from his days as a fiery youth leader within the National Front Party to Catholicism. It is a thrilling book that provides a glimpse into his spiritual battle as an agnostic and racist to his joyful reunion with God. I had the opportunity to meet Pearce when he gave a presentation on Tolkeins Hobbit. This led me to read his recent autobiography. I asked Pearce what he hopes readers will take away from his life story. He replied, First, I hope it will show that nobody is beyond the reach of the loving grace of God, regardless of how far they appear to be from Him; second, that there is an inextricable bond between faith and reason, the breaking of which always has disastrous consequences for humanity. The predominate thread running through Pearces inspiring story emphasizes a conversion by love as well as reason. He believes that Chesterton was such an important influence because he was a man alive to love as he was a man alive to truth. Pearce was born in 1961 to a working class family outside of London in a small town called Barking. A childhood in the shire is how Pearce begins his story, describing how he and his brother, Steven, would happily roam the local woods, Ladywood and Bluebell, pretending to escape the Sheriff of Nottingham and his men. Pearces father, Albert Arthur Pearce, influenced his sons through his often racist opinions. A zealous lover of Mother England, Albert Pearce proclaimed there were only three types of people in the world: Englishmen, those who like to be Englishmen,

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At the age of 16, Pearce started the Bulldog, a youth magazine committed to inciting a race war in England. The Bulldog positioned him as a leading member in the Youth National Front Party and, shortly after, landed him in a prison cell for six months for publishing racist material. During his time in prison, Pearce became a celebrity by a Free Joe Pearce graffiti campaign that decorated numerous bridges and freeways. Out of prison, Pearce continued his allegiance to the National Front and described it the love of my own people, albeit a love that became an idol. Still in the midst of the political storm, Pearce encountered a different love. He was deeply moved by a policeman who lent him money to buy a ticket for a soccer game even though the ale on Pearces breath made repayment dubious. Looking back, two similar encounters with strangers convinced Pearce that an act of love speaks louder and longer than any words wasted in argument. At this time, Pearce discovered the works of G.K. Chesterton which convinced him of that love that can kill all hatred. In prison once again for printing hate-speech, Pearce entered his cell a broken man. Spending six months in solitary confinement, he continued to read books by Catholic authors who opened his eyes to the poisonous ideology of the National Front. Released from prison, Peace began the last steps of joining the Catholic Church, and, on the day of his baptism, he remarked with great joy, I had come home.

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GET OUT OF THE LIBRARY: DONT MISS OUT ON SENIOR ART SHOWS
Emmaline Epperson
Senior art shows are poorly attended, as are most senior voice recitals. During college, we have a tendency to become self-absorbed and only concerned with our own problems. But theres only so much time you can spend in the library translating Latin. Get out there. Hillsdale students are a talented bunch that have a lot to offer. Our goal as liberal arts students is to recognize the importance of all areas of study. By learning in a new way, you can also view the world from a different, richer perspective. Some of the best authors found muses in surprising places. While taking a hike, Petrarch made some of his most important conclusions about theology. Bad weather in Switzerland inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. If you dont go out and experience the world, you could miss out on making your best discoveries. If you attend student presentations, you will be surprised to find some of Hillsdales top students and professors in the audience. They recognize the importance of both supporting their fellow students and getting out of their own heads. As G.K. Chesterton wrote, Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. In a piece entitled Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast, author Tom Wolfe wrote: I doubt that there is a writer over forty who does not realize in his heart of hearts that literary genius, in prose, consists of proportions more on the order of 65 percent material and 35 percent the talent in the sacred crucible. But maybe you arent a writer. Maybe you are a chemist, biologist, or musician. No matter what you do, you create. So pick your head up out of your book. Walk to the Sage Center for the Arts. Support your fellow students and who knows, maybe inspiration will strike you. If not, at least there are free snacks.

and those who didnt know any better. At the same time that he would defend the preeminence of the English over the Irish or entertain Anti-Semitism, he would also embraced the Irish and Jewish man at the pub. Although his father loved people too much to sanction their extermination, Pearce embraced a racial hatred for the next 20 years of his life that placed him in the eye of the storm in the 1970s and 80s. He fanned the fires of nationalist fervor which enveloped Great Britain in violence.

