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2.5.15 Hillsdale Collegian
2.5.15 Hillsdale Collegian
www.hillsdalecollegian.com
Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, pictured earlier in his life at left, and at a 2006 visit to Hillsdale at
right. (Photos Courtesy of External Affairs)
scooter.
I would go to the basement in the library, now in the
Churchill College of Cambridge,
and I would mark stuff to be
photocopied, Larry Arnn said.
Then, every couple days, Penny and I would take Churchills
and we would go to lunch.
They had to be returned by
nighttime, Penny Arnn said.
Sir Martin only dealt with the
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INSIDE
Defining marriage
The Lyceum and Symposium
groups and YAF host debate
about gay marriage. A3
An old-fashioned thesis
CANTUS impresses
Mens a capella group brought
down the house with tight
harmonies and international set
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Opinions..................................A4
City News................................A6
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Gay marriage
Students argue for and against
legalizing same-sex marriage.
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I will be meeting with the skilled nursing director about expanding volunteering to the more
student who is considering anything in medicine
should try to get involved in some way in hospi-
Girgis and Corvino were defending traditional and sameare frequent debating partners,
defending their views at venues
across the country and planning
a co-written book dealing with
The debate followed the
conventional
LincolnDougsive Q&A session followed, and
both speakers were available
after the event to talk with stuThough Hillsdale is a Christian school by its articles of
association, this institutional
its commitment to honest discourse, said Associate Professor
of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter,
who helped the Lyceum plan and
Hillsdale preserves the
western heritage, which includes
the moral tradition of natural
law, but also includes rational
debate should not be perceived
as though the college is not com-
(Breana
(Breana Noble/Col-
NEWS
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Morgan Delp
The editor-in-chief of the Collegian is from
Holland, Ohio, and is majoring in history. She
plans to pursue a career in teaching, journalism,
or both.
Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter
Lindsay Kostrezwa
Shelly Peters
GilbeRt
From A1
helped them track down the fate of their relatives. He
was very generous with his time and patient because he
understood what it meant to those people to have some
closure, I suppose youd call it, Penny Arnn said.
Larry Arnn considers himself lucky to have traveled frequently with the greatest tour guide ever born.
Gilbert even planned the Arnns honeymoon, down to
where they should stay, visit, and eat every single day.
We had adventure days, Larry Arnn said.
One time, Gilbert visited the Arnns in California, and
Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
The Student Federation spent more than its budgeted amount last
semester because of extra funds it found, so they have generously
given to the students who came to them with fund requests. All the
same, the federation is routinely accused of hoarding its money
and is often seen as stingy.
While Student Fed was very cautious about spending money
in the past, many current members of the federation said they are
desirous to spend money on students and want to hear their funds
proposals.
Student Fed money comes from student fees, and it decides how
to give money back to students in the form of campus improvement
and funds for clubs and events, etc.
Treasurer sophomore Jacob Thackston said Student Fed gets
around $50,000 to spend every semester, but $35,000 is already
allocated to publications and some things for senior class and miscellaneous expenses.
That means the federation has $15,000 in the discretionary fund
to spend on students each semester.
We want to spend at least $15,000 each semester, Thackston
said. Right now we have $46,000 to spend, and were getting anstudent fees, so well have $61,000 in like three weeks. Please ask
us for money.
Student Fed has such a large discretionary because of rollover
fees discovered last school year.
A couple years ago we discovered that student fees had been
rolling over, so most of that is still there [in the discretionary],
Thackston said. Over the past semesters weve been spending that
surplus.
But the federation cant spend its money if students dont ask for
it.
The street goes both ways, Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. It takes some effort, you have to propose a week
paperwork.
Manno said he is willing to help students with the process should
they have any questions.
The process and unfamiliarity for sure [prevents people from
coming to Student Fed], and for some people its a little intimidat-
is at play.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sued various suburban counties because of the residential housing patterns.
They look at a map and they see too many whites
bunched together in certain communities and
not enough blacks living there. And they assume
something nefarious is going on here.
With the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and the history of events like the Trayvon Martin case, why is it so important for
young people to understand how the media
affects trials and the publics perception of
them?
My problem with how the media has covered
these events has been the failure to put them in
context. Theres a narrative out there a false
narrative that the black homicide rate in America is what it is because cops are shooting black
people. The reality is that 98 percent of black
shootings dont involve cops.
Yet you have these protesters marching all
over the country pretending that our morgues and
cemeteries are full of young black men because
theyre being gunned down by cops. And everyone from the president on down has been playing
along with this narrative.
If you care about black lives and we see
these black lives matter banners all over the
place it seems to me that you would be focused
on the 98 percent of killings that do not involve
the police, not the two percent that do. That two
It was very different, Teigen said. There wasnt much communication within the federation, and there were also some pretty
strong personalities. To their credit, they wanted to be very careful and responsible with what was going on with money, and the
president at the time really wanted to rework the budget. The general
sentiment of the leadership was to be as good stewards as possible
with the money, but a lot of times that ended up being a lot more
selective as to who was warranted money, which in some ways is
good, but as we know with the Tower Light debacle, it can get a little
bit heavy-handed.
