“The whole situation is hor-rible,” said John Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program, speaking of the Detroit Chap-ter 9 bankruptcy. “And now it’s reckoning day.”

For the Detroit Institute of Arts, maybe not.

While the city of Detroit has to determine how it will address more than $18 billion of long-term debt, it appears that, for now, the DIA’s art collection is safe from liquidation to help pay the city’s $3.5 billion in pension obligations.

The DIA has been owned by the city of Detroit since 1919. The Detroit Institute of Arts Inc. is merely a not-for-profit entity that has managed the museum on behalf of the city since 1998.

The total collection is 66,000 pieces. However, most of the pieces acquired from 1919 to about 1940, when the city ex-panded the collection with direct public funding—rather than do-nations — were considered “up for grabs.” A little more than 2,700 works of art were acquired

at that time. The auction house, Christie’s, valued that slice of the collection between $454 and $867 million. The DIA has argued that it holds the art col-lection in charitable trust for the residents of Detroit and Michi-gan, and thus its collection can-not be sold.

Detroit’s creditors argued that the museum’s collection should be considered a city as-set and thus potentially used for paying off the city’s debt.

“If and when Chicago goes bankrupt, the Chicago Art Insti-tute will not be part of that equa-tion,” Miller said, “and that’s the way it should be.”

About $820 million over the next 20 years will keep the DIA’s collection from going to sale. Philanthropic foundations, including the Ford Foundation, have pledged $370 million to the cause. Gov. Rick Snyder and other Michigan political figures have proposed that the state promise $350 million for fund-ing Detroit’s pensions. The DIA itself has committed to raising $100 million over the next 20 years by donation to help con-tribute to the plan.

Professor of Political Econo-my Gary Wolfram was recently selected as Hillsdale Academy’s commencement speaker for the 2014 graduating class.

In June, Wolfram will join the ranks of the academy’s past com-mencement speakers, such as columnist Jonah Goldberg, his-torian Victor Hanson, Congress-man Tim Walberg, and College President Larry Arnn.

“It’s an honor to be the com-mencement speaker,” Wolfram said, “and it’ll be nice to speak with my son in the graduation class.”

Although Wolfram has not be-gun writing his speech, he wants to stress the importance of us-ing the education from Hillsdale Academy through college and beyond. He wants to remind the graduates to stick to their goals and remember what they learned throughout their lives. He also wants to warn them of what they will experience in college, send-ing them from their graduation with a final piece of advice.

“I plan to talk about what they need to maintain from their cur-rent education as they move on to college,” Wolfram said. “Most of the academy kids are going into college, and I want to give them a little bit of a sense of what col-

lege is going to be like.”Wolfram is no stranger to pub-

lic speaking. He has delivered keynote speeches for organiza-tions such as The Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley and rou-tinely speaks at college events.

“I hope that Dr. Wolfram will send our graduates into the world with a word of encouragement and a charge to uphold the prin-ciples of Constitutional govern-ment,” Academy Headmaster Kenneth Calvert said.

Wolfram has a long history with the academy. Mary Wol-fram, head of economic develop-ment for the city of Hillsdale and Gary Wolfram’s wife, worked as Hillsdale Academy’s 7th grade

teacher for 10 years. The Wol-frams have sent three children to the academy, including Liam Wolfram, who is a graduating se-nior this year.

“In addition to the family con-nection is the fact that Dr. Wol-fram is well-known across the nation for his work in support of limited government and free markets,” Calvert said. “Hills-dale Academy, as a department of Hillsdale College, is keen to endorse these principles in its commencement ceremony.”

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President’s Ball arrives

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Senior Alex Anderson works on his handmade Oscar statue in the basement of Sigma Chi fraternity. The theme for this year’s President’s Ball is the Academy Awards. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Every February, President Larry Arnn receives a formal in-vitation to a ball in his honor.

On the evening of the event, he hosts five men and five women at his home who have been inter-viewed by a panel of faculty to determine Hillsdale’s next Presi-dent’s Ball court. After the group arrives to the ball, Arnn crowns the king and queen. This has been the President’s Ball ceremony since the beginning.

