Freshmen Sarah Krizman and Jada Bissett knew that Hillsdale would be challenging. However, this “hell week” has pushed them farther than they imagined.

“ E v e r y t h i n g happened this week. I had an exam in every class this week,” Bissett said.

All Hillsdale students experience a certain amount of stress during the last weeks of the semes-ter, as papers pile up and final exams draw near. Some students experience the “final push” to a more extreme de-gree than others.

Junior John Tay-lor, a history major with concentra-tions in econom-ics and philosophy, took five academic classes this semes-ter. Four of them were history and philosophy classes, heavy on reading and writing.

“Taking four classes doesn’t seem worth it to me when you could take more and learn more,” Taylor said. “No matter what happens to your grade.”

Earlier this week, Taylor had about 20 pages written of the to-tal 55 he will write by the semes-ter’s end. Taylor admitted that he always intends on starting writ-ing the papers sooner in the se-mester, but neglects his work and

consequentially will amass a few sleepless nights and MelCat book fines by next week.

“As much as there is to com-plain and whine those two nights you pull all nighters in a row, when the sun rises and you’re

still awake studying for an exam at 8 a.m., that’s when you re-ally feel alive,” Taylor remarked. “Living off French press coffee and vitamin supplements – that’s literally my life.”

A junior transfer and econom-ics major, Carolina McNicoll is enrolled in six academic classes

and a CCA this semester, total-ing a whopping 19 credits. Mc-Nicoll doesn’t describe herself as someone who gets stressed eas-ily, but this semester has had its moments.

“As an economics major, I

am fortunate to have few papers assigned considering the work-load,” she said. “I had between 13-14 tests this semester, not in-cluding finals or quizzes.”

As tolling on students as the semester may seem, the amount of work that Hillsdale professors must accomplish is even more

mind-boggling.Associate Professor of History

David Raney is teaching one up-per-level class and two Western Heritage courses this semsester, which is typical of history pro-fessors, he said. Raney assigned

three three-page pa-pers to his Heritage class, and a 14-page term paper to his 30 Jacksonian America students. All in all, he will grade 798 pages of written papers. He also writes and proc-tors two midterm tests and a final for his 42 Heritage students, along with one mid-term and one final for his upper level class. All in all, he will read and grade 1,194 blue book pages.

“My least favor-ite grading is grading freshman term papers because they’re all writing in response to one prompt, and after a while the responses can become redun-dant,” Raney said. “Whereas reading re-search papers is quite enjoyable, because the topics are quite diverse and often interesting.”

Raney and his wife Dawn had their first child on Sept. 26 of this year, which has slowed down his usu-al speed of grading.

However, Raney makes the most of the situation with his famous positive attitude.

“I have never been more be-hind in my life, but would I trade it for anything else? Absolutely not,” he said.

This semester will conclude Professor of Politics David Bobb’s tenure as the executive director of citizen education for the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citi-zenship. His next venture sits one state away as president of the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, Va.

In 1996, Bobb graduated from Hillsdale College as a politics major. He continued his educa-tion at Boston College where he received his Ph.D in political phi-losophy. After school, Bobb was as an education policy analyst at the Pioneer Institute in Massachu-setts until he was asked to teach on the Hillsdale College main campus.

In 2008, Bobb returned to the East Coast to oversee the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program and carry out the vision of the Kirby Center on behalf of Hillsdale College.

“David is one of the first peo-ple I hired when I came here,” President Larry Arnn said. “He has served faithfully and effec-tively for more than a decade. He helped get the Kirby Center underway. He has contributed to our teacher training programs and the building of our charter school efforts. We will miss him, and we wish him every good thing in his new post.”

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Seniors opt for early graduation

Students struggle through ‘Hell Week’

Senior economics major Meilii Alvarez noticed last fall that she could fulfill the courses required to graduate by this De-cember if she also took summer classes. She now has a job with PricewaterhouseCoopers that will begin on Jan. 6.

“I will definitely miss every-one, but I was ready to move on and get into the world and move on to the next thing – not to men-tion it saves a lot of money, so that helps too,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez is not the only one to take advantage of the benefits of graduating early.

This December, 26 students will graduate – almost half of them in less than 4 years. It is the lowest number of December grad-uates since 2008, peaking in 2010 with 47 graduates. Job opportunities and finances often motivate students to graduate as soon as they reach credit requirements.

Senior Deborah Ross, a music major, realized she has sufficient credits to graduate in December, but said she is torn over the deci-sion to graduate early, since she hoped to take more humanities classes, especially history classes she has not had time to take be-fore now.

“I am kind of at a stage where I have to decide all this in a short amount of time,” Ross said.

Senior Natalie Clore, a mar-keting management major, said

she has appreciated less competi-tion when interviewing for jobs.

“I have found that a lot of companies when they put up a job postings are looking to fill it within four weeks,” Clore said. “It is really nice to see interest-ing job opportunities that are available now, knowing I would be able to fill them opposed to someone who isn’t graduating until May who wouldn’t be con-sidered for the position.”

Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray also said graduating early could give graduates more opportunities, but it could also work against the hir-ing calendar.

“In many respects there is not as much competi-tion in December, but there are not as many easily identi-fied opportunities with companies,” Murray said. “The bigger companies model and struc-ture their calendar year and their hir-ing process around a typical academic calendar with peo-ple graduating in the spring. Though based on what I

have seen the lesser number of opportunities and the lesser num-ber of people is somewhat of a wash.”

Murray also said employers could judge early graduates as ei-ther ambitious or intense depend-ing on the nature of the company.

“The majority will see [grad-uating early] as a good thing. If [students] can do that it means they are disciplined and focused to get the credits done in a shorter

“I think I have had a really awe-some three and a half years though, and I don’t think I have missed out on anything.” —Senior Natalie Clore

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As of two weeks ago, Jitters Coffee Cart started serving two brands of coffee

The Lane Hall coffee shop has served Starbucks coffee exclu-sively for several years, but, just before Thanksgiving break, they began providing Cadillac coffee, the brand found in A.J.’s Café and Knorr Family Dining Hall.

Saga Inc. added the additional coffee brand after students voiced concerns to the college adminis-tration about Starbucks’ ideologi-cal leanings. The Seattle-based coffee company donates money to Planned Parenthood and in September, Starbucks CEO How-ard Schultz requested that patrons not carry concealed weapons into its stores.

After Schultz released his open letter, sophomore Anna Pfaff, a member of Students for Life and the competitive shotgun team, met with senior Nathan Brand, president of Hillsdale’s chapter of the Young Americans for Free-dom. The two then talked with Dean of Women Diane Philipp about the possibility of serving a coffee brand besides Starbucks at Jitters.

“The gun control thing was not the reason that we did this – it was more of a catalyst,” Pfaff said.

Pfaff also took issue with Starbucks’ financial support of Planned Parenthood.

“Word got around that YAF is going after Starbucks because of their support of the LGBT

The Grewcock Student Union monitors have a new, official look due to their blue polo shirts, which match the shirts of Hills-dale College campus security’s student employees.

Junior Kadeem Noray, one of the student union monitors, ques-tioned why the shirts were neces-sary.

“I just don’t understand why we have to wear security shirts when we’re not security,” Noray said.

Director of Student Activities Amanda Bigney said the shirts would give students and visitors an indication as to whom they should go to in case of emer-gency.

Although the student union monitors do not work directly for campus security, Director of Campus Security and Emergency Management Bill Whorley said the monitors operate under the broad base of services that cam-pus security offers.

“We always want to be of sup-port to every area of campus,” Whorley said. “This is a service area of campus, like maintenance and other areas of campus. So everybody, depending on what

task we’re performing, is our customer.”

Operating under that sys-tem, the student union monitors received basic security train-ing from Whorley and Assistant Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers at the beginning of the year before starting work.

“They gave an idea as of what to do in a high risk situation,” Bigney said.

Student union monitors only have to wear the shirts if their shift is longer than two hours.

“I’m largely indifferent to it,” junior Korbin Kiblinger said. “It’s a little inconvenient that you have to change, but they only make you wear it if you’re work-ing longer than a two hour shift.”

Other students, however, don’t look on the uniform t-shirts as favorably.

“The first time I saw them, I said, ‘Stylistically, this is the worst thing that has ever hap-pened to me’,” Noray said. “I guess I do like the color navy blue. And they are navy blue.”

By outlining the values of a liberal arts degree, best-selling author and motivational speaker John U. Bacon attempted to show that Hillsdale students and fellow liberal arts students are the best prepared to succeed after college.

In his lecture titled “Virtue be-fore Victory: How the goodness and grit you learn at Hillsdale will lead to victory in life after graduation,” Bacon espoused the virtue of a liberal arts degree and explained the importance of Hill-sdale students’ diversified knowl-edge.

“You guys are learning how the world works and how it has for more than 200 years,” Bacon said in his lecture. “That is more important than training for a spe-cific career, because you guys know how to write and how to think.”

Bacon added that one of the most important characteristics of a successful person is charac-ter, and that is something he sees many Hillsdale students exem-plify.

“I saw all your cubby holes

without doors and locks,” Bacon said. “Don’t forget the impor-tance of that for a second and how much that means about you and your classmates. C h a r a c t e r matters.”

S e n i o r Melika Wil-l o u g h b y , who at-tended the l u n c h e o n , said Bacon’s lecture were very encour-aging.

“I en-joyed how he spoke mostly about diversifying your career options and how liberal arts students are naturally d i v e r s e , ” Willoughby said. “Then he trans-planted that to the career world and it encouraged me and was freeing to see that I can be a

speech writer, speech coach, and a volleyball coach when I gradu-ate.”

This was Bacon’s third visit

to Hillsdale’s campus, but his first time presenting in the Knorr Room. The event was sponsored

by Career Services, the Down Journalism Program, and the Var-sity Football Team.

Bacon said he agrees to speak at these events not because of the size of the event, but because of the people who organize them.

“Mike [Murray] and John [Miller] are the reason I’m here,” Bacon said.

Bacon and Murray’s friend-ship goes back around 10 years. While Murray was a Marine offi-cer at the University of Michigan, Bacon asked him to run a Marine Corps workout for the Ann Arbor Huron high school hockey team he was coaching.

Murray said the event was a success, and Career Services hopes to continue hosting similar lectures.

“We were looking for a way to get a lot of students to attend the event, and I think it was a success,” Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray said.

Murray added that, in the fu-ture, similar lectures likely will be held in the Private Dining Room, but that Career Services wants to make these regular events.

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Gershom Lecture series to beGin next semester

At the beginning of the spring semester, the new Gershom Lecture series on Jewish-Christian relations offi-cially kicks off with three lectures: Jan. 20 at 4:00 p.m., Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m., and Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium.

The three lectures, given by Walter S. Kaiser, are entitled “When Believing Jews and Believing Gentiles Were One in Messiah,” “When Supersessionism and Replacement Theology Drew the Lines,” and “When the Christian Church Needs Israel and Israel Needs the Church.”

Kaiser is an Old Testament scholar and was the president of the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from 1997-2006.

“The Lectures are the Inaugural Lectures of the Gershom Lecture Series, the purpose of the latter to explore Jewish-Christian relations biblically, historically and sociologically,” Dean of Humanities Tom Burke said.

“We’ve been eager in the department to do more justice to the ‘Judeo’ in our mission statement,” Professor of Religion Don Westblade said in a previous interview. “We’re aware that Judaica is kind of a weakness in the department, so we’re really happy to be able to bolster that end of things.”

Funded by a gift from Messianic Rabbi G. Robert Chenoweth, a founding member of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council and a friend of Hillsdale College, the lecture series had a pre-inaugural lecture last month to introduce the concept to campus. In addition to the Gershom Lecture series, there is potential for some short, seminar courses on the same topic – Jewish-Christian relations – in the future.

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Jonah Goldberg, syndicated columnist and editor at National Review, will spend two weeks on campus next semester as the Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism.

Goldberg will teach a one-credit class between April 6 and April 18. He will then deliver a public speech the night of April 18.

“Jonah is very funny and deeply principled,” said Dow Journalism Program Director John Miller. “He com-bines wit with sound thinking. It’s not a unique combination, but it’s a rare one.”

Goldberg has several Hillsdale College connections. Besides speaking on campus several times, includ-ing a commencement address at Hillsdale Academy, he also employed a Hillsdale student as his intern two summers ago.

He’s published two books, “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” and “Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.”

In addition to his experience with Washington, D.C., and the realm of national journalism, Miller said he thinks Goldberg will have helpful things to say about social media.

“He’s the best Twitter user I know,” Miller said. –Caleb Whitmer

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Monitors get a makeover

Career Services recently made changes to their informa-tional trip for students Living and Working in D.C., – now known as Networking in D.C.

Career Services decided to re-structure and rename the program to incorporate Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center resources that they have acquired over the past few years.

“It was inaugurated before the Kirby Center was up and running, so part of our idea of reforming it is to have it better fit it with the Kirby Center.” Keith Miller, as-sistant director of Career Services said.

Assistant Director of the Kirby Center Craig Kreinbihl said the resources that the Kirby Center has to offer have grown through connections made in Washington, D.C.

“As the Kirby center has grown more over the past few years, we have a lot of relation-ships and natural resources in Washington that we can take ad-vantage of,” Kreinbihl said.

In addition to taking advan-tage of Kirby Center resources, Career Services has also tried to focus on networking and less on sending students to job shadow.

“In previous years, it has been very focused on job shadows, which has not been as great as we would have liked. We have moved away from that and have more of a series of informational meeting where students tour an office on Capitol Hill or one of the think tanks or an organization. They will talk to the HR people and a couple of the experts there. It will be more focused on net-working events than individual job shadows. That is one of our big shifts,” Miller said.

Sophomore Macaela Bennett, a student affairs mentor in Career Services, said her experience on the trip last year helped her create connections.

“I think the most helpful part for most students was just having a taste that this is real life,” Ben-nett said.

The trip will be Jan. 8-9 and will cost $350. This year, Career Services hopes to have as many as 20 students come.

Career services changes DC trip

Professors plan sabbaticals

A number of Hillsdale profes-sors are leaving for sabbatical this spring. All professors will return to Hillsdale in the fall of 2014, with the exception of Asso-ciate Professor of Politics Kevin Portteus, who will resume teach-ing at Hillsdale in the first sum-mer term.

Ryan Hutchinson, associate professor of mathematics

Hutchinson plans to work on course development during his sabbatical. Due to a marked stu-dent interest in probability and mathematical statistics, Hutchin-son will be developing a follow-up class to the current Theory of Probability class. He will also be advising a student who is finish-ing his senior thesis.

Michael Bauman, professor of theology and culture

During his sabbatical, Bau-man will be completing four books and seeking an agent for a fifth. The titles include “The God of the Philosophers,” “The Little Book of Labor Unions: Who They Are, What They Do, and Why They Do It,” “Mere Indoc-trination and Other Reasons Why Christian Colleges Sometimes Fail,” and a book on theology and politics that does not yet have a title. “Long Walk Home,” an au-tobiographical work of creative non-fiction, is finished but needs an agent.

“You could say it’s life with my two fathers, Ed and God,”

Bauman said when describing the book.

Bauman also plans to start cycling again. He won a world championship in 2000 and wants to begin training to race again in 2015.

“I had a heart attack a few years ago and haven’t been able to ride,” Bauman explained. “Now the time has come when I might be able to try it once more.”

Daniel Coupland, associate professor of education

Coupland will be working with a friend to create an elemen-tary grammar program for kids to use in private schools, charter schools, public schools, or home-schools. Aside from this task, he plans to catch up on reading re-lated to his classes.

Paul Rahe, professor of his-tory

Rahe is currently at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is on sabbatical for the entire 2013-2014 academic year. Rahe, his wife, and their four children moved in July to Cali-fornia, where Rahe has been re-vising two book manuscripts. He recently sent “The Spartan Re-gime: Its Character, Its Origins” to the publisher, and plans to send “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge” soon. Afterwards, he will begin work on a sequel to the second book: “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Athenian Challenge.”

