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Vol. 137, Issue 8 - 31 Oct. 2013

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YAF celebrates freedom

Casey Harper Spotlight Editor Young Americans for Freedom will host their second annual Freedom Week starting Monday to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. YAF will allow students to graffiti and tear down a 40 foot long, 12 foot high wall placed on the Quad. We are trying to do the same thing, to get students back involved and tear down apathy, YAF Vice Chairman Phil Wegmann said. You have to take ownership of your education and take what you learned in the classroom and put it to work. Student Federation will vote Oct. 31 on YAFs request for $355 to fund the event. During lunch, students can pay $1 to graffiti the wall on Nov. 7 and $2 to take a sledgehammer to the wall on Nov. 8. This is a good opportunity for people to see the effects of being conservative and celebrate a lot of victories in the cause, Wegmann said. YAF is showing the conservative documentary Agenda on Nov. 12 as part of Freedom Week. The movie is basically talking about progressive, socialist, and communist influences in the United States in the last 100 years, YAF President Nathan Brand said. YAF is only in its second year as a club on campus. According to Brand, the club went from approximately 40 active members last year to about 100 this year. The club is young, mostly sophomores and freshmen and no seniors. YAF is a great avenue for you to say hey Im a conservative, I stand for these principles, and I want to make a change, Brand said.

The first phase of construction for the Roche Sports Complex arena is now complete. Students can now take full advantage of all the courts and the new fitness center. With the new facility, Athletic Director Don Brubacher said students have more opportunities to exercise, whether that be for recreational purposes or just staying fit. "It's safer, it's faster, and so much more convenient," he said. "You almost can't hurt yourself on this equipment." Along with the various cardiovascular and strength-based machinery, Brubacher said some free weight equipment was added recently as well. Chief Administrative Officer Rich Pw emphasized that the old days of long wait times are gone. The fitness center prioritizes the general student body rather than sports teams. "If you've ever been down to the weight room at 3:30, it's pretty full. Even the cardio stuff," Pw said. "But now, the varsity coaches won't have their athletes do free weights in the new fitness center. They'll go downstairs instead. There won't be times when it's inconvenient to exercise." Between the three new courts, students will have less reason to worry about interfering with sports teams. A schedule will be posted online detailing precisely at what times each athletic team is practicing. Even so, Pw said he expects that one or two courts will be open most of the time for students. Research indicates that if there's a group of guys or girls that wants to play pickup basketball, if they think a court is available and they show up, it's usually not available," Brubacher said. If they

(Caleb Whitmer/Collegian)

Water main bursts on Hillsdale Street

Caleb Whitmer and Natalie deMacedo Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor A ten inch water main broke on Hillsdale Street late Tuesday morning, flooding the road and leaving buildings in the area without water. The pipe burst around 11:30 p.m. in front of Broadlawn, leaving an 8 by 4 foot hole in College President Larry Arnns front yard. He, along with the Ambler Health Center, Whitley Residence, the Paul House, the Mu Alpha House, Koon Residence, Delp Hall, and Lane Hall had either low water pressure or no water all. Mike Simons, a Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant officer, said these pipe bursts are not atypical. It is like when your bicycle chain breaks on your bike it is only as strong as the weakest link, Simons said. He said breaks happen more often in the winter, occasionally two at a time. As of Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., he was unsure of how long it would take to fix the break. We always fix it as soon as possible, Simons said. Brown water swept down both sides of Hillsdale Street and water pooled several inches deep at the corner of Hillsdale and College Streets. Students had trouble crossing the road with dry feet. Board of Public Utilities Water Superintendent Kevin Lawrence said city workers shut down six water valves around the break to stop the flooding. The shutdown stopped water flow to buildings on either side of Hillsdale Street. By 12:30 p.m., the flow had slowed to a lazy stream. Three pumps were removing water from the gaping hole. Fellow workers left to retrieve a vactor truck. The hose on the truck works similar to a ShopVac, Simons said. It sucked the remainder of the water out of the hole so workers could dig up the pipe to make necessary repairs. Simons explained there are only three workers in the main water line department of the Water and Waste Water Treatment, so workers from other deparments came to give assistance. Thats what happens in a small town, we try to help each other out, Simons said. Pat Loper, the main secretary in Lane, said she first received reports that the restrooms were not working around 11:30. Soon after, an email from Jill Draper went out explaining a massive water line break had caused the
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Q&A with Kim Strassel

Kimberley Strassel is a member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial board, and has written the Potomac Watch Column there since 2007. Shes a graduate from Princeton University, and started her work at the Wall Street Journal in 1999. Compiled by Sally Nelson and Amanda Tindall. How did you shift into journalism? When I was at Princeton, I got an after-school job watching the kids of a local couple. They worked for Dow Jones or the Wall Street Journal, and advised me to take a year out, since I was thinking of law school, just to try something before doing three more years of school. They knew I had written for a publication at Princeton. I got a lowly position at the Journal, and then I never left. I was there as a news assistant, then a reporter after a while, and then I asked to move over to the editorial page, which Id long been interested in. Is going to D.C. really worth it? Absolutely. Im in editorial writing because you want to effect positive change. Its easy to look at D.C. and be

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situation. Senior Whittaker Dunn, a Jitters employee, said Jitters Cofee Cart was never affected by the line break. But some girl walked in and asked if I heard about the water line break her leg was completely soaked, Dunn said. Ironically, we are out of bottled water. The break inconvenienced students who had classes at the time. I had to walk all the way to Strosacker. The bubbler works but the bathroom doesnt garbage! sophomore Albert Nakayama said. Some students made the best of the situation. I appreciate the water main breaking because now Koon has waterfront property, freshman Frank Cusumano said. We might get a dock and a boat.

Van Andel endows graduate school

Stephen Van Andel graduated from Hillsdale College in 1978, currently serving on the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees. He On Oct. 10, Hillsdale College is the chairman of Amway, the announced the new name of the worlds largest direct selling busicolleges graduate ness. program: the Van Pestritto added Andel Graduate that the program School of Stateswill continue to manship. Alumpartner with Van nus Stephen Van Andel. Andel provided There will the lead gift tocertainly be an wards the endowongoing associament of colleges Graduate tion of the student graduate program. student and faculty in the Hillsdale Colprogram with Mr. leges graduate Aurelian Brown Van Andel, Pesprogram opened tritto said. We in fall 2012 ofrecently had a fering a graduate nice reception the education in both political phi- week before the Gala to celebrate losophy and American politics. the opening and allow him to Graduate Dean Ronald Pes- meet and interact with our stutritto explained that Van Andels dents and faculty. We hope that financial contribution provides will be an ongoing thing. for a substantial portion of the First year graduate student programs funding. Aurelian Braun met Van Andel The endowment allows us to during the student reception. have the resources to carry out He was very humble and so the mission that the trustees have nice, Braun said. He said the given for the graduate program, reason why he is promoting this Pestritto said. His gift allows the program is because he believes graduate program to be funded that Hillsdale is one of the last off the earnings from the endow- stands for the republic. ment. Alex Anderson Web Editor

dispirited and feel a spirit of cynicism. Many Americans do. But thats not going to change if were disconnected from it. Someone has to go and try to make it a better place, and the editorial page of the Journal tries to do that every day. Theres no reason why you have to be co-opted into Washington. I live an hour outside of the city, so that I have some distance from the town. The best advice I ever got before going to Washington was from my boss, who said, You know, imagine that you are visiting another planet. Look at the people down there as though theyre an alien species. Observe them and report back on what theyre doing. I do a lot of that in my column. A lot of the columns also tend to advise the alien species on what would be good for them. Do you think young journalists should start in news, so they have the experience of news before moving to editorial work, or do you think they can start immediately on the editorial page? I think it is a huge benefit to work in news in some capacity for a time, if you can. If its a school newspaper, a county newspaper, or the news side of a bigger paper, you need all the

skills that you use in news. At the Journal, there is a strong tradition of reporting and reported editorials. I think if you came with no experience, you could certainly get it at the Journal. What I do fear is that there are a lot of organizations, especially that do editorials, where you dont always have that strong journalistic background. You need that in the editorial world. Effective editorials are based on facts and arguments and you do that by picking up the telephone. Its all the more important in a world of fast-paced news, because anyone can fashion themselves an editorial writer. Anyone with a computer can say, Heres my opinion on this. Heres what someone should do. Were losing, to some degree, in this world of all of those opinions, some of the skills of a reported editorial and a factbased editorial. As a woman, has it been difficult to juggle being a wife

and a mother and having a career and being successful? Would you say that its worth it to try? Its totally worth it if thats what you want to try. I get kind of bored with all these conversations about what women should or shouldnt do. Do what you really want to do. Now, if you want a career, and youre worried that you cant do that, and if you worry that you cant do that and be a good mom, thats not true. You absolutely can. I love my job. I love being a mom. It isnt easy. Its like having two full-time jobs. Some people thrive on that. I do. I like the juggling editorial writing and talking to senators with kids, homework, and doctors. Its a busy life. You shouldnt think youll get eight hours of sleep every night, but you can do it. I think thats what women fear the most. If Im going to be a good mom, can I focus on my career?

He believes that Hillsdale is one of the last stands for the republic.

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A Hillsdale Halloween The college and community of Hillsdale are offering many Halloween events. A3 Obamacare The college administration is dealing with Affordable Care Act mandates. A5
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Intoxicating knowledge Professor of Chemistry Christopher Hamilton shares his love of brewing. B1

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Moon endorses Watkins for mayor. A8

How to party with a prof Were all members of the Hillsdale community. Lets act like it. A7
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Symbolism in Storytelling Masks in theatre departments Mirror help tell a story and reveal character. B4
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YOU HELPED MAKE THE REBIRTH OF LIBERTY & LEARNING CAMPAIGN GALA A GREAT SUCCESS

HILLSDALE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Thank You

As wait staff, musicians, choir members, greeters, hosts, tour guides, hospitality services, security, parking attendants, varsity athletic teams, leadership club members, physical plant crew, and service organizations, more than 360 students volunteered their time to the planning and implementation of the campaign gala held at the Margot V. Biermann Center on October 9-10, 2013.
Jordan Ahlers David Ahmanson Shena Albaugh Nicholas Allen Meilii Alvarez Nicholas Anderson Hannah Andrews Nicholas Archer Kathleen Ardrey Shane Armstrong Cassandra Asselta Salem Baer Brooke Baker Nicholas Baldwin Jennifer Bals John Banovetz Joseph Banovetz Jacob Barkett Connor Bartlett Rebekah Basinger Rebekah Bauman Anne Begin Marisa Behnke Daniel Bellet Matt Bellinger Sean Bennett Sarah Benson Kristen Berg Anders Berggren Leah Bernhardson Madison Berry Luke Bessmer Ryne Bessmer Elizabeth Bildner Angela Bisaro Emily Blatter Benjamin Block Angela Bonvissuto Katrina Bopp Brooke Borowski Melissa Bott Megan Bowser Christopher Boyajian Stephanie Boyd Chelsea Bratten Nolan Breymaier Mikayla Brown Frank Bruno Theresa Burgess Mattie Butaud Brandon Butz Paige Cammack Alysia Campos Emily Carrick Brent Cartwright Bruce Cartwright Kayla Cash Richard Caster Evan Chalker Joseph Chasen Eric Chilcote Paul Chirdon Elise Clines Catherine Coffey Portia Conant Travis Cook Patrick Cooley Kyle Cooper Evan Cothran Kelsey Cromer Edwin Culver Patrick DAmato Emily Dahlberg Courtney Day Jessica Day Isaac Dell Morgan Delp Marissa DeMott Anastasia Dennehy Timothy Dezelski Michael Di Pietro Andrew Dickerson Spencer Doan Zachary Dombrowski Spencer Downing Kelsey Drapkin Christina Dressel Allison Duber Ian Dupre Kelli Eddie Andrew Egger Martha Ekdahl Rachel Jo Elliott Ainsley Ellison Bridget Ervin Marshall Ervin Madison Estell Chelsea Farrell Victoria Fassett Melissa Felkey J. LaRae Ferguson Rachelle Ferguson Jordan Finney William Fitch Hannah Fleming Cory Flint Taylor Flowers Megan Fogt Jessie Fox Margaret Freeland Michael Furlong William Gage Danielle Gagne Christian Gajor Kristina Galat Danielle Garceau Alexis Garcia Jacob Gardner Mitchell Gatt Kayla Geffert Megan Geiger Robbie Geiger Ian Gensler Evan Gensler Joseph Gentile Ellen Georges Colin Gerish Nicholas Gibbs Payton Gill Connor Gleason Marshall Gobba Chelsea Goodale Andrew Gordon Katie Gordon Kristi Gordon David Graber Tyler Groenendal Lucas Grose Sarah Grunert Elisabeth Guensche Emily Guy Tyler Haggerson Kirsten Hall Lucas Hamelink Margaret Handel Jonathon Hanrahan Ria Harju Matthew Harris Sydnee Heim Katherine Helmick Grace Hertz Albert Herzog Nathanial Hitchcock Eric Hodgdon Gwendolyn Hodge Grace Hogan Samuel Holdeman Benjamin Holscher Katherine Holt Deb Howe Carly Howell Jessica Hurley Mitchell Irmer Devon Izmirian Elizabeth Jackson Andrew Jenkins Kaitlyn Johns Haley Johnson Ryan Johnson Garrett Jones Joe Kain Schuyler Karl Rebekah Kastning Braden Kelley Taylor Kemmeter Adam Kern Adan Kern Mary Proffit Kimmel Jacob King Peter Kistler Sarah Klopfer Jessica Knepper Josiah Kollmeyer Julia Kosco Michael Koziara Kylie Kretz Francesca Krohn David Krueger Adam Ladzinski Cabie Lamb Ashlyn Landherr Samuel Landry Emma Langston Chaelynn Lee Jacob Lee David Lehe Faith Liu Linda Lizalek Allyson Lloyd Abbey Lovat Katherine Lowery David Lowry Stevan Lukich Kyle Luttig Veronica Lyter Kristen Malcolm Rachael Maloley Anthony Manno Gianna Marchese Jacob Martin Martha Maxwell Linnet Mbogo Victoria McCaffrey Christopher McDonald Lauren McDonald Kathleen McGraw Casey McKee Maran McLeod Micah Meadowcroft Dakota Michael Brett Miller Zachary Miller Jonathon Misiewicz Jonathan Moeller Andrew Montgomery Emilie Moore Matthew Moorman Hailey Morgan Allyn Morrison Alexandra Moynes Amber Mueller Arielle Mueller Walker Mulley Daniel Mummau Logan Nabozny Patrick Nalepa Joseph Nchia Aubrey Neal Daniel Negri Anthony Nelson Dana Newell Katelyn Newsome Shelby Nies Nolan Nunez Michael OSullivan Haley OBrien Thomas Ohlgren Emily Oren Molly Oren Luke Ortel Ian Ostaszewski Gena Oster Catherine Pearsall Xavier Pennell David Peters Anna Pfaff Tucker Phillips Emily Pillivant Jared Piper Daniel Pochmara Aaron Pomerantz Jason Pretzer Brandon Pritzl Katie Pynes Joshua Ramette Matthew Reck Lindsey Redfern Lincoln Reed Dominic Restuccia Alexander Reuss Andy Reuss Rachael Reynolds Ariel Rigdon Shelby Ripley Luke Robson Christa Rose Deborah Ross Ellen Roundey Kathryn Royer Viktor Rozsa Joy Rumeau Emily Runge Wesley Russell Greg Rybka Greg Rybka Rossteen Salehzadeh Gretchen Sandberg Aaron Sandford Evan Sassack Matthew Sauer Helen Sayers Derek Schell Giana Schena Becca Scherting Aaron Schilling Miranda Schoonover Anna Schumacher Sarah Schumacher Kelly Scott Annie-Laurie Setten Eric Shankin Ian Sheldon Anna Shoffner Oliver Skinner Dane Skorup Jonathan Slonim Samuel Smartnick Cody Smith Rhett Smith Joseph Snyder Tad Sobieszczanski Audrey Southgate Nicholas Sponseller Erich Steger Marc Stein Jeff Stevens Samuel Stoneburner Alexandra Strauss Benjamin Strickland Hannah Strickland Mason Stuard Ruth Studer Addison Stumpf Katie Summa Daniel Sunne Ian Swanson Emma Takach Anna Talcott Katherine Tasma Ramona Tausz Hannah Taylor Sarah Theut Peter Thistleton Daniel Thomson Grace Thomson Kelly Tillotson Shaine Timmins Katharine Torres Aaron Tracey Victoria Tran Michael Tripepi Patience Tyne Tomas Valle Kathryn VanEgmond Grace Vanlaanen Kirklan Ventrella Ashley Veurink Emily Wahl Brianna Waldon Sara Jane Wallace John Walsh Darius Ware Rachel Warner Marie Wathen Connor Weisman Eric Wert Eli West Alexandra Whitford Emily Whitmer Bronte Wigen Laura Williamson Ethan Wiskur Conor Woodfin Kayla Wright Rachel Yerke Josiah Young Michael Zabik Andrew Zeiler Claire Ziegler

Special recognition is given to the following: Mens Baseball, Hillsdale Chamber Choir, Delta Sigma Phi, George Washington Fellows Program Representatives, GOAL Program - A Few Good Men, GOAL Program - Kings Kupboard, Mens Basketball, Mens Club Soccer, Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra, Panhellenic Council, Rugby Club, Campus Security Office, Hillsdale College Shooting Sports Club and Intercollegiate Team, Sigma Chi, Womens Softball, Student Affairs Mentors, Department of Theatre and Speech and Cast Members from The Devils Disciple, Washington Hillsdale Internship Program (WHIP) Student Representatives, Womens Basketball, Womens Cross Country, Womens Soccer Club, and Womens Track and Field

The united commitment by these and many more not here named has advanced the Colleges mission.