Although Arnn is not on the panel that determines the Presi-dent’s Ball court, his wife, Penny Arnn, has a seat.

The spotlight this year, how-ever, is not only reserved for the 10 court members, but for every student who attends the red car-pet event.

The Academy Awards theme for this year’s President’s Ball is “further than we’ve ever gone with a theme” according to Stu-dent Activities Board Director senior Haley Johnson.

In addition to a hired photog-rapher who will capture student poses on a red carpet, a television host, senior Alex Anderson, will

engage in red carpet interviews with student celebrities.

“This is a theme where we can go very big,” Johnson said. “It’s very interactive.”

The Student Activities Board began planning the President’s Ball upon its return from Christ-mas break. After a theme was pinned down, the team broke into groups to work on projects. The largest project, in terms of physical size, is a nine-foot paper maché statue in the shape of an Oscar.

The President’s Ball boasts the largest SAB event budget of $10,000, after Centralhallapaloo-za. The bulk of the cost is divided among food, decorations, and the band.

“The Oscar statue was com-pletely handmade,” SAB as-sistant and sophomore Corinne Wiggins said. “We have a lot of gold decorations, and we plan on putting up a Hollywood sign. We want to bring the venue to life.”

A new competition that aligns with the Academy Awards theme was introduced to students this week. Students may create and submit a 30-second movie trailer by Feb. 21. On the night of the ball, the winning submission will

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This May, the college will be-gin building the Searle Center.

This new construction will expand both Curtiss Memorial Dining Hall and Phillips Audi-torium while improving the look of the building. This will create space for large campus events and update a complex that has been in place since the 1950s.

“We have been planning to do this, and we have had a very gen-erous donor gift,” Chief Admin-istrative Officer Rich Péwé said.

The construction will take place in two phases. The first phase, beginning in May, will fo-cus on the expansion and renova-tion of Curtiss and its lobby, giv-ing more than 800 people room to dine. The second step will add on to Phillips, but no date has been set, as the college is still raising money.

The plans were announced at the Rebirth of Liberty and Learn-ing Campaign in October 2013. In order to increase the size and improve functionalty, crews will remove the roof of Curtiss, re-placing it with a higher, more acoustically-effective ceiling

with new lighting fixtures for the larger space. The floors and other furnishings will also change.

Along with the renovations to the dining area, the lobby will undergo some serious changes.

“We’ll take the existing lobby and blow the roof off that, put an escalator in, an elevator, and stairs that go down to the left,” Péwé said. “That lobby will ex-tend out almost to the road, and there will be a porte-cochère for dropping off stuff. The idea is to make an easy flow between the dining space and the expanded Phillips.”

Likewise, Phillips will al-most double in size, reaching to the road with a rebuilt roof and balcony and approximately 800 or more new seats in the audito-rium.

The current building has a long, complex history. After World War II, changes in higher education across the country left Hillsdale in dire economic straits. While the college’s en-dowment fell, students began to demand new buildings to replace the aging, 19th-century structures still in daily use. The college’s Board of Trustees be-gan aggressively campaigning for alumni and other benefac-

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What would you do for $3,000?

This semester, 16 students competed for the 14th Annual Edward Everett Prize for Orato-ry. This year’s topic is “Privacy and Surveillance: The Costs to Our Free Republic.”

First place will receive $3,000. The second and third-place finalists will receive $2,000 and $1,000, respec-tively.

Though the contest was open to any student on campus in good standing, only five (plus two alternates), survived the preliminary judging round, in which contestants delivered a memorized speech based on the manuscript they submitted. The finalists were junior Dylan Hoover, sophomore Shaun Lichti, senior Chris Landers, freshman Keyona Shabazz, and senior Melika Willoughby.

Despite the potential reward, only about 16 students compete each year, according to Profes-sor of Speech Kirstin Kiledal.

“Sixteen is within our norm, maybe a little bit below range,” she said.