Aside from his work, Rahe has been enjoying showing America to his children. The Rahe family

has already visited many sites, including Yellowstone, the Black Hills and Pebble Beach and plans to visit the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert and Salt Lake City before they head home in June.

Kevin Portteus, associate professor of politics

According to Mickey Craig, professor of politics, Portteus will use his sabbatical to work on two articles to be published in refereed journals. Craig said in an email that one article will be on the topic of how Progressive Era reforms changed how Congress functions and the other will be on how new left critiques of the 1960s affected the relationship between the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the in-dependent regulatory agencies. Portteus also plans to use the sab-batical to catch up on reading and research.

Christopher VanOrman, professor of chemistry

During his sabbatical, VanOr-man will begin assembling a reader for a new Foundations and Importance of Chemistry core course. His tasks include gath-ering and organizing sources for the reader and seeking copyright permissions. VanOrman also hopes to finish up and publish the results of a current research proj-ect focusing on binuclear transi-tion metal chelates. He will con-tinue to perform his duties as a core advisor while on sabbatical.

scription. The Bill of Rights In-stitute has a network of nearly 20,000 teachers nationwide and reaches out to high school stu-dents.

Andy Gillette, director or pro-gram development at the Bill of Rights Institute, met Bobb at the conference about teaching civic virtue to young people.

“I was struck by his eloquence and clarity of thought around the idea of the importance of teach-ing the principles that America was founded upon to today's students,” Gillette said. “It's evi-dent he deeply cares about these issues, and has devoted his life to advancing the ideas that are central to the Bill of Rights Insti-tute's mission of creating a con-stitutional culture in the United States.”

His job will entail reach-ing more teachers and students with the words and ideas of the

Founders and identifying donors who can help develop outreach strategy.

“I am excited about this new opportunity,” Bobb said. “After 12 years of working for my alma mater, I will miss all of my won-derful colleagues at the college, as well as the students. I look for-ward, however, to continuing to work side-by-side with Hillsdale to improve liberal learning and civil education throughout the country.”

amount of time. I also think it cuts both ways,” Murray said. “Some companies, depending on what they are, might say, ‘That person might be a little too intense – too aggressive for our company,’ but

again, that is driven by the op-portunity and culture and the or-ganization where the opportunity presents itself.”

Clore said despite the benefits of graduating early, there are things that she will miss.

“It is definitely a day to day thing,” Clore said. “When I have a lot of homework, I am very

glad to be leaving early, but on days I get to spend hanging out with my friends or having good conversations with professors, it seems sad that I will be gone sooner than everyone else. I think I have had a really awesome three and a half years though and I don’t think I have missed out on anything.”

Assistant English Professor Dutton Kearney has a large fam-

ily with many kids, and due to changes in the core, has taught a lighter load this semester. Unlike Raney, he enjoys grading exams better on the whole, although he “loves reading an excellent es-

say.”As Krizman realized that sev-

en more semesters of this awaits her, she shook her head in denial.

“I can’t even think about sev-en more times.”

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Contrary to what a story in our Nov. 21 issue claimed (“Hillsdale student cast in Star Wars”), a Hillsdale Col-lege student was not cast in the next Star Wars film.

We should have verified the story and take full responsibility for running it. We apologize to our readers.

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community, which was wrong,” Brand said. “That wasn’t even brought up when we talked to the dean. It was more of the guns and the pro-life issue that were a concern.”

Philipp looked into Starbucks’ relationship with Saga Inc. and found that Saga does not have a contract with the coffee provider, meaning that changing providers was possible.

Saga’s General Manager Kev-

in Kirwan said students asked Saga to bring Starbucks to cam-pus years ago.

“Starbucks was all the fad at that time and, quite honestly, was one of the first coffee com-panies that said, ‘We’re going to do things right,’” he said. “They wanted to have free trade and make sure their coffee was or-ganically grown and that sort of thing.

“So it was a very positive situ-ation with Starbucks, and it came about because of students.”

Philipp spoke with Kirwin and he decided to provide an

option for students who wish to avoid drinking Starbucks coffee. Kirwan directed Jitters student workers to serve Cadillac Coffee, the brand that is served in A.J.’s, and continue selling Starbucks.

Cadillac has not, however, sold well at Jitters.

“It’s probably at least 100 to one,” Kirwan said, referring to the ratio of Starbucks cups sold to Cadillac cups. “Starbucks con-tinues to be more popular over there.”

Poor sales of the new coffee aside, Jitters will continue to serve both brands until further notice.

Hillsdale College is getting ready to party.

After a popular website put Hillsdale on a list of the worst party schools in the nation, the college is launching a campaign to rebrand itself as a destination for de-bauchery.

“Partying is true, good, and beautiful,” said president Party N. Hard. “Plato’s ‘Sym-posium’ would not have happened without the influence of alco-hol, for example.”

Administration offi-cials worry that current prohibitive policies on partying, drinking, and having any fun what-soever could keep out students who could still bring something unique to the college.

“A true liberal arts education values knowledge from all per-spectives,” said Provost Al C.A. Hall. “How could we pursue truth and defend liberty without perusing drinks and defending license?”

To execute this campaign successfully, the college will

soon begin soliciting donations from interested donors and foundations, using advertise-ments featuring Beyoncé gyrat-ing.

So far, contributions have been meager.

“Why would I give money for something like this?” said

wealthy businessman Wright N. Proper. “Stu-dents shouldn’t come here to watch porn.”

But thanks to dona-tions from several dis-tilleries and “medical marijuana” distributors, the campaign will go on, starting with a year-end, campus-wide rager.

All students are en-couraged to attend. BYOB.

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One of Hillsdale’s resident hipsters has lots of feelings.

Now that you’ve observed the freshmen, what is your opinion of them?

First off, I don’t know what radio stations they listened to growing up, because clearly they have no taste in music. Most of them haven’t ever heard of “Ste-phen Malkmus and the Jicks.”

Besides, none of them smoke, except for those who smoke those big, grape-flavored cigars. Sure. Cigarettes kill you but so do televisions, and cars. Besides, fresh air tastes kinda boring.

As I’ve gotten to know a few of them, I’ve introduced them to the rich things of life, like drinking whiskey, while smok-ing a pipe, while writing your Jackson paper, while thanking the lord that my lungs are so bad that I couldn’t even play sports if I wanted to. But really, I don’t want to.

These kids want to go hang out in town and in each other’s dorm rooms. Don’t they know that the only cool place to hang out on campus is in front of the library? Otherwise, they need to make the drive to Ann Arbor.

A few of the kids are figuring out how to roll their own ciga-

rettes, and really getting the hang of it, so I think they’ll be OK. But there’s this one kid I’m re-ally concerned about, because he still buys his clothes at American Eagle.

How do you think that these freshmen will escape their ignorance?

I’m not really sure they can. They’ll never take Western Heritage and Rhetoric and the Great Books at the same time. They’ll never experience the fire, the forge of the soul, that is the dual-humanities first semester.

With the new core, I’m not sure these kids are ever going to become fully formed human beings. How can they? They’ll traipse through meadows of mediocrity rather than suffering the scourge of academic agony as they’re drawn and quartered by the Western Heritage reader, Dante, Homer, and Virgil.

What are your thoughts on politics?

It really depends on what you’re asking. If you’re talking about campus politics, then I couldn’t care less. I didn’t vote in Student Fed elections, and I’m not part of any political clubs, the only election I voted in was for Homecoming king

and queen, and that’s because monarchy is the best.

As for campus culture, I don’t think there should be politics among the student body. I have friends who are in frats, I think. I should check Facebook. And I’m pretty sure I had a crush on a sorority girl freshman year. And I played sports in middle school.

As for national politics, I don’t know. Is it really our place as college students studying the higher things? I’d rather be read-ing “Infinite Jest” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

What are you going to do when you graduate?

I don’t know man. I just can’t see myself working a 9-5 desk job, joining the rat race. I want to do something, like Jack Kerouac. Maybe I’ll be a fisherman and write books, or a farm hand and write poetry and woo the farmer’s daughter. I’ll roam the earth with my guitar in one hand, Pabst Blue Ribbon in the other, Lucky Strike hanging from my lip and see where the wind has taken me. Wherever I go, I’m going to live. Live. I’m going to read and write and sing and dance like nobody’s watch-ing. Because I know people are watching.

On the art of pretension

Last week college adminis-tration generously announced an “email-reading day” to give students time to catch up on thousands of campus-wide emails still buried in the recess-es of email inboxes.

“Students originally sug-gested a national holiday could serve as a suitable break to catch up on the email overload,” Chief Administrative Officer Forward Reply said. “Obvious-ly that’s unacceptable, but we are willing to compromise by offering this randomly-selected email-reading day in the middle of the week.”

A student crippled by the deluge of cyber mail alarmed the swing club when he wan-dered aimlessly out of the Dow computer lab Friday night, muttering: “all the emails. No one told be about the emails.”

“Every time I finish reading an email I hear that ‘ding’ again in my inbox,” said classics major Reply All. “I feel just like Tantalus or Sisyphus.”

All wasn’t alone in her senti-ments.

“I don’t have time to read

each email as carefully as I would like,” freshman Carbon Copy said. “In high school I

was a pro at this. College has been a rude awaken-ing.”

Some stu-dents were op-timistic about the air clear-ing before se-mester’s end, however.

“I find the new Outlook really helps me keep up to date on my emails in a neat and timely manner,” said senior No One Ever.

Students get newemail-reading day

Snobby SoupmakerMuse of the Collegian

“I find the new Outlook really helps

me keep up to date on my emails in a neat

and timely manner.” - No One Ever, senior

LETTER TO THE EDITORDear Editor, How dare you question the

rights of men to wear running tights as everyday attire in an editorial I do not remember the title to and didn’t actually read? A friend who actually reads told me about it and now I am outraged. I am taking the time to write this because I am excit-ed for this soapbox to enter the public debate from and think

my opinion is credible and authoritative. Listen up.

It is patent sexism to defend the ability of women to wear so-called “yoga pants” when they are not doing yoga—have you seen the flying crow pose? Wow—but not to defend the ability and propriety of men to wear their running tights about town. Sometimes we wake up late and just don’t have time

to put on proper underpants. Or any pants at all. Sometimes some compressive sweats is exactly what I need to get me through the day. And you can deal with the view.

Admit it, you enjoy it.

Sincerely,Chuck “Cross Country” Roostersen.

More than a year into its capital campaign, the college announced yesterday that so far it has raised $3.27.

College administrators said they hope the campaign – called the Campaign of Money Mak-ing, Used Not in a Socialist Manner – will raise $457 mil-lion by 2017.

“We’re very proud of that number,” said Chief Adminis-trative Officer Richanov Péwés-ki, referring to the just more than $3 the college has raised in the past 452 days.

Money the college raises through campaigning will go

into the college’s endowment, as well as to building projects around campus.

College administrators hope to erect large walls around the

campus, organize permanent camping excursions to improve student morale, encourage two-minute liberty rallies, and open on-campus grocery stores with

bare shelves.“We cannot hope to win the

war of ideas without introduc-ing character-building priva-tions in the student body,” said President Lars Arnnovich. “It is obvious that the liberals beyond our borders see the threat posed by our upstart republic and re-fuse to provide capital, the life-blood of their tyranny, to an in-stitution that seeks such serious upheaval.”

Arnnovich said he expects the college’s new initiatives will attract more donors to cam-pus, and added that he hopes C.O.M.M.U.N.I.S.M. will en-able the college to survive be-ing tossed onto the ash-heap of history.

College’s 5-year plan going wellAle Hitme

Chief of the Turtle Necks

Bleachers had to be rein-forced and concession stands re-stocked to meet the increased number of student attendees to Charger football games this fall.

School officials are baffled at the staggering number of students who attended home

football games in the 2013 sea-son. The records show that more students attended this year than ever before.

Some speculate that reduced library hours and a shortage of copies of Greek classics in the bookstore have contributed to this feat.

Salamander Laundry, a prominent player on the squad,

said he appreciates hearing Hill-sdale students’ chants instead of the opposing fanbase atop the band’s renditions of the always current Top 40 pop list.

“It’s always nice when more students come out to a Saturday game than a lecture on income taxes,” he said.

Football attendance shatters recordsTaylor Faux-Swift

Shorts Editor

Knowing that it was a long shot that she would text him back, at least based on several unrealistic scenarios played out repeatedly in his mind, fresh-man boy Phil S. Dating almost texted a freshman girl he likes last Saturday. Reports con-

firmed that he then deleted the message before sending and proceeded to, as witnesses say, “cry like a baby.”

The Collegian was able to obtain exclusive access to the deleted messages:

“Hey how’s your Jackson paper?”

“Heyyyyyy”“Sup”Dating also considered send-

ing “Awesome!” to the female

so it would seem like an acci-dent.

“She would think I was hap-py about something, and girls like happy,” Dating said.

After further thought, Dating decided that idea was stupid.

“Phil has never been good at communicating,” said Dating’s close friend. “But ya know, that’s like just a thing, right?”

Freshman boy almosts texts girl, deletes it, criesBabyface Harpdaddy

Basically Samson

Campaign SpeCSMoney raised:$3.27Goal: $457 million

The Uses of a Liberal Arts Education

Walker’s own words“Governor, we’ve lost control of the capitol.”Thousands of protesters mobbed the Wisconsin Capitol in

March 2011, ripping hinges off doors and crawling through open windows. Outraged by the legislature’s passage of a collective bargaining reform bill championed by Gov. Scott Walker, the crowds quickly overran the capitol police. For weeks the swell-ing mob occupied the rotunda, with protests attracting nearly a hundred thousand people. But, with passage of the bill, protest-ers began scouring the whole building searching for offending legislators who dared defy union bosses by supporting Governor Walker’s reforms.

In his new book, “Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge,” Walker chronicles his battle to free the Bad-ger State from the restraints of collective bargaining. With the feeling of a political thriller novel, Walker recounts the legisla-tive fight, union intimidation tactics, and ensuing recall election. While a raw explanation of the drama-filled tale would prove compelling enough, Walker’s candid and pithy narrative will enthrall readers, and leave them speculating about the political future of this rising conservative statesman.

Elected with the 2010 tide of Republican victories, Walker was just a month into his first term when he introduced what came to be known as Act 10. Looking to close the state’s $3.6 billion defi-cit — one of the highest per capita in the nation — Walker began evaluating options, but quickly realized that conventional budget balancing measures were out of the question. He wouldn’t raise taxes because he pledged not to while on the campaign trail; Pub-lic layoffs were not an option, because he promised to protect the middle-class; Medicaid cuts were also out because he believed it would hurt the poor and vulnerable. This panoply of promises sounds stale, because empty-suit politicians have spewed the same platitudes for decades, but Walker intended follow through.

Searching for innovative budget solutions, Walker cast his eye towards reforming collective bargaining. Walker writes that his experience as Milwaukee County Executive taught him that local governments could withstand cuts in state aid, if local officials had the latitude to implement the changes themselves. Collective bargaining, however, made the local executive’s changes subject to the approval of public workers unions. Act 10 would give local officials the tools to manage their own budget.

Walker’s Act 10 required public sector workers — excluding police and firemen — to increase pension contributions to 5.8 percent of their salary, and to pay 12.6 percent of their health in-surance premiums (a number equivalent to about half the private sector average). To offset these cuts, Walker limited collective bargaining to wages only. Also, union wages could no longer be deducted directly from employee paychecks, and unions had to be recertified by their members yearly. The changes were drastic. And so was the backlash.

Occupation of Madison’s capitol began the day bill was in-troduced. Thousands of national union organizations, including some from Chicago and New York, crowded the building bear-ing signs comparing the governor to Al-Qaeda and Hitler. Walker describes protesters banging drums, blasting horns, and chanting, “This is what democracy looks like.” To ensure the safety of law-makers, SWAT teams were required to escort them throughout the capitol. The protesters repeatedly lined the driveway of one state senator with nails, and they banged on windows and doors at the home of another legislator. Protesters trailed Walker’s wife and threatened Walker’s sons at high school football games. In the face such reckless hate, Walker maintained a positive message. He writes that his Christian faith sustained him, coupled with his conviction that the reforms would work. Ultimately, they did.