Senior art shows start next week. I know what you are thinking I have two papers due, a couple of exams, and havent slept in a month. Well, coming from a girl with two senior theses, I have little pity for you. No matter how much you have to do, you should still go to the senior art shows. The seniors who put together these exhibits have worked countless hours and spent hundreds of dollars preparing for their shows. Their exhibits represent four years of toil and hard work. As their fellow Hillsdale student, you have an obligation to look at their pieces and to support them. Besides, its not like going to an art show takes a lot of time or energy. All you have to do is walk around and look at art. If you get there early enough, there are also free snacks. Thats right free snacks. Besides, you never know, the pieces could inspire you and lead you to the good, the true, and of course, the beautiful.

Tory Cooney Senior Reporter

Armory Arts Village: prison turned art studio

said Judy Gail Krasnow, another resident and owner of Jackson Prison Tours. Cubilles studio once several prison cells whose original dimensions are apparent in the brick arches in the ceiling not only brims with his own artwork but also that of his students. Children, adults, whoever wants to learn how to paint, I teach them, Cubille said. And he keeps his classes as inexpensive as possible to keep them accessible something he sees as especially important in Jackson, where only one school (a high school) offers art classes. He also provides after-school art programs to several schools in the Jackson Public School system. Some of the kids here just have so much talent, Cubille said. And theyre so open minded to everything. I even learn from them. Cubille began teaching over 15 years ago in New York City, working with at-risk children. Put your interest in arts instead of committing crimes, that was my idea at the beginning, Cubille said. Learning how to paint, learning arts pushes the focus into doing something creative. That same idea compelled Albert M. Ewert to begin offering art classes in the very same building over 80 years ago when he served as the prisons chaplain. He offered lessons in painting, creative writing, and music, in addition to holding biweekly meetings of a progressive club in which inmates could share what they thought was needed for them to be released rehabilitated, Krasnow said. Art was on the list. The artwork produced by some of the inmates was so impressive that Ewert contacted an art dealer in New York City, who eventually agreed to host an exhibition of prisoner art, Krasnow said. The top two winners were inmates at Michigan State Prison, and the third place winner was a woman from the Detroit House of Detention. A.J. Thomas, one of Grand Centrals Winners, he said pointblank that if he had learned how to paint as a child, he never would have been in prison, Krasnow said. And if you look at his paintings, theyre magnificent. Claire Fetterman, a student in Cubilles Saturday childrens class, has been taking lessons at Armory Arts for nearly two years. Her most recent project was a painting of a road vanishing into the woods. It took me, like, 5 arts lessons to finish it, she said. She loves the classes, even though she was initially a little Pictured above and to nervous, given the buildings his- the left are some of the tory. One time, she was using a prison-turned art space blow dryer to help set the paint now called the Armory of a project, and the dryer turned Arts Village. The village off, seemingly of its own accord. is a space for resident Its fine, she said. Its just artists to come and weird. Once people actually had work. to live here. And now people live (Courtesy Lou Cubille) here again.

Just a minute, Louis Lou Cubille said, grabbing a black pea coat and shrugging it on. Some of my students just got here. I need to let them in. Cubille is one of the artists who lives and works in Armory Arts Village a resident artists village in Jackson, Mich. that has moved far, far away from its origins: Michigans first state prison. The buildings original purpose is still obvious in the barred windows, the three-feet-thick walls, and the cold, cold hallways that force residents to don hats and coats whenever they leave their apartments or studios. But now the barred windows alternate with paintings of geese sweeping over cerulean lakes and dreamy landscapes. I call my program From historic prison to artistic vision because thats what it is today,

MOVIE REVIEW DUEL: IS RECENTLY-RELEASED NOAH WORTH SEEING?