Two preliminary rounds of judging, with two judges per section, narrowed down the field to its finalists, who now must give essentially the same speech before an entirely dif-ferent panel of judges on March 4. Any changes must be strictly technical, dealing with issues such as length and timing, and approved by Kiledal.

“Changes to speeches have to be made with my knowledge and permission,” she said.

As the finalists, most of

whom come from speech back-grounds, await this last compe-tition, they are trying to refine their arguments and speeches as much as they can.

Willoughby, new to the com-petition on a last-chance urging from her parents, said she will try to focus on the audience, and stress speech flow.

“The biggest question for me is, ‘Who is my audience?’ Speaking, properly done, is a service to the audience,” she said. “I’m not married to my script. I’ll say what naturally flows.”

She’s also not afraid of the competition.

“I’m a novice facing a lot of veterans. But it’s still anyone’s

game,” she said.Lichti chose to focus on the

nuances in the topic, which has been in the news since last year’s revelations about the ex-tent of National Security Agen-cy programs.

“It’s nice to have a broad prompt, because it ensures vari-ety, even if people are ideologi-cally similar,” he said. “The is-sue of government surveillance doesn’t really have a partisan divide. It’s a little bit more nu-anced.”

Hoover, a competition vet-eran, has focused on telling a story, and practicing delivery.

“I wanted to do something no other competitor would do: tell a story about all the ways I’ve

been monitored and recorded,” he said. “It has to sound really natural. So I stand up and prac-tice the speech a bajillion times. Anybody can write a speech.”

Lichti and Hoover’s status as finalists has an added wrinkle, however: Hoover is Lichti’s big brother in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, which adds several more dimensions to the nature of the competition.

“I’ll be proud of Dylan when he gets second,” said Lichti.

But Hoover disagreed.“He’s delusional,” he said.

“But I’m really excited to be competing against him. There will be a real sense of camara-derie — and competition.”

The Hillsdale College Fire-arms Club has exploded in the last year.

Due to the work of presi-dent and junior Chelsea Bratten, vice president and senior Matt Eltringham, and secretary and sophomore Matt Little, the club has become a rapidly growing group.

The previous presi-dent, alumnus Blake Scott, couldn’t expand the club because he had to divide his time be-tween the firearms club and the time-consuming shotgun team, Eltring-ham said.

But in the spring of 2013, the club underwent a restructuring, Bratten said.

“We would like to give people the opportunity to learn about firearms and issues pertaining to the second amendment,” Bratten said.

Eltringham said their goals for the club are to bring speakers on cam-pus, expand range hours, and get college students involved with ranges off campus.

Professor of Politics Ronald Pestritto will be giving a talk on concealed carry on Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in Lane 124. Little said he is also working to bring National Rifle Association commentator Billy Johnson to campus.

“He has a fact and analysis

style that I think Hillsdale stu-dents would appreciate,” Little said.

Eltringham is working on get-ting another NRA speaker from the legislative branch to talk about the gun debate in America and the issues our generation is facing.

Little explained they are hav-ing trouble confirming speakers

from the NRA because the of-fices have been closed frequently for snow, but they hope to have one speaker in March and one in April.

“Most Hillsdale students are pro-gun, but we want to arm them with the facts so that they

can discuss the issues confidently with anyone,” Little said.

Eltringham is also working with local ranges, including the Hillsdale Rifle Club, the Tri-County Sportsmen’s League, and the Brooklyn Sportsmans Club to get student memberships.

“They are incredibly welcom-ing and love to have us,” Little said. “And we are lucky to be

there.”A few members go to the rifle

club each Saturday to compete at its falling plate shoots.

Bratten said it isn’t necessary to be a member of the college club or the local rifle club to at-tend the meets.

“As long as you are safe with a gun and can get equipment, you can go,” she said.

Members of both clubs are willing to help people get equip-ment.

“Last week Matt Little won first in two divisions with bor-rowed guns,” Bratten said.

Bratten said while it is a com-petition, the atmosphere is relaxed and shooters can go as slowly as they feel they need to.

“You don’t need a competitive mindset,” she said.

When the weather gets warmer, the college range will be open to members on Thursday afternoons.