It was during this administration that the federation spent very
little, all the while accumulating student fees over the semesters.
In the more recent administrations, Student Fed has made an effort
to be more generous with funds, especially since it has such a large
surplus.
We have this reputation of not being willing to give, which I
would love to change, but we can only really give where the students ask for money, so were limited by the scope of requests we
receive, Thackston said. By and large we really only have the ability to spend on things asked for by students.
At the same time, Student Fed struggles to reach students and
encourage them to ask for money.
room for improvement, we send out fund request emails once a semester, but you know how emails work, most of mine get deleted. I
think its something that needs to be discussed [advertising Student
Fed].
Wed love for people to come to us with small ideas, big ideas,
any way for us to give the funds back to them, Thackston said.
Thackston wants to send out more emails and advertise via
word-of-mouth. According to Thackston, Student Fed cant receive
enough proposals.
Student fees come in for the purpose of going back out to the
students, Thackston said. Thats the primary role of Student Fed,
to give the student fees back to the students.
From A1
From Omaha, Nebraska, Bessmer is a biochemistry major who next year will attend dental school
at the University Of Nebraska Lincoln College Of
Dentistry.
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The past two Blackboard outages, last Saturday and Monday, were
both due to storage issues with the
online, school-wide service. ITS
and, according to Thomas Phillips,
academic and business services
generalist for Hillsdale College,
they will not recur.
Phillips explained that the collapse of the servers for the most
recent two outages were for the
storage issue, and the ITS said it is
dress them again. The scheduled
outages, occurring much more frequently, are due to updates to the
server, which are regular maintenance issues.
Although it has certainly been
cold at times, the weather has not
been a factor in system performance, Phillips said about the
most recent Blackboard outage,
which occurred the day following
the heavy snowfall.
ITS is working to ensure that
the majority of Blackboard shutdowns are on days where students
are not likely to be on the website,
allowing the most widespread access possible. While its impossible
to predict when unscheduled shutdowns should occur, ITS is trying
ping them from happening, making Blackboard easier to use for
students.
Joe Banovetz
Academy holds
dinner for senior
trip funds
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor
OPINION
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Be sportsmanlike spectators
the opinion of the collegian editorial staff
Online: www.hillsdalecollegian.com
Editor in Chief: Morgan Delp
News Editors: Amanda Tindall | Natalie DeMacedo
City News Editor: Macaela Bennett
Opinions Editor: Jack Butler
Sports Editor: Sam Scorzo
Arts Editor: Micah Meadowcroft
Spotlight Editor: Bailey Pritchett
Web Editor: Evan Carter
Photo Editor: Anders Kiledal
Circulation Manager: Phil DeVoe
Ad Managers: Rachel Fernelius | Alex Eaton | Drew Jenkins | Matt
Melchior
Assistant Editors: Sarah Albers | Andrew Egger |
| Nathanael Meadowcroft | Kate Patrick | Ramona Tausz | Emma
Vinton
Photographers: Joel Calvert | Elena Creed | Anders Kiledal | Gianna Marchese | Hailey Morgan | Ben Strickland | Laura Williamson
Faculty Advisers: John J. Miller | Maria Servold
The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to
edit submissions for clarity, length, and style. Letters should be 450
words or less and include your name and number. Send submissions
to jbutler@hillsdale.edu before Sunday at 6 p.m.
Racism and violence comprise the majority of AmeriJan. 29). This is a painfully shallow assessment.
As a combat veteran, I believe racism is wrong. Unwarranted prejudice, regardless of whether employed for the
Sarah Onken
Student Columnist
Thursday night.
I was aware that the March
for Life had occurred, and I was
thankful to see many of my fellow classmates come out for the
March. But in the midst of the
in conservative publications, I
sensed that many pro-life activ-
women and children butchered by Muslim extremists is a curious moral stance indeed.
Nathan Siether was a vehicle commander and machine
gunner with Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Division in
Helmand province, Afghanistan in 2008.
It would be easy to assume that taking someones life
based on their beliefs would be racist or prejudiced, except
ether said. Here there is common ground. Let us not forget
that in the Iraq War, we were reacting to someone elses actions These terrorists believed that they had the right to kill
our people and take away the paramount right to life. In the
movie, Chris Kyle states that these people are savages, and
what the author of last weeks article supposes, this is not
racism. It is a kind of conversation with bullets discussing
politics and religion; the oldest form of political discourse
and one lost on many who have not served or understand the
horrors of war. Kyle was not racist, nor did he use this as a
ruse to confuse his psyche in order to pull the trigger. Like
principles, he will rectify his actions, and make rational deciIf, concurrent with the Hillsdale ethos, we are to be men
and women of virtue and knowledge, we cannot blind ourselves to what is, including the dark underside of human nature which the politely-conditioned conscience sometimes
of nice people who largely come from nice places where malicious violence is extremely rare. This often makes understanding just killing and the just application of violence dif-
Michael Aavang
Special to the Collegian
not virtuous.