Noah soaks old tale in artistic energy
Caleb Whitmer Editor-in-Chief Most renditions of Noah and the ark go as follows: People of the world are bad, Noah is good, and animals are cute. Flood, ark, prayer, olive branch, rainbow. The end. Under Darren Aronofskys direction, Noah and his family must endure the wretched screams of pagan men, women, and children drowning outside the ark. Rather than a shelter from the storm, the massive ship becomes a prison, and Noah, played by a haunted and haggard Russell Crowe, is left to contemplate his own agency in Gods destruction of the earth. Audiences looking for a fresh take on an old tale will find exactly that in Noah. The cinematography is at times breathtaking and distant biblical characters become real. Noah is by no means perfect, but Aronofskys film will send audiences out of the theater pondering some of theologys biggest questions. Aronofskys pre-diluvian world crosses The Lord of the Rings with The Road. Sandal-wearing scavengers scramble over a barren landscape, fighting each other for what little food remains after mans industrial and warmongering society has laid waste to Gods creation. Yes, Aronofsky injects several anachronisms, including environmentalism and a give peace a chance message, into a story set thousands of years before Christ. But hold off on your ecological judgements until the movies final two acts: Aronofskys artistic energy explodes in Noahs retelling of Gods creation of the Earth. The scene is a bona fide classic for blockbuster cinema and presents biblical backing for the movies hippie sensibilities The plot follows the outline of the Noah story from Genesis, but Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel fill in the movies two hours and fifteen minutes with their own sub-plots and characters. Some of these deviations stray far enough from the source material as to upset those looking for a purely biblical account notably the fallen angel rock giants, the arks stowaway, and a gut-twisting threat of sex-selective abortion. Aronofsky uses these additions to develop such Old Testament themes as mans knowledge of Gods will and the relationship between mercy and justice. This sounds paradoxical, but Aronofskys extra-biblical characters and plot points make the story, at least thematically, even more Old Testament albeit through such blockbuster tropes as a CGI castle siege and a climactic wrestling match between Noah and the movies villain. Characters that get little more than a mention in the biblical account become real and relatable, and the films drama revolves around their conflicting fears and desires: Noahs wife (Aronofsky alum, Jennifer Connelly) loves her children, Noahs young sons want wives, and Emma Watsons Ila, who is barren, hates that she cant provide children to Noahs son, Shem (Douglas Booth). Most conflicted of all, however, is Crowes Noah. The Bible describes Noah as a righteous man, humble and aware of his imperfection before God. Aronofskys Noah cannot comprehend why God would choose him, a man painfully conscious of his own shortcomings, to continue the human race. The dilemma drives Noah to the brink of insanity. It is this man with whom Noahs family is trapped on the ark for close to a year. The result is terrifying. To reveal more would be to risk spoilers. Its safe to say, however, that Aronofskys apocryphal narrative of what happened on the ark more than adequately explains Noahs entirely biblical wine drinking once the flood waters recede. Some of Aronofskys additions to the Noah story feel contrived. He delivers parts of the 21stcentury messaging awkwardly and several scenes stray into caricature. Some of that is part of the appeal. Biblical blockbusters just arent complete without some clumsy modernization or a gloriously campy establishing shot beaten into Hollywood history with timpani drums and brass. The film takes Genesis out of the childrens books and gives it some much needed thematic gravitas. While the production sees its fair share of rough waters, Aronofskys Noah is worth the ride.