In September 2011, school districts had balanced budgets, hired more teachers, and reduced class sizes. Because districts were now able to shop for the best price in health insurance — instead of being required to use the company associated with the teacher’s union — they were able to provide the same insurance benefits to teachers at a lower price. The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance estimated health insurance costs decreased by 24 per-cent in the 2011-2012 school year alone. Act 10 also affected property taxes: for the first time in a decade, they declined on median-valued homes.

Walker often quips, “Good policy is good politics.” Turns out, he’s right. In June 2012, Walker became the first governor in American history to survive a recall election, winning by an even larger margin than in 2010. And, while the left was distracted by Act 10, Walker signed into law a cadre of other conservative policies: expanding gun rights, defunding planned parenthood, reforming welfare, and refusing medicaid expansion. Because of his national profile, political success, and recent book publication (a frequent stop on the path to the Oval Office), speculations are now flying about a presidential bid in 2016. With Walker’s record of results, and his courage of character, I can’t say I mind.

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Editor in Chief: Caleb WhitmerNews Editor: Evan BruneCity News Editor: Taylor KnopfOpinions Editor: Sally NelsonSports Editor: Morgan DelpArts Editor: Abigail WoodSpotlight Editor: Casey HarperWeb Editor: Alex AndersonWashington Editor: Bailey PritchettAssistant Designer: Hannah Leitner Circulation Manager: Daniel SlonimAd Managers: Matt Melchior | Ellie Voci Assistant Editors: Macaela Bennett | Jack Butler | Natalie deMacedo | Shaun Lichti | Morgan Sweeney | Micah Meadowcroft | Teddy Sawyer | Sam Scorzo | Amanda TindallPhotographers: Anders Kiledal | Shaun Lichti | Gianna Marchese | Ben Block | Carsten Stann | Ben StricklandFaculty Advisers: John J. Miller | Maria Servold

Melika WilloughbySpecial to the Collegian

Maybe someone can explain to me how, exactly, conserva-tives are the aggressors in the culture war? In the conventional narrative of American politics, conservatives are obsessed with social issues. They want to im-pose their values on everyone else. They want the government involved in your bedroom. Those mean right-wingers want to make “health care choices” for women.

Now consider last week’s de-cision by the U.S. Supreme Court to consider two cases stemming from Obamacare: Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius and

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores. Democratic politicians and their fans on social media went bal-listic almost instantly. That’s hardly unusual these days. But what’s revealing is that the talk-ing points are all wrong.

Suddenly, the government is the hero for getting deeply involved in the reproductive choices of nearly every Ameri-can, whether you want the gov-ernment involved or not. The bad guy is now your boss who, according to an outraged Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., would be free to keep you from every-thing from HIV treatment to vac-cinating your children if Hobby Lobby has its way. Murray and the White House insist that every business should be compelled by law to protect its employees’ “right” to “contraception” that is “free.”

I put all three words in quo-tation marks because these are deeply contentious claims. For starters, the right to free birth control -- or health care gener-ally -- is not one you’ll find in the Constitution. And even if you think it should be a right, that is hardly a settled issue in Ameri-can life.

The right to own a gun is a far more settled issue constitu-tionally, politically and legally in this country, but not even the National Rifle Association would dream to argue that we have a right to free guns, provided by our employers. If your boss were

required to give you a gun, your new employer-provided Glock still wouldn’t be free because non-cash compensation is still compensation. The costs to the employer are fungible, which means whether it’s a pistol or a pill, the cost is still coming out of your paycheck -- and your co-workers’ paychecks.

“Regular, predictable ex-penses such as birth control pills cannot be defrayed by insurance; they can only be prepaid, with a markup for the insurer’s admin-istrative costs,” writes Bloom-berg’s Megan McArdle. “The extra cost is passed on by the insurers to your employer, and from your employer to you and your fellow workers, either by raising your contribution or low-ering the wage they are willing to offer.”

Last, birth control pills really aren’t the issue. Both compa-nies suing the government under Obamacare have no objection to providing insurance plans that cover the cost of birth control pills and other forms of contra-ception. What both the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties object to is paying for abortifacients -- drugs that ter-minate a pregnancy rather than prevent one. (Hobby Lobby also opposes paying for IUDs, which prevent implantation of a fertil-ized egg.) The distinction is sim-ple: Contraception prevents fer-tilization and pregnancy. Drugs such as “Plan B” terminate a

pregnancy, albeit at an extremely early stage.

The plaintiffs in these cases aren’t saying the government should ban abortifacients or make it impossible for their employees to buy them. All they are ask-ing is that the people using such drugs pay for them themselves rather than force employers and co-workers to share the cost. In other words, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood want such birth control decisions to be left to in-dividual women and their doc-tors. Leave the rest of us out of it.

But leaving the rest of us out of it is exactly the opposite intent of the authors of Obamacare. The law forces not only arts and crafts shops but also Catholic charities and other religiously inspired groups to choose be-tween fulfilling their mission or violating their values. You may have no moral objection to such things, but millions of people do. By what right are liberals seek-ing to impose their values on ev-eryone else? Isn’t that something they denounce conservatives for?

They could have allowed for plans that exclude controversial forms of birth control -- or even uncontroversial ones -- which would have lowered premium costs and expanded health care coverage to more poor people.

But Democrats wanted a wedge issue to drum up a new battle in the culture war -- a war in which liberals have always been the aggressors.

“Insert obligatory theological debate here,” read the follow-up comment on a funny quote posted on Overheard at Hillsdale, garnering almost as many “likes” as the actual quote. Hillsdale stu-dents are obviously aware of our penchant for turning anything into a heated debate upon which the truth of the universe hinges. Someone brings up Luther, and the dormant Catholic versus

Protestant feud erupts. Mention Lincoln, and the Civil War re-fights itself. Write a tongue-in-cheek editorial about the A.J.’s piano, wake up with a severed horse head in your bed (slightly exaggerated). Even Starbucks has recently been a source of contro-versy.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? After all, as Hillsdale stu-dents, we’re supposed to seek the Good, the True, and the Beauti-ful, and everyone has different opinions on what those really are. Arguments and debates are expected, and discourse is a nec-essary part of unraveling intellec-tual mysteries.

And yet, we walk a very fine line between arguing for truth’s sake and arguing for its own sake.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m any-thing but a relativist. I believe in objective truth, and I believe we can understand at least part of it. We should seek those higher things that Plato and Dr. Arnn love. But we should also be care-ful not to get in our own way.

Debate certainly has its place. Socratic dialogues, presidential debates, and point-counterpoint articles can all be extremely use-ful in illuminating various ideas and principles. But, as someone who reads YouTube comments

far too often, I can say from expe-rience that arguments can be ex-traordinarily counterproductive.

There comes a point in most debates, while you’re scream-ing about papal infallibility or the merits of One Direction, that you realize you might as well be talking to a brick wall. If some-one disagrees with you for any reason, then no matter the impen-etrable logic and moral rectitude of your assured position, you’re most likely not going to convert him or her to your side.

That’s just how people are: we’re stubborn. We have our rea-sons for thinking what we do, and we won’t give them up, because they’re ours, dang it. We invoke the natural law of self-defense whenever we feel a threat to the property of our opinions.

Hillsdale students have a very keen sense of this. And well they should, as the truth is both incredibly powerful and desper-ately vulnerable. With so many differing opinions in the world, the truth gets lost in the fray, and when we think we’ve finally got-ten some hold on it, we cling to it for dear life.

The thing we have to realize is that everyone else does the same thing.

Before I completely turn this

into a thesis on epistemology, allow me, as a wise old college senior, to offer some advice to you whippersnappers out there. I can’t recall learning much of anything by arguing about it. I do remember learning just about ev-erything by asking about it.

We Hillsdale students have an obsession with being right. That is, right about divisive issues, where one side is pitted against another. No matter the source of contention, we want to be the most adamant Directioner or the most effusive Belieber, the most rational anarcho-capitalist or the most Aristotelian monarchist, the most scriptural Protestant or the most faithful Catholic.

That, I think, is where we too easily let our ethos be just our ego. We want to win, to feel more correct than everyone else. But we shouldn’t compare our-selves to other people and their opinions, we should only mea-sure ourselves against the truth we claim to seek. Yes, we should defend truth with all of our abil-ity, but we should also not be so proud as to think we, individual-ly, have each cornered the market on it.

You don’t have to agree with me, though.

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Here we are at the end of hell week. Congratulations to those of you who have turned in your last papers, passi graviora to those of you still typing. We’re keeping our last weekly of the semester light: below you’ll find a list of five suggestions for get-ting through finals, and another five for getting the most out of winter break.

Five ways to cope with finals:1. Make a to-do list.Some people are to-do list

people and some people aren’t. But everyone should be during finals week. Strategy is a big part of successfully navigating the potentially dangerous wa-ters of finals. Include things like “study“ and “test” and “shower.” Especially the last one. Check-ing things off a list provides in-stant gratification. While you’re checking off items on the list, be

liberal with rewards. Finished a 25 page Stuart paper? Smoke a cigarette. Or, better yet, down a tub of Talenti’s Sea Salt Cara-mel Gelato. Long-term health concerns do not belong to finals week.

2. Sleep.Never underestimate the im-

portance of a few hours of sleep before an exam.

3. Eat.When we say eat, we mean be

sure you’re getting enough real food. Man liveth not on pop tarts and energy drinks alone. That’s especially true during finals week.

4. Beware social media.Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter,

and reddit become exponentially more interesting (and destruc-tive) the more exams and papers you have. Turn over your pass-words to someone you trust.

5. Avoid starting “Breaking Bad.”

Once you start, you can’t stop. Senior Mark Keller (bless him) watched 51 episodes in nine days earlier this semester. Don’t be a hero. Netflix will still be there in a week.

Top 5 things to do over break:1. Make a to-do list.We’re all about lists this week

at The Collegian. You don’t need to be as strict about your Christ-mas break list, but break goes quick. If you don’t make goals for yourself at the beginning you may not get done everything you want to. Which is fine because its Christmas break. Remember, these are just suggestions.

2. SleepRemove all clocks from

within 15 feet of your bed — ditto with light—and sleep. You earned it, champ.

3. Eat.Saga food may be improving

but nothing beats home-cooked meals. Take advantage of it.

4. Beware social media.You’re going to do that when

school starts anyways. Enjoy some time away from the daily tweet and wall-post grind.

5. Binge watch “Breaking Bad.”

This is The Collegian’s offi-cial editorial stance: “Breaking Bad” is the best TV show ever made. And it’s available on Net-flix. Watch two episodes a day and you could complete all 62 episodes before you’re back in the classroom, and all for the eminently reasonable price of $7.99.

So there are our lists. Good luck with finals and have a Mer-ry Christmas.Bookshelf

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Don’t think you’ve cornered the market on Truth

During finals week, we at the Backpage staff want you to be hygenically sound. Due to the amout of time needed to study, most students don’t have time to take care of themselves. To help out, the health center has provid-ed these cleanliness tips:

1. Pour shampoo in the toilet and flush your head. (Repeat three times)

2. Roll in freshly cut pine nee-

dles in the Arb.3. Chew on a urinal pack. 4. “Nair” your entire body.5. Ride along on the gentle

rinse cycle with your clothes. 6. Moisten a Saga mint and af-

fix it under your armpit.

With all of the tips you’re sure to be fresh all finals week!!

December 6, 2001

I was ready to head to our longtime friend’s graduation party with my parents and sister around 6 p.m. one Saturday night in June 2012. I had just reached my front door when I felt my phone buzz. It was that irritating, long, slow vibration that signals a call and sends a panic through my text-savvy generation.

I looked down and the screen read “Michael Miller.” He was my boss that summer at the Toledo Free Press, the weekly newspaper where I was an unpaid intern.

I knew he wasn’t calling to con-gratulate me on a great week’s work or for a casual chat. My suspicions were confirmed when Michael asked me, the lowly intern, to pick up a last-minute assignment. A boy had gone

missing in a nearby town, and the Free Press wanted online coverage that eve-ning before the print edition went out the next week.

I hung up the phone and told my parents and sister to go on to the party without me. I trudged upstairs to get on my laptop and begin research.

With the recent legal trouble that publications like Condé Nast have in-curred for hiring unpaid interns, many question the justice of allowing young people to work without pay for a company. Instances like my disrupted Saturday night make me want to grab a picket sign and join the ranks of op-pressed youth in forcing pay from the likes of Condé Nast.

But a more rational evaluation of my summer work forces a different perspective. Unpaid internships are invaluable for college students, espe-cially journalism students, for whom published clips and connections are

the currency of success.I worked the same amount of hours

and wrote about the same number of stories as the full-time staff reporters, with just as much of the glory and responsibility. After three months of work, I had about 50 published clips to my name, including three cover sto-ries. I wrote on things like the hiring of a new zoo director, a Vietnam vet dying of the effects of Agent Orange, and a strip of new artists emerging in the downtown district.

There were nights, like that Satur-day in mid-June, that I wanted to quit the job. I hardly thought the late nights of writing and the early mornings of reporting were worth a nonexis-tent cash flow. I felt like I was being cheated.

Just as I was cursing out my boss and the entire institution of journal-ism internships in my mind, the aunt of the missing boy answered my call,

and suddenly I was snapped back to a harsh reality. As I talked for 10 min-utes with this kindly woman about the devastating loss of her nephew, I knew my work was worthwhile. Beyond the selfish addition of a great clip, I knew I was making a difference to this fam-ily by creating awareness in the area.

Before I knew it the clock struck 10 p.m. My family walked through our front door as I was sending my story on to Michael for publication on the website.

My breaking news piece did not lead to a discovery of the missing boy; in fact, he was proclaimed dead weeks later. But I was given the opportunity to report on a major story and have it published on a well-respected paper’s website. I was able to work on my reporting in a real-life situation and get a clip that could land me a paid internship or a real job someday.

By the end of the summer I had

not earned a dime, but the experi-ence I had gained was priceless. How else was a rising college sophomore with no real employment experience supposed to interview county com-missioners, have her piece ripped to shreds by a forceful editor, and see it in print on her own doorstep, if not for unpaid internships? The answer is, there is no way that the struggling Toledo Free Press could have afforded to pay me for my work.

Working at the Free Press was the hardest thing I have ever done, and it was not always easy to give up Saturday nights with friends and fam-ily for payless work. But by choosing experience over money and a social life, I invested in my future. For that, I will be repaid in dividends.

Do you want the government to know everywhere you drive? And at your expense?

Congress has recently been debat-ing how to get money for the failing Highway Trust Fund. One of their so-lutions is installing event data record-ers, known as a black box, in every car to keep track of mileage so they can tax per mile. A similar proposal will become reality in Oregon in 2015, the first state to impose such a tax, accord-ing to Fox News.

The HTF is currently funded by a federal fuel tax of 18.4 cents per gal-lon. This new black box tax is needed because according to the Congres-sional Research Service, the fuel tax isn’t bringing in as much money as it used to. The slow economy is causing people to buy less of the high-priced commodity, and people are buying more fuel-efficient cars.

High gas prices are already putting the pinch on travel, and this new tax will only make it harder.

Many people live far away from their work, schools, grocery stores, and churches, so they have to drive. If people have to pay more per mile, travel for luxury will be cut out of their routines and places like restau-rants, movie theaters, and sporting events will suffer.

The politicians pushing this tax in Congress would be more than happy to make driving more difficult to decrease emissions. They fail to real-

ize that preventing traveling will not only harm local businesses, but also tourist-driven cities and regions, such as Northern Michigan.