Compared to other millennials, Hillsdale College students
Reuss is wrong on
the reality of war
events, not just for Charger athletes, but for student fans also.
Parents with their young Charger fans, respected professors,
and families of the opposing
teams are subjected to student
section tastelessness. The choral reprimands that attack opponents family members, sexuality, and physical appearance
make Hillsdale students look
On Feb. 3, Universal Studios Dracula Untold came out on Blu-Ray. Dracula, the novel
by Bram Stoker, came out in 1897. Though
over 100 years and divergent interpretations
separate the two works, both contain useful
moral lessons.
This isnt a review of either work and its
not free of spoilers. It would be impossible
to examine the full moral implications of the
stories without mentioning the endings.
The novel Dracula is a triumph-of-goodversus-evil story. The villainous vampire
Count Dracula comes to England to prey
upon its citizens. A band of heroes whose
friend was an early victim of the Count cast
aside their safety to end this scourge.
Dracula is deeply, frighteningly evil. The
heroes are upstanding Christians, though
tue, mutual support, and, above all, reliance
on God, they kill Dracula and save the day.
The novel is excellent for the moral imagination, because the good shines through its
darkness. It is certainly dark: The vampire, as
depicted by Stoker, is a Satanic parody both
of Holy Communion and of sex. But opposed
to him are characters who, throughout all the
horror, hold onto faith, hope, and love. These
heroes are both virtuous and likeable. The
reader wishes to be like them and this is good
for his soul.
Dracula Untold instructs in a different way. Rather than giving role models to
imitate, it functions like Macbeth, giving an
The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education
by Forester
McClatchey
example to avoid.
In Untold, Dracula begins as a handsome
prince and doting father. But when the Turks
threaten to kidnap 1,000 Transylvanian boys
including his son he makes a Faustian
bargain, gaining the powers of the vampire
with which to defend his kingdom.
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and companionship above having children as very important reasons for marriage. These more imConcerning homosexuality, biblical inerrancy deserves attention. Those who believe the Bible inerrant essentially claim, God said it, I believe it, when discussing homosexuality. However, this means
once included) elide this, excusing slavery and womens place in church as contemporary cultural beliefs. Why is homesexuality the timeless exception? Is it because the Bible said so, or because many
consider homosexual sex unnatural, as it contradicts their heteronormative experience, and they consult the Bible a cultural authority for backup?
Many seeking to reserve marriage to heterosexuals suggest the civil union as a viable alternative
union provides but also its status. A Williams Institute study found gay couples likelier to marry if
marriage. Similarly, heterosexual couples given the choice between marriage and a marriage-equivalent
union overwhelmingly chose marriage. If both can uphold marital norms and if desired raise
children, then both couples should have the same choice. Differences in sexual union quality should not
invite discrimination.
Debating Same-Sex Marriage co-author Maggie Gallagher claims legally labeling same-sex unions
marriage will change the public meaning of marriage... as to ...make it harder for marriage to perform its core civil functions over time. But what are these civil functions, and can only heterosexual
couples achieve them?
taxes. Yet does this union have a core civic function outside enforcing the couples marital norms?
Gallagher seems to hint at the civic functions of families (with children), such as childrearing, providing identity among members, and cultural transmission. Government programs such as welfare,
healthy school lunches, breakfasts, and child protective services assume and reinforce this focus. This
is especially true of children who have aged out of foster care: They are more likely to become homehave children out of wedlock. If families improve childrens lives, then a state concerned for unadopted
children should encourage both adoption and same-sex marriage.
Some argue legalizing gay marriage could create a slippery slope, giving polyamorous, incestuous, bestial, and other nontraditional relationships marriages sanction. But this whole debate has
good for children? Healthy for spouses? Consensual? Unlike these unions, gay couples answer these
mous sex between two partners; and involve mutual consent.
Instead of merely pondering what marriage is, we must ask why we marry; our answer will help
clarify what marriage is. As I watch my peers engage and marry, their reasons are clear: We love each
other, and want to spend the rest of our lives together. Heterosexuals and homosexuals alike agree to
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor
society.
Only a conjugal marriage achieves the comprehensive union, the harmony of mind and
includes unions incapable of attaining a fruitful bodily union, must insist that marriage is an
affective, romantic-emotional union.