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Hannah Leitner and Emma Vinton Collegian Reporter and Collegian Freelancer

Halloween haunts Hillsdale

dorms and tricking candy out of poor college students. Julie Finke, junior and head resident assistant of Whitley Residence, said that their dorm is partaking in this campus-wide event as well. One of the nice things is that Judith gave all of the girls pumpkins, so our hallways look really festive, Finke said. And were planning on doing a little decorating in the lobby, nothing freaky and ghosty. The girls are all going to get candy and dress up as something fun. Galloway and Olds Residences have already celebrated the season with a fall fiesta, which included bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins, and painting gourds. Junior Shelly Peters, head RA of Olds Residence, said that she is excited to welcome the Hillsdale community into the dorm and to have the opportunity of giving rather than receiving, remembering the joys of trick-ortreating as a child. In Olds, with a theme of Candy Land this year, how could we not celebrate this sweet holiday? she said. What a beautiful way to practice hospitality on the eve before All Saints Day in the

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C-SPAN airs Birzer lecture

Walker Mulley Collegian Freelancer C-SPAN3 aired one of Professor of History Brad Birzers lectures on Sept. 2627. In the lecture, originally filmed and aired in 2010 as part of C-SPANs Lectures in History series, Birzer discussed the Old Republicans and the development of political parties within the Jacksonian era. He spent a month or two preparing, he said, because he wanted to do well on TV. The C-SPAN appearances were far from Birzers only public appearances, and Birzer is far from the only professor to make a public appearance related to his field. Provost David Whalen said that it is pretty common for Hillsdale professors to make public appearances related to their fields at events not sponsored by the college, though national TV appearances are unusual. Jon Fennell, dean of social sciences, said professors speak in a variety of forums, including events sponsored by professional societies, think tanks, political organizations, service clubs, and churches. He said different types of appearances vary greatly in significance and amount of preparation required. Dean of Natural Sciences Chris Van Orman said that while professors in his division do not generally give public lectures, they do present research at conferences and help out in public and charter schools. Dean of Humanities Tom Burke said in an email that professors in his division rarely make public appearances. Fennell said that in the social science division overall, professors split about evenly as to whether they make public appearances not sponsored by the college. He said a Hillsdale professors most important jobs are teaching and advising, so many professors do not feel a compelling need to speak publicly. "Here, while we certainly encourage it, it's not required," he said. Fennell also stressed that some professors who do not speak at off-campus events make a point of speaking at campus events. Professors who speak offcampus do so for a variety of reasons. Birzer often lectures for various groups, mostly discussing Christian humanism or the American Revolution. He said he feels a natural affinity for public speaking. He enjoys presenting ideas Hillsdale students take for granted to audiences who find

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The festivities are creeping and campus is crawling as students prepare to celebrate Halloween. Dorms, Greek houses, and campus groups have been hallowing the occasion with dorm decorating, candy purchasing, and themed events leading up to Halloween night. Kindle Barber, senior and president of the Chi Omega sorority, said that the girls have been preparing for the spooky season with house festivities. As a house, we have been celebrating the upcoming holiday by having a pumpkin carving sisterhood event and watching classic Halloween movies, like Hocus Pocus, to get us ready for the season. Most dorms, including Olds, McIntyre, Galloway, Simpson, Benzing, Whitley, and Niedfeldt Residences are opening their doors and hallways to trick-ortreaters. From 6 to 8 p.m., children of professors and other trick-or-treaters from the community will be frightening the

(Courtesy of Tirzah Ashmore)

Hillsdale High School seniors Jon Marino and Andrew Bixler join Hillsdale College seniors Katherine Denton, Julia Shelton, and Anne Peterson on the ghost walk.
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jolly land of Candy Land! The Catholic Society is celebrating All Hallows Eve in a traditional style. They are hosting an All Saints Day party on Friday at 8 p.m. at 25 Vine St. Simpson Residence is hosting a Halloween party which is open to all of campus on Nov. 2 from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Simpson basement. Claiming that they will have the best disc jockeyss in town, DJ Hashtag and DJ Cant$topWont$top, who are none other than Simpson RA junior Andy Reuss and head RA senior Garret Holt. Reuss said they will also have food, costumes, dancing and possibly a photo opportunity. We are really just looking forward to giving a people an option to have fun, Reuss said. We are students. We like students. Students are fun. And fun things are fun. So why not combine all these things? Delta Sigma Phi is raising hell as the fraternity plans to host their annual Haunted House, which will take place in Curtis Dining Hall from 8-11 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Joe Snyder, senior and president of the fraternity, said that the event always has a great turnout and great feedback. Its always one of the biggest events of the year, Snyder said. All proceeds go to the American Red Cross.

Snyder also said that there are scary as well as funny rooms in the Haunted House. Theres 6 foot 8 inch, 300 lb guys in fairy costumes, he said. In addition to all the fall festivities that take place on campus, Hillsdale Business Association held its annual Awesome Autumn festival downtown on Oct. 24. Participating in Awesome Autumn were 31 downtown business who offered samples and treats to wandering pedestrians. [Awesome Autumn] really gets everyone into the town and allows them to see everything that is going on, and its really fun, local resident Cindy VanCamp said. Along with the refreshments offered by businesses, there was also a ghost walk in which people dressed as an important figure from Hillsdales history and wandered the streets sharing their story. Its fun talking to people, participation senior Katherine Denton said. And the kids get a big kick out of our costumes. Vintage Chic business owner Cyrstal Gimenez said that the function brings a lot of new people into the downtown area and allows people to walk around and discover what downtown Hillsdale has to offer. Its just a really cool function, Gimenez said.

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According to Hillsdale Colleges press release, College President Larry Arnn thanked Van Andel for his generous gift to the college. Steve Van Andel has an outstanding record of principled service in business, life and in his work with the college, Arnn said in the release. It is an honor and privilege to have his family name attached to our graduate school. In the same press release Van Andel added that he was satisfied with the growth of the program. "I've always admired the philosophy of this fine institution, and I'm happy to partner with Hillsdale to further the college's long-standing mission of education, Van Andel said.

them shocking in a good way, he said. I believe in the mission of it, too, and I still think public speaking should be an art, he said. Assistant Professor of Biology David Houghton presents research annually at the Michigan Entomological Societys yearly conference, and occasionally at the conferences of other societies. He said his main motivation is to empower his students who attend with him and present their own research. To watch them discover something that no one's ever discovered before and to present it as the expert in the room to a room full of Michigan State University professors it's empowering, he said. Houghton said he really appreciates students moments of self-realization when they realize they are experts, capable of teaching those in the top of their fields. He also said the conferences are good opportunities to publicize Hillsdale, especially its natural sciences division, which he says is often unknown to those outside the college. He said he appreciates traveling for conferences and seeing old friends there, as well. Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram is one the colleges most prolific public speakers, according to Whalen. Wolfram appears weekly on two radio programs and makes an additional radio appearance about once a week, Wolfram said. He testifies before congressional committees three or four times a year, he said, usually in the Michigan Senate. He speaks at national and regional conferences regularly and frequently does appearances for local organizations. Some of its cause Im getting paid, he said. Sometimes Wolfram foregoes pay. He speaks free-of-charge at local events as a form of outreach from gown to town, so it becomes a college town, instead of town with a college, he said. Wolfram also speaks annually at an event for the San Diego chapter of the Freedoms Foundation, teaching high school students about free markets and the importance of limited government. He receives no honorarium, but keeps coming back because its a message he wants to spread. "That one I've been doing for 13 years, just because they're doing the right thing," he said. Wolfram said he simply enjoys public speaking. "Why do musicians tour? he said. They're doing it because they enjoy it.

DOW JOURNALISM PROGRAM HOSTS COLUMNIST KIMBERLEY STRASSEL

(Micah Meadowcroft/Collegian)

The Hillsdale College Dow Journalism Program is hosting Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel, who will be lecturing on The Second Obama Term on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in Dow A&B. Strassel, a graduate of Princeton University, joined the WSJ editorial page in 1999 after spending four years writing for the WSJ Europe. She joined the editorial board in 2005. As a member of the WSJ editorial board, Strassel has covered presidential elections and many leading policy questions. She profiled Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008, and was one of the first journalists to question IRS policies toward conservatives. Strassel is also the co-author of Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws. Evan Brune

Saga prevents food waste

Alex Anderson Web Editor During a normal weekday lunch, Saga, Inc. serves over 500 guests in a 20 minute period. A group of this size consumes as great an amount of food as the amount of dishes it produces. These food scraps, plates, cups, utensils, and bowls eventually find their way to a conveyor belt, magically disappearing, returning to the cafeteria cleaned and ready for reuse. Kevin Kirwan, general manager of Saga, explained that an operation this big requires a plan which maximizes space, reduces waste, and cuts costs. This cafeteria has a lot more efficiency built into it, compared to the previous one, Kirwan said. In 2007, Hillsdale College built a brand new cafeteria, The Knorr Dining Room, located in the newly-built Grewcock Student Union. Kirwan designed the cafeteria layout with new appliances to maintain his goal of conserving food and preventing waste. One of Kirwans waste preventing appliances is the HydroExtractor, a close-coupled waste pulping system. An appliance that reduces the volume of waste deposited into landfills by removing 95 percent of liquids Once on the conveyor belt, the dishes and utensils make their way toward an angled stainless steel trough. The plates are then scraped clean. The excess waste is then combined with a stream of water within the trough. This mixture creates a pulp-able slurry, comprising of 95 percent liquids and five percent solids. The slurry then makes its way to the Hydro-Extractor, which removes the majority of liquid, and returns it to the trough for reuse. Somat, the producers of the Hydra-Extractor explained that this sustainable appliance provides a solution for food businesses that want to initially reduce waste, but more importantly reduce costs. According to Somats website, These pulpers provide an economic and efficient answer to reducing waste volume at the collection source. It reduces labor costs, improves sanitation, and conserves water. The reason why we purchased this appliance and why it is apart of our system is so that we could reduce our waste footprint in landfills, Kirwan said. It takes six or seven 55-gallon trash containers, full of food, and mulches it up and turns it into only one bag of trash. Senior Abigail Schultz previously worked in Sagas dishroom. During her first day on the job she was surprised to see the efficiency of the process. When I first got the job I expected myself to be washing dishes by hand, but the process was very streamlined. At times it would get really stressful when dished started to build up, Schultz said. Kirwan addressed the congestion of the dish line during lunch hours, pointing to the large influx of students during such a short period of time. It is the sheer volume of getting the plates off of the conveyor belt. The students conception is that the backup has to do with food waste. That is not the case, Kirwan said. There are basically three people pulling 2,000 pieces of dishes a piece during a lunch period. It is not a glamorous job, but it is necessary in Sagas food

The dish room in the Knorr Dining Room contains a Hydra-Extractor, which prevents a large amount of food waste. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) chain Schultz said. All the people working back there do a fantastic job making each lunch successful and sanitary. A little more appreciation from students could go a long way. Kirwan admitted that the current system is not without flaws, but it was designed to be versatile and able to adjust to changes in technology. When we opened up in 2008, we realized that another five to ten years down the road, cooking equipment would change.

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Speaker issues plague clubs

Evan Carter Collegian Freelancer Technical problems with the Student Activities Board speakers at the Coffeehouse put on by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia mens music honorary couldnt stop student musicians from shining on Oct. 18, even if sound quality was poor. It wasnt even about the quality of the sound, it was about getting the sound out there, said junior Sang Jung Lee, a member of Phi Mu Alpha who helped run sound at the Coffeehouse. I got there around seven, and I realized that the sound was really crappy. Lee explained that while setting up for the event, SAB's main speakers didn't work, forcing PMA to use monitors and a personal Bose speaker instead. Sound was muffled, a singer singing too loudly would cause the monitors to cut out, and at times the sound was so weak that it struggled to fill A.J.s Caf. At 8 p.m. the technicians gave up trying to fix the sound. It was the equipment. It was not within our power to fix the problem, Lee said. I felt really madall the performers worked hard to perform at Coffeehouse and I feel like the sound system didnt do them justice. Coffeehouse is not the only student event that had issues with malfunctioning equipment or unavailability of SAB speakers and other SAB sound equipment. The Hillsdale Hepcats Swing Club and The Well worship group have also been having issues. "If I don't have speakers, I don't have swing club," Senior John Walsh, president of Swing Club said. After discussing the clubs inability to obtain speakers due to recent changes in SAB speaker loaning policy, Amanda Bigney, director of student activities, suggested that the Swing Club approach Student Federation to get funding for sound equipment of their own. The Swing Club was granted $500 by the federation to buy sound equipment. After having issues with SAB sound equipment in the past, The Well, which usually meets in Phillips Auditorium, avoids use of SAB equipment when possible. The equipment is kinda jank, junior Timothy Allen, coleader of The Well, said. Sophomore John Becker, who manages sound for The Well, agreed with Allen. Because I know SAB equipment isn't reliable, I don't even try it, Becker said. Bigney said SAB was unaware of speaker issues. We havent heard or noticed any issues with the speakers and whether there have been any availability issues, Bigney said in an email. Though The Well, Phi Mu Alpha and the Swing Club all had similar problems with the program, they offered different ideas on how to fix it. This is Hillsdalewe like tradition and the setup SAB has worked pretty well, it doesn't make much sense to change it, Walsh said. Walsh also said speakers for each club would be good, if it were possible. Allen and Becker at The Well

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Students explore living and working in Chicago

Shaun Lichti Assistant Editor Ten Hillsdale students took advantage of fall break to travel to Chicago for three days to network with alumni and explore the city. Hillsdale College Career Services led the trip, which cost $350 dollars per student. Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said the trips are conducted to give students valuable opportunities in a condensed time. Its designed to create mentor links between alumni and students while familiarizing students with cities of interest and helping them explore employment and internship opportunities, Wiseley said. The trips are the result of coordination between Career Services and the Alumni Relations Board who helps contact alumni in the destination cities.The students met up with more than 50 alumni, some who graduated from the college more than 40 years ago. Others were more recent graduates. All, however, seemed excited to network with the students, according to senior Peter Kistler who was on the trip. It was terrific to get to learn about their different backgrounds and see what we have in common with them, Kistler said. Kistler, and fellow senior theater major Kyra Moss got a chance to meet with with a recent graduate who works in the theater industry in Chicago Shelby Kittelson `13 is now working at Second City, a bit improv company that has produced Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and a whole lot of cool talent, Kistler said. We got to talk with her about how to get jobs there, and that was re(Matt Melchior/Collegian)

and Lee with PMA take a different approach. Honestly, I think it would be cool if they got a quote and they bought quality sound systems," Becker said. Becker also said he thinks SAB needs to have greater accountability over the speaker loan program so that equipment isnt used improperly and is returned on time. Student Fed has all that money. They should invest in a huge system," Allen said. The night of the Coffeehouse, a petition created by Becker to draw attention to the sound issue received 90 signatures. The petition has since been turned over to the Student Federation with well over 100 signatures in hopes of getting funding for new sound equipment to be used by student Morgan Sweeney groups that would serve as an Collegian Reporter alternative to the SAB speaker program. On the heels of a widely If there's a problem, We're always interested in fixing it, said talked about budget battle last senior David Wilhelmsen, presi- spring, this falls Tower Light has the biggest editorial board dent of Student Fed. ever. The dispute about Tower Light funding was part of a larger effort by Student Fed to minimize excessive spending. Senior and Student Fed President David Wilhelmsen sought a more judicious approach to spending students money. Past Student Feds, they had done a lot of good things, but in general, the attitude was show up, say yes, and then get out, Wilhelmsen said. While a lot of the decisions made that way were good ones at the time, as you might imagine, approaching spending money that way usually isnt the best thing to do. Student Feds officers began to examine the budget, trying to determine where they could make cuts. The Tower Light, according to Wilhelmsen, was an instance of overspending. Every indicator you could look at talking to people, online surveys, looking at copies that were left over, and talking to the janitors who said that they threw away tons of copies it just became obvious that 1,000 students werent all reading a copy of the Tower Light, (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Editors recall budget battle

Wilhelmsen said. Student Fed emailed then newly elected editor-in-chief of the Tower Light senior Aaron Schepps suggesting a decrease in the publications budget. Ultimately, Schepps and other lovers of the Tower Light attended Student Feds meeting and stood up for an unchanged budget. They disagreed with the some of the Feds figures and its point of view, believing that not just the quantity but the quality of the Tower Light was at stake. The budget had been fought for I think twice in the past few years to loosen it up because essentially we were publishing a pamphlet, and we wanted to be able to publish a book, Schepps said. In the end, it came down to a vote. All but one of Student Feds representatives (not including officers, who dont vote) supported an unreduced budget. The budget was then and is now $5,850 per semester $4,950 for printing and $900 to pay the salaries of the editor-in-chief, designer and photographer. The printing budget may sound high for students unfamiliar with printing costs, but it is approximately $1,000 cheaper than the cost for printing The Collegian for one semester. According to Schepps, the Tower Light rivals Ivy League literary journals in form and is well worth the cost. Assistant Professor of English Dutton Kearney said that he would put the Tower Light up against any student literary publication in the nation. Schepps thinks the Tower Light is important, not only because it represents Hillsdale College and speaks for the literary talent that exists on campus, but it provides a community for students who want to write more than papers for class. The Tower Light gives every student, whether they get published or not, Schepps said, the opportunity to be a part of a literary community and have this kind of abstract, imaginative home for that part of them that loves to write. Tower Light editor and senior Josh Andrews appreciates this role of the Tower Light and sees it as a place for students to join in the most personal and instructive aspects of life. Poetry and writing is allowing so many different people to momentarily join with each other in this movement back toward the heart of God or this movement toward their parents or the movement toward the ends of education, and its incredible, Andrew said. To be an editor at that point is to enter into that with so many different people, and its something to cherish.

Rogers to teach survival class

Morgan Delp Sports Editor ered that a member of Hillsdales security staff, Joey Kellam, is a Department of Natural Resources officer. The two have teamed up to create the course that McArthur said will be capped at 15 students. Who wouldnt want to know how to eat bugs, which bugs to eat, that you can eat the root of a dandelion, and also how to build a shelter? Rogers said. Rogers said they would combine Kellams own wilderness survival experience with his own U.S. Navy training. Students would learn about water resources, how to disinfect materials for consumption, how to use fire as a resource, how to start a fire without a lighter, and the usual supplies available in a survival situation, among other lessons. Senior Rachel Cook said she is interested in the class because walks in Slayton Arboretum always get her wondering if she could survive in that environment for a few days on her own. She used to play a survival game with her younger brother when they were kids. We would pretend that we were lost in the middle of nowhere and had to find food and build things, Cook said. I took a wilderness survival class when I

ally useful. All of the students on the trip got to job shadow an alum during their trip. In addition, they got a presentation from Interview Savvy, a consulting

firm that helps prepare individuals to effectively network and interview for jobs. This was the fifth time that Wiseley has taken a group of Hillsdale students to Chi-

cago, and she said that they definitely plan to continue the tradition. In addition to trips to Chicago, Career Services also leads trips to Washington, D.C., and is planning on add-

ing day trips to Lansing and Detroit in the near future, according to Wiseley. One of the unique part of the trip that Wiseley enjoys is when students get taken on a tour of the various communities within the city in which young professionals often live. It isnt a sightseeing trip, Wiseley said. It is about what its like to live in certain areas of the city: what is the average cost of a flat, do you need a car, where do you park, and so on. Freshman Graceanne Warburton was the only freshman on the trip, but said that she definitely feels that she benefited from the experience. I got to meet some awesome alumni, and I even got a lead on an internship back in Nevada where Im from, Warburton said. It was also great to just get to explore the city a bit.