Biblical story perverted by Hollywood

Jack Butler Assistant Editor

How do you turn a story that is both short and universal into a blockbuster? With Noah, director Darren Aronofsky has attempted an answer. Unfortunately, his solution of suffusing the biblical narrative with strange subplots, modern movie conventions, and outright inventions makes us wonder why the question begged an answer in the first place. Some of Noah adheres to the basic tale of a noble patriarch (Russell Crowe) and his decent family, chosen by God to survive a purifying deluge and repopulate the world. But diversions from this familiar narrative begin immediately and abound at all subsequent parts. Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), leader of Cains evil industrialist descendants, for example, murders Noahs father in the opening scene, imbuing Noah with an inner brooding more common to superhero origins than biblical epics. For a while after that, though, the narrative remains somewhat strong. Aronofsky, invoking the intimate darkness of earlier films like Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream, gives our hero a more tortured path to the ark. Unable to interpret horrifying dreams of aquatic catastrophe himself, he journeys to his Yoda-esque grandfather, Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins) for advice. Once the arks construction is underway, the movie starts moving in a consistent direction. Most of the better scenes and imagery come from the ark and its building. Stunning sequences of stop-motion photography show the long-term growth of the resources to build the boat and depict much of Genesis. Cameras trace the descent of the Floods first raindrop from the sky to Noahs face. A simultaneously grotesque and pitiable mass of men climbs atop a tall rock during the deluge, desperately clinging to life against an ever-rising tide. But the rest of the film works less well. Its fantastic elements mostly fall flat and distract. The films Watchers, giant rocky creatures who behave like Ents from The Lord of the Rings, for

example, are pure plot facilitators. Fortunately, theyre gone soon enough that we can forget they were ever there. And zohar, a bizarre mineral, serves whatever purpose the plot requires. Though a talented cast fills out Noahs family, their characters lack depth. Logan Lermans Ham spends most of the movie as an angst-ridden teenager; Douglas Booths Shem thinks only of Emma Watsons Ila. Some dilemmas arise from Ilas infertility and its cure, but never enough to surpass superficiality. Yet the purely bad far outweighs both the good and the merely so-so. Both the pagan horde and its leader, Tubal-Cain, come straight from a generic ancient battle film. Its particularly obvious when Tubal-Cain delivers a rousing pre-battle speech (another St. Crispins Day rip-off), and when the horde tries to claim the ark in a rain-soaked fight with the Watchers (a contest staged better at Helms Deep). Questions of faith and morality in the face of a seemingly silent God pithily expressed by Tubal-Cains provocative creed that a man isnt ruled by the heavens...a man is ruled by his will get short shrift. And once the ark actually sets sail, the movie simply falls apart. While Tubal-Cain, having snuck onto the ship during the Floods chaos, converts Ham to the dark side, Ila enters the final stages of her pregnancy, and Noah decides that his task is to end humanity. This culminates in a convoluted climax in which Ham watches his father fight Tubal-Cain as the most passive battlespectator since Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, and then fashions Noah as a would-be member of the Earth Liberation Front. Not even happy resolutions to these threads can rescue Noah from unsympathetic status. With Noah, then, Aronofsky has given us some striking imagery, but mostly half-formed ideas, wholly flawed expansions (and creations) of the biblical narrative, and an unrelatable protagonist. The result is a confused mess that combines modern epic, disaster, and drama films and cant decide which to be. While the story of Noahs ark will stay with mankind forever, Noah will be lucky to last past this year.

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S POTLIGHT Sigma Chi: the ideal frat castle