The government has chosen to protect the traditional institution because it realizes that both
the raising of children in a family of a married father and mother in which studies have
shown children thrive most concern society and its future. According to a paper written by
Donald Paul Sullins and published by the Catholic University of America, emotional problems
were more than twice as prevalent for children with same-sex parents than for children with
attainment is much higher in children raised in a household with both biological spouses present. Children living with cohabiting couples performed even worse academically than in singleparent homes. Though this is not data for homosexual unions, it does show that children thrive
and fathers are indispensable.
tect all of the millions of kinds of emotional companionships. Once the institutions of marriage
and the family fracture, all other pillars of society crumble as well.
include homosexual unions. Pro-marriage is anti-gay. Incestuous relationships are consanguineous.
on marrying and reproducing with her biological father. If the culture allows for reinvented
nence, gender, relation, number or any other terminology will no longer characterize marriage.
all, and society will suffer for it.
Dear Editor,
Timothy Troutner
Special to the Collegian
Crisis
Nicomachean Ethics
loss, or understand the connection between temperatures at the poles, the jet
stream, and extreme weather?
We dont realize that upwards of 95
percent percent of published climate
science taking a position on the issue
supports climate changes reality; that
the Arctic is warming twice as fast as
the rest of Earth, and the ice is melting
faster than any models predicted; that,
at our current pace, Earth will warm
centurys end, blowing past the twodegree target set to prevent dangerous
outcomes; and that modern CO2 levels
exceed any from the last 800,000 years.
Instead, climate change is revealing human natures worst: The inability
to privilege long-term planning over
short-term preferences, the refusal to
believe our way of life could threaten
others or Earth, and the tendency to
believe those with the loudest voices.
Evading responsibility for the human
footprint, we expect God or the free
market to perpetuate our prosperous
civilization. Modern crises demoncome; even growing knowledge of
climate change has failed to galvanize
global action yet.
A Hillsdale education should lead us
to realize and to try to overcome these
faults in human nature. To escape our
biases, we must examine the evidence
ourselves, and have the determination
to take appropriate action. Those who
do so will realize that manmade global warming presents a grave threat to
the planet and to human civilization.
CITY NEWS
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Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter
Jonesville
coffee
shop
Grounded in Grace will move
from Grace Episcopal Church
to Jonesville First Presbyterian
It will celebrate the new location with a kick-off event from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Were excited to see what
new things will come from it
being here, said Cathy Johnson, the interim pastor at Jonesville First Presbyterian Church,
who runs the shop. Although
not part of our initial plan, it
does seem like the right time for
about music.
In addition to its open mic
nights and featured bands, the
Dawn also holds many events
for local groups, like Hillsdale
The Dawn
is adorably
Mumford and
Sons-esque.
It is a natural
kind of artistic
brilliance.
Shelly Peters
the Public Safety Committee announced their plan for the city to
future.
We had decided based on
some illnesses and vacancies and
have on the ground, Terry said.
Right now, the administraresponsible way to hire another
value is decreased, Terry said.
City council is always looking for new ways to bring revenue into the city with little or
no impact to citizens, Terry
said. In recent past weve seen
a steady decline of revenue coming in to provide those services
[police services].
During public comment at the
meeting, Hillsdale County Commissioner Ruth Brown updated
the council on a very successful
tion meeting, and advertised a
free training event in suicide prevention for all Hillsdale County
residents from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Feb. 12.
[It] tells how to make your
community a Prevention Prepared Community, Brown
said.This is way bigger than me,
Im getting all kinds of people
on board to help. The Prevention
Prepared Community is going to
affect the city of Hillsdale.
Councilperson Emily Stack
Davis also suggested a city-wide
spring cleaning day involving
residents, churches, and local
volunteer groups.
[It could] give people a happy heads up for what spring and
summer will entail, Stack Davis
said. It could be a public day of
where we want our community
to head.
The council agreed to discuss
the idea further in future meetings.
I think it could be a really
neat public services campaign,
Stack Davis said.
Free admission.
Free admission.
the move.
At its new location, the shop
will not have to pay rent, so
increase. Every month, Grounded in Grace Coffeehouse designates a local charity to be the
recipient of 10 percent of its
earnings, so increased revenue
means more money will go to
charity. Some of these recipients include various pantries
and Domestic Harmony.
Our real aim is to provide
a place for people to come and
gather, and the charities are another bonus for us, volunteer
Kathi Boyle said.
Februarys charity is the
Community Action Agency,
and volunteers write on a chalk-
Its a place to
gather and be
comfortable, and
if you want a
crepe and a cup of
coffee, then weve
got that too.
Kathi Boyle
It is important
to show these
kids that college
is an attainable
goal. Its not just
for academic
geniuses.
Alexis Allen
www.hillsdalecollegian.com
Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
SPORTS
A7 5 Feb. 2015
kind of rag-a-tag but its looking like we can be pretty competitive in the GLIAC, Delp said.
Following in the footsteps of his
two sisters on the womens tennis team, Delp knew he would
want to join the mens team immediately. Turner recruited him
directly, and the two practice together regularly.
Hes been keeping us in the
loop, asking what we think of
them and watching us as we hit
with them, Delp said, referring
to himself and another previously interested freshman.