This past summer, Main Street shops in downtown Petoskey, Mich. struggled because of soaring gas prices, PetoskeyNews.com reported. Michigan’s gas prices averaged $4.215 per gallon this summer, which is only $0.04 lower than the all-time highest gas price ever seen in the state, AAA Michigan found. As the article explained, these downtown shops “depend on summer sales to bring in a big chunk of their yearly profits.” So how will shops in these regions survive economically when there are even more taxes on travel-ing? People will be more content with watching a bonfire on their iPad rather than going Up North. They won’t stop at restaurants or malls on the drive up, they won’t pay for a hotel room, they won’t drive to get coffee at the cute little café for breakfast, and they won’t support the local town’s summer festivals.

A way to get around paying this tax would be using public transporta-tion, but only people in urban areas have access to it, and they live in the vicinity of places they need to travel to. It’s the people who live far away from their churches and work and schools who will suffer the most because they drive more miles.

Black boxes were first installed in cars in the mid-1990s, and today, they record the events of about 150 million vehicles on the road. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, 96 percent of all new cars made this year now sport the boxes.

These black boxes are just another way of government acting as big brother, infringing on people’s privacy by acting as a GPS system that tracks people’s whereabouts.

Both sides of the political spectrum think that black boxes encroach on cit-izens’ rights. The Tea Party conserva-tives and the American Civil Liberties

Union are against them. The fact that these two are agreeing on something should be a neon yellow “duh, this is wrong” sign to the legislatures .

The NHTSA states that black boxes help public safety, but how? The black box is used to reconstruct accidents. Reconstruction just puts the pieces of an accident back together but has little to do with accident preven-tion.

The best way to fix the Highway

Trust Fund’s problems is to simply do away with it. Privatize roads instead. The government has proven itself incapable of managing our nation’s roads. Further punishing the consumer with another tax because the govern-ment has failed is absurd.

Ultimately, the black box brings us one step closer to the 1966 Beatles song “Taxman:”

“If you drive a car/I’ll tax the street.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Sam ScorzoAssistant Editor

When the government plays in traffic

Morgan DelpSports Editor

Unpaid internships offer invaluable experience

Hillsdale College has a beautiful campus, but pointless yellow eyesores threaten that reputation.

The “bollards” are the pairs of bright yellow metal poles that pop up on the driving paths on campus installed last year. There are two pairs, one between the Grewcock Student Union and Delp Hall and another be-tween the union and the Dow Leader-ship Center.

Security told the Collegian last year that the bollards protect students, but they don’t. Supposedly, cars driving around campus may hit students, but security only puts the bollards up at night when the pedestrian traffic is lowest. The bollards pop up when all the students lay down.

And even when security puts the bollards up, they don’t lock them. Students can easily push them over any night of the week. Sometimes they do. The bollards protect students from any menacing criminals who want

to rampage across campus in their vehicles, but are afraid to push over a yellow pole. Further, there’s plenty of open grass to drive around either pair. The bollards by Delp Hall have enough empty grass for an 18-wheeler to pass through easily.

It’s not as if the college is against vehicles driving on campus. Utility vehi-cles and maintenance trucks regularly wheel down the paths. Se-curity drives the path more frequently than Hillsdale’s bloated squirrel population walks it.

Students walk along sidewalks where cars whiz by at 40 miles an hour to get to campus, but as soon as they get on campus they need to be walled in? No.

Campus is well-kept with mani-cured lawns dotted with trees and

peaceful sitting areas. Contrast this with the metal obstructions, which are bright yellow, except for the rusted

out parts exposing an industrial gray metal. You can even see the yellow blights on Google Maps’ satellite images of the college.

It’s not just a matter of beauty. It’s a matter of competitiveness. Students consider campus beauty when choosing a school. Princeton Review even picks the most and least beautiful campuses every year. Hillsdale wants desper-ately to compete with the most prestigious

schools, to be seen as the conservative answer to the Ivy League. Schools like Princeton and Harvard have gorgeous architecture and inspiring campuses. A few bollards don’t destroy Hillsdale’s chances, but it is not the Ivy League thing to do. Many small changes add

up to a less beautiful campus.Distinguished visitors and donors

visit often. They want to see a beauti-ful place of liberal learning, but when walking from the Dow hotel parking lot to the Union they have to step over some odd pieces of metal and wonder, “What are they for?” This is a fair question. Sadly, the answer is not rewarding.

The bollards are a classic case of needing to seem like something is be-ing done. It’s like eighth-grade algebra when you don’t know the answer to a test question, but you scribble some little calculations on the side of the page, draw a graph and guess what? You get half credit because the teacher felt like you tried and must have understood something if you went through all that work. In the same way, this is a case of trying to do something that seemed to make everyone safer but actually did nothing.

The bollards, though a well-inten-tioned attempt at security, have failed. They have to go.

Casey HarperSpotlight Editor

To The Editor:

Following the November elec-tion in the city of Hillsdale, two council seats now sit vacant: one in Ward 3 and another in Ward 2. I am writing in the hopes that this letter will inspire citizens from those wards to step forward and place their names on the ballot for the special election that will be held on Feb. 25th to fill those two vacant seats.

Anyone interested will need to have his or her petition signed and turned in to the city clerk’s office by Dec. 3rd. For specific details on the process, you can contact the Clerk’s office at 517-437-6441 or by email at clerk@cityofhillsdale.org.

The role of councilperson is often a thankless job requiring hard work and thick skin. The pay is very low compared to the time commitment required but being chosen to represent your friends and neighbors in helping to shape the long- and short-term future of our community is rewarding in and of itself.

As the council moves forward on many important issues, in-cluding the funding of our street repairs, it is vital that we have a full council. It not only ensures adequate and balanced repre-sentation, but also guarantees a diversity of ideas. If you are a citizen of Hillsdale who’s ready to get off the bench and help lead, please do not hesitate. Take out a petition today.

Brian WatkinsWard 1 CouncilmanCity of Hillsdale

The bright yellow bollards have to go

You can even see the yellow blights on Google Maps’ satellite images of the college.

Congress’ new black box proposal to fund the Highway Traffic Fund will hurt economy, encroach on rights

Quick Hits What is your favorite movie from 2013?

Julie finke, Junior aaron schepps, senior Daniel teal, senior

“Despicable Me 2,” director Pierre Coffin

“It took everything from the first ‘Despicable Me’ and not only capitalized on what was awesome, but made it 10 times better and applied it to relatable situations. It’s one of the best sequels, besides Batman.”

“Mud,” director Jeff Nichols

“It had a lot of elements that make an entertaining blockbuster without sacrific-ing real Southern grit.”

“To the Wonder,” director Terrence Malick

“Malick shows the overwhelming comedy mixed with the very real tragedy of finding love and meaning through knowing and experiencing another person.”

(Dane Skorup)

The Hillsdale Business Association invites everyone to participate in a Christmas celebration downtown this Saturday. The events include the sixth annual scavenger hunt, second annual Light up Hillsdale Parade, and an Af-terGlow.

“It gets bigger and bet-ter every year,” said Margie Elchert, owner of Tree of Health Natural Wellness Cen-ter. “We’ve been advertising the heck out of this day so we’re hoping to double the amount of people out here this year.”

The scavenger hunt will kick off the day at 10 a.m., beginning at GoldStar Tax Service on North Howell Street.

Cathy Newell, owner of The Blossom Shop, said that approxi-mately 80 to 90 people showed up to the first scavenger hunt five years ago, and that the number has in-creased every year. This year, they are expecting around 300.

In the hunt, each person uses a map of the participating businesses to find miniature golden sleighs in each of the 30 to 35 stores. Once found, the store employees will mark off their shop on the partici-pant’s map.

Completed maps may be entered into drawings for prizes at 4 p.m. at GoldStar. Each store participating

in the hunt will donate a substantial prize for the drawings. In the past, prizes included $40 to $50 gift cer-tificates, as well as jewelry and gift baskets.

The main point of the scavenger hunt is to get people into the down-town stores.

“The first year we did this, we kept hearing, ‘Oh we didn’t know you guys had this!’ and ‘We’ve nev-er seen this store before!’” Newell said. “So this is definitely a good way to show what we’ve got for the coming holiday season.”

The Light up Hillsdale Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will start and end in the Midtown parking lot.

The grand marshal in charge of

leading the parade is J.J. Hodshire. A 1999 Hillsdale College graduate, Hodshire served as the Undersheriff of Hillsdale for 12 years, and is now the director of organizational devel-opment for the Hillsdale Community Health Center.

As the grand marshal, Hodshire said that he will “say a few words before the parade starts—thanking the folks in the parade, as well as those who came out to watch.”

Although this is the first time he will take on the role as grand mar-shal, the parade scene isn’t new to Hodshire. He has run several po-litical campaigns that involved him passing out stickers and candy dur-ing parades.

“Being the grand marshal is a great privilege,” Hodshire said. “Our downtown businesses strive very hard to pro-vide services and goods to our com-munity, so folks should enjoy the parade and take the chance to shop local afterwards. Last year, this night was such a treat and it will be this time around too. People will not be disappoint-ed.”

Elchert said they were expect-ing about 12 floats in last year’s inau-gural parade, but

they were surprised with a showing of 32. This year they are unsure of the amount of entries, but are antici-pating an even larger lineup than the previous year. A permanent feature of the parade is a Santa Claus riding in the basket of a Hillsdale fire truck.

The HBA said that anyone can participate in the parade as long as they show up at the Midtown park-ing lot at 6 p.m.

Directly following the parade is the AfterGlow, where all the floats will stay lit up in the parking lot to give people a closer view of the elaborately decorated floats.

Ward 2 Councilwoman Ruth Brown announced her resignation at Hillsdale’s Dec. 3 city council meet-ing to avoid a potential court case.

Her announcement resulted from a controversy over whether or not she has a conflict of interest in a contract the county recently pro-posed to the council. The problem arose by her positions on both the council and board of county com-missioners.

The city council voted to approve her resignation Monday, and Brown said it was with great difficulty that she resigned, but that it is in “the best interest of the city of Hillsdale.”

“The council is trying to get off on a fresh, confident foot, and this is just a distraction,” Brown said after the meeting. “I just want the council to be able to get down to business

and worry about the issues of the city.”

City Attorney Lew Loren said, after reviewing many similar cases and opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, that the only solution was for Brown to vacate one of the of-fices.

“There is no incompati-bility because of Ruth,” Loren said. “There is an incompatibili-ty because the person who holds both seats owes a duty to both entities that are separate and distinct from each other. She can’t wear two hats at one time.”

Loren said if she had not vacated one of the positions that she could

have been charged with a misde-meanor.

Brown accepted the city com-missioner position in July 2013, and said she was not aware of the poten-tial conflict of interest by her hold-ing both positions.

“When I was appointed com-missioner in July, they said I could do both,” Brown said. “But when we started to do the contract be-tween the city and county, it came up that it

violates the Incompatible Public Of-fices Act.”

Loren said that the attorney gen-eral verified in July that there was no incompatibility by Brown hold-ing both offices, but the problem

arose when he received a request for the proposed contract between the county and city.

“I knew that this would present a problem for Ruth’s continuation in both seats,” Loren said.

Brown was first made aware of the issue on Nov. 1 when Loren sent her a letter addressing the problem.

“It was only four days before the city election,” Brown said. “By then, it was too late. I just wish I could have known earlier so I could have taken my name off the bal-lot and someone else could have stepped up.”

Despite there now being two va-cancies on the city council, the other being Mayor Scott Sessions’ former seat in Ward 3, Sessions said he be-lieves the council will “get by.”

In order to have a special election in May 2014 to fill the vacancies, a resolution must be brought to the council for its approval.

Volume Salon and Spa hairdress-ers chat with customers while snip-ping and styling. “Be your own kind of beautiful” is stenciled on the wall, situated between mirrors that allow customers to look back at themselves and contemplate the phrase.

The Hillsdale salon reopened in June 2013 on East Bacon Street across from Hillsdale Community Library. Their expanded services in-clude massages, which provides an alternative to massages offered by the college’s Health Center.

“Every person that comes through the door is different, so everybody has a different kind of beautiful,” said Volume Salon and Spa owner Kelly Dunlap.

The salon offers a 15-minute massage for $20, and a 30-minute

massage for $35.Dunlap decided to move from

West Carleton Road to her new lo-cation to accommodate her expand-ing business. Her staff nearly dou-bled with the move, and Dunlap said they are busy.

“We moved here to expand our services to include manicures, pedi-cures, and facials, makeup, and massage,” Dunlap said. “We went from having no receptionist to hav-ing three.”

Dunlap owns the business with her husband and said it is difficult to balance being wife, mother, and business owner.

Although there are several other salons in town, Dunlap claims hers is different.

“We have everything under one roof, and we have the best people,” she said.

Stylist Morgan Page is one of those superior staff members. Her business card echoes the “Be your

own kind of beautiful” stenciled on the wall. It quotes Psalm 139 re-minding her customers that they are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Page plans to work as a stylist part time and help her fiancé start a farm.

“I love it,” Page said. “The atmo-sphere is very lively. There’s never a dull moment.”

She said that people come in with unrealistic expectations sometimes.

“We’re not magicians, we’re beauticians,” Page said. “People will come in after box coloring their hair black and then want it platinum blonde.”

Page said there is a teamwork mentality at Volume Salon.

“Everyone here helps one anoth-er out,” she said. “If someone needs something people will jump in and help out other stylists. We all have our busy times so we understand.”

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Sam Scorzo Assistant Editor

Hillsdale prepares for Christmas with lights parade

Desiree Jordan Sherman, 21, ac-cepted a plea bargain of no contest to one count of assault and battery in Hillsdale County Circuit Court on Nov. 25.

The prosecutor agreed to drop Sherman’s four other charges of as-sault with intent to commit murder, resisting and obstructing, interfering with electronic communications, and assault and battery of a second victim if she pleaded no contest to the first assault and battery charge.

The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Sherman for al-legedly stabbing a 33-year-old male on the evening of Nov. 13 off of Hudson Road in Osseo, Mich.

The police incident report said that the victim was stabbed twice, once in the side puncturing his lung and once in the back. When the po-lice arrived at the scene, the victim

was reported saying that he couldn’t breathe.

He was transported to the Hill-sdale Community Health Center then life flighted to the University of Toledo Medical Center where he underwent immediate surgery to re-pair his lung and stop internal bleed-ing. The victim is in stable condition now.

According to the police report, Sherman had been sharing a resi-dence with the victim, his girlfriend, and a baby. After an altercation, the victim told Sherman she had to take her things and leave the residence.

It escalated to both the victim and Sherman throwing each other’s belonging from the house. The vic-tim said that Sherman came at him with a knife, but he did not see it at first and she stabbed him in the side. While trying to wrestle the knife away from her, she stabbed him in the back.

The victim reported forcing Sher-man out of the house, but he did not

lock the door. The girlfriend report-ed that while she was on the phone with the police, Sherman re-entered the house, knocked the phone from her hands, and threw her to the ground. When police arrived at the scene, they found the two victims in the front yard, but Sherman was not there.

Police tracked her to a Hillsdale city residence, where they found her in a bedroom. Sherman resisted ar-rest by attempting to block the door, and she kicked at the officer who handcuffed her.

The defense attorney said that Sherman’s memory of the night is spotty, and that the police report shows a blood alcohol content of approximately 0.2 at the time of ar-rest some time after the incident.

Sherman’s sentencing is set for Jan. 13. The maximum potential penalty for the count against her is 10 years in prison and/or $5,000 fine. Her bond is set at $100,000 with 10 percent allowed.

Osseo woman charged with stabbing accepts plea bargain

City to enforce rent permit requirements

Five years after going into effect, the Hill-sdale City ordinance requiring inspection of rental property is going to be enforced.

The City Planning Commission discussed plans to enforce the existing property use and occupancy ordinance citing the blight as one motivator to uphold the inspection requirement at its Nov. 19 meeting. Now when the city is informed of a property changing hands or oc-cupants, renters will be reminded to have their property inspected.

“Use and occupancy has been on the books for several years,” Code Enforcement Admin-istrator Alan Beeker said at the meeting, “but over the last few years, the law has not been enforced.”