For the past two semesters, curiosity and confusion have surrounded the elusive one-credit wilderness survival class. It has been listed under the Sports Studies section of the course offerings, the instructor as Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers. Although the class has been offered to students twice, it has never been taught. However, it is on the docket again and, pending approval from Director of Athletics Don Brubacher, it will be offered this spring. Rogers dreamt up the idea for the class with the former Director of Security, Chris Martini. Their goal was to create a course together that students would enjoy and benefit from. Before the course could get under way, however, Martini left Hillsdale and Rogers cancelled the course. The following semesters class schedule for fall 2013 also listed the wilderness course, but Registrar Douglas McArthur said it was merely a mistake on the listing. It was removed before final registration occurred. Prior to this semesters preregistration process, Rogers discov-

was twelve or so. I was still pretty young, so they didn't expect a lot out of us. A significant part of the class was reading Hatchet and making an outdoor survival kit. She is not alone in expressing interest among the student body. Many have said the idea of eating bugs intrigues and frightens them. I have never signed up before for this class, Cook said. I have always been a bit nervous about what it would entail. I'm not very strong, so I'm not very good at carrying giant logs or anything like that. I wouldn't want to inconvenience everyone else in the class. Rogers was adamant that no physical requirements are necessary for the course, and that there are other things in nature to eat besides bugs like the chicory and the poke root, used for tea and salad, respectively. Students ask, do you have to be physically fit to do the wilderness course? I said, no, just be OK with eating bugs, and that intrigues them. Not the kind with chocolate on it, but raw, without chocolate, Rogers said. He then added that people dont have to eat them. We will just talk about that.

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Obamacare mandate hits Hillsdale

Evan Carter Collegian Freelancer On Sept. 23, many students were confused when they received an email from Janet Marsh, the colleges executive director of human resources, notifying them that they should have received a federally-mandated notice of marketplace coverage options under the Affordable Care Actmore commonly known as "Obamacare". The college administration has been preparing for the ACA for over a year and has already made many administrative and budgetary changes. The email notice is just one visible example of how the Affordable Care Act is beginning to affect campus. For most students, this is nothing that they have to do anything about, Marsh said. Though the ACA wont have any effect on student workers that are still under their parents insurance plans, full-time employees of the college will experience some changes in their health care benefits. Regulations in the ACA will result in the elimination of two of the three health reimbursement accounts offered under Hillsdales health coverage. $167,000 in increased taxes and fees from the colleges healthcare underwriter, Blue Cross Blue Shield, can be directly tied to cost increase from the ACA. The colleges attorney fees have increased ten percent from the previous year because of extra work having to do with ACA compliance. Moreover, the college has to pay an extra $65 for every person covered by its health care plan. You have to send out letters and confuse people about the ACA because its required, said Richard Pw, the colleges chief administrative officer. The email was only meant for faculty, staff and student employees of the college, but because of the way the Hillsdale email directory is sent up, for the notice to reach all student employees, a mass email had to be sent out to the whole student body. I hadnt heard anything, said Randy Keefe, a Sophomore who works for ITS. I heard Obamacare was coming, but I didnt know a notice was coming. The college was obligated by the federal government to send the notice to all employees, but since none of the student employees are full time, the notice doesnt directly apply to them because they arent eligible for health insurance benefits from the college. Increased costs have also raised the possibility of increases in employee premiums. Every year we look at whether or not we should increase premiums, this year we might have to increase them, Pw said. Compliance with the law has forced the college to make 14 administrative changes, such as changing its policy on part time employment because under the ACA workers who average 30 hours a week over a three month period are eligible for health care benefits. You want to make sure youre not increasing your benefit liability by letting someone work on average 30 hours a week, Pw said. Overall, the college is complying with the mandates issued by the ACA. If there were something that was in direct violation of our mission, we would fight, but I wouldnt put the college in jeopardy if there are things we can comply with, Pw said. There isnt a lot of wiggle room with the IRS. People think sometimes that because Hillsdale doesnt accept federal or state taxpayer dollars, that we dont comply with the law, but we do. Pw said that some things that are suggested and not mandated under the ACA are not being followed by the collegean example of this like is the colleges refusal to submit medical records to a federal medical database. We have nothing to gain from that, so unless somebody said you absolutely must put your records in this network, were not going to do that, Pw said. Even with costs set to increase for the college under the ACA, the college plans to cover these increases through shifts in the budget keeping college expenditures even with the level they were the year before. Pw emphasized that increases in cost due to ACA will have nothing to do with tuition cost increases. There is so much that is just unknown about Obamacare, said Pw. We adjust, we do what we have to do.

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$167,000 in extra premium fees and taxes from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Elimination 2 of the 3 HRAs offered by Hillsdales health coverage 10 percent increase in attorney fees from the previous year $65 payment for every one of the roughly 1,200 people covered by its health care plan 14 administrative changes Hours of part time workers limited to under 30 a week

ODK LEAdER oF THE MoNTH

Junior Leah Bernhardson is a dedicated and enthusiastic member of the Hillsdale College community. As an honors student with a double major in politics and English, Leah is also a member of the German honorary Delta Phi Alpha. Leahs passion for serving others shines through in her many on-campus activities. Leah is an active member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, where she serves as the vice president of finance. She devotes much of her time to furthering the mission of the college through her work as a student affairs mentor, student ambassador, and student assistant for the admissions office. Furthermore, Leahs musical talent is evident through her contribution to the orchestra as a viola player. Leah also serves the community by volunteering regularly as a reading mentor at Jonesville Elementary. Thank you for your contribution to the continued success of this campus, Leah, and congratulations! there, you can't just kick everyone out. It has to be timed at a point when it's going to be the least disruptive." Over the course of the semester, final touches will be added to the fitness center as well. Currently, $2.7 million is needed for the rest of the construction project. It's unknown at this time when construction will resume, although Pw said it likely won't happen until next summer at the earliest. "When people walk into the gym, they're stunned and the thing I find most remarkable about that is I tell them, 'yes it's really nice now,' but then I point out the changes that will occur with continued renovations," Brubacher said. "We're really just scratching the surface."

SImPsoN To HosT TAlENT sHoW

Simpson Residence will host a talent show in Phillips Auditorium at 6:00 tomorrow night. Proceeds will help build a well for orphans in Sangaalo, Uganda. "It's an opportunity for primarily freshmen, really anyone on campus, to come out and show their talents," said junior Andy Reuss, an RA in Simpson who is organizing the event. For $3, spectators will see between 25 and 30 acts that will be about three minutes long. One judge will be Assistant Professor of English Patricia Bart. The other two still have yet to be determined. There will also be a "penny wars" component, which will determine a people's choice award. The money will go to an organization called Visiting Orphans, an organization senior Daniel Bellet, another RA, has raised money for in the past. Bellet said the organization was working with an orphanage in Sangaalo, a small village in Uganda, when members discovered a special need. "There's a well within the village that they're trying to build, Bellet said. And if it gets completed then it will be able to get water to the orphanage and to the whole village at a very low price." Bellet said their goal is to raise $1000, which will be enough to finish the well, but that they would love to raise more if possible, and would give the rest to Visiting Orphans for other projects. He said he was drawn to the organization because of their emphasis on helping team members grow closer to God as they help others. Reuss said each dorm is required to host a number of events every semester, and dorms are encouraged to use some of their events to raise money for philanthropy. Simpson is offering slots in the show to every Greek house and to every hall in dorms that have freshmen. "We opened it up to freshmen primarily because we don't know what their talents are," Reuss said. "More than likely we'll find a lot of really really bad humor, but hopefully we'll find something worthwhile." Daniel Slonim

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do that, after something like three times, they'll quit trying. That's not what we want. We want people who want to exercise to have opportunity to do so." For athletes, the new court space is far less physically punishing than before. "We found out when we pulled the old court apart that it lost all its force reduction all its resiliency," Brubacher said. "It was like playing on concrete and we had a lot of injuries throughout the seasons." I really like the new courts," freshman Christopher Pudenz said. "It's really easy on your

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body. There's a lot of space and the rims are nice." Senior Robert Geiger also expressed his delight at having a space where non-athletes can more consistently work out. More work still needs to be done. The second level of the fitness center is missing its dance floor with three removable walls. Duct work, heating and cooling units are visible upon entering the center. Some areas are totally empty. A blank wall exists where a climbing station is supposed to be. Coach offices, locker rooms, and a smoothie bar are among other missing items. "I think all those things are interchangeable and could be done whenever we have the money for it, but it would be more cost effective to do it all in one phase," Pw said. "Whatever you do in

KKG SWAmP STomP oN SATURdAY

The annual Kappa Kappa Gamma Swamp Stomp is set to take place at 11 on Saturday morning at Hayden Park. The theme for this years race is Stomp out Hunger. All of the proceeds from the race will be donated to Kings Kupboard, a local food pantry to help local people in need. The race, a two-mile course filled with ten obstacles designed by Bill Lundberg and Jeffery Rogers, is open to the public in an effort to get as many participants as possible. The first half-mile of the course is uphill and then will lead the racers into ten obstacles until the final portion, which is a downhill to the finish line. Some of the obstacles are repeats from previous Swamp Stomps but some have never been seen before. Lundberg said his favorite obstacle is a toss-up between the hay mountain or the water pits with dirt mounds in front of them that you have to climb over. This is the third straight KKG Swamp Stomp that is taking place at Hayden Park. It is great to have our own course because we can do whatever we want with it and not have to worry about some the things we would need to if we didnt have our own, Lundberg said. Our goal is to have around 75 participants in the race, Mary Kate Kibbe said. There is a registration table in the Grewcock Student Union during lunch so people can sign up. The signup fee for individual participants before the race is $10 and $15 for race day registration. Teams can sign up for $30 before the race and $50 on race day. Kappa is accepting donations for those who would like to give in the effort to stomp out hunger but not run. There is a cookout after the race with food provided by Saga, Inc. Shane Armstrong

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VETERANs HAll oF FAmE CEREmoNY NEXT WEEk

The 13th annual Veterans Hall of Fame and Awards Ceremony is on Nov. 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Assembly of God Church on Beck Road in Jonesville. The Veterans Hall of Fame was established in 2001 by Roger Yoder, a Hillsdale College employee, and many inductees have connections with the college. The college has a big presence in the community, Yoder said. For the college, it is unique. We have a rich military tradition. In our ceremony this year, most inductees are tied to the college in some way. In this years ceremony, Chief Staff Officer Mike Harner is the guest of honor, while College Chaplain Peter Beckwith is set to receive the humanitarian award. College trustee Frank Shakespeare will receive the lifetime achievement award. Yoder said students will also be participating in the ceremony. Senior Elizabeth Brady is set to sing the National Anthem and the service anthem for each branch of the military. Senior Deborah Ross will be playing taps. The event is free and open to the public. Evan Brune

Phase one of the Roche Sports Complex renovation has finished, allowing students to enjoy IM courts and fitness centers. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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If Im going to have a career, can I be a good mom? You can absolutely do both. Whats your talk going to be on next week? We are going to talk about what we can expect for the rest of Obamas time in office. What some of the latest mayhem, the budget fights and the faulty rollout of Obamacare means, and what his legacy might be. Well talk about elections next year, and where things might be going in the next couple of years. Do you think that the Obamacare rollout will actually affect Obamas legacy, or will we all forget about it?

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A lot of that depends on if they can fix this, and there are a lot of varying judgments on that. Some people think that this is something that can be fixed. Jeffrey Zients, who was brought in to fix this thinks that this will be done by the end of November. Some think it will be in the back sights just because the website is flawed, so we dont know yet. What I think is going to be the more interesting dynamic in the coming months is that Obamas not running for re-election, but Democrats are. Theres a fundamental divergence of interests in their party. The White House wants everyone to stick with the

program, stick with the timeline, get it done, get this sucker going, roll the jalopy down the road, but a lot of Democrats up for re-election are increasingly worried about the dire public opinion polls and are getting the blowback for the faulty rollout. Just in the past week, 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election are now suggesting there should be a delay of some form. Now the White Houses bigger problem is its own party being divided, and that will play in hugely to his legacy: whether his own party gets on board with rolling this thing out.

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and frankly, we dont want it. This issue is a matter of administrative discipline, something the Collegian only reports on when it involves the law or official groups on campus. But, to us on the editorial board, the events around the coning itself matter much less than the reaction of the student body. It illustrates a toxic tendency of many Hillsdale students: we get swept up in mobbish reactions to rumors of injustice on campus, whether administrative or otherwise. Know that this is as much of a rebuke to the Collegian editors and writers as it is to the student body in general. Were sometimes so desperate to break the next Watergate scandal that we let our desire to spread information overpower our discernment. We can get as self-righteously indignant as the next group on campus. This sort of behavior is unfair to both the supposed offenders and the punishers. Martyring students and vilifying administrators prevents both rational discussion and action to resolve the issue at hand. It reduces all parties involved to the incomplete, uninformed caricatures our small campus invents and disseminates. We should not insert ourselves into the administrations disciplinary measures when we are neither part of the problem nor the solution. And its not limited to the coning fiasco. These sentiments pop up whenever a fraternity or off-campus house is disciplined for underage drinking or when students fail to receive a hoped-for RA position. Such behavior becomes a sophomoric apologies to the sophomore class expression of a legitimate feeling. Skepticism of centralized power is a healthy instinct, but invoking student-body solidarity over the punishment of an individual is the wrong expression.

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Just before fall break, coning drama splattered on Hillsdales campus. A student made a poor tactical choice in a prank, other students got involved, and the administration reacted. Rumors of injustice swept across campus like germs in a ball pit. What had gestated behind dorm room doors and in the deans office was trumpeted in Saga and on Facebook. Everyone had an opinion and that opinion was supported by Augustine, Homer, and at least one of the Founding Fathers. This editorial neither defends nor attacks either side of the story. We dont have the full story

On learning the art of delight

interviews. those sciences. Every time I walk After arriving in Ann Arbor, past her cozy study hovel, wherit took awhile for my mind to re- ever it may be that day, she cant lax its tight control over the so- help but inform me of some new called producfascinating factivity of each toid she has just minute. Wander- That moment I felt learned. Whether ing through thrift a calm that didnt it be that baboons shop shelves, I form alliances in tallied the work depend on how their mating rituI could have many job offers I als or that every been doing, my might receive next pod of whales has anxiety mountits own dialect of ing with each semester or how whale-speech, shapeless sweat- many colors she has the abiler. Eventually garnish my ity to draw me I could contain and every other these obsessions graduation robes. passerby into the no longer, turned awe and joy she frantically to my has for the miraboyfriend, and blurted, I have to cle of life. write an article for the Collegian Watching the light behind her next week! What in the world am eyes that day in Ann Arbor while I going to write on?! we accompanied her on a tour of Without missing a beat, he the research laboratories at U of snatched from the shelf a frying M was a blast. In cowed admipan about the size of my fist and ration, the other English majors said with a mischievous gleam of and I hung toward the back of amused delight in his eye, You the group and simply took in the should probably write about how general shininess of it all. She everyone needs a tiny frying excitedly asked questions about pan. the different pieces of equipWell, alright then. ment and procedures of the lab, The variety of talents and all with names of either three depth of character I continue to distinct letters chosen at random discover in the people I meet at or four syllable words I swear do this school never cease to amaze not come from any language spome. One friend whom I have had ken on this earth. The rest of us, the joy of getting to know over uncomprehending of the majority the last three years has been a of our surroundings, merely took particular source of wonder. Not pleasure in the circular gyrations only is she especially skilled in all of a tray of test tubes filled with the disciplines so very opposed to something we didnt understand the natural bent of my brain, but that looked like it came out of a she takes continuous delight in science fiction movie. It was a the processes and mysteries of world we had only read about. That day I was reminded of how easy it is to take everything for granted. Finding delight in our studies, the joy of my friend in her work, the childlike exuberance over the simple mechanics of whatever that machine was all are rare occurrences in this world of sleep deprivation and caffeine addiction. I may never reach the point of being able to rejoice in the sound of my alarm or fill with wonder when I discover that I woke up still breathing, but I hope that I may learn to find delight in the unending layers of lifes miracles in my more conscious hours. From the heights of mans ability to map the human genome, down to the simple, quirky joys of tree bark, the existence of narwhals, and the invention of the tiny frying pan, there is a happiness in life that transcends this moments fleeting discomfort. The sunrise that morning would grow into a sacred display of primrose and gold, bathing the world in almost tangible light and divine love. That moment I felt a calm that didnt depend on how many job offers I might receive next semester or how many colors garnish my graduation robes. One day when I have a solid oak desk to call my own, Im going to buy a tiny, fist-sized frying pan for it so that I can remind myself that life really isnt as dreary as I think it is sometimes. And then Im going to use it to make myself a tiny, perfectly-round egg, sunny side up. Joy isnt a very complicated thing.

Fleming twists history in new book

A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War $26.99 No, No, No. That was the word that whispered in Robert E. Lees soul. Could Gen. Robert E. Lee dismiss his anger toward Northern abolitionists and lead an invasion of his home state? So popular historian Thomas Fleming melodramatically divines Gen. Lees thoughts on rejecting the command of Union forces in his latest book, A Disease in the Public Mind. Fleming spends over a page on Lees musings without citing any of Lees letters or other personal papers. Consequently, Flemings work is nothing more than historical fiction masquerading as authoritative history. Fleming offers a new perspective on why America fought the Civil War, suggesting that the root cause of the war was a disease in the public mind. This twisted interpretation of reality led Southerners to unreasonably fear race war caused by slave rebellion, and Northerners to believe they were the predestined leaders of an independent America. To build his case, Fleming traces an assortment of events leading up to the Civil War, including the American reaction to the news of bloodbath in Haiti, John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry, and the Free Soil movement. Yet in an overzealous attempt to be original, he neglects to address two of the most prominent controversies of the era concerning slavery: the Dred Scott decision and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. In his effort to make history exciting and relevant to the average reader, Fleming tells fantastic, descriptive narratives. However, his treatment of history falls short of satisfactory. Fleming fails to connect his subject matter together in a unifying framework, leaving his reader to tie together the pieces he presents. Fleming also overuses adjectives and flowery language. He makes untenable assertions that rewrite American history, treating them as fact. At one point, Fleming asserts that Thomas Jefferson and the Founders did not intend or understand that all men are created equal would ever be used to challenge slavery. This is manifestly untrue. Jefferson included in his original draft of the Declaration a denunciation of slavery. Fleming is unschooled in proper historical analysis. His treatment of antebellum America is biased and insufficient. He examines the public mindof the nation, but only cites the writings of a few prominent men. While William Lloyd Garrison may have believed in New Englands moral superiority, Fleming does not offer adequate evidence that this view was widespread. Furthermore, he claims to know the intimate thoughts of prominent figures such as Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee, without citing primary documents like diaries or letters. He asks his readers to imagine what these men must have thought and felt. While this is an interesting activity for those with vivid imaginations, it does not constitute history. Thomas Flemings latest book is catered to a mass audience. Its style and content are purposefully composed to make it exciting, but this treatment of history results in a lack of academic analysis and makes a mockery of the discipline of history. As a prolific author of best-selling novels and histories, Fleming ought to remember to distinguish between writing fiction and writing history.