Although Turners experienced four different collegiate
mens varsity tennis teams, this
from scratch.
I wasnt sure how it was go-
BOX SCORES
Mens Basketball
Hillsdale: 78
Ferris St.: 85 (OT)
Womens Basketball
Hillsdale: 68
Ferris St.: 55
Hillsdale: 73
Grand Valley St.: 65
Hillsdale: 73
Grand Valley St.: 57
Hillsdale: 56
Saginaw Valley: 59
Hillsdale: 67
Saginaw Valley: 49
Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Kyle Cooper (20.8)
Stedman Lowry (10.8)
Rebounds Per Game:
Cooper (10.4)
Jason Pretzer (3.3)
Assists Per Game:
Zach Miller (6.9)
Cooper (1.7)
Field Goal Percentage:
Cooper (54.9)
Nick Archer (54.4)
Pretzer (50.6)
Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Megan Fogt (12.9)
Kadie Lowery (9.7)
Rebounds Per Game:
Fogt (8.9)
Allie Dittmer (5.3)
Assists Per Game:
Morgan Blair (2.5)
Ashlyn Landherr (2.4)
Field Goal Percentage:
Fogt (53.2)
Lowery (42.7)
Kayla Geffert (41.8)
Charger athletes
enhance play with
cross-training
tions.
While some want to pursue a
career in broadcast media in the
future, others just enjoy the experience.
My best experience was not
this past game, but the game before that when we won by one
point and that ending where
everyone just rushed the court
BasketBall
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AC playoffs, Cooper said.
The Timberwolves are a talented team led by USC transfer
Maurice Jones who is averaging
14.6 points and 6.7 assists per
game.
Hes as exciting a player as
Ive ever seen in our league,
On Saturday at 3 p.m. the
Chargers will face Lake Superior
State, a team ranked 21st in the
nation with a 13-2 record in the
GLIAC.
Rachael Hille
Collegian Freelancer
dale.
By using different muscles beyond those that are dominant in
able to strengthen and grow as
a whole to both increase performance and decrease the potential
of injury.
Redshirt sophomore Steven Mette, placekicker for the
Charger football team, is a big
proponent of using yoga as his
cross-training, both in and out of
season.
Doing yoga is one of the
can do while training, Mette
and has always been my key to
preventing injuries and keeping
my body ready for game day.
Another common cross-training method is getting in the pool
for those athletes that put lots of
strain and miles on their muscles.
John Wierenga, a senior on the
cross-country and track teams,
uses swimming as a recovery
workout.
pool is that you are not pounding like when you run, or get on
the elliptical, or bike. Its easy on
your muscles and is really good
for recovery, Wierenga said.
Wierenga said using the pool
as cross-training is also a great
way of getting an aerobic exercise.
You get your heart rate up.
You are not putting the stress on
your muscles and your legs. That
Cross-training has proved effective in many different ways,
across various teams. After the
success of her routine last season,
Landherr has kept the tradition
for each home game, as well as
at away games. Not only is this a
good warm up, it is a real intimidation factor for the other team.
Its fun to do it on the court
in front of the other team as they
warm up, Landherr said.
From yoga to swimming to
Tae Kwon Do, each athlete can
and enhance their athletic performance through cross-training.
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Charger Sports
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
Shane Armstrong:
sdales
three-game
winning
lead.
Head coach Claudette Char-
Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
ers.
was thrown.
Tonight, the Chargers begin
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Phil Simmons as Underling in another production of The Drowsy Chaperone. The professor
at Eastern Michigan University is choreographing the Tower Players production of the show.
placed
audible
to convey the
mance,
and
never
done
thing he did
not recall oc-
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Things
To do and see
This week
January 31 March 1
Professional Artist Series:
Paintings
by Mark Mehaffey
Daughtrey Gallery,
Sage Center for the Arts
Nationally recognized
Michigan watercolor artist
Mark Mehaffey exhibits
his work, which
explores an interaction
between abstract and
representational style.
February 6
Hillsdale College
Violin Virtuosi Concert
Markel Auditorium,
Sage Center for the Arts
8 pm
Advanced violin students
from the studio of
Melissa Knecht in a
showcase concert
of works by Sarasate,
Paganini, Brahms, and
others.
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Macaela
Bennett
Expressing
beauty through
IN FOCUS
scrapbooking
YOU scrapbook?! many
said when I told them about the
subject of this column.
The last time I evoked such
a shocked response was when I
told my father that I, his last hope
for a jock in the family, wanted to
join the dance and cheerleading
team during basketball season.
Shocking, I know. For someone whos opted to play club
soccer, IM football and basketball, and write for the campus
newspaper instead of a more artistic publication like the Tower
Light, I dont seem like the type
to scrapbook.
At an institution where we
are encouraged to pursue beauty,
were all searching for ways to
express and share it. Some do this
through dance, art, design, reciting poetry, or playing sports. Although I seldom have time for it,
one of my favorite ways of making and sharing beauty is through
scrapbooking.