Eltringham worked with rangemaster Bart-ley Spieth to expand the hours and lower club dues. Rather than pay-ing a large flat fee for the whole semester, members now pay $28 for the se-mester and pay per day they shoot.

“We wanted to accom-modate people that can’t shoot as much, so they feel like they are getting their money’s worth,” El-tringham said.

The club is growing faster than the resources are able to, Eltringham said, but they plan to continue working to improve the club.

“We are open to hearing sug-gestions for topics and for the club,” Bratten said.

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Junior Eric Hodgdon shoots at last semester’s Constitution Day shoot. The Firearms Club is working with local ranges to offer opportunities to college students. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Augustine Institute Professor of Theology Edward Sri gave lectures on the Virgin Mary and Christian relation-ships on Feb. 13. (Courtesy of Aaron Petersen)

College President Larry Arnn and senior Jonathan Lewis pose at last year’s Edward Ev-erett Oratory Competition. Lewis was the 2013 winner. (Courtesy of External Affairs)

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Q&A: Edward SriEdward Sri is a professor of

theology and vice president of missions and outreach at the Au-gustine Institute in Denver, Colo. Sri teaches classes on scripture, salvation history, moral theol-ogy, and spiritual theology. He has written several books, in-cluding “Men, Women and the Mystery of Love” and “A Bibli-cal Walk Through the Mass.” Last Thursday, Sri gave two lec-tures at Hillsdale College: one on Mary and one on Christian relationships. Compiled by Mor-gan Delp.

What was your faith like growing up?

I was raised Catholic and have always been involved in my faith, but it certainly grew when I was in college. I went to a big secular school, Indiana Universi-ty, and my faith was challenged there, in the classroom and out-side the classroom. In that period of having to answer people’s questions about why we trust the Bible and why we have to follow this moral law, I was challenged to dig deeper and study and un-

derstand my faith better so that I could, first of all, understand it better, but also defend it to oth-ers.

What do you tell young peo-ple when they ask you about the application of your lectures and books to their real lives?

I am always asked personal questions about their lives, be-cause I think what the Scriptures and John Paul II offer us does strike a chord with our own ex-perience, and we’re looking to ask, “Ok, now how do I apply this more to my life?” I would just go back to the difference be-tween that more self-giving love and self-getting love. Asking, “Do I look at my relationships, romantic relationships espe-cially, more on an inward level? What do I get out of it? What’s in it for me?” That’s not a mature love, and not one that’s going to last the test of time. A fuller love is one that imitates Christ and fo-cuses on what’s best for the other person. It’s one that’s looking outward, seeking the good of the other person.

As a father of six (almost

seven), you will be celebrating 15 years of marriage to your wife this summer. How did you meet your wife?

My wife was the first woman FOCUS [Fellowship of Catholic University Students] mission-ary, so I had known her before, but we fell in love through our common work at FOCUS. It was great, because looking back, it’s very much like we were talking about, working side by side to-ward a mission of evangeliza-tion and sharing the gospel, and I think that experience formed a lot of good relations for us. Hopefully, we are raising our kids in the Gospel as well.

What’s your opinion on popular self-help books about dating and relationships?

I’m sure many people from a kind of secular perspective may pick up on good insights into how to build relationships well. But often times they focus a lot on self, even that phrase “self-help” makes the focus on me, and what’s important is to try to build a love that gets out of ourselves. Jesus is the model for

what true love is. He gave His life for us, and he didn’t get any-thing out of it. It’s total sacrifice. And I don’t see that most of the popular self-help books out of Barnes & Noble do anything in that direction, at least not a lot. You’re only going to find happi-ness when you live in imitation of Christ.

Would you consider Pope John Paul II, whom you speak a lot about, a role model of yours?

He would certainly be one of them. He was the pope through most of my life and certainly during my days of graduate school when I was studying theology. He’s offered us in his book, “Love and Responsibil-ity,” and in his series of address-es, the “Theology of the Body,” some profound insight into what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, and the mix between men and women. I find it so helpful for young peo-ple to build strong relationships today in our dating and in our marriage. The world needs that today.