Smith, a craftsman in Adams Township approximately seven miles away from Hillsdale. The Chandlers were influential in the formation of Hillsdale society and culture. They brought to Hillsdale the taste and elegance of the somewhat aristocratic Hudson River country and were among the first in social and domestic life, a Hillsdale Historical Society narrative describes. Theirs was a happy blending of affluent living and graceful hospitality. Harriet Chandler, affectionately known to students as Auntie Chandler, offered them cheer and hospitality during their lonely hours away from home. She shared her collection of gowns and accessories with students, and as a result, items of her wardrobe were often seen in dramas, parties, and masquerades on campus. Christmas of 1910 brought new owners for the stately white home. Franklin M. Cook, a banker, moved in with his wife, Lulu, and their three children. Cook was a graduate of the University of Michigan, and served on the Hillsdale Board of Education and the Prudential Committee of Hillsdale College. Lulu Cook was Chapter Regent of the Hillsdale chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The home underwent several renovations while the Cooks resided there, most significantly, the installation of electricity, gas, and indoor plumbing. Cook also added the porch, raised the back of the house to two stories, and installed hardwood flooring in the attic for a ballroom. Cooks daughter, Laura, continued living in the house after her parents deaths. In 1980, the Kappa Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity bought the house from the Cook family. Our refounders used to visit the house yearly in order to sing Christmas carols to the owner, Mrs. Cook, senior and current Sigma Chi President Tom Ohlgren said. At one point in time they sent the three best-looking guys to see her in an attempt to buy the house. She was reluctant. Shortly after that, Mrs. Cook ended up passing away. And our refounders ended up buying the house by selling five thousand dollar junk bonds to people. The Sigma Chi Kappas renovated the building before moving in, updating the heating, plumbing, and shower facilities. The basement and attic were converted to sleeping quarters. The cost of the renovation was more than $25,000. Not only has the whole ordeal been an invaluable learning experience, but striving for a common cause has strengthened the fraternity, Sigma Chi Eric Strother told the Collegian in 1982. We all have enjoyed a true sense of accomplishment. Today, 19 Sigma Chi actives The Sigma Chi house in 2004. live in the house. It is the ideal frat castle: large, full of creaking and dents, and inviting, Ohlgren said. Its very old, but we take good care of it. Many brothers, including
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Vivian Hughbanks Collegian Reporter

In July 1853, masons and painters put the finishing touches on Central Hall. Just down the road, at the corner of Hillsdale and Fayette Streets, a grand new house stood shining, newly complete. The home of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, the house at 172 Hillsdale Street, was built by Samuel Chandler, an early settler of Hillsdale County. Chandler was a trader in dry goods and worked in the local foundry. He was appointed the postmaster of Hillsdale in 1849, and later became the first city clerk after Hillsdale was chartered as a city. He also worked on the Telegraph Line for the U.S. Express Company. The house was built from the same bricks that were used for Central Hall. The bricks were manufactured by Charles H.

myself, will look back on their college experience and think of the many memories made in the house.

PHYSICS
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bonded the four physics majors: Electronics. Boyko remembers the class as a spiritual experience. With an average of ten hours in lab every week, the four classmates classified one another as physics lounge roommates. Rozsa said it wasnt unusual if Professor of Physics Ken Hayes left a note on the door of the physics lounge asking Security to let his students stay in the lounge to study all night for exams. Kane said he isnt one to pull all-nighters. But he cant say the same about his classmate.

Viktor doesnt get enough sleep, he said. I worry about that kid. Hayes admitted that he has written notes for students to allow for late-night study sessions in the physics lounge. They spend many hours a day studying in the lounge, Hayes said. Some of them live in there. DiGiovanni confessed that he has established a relationship with the cleaning crew throughout the years of late nights in the physics lounge. They have a running knowledge of my life, he said. Seven doctoral programs have accepted DiGiovanni, including Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ranked among the top-25 me-

chanical engineering graduate schools according to U.S. News and World Report. But he said he is far from making a decision, although he plans to study mechanical engineering. The four say they have grown close over the past few years through late nights of studying, lab write-ups, and class time. Although they do not often engage in free time together, Rozsa said he stills feels like he knows his classmates. Weve come together as friends, he said. Because of this crazy physics major thing we have together, these guys know and understand parts of me my other friends never will.

understand it, Springer said. Cory knows what good design is. It was easy to talk to him. Recently The Brothers Flint began working with a new client: Tint, a new startup website that is used by 40,000 brands around the world. Tint is a simple tool that allows people to post and to display social media feeds to virtually any platform. Toby and Cory visited Tint last year. They plan to return to California this summer to work on an Android version of the app.