Im not talking about the
online kind where you upload
photos and insert them into set
places amidst cute designs and
pre-chosen fonts. Im referring to
the kind where I sit at table cluttered with glitter, buttons, ribbon,
stacks of paper, and glue sticks
for hours over a series of days to
create an album featuring photos
from special events like vacations
or weddings.
The last time I did this was
over Christmas break to make
a book for my friend Nicoles
Christmas present. She traveled
to New Mexico with me for part
of her holiday break. There, we
visited Native American merchants in Albuquerque, hiked
mountains two miles high, sledded on sand dunes, and babysat
my nephew for a day without
permanently harming him or ourselves.
Most importantly, it was the
few hours together since parting
ways for college. Just as we were
discovering the beauty of a new
places, we were re-discovering
the beauty of our own friendship.
I wanted a way to preserve our
photos and snippets of comical
conversation, and the best way
possible was using the medium
of scrapbooking.
I loved the opportunity to sort
through our snapshots, choosing
which ones to include and thinking about what they would mean
to her when she looks back upon
them in the future.
Then began the giant puzzle
of how to organize and present
them. I felt like I was exercising
both my logical and my creative
capacities by transferring the
inspiration from my head to a
concrete page whose limits constantly seemed to restrain my un-
containable ideas.
Many days later, I completed
ished pages to my sister. I laughed
as I explained the quotes from an
Eminem look alike with whom
Nicole and I shared a shuttle and
elaborated on stories about falling into a cactus and frantically
plucking out the thorns before
Nicole could see.
By making the effort to decorate these pictures, I demonstrated their importance to myself
and everyone looking at them.
They then induced questions that
prompted me to remember and
share stories that I would have
otherwise forgotten.
Just like dressing up for important events and choosing just
ing up a scrapbook page symbolizes an important event worth
investing effort in.
While scrapbooking is a beautiful endeavor, its also a creative
activity for even the artistically
challenged (which, surmising
the many shocked responses, inWhen I asked Micah if I could
write this column about scrapbooking, this papers advisor
piped up from across the room,
Scrapbooking! I love it its
the only craft I can do!
Much of the intimidation felt
in regard to composing a song
and skill required to knit a blanket
or paint a master copy is reduced
with scrapbooking. This is partially because no one is going to
ask you whats that supposed to
be? The subject of your masterpiece the photo is already
present, you just have to add a
few things to it. So without the
pressure of normal art projects,
scrapbookers still get to exercise
their creative faculties without
worry of being judged for their
bulging seams or disproportionately drawn hands.
While pictures say a 1,000
words, its frustrating when
someone fails to appreciate a trip
or experience the way we did because were constantly trying to
make them see what the pictures
dont show the colors, sounds,
smells or images lying beyond
the boundaries of the frame.
Scrapbooking allows you to
add those things in. Perhaps not
in the same way, but adding in
quotes, pamphlets, tickets, or
stickers gives you the power to
share more of the narrative.
Macaela Bennett is a junior
American Studies major. She is
minoring in journalism through
the Dow Journalism Program
and is the editor of the Collegians City News page.
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on campus.
Looking forward, Holleman
encourages all to take advantage
of the opportunity to see upcoming performances of the student,
faculty, and professional varieties
to enhance the Hillsdale experience outside of the classroom.
As the CANTUS concert concluded after a standing ovation
and an encore performance of
Laura Williamson
Collegian Reporter
When you step into Hillsdales Daughtrey Gallery in the
Sage Center for the Arts, you are
met with an explosion of color.
Vibrant strokes of paint characterize featured artist Mark Mehaffeys pieces. He uses both watercolor and acrylic to display his
artistic abilities, and has both abstract and representational work
displayed in the gallery.
Theres something powerful and inescapable about Mehaffeys work, said Professor
of Art Sam Knecht. We see
glimpses of everyday life. Hes
not counting on lofty subject
matter to defend this art, but visual values.
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transcend[ing] photography.
He spoke of Swansons painting
of the cemetery north of Hillsdale as luminous in its radiant
qualities of light and color and
not gloomy at all.
Swanson, though only a sophomore, has already declared her
art major. Her oil painting was
the product of her second class
air, or painting done outdoors.
painting, and the most rewarding
according to Swanson, was capturing the light as it appeared on
the ground.
It was challenging because
of the light shining through the
trees. There were a bunch of
shadows from the leaves on the
ground, but there were also spots
of light, Swanson said. That
was kind of tricky, getting it to
grassy hillside with the spots of
light accurately.
orchestra you really get the composers intentions, the whole picture of the piece.
Ziegler and Flowers, who
were also winners of last years
competition, agreed that playing
with the orchestra is an amazing
experience. Ziegler called it a
whole other world, while Flowers said it was exhilarating.
Both are excited for their second
concert.
Taylor chose to play Oboe
Concerto in One Movement,
composed by Eugene Goossens.