According to the statute that has been in effect since 2009, the use and occupancy or-dinance requires lessors to apply for a renting permit by paying a $25 fee and having their property inspected by city officials to ensure that it measures up to maintenance standards. Once the permit is issued, it is valid for two years or until a new occupant moves in.

“It seemed like a responsible thing for the city to do,” City Property Assessor Kim Thomas said.

The law was written to promote the safety, health, and welfare of Hillsdale residents, and raise the standards of quality for rental property in Hillsdale.

According to the Hillsdale building inspec-tion office, some of the most common violations include a lack of smoke alarms, electrical outlet covers, handrails, proper bathroom ventilation, and missing or broken windows or screens.

“I’ve seen exploitation of the poor,” Plan-ning Commissioner Laura Smith said during the meeting. “I’ve seen college students exploited.”

For the past five years, however, the law has not been effective because it has not been con-sistently enforced. No notice of the requirement for inspection has been regularly sent to lessors. Not all lessors are registered with the city. As a result, many are unaware of the law.

“I’ve had rentals for 13 years, and I never knew about this,” Smith said.

The commission has recognized the lack of enforcement and at their meeting discussed measures to be taken to uphold the ordinance.

“It is important that we enforce all the laws on the books,” Beeker said.

To solve the problem, the committee dis-cussed creating a rental registry to keep records of permits granted and ensure the two year re-inspection is met. The committee also discussed cooperation with county officials for greater ef-ficiency. According to Beeker, renters who reg-ister with the City to rent their properties will now be notified of the requirements.

There is not a penalty if properties are never inspected, but if the city finds a property being rented without inspection, they can take mea-sures to ensure the property is safe for renters.

“We simply ask the landlord or the new resi-dent to schedule the inspection,” Beeker said.

If the property fails the required inspection, existing renters could be evicted. According to Beeker, the city has never had difficulties to this extreme.

“I think that having the things already on the books being resurrected from the dead would be a good thing,” Smith said. “Once precedent has been set, it’s very difficult to change.”

Volume Salon reopens offering massages, manicuresCasey Harper

Spotlight Editor

Vivian HughbanksCollegian Reporter

Taylor KnopfCity News Editor

Vanished Hillsdale

Hillsdale’s beloved Lake Baw Beese derived its name from Potawatomi Indian chieftain Baw Beese, whose tribe of about 150 members set-tled on the banks of the lake sometime in the first quarter of the 19th century. While Baw Beese and his tribe roamed as whim, game, and season led them, present-day Hillsdale County and the lakeshore held their burial grounds, maize fields, and semi-permanent housing.

The Hillsdale County Community Center’s History Index, based upon the account of the Hillsdale Centennial book of 1969, reports that Baw Beese disregarded the 1816 Treaty of Chi-cago granting Hillsdale County, among other tracts, to the young United States and consid-ered the area to be his sovereign territory. Baw Beese went so far as to demand tribute, as fee for rental of the property used by American citi-zens, from the government.

However, in 1840 the federal government expelled Baw Beese band from his lake and ter-ritory on the authority of the Indian Removal Act. Baw Beese died circa 1850.

-Compiled by Micah Meadowcroft

Macaela BennettAssistant Editor

Councilwoman Ruth Brown resigns due to controversy

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Victor Jason Owens, 59, of Osseo, Mich., Mon-day after a dispute with a neigh-bor. Owens was arraigned in the Hillsdale County District Court on charges of first degree home inva-sion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. His bond is set at $5,000 with 10 percent allowed.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the dispute between two neighbors resulted in a pretty rough beating after one got angry with the other. The victim, Owen’s neigh-bor, was taken to the hospital after the incident, but is said to be in sta-ble condition now. Owens awaits his preliminary examination.

-Taylor Knopf

Neighborly feud eNds iN home iNvasioN aNd

assault charges

(Casey Harper/Collegian)

“I just want the council to be able to get down to busi-ness and worry about the issues of the city.”

— Ruth Brown

Dedication. That is just one thing the 46 men and 33 women of the Hillsdale College track and field teams have going for them this season.

Practices began Sept. 2, and neither team has gotten to dis-play their skills in competition.

“Our track kids basically practice from fall and don’t have a chance to compete to see where they are,” head men’s track and field coach Jeff Forino said. “For track kids, it’s a long time before they get to com-pete.”

The Oiler Opener at the University of Findlay on Friday, Dec. 6 is the first meet of the indoor season for both teams. It is also the first meet in which the athletes can qualify for the Divi-sion II track and field national meet.

Forino is excited about the possibilities he sees for the men’s team this year. After a few years with a younger team, he said this year’s team is older, has more experience, is extremely well-rounded, and is solid on

almost all of the events. There are some injuries on

the team that may prove chal-lenging, but Forino foresees the competition within the GLIAC as the biggest challenge for the men’s team this year.

“Our league, the GLIAC, is a really strong league,” Forino said. “It’s one of the top two leagues in Divi-sion II on the men’s side in the country. On the women’s side, it’s just by far the best league in Divi-sion II.”

The men’s team is strong though, with two conference record holders returning this year. Junior Maurice Jones is the confer-ence record holder in the 400 meter indoor, and senior Josh Mirth is the conference record holder in the

3,000 meters indoor. “This is going to be a very

good year for us,” Forino pre-dicted. “I expect us to be in the top five in our conference meet.”

Sophomore pole-vaulter Mat-thew Harris echoed Forino.

“I’m re-ally looking forward to seeing how our team competes this year,” Harris said. “We’ve got some of the most talented guys in the GLIAC, and we should be able to take a top three spot at the league meet this

year.”The wom-

en’s team is battling with

age this year, though they too are shaping up well.

“We will be a young team

again this year,” head women’s track and field coach Andrew Towne said. “We have a good deal of talent, but we’re a bit short on experience. Overall, though, we’ll continue to im-prove.”

Much like the men’s team, Towne said this year’s women’s team is very well-rounded.

“The women will be a much more complete team this year,” Towne said. “We are now in a position to compete in every single event at the GLIAC level. The next step is being able to have multiple compete in every event.”

Both coaches are looking forward to hosting the indoor GLIAC Championships at the beginning of March.

“Being at home for our conference meet, it kind of just raises you to a whole new level,” Forino said. “People do really well at home. You tend to get a lot more energy out of them. This is our first chance to have an indoor conference champion-ship in 11 or 12 years. It’s a big deal for us, especially with the new facility because it’s one of the nicest in the country.”

The Hillsdale College wom-en’s basketball team defeated the University of Illinois-Springfield 69-54 to go 1-1 in the GLIAC/GLVC Crossover Challenge.

Before getting their first win, the Chargers lost to McKendree University the night before, on Friday, Nov. 22, with an over-time buzzer-beater shot.

“It was a heartbreaker,” junior Megan Fogt said. “It was a fun game, but it was tough.”

Hillsdale was ahead most of the game, but fell behind 67-70 with 19 seconds left in regula-tion.

Senior Marissa DeMott hit a three-point jump shot with five seconds left to tie the game and take it into overtime.

Hillsdale took the lead in overtime, but lost 74-77 with a last second three-pointer for McKendree.

“They were hitting threes all night,” Fogt said.

Hillsdale only made 17 of 31

free throws, which head coach Claudette Charney attributed to the loss.

Fogt said Hillsdale used the loss against McKendree as motivation for Saturday’s game against the University of Illinois-Springfield.

“We honestly played one of the best defensive games since I have been here,” Fogt said.

Three minutes into the game, the Chargers took a 9-0 lead, and they held onto it for the rest of the game.

“We set the tone defensively from the beginning and con-trolled the game,” Charney said in an email response. “We led by 19 at the half and played effi-ciently at both ends of the floor.”

After the tournament, Fogt was named the GLIAC South Division Player of the Week.

“It’s always an honor,” Fogt said. “But honestly, it comes down to getting those wins. All the titles in the world don’t mean anything if you don’t have wins on the board.”

Fogt currently has 18.2 rebounds per game, which is the highest in Division II so far this

season. In the tournament, Fogt

played a tremendous game, scor-ing 29 points and 27 rebounds against McKendree, and 27

points and nine rebounds against the University of Illinois-Spring-field.

Tonight, Hillsdale plays its first conference game against Northwood University. The team will be away from campus until after their game on Saturday against Lake Superior State

University. “It is really tough to be miss-

ing those final classes,” Fogt said.

The Chargers will have to miss the final two days of class, and then come back to begin finals.

“The professors are really understanding as long as we are putting effort in and not slack-ing,” senior Angela Bisaro said.

The basketball season is just beginning as the school semester is wrapping up, which can be challenging.

“It is so exciting to finally be playing games that it is hard not to let it take precedence over school,” Bisaro said.

The team will be on campus through most of the Christmas

break, with home games on Dec. 14 and 16, and games

on Jan. 2, 4, 9, and 11.The players will go home for

Christmas, but come back on Dec. 30, Bisaro said.

“The win on Saturday gave us a big boost,” Bisaro said. “It has propelled us forward. We are excited to get some wins and have a good year.”

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BOX SCORES

Senior forward Tim Dezel-ski helped himself to some pre-Thanksgiving stuffing last Tuesday night. Dezelski poured in 28 points to go along with nine rebounds, five assists, four blocked shots, and three steals to fill the stat sheet and lead the Chargers past the Cedarville Yellow Jackets, 76-59. “I’ve got a lot of talented teammates, so it’s very helpful that teams can’t just focus on me,” Dezelski said concerning his performance. “If they do, then any-body on our team can step up their game and I believe that’s one of our biggest strengths, balance offen-sively, because any night anybody on our team can hurt you.” It took a big second half for the Chargers to get the win, taking a two-point halftime lead and turning it into a 17 point rout by the end of the game. “We came out with a much higher energy level,” sopho-more Kyle Cooper said about the turnaround. Cooper set a career-high by scoring 16 points to comple-ment Dezelski’s 28. Senior Brandon Pritzl contributed nine rebounds and stingy defense. “We made a switch [at halftime] of Brandon Pritzl onto 22- their (Cedarville’s) really good player- and that slowed him down,” head coach John Tharp said. The defensive adjustment certainly contributed to the Chargers holding Cedarville to just 26 points in the second half. The win gives the Chargers a 2-0 mark in the young season, having won both games by an

average of 20.5 points. The schedule will cer-tainly toughen up in the coming weeks. The Chargers play a challenging contest tonight at Northwood, a game on Satur-day at Lake Superior State, and eight games over Christmas break. “Northwood is a really tal-ented team and has a variety of different guys that can score,” Tharp said. Northwood is already 4-2 on the season, and being on the road sure doesn’t make the game any easier. “It’s the first time we’ve

played away since our exhibition season, so it’ll be a good test for us,” Cooper said. The Northwood game opens up the GLIAC schedule for the Chargers. “The GLIAC is tough every year, and every game is a battle,” Dezelski said. “This is the

tough part of our season and

we’re looking forward to get-ting into it.” “Every team brings different challenges that we’re going to see,” Tharp added. “Everybody is talented enough to beat you.” The Chargers are looking forward to facing these chal-lenge over Christmas break. “Playing over break is always kind of fun,” Cooper said. “You’re not worried about anything but basketball, so you need to put 100 percent focus into that, and you hope that translates into better perfor-mances.” The test that is the GLIAC starts tonight against North-wood and continues until March. The Chargers hope they can get off to a strong start in conference play and lay a solid foundation for the rest of the season.

In the United States, there are over 32 million people ages 12 and older that play fantasy football, the most popular online sports game in the country. Some of those participants are here at Hillsdale College, as there are multiple student leagues on campus. Students have been striving for top scores all season and now it is getting into crunch time with the playoffs fast approaching.

Fantasy football allows fans to interact with their peers in a way that brings them closer to teams and players. Fans draft players that are currently in the NFL and try to build their team for success like a real NFL owner. There are trades, injuries, adding and releasing of players, and lineup strategy, giving participants the feel of being in control of their team. Each week, participants play against another team in their league. Points are amassed based on the success of their chosen athletes in each week’s actual games.

Things are getting heated for Hillsdale’s fantasy aficionados. The gentlemen of 201 N. Manning St. have comprised a league made up of ten teams. Senior Peter Thistleton, owner of “Team Thistleton,” is 7-5 going into the last Sunday of the regular season.

“My playoff hopes really depend on the last game. I need to win

and I need some other guys to lose in order to get in,” Thistleton said.

When asked why he participates in fantasy football, Thistleton said, “I already love NFL football. Fantasy was a fun opportunity for me to get more involved in the NFL. It also gives all my friends at the house something to do on Sundays together. There is a reason to watch every game. I am a lot more into the NFL because of fantasy football and it is a lot of fun.”

Senior Garrett Holt is the only player in the league that is not a resident of 201 N. Manning St. He is the owner of “Dang Dangus,” which is a tribute to 2012 Hillsdale graduate Nate Jebb. Holt is 5-7 going into the last week of the regular season and admits his team has had a rocky year.

“I have good players, they just seem to not want to play well at the same time,” Holt said.

Junior Vinny Delicata’s team is one of the best in the league.“Vinny Delicata is the cocky one. Nobody wants to see him win.

He is always talking about how good his team is. I would like to see his whole team go on injured reserve,” Holt said.

On the other side of the spectrum, senior Brett Pasche hasn’t had the best luck this season.

“Brett’s team is awful, worst in the league,” Holt said. “Nor-mally we would do something bad to the guy that came in last in the league, but in this case I think we are all too afraid to do something

to someone of Brett’s size.”The league does not have a pay-in fee or an award for the winner,

besides bragging rights amongst the guys involved. There is a league played by guys in Nebraska where the winner gets to pick a tattoo for the guy who comes in last place. The losing tattoos done in the past include rainbows and a portrait of Justin Bieber.

There are no tattoo leagues here on campus, but fantasy football creates intense competition amongst student participants throughout the duration of the season.

Shane ArmstrongCollegian Reporter

Senior Amber Mueller practices throwing shot put in the Bier-mann Center. (Anders Kiledal/Col-legian)

Track starts season at Oiler OpenerMen’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 76Cedarville: 59

Game Leaders:Total Points:Tim Dezelski (28)Kyle Cooper (16)Offensive Rebounds:Dezelski (4)Cooper (3)Defensive Rebounds:Dezelski (9)Brandon Pritzl (8)Assists:Pritzl (5)Dezelski (5)Blocks:Dezelski (4)

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 69Ill.-Springfield: 54

Hillsdale College: 74McKendree: 77

Season Leaders:Total Points:Megan Fogt (83)Marissa DeMott (50)Ashlyn Landherr (20)3-Pointers:Demott (12-25)Brooke Borowski (5-17)Offensive Rebounds:Fogt (21)Defensive Rebounds:Fogt (52)Borowski (10)Assists:Katelyn Newsome (10)Borowski (10)Free Throws:Fogt (19-28)Landherr (9-11)Blocks:Fogt (5)

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Charger swimming takes second

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The Chargers had their best weekend so far this year, with many girls recording season and personal best times. Although they only took first place in two events, the Chargers were still able to take second place overall (out of nine teams) at the University of Chicago Invite.

Notable performers for the Chargers included sophomores Sarah Rinaldi, Jen-nifer Wheeler, and Zoe Hopkins, and junior Rachel Kurtz.

Rinaldi won the 200 IM with a big season best of 2:07.75. Freshman Emily Shallman followed, taking sixth in 2:12.87. Rinaldi also led Hillsdale’s 2-3-4 placings in the 100 breast, with juniors Cayley Cruickshank and Ali Bauer very close behind. Rinaldi finished her successful weekend with a fourth place finish in the 100 fly (58.45).

Wheeler took third place in the 200 fly (2:07.44) and fourth place in the 200 free

(1:56.21), both very impressive times for this part of the season.

Kurtz placed in all of her freestyle events with season-best times. She took third in the 100 free (53.11), sixth in the 200 (1:56.86), and first in the 50 (24.04), respectively.