Bookshelf

Ariel Rigdon
Special to the Collegian

Emily Schutz Student Columnist

The dashed median snapped by as we followed US-12 out of Hillsdale. I cradled a fragile cardboard cup between halfconscious fingers and let my lethargic eyes hover on the streak of yellow that blurred down the middle of the windshield. Drained of vital energy from half a senior-semesters worth of work and worry, my limp body sank deeply into the plush of the passenger seat. In the rearview mirror I caught a glimpse of two heads in the backseat lolling slightly to the side, surrendered to Morpheus primal demands. On my right a soft glow began to spread out through the heavy clouds as the day dawned on our escape from deadlines, word limits, grad school applications, and

OBAMAS BIG LIE

crook or Bill Clintons I did not have sexual relations) or war. Woodrow Wilson campaigned on the slogan He kept us out of war and then plunged us into a calamitous war. Franklin D. Roosevelt made a similar vow: I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. Roosevelt knew he was making false promises. He explained to an aide: If someone attacks us, it isnt a foreign war, is it? When his own son questioned his honesty, FDR replied: If I dont say I hate war, then people are going to think I dont hate war. ... If I dont say I wont send our sons to fight on foreign battlefields, then people will think I want to send them. ... So you play the game the way it has been played over the years, and you play to win. The burning question about Barack Obama is whether he was simply playing to win and therefore lying on purpose, or whether his statements about Obamacare were just another example of, as Obama once put it, I actually believe my own spin, though he used another word. No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people, he told the American Medical Association in 2009. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, youll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. No matter how you slice it, that was a lie. As many as 16 million Americans on the individual health-insurance market may lose their insurance policies. Just in the last month, hundreds of thousands have been notified by their insurers that their policies will be canceled. In fact, it appears that more Americans may have lost coverage than gotten it since Healthcare.gov went live (a term one must use advisedly). And when the business mandate finally kicks in, tens of millions more probably will lose their plans. Ah, but theyll get better ones! That appears to be the new rationalization for Obamas baitand-switch. Right now all that insurance companies are saying is, We dont meet the requirements under Obamacare, but were going to offer you a better deal! explained Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday. A better deal according to whom? Say I like my current car. The government says under some new policy I will be able to keep it and maybe even lower my car payments. But once the policy is imposed, Im told my car now isnt street-legal. Worse, I will have to buy a much more expensive car or be fined by the IRS. But, hey, itll be a much better car! Why, even though you live in Death Valley, your new car will have great snow tires and heated seats. This is what the government is saying to millions of Americans who dont want or need certain coverage, including, for instance, older women -- and men -- who are being forced to pay for maternity care. Such overcharging is necessary to pay for the poor and the sick signing up for Obamacare or for the newly expanded Medicaid. At least Darth Vader was honest about his bait-and-switch: I am altering the deal. Pray I dont alter it any further. Obama wont even admit he lied. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Obama talked at great length about the middle class and not once about the poor. His critics on the right said he was lying, that he was really more interested in income distribution. Such charges were dismissed as paranoid and even racist. But the critics were right. Obama was either lying to himself or to the rest of us -- because he was playing the game to win.

Jonah Goldberg Syndicated Columnist

All weve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it. ... Im infuriated because I was lied to, one woman told the Los Angeles Times, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare. And that lie looks like the biggest lie about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S. president. The most famous presidential lies have to do with misconduct (Richard Nixons I am not a

From the Archives:

On March 21, 1966, more than 80 female Hillsdale College students and an assistant dean of women looked out of their dorm rooms in McIntyre Residence to see what appeared to be a squashed football or basketball, according to student Gidget Kohn, mentioned in that weeks issue of the Collegian. The Hillsdale College sighting on that night prompted a federal investigation, and the US Air Force called astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek, who concluded that the lights seen by the students that night were simply caused by an organic phenomena called swamp gas. After 1969, the case remained

UFOs in Hillsdale

closed until about 1984 when a report of the tests of the arboretum was found. The report states that the soil and water contained abnormal traces of boron and radiation, the source of which could not be accounted. So does this open up the possibility that there could be UFOs flying around the Hillsdale campus? The seemingly overwhelming sentiment on campus is no. Vanessa King, a freshman from Pittsford, Michigan, said she does not think that UFOs exist. UFOs are like rational women, freshman Evan Moran said. I doubt I will ever see one. March 17, 2005

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How to party with a prof

Maria Servold Special to the Collegian
Board. But, it was nearly impossible to socialize with anyone I knew who was an undergraduate because, for the most part, they were intoxicated and afraid to attempt conversation with a college employee. I dont blame them for having a good time. But should they have thought about whom they might see at the event before drinking so much that it embarrassed them to be seen by an adult? Or should I have avoided the event, knowing that there would be far more students in attendance than employees? I have a lot of respect for Hillsdale students in general and especially for those I get to know through the journalism program and the Collegian. In general, the caliber of Hillsdale students behavior is something to be admired. But sometimes, like at Centralhallapalooza, I am disappointed by what I see. I also had a good time as a student, but I hope I tried to keep in mind that this is a small community and a professor I respect could have been pretty much anywhere at anytime, and I should probably be on my best behavior. It is difficult to see a student I know and respect behaving inappropriately in public (generally the only place I see students off-campus) and then have them show up to class on Monday, acting like nothing happened. We are all members of the Hillsdale community. Lets act like it.

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Last spring, my husband and I, along with my brother and his girlfriend, made our way from our house over to the grassy field where the years most anticipated event was underway. Centralhallapalooza, I hoped, would be just as delightful as it had been when I was a student, and perhaps even better, because alumni friends of mine were working the counter in the beer tent. Fairly quickly upon arriving, I spotted one of my journalism students walking toward me. Hello! I said, excited to see a face I recognized among the masses. The student waved and mumbled a brief hi and then moved away, surrounded by peers. This happened several more times throughout the evening. I posted something on Facebook about my students being afraid to say hi to me. Was I that uncool? Is it not fun to talk to your professors at a social gathering? A fellow alum promptly replied: Theyre not afraid, theyre drunk. Ah ha. Perhaps I had been naive. Suddenly, I felt awkward and out of place. I didnt want to observe students I knew bumping and grinding and making out but I did. I went to Centralhallapalooza to support the student bands and the Student Activities

Finding the dignity in manual labor

Sarah Albers Special to the Collegian
or even a difficult thing to do. Working there does little for your resume, assuming you are like so many Hillsdale students gunning for a top spot in the bureaucratic machinery of D.C. But the attitude that a low-end job reflects directly on the quality of the person employed forces me to ask: when did we all decide that the job defines the person? What gives anyone the notion that they have a right to look down on someone else because of how that person happens to earn their livelihood? I dont sprout extra digits or lose teeth when I don the universal apron and gloves of food service. My intelligence level, believe it or not, is the same before and after I punch in. I take pride in my work. Not because of what I do, but how I do it. I am an employee for a reason: they need me to work. Not only do they need me to work, but they need me to work effectively in order to make a profit and continue providing a service. Saga provides an essential service. It feeds nearly everyone on campus three times a day, six days a week.

(Dane Skorup)

Enders Game is not just for nerds

Morgan Delp Sports Editor

I am not a fan of video games, unless you count Just Dance, the interactive live-action dance game for the Wii. I would rather scrub my toilet than play Call of Duty. Most of the female population would at least admit to enjoying a round of Nintendo Mario Cart every now and then.Not me. The only thing worse than video games may be science-fiction films. Id rather be locked in a closet with Jar Jar Binks than have to sit through a Star Wars movie. So imagine my horror at having to read a book about a space war in which a boy commander, Ender Wiggin, must save the world from aliens by playing virtual games a book thats about to become a movie, no less. I wasnt looking forward to reading Orson Scott Cards Enders Game. But a professor made me do it. Yet just as Ender saves the world by breaking the rules, Card broke my preconceptions about science fiction and delivered a message that transcends mere literary genre. Enders game, first published in 1985, is really a story about freedom, happiness, and sacrificial love. The movie, which premieres on Nov. 1, will have to break the rules and conventions of typical sci-fi action movies to make good on the books meaningful story of inner warfare. Card describes interstellar combat in vivid detail, but Enders Game is really about a young and gifted boys ethical struggles to balance a dutiful killing instinct with a nagging desire for kindness. The movie trailers show a lot of high-tech battle scenes, which were shot in a NASA complex in New Orleans, and dramatic one-liners, like Ill do everything I can to win this war. I hope that director Gavin Hood preserves the books deeper meaning

You spot an overladen cheese pizza draped across the pizza bar, surrounded by a cloud of minute fat particles. You evaluate the proffered vegetables with a gimlet eye, elbow your way through the discontented masses, and finally emerge to take your place in the dining area. After the meal, you surrender your silverware and plates to the conveyor belt. The plates clatter slowly, inexorably back into the dish room, a hinterland of questionable hygiene. We all love to hate Saga. I work there. As an employee, I have noticed that the griping about Saga translates into a subtle distaste for the workers. Friends raise an eyebrow upon learning of your employment. Acquaintances curtly smile recognition before movbeneath the alien spaceship exploing away posthaste. sions. I get it, I really do. A job in food Ender breaks the rules of traditional service does not require much more alien fighting with the unique tactics than a pulse and a room-temperature he employs to win battles. He has a IQ. Landing the job is not a prestigious foresight and an approach to battle that others lack, and it enables him to defeat opposing Battle School forces like the Centipede Army. The United States Marine Corps values Enders strategic mind so much that it lists Enders Game on its recommended Natalie deMacedo reading for Privates First Class to Assitant Editor Lance Corporals, due to its lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics, according to the United States I can do anything boys can do Marine Corps University (USMCU) better. website. I distinctly recall seeing that tA deeper look reveals that Ender shirt in Old Navy when I was about breaks the rules of warfare in an even ten. I felt girl empowerment pulsatdifferent way: he cant help but eming through my veins. Sure I was pathize with his enemies. His genius the shortest person in my class and allows him to understand the motives couldnt throw a football, but that and personalities of his enemies, and wouldnt stop me from growing two it prevents him from wanting to kill. feet or making it to the NFL. No boy A line from the book sums up Enders was going to tell me I wasnt capable. dilemma: In the moment when I truly This was the 21st century. understand my enemy, understand him After seeing Bill and Teds Excelwell enough to defeat him, then in that lent Adventure, everyone wants to be very moment I also love him. I think able to time travel. Most of us never its impossible to really understand get the chance. Instead, we color our somebody, what they want, what they view of the past with modern worldbelieve, and not love them the way views and never understand how our they love themselves. forefathers could have been so primiWhile I may not own a Gameboy tive. But halfway through high school or play Battlestar Galactica, if thats I got the chance of a lifetime to even a thing, I can appreciate the travel back in time to the 17th century. wisdom of these words. Time and time Working at Plimoth Plantation again I have experienced a strong dis- for four seasons has taught me more like of people who annoy me or have than any history class (sorry, Western been rude or hurtful, only to catch Heritage) could ever teach. By 9 a.m. a glimpse of their humanity, their each week morning of the summer, I struggles, or their similarity to myself have to be dressed from head to toe and then feel completely ashamed and in traditional woolen Pilgrim garb instantly compassionate. (which, by the way, is not all-black), The way that Ender justifies his even when it is 95 and humid. Sure, innate compassion with his role in the if the heat index is that high, we may war is his final way of breaking the pretend we did our work earlier, but rules, but you will have to read the some things need to get done regardbook or see the movie, if its any good, less. to find out how he does that. So, what do Pilgrims and gender

Up to 1,100 students file past Saga Steve in the course of an average lunch shift. Employees shuttle around incessantly to keep the cafeteria clean and operable. The prep crew works for hours to get one meal coordinated and ready to serve. The employees on duty during the shift make sure that the food is fresh, up to quality standards, and readily available. More workers file out after the meal to scrub tables, cleaning up the often-unsavory remains of more than 1,000 meals. There is a dignity even to undignified work. Manual labor is honest; there is no pretension, no ambition. Incompetence is incompetence, no matter how suave or articulate you might be. Only by learning your job and learning it well can you gain approbation or advancement. This is Hillsdale, foremost advocate of hard-working capitalist enterprise the last bastion of free markets, bald eagles, and the Western tradition! And as Hillsdale students, we all become duly familiar with the fabled Protestant work ethic in our freshman history classes. Lets apply it, shall we?

Lessons from a 21st century pilgrim

roles have in common? Just about everything. I have the luxury of only working 9 to 5. I go home, jump in a pond, and microwave dinner. However, when Im at work Ill be roasting ribs, boiling hens, and stuffing pig guts with rice pudding as I worry about how we are running out of wood, the garden needs to be watered, the laundry must be done tomorrow and oh shoot, the kid goat escaped again. Then a visitor walks in and asks, What are all the men doing? Shouldnt they be helping you? At that moment, my 21st-century I-cando-it-all-by-my-lonesome dissipates. I stare at the woman in disbelief as I explain my fathers plight. He has five daughters and two baby sons, which leaves him wholly responsible for fishing, repairing the hole in the roof oh, and the broken gate chopping wood, felling trees, and of course, weeding seven acres of corn that our livelihood depends on. Unfortunately, that response is rarely enough to quell 21st-century feminism. I try to explain that staying in the house has just as much honor and responsibility as going without it. Mistress, I respond in 17th-century dialect, Men and women must each do their work, else nothing gets done. Then the handsome neighbor boy, Giles, comes to the door with an armful of wood and I hastily wipe the dripping sweat off my face with my apron. Thanks be to you, Giles. I hadnt the time to go fetch it myself.
Dear Editor, I appreciated the article Townie Dehumanizes Hillsdale Residents by Savannah Tibbetts for a number of reasons. As a townie, I have often been a little insulted by that title over the years because of the connotation that I was subhuman because I chose to live in Hillsdale. My father is a Hillsdale College graduate. He was a two-time AllAmerican football player in the late 50s and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame last May at the college. Because of his ties here, we moved back in 1967 so he could teach and coach at Hillsdale College. I have lived in the area ever since. I have had several management positions in the area and have owned a business here. Your article struck a chord with me because of a particular incident that happened about 8 years ago at the end-of-the-year party on the hill. A locally-owned ice cream company, for which I was Quality Assurance Manager, was supplying ice cream for the event. I was dipping it voluntarily. One of the students came up to me and said, This is for the students only. Do not give any to the townies. Needless to say, that comment didnt go over well with me. I answered as politely as I could, You mean like me? After trying to backpedal and explain

In 1627, the lack of stability in the fairly new Plimoth colony meant many women were forced outside of the house to go work in the fields with their husbands. Let me tell you, after an hour in the blazing sun hoeing weeds around corn stalks in a woolen clothing, Im more than willing to head back to the house. My 21stcentury-self pipes up now and again I want to get my own muck or carry my own brass buckets of water but sometimes, I need to suck it up and ask for help. Yes, we live in a modern world. Suburbia forgets what muck, corn, and a hot sun make of a woman. Im not saying women shouldnt work outside the home I mean, I want to be a journalist for goodness sake but the modern feminist movement tells women they need to do everything. Dare I say that is real female oppression. Women cant be just women, they have to be men too or they arent empowered. Its time men and women found a happy medium where couples learns to divvy up the tasks in whatever way works in their households. Feminists need to eat a little humble pie and realize that we are only human. We are meant to work together. That doesnt show weakness, but wisdom. What Ive learned is, yes, women can do everything men can do. We can be journalists, presidents, teachers, lawyers and carpenters. But women cant do everything. Not because we are women, but because we are human.
away what she said, the young lady left. I have been around long enough to know that she did not speak for the entire Hillsdale College student body. I also know that there is some animosity from locals toward Hillsdale students, mainly because of similar incidents to the one I described. I believe Savannahs article is a necessary reminder that we who live in Hillsdale are people, with all the dreams, struggles, and values which that brings. I have always believed that Hillsdale students and the people that live in Hillsdale would both be better served if we could work together. Hillsdale College is at the top of the list of assets to this area. Because of its high standards and expectations (which speaks well of the people of the college), I would hope that the students would take the high road and make it their mission to help us turn our community around so that we could all enjoy those same standards and expectations around the college, not just in it. To say its merely a choice people who live in Hillsdale make, to live with lower expectations, is naive and over-simplifies the reality that people need patient guidance to be able to make good choices. Thank you again for printing that article. I hope it accomplishes the goals for which it was written. David L. Trippett Jr.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, I am writing to express dissatisfaction with the columnist who wrote The story of a Baptist in the wild and Blue Gatorade, melancholy postcards, and the soul. Although the most recent article was less concerning than the first, both exhibit a sense of superiority in the writers voice. I take issue with both articles because the content and style of writing is damaging to Christianity. The author of these columns describes his experience working with a Christian ministry. However, the writer describes his peers based on their practical, physical, and moral defects. In his first piece, he mocks the program directors lack of talent with technology, describes one person as a four hundred pound woman cuddling a double-double, and describes another woman, Natalie, as a cross-eyed, illegal immigrant. In the most recent article, the writer refers to the ex-cons introduced in the previous article, and further elaborates on Natalies appearance by describing the red dots that ran like angry fire ants across her face, as well as the tattoos on her chest. Furthermore, the author never mentions any physical or moral faults of his own, but seems to look down on those around him. In the first article, the author speaks about the eloquence [his] voice would assume when writing letters home. In the second article, he describes how Natalie was looking at me as though I were that unnamed person for whom she had prayed her entire life. In addition, the writer seems unhappy about being with these people, hence, melancholy postcards. We live in a world where those who do not have a relationship with Christ view Christians as self-righteous and out of touch. It is critical that Christians treat broken people with love and acceptance, no matter what physical defects they have or what they may have done in the past. Jesus spent his life on Earth showing love to the people forgotten in society and didnt focus only on the faults of each person. I am a broken, fallen human. We are all fallen, and Christians must never forget that. If the people this author is referring to ever found out that he was describing them this way, I would be mortified. When Christians put other people down because of their faults while forgetting their own defects, this poisons any effort to share the love of Christ with others. Austin Tallman 14 Dear Editor, Victoria McCaffreys article (Rock n Roll Is Noise Pollution) disturbed me greatly. The claim that rock n roll is, in fact, noise pollution and not just an AC/DC song couldnt be further from the truth. When looking at some of the biggest hits over the years, yes, some of them are overly sexual, but the medium is not limited to songs strictly about sex. It can even have a positive influence on listeners. The most notable example that comes to mind is the band Minor Threat. Many people are probably unfamiliar with Minor Threat, but they were a hardcore punk band in the 1980s that spawned a movement that changed the lives of many adolescents for the better. In 1981, Minor Threat released the song Straight Edge. Unlike many songs that came before it, Straight Edge was not about sex, drugs, or any other stereotypical rock n roll theme. In fact, it was about the opposite. The lyrics encourage listeners to abstain from drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. Although only 45 seconds long, Straight Edge has a devout cult following that continues its ethos to this day. This song, along with hundreds of others that I discovered during my adolescence, helped shape the person Ive grown to be. Minor Threat is only one example of the positive influence that is out there. Music is a wonderful thing and can be about so much more than sex. If you look in the right places, you can find edifying music today. Tim Broxterman 16

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City officials prepare for November elections

Ben Block Collegian Freelancer
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CITY NEWS
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Match day raises more than $200k

Vivian Hughbanks Collegian Reporter

On Nov. 5, Hillsdale residents will hit the ballot boxes at the public library in order to elect a mayor, four city council wards, city treasurer, and a city clerk. The current mayor, Doug Moon, is not running for reelection. Scott Sessions and Brian Watkins are contending for the position, who currently represent ward I and ward III respectively. It does get busier around here, not as much as with the national elections though, Bonnie Tew, Hillsdales finance manager said, regarding the upcoming local elections. The former city clerk, Julie Kast, resigned in January of 2013 and the city has not yet filled the position, according to Deputy City Clerk Michelle Worden. Amy England and Robilyn Swisher are now running to fill the vacant seat. The only seat not up for election in 2013 is ward II, which is filled by Ruth Brown. Both Adam Stockford (ward I) and Emily Stack-Davis (ward III) are the only candidates running for their wards as of recently. Their opponents, Laura Smith and Jacob Nieuwsma, chose to drop out of the race and endorse Stockford and Stack-Da-

vis. Because they withdrew from the race late, their names will still appear on the ballot. Finally, William Arnold is challenging Patrick Flannery in the only contested ward (ward IV). As displayed in last weeks candidate forum, the elections most pressing question is, Will anyone even show up to vote? According to Worden, Hills-

dale usually has a pretty low voter turnout. During last years August primary, only 16 percent of the Hillsdale townships population voted. In addition, Tew stated that the combined total of the 2012 and 2013 elections will end up costing the city approximately $9,626. The average price tag on a years worth of elections for the city typically runs between $9,000 and $10,000

range. This year, many new names are on the election ballot, and for the first time in four years, the mayoral seat is open. Hopefully, Hillsdale residents will combat the lack of participation and come out in force on Nov. 5 to participate in deciding the future of their town.