Theres a variety of different colors and tones in the piece.
Theres aggressive sections and
lyrical sections. Theres just a
full range of notes in general for
the oboe, Taylor said. Its probthere is.
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while, for example, since anyone found their way to the top
of Central Hall. Some students
get a leg up from an unusual
inside track.
As student head of security,
I got keys to the clock tower,
La Prade said. We spent a lot
of time walking around the
whole campus.
Even the more common
climbs present unique challenges.
The library is too visible,
said Garrett Holt 14, former
head RA of Simpson. Central
Hall is under lock and key, you
might plummet to your death
off the Sports Complex. But I
would say the most challenging
ous reasons.
Relationships between
climbers and campus security
have always been complicated,
with varying degrees of friction
over the years. Back in the early
2000s, as La Prade remembers
it, nobody cared.
William Whorley, director of
campus security, has a frostier
view of the hobby. The biggest
problem, he said, is the risk that
climbing buildings poses to
student safety.
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wife, Well, if ever I blew an interview, it was that one. But they
hired me.
Dow placed Miller in the engineering department of the
company, because working in research and development required
a Ph.D, but he didnt stay long.
I developed a few patents in
engineering, so they said, You
belong in research and development, Miller said. So, here I
am with a masters competing
with Ph.D.s. But I got a reputation for being creative, and I succeeded.
His creativity led to the creation of more than 20 patented
devices through Dow Chemical.
It was during his career that
Miller indulged in his passion for
cars, a passion that had developed
early in his life.
My family came to Detroit
to work in the auto industry, he
anyone ever talked about. My
uncle rebuilt a 1954 Triumph
TR3 that I bought it for $500. Altogether, the family had 12 cars.
It was the culture when we were
growing up.
I bought a 1955 Ford Thun-
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track for a year with Bill Lundberg and then left for three years
before returning to the academy
in the fall of 2002. He has been
teaching at the college for nearly
six years.
Because of my experience
draw to Hillsdale when I got offered the job at the academy. I get
to combine my passion of working with kids K-12 with teaching
at the college which is awesome,
Roberts said.
Since his return, Roberts has
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this kind of community, French
said.
I was initially attracted to Hillsdale by seeing the relationships
my siblings had when they were
here, French said. Coming here
and seeing the incredible community they were able to build, thats
kind of what I wanted to come
here for.
As much as we talk about
whats good and true and beautiful, the real thing I feel like we
learn here is how to live a decent
life, Clausen said. In my opinion, and in my experience, relationships are the most important
thing.
The Boardwalk girls feel the
same way about community as
the Wigwam, which might be why
they are such good friends. Junior
Christina Lambert, who lives in
the Boardwalk, believes that in
the pursuit of truth, goodness,
and beauty at Hillsdale, theres
something about having friends
on a common mission with you.
Its like when C.S. Lewis in
The Four Loves talks about how
friendship has to be about something, so youre doing something
together, so were learning together, Lambert said.
derbird for $500, worked on it,
and sold it for $3,000, he said.
It was a lot of fun, but once the
kids came, my wife said, Well,
its time to be an adult now. So, I
stopped playing with cars.
Once he established himself on
the career path at Dow Chemical,
Miller couldnt help but get back
into the hobby of car collecting.
When I worked at Dow, all
these bonuses are coming in, so
I said, I gotta get into cars. I
learned that Mercedes SLs were
cool, so I got into Mercedes.
One of them was a 190 SL.
They made them from 1955 to
1961. I sold it for $40,000. Now,
$100,000. Makes me wish I was
a little more patient, he said,
laughing.
He later moved from Mercedes
to his current car, a 1954 MGTF.
Miller said. I traded my 1962
250 SL. It was rare, because it
had a fuel injection system, but it
was a nightmare, because the engine was so complicated. I traded
it for the MG, which was in a
museum. It runs perfectly, which
annoys me, because I like it when
my cars need me.
Miller retired from Dow
Chemical in 2004, but still wanted to teach.
While I was at Dow, I loved
teaching, he said. I taught
physics at Delta College because
continued to invest in the community. He coaches the academy
track team, teaches a history and
philosophy of physical education
class at the college as well as being the assistant headmaster and
athletic director at the academy.
I think the fact that he decided to come back to Hillsdale for
a career shows a lot about how
great the community is. I enjoyed
taking his class and having him as
an instructor, said college senior
Sean Bennett.
Whether he is teaching, coaching, or leading athletics, Roberts
continues to instill the lessons he
learned into future contributors to
the community.
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Evan Brune
Senior Reporter
Science Lab Director Ted Miller, affectionately
known as Mr. T by his students, works and plays
more than most.
He is on his second career, having taught at Hillsdale for ten years after a 30-year career at the Dow
Chemical Company, where he developed more than
20 patents. Along the way, he developed a passion
for cars, music, and teaching.