Hopkins had a phenomenal meet. She took third place in the 1650 freestyle, finish-ing in 17:42.08, which is over a minute faster than she’s gone all season and within a second of her personal record. In the 500 free, she took fourth place and set a per-sonal best of 5.06.93, within a second of the school record.

Hopkins turned an early season injury into a learning lesson and source of motiva-tion. With a newfound appreciation for the sport, Hopkins has been working extra hard to make up for lost time, which reflected in the results from last weekend.

Between the 500 and 1650 free, Hopkins said she prefers the latter.

“The 500 is a sprint event when you train for distance, and I prefer to take my time to find a good pace,” Hopkins said. “It’s also

exciting to watch how much can change in a mile. A swimmer who was in last place after the 1000 can end up winning in the last 650, so you can’t let your mind wander and lose your pace.”

Two things in Hillsdale’s favor were their relays and their depth, especially in breaststroke. Hillsdale placed second in the 400 medley relay, third in the 200 medley, as well as the 400 and 800 free relays, and fourth in the 200 free. And apart from Hills-dale’s 2-3-4 showing in the 100 breast, they also went 2-3-6 in the 200.

Over Christmas break, the Chargers will head south to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for their annual training trip. Starting Dec. 30, the trip will last approximately 10 days, and will be quite intense. Their daily routine will include two workouts in the water, with weight train-ing on some days. This is the most intense training the girls will do all season.

The team will next be back in competi-tion on Jan. 11 at the University of India-napolis.

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HILLSDALE STUDENTS PREP FOR FANTASY PLAYOFFS

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A national coaches association poll ranked Hillsdale College 15th going into the national meet.

Nice job, coaches. The Hillsdale College women did indeed

take 15th at the NCAA Division II cross country national meet on Nov. 23. The meet, held in Spo-kane, Wash., marked the first championship berth for the Charger women’s team in three years.

Despite hitting their pre-race ranking, the team wasn’t entirely satisfied with their race, said head coach Andrew Towne

Even so, “It’s been a very good season,” Towne said. “Definitely something to be proud of for sure.”

The weather on race day was perfect, Hills-dale runners said: high 30s, dry, and sunny. The course was narrow, however, and the nearly 250 runners pushed each other around, especially early in the race.

“During the meet, just having that quantity of people there yelling and screaming and right up in your face – that’s a different cross country race,” Towne said.

Sophomore Kristina Galat led the women at Spokane, placing 63rd in a time of 22:15. She said she was running for top 40, which is All-American.

“But I felt like I ran as hard as I could, so I was satisfied in that way,” Galat said.

The Oren sisters finished second and third for the team. Sophomore Emily, 91st, ran a time of

22:33, and freshman Molly, 108th, crossed the line in 22:41.

“The race was average,” said senior captain Victoria McCaffrey, who finished two seconds and one place behind Molly Oren. It wasn’t what we could have been, and definitely not up to our potential.”

While she has NCAA eligibility left, she’ll spend next semester in D.C. with the Washing-ton-Hillsdale Internship Program. Nationals was the last race of McCaffrey’s collegiate career.

“I think it will really hit me over break,” she said. “I’ll probably sleep for about a week and then wake up and just be like ‘oh shoot, I’m not going to have this anymore.’”

Junior Chelsea Kilgore rounded out the top five. She placed 133rd in 22:53.

The team scored scored 413 points in total.Besides McCaffrey, Hillsdale returns all its

women cross country runners next year.Towne said teams travel to the national meet

hoping to run their best race.“We didn’t do that,” Towne said. “But it came

down to a learning experience for us.”Galat echoed Towne’s sentiment.“Now that we’ve made it and know how we

can do it, I think there will be a mentality shift and we can be more confident with races like that,” Galat said.

Grand Valley State University won the Divi-sion II national title with 54 points. Saginaw Val-ley State University, the one other GLIAC team that competed at the race, placed 11th with 304.

Junior Rachael Kurtz is a sprinter on the college swim team who has had consider-able success recently, winning the 50-meter freestyle and placing in two other events in each of her last four meets. When did you first start swimming and how long have you been swimming for Hillsdale?

I started swimming when I was really young. My brother took lessons. My mom says that as

a kid I would beg my mom to let me get in the pool with him, even though I was way too young. I joined a swim team as soon as I was old enough, like the first or second grade, and I have been swimming ever since.

Do you ever get nervous be-fore meets?

Not really nervous, I would just say excited. I don’t know, we [the team] are at that point where everyone is really good, we are all practicing 20 hours a week, we are all at the same level strength-wise, it’s all mental. I’ve hit the point where I know how to get my-self psyched for a race. I know that if it comes down to it, I know I can just swim as fast as I can.

How do you get pumped for a meet? We all do team 50s beforehand, so that we can all be doing something as a team. Then our coach will get us together and give us a pep talk before the meet starts. Then we all pray

and do one cheer before we start. I think it’s a good tradi-tion; I like the idea of us all praying as we get ready. To just give all the glory to God, that’s the best thing. I usually pray by myself before each race too. And okay, this is where it gets nerdy. I have inspirational talks on my headset that I will listen to. There is one really good one that I was listening to all week-end. It says that you have to want to succeed just as much as you want to breathe. If you can do that, you’re going to get it. It’s just a good thought. I don’t know, it just gets me really pumped, just listening to stuff like that. That’s basically it.

What are some of your other commitments at Hillsdale, and how do you balance them with swimming?

Well, I’m in Chi Omega, so that is a big commitment. I try to put as much time into it as I can and I try to be at as many of the events as I can, but they are the most understanding girls. If I can’t make one of our meetings, they definitely un-derstand. I am also part of the

Host Program and the Student Activities Board, and I work as a lifeguard. Balancing all of it takes work, but I’m used to it. I’ve been doing it my entire life. I’ve always had school and swimming. And our coach un-derstands that I have swimming now, but school is my future.

Do you have any tips for younger athletes trying to balance sports with academ-ics?

I would say, just have fun, and make sure you really enjoy your team. If you can’t com-mit and have your teammates with you, then it can be a really bumpy road. I think once you find where you are supposed to be - once you find a bal-ance - it all makes sense. With the rigorous academics here at Hillsdale, and then having to train, and then having other things you want to do, and then trying to fit friends into all of that, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. But just have fun with everything, and give each thing you are involved with everything that you can.

Do you have any long (or short) term goals for this season?

Last year I was 1/100th of a second off of making nationals, so this year my goal is, basical-ly, just to make it to nationals. That would be nice. But in the end, if I don’t, I really want to make sure I give it my all. As long as I keep trying and keep having fun, it will all work out the way it should.

What is your definition of a good Charger fan?

Definitely one that is commit-ted. I like to think that Chargers are classy too. We obviously get really into our sports and want to win, but we know how

to keep it classy.

How important is team spirit to you?

It’s one of the biggest things. If a team isn’t working together, even in a sport that is mostly individual, I know that we won’t do as well as we could. We might still have good times and we might still swim well, but if you don’t have the sup-port of your team then it will put a damper on everything else.

-Compiled by Graceanne Warburton

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Charger Chatter: Rachael Kurtz

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM PLACES 15TH AT NATIONALS

Every athlete has to deal with some setbacks, mental or physical, but some have it so bad they have to stop playing their sport long before they expect or want to.

But others just don’t know how to say no. Hillsdale College features two such athletes: vol-leyball player Lindsay Kostrze-wa, and football player Steven Harding. Just a few months ago, both Chargers had trouble walk-ing, let alone competing. Now, both are meaningful contributors to their respective teams.

How did they do it? Though their stories differ, they share at least two traits: personal determination, and reliance on their teammates.

Kostrzewa, a redshirt junior, tore her ACL during her junior year of high school, which usually requires about nine months of recovery. But then she tore it again before it fully healed, turning nine months into two years. For-tunately, she had already committed to Hillsdale, which provided motivation.

“I missed my whole senior year of [high school] athlet-ics, which was really hard, but it helped having something to work toward already,” she said.

Yet even when she came to Hillsdale, she remained cautious in her on-court pursuits to pre-vent any relapse, but didn’t let this stop her from doing every-thing she could off of it.

“The past couple of years have been very off-and-on, very touch-and-go,” she said. “So I decided to be a leader in other ways that I can, whether it’s off-court training or being known as a responsible teammate.”

And though she considered leaving the team, Kostrzewa’s patience and diligence paid off. Thanks also to a new doctor and new treatment, she earned schol-arship status despite joining the team as a walk-on, and was named Second-team All-GLIAC in volleyball, signifying excep-tional performance. Even so, she remains humble, and just hopes to keep doing what she’s doing.

“I wasn’t expecting anything like that at all. It was a surprise. I would attribute it all to my team,” she said. “I consider ev-ery time I get to play a blessing. It’s a privilege to play for this school.”

Those who have observed Kostrezewa’s struggles over the

years also attest to her resilience.“I always thought she could

come back and do some good things,” head volleyball coach Chris Gravel said. “Most people would have given up, and I would include myself in that category.”

“To have five surgeries and come back is kind of unheard-of,” teammate and roommate Sydney Lenhart said. “She’s an awesome person and an awe-some player. I’d be very sad to be on the team without Lind-say.”

Harding, a redshirt senior, has faced debilitating setbacks not once, but twice. In the sum-mer of 2011, Guillain-Barre

Syndrome almost completely paralyzed him for two weeks. Although he eventually recovered, he significantly dam-aged bones and muscles around his ankle in preseason practice in 2012, and was confined to a wheelchair for two weeks, crutches for four to five, and a boot for three to four.

Doctors told him he had only an 80 to 85 percent chance of re-covering his former strength. So while doing what he could for his team while convalescing, and after initial hesitance to work his way back onto the roster, he made his decision to return, benefiting from already having overcome incredible difficulties.

“You have to be mentally, physically, and spiritu-ally tough to over-come something like that,” he said. “The team was the reason I came back.”

And come back he did. This season, he did not miss a single practice or game, and made key contribu-tions to gameplay as defensive back.

Those on the team credit his tenacious character.

“It matches his grit and determina-tion. Most kids dread that time when they’re told their career could

be over, and he heard it twice,” football head coach Keith Ot-terbein said. “All credit goes to him: his passion, his love for the game, and his desire to help the program in any way he could.”

Teammate senior Sam Landry, who went to high school with Harding, agreed.

“Once he said he was going to come back, anybody that knows Steve knew he was going to be back. If there’s anyone who could do it, it’d be Steve,” he said. “If I was hurt, Steve would be the first person I’d talk to.”

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Caleb WhitmerEditor-in-chief

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

On left: Redshirt senior Steve Harding makes a tackle at an away game earlier this year. On right: Redshirt junior Lindsay Kostrzewa spikes the volley-ball at a home contest. (Collegian file photos)

The women’s cross country team members and coaches gather during the 2013 Division II national championship meet in Spokane, Wash. (Photo Courtesy of Dawn Oren)

The comeback kids

For the many of the 12 Hills-dale College students attending the art department’s upcoming figure-drawing workshop Jan. 6-10, the last week of break will be their first exposure to depict-ing a nude model.

The Studio Incamminati will present the workshop on cam-pus the week before classes re-sume for the rest of campus.

In this program, students promptly begin an intensive study of the geometric shapes of the human body, lasting up to eight hours each day. Studio In-camminati will provide a local nude model so that students can acquire a more comprehensive understanding of proportions and linear construction.

“We study structural points,” instructor JaFang Lu said. “My lecture talks about what’s under that, so students can correlate abstract information with spe-cific information. It trains their seeing. A competent artist learns to see and knows what they see, what they know, and what they want.”

A typical day during the workshop begins with a dem-onstration, and a lecture. It con-cludes when students complete

a number of exercises to prac-tice drawing with charcoal.

“The goal is for them to see exact shapes. They have to have an idea of what they see as far as what the form is like under the skin,” Lu said. “Once they acquire a certain amount of proficiency, we move on.”

Lu adjusts the amount of information that she teaches in one lesson to the degree of stu-dent experience and how quick-ly students apply the material to their artwork.

“The most difficult thing I observe in my students’ art is that they get distracted by de-tails. If they are doing a por-trait, they get caught up in the features instead of understand-ing the structure of the head as a simple form,” she said. “They need to ignore all of that. It’s like a house: you get distracted by doors and curtains, but the most important thing is the foundation.”

Lu has taught drawing work-shops for 10 years. The course she will be teaching at Hillsdale College has been condensed from 18 weeks into one week, and she aims to hone the skill of artists who have an interest in drawing realistically.

“It’s 1/18 of the time that students have compared to what

In their end-of-the-semester concert, the Hillsdale College Symphony Orches-tra features a repertoire representing a blend of classical and jazz music, open-ing with the “Hansel and Gretel” opera by Engelbert Humperdinck, and ending with banjo and jazz-infused classical piece af-ter the intermission.

The excerpts from “Hansel and Gretel” consist of four movements, one of which has three parts.

Hansel will be played by mezzo sopra-no and adjunct voice professor Cynthian Knight, and Kristi Matson, a soprano and adjunct professor in voice, will play Gre-tel.

“We’re also featuring Claire Ziegler, a junior voice major,” Professor of Mu-sic Holleman said. “She’s the sandman who puts Hansel and Gretel to sleep when they’re lost in the woods at night.”

Ziegler explained her excitement for the piece and some of the research she had done on Humperdinck.

“Even though this is an opera for chil-dren, and it’s based on a children’s story, the music is very rich and almost dark at times,” Ziegler said.

The second half of the concert begins with “Fingal’s Cave Overture” by Felix Mendelssohn, which leads into “Rhapso-dy in Blue” by George Gershwin, featur-ing soloist and artist-teacher in piano Brad Blackham.

Matson, Blackham’s wife, solos in the first half of the concert, and her husband in the second.

“It’s kind of neat that we’re featuring them both in concert,” Holleman noted. “What’s fun about this piece is that it’s one of the first pieces that incorporated jazz into classical music.”

“The very first performance, it was kind of improvised because he wasn’t quite done with the score yet,” Blackham said. “He had been commissioned to write the piece, but he didn’t remember until about a month before it was to be per-formed. Probably what he played in the first concert is what we’ve come to know as the piano parts in the piece.”

“Rhapsody in Blue” also calls for a banjo and saxophones, both of which aren’t usually included when the orchestra piece is performed.

“Will Abrams is a new math professor here, and he plays viola in the orchestra,” Holleman said. “I said something to the orchestra about a banjo part. He came up to me after rehearsal and he said, ‘Well, I play banjo. I’ll take a look at it.’”

After the banjos and saxophones, and “Hansel and Gretel,” the big band, direct-ed by jazz music director Chris McCour-ry, will perform at an afterglow at 10 p.m.

“It’s really fun,” Holleman said. “It’s Friday night, after classes. Students can unwind before revving up for finals.”

Tickets are still available for the Satur-day night performance at 8:00 p.m.

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Clockwise from top left: The orchestra practices in Markel Auditorium, senior Cory Flint plays the cello, and the string section works through a movement of “Rhapsody.”(Anders Kiledal/ Collegian)

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Strains of classical and jazz music in upcoming orchestra concert

On Dec. 13, Hillsdale Wind Symphony will perform their an-nual winter concert featuring a variety of energetic pieces and Christmas classics with a twist.

The symphony has grown to 60 members – both community members and college students – since 2002 when Director Robert Livingston, now also teacher of music at the college, started the community symphony.

Livingston chose “Toccata” by Girolamo Frescobaldi, “Four Scottish Dances” by Malcolm Arnold, “Continuum” by Robert Buckley, and “Ghost Train” by Eric Whitacre for this year’s con-cert. The second part of the concert will feature “traditional Christ-mas carols with a bit of a twist,” Livingston said.

Percussionist Catherine Ellis said she appreciates that Livings-ton has picked pieces with more percussion then pieces featured in previous concerts.

“Bob always picks fun pieces, and, as a percussionist, it is nice to have some pieces that are a little percussion heavy to keep us entertained,” Ellis said.