Q&A: Brad Benzing, running for 58th district state rep

Why are you interested in running for State Representative? Ive been a county commissioner for five years now, and Ive noticed that there is a tremendous amount of burden put on the villages, small cities, and townships by the larger state government. My reason for running is to go to Lansing and be a representative for these small local governments. Ill tell Lansing that if they keep putting pressure on them, they need to either supply the money needed to survive or loosen the burden. What else are you hoping to accomplish as a state representative? There are several areas. A lot of people recognize me as a gun guy. Ive been involved with firearms policy for a few decades now, as the legislative liaison for Shooters Alliance for Gun Rights, work with the Michigan Gun Owners, etc. This issue is obviously near and dear to me. Ill be working on ways to improve and increase benefits for gun owners and gun rights for everyone in Michigan. My wife and I are both farmers, so there are a number of issues regarding agriculture that we need to work on. Another is in regard to giving power back to businesses. The governments role should be getting out of the way of businesses to allow them a free market. We need to look at places where the government is interfering and move them out of the way. Are there any examples of your giving back to businesses as the county commissioner? A good example of this is a run-in we had about five years ago with some people who wanted to begin a local farmers market. This group needed a location to hold their market, but the city of Hillsdale required a $250,000 liability payment. I realized that we had a parking lot in front of the courthouse, which was unused on Saturday, the day they planned to host the market. They asked what they would have to do, and I told them to police themselves and clean up and the lot was theirs. Otherwise, they can use the lot as they see fit. The lot is public, its their house, their rules. What advice do you have for someone who plans to run for office? Be informed, get involved. Too many people I meet say that they arent interested in politics, and I always say that politics is interested in you. It does touch every one of our lives, whether its regulatory burden or laws or costs and compliances on businesses that increase the price of goods. So I guess the advice I would give to you would be to get informed, whether that means reading your local newspaper or reading an online news blog, or even attending city council or city government meetings. Ive been to hundreds, and it is rare to see members of the public. This will give you a reason to run, and information about your government.

(Courtesy of Brad Benzing)

Long-time Hillsdale resident, Brad Benzing is running for State Representative of the 58th district in Michigan. He graduated from Hillsdale High School and studied at Western Michigan University and majored in Psychology. He now owns Brad Benzing Inc., an appliance store off of west Carleton road in Hillsdale. Benzing lives in town with his wife on a small goat farm.

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Usually, the second floor of the Hillsdale County Community Foundation is pretty quiet. But on Oct. 18, the room became the site of the largest annual day of giving in Hillsdale County. Throughout the day, 950 donors from all over Hillsdale County met with representatives from Hillsdale area nonprofits during the Hillsdale County Community Foundations third annual Match Day. The Foundation matched a portion of the $204,000 donations to each organizations critical need. That is a lot of money to raise in one day, said Community Foundation Executive Director Sharon Bisher. We like to say that its the biggest day of giving in Hillsdale County. This years event was the third annual Match Day hosted by the Community Foundation, and the last in the Foundations three-year commitment to the community to hold such an event. Match Day is unique in that the Foundation allows donors to actually meet representatives of the organizations to which they give. This is an unusual, yet effective measure in cultivating relationships with donors. The strategy is especially useful for charities that usually only receive one-time gifts. We dont have a donor base, said Maxine Vanlerberg, director of the Hillsdale County Community Action Agency, an organization which benefited from Match Day, [But] I did have some donors that repeated from last year. Several organizations ran their own marketing campaigns in addition to the campaign promoting Match Day produced by the Foundation. [Some agencies] were more successful, I think based on marketing, Bisher said. There were three agencies that did significantly better this year than they did in the past. Hillsdale County Community Action Agency, Hillsdale County Senior Services Center and Kimball Camp YMCA in Reading, Mich. saw the greatest increase in donations from last year. This year was Kimball Camps second year to be involved with Match Day, according to the camps Executive Director Harold Campbell. The camp raised just under $14,000, not including matches from the Foundation. Its been a godsend, Campbell said. We had a fire in May that burned down our infirmary. Most of the funds Kimball Camp raised from Match Day will be used toward rebuilding the camp infirmary, but the they also plan to put some money toward scholarships for campers. Hillsdales Community Action Agency also raised more than $5,000 independent of Foundation matches. According to Vanlerberg, the agency plans to use the funds raised to further its goal of helping the people of Hillsdale become more self-sufficient. Money will go toward unmet needs that the Agency usually experiences difficulty funding, such as buying gasoline for people to visit doctors or get to jobs until their first paycheck. I think its a wonderful thing that the Community Foundation does for the community, Vanlerberg said. Im pleased that we can be a part of it.

Mayor endorses Watkins after candidate forum

Daniel Slonim Collegian Reporter
Mayoral, council, and clerk candidates took part in a question and answer forum at Hillsdale College on Oct. 22, at which the possibility of an income tax initiative to fund the roads caused the most discussion. Last years election ballot contained a provision that would have instituted a one percent city income tax in order to fund street repair, but 73 percent of voters rejected the proposal. Hillsdales current mayor, Doug Moon, attended the forum and said many of the ideas discussed have already been tried. He also said that the only idea that makes sense is the income tax. He also endorsed Brian Watkins for mayor, saying, He comes with solutions, not just a no vote. Watkins said he was in favor of the plan last year, but wont propose another income tax. The income tax is dead. The voters buried it nearly a year ago, and I will not resurrect it or support it as mayor. On paper, the tax is the best option, but its not up to me, Watkins said in a later interview. The only option Im against is doing nothing. homes or businesses, they said, are not Opposing mayoral candidate Scott keeping their buildings up to code. Sessions was firmly against an income Watkins said we need a code-entax at the forum. He suggested that forcement officer while Sessions said Hillsdale might be able to save money police can do the job alone. Either by cutting the budget or lowering the way, all candidates emphasised a need cost of road work by resurfacing the for enforcement of codes, except for streets instead of completely rebuild- Adam Stockford, running for ward I. ing them. Code enforcement makes me a Emily Stack-Davis, running for little bit nervous, he said, noting that city council ward III, said she would some people may have legitimate reabe reluctant to add a sons for being unable new tax, but would be to keep their house up willing to talk about Watkins comes with to standards. any option. She said solutions, not just a Candidates also disit might come down cussed ideas to bring no vote. to what residents priin more business and orities are. ways to connect with Mayor Doug Moon We can always the community and complain about with the college. City roads, but if youd clerk candidate Amy rather have one percent in your pock- England, who is not on the city counet, then youve made a decision about cil but has attended more than 600 the roads, she said. council meetings, encouraged all resiWard IV candidate Patrick Flan- dents to take more of an interest in city nery emphasized budget cutting as a government. way to save money. The city does need to get better There is no budget out there that about communication, but also the cant be cut, he said, adding that any city residents need to get involved, new taxes will discourage businesses she said. from coming to Hillsdale. The forum was hosted by The ColThe candidates also addressed the legian and WCSR radio in Phillips Auproblem of blight. Many owners of ditorium for candidates in all contest-

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ed city elections. Those who could not attend the forum were able to listen on WCSR or watch it live streamed on the Internet. Its been a lot of years since theres been a lot of interest in city government, Bob Flynn afternoon host of WCSR said at the beginning of the forum. About 50 Hillsdale residents attended the forum, which took place exactly two weeks before the Nov. 5 election. Flynn and Taylor Knopf, the Collegian city news editor, moderated the discussion. Ward IV city council candidate William Arnold and city clerk candidate Robilyn Swisher were unable to attend. Audience members agreed, and said the forum was a good way to get to know the candidates better. I think the main thing I learned is that this crop of candidates have ideas, said Mary Buerger. Theyre not always in lockstep, but they have ideas, and they are willing to work together. All Hillsdale residents will vote at the Mitchell Public Library on Nov. 5. Most of the forum is available on the YouTube channel HillsdaleCandidatesForum2013.

Vanished Hillsdale

Hillsdale Historical Society presents annual home-beautification awards

Vivian Hughbanks Collegian Reporter
long-standing tradition of the Historical Society, stretching back through the 20th century. The Sies came to Hillsdale looking for a house to renovate. In 1973, they bought the farmhouse at 2820 Osseo road for $20,000. The home was built in 1901, and was in serious disrepair. When we bought it, it hadnt been painted on the outside in 30 years, Mimi Sies said. They worked carefully, stripping out old drywall, rewiring the entire house, installing insulation, new windows, hardwood floors, and new siding. The renovation also included the addition of a sunroom and two separate updates to the kitchen. It would take us about a year to do one room, Sies said. For the woodwork we did in renovating the house, we had lumber actually milled. The Sies received the award due to their careful attention in using materials and techniques that remained authentic to the time the house was built. Most of the stuff we did ourselves, Sies said. It took us about 20 years. Though not present at the awards presentation, Ned and Deborah Raker were also honored for their work on their home on North Adams Road. Beautification awards were presented to Jane Stewart, owner of Smiths Flowers, and Kathy Newall,

After 20 years of renovation, Mimi and Richard Sies home gained one last detail: a certificate to hang. The Sies were one of four recipients of annual preservation and beautification awards from the Hillsdale County Historical Society on Oct. 28 at the Will Carleton Poorhouse. Two homes and two businesses were honored by the Historical Society, nominated by society members and chosen by the beautification committee. According to committee member Barbie Keiser, the awards are a

owner of The Blossom Shop, both in downtown Hillsdale. Both businesswomen agree that keeping downtown Hillsdale beautiful is key to maintaining prosperous businesses. We are one of the few cities in the area to have a nice downtown, Newall said, explaining that the beauty of downtown Hillsdale often lures people driving through to stop and explore downtown. This provides more traffic for local businesses, helping them survive. I think we all promote each other, Stewart said. Its easy to make things beautiful when your heart is in it.

Hillsdale athletics expanded greatly in the early 20th century. By the mid-1920s, new facilities were necessary. The campaign for a new fieldhouse began in March 1924, with several college committees expressing support for a new gymnasium, which would add immensely to educational advantages. Each faculty member pledged $101.01 in support of the effort. Construction began in 1925 with a groundbreaking ceremony during commencement week. It was completed two years later, opening in the same month as another new campus building, Frances Ball Mauck Dormitory. The fieldhouse featured a 10-lap cinder track around a hardwood basketball floor. The new building relieved pressure on the Dickerson Gymnasium, Hillsdale Colleges only sports building that was often inconvenient due to the segregated hours for men and women. After its completion, the Stock Fieldhouse was home to the mens physical education department, leaving Dickerson for the women. Hillsdale College renamed the fieldhouse in 1951 to honor Harold Stock, whose grandfather Frederick had founded the F.W. Stock & Sons flour mill in downtown Hillsdale and whose family contributed greatly to the renovation of the fieldhouse, including the addition of a pool and lockers. -Compiled by Chris McCaffery

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Baseball suits up for Halloween

Sam Scorzo Assistant Editor Following a trend set on Youtube by universities such as Arizona State and Alabama State, the Hillsdale Baseball team dressed up in costumes for an intrasquad game yesterday. The purpose of the game: to have some fun. Its just a really fun activity to finish the fall season and go into the winter, theyre loving it, assistant coach Brad Kocher said over Bryan Adams Summer of 69 song at the game yesterday. Unlike regular games, music played throughout the entirety of Tuesdays event. Standing at attention during the National Anthem, which signaled the start of the game at 3:30 p.m., were Dora the Explorer, Allstates Mayhem, Buddy the Elf, a hot dog, hockey players, superheroes, and a mini coach Kocher, among others. I loved seeing everyone walk down in their ridiculous costumes, said junior PJ Cooley, who dressed as a construction worker. The game was a batting practice game, meaning the pitchers threw from behind an L-Screen, and sliding wasnt allowed. The game gave the players a chance to switch up positions, and everyone went up to bat- a rare opportunity for the teams pitchers. We dont get to hit ever so that was a lot of fun, said senior captain and pitcher Tyler Haggerson, who dressed up as Dora. They need to reevaluate that though, because we were dropping bombs. Senior Colin Gerish, also a pitcher for the team, said he enjoyed playing other positions, especially shortstop. The teams were the same as the ones used two weeks ago in the Black and Blue Classic, where the senior players split the lineup with their picks. On Tuesday, the players lost track of the score and just enjoyed the game. Sophomore fan Ashley Englert said her favorite aspect of the game was how dedicated the A construction worker attempts to tag out a cyclist in Tuesday evenings Halloween costume-themed intrasquad baseball scrimmage. (Photo
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Football Hillsdale College: 34 Saginaw Valley: 47 Scoring Plays Joe Srebernak 32 yd pass from Sam Landry (Mette kick) Jack Wiseman 12 yd run (Mette kick) Landry 3 yd run (Mette kick) Evan Bach 3 yd pass from Landry (Mette kick) Evan Sassack 2 yd pass from Landry Weekly Leaders Rushing: Landry 18-103 Wiseman 9-42 Alex Koski 9-34 Passing: Landry 30-48-0-280 Receiving: Srebernak 9-120 John Haley 7-67 Tackles: Daniel Pittman 4-3 Brett Pasche 3-4 Steven Embry 3-4 Sacks: Zach Swaffer 0.5-5 Bryan Siegert 0.5-5

players were to their costumes. It was definitely entertaining to watch, Englert said. They showed some true dedication, like when the plumber batted with his plunger and the biker tried to bike the bases. Head coach Eric Theisen said he hopes to make the game an annual event, and players said theyre already planning costumes for next year. I think itll just keep getting better. Were gonna try to get the coaches to dress up next year, Cooley said. Theisen said the purpose of the game was to give the guys a break. The guys worked so hard and this was a release; a day to

just enjoy the Halloween season in a baseball way. After being assistant coach for the past three years, the sixweek fall season was the first time Theisen took the position of head coach for the team. A new coach brings in a new attitude and mentality, junior captain Vinny Delicata said. This fall the team worked probably the hardest since Ive been here. So it was cool to have this Halloween game. It was a more fun, relaxed atmosphere instead of an intense practice grind. The baseball teams next home game will be the spring opener on March 1.

Hillsdale College: 3 Lake Erie: 0 Hillsdale College: 0 Ashland: 3 Hillsdale College: 3 Bellarmine: 1 Hillsdale College: 0 Lewis: 3 Hillsdale College: 3 Indianapolis: 1 Season Leaders Kills: Emily Wolfert (219) Lindsay Kostrzewa (133) Caitlin Kopmeyer (125) Assists: Alexis Waugh (414) Marissa Owen (356) Digs: Caitlin Kopmeyer (268) Sydney Lenhart (234) Tennis Hillsdale College: 1 Tiffin: 5 Hillsdale College: 5 Ashland: 3 Hillsdale College: 4 Walsh: 5

Swiper no swiping! At left, senior Tyler Haggerson (dressed as Dora the Explorer) pitches to a fellow Charger baseball player. The entertaining game drew many fans and laughs. (Photo courtesy of Sheridan Markatos)

HILLSDALE TO FACE HOOSIERS

Mens basketball opens with three Division I contests
Caleb Whitmer Editor-in-Chief The Hillsdale College mens basketball team plays the University of Toledo and Indiana University, both Division I schools, early next week. Said assistant coach Luke Laser of the matchups: Thats a back to back well never have to face in the regular season. The Chargers, who began practice in mid-October, open their season at home on Nov. 13 against Lourdes University. In the meantime, theyre scrimmaging Division 1 schools to prepare for the new season. They played their first exhibition game against Valparaiso University on Oct. 26. The Chargers went into the half up 34-29. Offensively, they were led by senior Tim Dezelskis 16 points and freshman Kyle Coopers 22. But Valparaiso pulled back ahead less than five minutes into the second half and gradually extended their lead over the rest of the game. Final score: Valparaiso 69, Hillsdale 60. Head coach John Tharp attributed the loss to some illtimed turnovers, tiredness, and poor shooting in the second half. We left points out there, Tharp said. Most of all, Tharp attributed the loss to the teams few number of practices so far this season. Entering Saturdays scrimmage, Hillsdale had practiced nine times together as a team. With Valparaiso behind them, the team faces Toledo on Sunday and then Indiana on Monday. Senior guard Anthony Manno said hes excited about the teams upcoming matchups. Toledo is predicted to win the MAC conference and Indiana is a national powerhouse year after year, Manno said. Were going to come out playing and show those guys that we can play basketball, too. Assistant coach Brian McCauley shared Mannos sentiments about next weeks games, especially for the Indiana game and playing in one of the meccas of college basketball. The fan in you comes out a little bit, McCauley said.