Miller grew up in Detroit, where his parents ensured he got a good education.
I grew up relatively poor, but I was able to go to
private school, because my parents scraped together
the money to send me, Miller said. After that, I
went to the University of Detroit.
Once he completed his masters program in physics, Miller applied for a job at Dow Chemical, where
he ran into a few problems.
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
Its October 2014, and Facebook is full of pictures featuring the hashtags #betterthanboardwalk, #InstaWigwam, and #boardwalkbabes >
#wigwamweirdos. Two groups of friends the
women of the Boardwalk and the men of the Wigwam decided to see who could have more fun
over fall break, documenting the competition via
Instagram and Facebook.
Sophomore Sam Clausen, who lives in the Simpson suite called The Wigwam, called the intense
back-and-forth a friendly competition.
For fall break most of the Boardwalk went down
to Cincinnati, and we decided to go with Spencer
to Frankenmuth, so we had a little friendly competition to see who was going to have more fun,
Instagram, because of course thats the best way.
When the Boardwalk and the Wigwam returned
to campus, they had dinner together and compared
their adventures.
It was kind of cool because we could talk about
What in the world were you guys doing when
Eric, Spencer, and Luke were wearing lederhosen
posing in front of a big German man, and what was
Elizabeth doing when she was falling out of a hammock, or something, Clausen said. Were pretty
good friends with all of the Boardwalk], we like to
be able to pick on them for things that they do in
a kind of brother-sister way, and they do the same
to us.
Junior Rebecca French of the Boardwalk tells
the story of how she and her freshman year roomStrickland and Eric Walker. Little did they know
that the friendship would grow into a huge community stemming from the off-campus Boardwalk
house and Simpson suite Wigwam.
It started freshman year when Elizabeth and I
became friends with Ben and Eric, French said.
Im not sure how that friendship really started,
its just grown a lot over the years. A lot of people
have been added on to it. Our group of friends, if
you will, is like 40 people, and theres no lines to
see what the core group of people. The Wigwam is
more than four people, and the Boardwalk is more
than 11 people.
Clausen, his roommate sophomore Luke Robstarted throwing what they call Wigwam Powows because they wanted a good way to invest in
the community of Hillsdale.
Last year, Garrett Holt, Spencer Bell, Ben, and
Eric had decided to be suitemates, and they got together and wanted to name their suite because of
the off-campus houses where people go and have
fun and name their houses, Clausen said. They
said, we want to be a place where people can go to
have fun, lets name it, so they called themselves
the Flagship. They threw parties mostly when Garrett was supposed to be on duty so he could still be
with lots of people. Those two guys left, so Luke
and I decided to be suitemates with Ben and Eric,
and we wanted to carry on that tradition of having
people over and making it a fun dorm room and a
dorm room you can actually go visit not just a place
where we sleep.
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An old-fashioned thesis
In her senior thesis, Yancey Courtney researches
a method to combat counterfeit bourbon
meets their needs, Baron said,
in addition to being interesting, creative, and original. Its
Senior Yancey Madison so much fun.
Courtney is a whiskey girl.
Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor
Kentucky and
bourbon go handin-hand.
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From Chargers
to Colts
Shane Armstrong
Collegian Reporter
The drive down West Carleton Road that leads
to the city of Hillsdale greets passersby with a sign:
Hillsdale, its the people.
That sign reminds Hillsdale Academy Assistant
Headmaster and Athletic Director Mike Roberts
of why he decided to settle in the city of his alma
mater where he has lived for more than 13 years.
Being a student athlete at Hillsdale was a great
experience in every way, Roberts said. I discovered Hillsdale because of sports and then came to
for me.
As a Charger, Roberts was a three-time All
and in the classroom.
At the time it was a goal for me to be an All
American. It wasnt something I thought was possible but it was something for me to shoot for and it
is something that I am still proud of, Roberts said.
During his time at Hillsdale, Roberts developed
a love for the town while discovering a passion for
teaching and administration. The rigor of Hillsdale
academics along with the time commitment of athletics equipped Roberts with essential skills to create a successful career in administration.
Since Roberts took over as athletic director at
the academy in 2002, the school has earned 45
Conference Championships, 12 District Championships, and nine Regional Championships. They
also had 25 student athletes who went on to compete in NCAA athletics.
I think all the time how being a student athlete
helped me, Roberts said. I had a full plate in college and that trained me to do my job. With education in general as well as administration, working
with people and my college experience made a
good segway into what I do now.
After he graduated in 1998, Roberts coached
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DEANCHIC
REBEKAH DELL
Describe your fashion sense.
Classic with a bit of a fun edge.
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
My worn out pair of jeans from high school.
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
Poor pattern mixing. There are so many ways to do it well!
What is your favorite item of clothing?
A dressy black jumpsuit from ASOS.
Who inspires your wardrobe?
Right now its Cameron Diaz and travel images from Italy and Morocco.
Photos by Hailey Morgan