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We are competing against larger programming organizations. Our focus on mobile apps makes us a specialty designer. We have a strength in that we can go out there and do a really great mobile product, Cory said. Companies like Tint are grateful that somebody had enough courage to go out there and see if we could do something for them. Cory believes that his aspiration to be an entrepreneur came from his grandfather who started his own business after returning from World War II. The Brothers Flint are exploring the different platforms of app development. This sum-

mer they hope to develop and publish a new game which will be a test of the progress they have made as developers. Our goal is to get back to our roots, which is game programing. It has become almost like a metric, a bench mark so to speak, of what we can do, Toby said. We havent gotten the chance to sit down and build a game. This summer we can really sit down and benchmark how far we have both come.

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Hundreds of Hillsdale College students left in 1861 to fight in the American Civil War. Many came home wounded. Some never came home at all. This series chronicles the experiences of several of those students who left their families and their college to fight for a greater cause. Special thanks to Linda Moore, Arlan Gilbert, and Kraig McNutt for their knowledge and assistance.

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The two lines of men smashed into each other amid the roar of the battle. The clash of bayonets and sabers rang in the ears of 22-yearold Lt. Frank Baldwin of the 19th Michigan Infantry as he led his men into the mass of Confederate gray. Forward! Advance! he said. The boys in blue marched forward with gleaming bayonets leading the way. Suddenly, Baldwin saw two officers stand up from the tall grass. One was carrying a Confederate flag. Baldwin raced over and ordered the two men to surrender, holding them by the point of his sabre. The men complied, handing the flag over. It was a mere boyish prank and hardly worth talking about, he said later. Anyone might have done it. Baldwin received the Medal of Honor for his boyish prank, one of two he would win in his lifetime. Francis Baldwin was born on June 26, 1842. His mother, a Free-Will Baptist, encouraged her son to pursue an education, in which he did well enough to attend Hillsdale College. In 1861, while he enrolled, other students left their classes and joined the ranks of the Union army. In the fall of 1862, Baldwin joined up as a lieutenant in the 19th Michigan Infantry. His first taste of battle came in March of 1863, when Confederate units approached a defensive position held by Baldwin and his men. While Baldwin readied his men for action, an orderly came with a message. Under no circumstances will your men fire a shot at

the enemy, the order read. Dismayed, Baldwin surrendered his entire unit, having never fired a shot. He and his men were taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, where they waited until they were released under a prisoner exchange program. Baldwin returned to the army after a short break at home and took command of a small fort in Tennessee in October. After only a few days, the young lieutenant again came under an overwhelming amount of fire. For the second time in his short career, he surrendered. As Baldwin and his men stood by their Confederate captors, a short man with wiry gray hair rode up to the defeated lieutenant. I am sorry you did not surrender and save this destruction of life, Gen. Joseph Wheeler said. You have done more than your duty. Wheeler allowed Baldwin and his men to leave unharmed, giving them a document that allowed them to safely pass through Confederate lines. The next adventure for the former Hillsdale student came as a part of Shermans infamous March to the Sea in Georgia, a campaign that would see the total destruction of all materials from Atlanta to Savannah. Everything that would afford shelter or aid to the enemy in the least was in ruins by the fifteenth of November, Baldwin said. As part of the campaign, Baldwin lamented the acts committed by Union soldiers during the march, especially those who came to be known as Shermans Bummers. They were natural shirks and booters with no honorable intention other than to escape duty and fill their own stomachs with food, Bald-