SWIMMING LOSES BY ONE POINT TO CALVIN

Doug Williams Collegian Freelancer Over fall break, the ladies on the swim team competed against Grand Valley State University and Calvin College, falling 15977 and 119-118, respectively. The Chargers held their own against both teams, which come from bigger schools and therefore have bigger programs. As per usual this season, there was good news for the Chargers despite the losses on paper. Hillsdale captured first and second place in the 1000 free. The freshmansophomore combination of Kylie Powrie and Zoe Hopkins both broke the impressive 11-minute barrier, finishing in 10:54.8 and 10:57.44. Junior Rachel Kurtz placed second in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.57, and third in the 100 freestyle in 54.46. Freshman Emily Balog won the 200 IM in 2:14.55, and Hillsdale actually would have swept the first two spots had it not been for junior Sarah Rinaldis disqualification from the event. Sophomore Naofa Noll also contributed to the Charger effort, taking second place in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.35. Hillsdale also did well in the second long distance event, the 500 free, with Powrie and freshman Jennifer Wheeler going placing first and third and finishing in 5:18.03 and 5:21.95. Hillsdales breaststrokers complimented the long distance crew with freshman Emily Balog, junior Ali Bauer, and junior Cayley Cruickshank placing 2-3-4 in the 100 breast. Senior Alison Johnson competed in the 100 butterfly, as well as both relays. Even though they lost, it was actually a really fun meet, and everyone had a good attitude going into it, she said. In other years weve faced easier teams, so this year has been harder. Sophomore Hannah Leitner swam the 500 free in addition to both relays. She said she likes the 500 as an individual event, but also really enjoys the relays. (Relays) dont have as much pressure and theyre more enjoyable because your teammates are right there cheering for you, Leitner said. Obviously you want to do well in your own events but with relays there is an added motivation because you never want to let your teammates down. On Saturday Oct. 19, the womens swim team traveled to Lewis University to face off against the Flyers, and came up short 117-87. Despite the loss, the Chargers took first place in three events. Kurtz took first in the 50 free, which is common practice for her, in 24.85 seconds. Rinaldi notched the second win, coming home in the 200 IM in 2:13.83, her fastest time so far this season. Wheeler capped off the first place finishes for the Chargers, edging out Lewis opponent Katie Hallenbeck in the 200 butterfly by less than one second, finishing in 2:12.79. Other notable performers for the Chargers included Hopkins (second in the 1000 free in 11:10.39), senior Jordan Rucinski (third in the 200 free in 2:02.41), both Kurtz and Rinaldi again (second in the 100 free in 54.92 and third in the 200 backstroke in 2:17.63 respectively), Powrie (second in the 500 free in 5:22.17), and Balog (second in the 200 breast in 2:31.63). Coach Kirner said that despite the result of the meet, the Chargers did improve. Kirner attributed the loss to a number of things. We were scrambling for people because many girls were sick at the same time, he said. Lewis was very good this year, the coach is doing great things with their program, and it was just a combination of not being healthy and not winning when we needed to. The Chargers have had a slight change to their schedule and will be competing next weekend in Canton, Ohio where they will face Malone and Findlay.

Volleyball avenges loss to Indy

Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College volleyball team went 2-1 in the GLIAC/GLVC Crossover tournament over fall break. The Chargers won their first match of the crossover against Bellarmine University, three sets to one on Friday afternoon. Hillsdale won the first two sets 25-19 and 25-15. They started the third set behind 0-6, and while they were able to tie the set 10-10, they went on to lose 25-21. They came back and won the fourth set 25-19 to win the match. On Saturday, the Chargers were swept by Lewis University (13-25, 18-25, 13-25). Lewis came out solid and polished, senior captain Caitlin Kopmeyer said, and only made 10 errors in the match. Hillsdale, however, did not come to play, Kopmeyer said. The Chargers had as many kills as errors with 26. Head coach Chris Gravel explained that part of the teams problem was that several players were not feeling well on Saturday morning, so he had to change the lineup to one they had never run in a game before. Gravel said on Saturday the team had one of their worst matches and then followed it with one of their best matches. After losing to Lewis, the team came back to defeat the University of Indianapolis 3-1. I was fed up with it and not willing to play that awful again, junior Kat Vael said. Vael had four kills against Lewis, but came back to have 13 against Indianapolis. Sophomore Jordan Denmark also had 13 kills, as well as 10 digs. The Chargers had been looking to redeem themselves, Gravel said, since they lost to We served pretty tough and passed well, Gravel said. On Oct. 19, Hillsdale was swept by Ashland. I didnt think we served as tough or passed very well, Gravel said. While the Chargers lost all three sets, they were never out of the game. They lost each set by only two points, losing 24-26, 23-25, 23-25. Gravel explained that everything that used to be easy suddenly became difficult against Ashland. Losing to Ashland definitely hurt, Kopmeyer said. We came out, and we were flat. We couldnt really get it going from there. Gravel said the loss to Ashland helped motivate the team for the tournament. We approached Indy like an Ashland and took out our frustration, Gravel said. The win against Indianapolis gives the Chargers a 12-10 record going into this weekend. Hillsdale will play on the road for the last time this season to play Saginaw Valley State University on Friday and Lake Superior State University on Saturday. They come back home Tuesday Nov. 5 to play Northwood University (Mich.). Saginaw Valley went 3-0 in the crossover tournament and is on a winning streak, so the Chargers will have to play one of their Sophomore Marissa Owen (center) cele- best matches, Gravel said. brates with teammates Caitlin Kopmeyer Gravel also explained the weekend will (left) and Jordan Denmark (right) after a be even more challenging because the team point against Lake Erie College. (Anders will have to travel farther than normal to Kiledal/Collegian) play Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula. He said they plan on having a good week against Lake Erie College and Ashland of practice, and he expects good games. University. We are ready to finish out the traveling On Oct. 18, Hillsdale continued a fivewith a bang, Vael said. game winning streak and swept Lake Erie 3-0 for a crowd of over 400 fans. Gravel said the game went as planned. Indianapolis early in the season on Sept. 7 in the Concordia- St. Paul tournament. The team had still been working out kinks in Minnesota, but played as a team this last weekend, Kopmeyer said. The weekend before the crossover tournament, the Chargers played two home games

Head mens basketball coach John Tharp (right) coaches junior Brandon Crane at a timeout in practice last season. Senior captain Tim Dezelski looks on (behind). (Collegian File Photo)

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FOOTBALL SPLITS OFFENSIVE SHOOTOUTS

Aaron Schepps Collegian Freelancer

Charger Sports
Te n n i s t a k e s sixth at GLIACs
Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College womens tennis team fell in its third match of the GLIAC Conference Tournament to Walsh University by a score of 5-4 on Sunday, placing them in sixth for the season. Sophomore Sydney Delp and junior Morgan Delp received second team All-GLIAC Conference Honors, and sophomore Lindsay Peirce received honorable mention awards. Starting out on Friday, Hillsdale lost 5-1 to the number three seed Tiffin University. The lone win came from the first doubles duo of Delp and Delp, who went undefeated for the weekend. In Saturdays second round, Hillsdale won with a 5-3 defeat over Ashland University. Wins came from the Delps at doubles, their respective first and second singles, and from the thirdset thrillers of Peirce (fourth singles) and sophomore Rachel Blaauw (sixth singles). Although the Chargers did not improve their fifth-place team ranking from last year, head coach Nikki Walbright said that they continued to improve and play better throughout the weekend. Even though our standing didnt improve, I was extremely pleased with how we played our final match, Walbright said. I think the team feels like we ended on a high note. First and third doubles (the team of Blaauw and freshman Dana Grace Buck) won, along with third singles (Buck) and sixth singles (freshman Sarah Krizman). Not only did the athletic aspect of the tournament contribute to the teams overall satisfaction with their performance, but the sportsmanship and support of their teammates made the tournament feel like a big win. We were the last team playing so every other team in the GLIAC got to witness how much spirit and support we have at Hillsdale, Walbright said. Peirce said it is the support of the team that keeps her motivated and focused. We all know that we are fighting and playing for one another and not just for ourselves. That is one of the things that helps me work that much harder, Peirce said. Now with the season complete, the team looks forward to a small break and then offseason training and a chance to prepare for the upcoming spring season, which will include match-ups with DI schools like Western Michigan University and some in Florida during a spring break trip. Every member has a lot to work on in the offseason and I think everyone is motivated to do so since we were very close in our last match, Walbright said. ...We are so young and this season was a lot about maturing. When we were focused and gave our best effort we won. I am confident that there is no player in our conference we dont have the ability to beat. Pierce agrees. We know what we need to work on and what we need to do to step it up.

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of the GLIACs North Division, the Sagitouchdown toss, as well as a rushing score naw Valley State University Cardinals. The by the quarterback. The team was unable to Cardinals braved string together a a second-half stop and a score comeback by the to maintain the One year ago, the Chargers were in a Chargers to gain momentum, curious place. The team was coming off their seventh win in however, and fell a significant victory over Saginaw Valley another high-scorto a 13-point loss State. On paper, the Chargers looked poised ing affair, beating in the end. to make a final push to win the division and Hillsdale 47-34. The Charger finish among the leaders in the GLIAC. AfThe game offense exploded ter a number of harsh games and some key against Ferris State in new ways injuries, however, the team was physically was a seesaw affair over the course and emotionally spent. from start to finish. of both these Head coach Keith Otterbein remembered Five different scorgames. Landry that football was not any fun. The guys did ing plays tied up passed for a comnot want to be out there. With this turning the game, including bined 635 yards, point in the season in mind, the coach spent a 27-yard Bulldog 145 yards rushthe offseason focusing on building a bigger Redshirt freshman Joe Srebernak catches a ing, and eight tofield goal kicked tank for his team. by Austin Kantola touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the tal touchdowns. He is optimistic that this is paying off. with 4:44 left in the Ferris State victory. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) After a breakout With this falls squad at the moment where fourth quarter. game against last years team could not overcome the After two failed drives by both squads, Northern Michigan a month ago, Srebernak fatigue of a long season, Coach Otterbein the Chargers got the ball back with the game put together two standout performances, affirmed that the Chargers are mentally becoming Landrys favorite target with 16 ahead of the game. He said his team is built tied 38-38 and 1:48 left. Senior quarterback Sam Landry, who passed for a career-high catches, 217 yards, and two touchdowns. to battle, and that is exactly what they intend 355 yards and four Though the Chargers put together simito do in the final touchdowns, orlarly prolific offensive games on consecutive three games of chestrated a 77-yard Saturdays, the results differed. Coach Otthe season. drive that ended in terbein said this is evidence of the fine line Each of the a 14-yard touchbetween winning and losing. He explained last two weeks, down reception by that within seven days, the Chargers went the Chargers redshirt-freshman from the elation of winning a really big have brought Joe Srebernak. game to the disappointment of a big loss. their hard-nosed The thrilling finish He said that little turning points, hidden style of play to left the Chargers a yardage, and the timing of big plays can the field against touchdown ahead determine the outcome of games, especially a difficult oppoat the final whistle when the contests look similar on paper. nent. In similar and gave them their This Saturday, the Chargers take to the games, a pair of most impressive road for the last time to face a GLIAC rival, offensive shootwin of the season the Grand Valley State University Lakers. A outs, the Charthus far. night game, kickoff is at 7 p.m. The Chargers experienced Senior quarterback Sam Landry flashes At Saginaw Valgers look to stick to their game plan and use divergent results, a Heisman trophy pose in an attempt to ley, the Cardinals their bigger tank against the Lakers, hoping a magnificent dodge a Bulldog defender. (Anders Kiledal/Col- gave the Chargers the big plays and timing falls in their favor win and a fruslegian) a first-half thumpin another pertinent match-up. trating loss. ing, jumping out to a 20-point lead with a Two weeks ago, playing at home, the touchdown in the final moments of the half. team was victorious over the Ferris State Down 34-14, the Chargers worked their University Bulldogs with a final score of 45-28. This last Saturday, the Chargers went way to within a touchdown by the end of the third quarter on the strength of a Landry on the road to face the undefeated leader

Men place 3rd, women 4th at GLIAC cross-country meet

Caleb Whitmer Editor-in-Chief land University at 119 points. The women scored 136, placing behind Saginaw Valley State Universitys 84 and Malones 113. Next weekend the teams will travel back to Kenosha, Wisc., where theyll jockey for a berth in the national meet. The top four mens teams and top four womens teams advance. Junior Joshua Mirth led the men, as per usual, finishing eighth in a time of 25:38. Senior Victoria McCaffrey led the women, running one of her best races of the year in 23:05. She finished 20th. The course was tough with unrelenting and steep hills that led to slow times. Coaches and runners agreed Houghtons course was by far the toughest of the year. Still, the mens team thrived. The course didnt hurt us as much as everyone else, Mirth said. Fellow juniors Luke Hickman,13th, and Jack Butler, 24th, followed close behind Mirth. Hickman ran 25:51 and Butler ran 26:10. Next for the team came Newcomb, 36th, in 26:36, and junior Matt Perkins, who rounded out Hillsdales top five in 38th with a time of 26:42. All this considered, coaches said the men are ready for regionals. The mentality is there, the bodies will be ready to roll, assistant coach R.P. White said. The women were a little subdued about their GLIAC performance. Head coach Andrew Towne said the race was solid for the team, although generally they were disappointed. McCaffrey said her own race was good but not great. Behind her came sophomore Emily Oren,

Freshman Joe Newcomb got four stitches after last Saturdays GLIAC meet. Newcomb was spiked in the first mile of the mens 8000 meter race at Houghton last weekend. He finished the race, however, and fourth for his team, helping Hillsdale College to a third place overall finish at the meet. The womens team finished fourth for their 6000 meter race. Grand Valley State University took the meet for both the men and the women with 21 and 30 points respectively. Malone University edged out the men for second and Hillsdale tied with Ash-

23rd in 23:22, followed closely by her sister, freshman Molly Oren, in 23:27. She finished 24th. Next came senior Chelsea Kilgore, whom Towne said ran the race of her life. She ran a time of 23:42 and placed 33rd. Sophomore Kristina Galet, 36th, finished fifth for the team in 23:44. If the team runs at regionals like they did at GLIACs, theyll be right on the bubble for a nationals spot. Despite their conference meet setback, Towne thinks the regionals meet will go better. I guarantee you theyll be ready to go in a week and a half, Towne said. The NCAA Division II Regional Meet begins Nov. 9 at 11:30 a.m.

Charger Chatter: Amber mock

last July. We both graduated from Grand Valley, and we both coached at Grand Valley as well. I have a daughter; shes 14 months now. Shes our first. Shes in the gym every day. Im from a really big family -- Im one of nine children, and all of us were involved in sports. Whats your choice sport? I played basketball through high school, and track is actually what I did in college. I ran track at Grand Valley the sprints and the hurdles. Anything thats not distance pretty much is kind of my thing. What do you do here at Hillsdale? I volunteer help out with track as well as basketball. Ive recently taken over the womens basketball strength and conditioning, so Ive been working with them since their season started this year. What brought you to Hillsdale? My husband took the assistant womens basketball coaching job. He was pretty excited about the opportunity. Was he looking to come to Hillsdale specifically, or did the opportunity just present itself at the right time? It was just an opportunity that kind of presented itself. One of the coaches that Coach Charney coached with actually is an advisor at Grand Valley and kind of heard about it through her. We knew about Hillsdale and how hard it is to get into Hillsdale, and when he found out they were looking, he kind of jumped on it. Are you happy with the decision to come here? Yeah, so far. Its a big change for me. Im originally from Chicago, so its a lot smaller than Im used to, but weve really been enjoying ourselves. Met a lot of really nice people. All the staff and the athletes here are amazing. What would you say is your favorite aspect of Hillsdale? I like the environment. Theres not many places you can go to and feel completely safe, welcome, and not have to worry about walking in and setting stuff down. My husband and I talk about it all the time. Were so surprised that you can go into the cafeteria and people have their bags and their computers and everything sitting around. You dont have to worry about that sort of thing, which is definitely not the case in most places. Is it challenging with all of the coaching while having a young child? It keeps me going! Its a lot of fun, though. Shes been at practices since she was two weeks old. She went on her first recruiting trip with her dad, and I started with track last year in September, so shes been at a practice pretty much every single day of her life. She loves it. Its her favorite place to be. Leaving the house now, she knows where were going, and all she says is, Ball, ball, ball, because she knows when we come inside, she will get a basketball or a volleyball. Has she started playing any sports? Shes not in any sports yet. She plays with basketballs quite a bit. She tries to dribble. Shes got a Little Tikes hoop at home that she dunks on because its just her height, and she gets pretty excited about that. But thats about the extent of her sports experience. Were hoping for a point guard in her. How is your marriage enhanced by your combined athletic interests? As far as athletics, my husband and I are both very passionate about sports, both the coaching aspect as well as the working out aspect. Hes actually a beach body coach and I do a lot of the stuff with him, so we do all our workouts together. Being involved in doing all that together is definitely a big part of our marriage. -Compiled by Kelsey Drapkin

Amber Mock, a young mother and volunteer coach for the Hillsdale womens track and basketball teams, moved to Hillsdale last July with her husband and daughter. Originally from Chicago, Mock explains her transition to Hillsdale and what its like to coach while raising a young child. So tell me about yourself. My husband and I moved here

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Symbolism in storytelling: masks in Mirror

frequently to represent a different personality or trait. The masks are very important for the storytelling of the play, said senior Anne Peterson, dramaturg for the production. It allows the audience to differentiate between the characters. The masks are more than mere symbols, though. For many actors, the mask is the character itself. The Hillsdale Theatre Department has been positively driven There are neutral masks and character masks, said Peterson. to abstraction. A character mask has a personality. When you take the mask, Professor of Theatre George Angell, director of the upcoming you look at it and change your body to follow what the mask is production, Mirror of the Invisible World, has telling you. When you work with the mask chosen to use nothing more than masks, manand get to know it, it kind of becomes a sapower, and imagination to represent a bird of cred object. You know it. You know what it prey large enough to swoop down and carry off When you work with likes to do. You handle it in a certain way. the plays wayward king. the mask and get to Junior Leslie Reyes mentioned the adapI wanted a way to do this using only actors tive experience of mask acting as well. But and no machinery of any kind, Angell said. know it, it kind of befor her, dance is an equally critical part of her Since the rest of the production is using masks comes a sacred object. characters role. to enable members of the ensemble to play mul- You know it. We become the mask. It becomes our tiple characters, I thought we could do the same character, said Reyes. But a big part of the Senior production, besides the mask, is dance. Its thing with the bird. Angell chose to let the actors come up with Anne Peterson such a beautiful part of the show, and it really a way to represent the bird. Bryan Simmons, helps you become part of it. costume designer and lecturer in theatre, has The play is a celebration of storytelling, a watched the concept, which has been developnarrative within a narrative. The masks, the ing since last summer, finally come to fruition in dance, and the characters all point beyond rehearsals this semester. themselves to the power of human expression. When George [Angell] started rehearsal, he started by using This is a huge narrative, said Reyes. We, as actors, play organic methods: he didnt assign positions but just told the ac- characters within a story. Our purpose as characters is to tell the tors what needed to happen and let them do it, Simmons said. king a story. We princesses are telling you, the audience, a story We get an outline from the script, and everyone collaborates to so that you can reach enlightenment along with the king at the make it happen. end of the show. In Mirror of the Invisible World, the actors are part of an ensemble, helping tell each others stories and changing characters salbers@hillsdale.edu Sarah Albers Collegian Reporter