Ellis has been playing in the wind symphony on-and-off for 10 years since Livingston – her high school band director at the time – invited her to join the group her sophomore year. She said she has enjoyed the community of the group.

“I really enjoy the community aspect and that there are people of all ages who come. You don’t have to be perfect at what you play and we are not just there to play music at rehearsals – we laugh and tell jokes and stories, but we are serious about the mu-sic,” Ellis said. “We play as well as we can, but we are there to have fun and play music at the same time.”

Ellis said the concerts are just as fun for both the audience and the musicians.

“It is a very comfortable environment, and on top of that, the concerts are always packed every single time, and I’m sure its not just family members that come out for the concert. We play a lot of good music – a lot of classical – and we play a lot of fun pieces, and I’m sure it’s just as fun for the audience as for the musicians,” Ellis said.

Both community members and Hillsdale College students play in the symphony. Livingston started it as community group, but since then, Hillsdale College students have been invited to partici-pate for a credit hour.

“[The symphony] was something that I had wanted to do for a while. At first it didn’t seem like it would go and then all of a sudden people started coming, and since the first concert, it has been going

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Portraits drawn by JaFang Lu, the realist art instructor who will conduct the artist workshop held on campus Jan. 6-10. (Courtesy of Studio Incamminati)

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As they like it: bringing the Bard to the arboretum

All the world’s a stage, and the players have been cast.

More than 70 students audi-tioned for this spring’s Shake-speare in the Arb production of “As You Like It,” necessitating callbacks for the first time in two years, sophomore co-di-rector Phoebe Kalthoff said.

The Shakespeare in the Arb club stages a Shakespeare play in the Slayton Arboretum each spring, said junior Elizabeth Whalen, the other co-director.

Whalen said it was hard to turn down so many of those who auditioned.

“We tried to get a lot of peo-ple who hadn’t been able to do

it before involved, though our first criterion was, of course, just the quality of the audition,” she said. “We’re really hum-bled by the caliber of the actors we’re getting to work with.”

Many of the actors said they are very excited about working with the rest of the cast.

Junior Meredith Caton will play the lead, Rosalind. Ca-ton submitted video auditions from Paris, where she has been studying abroad this semes-ter. She said she heard about the production from Whalen, as well as from campus-wide emails.

Caton played Rosalind in an Annapolis Shakespeare Com-pany production of “As You Like It” three years ago. She

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said she looks forward to re-turning to the role with greater maturity.

Rosalind spends much of the play disguised as a man after being banished from court by her usurper uncle. Caton said Rosalind finds the control the disguise gives her exciting but uncomfortable. Rosalind uses her guise to help other charac-ters mature.

Early in the play, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando, a nobleman oppressed by his cru-el older brother, Oliver. Oliver willfully neglects to train Or-lando in the manners befitting a gentleman.

Senior Whittaker Dunn, who plays Orlando, said Or-lando feels great discomfort about this lack of training, but his excellent personal character outweighs his lack of formal manners.

Phebe, a shepherdess played

by freshman Dani Morey, lacks manners. She cruelly rejects the affections of the shepherd Silvi-us, though she marries him after manipulation by the disguised Rosalind.

“I honestly feel bad for Sil-vius,” Morey said, “I hadn’t met the actor who plays him beforehand, so I was like ‘Hi, I’m Dani,’ and then I just started yelling at him.”

Sophomore Kendall Kar-pack plays Celia, Rosalind’s cousin and best friend, who joins her in her banishment.

“She’s very loyal,” Karpack said. “I think that’s her biggest quality, and it’s definitely a quality I admire a lot.”

Karpack said she was ex-cited about stepping into a new acting role for the first time since high school.

“Every time I play a part, I learn something new,” she said. “Every character has something she can teach you.”

This production marks both Kalthoff and Whalen’s direc-torial debuts. They have both

acted in a Shakespeare in the Arb production, Whalen in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Kalthoff in “The Tempest.”

“We’ve been best friends since we were babies,” Wha-len said, “so we channel pretty well.”

“Which is really helpful for directing,” Kalthoff added.

She said their interpretations of the play were very similar.

They both stressed their desire to have the production reflect a faithful reading of the play.

“Most of all what Shake-speare wants is thoughtful read-ers who care about the truth of things,” Whalen said, “so if we can bring that kind of authentic-ity to it, then we’ll be happy.”

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Long has the debate raged over what constitutes “American” food. There are primarily two camps in this fight, either you believe that, like the nationality, American food is merely composed of other ethnic foods, amalgamated and reproduced for our eating pleasure, or that American food equals Southern food, which appears to be the only thing we’ve come up with on our own.

Up until the last ten years or so, one could rarely find a restaurant which touted itself as “American,” and places would usually go with labels such as “steak house” or “diner-style.” With post-modernity and its apparently ravenous, identity-seeking obsession with “heri-tage” infiltrating even the culinary arts at this point, highbrow res-taurants have begun to explore the idea of American food, working to create an actual identity by exalting recipes long sequestered as old-fashioned or comfort food.

Personally, I take the stance that there is no such thing as true American food with an authentically original heritage. What has be-come labeled as haute in current restaurant circles are primarily the products of Germanic, Celtic, or Anglo immigrants and really can-not be delineated from our more recent Italian, Eastern European, or even Asian brethren. Even Southern food is the product of immigra-tion. What we think of today as Southern soul food is purely afro diasporic and can be found on a multitude of continents in a variety of forms.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bothered by the neo-American food movement. In fact, I find it to be quite delicious, and some rather good examples exist out there which should be experienced by our generation. One of the best of these is Ann Arbor’s The Raven’s Club.

The website of The Raven’s Club describes the inspiration for the decor as coming from early 20th-century jazz clubs and speakeasies, and it does not disappoint. Upon entering, a massive bar filled with

layer upon layer of craft liquors and other beverages immediately catches one’s eye. The antique lighting, including massive lampposts installed in the center of the restaurant, transports one to a time ut-terly Fitzgerald.

I should be quick to mention that The Raven’s Club is as much a bar as a restaurant, and in that way, very much captures the pre-prohibition tradition of a “public house,” where food and drink were there to assist in people engaging in community, not getting drunk or sated. The bar there can only be described as awe-inspiring; an ever changing list of affordable cocktails, beers, liquors, and wines graces every table, and an immensely helpful staff will direct you to whatever your heart may desire. At The Raven’s Club, they special-ize in what could be described as craft or obscure, and oftentimes they will have just received a shipment of something I had read about days before. They currently even carry the ever elusive, over-priced, rumored-to-be-a-scam Pappy Van Winkle’s bourbon, and are one of a very few mid-western institutions that do so.

Their menu is as superb as their drinks list, and the quality of their “American” food truly astounding. Like every restaurant trying to participate in the neo-American food craze, much of their food is locally sourced and of outstanding quality. The menu is also very seasonal, constantly shifting to the point where expecting a particu-lar favorite on the menu is a futile endeavor. A constant presence, though, is their charcuterie board, the contents of which may change, but always satisfies any cravings one might have for premium cured meats.

Their entrees will invoke almost medieval imagery. Delicious heavy meats in delicious heavy sauces grace the singular page of a menu. Maybe this is the American aspect I’ve been looking for, but then I remember that these seem all too familiar in German cuisine. Despite that, the food, much like German cuisine, is all delicious. Whether it be pork shanks or lamb chops, all of it is good.

The desserts are wonderful as well as seasonal. Currently, try ei-ther the apple fritter or the potted chocolate creme. Both are deli-cious, and both will assuage any sort of sweet tooth you may have.

Ok, so American food might not be a thing, but whatever sort of

amalgamation of cuisines we have come to call American food can be a beautiful thing. The Raven’s Club provides the perfect example of what the 21st-century restaurant should look like: simple, farm-to-table, elegant. They also provide the perfect 21st-century bar: ev-erything anyone’s heart could desire. Go to The Raven’s Club, not to feel “American” but to feel like a damn human being.

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strong ever since,” Livingston said. “Originally, I just thought it would be a community thing because I really did not have a connection with the college at that point. We were rehearsing at the college, and Mr. Holle-man suggested we made it open to the college kids so they could take a different class.”

Sophomore Grace Hertz is one of a growing number of college students involved in the wind symphony. Hertz heard about the symphony before she came to Hillsdale. She said she was excited to keep up with flute while she focuses on piano. Hertz said she enjoys the com-munal aspect of the symphony.

“I think the dynamic between being a community group which also has involvement in the col-lege is unique and really makes it special. It’s not just college students – it’s an effort from the community as a whole, and that is really neat.”

Hertz said she is excited for the concert this year.

“I think it is going to be re-ally neat, and we have a unique lineup of music. There is some Christmas music, but it is not all Christmas music, and a lot of out songs have a higher level of difficulty than we have done be-fore, which makes for great and unique sounds,” Hertz said.

Tim Galloway, who comes from Reading and plays the French horn, has been coming with his sons for the past four years. He said that each year he is excited and surprised by the progress of the symphony.

“Every time I am amazed that we only meet once a week and there are 8-12 rehearsals. I am amazed how two weeks be-fore the concert I am thinking ‘gosh are we going to be ready for this?’ and somehow those last couple weeks everyone buckles down a little. I am al-ways amazed how it turns out.”

The concert will be at Markel Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

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we do in a regular class. I won’t be able to cover everything in a crash course,” Lu said. “This gives them an idea of how to see and approach art from a more holistic point. People tend to think the way to go about it is to just copy ev-erything.”

The work-shop is de-signed off of a class taught at the Studio Incamminati, an Italian-style school that teaches contemporary real-ist art in Philadelphia.

“We just celebrated our 10th anniversary this past year. At first it was more or less an informal thing, but our pro-gram has really grown in the past year. For those certain people who are not going to

get to come to Philadelphia, we thought we would bring it to them,” said Bill Wedo, com-munications manager at Studio Incamminati.

The workshop has been capped at 12 students and costs $550. Currently, there are no seats available; however, can-

cellations oc-cur regularly and interested students may call 215-592-7910 for more information.

“We are really look-ing forward to having this o p p o r t u n i t y for students to develop their skill,” Profes-

sor of Art Barbara Bushey said. “We have alumni who have at-tended this school after gradu-ating from Hillsdale and speak very highly of it. This is, in a word, quite exciting.”

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MuseuM holds annual open house For ChristMas

The Grosvenor House Museum in Jonesville, Mich., has its Victorian Christmas Open House Dec. 7-8, 14-15, and 22-23. The event begins at 2 p.m. and goes to 5 p.m. –– with an extension to 7 p.m. on Dec. 7 and 14.The Victorian Christmas is an annual event offered by the museum that includes hourly performances by local artists, special homeade treats, and a historic story teller.

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Some cast members from “As You Like It” gather for a read-through of the play. (Ben Strickland/ Collegian)

Hillsdale College art department’s popularity has been grow-ing among majors, minors, and those artistically inclined to vari-ous degrees, but the department itself has not. Interest in both the historical and studio aspects have grown to the extent that entry into the classes –– even for majors –– is a race through Web Ad-visor. Perhaps it is time to change this.

“Our aim is to strive for the glorious things, to fill your head with good ideas,” Professor of Art Barbara Bushey said. “We study the great works of the past to gain a sense of what’s pos-sible, to develop a strong sense of craft and of honesty. We are committed to studying the best sort of making.”

I’m not an art major. In fact, my stick figures look about the same as they did when I took my first art class when I was nine years old. But, like most Hillsdalians, I can appreciate good art. And it seems that the Hillsdale administration should consider expanding the art department

“We definitely need another professor, and we also need more space because there are only four art rooms,” sophomore Phoebe Kalthoff said. “My professor next semester will have to teach two separate classes in the same classroom at the same time.”

Over the past few years, the interest among the general stu-dent body in taking art classes has increased significantly. In fact, class sizes often exceed the number of students who are allowed to enroll at registration.

“There’s not enough space for the art classes, and it’s almost impossible to get into the art classes that you want to,” Kalthoff said. “Photography, drawing one, and portraiture are all full.”

At the end of the 2012 spring semester, 11 students had de-clared art majors, and the art honorary, Alpha Rho Tau, had 28 members. These students alone are just about enough to fill each of the required classes of drawing, sculpture, and art history. In addition to these, each must present a senior art exhibit and port-folio, both required classes as well. This doesn’t even consider students simply interested in dabbling to expand their liberal arts experience.

“We’re just always teaching and thinking of new ways to im-prove our classes. I am excited to see how the art department is growing, and, as an alumna, it’s wonderful to be a part of that growth,” said Katharine Taylor ‘02, part-time art professor.

Currently, the department has five full-time professors and one part-time professor on staff. However, if student interest in the arts continues to climb, it seems reasonable for the college to hire more professors.

“As an artist, it’s really helpful to have a wide variety of opin-ions to develop your skill. When there’s only a handful of teach-ers in the department, and usually one teacher for each subject, you can’t get multiple perspectives on the work you’re doing,” junior Heather Buell said. “It would be nice to hire more full-time teachers because it would give us a bigger variety of classes and more feedback on our work.”

The department has shown interest in expanding the depart-ment, but has no definite plans at this time.

“If the opportunity arises then, of course, we would love to expand student choices and possibilities,” Bushey said. “Cer-tainly with the advent of the graphic design minor, among other things, our classes are all full.”

While the number of art majors and minors has increased this year, many students who aren’t planning to study art extensively have added to the packed classrooms.

“A majority of the students who aren’t majoring in art actu-ally finish our courses feeling satisfied and happy,” Taylor said. “Some didn’t think that they could learn, but that’s certainly not true. Anyone can learn if they practice.”

The Hillsdale art department encourages all interested stu-dents to take art class, regardless of whether or not students think they are talented artists, though it is also determining how best to manage the increasing enrollment in their classes.

“I strongly believe that the basic skills of drawing, sculpture or painting can be taught just like you can learn to be a better writer or musician,” Taylor said. “That doesn’t mean everybody will be genius artists. But as far as technique goes, anyone who has a desire to learn can become better for their own personal satisfaction and creative outlet.”

jfinney@hillsdale.edu

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Featuring works from just about every area of the Hills-dale College Art Department, the Student-juried Art Show is open now in the Daughtry Art Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts. The show includes sculpture, pastels, master cop-ies, graphic design, and more.

The exhibit had its grand opening Dec. 3 with the an-nouncement of the awards by the faculty and student-voted favorites, and will remain open until Jan. 10, the beginning of the Spring semester. Around 35 students participated this year, entering a total of around 100 pieces into the show this year. Many of the students are nei-

ther art majors nor art minors, but merely students interested in developing new or unpol-ished skills.

“Lots of people are just in-terested in dabbling in the me-diums for fun or from curios-ity,” said senior Julia Kilgore, one of the student gallery work-ers. “There are a fair number of students who are not actual art majors in the studio classes and in the show.”

Participation is open to the entire art department, but many classes require enrolled stu-dents to enter.

“Anyone who is in an art class may participate, and I think all of the studio classes require participation at some level,” Professor of Art Barbara Bushey said. “All my art his-tory students are must to make master copies, and I encourage them to put the good ones in the

show.”While the pinnacle of most

art majors' collegiate careers converge in the senior art show at the end of their senior year, the student-juried and guest-juried exhibits allow for other students to display their work in the gallery.

“I always look forward to the show because I get to see what everyone else it up to,” senior Jasmine Noman said. “I like to see the other medi-ums –– that might be why I loved the pastels at the show so much. They don't do them that often, and I love to see them.”

Professors and students alike enjoy seeing what the rest of the department has been working on. The student juried aspect allows for students to recognize one another's abili-ties and the professors note the pieces they consider most ex-

traordinary.“I always like seeing the

different ways of perception, and I encourage students, even very beginners, to think about their composition,” Lecturer in Art Katharine Taylor said, “to see the greater vision and understanding of the piece that comes through.”

The Student-Juried show is one of a few annual exhibits put on by the art department, as well as the annual guest-juried show, occasional visiting art-ists, and senior art shows.