win said. Instead of stealing, Baldwin and his men paid for the supplies they took. At one plantation house, a woman remarked on the nature of the soldiers. You Yankees are not half as bad as we supposed, she said. You will come again after the cruel war is over and we have our independence. Shermans march would be Baldwins last major Civil War experience. After touring Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., the young soldier received his discharge on June 26, 1865, his 23rd birthday. After a brief return to civilian life, Baldwin joined the regular army in 1866 and was sent to the plains, where he fought in the Indian Wars. His second Medal of Honor was earned after the rescue of two young girls in 1874 from their imprisonment in a Native American camp. Poor little things, they were nearly starved to death and naked, and could hardly talk, Baldwin wrote. It was a pitiable sight. Baldwin spent the rest of the wars chasing the famed leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse across the Montana plains. At the outbreak of World War I, Baldwin, now at the venerable age of 75, volunteered to join the American Expeditionary Force heading to France. The army declined the old veterans offer, giving him instead a desk job as the adjutant general of Colorado. In the twilight of his life, Baldwin wrote to Joe Culbertson, his scout during the Indian Wars. I look back on them old days and think of the hardship and danger we went through together, he wrote. I wish them old days was back again.

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Whalen returns
Provosts son to teach class next year
the post! Whalen and Smith have become acquainted at various Thomas More and Shakespeare conferences. He has a truly solid As the fall class schedule went out, students noticed with grounding in and understandconfusion that a B. Whalen was ing of the liberal arts, Smith listed as a professor. Professor said.Ben has great gifts (from of English Stephen Smith was his mothers side of the family, nowhere seen, and the solitary of course), and our students Whalen was only listed next to will love working with him. The liberal arts at Hillsdale Artes Liberales. Conversations with junior Liz Whalen make Whalen especially exconfirmed; Benedict Whalen, cited for the posting. He said second eldest of the Whalen he looks forward to being part children, would replace Ste- of an environment shaped by phen Smith during his sabbati- the Hillsdale core curriculum, and teaching in a system with a cal next year. Benedict has been work- robust core curriculum. I think the best part will be ing all this year at Texas A&M at Corpus Christi, Provost and Im extremely excited David Whalen said. He had about this the class sizes at a one-year appointment there Hillsdale, he said. The core this year, but they were search- curriculum class is capped at ing for someone in his field and 18 students. To put that into context, he participated in that search, and he was offered a tenure Whalen currently teaches 170 track position. He turned it students in four classes. But down to take the one-year po- beyond delivering lectures, sition here, which is almost Whalen said he considers himunheard of; people think thats self to assign his students more positively crazy. But, what hes papers than most, a fact that doing is reorienting his career led his father to observe, He is just grading like to a small libera madman. al arts environWhalen conment. His Ph.D is from a large Ben has great gifts siders papers smaller state school. (from his mothers and class sizes imHe has taught in a large state side of the family, portant to his school. He has of course), and our teaching style next year. decided to give My interest himself to a students will love liberal arts con- working with him. in the papers is at least twotext. Professor of fold, he said. Benedict see if stuWhalen attendEnglish Steven To dents can use ed the University of Dallas Smith language well, and to see if for his underthey can think. graduate degree in English, where he met his I love literature, but I think wife. He earned his graduate that I am a demanding grader. and doctorate degrees in Re- He continued, Im extremely naissance English literature at excited to work with these stuthe University of Nevada, Las dents on a closer level. Im a pretty open-door sort of proVegas. Michael Jordan, chair of fessor. Whenever I can unthe Hillsdale College English less I have to get something department, began looking for done I leave my office door a replacement for Smith late open. Thats the number one last semester, ideally one with way in which we will start to Renaissance literature creden- grow and learn, with that real connection. tials. Whalens year-long memDavid Whalen talked with his son on the phone last No- bership of the Hillsdale faculty vember when he mentioned the promises more than a break job opening to him. Benedict from daunting class sizes and Whalen said hed like to apply. piles of papers to grade. Benedict Whalen attended a The elder Whalen encouraged his son to contact Jordan but boarding school through high excused himself from the hir- school. He was in eighth-grade ing process. I told Dr. Jordan, the last time he lived in Hillinclude me out, he said, And sdale. In June, Whalen will they did include me out, I actu- return with his wife and two ally only heard things second kids. The eldest is a boy of 16 and thirdhand. Essentially, I months named Clement, and heard about it, I passed it on, the second is on its way, due in May. All the Whalens look forand got out of the way. Late last November, Bene- ward to see Benedict and his dict Whalen sent his curricu- family more often. Junior Liz Whalen said, lum vitae, letters of recommendation, transcripts, teaching Its going to be so weird for evaluations, and published me, and so wonderful, to be scholarship to Jordan. Jordan walking down the sidewalk, said that when he mentioned and see him walking down the to Smith that Whalen was ap- sidewalk, and getting to spend plying: Steve Smith said, Oh time with him and his family. boy, he would be excellent for
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The Brothers Flint