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Poetry, place, darkness, and dawn

A review of David Middletons newest book
Tomas Valle Special to the Collegian At the beginning of his newest book of poems, The Fiddler of Driskill Hill, poet David Middleton tells his readers that he and his companions give ourselves to what we had possessed / Too rudely in the day. This line contains two of the major themes or atmospheres in Middletons new work: the darkness of night and old age that shadow almost every poem in this collection; reflection and recollection all of the re- words that force us to go ever back into our pas and our minds. This line combines the two ideas neatly in a way that Middleton considers crucial: something about the darkness halts all human activity, making reflection only possible at night and recollection only wise with age. Yet Middleton settles comfortably into this somewhat unsettling duality of death and knowledge, setting the majority of his poems at night during fall or winter hence the first, atmospheric line of Bonfires on the Levee, the first poem in the collection Late autumn days we labor in the swamp. This poem, in its relatively programmatic opening, also shows another key element of Middletons purpose: the richness of place for Middleton, his native Louisiana, after which nothing seemed real, according to Warren in Thibodaux. Middleton himself lives in Thibodaux and sets most of his poems there, though, in the course of reading The Fiddler of Driskill Hill, the reader travels throughout Louisiana, guided by references in the text or by prefatory lines before the text of the poem. These bits of context serve readers well, allowing them to approach the poem from something like Middletons mind. However, this brings up one criticism: that few of Middletons readers know Louisiana as well as he does, but he sometimes speaks as though they should. This causes the reader to be confused by some of his contextual prefaces and makes some poems (such as significant portions of Bonfires on the Levee) set readers head awhirl with geography and leave them looking for a map of Louisiana. A map, in fact, would be an excellent addition to Middletons next collection. In spite of the readers occasional geographic woes, Middleton does an excellent job of exemplifying how to live not . . . within the state / But in an unabstracted known domain, as he says in Black Lake Tales. In general, Middleton achieves the high goal he speaks of in Before and After Reading, when he talks of creating a Community of grounds and sounds ground fine, but at times readers may finds the foreign geography prevents them from participating in Middletons Louisiana, and they can only imitate Middletons love for place by no means an easy task. Technically, Middleton displays great facility, moving from tight to loose meters and through various rhymed and blank forms with ease. His metrical prowess ranges from artfully used basics an iambic inversion in Hand-MeDowns shows the reader how Her husband far afield pushes a plow, to lines of brilliance that cant be pinned down but somehow sound perfect. Occasionally a strange word choice or confusing syntax (often due to lacking punctuation) will puzzle the readers in the middle of a poem, but more often the readers will linger over a richly meaningful word or intriguingly ambiguous word order. Even the one or two poems that are less thematically meaningful still sparkle with word-play and artistry. Middleton, with his love of darkness, is likewise a friend of enigma and often leads the read-

Juggling the French horn

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The Counselor: nice poetry, bad movie

Caleb Whimer Editor-in-Chief When English major types watch The Counselor, theyll see a term paper ready to be written. The rest of the world will just see a bad movie. Despite the help of a cast and crew more talented than Space Jams Monstars, McCarthys script proves unwieldy for the silver screen. The nuggets of poetry sprinkled throughout the nearly two-hour long movie feel forced and, more often than not, a little pretentious. Worst of all, its just plain boring. The story is as follows: The Counselor, played by Michael Fassbender, looks to strike it rich with the Mexican drug cartels. Its supposed to be a oneoff deal, and when hes done, hell ride off with his fiance into the Texas sunset. But things go wrong. The cartels believe that the counselor is double-timing them. The counselors buddy Westray, played by Brad Pitt, warns him of this, and although the counselor swears a bunch (he said Jesus! He must be emotionally distressed!), he hangs around for another 45 minutes of movie time to have long, philosophical conversations in bars, living rooms, and nightclubs. Unfortunately, the movies marketing depart-

ment neutralizes the heaviness of these scenes with ridiculously obvious product placement. Nothing renders silly the news of the counselors probably impending death quite like a strategically placed Mac computer. Fassbender and Pitt drink Heineken, by the way. But after an hour of spinning its wheels, the movie starts rolling. Or really it jerks forward a couple feet, then stops, then jerks forward again, then drives for a while, then crashes entirely. Let me explain. The transitions between scenes is, at best, jarring. At worst, lazy. Especially near the end, characters drop in and out of the story as McCarthy wishes, often times with little to no explanation as to who they are or why they are talking to the counselor. We see this most prominently in the character of Jefe, who the counselor seeks guidance from after his fiance is kidnapped by the cartels. It is not for me to say what you should have done. Or not done, this character tells him. I only know that the world in which you seek to undo your mistakes is not the world in which they were made. Thats nice, right? But when the scene begins, the counselor is already on the phone with Jefe. We know nothing about him other than he is Hispanic and likes playing pool. His character

Taplin said, using The Nutcracker as an example. Im probably in my 500th Nutcracker this year. Leslie Reyes Even though some pieces can become a tad too Collegian Reporter familiar, Taplin said he still likes to practice. There is a certain zen quality to practicing, he said. Sitting there, concentrating, working it out As a tiny child in his Sunday best, a young Alan until its as good as you can make it. Its a never Taplin sat in front of the stereo and listened to the ending battle. I never come out of a concert thinkcoolest sounding instrument, an instrument upon ing it was the best Id ever played that piece. Its which he has since based his career. always like: I can do better. From the earliest point that I can remember Ive Both senior Mitchell Irmer and sophomore Anna always known what I wanted to do: I wanted to Talcott have answered the battle call of the French play the French horn, Adjunct French Horn In- Horn at Hillsdale College under the guidance of structor Alan Taplin said. Taplin. In the 18th century, the French horn led armies I really appreciate that he has that perspective into battle, called in the hunt, of appreciating that there are a and in classical repertoire was lot of other things that are going an elephant call. For Taplin, on, especially as a biology mathe French horn drove him to jor. Talcott said. pursue a music performance As a professional musician, major at the University of Taplin understands the need to Michigan, and for the past 32 balance the rest of life with muyears Taplin has been a memsic, even if music isnt always ber of the horn section in the the priority. Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Thats where your focus is You build a reputation and to be, and this is going to take a people know who you are and back seat by comparison, Talcthen: Oh, we need another ott said. He still expects you to horn teacher. Well, Alan Taplin practice, and he is still expecting is a horn teacher. You come, you to be prepared, but he also you get interviewed, you talk understand if youre very busy to the department head, and and had a really hard week. Hes then off you go, Taplin said. willing to take whatever we have Taplin has worked at Hillsworked on and show us how to dale College for 10 years, not improve. Hes not looking for only as the horn instructor, but extremely polished work. also as instructor of UnderTaplin took up juggling in his standing Music, a part of the spare time between teaching pricore curriculum. vate lessons at the University of Youre covering what Michigan. would normally be five terms They had me teaching in of music history in a college if (Ben Block/Collegian) the shop. And when a student you were a music major into wouldnt show up, there were one semester, Taplin said. So its kind of a Read- blocks of wood lying around, and I learned how ers Digest of music history. to juggle, Taplin said. Its a relief from sitting It is the music in films, television, and even com- in a little room chewing away at scales for hours mercials that Taplin believes keeps the music alive on end. I do find that my better players, my better and increase the interest therein. musicians, learned to juggle faster than some of The culture is kind of odd. It has changed a lot the others, and that is totally unscientific. There is since I was a kid,Taplin said. We used to listen a doctoral study someplace in here. to the radio in order to listen to music. Now I think By the repetitive motion of juggling, Taplin its downloads more than anything else. Im just hopes to instill within his horn students an undertrying to keep up till I retire. standing of the mental motion that assists in the The rigorous life of a musician is committed to transposition of music during play. endless hours of concentrated practice and repeti- Though it hasnt been taken under any scientific tion, as time and time again, according to Taplin, scrutiny up to this point, many well-known horns perfection tantalizes its members. Perfection is al- learn to juggle and theorize that it works the same ways at least a practice away. part of the brain as we use for transposition, TalcThere is some tediousness about the repSee Juggling, B2 ertoire that is not particularly challenging,

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Inside: A review of the newest Arcade Fire album, a review of PD James thriller, Children of Men, and a look at Americana and hamburgers in the area.
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Ian Ostaszewski Special-to-the-Collegian In 2013, Arcade Fire finds itself in a situation where few indie rock artists can honestly say theyve been. With over 10 years in the business and three excellent records under their belt, theyre still at the top of their game. The bands 2010 album, The Suburbs, received widespread critical acclaim, fueled a world tour, and secured the band an Album of the Year Grammy win. Any musical group (especially one with humble beginnings) that achieves such notoriety is in danger of hitting their peak. On Reflektor, Arcade Fire has confronted this danger with a stunning and refreshing stylistic shift. The bands new approach is immediately apparent on the opening track. A syncopated drum fill kicks off a bouncing, discoinflected groove. Throughout the seven-and-a-half-minute track, a wide variety of instruments layer on top of one another in typical Arcade Fire fashion. This time, though, the band forms a more intricate, interwoven structure, with each instruments rhythm playing off of the last ones. Its a slight tweak that breathes new life into the classic Arcade Fire song formula. By comparison, the pounding rhythms of Rebellion (Lies) or Rococo sound archaic and caveman-like. Despite its sprawling, double-album structure, Reflektor manages to continue introducing new sounds with each track. We Exist draws from 80s new wave; Flashbulb Eyes features a sinister-sounding dub rhythm; Here Comes the Night Time takes the form of slinky dancehall reggae. Rhythms from singer Rgine Chassagnes native Haiti figure predominantly throughout the album. Though the band employed Afro-Cuban rhythms as early as Funerals Haiti, the rhythms act as a motif on Reflektor, lending cohesion to the albums differing styles. Reflektor is arguably Arcade Fires most danceable record, not only because of the incorporation of Haitian percussion

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Arcade Fire breaks new ground with Reflektor

loops, but also because of the bands newfound embrace of electronic and synthpop sounds. The band explored some of these textures on The Suburbs, but they are more fully fleshed-out in Reflektor on tracks Here Comes the Night Time II, Its Never Over (Oh Orpheus), and Afterlife. These songs are not just the result of pure sonic experimentation - rather, theyre an adaptation to a changed musical environment. In the decade thats passed since Arcade Fire was formed, the traditional guitar-rock paradigm has been turned inside

AND HAmBUrGErS
Like any good child of the postmodern era, I am a sucker for Americana. Maybe its my disgust with the mediocrity of corporatized 21st century America, or maybe Im just a bored, upper-middle class, white kid without a cultural identity, but either way I love the remnants of the time when things were Made in America, and the generations before us were drafted into horrible, bloody wars and dangerous, blue-collar jobs. Nothing quite says Americana, though, like a good American dive bar and its synonymous food: the cheap hamburger. I am drawn to these places like a moth to a lamp, and so today I give you two of them: Rays Tavern in Reading, Mich., and the bar in the Hillsdale bowling alley. If you lived in Reading in 1989 and viewed USA Today as a respectable source of restaurant evaluation, you lived in the town with the best burger in America. The source would be Rays Tavern, a small dive bar that smells of dust heated by old coolant pumps and lagered beer. Rays is Old. It hails from the 40s and much of the decorum seems original, including the size of the booths which have not caught up to the fact that the Midwest can now produce people over six feet tall on a regular basis. The bar at Rays will fulfill your wildest hipster dreams as there are only two taps: Coors and Miller. Classic American beers can be purchased in the can (they will even pour it in a glass for you), and the liquor is cheap. I wont pretend for a moment that the burgers at Rays are the best in the nation or even the county, but they are decent, and for about $4.50 you can get a fully loaded, quarter-pound cheeseburger. Make sure to specify how you want your burger made or it can easily end up well done. The other food at Rays, though, is wonderful. Their waffle fries and onion rings are delicious, as is the cheese covered broccoli. The pie there is probably their most incredible feature. The pecan is particularly sublime, and when they have it on the menu, it should not be missed. The staff at Rays is quite friendly, and they will talk with you quite a bit about the college. While its not anything particularly extraordinary, it offers some good respite from Hillsdale and is only about 10 minutes away. My experiences up until this time with bowling alley food have not been positive ones. Usually they involve nachos, salmonella poisoning, and regret, and so since the age of whenever people stop having birthday parties at bowling alleys (its later than you think) I have avoided eating at them. Last week, though, a dear friend of mine heavily advocated that I go eat a hamburger at the bar in the bowling alley. I was very pleasantly surprised with what I found. Lets begin by saying that the bar is merely a bar. There are several domestics on tap and, for the price, they are reasonable. This bar doesnt win any awards, but we wont care about that right now because we didnt come to drink or to bowl and drink. We came to eat. And so we come to the hamburger. Lets begin by saying that the hamburger is on a kaiser roll, which, if were being honest, makes all the difference in the world. Its a third-pound of deliciousness, and it is substantial enough to fill a man. The meat was surprisingly high in quality and the flavors remarkable. I asked for medium rare. I got medium rare. I purchased a deluxe cheeseburger for $5.15, which has kept me quite sated the last 6 hours. I have not eaten anything else at the bowling alley, and I wont. The burger is easily the best in the area for the price, and there is probably no need to explore other menu options. The Americana aspect was a bit disappointing, though. The cook actually wore a white jacket and didnt seem to have any tattoos, so I can only assume that he cared about his job. The bar was quite clean as well, and the lighting was good and not fluorescent. I conclude by saying this: go to Rays for the atmosphere. The burger there is no longer king, but as a whole the experience is top notch and it will fulfill whatever dive-bar desires you may hold. Do go to the bowling alley for the burger. It is a truly sublime experience and, at least for now, it will hold the top spot in my heart. rramsey@hillsdale.edu

POSTmODErNITY

emotions brought on by fame (We Exist, Flashbulb Eyes), and the perils of aging (Its Never Over). The entire album builds up to penultimate track Afterlife, where Butler, our modern-day Orpheus, pleas to save a dying relationship. Unlike Arcade Fires previous work, Reflektor doesnt tell its stories using the Springsteenian backdrop of the everyday American life, but its statements are no less accessible. After all, the majority of fans will probably listen to Reflektor while staring at a screen. Reflektor is Arcade Fires longestrunning album to date, and while it achieves many ambitious goals, it occasionally spreads itself too thin. Headbanger Normal Person sticks out among the rest of the albums polished funk. The contrast highlights the songs worst elements and makes it come across as homogenized alt-rock -the type of music youd hear in the background of a commercial for a show on the Discovery Channel. The albums most glaring misstep is a 10-minute hidden track at the end of disc one made up entirely of song snippets played in reverse (ostensibly a reflection of the album). Its only a matter of time before a superfan decodes the satanic messages undoubtedly hidden within, but until then, the track is just a meaningless collage of noise. In a 2010 interview, when Reflektor Album Cover asked about The Suburbs supporting tour, frontman Win Butler out. Few if any contemporary indie rock art- remarked that it was the first time the band ists have not embraced electronic sounds or couldnt pretend that no one had heard of digital production techniques. Some have them before. If that statement wasnt true eschewed instruments altogether and re- then, it certainly is now, when Arcade Fire side entirely within their laptops. Arcade is one of the biggest bands around that still Fire has managed to carefully work within qualify as indie rock. Many artists that this new environment, taking advantage of achieve this level of fame cant continue to a new sonic palette while still retaining its meet the demands of the capricious music authentic voice. world. Thankfully, on Reflektor, Arcade The album covers a lyrical spectrum Fire shows that its not afraid to take some nearly as wide as its musical spectrum. risks. The band is not willing to be shoeSongwriter Win Butler uses the Greek myth horned into the stadium-indie-rock genre of Orpheus and Eurydice as an allegory for that it effectively invented. While the album the feelings of love, faith, and loneliness may upset the diehard fans of its earlier that he struggles within what he dubs the style, it represents a turning point in Arcade reflective age. The album touches on such Fires career and bodes well for whats to subjects as the numbness of digital com- come next. munication (Reflektor), the conflicting iostaszewski@hillsdale.edu

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JUGGLING

ott said. The French horn requires constant mental and physical adjustments for the notes, so some teachers recommend juggling to improve transpositional acuity. Yeah, its actually something different to do. I actually juggled a little bit this summer. Im not great at transposing. Ive had a couple of other easier transpositions done pretty well, but this summer I just practiced juggling. I bought a set of tennis balls from Walmart, Irmer said. It generally gives the students something fun. I mean the other sections dont do anything like that and I think a Friday afternoon doing horn ensemble and juggling is sort of play. Taplin, a man of many talents, has come a long way since that little boy who sat in front of a stereo listening to classical music. Id always known that that is what Id end up doing, Taplin said. I guess Im lucky that I have succeeded at it, too. So Im living the dream. lreyes@hillsdale.edu

Taplin and his class of french horn students juggle during a class. He teaches the juggling to help students make quick, constant, mental adjustments while transposing music. (Ben Block/Collegian)

Book review: Children of Men

Lillian Quinones Special to the Collegian In the year 2021, many current Hillsdale College students will be 27 or 28 years old. Our labored Hillsdale days will be a distant, happy memory. We will be well on our way to successful careers or possibly married and pursuing the honored role of dedicated fathers and mothers nurturing the next generation of citizens. However, in the captivating futuristic novel Children of Men, by PD James, we are the last generation born of homo sapiens. She write that like a lecherous stud suddenly stricken with impotence, we are humiliated at the very heart of our faith in ourselves; for all our knowledge, our intelligence, our power, we can no longer do what the animals do without thought. In James book, has been 26 years since 1995 the year marking the last human birth. We are the Omega. The thrilling dystopian plot in James Children of Men imagines human society when procreation is impossible. No doubt, James thirty-year past in the British Civil Service, which includes the Police and the Criminal Law Departments, contributes to the unnerving conclusions she imagines when looking into an empty Pandoras box. The complexity and depth imbued in every character is stunning, especially in the protagonist Theodore Faron. A 50-year-old Oxford Victorian History professor, Theo describes the world-scale societal decay evident in Great Britain with the universal negativism that infects mankind. His cousin, Xan Lyppiatt, rules as dictator under the empty title of Warden of England, where he instituted national porn shops in an attempt to revitalize interest in sex. In this haunting world, women proudly parade about with their dolls called Six-Monthlies

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Xan was alerted to the possibility of new human life by a traitor within Julians revolutionary band, The Five Fishes. The book concludes with Xan pursuing a very pregnant Julian, her midwife, and Theo. I first learned of Children of Men, from Princeton jurisprudence Professor Robert P. George, in a recent interview I did with him for an article I was writing on natural law and marriage. He commented that James book is a fascinating portrayal of human sexuality: a kind of thought experiment played out brilliantly. George acknowledged the validity of James hypothesis regarding the disinterest in sex in the 2021 culture. It certainly rings true, and it might well happen that when children are no longer, people will actually not perceive this as creating a sexual utopia where, freed from the risks of pregnancy, people can just have fun and not have any moral concerns about sex, he said. Children of Men offers an eerily convincing prophetic warning about the effect on human psychology if mankind were barren. Instead of an instantaneous reaction to a meteor hit or zombie attack marking the end of the world, James speculates on the moral and psychological disorder of mans actions made when the end of the human race is in sight. By juxtaposing the hope every new baby brings into the world with the meaninglessness of an existence when nature denies homosapiens life, James gives the book a unique pro-life message. Masterfully written and suspenseful, Children of Men leaves the readers with a final thoughtprovoking scene. Only hours after the miracle enters the world and Theo deposes of the Warden of England: It was with a thumb wet with his own tears and stained with her blood that he made on the childs forehead the sign of the cross.