“I'm not an art major, but I've taken 20-30 hours of studio classes. I love the department and really love the professors: they're a bit crazy and great,” Noman said. “I love the depart-ment and seeing and being in these art shows.”

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Juried art exhibit gives students chance to show workTeddy Sawyer

Assistant Editor

“A competent art-ist learns to see and knows what they see, what they know, and what they want.”

— Instructor JaFang Lu

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Todd Lowery stands beside an American flag in the Kirby Center Lecture Hall in Washington, D.C. (Emmaline Epperson/Collegian)

“I’ve always found stu-dents who are very good,

informed students have never had a rigorous

approach to the study of foreign relations or na-

tional security.”

-Todd Lowery,lecturer in

national security

Overheard at hillsdale: the best Of the week

“i dOn’t understand why we need santa fOr christmas and a bunny fOr easter. what dOes the easter bunny have tO dO with Jesus being bOrn?” -anOnymOus

Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor

Ben Durrington grows plants. In his room.

Durrington, a sophomore from Aledo, Texas, is a biology ma-jor. He began to study botany in middle school after observing his grandparents’ gardening. He said he decided to read about the plants they were working with and it took off from there.

“I got into mainly tropical plants, like orchids and palm trees and cycads and bromeliads,” Dur-rington said. “I like reading about them and learning about their hab-itats and just different things about the environment and climates they live in, and growing some of them, the ones I can find.”

He does more than just grow them: Durrington volunteers in the herbarium on campus. He also plants, repots, and treats diseases in the flora in the greenhouse and removes invasive shrubs as part of an ecosystem restoration project in the Slayton Arboretum.

“He’s incredibly meticulous and thorough,” said Renessa Coo-per, professor of biology and the director of the arboretum. “His at-tention to detail is very admirable: little gets past him.” She added, “He also has a lot of patience too. I’ve given up on terraria multiple times, but he seems to be totally inspired by the challenges.”

In addition to his work for the college, Durrington continues to cultivate plants on his own. Fortu-nately, his roommates don’t seem to mind.

“It’s actually quite nice, be-cause I get this fresh supply of oxygen in my room, and I wouldn’t really get that from any other roommate, you know what I mean,” Os Nakayama, Dur-

rington’s roommate, said. “It’s not a problem at all. It’s quite enjoy-able. I’ll go in there and he’ll try to tell me the genus and species and I’ll say, ‘O.K., I don’t speak Latin and all that stuff.’”

Durrington cultivates some rather rare plant species.

“There’s one called allthorn, Koeberlinia spinosa, and that’s rare in the sense that it’s not really cultivated by that many people, but it’s not really that rare in the wild. It’s from the desert, in west Tex-as,” he said. “It’s a new addition to the family and so I’m still trying to fig-ure out exactly what it needs, because it’s different for every plant. And there is not cultiva-tion informa-tion for it; I can only read about its habitat.”

Durrington has plants from all over the world.

“The most exotic or rare plants in the wild are some of the cycads I have, which include some from South Africa and Australia,” he said. “One from Africa I have is called Encephalartos horridus and that one has really sharp leaves. And then, Macrozamia glauco-phylla, which is from Australia.”

Durrington pointed out that his plants were obtained legally, an important point since the plants are endangered. Durrington takes growing cycads as an opportunity to protect the plant.

“Responsible cultivation of rare plants can actually be benefi-cial to their species,” he said. “It’s sort of like insurance in case that species goes extinct in the wild.”

Cooper was surprised to find

that Durrington was a member of a cycad society before coming to Hillsdale.

“Cycads are really neat plants. They were around even in the time of the dinosaurs. They are a plant lineage that’s been around for quite some time, and Ben even tries to grow them from seed.”

The enthusiasm Durrington has for the well being of natural plant habitats does not go unnoticed.

“He has a genuine passion for promoting conservation,” Cooper said. “We need more students like him. He’s a botanist.”

Durrington sees plants as more than biology. They’re art.

“I guess there are several dif-ferent things that I like about it,” Durrington said. “Scientifically it’s interesting, I guess from a bi-ology standpoint, it’s interesting to look at their habitats and how they grow and interact. But even though I’m a biology major I kind of have an artistic side and each plant is like its own little design or work of art. Each one has its own unique leaf structure or flower that’s just really intricate.”

Nakayama said rooming with Durrington and his plants has been a delight.

“His plants are awesome,” he said. “He has some orchids right now, and they’re blooming. He has his cute little terrariums in there; they have their own sleep schedule and everything.”

However, those plants are defi-nitely Durrington’s domain.

“There was one time when I went into his room, it was about a month ago—I went in there and I was looking at his plants and [I touched one] and I came back a week later and it was dying,” Na-kayama said. “He said it wasn’t my fault, but it was. Because I touched it and I don’t have his

Botanist grows passion

Spotlight

Class began promptly at 7:15 p.m. At 7:20, there was still no sign of the professor. When the clock hit 7:30, a student got a call from him. He got caught up at work and would arrive shortly. Finally, Professor Todd Lowery came bumbling into the room at 8:00.

Lowery apologized for his tardiness. It was the first time he had arrived late all semester.

“Were you in the war room?” one student asked, jokingly.

“If there was such a thing…” he answered with a grin.

“Is there a national se-curity emergency?” another questioned.

“If it were only that in-teresting,” he posited back. “I think you can sleep tight tonight.”

Lowery, who works as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for In-telligence, is also an adjunct professor who has taught the class, “National Security” for the past seven years at the Washington-Hillsdale Intern-ship Program (WHIP).

In 2007, Hillsdale College approached Lowery. The col-lege hoped to revitalize WHIP and wanted to teach a class on National Security. With no prescribed syllabus, Lowery had the freedom to choose what students in his class read. With the country at war, the class offered him the oppor-tunity to introduce students to the subject of war and politics.

“So I thought if I had one shot with students to teach them everything that I found to be important over 15 years of schooling, what could I pack into 10 to 12 weeks,” Lowery said.

Though teaching is not Lowery’s main career, he en-joys it as a night job.

“I like it because you are introducing people to new concepts and new ideas. It also forces me to think about things and try to do a good job of ex-plaining it,” he said.

Most students at WHIP, Lowery noticed, study nation-al security for the first time in

his class. The class has helped current WHIP student Kate Bock in her internship.

“Taking Dr. Lowery’s class on National Security Studies has greatly helped me with my job on the House Armed Ser-vices Committee,” she said. “It has been really interesting to see how the theory we learn is class is actually applied on

Capitol Hill.”The first class of every se-

mester, Lowery asks students about their backgrounds in studying international rela-tions. Most have very little experience. Lowery’s favorite part of teaching comes at the end of semester. He asks stu-dents to review what they have learned in the past semester.

“I’ve always found stu-dents who are very good, very informed students, have never had a rigorous, analyti-cal approach to the study of foreign relations or national security,” Lowery said. “They come away, perhaps looking at things a little differently.”

Brittany Baldwin ‘12, uses what she learned from Low-ery’s class at her current job, working for Senator Ted Cruz.

“Dr. Lowery’s class gave me a solid foundation to un-derstand the complexities of foreign relations, and it has informed how I think about difficult questions facing the Senate,” she said.

Lowery has worked in the office of the Secretary of De-fense for nine years. He met his current boss while working at a defense think tank, one of his first jobs out of graduate school. Eventually the secre-tary of defense became one of Lowery’s mentors.

Lowery left the think tank and entered civil service. At the end of President George W. Bush’s administration, his old boss was appointed as Un-der Secretary of Defense. The under secretary remembered Lowery. Since then Lowery has stayed on and worked for him in different capacities.

Though his areas of focus have shifted, international relations have always in-terested Lowery. Growing up in a rural town during the end of the Cold War, he was fascinated by the breakdown of the Soviet Union.

“It was ‘pre-Internet’ days so I was glued to the TV and loved reading the papers and anything I could find about how the world was changing around me,” Lowery said. “I remember the televi-sion images of people tearing down the Berlin Wall in my mind.”

Upon acceptance at Frost-burg State University in Mary-land, Lowery entered the inter-national studies program.

After living in a small town, Lowery was eager to travel. He spent one summer study-ing in Germany. Another sum-mer he worked at a think tank in Washington, D.C. He spent his break between semesters backpacking through Eastern Europe.

“That’s one of the reasons I like the WHIP program, be-cause I’m a big believer in internships,” Lowery said. “Practical experience counts for a lot in this field.”

Lowery completed his un-dergraduate education in three years and went on to study at the University of Chicago to earn his master’s degree in in-ternational relations. He also holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Maryland.

Deep down, Lowery is a self-described “small-town kind of guy.” He said with a chuckle that he stays in D.C. partly, “because my wife likes it.” Lowery also said that the capital is the best place to study international relations and foreign policy. So he stays and continues to teach.

“It gives a certain energy to me,” he said.

Emmaline EppersonCollegian Reporter

Defense expert partners with Hillsdale

You wouldn’t say that Wes Wright has a face for radio, though he has been told that. But he does have the voice for it, and he’s been told that too.

Flip on the radio Sunday morn-ings in Hillsdale, and you’ll be met with the music of Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, and Dean Martin. And, occasionally, you’ll hear the voice of Wright, host of the big band program that airs after the Christian music and Church programs on 92.1 WCSR, Hill-sdale’s local radio station.

“I’ve always been told that I have a voice for radio...so that sparked a little interest in broadcasting,” Wright said. “I like listening to the radio because it has more variety than just choosing the song that you want to hear in that mo-ment.”

Working as early as 6 a.m. on Sun-day mornings since the beginning of the semester, Wright has been learn-ing the ways of broadcasting. He took introductory courses in broadcasting in the speech department and works at

WCSR, the local radio station that em-ploys college students.

“WCSR is really committed to the community aspect of being the voice of Hillsdale,” Wright said. “And that’s part of what Big Band Sunday is. It ca-ters to an audience that many radio sta-tions no longer cater to. I play the mu-sic, track down the commercials, get on the air and say things about the music sometimes. Six a.m. doesn’t help with that part. But I really enjoy it.”

Because of his love for swing danc-ing, hosting the Big Band program has been a perfect fit for Wright.

“I really enjoy it because I swing dance, and I really do like swing mu-sic and big band stuff,” Wright said. “I know a lot of the music, and I’ve expanded my horizons a little bit with some of the music that they have.”

The Big Band program is Wright’s first experience on the air. He said he was apprehensive at first, but he is get-ting the hang of it.

“For a while I didn’t have the tech-nical experience,” Wright said It was scary to be doing the news and a min-ute in realize there was no sound going out over the air, because I hadn’t had

a couple buttons depressed. But I don’t become depressed about that,” Wright said. “The biggest fear is oversleeping, which I did once. But I’m still around.”

Wright said that Andy Brown, host of the program, “Time Out With Andy Brown,” and sports announcer for the Hillsdale College Chargers and Lady Chargers, gave him the feedback: “There are enough old ladies out there that you’ll know if you’re doing your job wrong.”

“If you make a mistake, because the station has been around for a while, people will call in and let you know,” Wright said. “It is very much a community station, which is a lot of fun.”

Wright also said that he has even received calls concerning the station’s Pet Rescue pro-gram.

“I think it might have been my first day without some-one being there,” Wright said. “This woman called in and said that a bunch of cows were eat-ing her flowers. So I said on the

air: ‘If you live near this, and you have cows, do you know where they are?’ Just things like that.”

Despite his love for the community aspect of WCSR and for big band mu-sic, Wright said that he is not consider-ing broadcasting for a career path.

“I dont think I have the personality for it, to be a personality,” Wright said. “It takes a particular sort of person that I don’t think I am, but I would enjoy doing it as a part time thing, at least a similar capacity to what I do at WCSR.”

Student combines passion for broadcast, big band musicEmma Vinton

Collegian Reporter

Sophomore Ben Durrington waters plants in a terrarium in his room. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Hillsdale’s voice of big band

Junior Wes Wright sits in the WCSR studio. His Big Band program airs at 8 a.m. Sunday morning. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Ben Durrington

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Top: Sophomore Tirzah Ashmore shows off her war paint before the game. (Courtesy of Arielle Baker) Bottom: The Young Guns play runner up Vicious and Delicious. (Cour-tesy of Caroline Green)

“We play to win, but we also want to honor God

on the field as well.”

- Tirzah Ashmore,Sophomore

campus chic

Spencer Bell

- Compiled by Casey Harper, photographed by Shaun Lichti

Who or what inspires your style?A 64-pack of Crayola crayons.

What is your favorite item of clothing?

Lederhosen.

What is the most embarrassing thing you own?A comfortable and stylish blue shirt that just happens to have

ducks flying in groups spotted throughout.

Where is your favorite place to shop?“Tommy Hilfiger and J-Crew with some Bavarian Outfitters

every once in awhile.”

How can an unfashionable person become fashionable?“Suggestion 1: Try to wear as many colors as possible.

Suggestion 2: Grow a mustache.Suggestion 3: Wear a bow tie.

Suggestion 4: Buy a pair of nice shoes. Take care of your feet, people.

Suggestion 5: Dance.”

Hannah LeitnerCollegian Reporter

Ten girls huddle together on the sidelines of the football field. Their faces are painted with red and black markings that give the group a confident, fierce quality. Their battle cry fills the air.

“Welcome to the gun show! Tick, tick, boom!”They range from seniors to freshmen, and to-

gether, form the intramural football team known as the Young Guns.

This year they won the Championship game—for the seventh year in a row.

So what is their secret to success?

“I would tell you, but then I’d have to kill you,” team captain and sophomore quar-terback Tirzah Ashmore an-swered jokingly.

Abigail Ashmore ’10, older sister of Tirzah Ashmore by 6 years, decided to start her own intramural team in 2007.

They won the champion-ship that year. It was the birth of the Young Guns.

Since then, the team has passed down through the sisters of the family: from Abagail, to Esther Ashmore ’12, and finally to Tirzah, the youngest of her family of 10 siblings.

Even alum and brother Sam Ashmore became involved with Young Guns by coaching the team his four years at Hillsdale.

“It’s like a family tradition,” Sam said. “There has basically been an Ashmore girl on the team ev-ery year.”

But for the Ashmore family, the tradition of football started before college.

As children, the Ashmore’s did not have a tele-vision, so they spent their time outside playing games with each other.

“There are so many of us that we could play against each other,” Sam said. “And when we played, we actually played real tackle football.”

That Ashmore competitive streak permeates the entire Young Guns team and coaching staff.

“I was thoroughly impressed with their effort on

the field,” Assistant Coach Landon Peterson said. “They had a warrior spirit that I did not expect.”

Although the team did take home the champi-onship trophy, senior running back Katie Malm believed that it was the memories created with her teammates that made the season special.

“I think that the [championship] win was in-consequential compared to the season as a whole,” Malm said.

The Young Guns’ goal isn’t simply to be re-membered as champions. Instead they focus on demonstrating a positive attitude on the field

“We play to win,” Tirzah said. “But we also want to honor God on the field as well.”

Malm shared this idea.“I think the whole point

of the season was to get close with everybody and to grow in our faith,” Malm said.

In order to live out their goal of honoring God on the field, the team made sure to conduct themselves in a posi-tive, sportsman-like manner. But living out their faith on the

field was not an easy task.“A lot of the teams were really competitive, so

remaining positive can sometimes be a struggle,” Malm said.

They tried to show this spirit by doing small acts such as handing flags back to the other team, mak-ing sure their flags are worn on the outside of their shirts and, when involved in a collision, making sure the other person is alright. Malm said these small acts can really help keep their competitive-ness in check.

“We’re not perfect,” Malm said. “We can get competitive, too. But those little gestures can make all the difference.”

With Tirzah graduating in two years, the Young Guns will lose the Ashmore touch. But to the team-mates, winning isn’t what defines the legacy of the Young Guns.

“My only hope for the team in the future is that they continue to carry out that good, God-honoring attitude on the field, which I know it will,” Malm said. “I don’t think anyone’s worried.”

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Family continues football dynasty