SPOTLIGHT
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Hillsdale brothers create app business

Alex Anderson Web Editor

RACHELFERNELIUS, JUNIOR
Describe your fashion sense in five words or less. Classic chic with 60s inspiration. What is your most embarrassing item of clothing? My Ugg boot collection, but its too cold here not to have one. What is your biggest fashion pet peeve? Everyone has their own unique sense of style, but Im personally not a fan of the mullet (high low) dress skirt.
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CAMPUSCHIC

In 2004 the Nintendo DS emerged as the breakthrough console in the handheld video game market. This product offered capabilities such as dual screens with touch pad and Wi-Fi access. To date the DS remains the best selling handheld console on the market. To an ambitious high school freshman and his brother this console was an opportunity to enhance their program development skills, which would found a future entrepreneurial venture. Senior Cory Flint and his brother, Toby Flint, 13 created The Brothers Flint, a mobile application development company in 2009. Cory credited the origins of their application to his brothers fascination with video games during high school. All through high school Toby had a fascination with developing home brewed video games for the Nintendo DS, Cory said. Very quickly we realized that he could develop programs on the MacBook. That code could then be ported over to the iPod as an app. This quickly developed into ideas for a company. Toby began to research the iPod touch, independently developing software for mobile apps, and learning code through trial and error. I basically started by reading Programming for Dummies. When I purchased a MacBook they gave me a free iPod touch, Toby said. My summer before college I cruised Apples iPod documentation and developed games based off the tutorial. Tobys first success came

after he developed a set of blinking lights on the iPod touch. The brothers, mesmerized by the product, realized their breakthrough. I was messing around and I showed the blinking lights to Cory and he said we needed to put that on the app store, Toby said. I told him he was crazy, but it was a turning point for both of us. Inspired by their success they developed their first mobile video game app, Satellite Defense. Since its initial release users have downloaded the app over 1,000 times. The app which currently sells for 99 cents on Apples App Store includes a musical score which was composed by the Flint brothers. Both Cory and Toby emphasized the important role that music played in their life. Since the early age of four, Toby and Cory started the violin eventually switching to the cello. To them the tedious and time-consuming nature of programing parallels their experience with music. Programming is similar to the process of practicing an instrument in a small sixby -eight foot room for hours and hours a week. The mindset of playing scales and basic exercises does carry over to software development, Cory said. You sit there for hours banging your head on your keyboard trying to work through a development issue that you are going through. But of course when you are able to break through and play it is the same incredible feeling of breaking through a feature in an app. In 2011, Cory and Toby composed and directed a musical score for Hillsdales production of Carol Gozzis The

(Top) The latest The Brothers Flint app, Tint. (Bottom) The first The Brothers Flint game, Satellite Defense.
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Kings Stag. Toby compared that experience to his time writing code and developing apps. Honestly, music has shaped the way that we look at things. When we think of music we think of programs, Toby said. Underneath it is an attention to detail that is a lot of practicing the basics. When I program I am learning a new language. I am always trying to understand the basic overview. Cory started creating The

Brothers Flint website with the help of Hillsdale College Art Professor Bryan Springer. Springer explained that as a student Cory continued to sharpen his design and development skills by taking multiple computer graphics courses at Hillsdale. When I encounter students there are some people that are interested in it but there are others that intuitively it, Springer said. Cory

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