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ers on with a few simple stanzas only to complicate the poem deeply in the last stanza or last line. Yet for all his dark and cloudy sayings and focus on the night, Middleton always holds the morning as his goal. The cover illustration is, after all, a sunrise. Middletons darkness, and therein his recollection, always serves his light, for he never leaves his readers in the shadows. He desires

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to come to grips with the darkness, to linger there, engaging with the memories that dwell only in night, so that he may eventually bring us into the day: as the closing image of his book, Middleton draws himself, the poet, fiddling at midnight to bring the sunrise into being. David Middleton is a masterful poet and The Fiddler of Driskill Hil a masterful collection well worth the time of any lover of poetry, place, darkness, and the dawn. tvalle@hillsdale.edu know they are saying something profound, too. So maybe the movie doesnt fail in spite of the movies big names but because of them. I never once, while watching the movie, forgot that I was watching something written by Cormac McCarthy, or that Westray was played by Brad Pitt, or that Ridley Scott was directing. The Counselor wears its pretentions to profundity on its very expensive-looking sleeves. In doing so, it never amounts to anything more than a vanity project.
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cooing baby talk to the unblinking, glassy eyes of their six-month-old baby. They participate in pseudo-births and, when the dolls are broken, stage religious funeral ceremonies. For Theo, books, wine, music, food, and nature were the sole consolations of his life but faded after Julian, a young female student, urged him to investigate the Quietus, the State-supported mass suicide of the elderly. His experience triggers the second part of the book, Alpha. Thereafter, James reassesses her psycho-analysis when hope emerges in the climactic fight for the freedom of the human race. Julian conceiving a child.

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serves no other function than to say something profound. In fact, nearly all the movies wooden characters serve as little more than mouthpieces for McCarthys philosophical musings. This makes for fine reading, but not such a good movie. You never get the sense that these conversations fit together into much of a narrative. There is zero emotional payoff in this movie. You watch these characters say profound things, but you always know that they the actors, not the characters

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Politics to Pizza
Student puts marketing skills to use
Shaun Lichti Assistant Editor Hillsdale Junior Paul Snyder got more than he planned for when he showed up for a job interview at Hillsdales Dominos Pizza. Id applied just figuring Id deliver pizzas, Snyder said, but when I showed up for the interview they offered me the position of marketing manager. Snyder was hired in January of this year, and has been working there since. Ken Clawson, the owner of the Dominos in Hillsdale, said that hiring paul represented a big change in the local stores approach towards marketing. Our marketing was pretty non-existent before, Clawson said. We relied mostly on national ad campaigns. Clawson go the idea to hire college student when he attended a Dominos marketing seminar in Lansing. He learned that the owner of the Dominos that covers Michigan State had hired young college students to help with marketing. Clawson liked the idea, and began the search back at home. My assistant had seen Pauls application, so we just made the connection, Clawson said. Snyder, a politics major, was rather surprised, but decided to take the offer head on. I never expected Id be doing this, but he told me to make it up as I go and give him ideas, Snyder said. We work together and its been really fun so far. Snyder said his favorite part of the position is how much communication it entails. It really is a public relations job: its about talking to people, he said. Though Snyder had never done any marketing before, he believes that his participation in several political campaigns helped him develop relevant skills. I think it helped me be comfortable talking to strangers and being confident in what Im offering, he said. One of the new marketing innovations that Snyder is most proud of is the fundraisers he has helped implement. Organizations can partner with Dominos to receive 10% of net sales for the day that they choose. Dominos had never partnered with anyone to hold fundraisers before, but Clawson was interested in starting. Paul and I talked about it, and we decided it would be a great way to give back to the community and the college while increasing awareness, Clawson said. Snyder was excited to connect with the community, and has scheduled several dozen fundraisers to take place over the course of the next year.

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Some of Snyders fundraisers have already benefited Hillsdale College Goal Programs. Two of our first fundraisers were with A Few Good Men and Students Against Cancer, Snyder said. Ben Holscher, President of a Few Good Men, said that the fundraiser went very well. I think we will definitely do a fundraiser with them again in the future, and the money we raised will help up further our various projects, Holscher said. Snyder spends 10-15 hours a week doing marketing, and then also

gets to deliver pizza on the weekends. He said he has been impressed by how readily business owners and community members have responded to many of his ideas. Its amazing what people will be willing to participate in if they just know about it, Snyder said. Whether it is pizza or a political candidate, its all about offering something that people want to be involved in and telling them how.

Paul Snyder is ready to deliver: when hes not running marketing for the HIllsdale Dominos, he takes his turn running delieveries. (Shaun Lichti/Collegian)

Sabbatical life: student-free study Timothy project gains ground

Professors research, write, and enjoy free time
Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor Samuel Knecht, professor of art, is one of a number of professors taking the whole semester off on Sabbatical. Hes been painting, a lot. Some local, and some involving travel, Knecht said, The travel points, three of them: the Upper Peninsula, Leelanau near Traverse City in upper Michiganthe third destination was Monhegan Island, Maine. Knecht, who has been teaching at Hillsdale for 35 years, last took a Sabbatical in 2006. He said he has divided his artistic energies between portraiture and landscape painting this semester. He is currently working on an official portrait for the Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman. However, he has not been entirely cut off from college duties. He helped produce and art department book for Homecoming and the Gala, is coordinating a Studio Incamminati life drawing workshop for January, and organized the various exhibits in the Sage Center, including the professional artists series exhibit of Judith Carduccis work. While on Monhegan IslandI found it immensely picturesqueI was invited to join a group of artists led by Judith Carducci, Knecth said, explaining how the invitation had been extended as he communicated with Carducci regarding her exhibition here. She invited me to join her and a group to spend a week on the island painting from sun up to sun down. When Knecht paints on location, he generally carries 40 pounds of equipment as he hikes to and from his vantage point. Seven other faculty members are on sabbatical in addition to Knecht: Christopher Hamilton, associate professor of chemistry; David Murphy, associate professor of mathematics; Robert Miller, professor of biology; Christopher Busch, professor of English; Eberhard Geyer, professor of German; Paul Rahe, professor of history; and William Morrisey, professor of Politics. Rahe told the Collegian last semester that he would be writing and studying at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, punctuating his time with road trips with his family. When emailed, his autoreply indicated he was on one such road trip. Busch said he has been doing a variety of things this semester. What Im working on right nowIm doing a book review of the Selected Writings of Willa Cather, and whats really interesting about it is that her letters have never been published before, and the reason was that in her will she specifically prohibited the publishing of her letters, Busch said, but I guess over time theyve been able to override her wishes. Busch also said he has been reading. Specifically, he has been focusing on reading 20th century spiritual biographies and modern American poetry. He endeavors, during sabbaticals, to read up on topics he would be interested in perhaps teaching a new course on when he returns to school. My last sabbatical I did a lot of reading of Robert Frost, and then did two or three classes on Frost when I got back from Sabbatical, Busch said. Like Knecht, his last sabbatical was in 2006. Busch thinks he may want to teach a single author course on the poetry of Theodore Roethke. Whats really interesting about him is that his father was a greenhouse planterhe grew flowers and other things in a greenhouse as a business, Busch said, His poetry has a lot of images and of growth. Buschs interest in spiritual biographies was partly spurred by St. Augustines Confessions, the original spiritual autobiography, and the book Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, a Jewish Austrian psychiatrist who survived the Nazi concentration camps. What Ive been interested in is trying to see if there are twentieth century spiritual auto biographies, Busch said, I wanted to think about Augustine and Frankel and find other writers who are trying to find something spiritual and find meaning. For Busch, the best part of the sabbatical is just getting to read. Ive been using Melcat a lot, he said, Thats been really great, just having the freedom to read. Busch said he misses observing the freshmen arrive on campus. I really love teaching, Ill be happy to be back next Semester, Busch said, The down side is I dont get to have the daily interaction with students and I really miss you all. Laura Williamson Collegian Freelancer The follow through is whats important. Whether it be a shot in a basketball game, a hit on the volleyball court, or in groups on campus. You bring in all these freshmen and they get involved and plugged in to all these different ministries on campus but then the follow through isnt there, the co-director of the Timothy Project, Rachel Zolinski said. The Timothy Project is a relatively new program to Hillsdale. It started last year and is a ministry of the Hillsdale InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that pairs freshman with upperclassmen who will be their spiritual mentors and friends. The intent of the Timothy project is to follow through with Matthew 25 and the Great Commission, Zolinski said. So we wanted to provide an opportunity where they (the freshmen) would have that increased encouragement and strength all the way through the school year, Zolinski said. Ali Roth came up with the idea for the Timothy Project. Junior Landon Peterson assisted Roth in getting the project on its feet. Now he and Zolinski work and pray together when pairing the mentors and mentees. Theres so much freedom to make of it what you want and to invest in the life of a younger student, Peterson said.

The mentor relationship was based off the relationship of Paul and Timothy in the Bible. Paul was a mentor to Timothy and that is also how the project got its name. Last year they had between 50-60 people. Now they have 80 people paired and some still unpaired. Mary Agnes Geiger, a Sophomore, is beginning her second year of involvement with the program. The whole word mentor, I feel that its probably more of a friendship, Geiger said. At first I was super skeptical about Timothy Project because I thought that relationships of mentors was an organic thing, that it happened over a long period of time and you had to get to know someone and be like Ok this is someone I want to take under my wing., junior Shelly Peters, a mentor last year, said. Peters, however, decided to give the program a try. She was paired with Olivia Jaconette, an incoming freshmen. When we (she and her mentee) first met, it was such a beautiful conversation. She just didnt know bible studies to get involved in, what church to go to. No one had taken her under their wing. And I was like, Come, be part of my life, Peters said. Ive just seen her grow in leaps and bounds and weve become better friends and Ive notice such a difference and change and its the greatest thing. I want to be that Paul to someone else and I was able to. Im excited to see who God wants my little Timothy this year, Peters said.

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This ones on me
Abi Wood Arts Editor Professor of Chemistry Christopher Hamilton is teaching an Honors seminar next semester that explores an aspect of applied science. Sound boring? The whole thing is about beer. The class, titled Beer: Science, Styles, and Sampling, is open to 10 honors students and five science majors. Hamilton said his class will be divided into three parts: the science of beer, the style of beer, and a time at the end of class to sample some beers. Im going to buck the system a bit and make it a 60-minute class, he said. I want enough time at the end for people to learn to analyze the beer. Senior Peter Kistler, an honors student already

Professor shares love of brewing with students

signed up for Beer: Science, Styles, and Sampling, said he is excited about the class and, if he plays his cards right, Hamiltons class will be on the only class he has on Fridays next semester. The gods of the weekend smile on me, he said. Kistler added that, in the months since he began drinking, he has been amazed by the wealth of knowledge there is on the subject. Being able to articulate what sort of drinks you like and why is, I think, a mark of being an adult, he said. Hamilton has wanted to do a class on beer for some time, but this is the first year he has had the time to prepare for and teach the class. Hamilton first became interested in brewing as an undergraduate college student, when a fellow student in a German class did a project on the art of homebrewing. I thought: I could do that, Hamilton said. Graduate school absorbed Hamiltons time, however, and he didnt get another opportunity to brew until he moved to Jonesville. I brewed with my neighbor when I lived in Jonesville, he said. I probably did my first solo batch around 2009, 2010. He said there is quite the brewing community on campus, including Professor of Classics Hutchinson, Professor of Chemistry Young, and Professor of Biology VanZandt. We call ourselves the Hops Home Brewers, Hamilton said. For Hamilton, the brewing process is an art in itself. Brewing: its just applied biochemistry, he said. The brewing process begins when Hamilton chooses his blend of grains and mills them in preparation for brewing. Hamiltons shelf is neatly stacked with tupperwares labeled wheat, barley, Munich, chocolate, and more. One sack of base malt rested against the wall weighing 25 kg it is Hamiltons base malt, the grain he uses for the bulk of the brew, though he adds a halfpound to a pound of other malts to increase flavor and quality. Hamilton pulled a handful of dark grains out of a tupperware labeled chocolate and showed how they tasted roasted, like coffee. This is one of the grains he used in the robust porter that won honorable mention at the Home Brew World Exposition

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Professor of Chemistry Christopher Hamilton shows the hops floating on the surface of a batch of fermenting beer.
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of Beer. the fermentation process meets with added sugar Hamilton said he buys the majority of his and, through bottle conditioning, carbonates in the grains online or in Jackson. When he mills the bottle. grain, a crack opens the endospore so hot water The neat, dark bottles of finished product lincan easily activate the enzymes and break down ing the shelf might even make it into the class the grains starches. The result is a mash that looks taste-testing regime. Hamilton hopes to bring his like dark oatmeal and tastes sweet. passion for beer brewing applied biochemistry Thats because of the simple sugars, Hamil- to the students of Hillsdale College. ton explained. He fills a large tub called a mash tun with anywhere from eight to 20 lbs of milled grain and four to five gallons of water. Less grain results in lighter beers, while more grain lends darker beers like IPAs and Imperial beers. The mash rests for about an hour, then drains through a tube into a bucket that Hamilton places over a heating element. The sparge as it is called, yields about six-and-a-half to seven-anda-half gallons of liquid. The liquid, prior to being heated, is called wort. Hamilton brings the wort to a boil, adds hops, and allows the entire mixture to boil for 60-90 minutes. Most brews only take about an hour, he said. After the beer has boiled the allotted time, Hamilton inserts a contraption called a chiller into the beer mixture. The chiller is a coiled mass of tube that, hooked up to a water hose, chills the beer by transferring the heat from the beer to the coil of cold water and out the tube. Once chilled the beer is transferred to a fermenter, mixed with yeast, and allowed to sit for about three weeks. Hamiltons fermenter is a five-gallon white bucket that he calls an ale pail. The pail has a tight lid to keep things sanitary. We wouldnt want fungus or bacteria to spoil the beer, Hamilton said. Professor of Chemistry Christopher Hamilton shows how The carbonation in the beer to drain wort from the mash tun into the boiling pot comes during bottling, when a during the beer brewing process. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) small portion of the yeast from

Local apple orchards provide fall food and fun

As the weather gets colder and the days get shorter, food and drinks give a little pumpkin spice to the class-laden days as the semester moves towards its end. While pumpkin-anything is the traditional food of fall, apple cider, caramel-covered apples, and, the Saga favorite, While the Hillsdale Farmers Market had its final showing apple butter, are readily available at local apple orchards. There are two major apple orthis past weekend, students and residents can still buy locally chards in the area: Gleis and Fruit Farms. ~ By Amanda Tindall, Assistant Editor grown food from Gleis Orchards and Greenhouses on Milnes Road in Hillsdale County. In 1918, Carl Glei and his mother Alma bought 40 acres of land on which to plant an orchard. The orchard started with only 50 trees and later expanded to 100. However, in 1990 Gleis main building was destroyed by a fire, and, after being rebuilt, was ravaged by fire again in 2007. Yet out of the ashes, Gleis rebuilt once again and has expanded to 300 acres with two acres of greenhouses. In those greenhouses, Gleis grows all sorts of seasonal crops, including perennials, annuals, other flowers, and vegetables. We grow and harvest our own squash and pumpkin, said Sarah Maier, an Gleis employee. Our main business is in December and May. We grow and cut our own Christmas trees, so thats going to be one of our main sales as fall ends. Although customers cant pick their own apples because of insurance reasons, with greenhouse-access on either side, Gleis store has all sorts of Michigan-specialty and unique foods in addition to apple cider made on-site from their orchard. Gleis is located at 3500 Milnes Road in Hillsdale. Their fall hours are Monday-Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Gleis Orchards and Greenhouses

Meckleys Flavor Fruit Farms

For the autumn days filled with adventure, Meckleys Flavor Fruit Farms has all sorts of food to eat and buy, a giant squash and apples being squashed to see, and a small animal farm consisting of goats and rabbits. The farm has activities throughout the year as well, including pony rides, bonfires, a pumpkin patch, and wagon and hay rides. During our busy months of September and October, every weekend we offer hay rides and pony rides, horse drawn rides around the orchard, sand art stuff, and the store is open, said Amanda Gould, a baker at Meckleys. Filled with all sorts of vintage signs and type writers, Meckleys store infuses customers with a feeling of nostalgia as the smell of freshly baked doughnuts, pies, and breads wafts to their noses. Up the wooden steps of the old barn, Meckleys has a bar with their own hard ciders in a wood-furnished tavern-like attic. This is definitely our busy time of the year, said Gould. Starting in Novemeber well be open Thursday night, and all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We close on December 24, and reopen around May. Meckleys Flavor Fruit Farms is located at 11025 S. Jackson Road, Somerset Center, Mich.

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Evan Gage
Who or what inspires your style? John Lukacs, Ezra Koenig, and sleep deprivation. Describe your fashion sense in five words or less. Prodigal Librarian. What is your favorite item of clothing? I own a pair of boxers with boxers on them. As a history major, I deeply appreciate that brand of intense self-awareness. What is the most embarrassing thing you own? A red flannel pajama suit overlaid with hundreds of tiny Coca-Cola logos. What is your favorite store to shop at? My inner bourgeois is best fed by J.Crew, but Gap will do in a pinch.

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