EVERETT COMPETITION ADVANCESMackinac offers Hillsdale scholarship

Firearms club expands operation

A new scholarship endow-ment will allow one Hillsdale student each year to intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Mich.

The Teresa L. Olson Schol-arship Endowment is funded by D. Joseph Olson, a founding board member of the Macki-nac Center, in honor of his late wife, Teresa.

“The Mackinac Center is the premier state policy think tank in the country without a doubt,” said Gary Wolfram, professor of political economy at Hillsdale and a member of the Mackinac Center board of scholars.

Wolfram said the internship will be important for the Hill-sdale economics and political economy students who receive the scholarship.

“It’ll give students the op-portunity to take a look at how think tanks work and how they can be used as a venue to affect public policy,” Wolfram said. “The Mackinac Center has an enormous effect on the public policy debate in the state leg-islature, and to be able to be at the center of that is a big oppor-tunity.”

The process for selecting yearly internship recipients is still being planned but will in-volve input from both Hillsdale faculty and Mackinac Center representatives.

According to Mackinac Cen-ter Media Relations Manager Ted O’Neil, the summer intern-ship will vary depending on what each intern’s interests are and what the center’s needs are.

“Different interns are as-

signed to work with various policy directors, whether it’s in fiscal policy or labor or educa-tion,” O’Neil said. “They help the policy directors work, doing research and writing about pub-lic policy issues, depending on what that specific policy direc-tor is doing at the time.”

Over the course of the sum-mer, students will also be ex-posed to a range of economic ideas and topics.

“We also have kind of a unique program,” O’Neil said. “Once a week, we have what is called Intern University, which is held over the lunch hour. All the interns gather and someone, whether one of the policy di-rectors or the president of the Mackinac Center, will come in and give a talk about a particu-lar issue, generally involving public policy but also some-times the history of a particular issue of economics, free mar-kets, liberty, things like that.”

Interns will also learn about Teresa Olson and her accom-plishments, including her back-ground in insurance and her dedication to free-market ideals and interest in public policy.

Olson has long been a friend of the college, and he and Te-resa had a personal connection with Hillsdale through Wol-fram. The couple’s particular interest in Hillsdale students led to the creation of the schol-arship.

“The Mackinac Center in any given summer will have maybe 10 or 12 interns, and it always seems like we have two or three from Hillsdale because the philosophy is so similar,” O’Neil said.

The campus ice rink is now open to novices and skill-ful skaters alike after a half-month-long delay.

The ice rink has been do-ing very well since its first day of operation last Friday, ac-cording to Cody Eldredge, co-director of campus health and recreation.

“It’s up and good and kick-ing butt,” he said.

Open from dawn until dusk, the rink will be accessible until spring break or later, if weather permits.

“It’s quite relieving to have it up and running,” said Direc-tor of Student Activities Aman-da Bigney. “We are happy to provide it for the students.”

Students can get ice skates with a student ID at the Grew-cock Student Union’s front desk, and other equipment for broomball and hockey is avail-able in the Student Activities Office.

The ice rink was originally destined to open at the start of the semester as in previous years. However, its creation was postponed due to difficul-ties pinning down someone to fill the rink with water.

Although the rink was scheduled to be filled two weeks ago, the Hillsdale Rural Fire Department had to respond to an emergency and was not able to finish the job.

“They came and filled it part of the way before they had to

go,” senior Jessica Youngstrom said. Eventually, the Hillsdale Fire Department was called instead and the rink was com-pleted on Feb. 2.

Before the water-filling stage, the rink needed to be assembled and prepared. The Campus Health and Recreation Office, comprised of Young-strom, Eldredge, and junior Jeff Meyers, manages the funding, construction, maintenance and removal of the ice rink with the help of volunteers.

Eldredge is primarily in charge of managing the rink, but he needed extra assistance to prepare it before the fire de-partment could fill it. “It’s not a one-person job,” Eldredge said.

Formerly stationed in the quad, the rink is now located off Hillsdale Street across from Broadlawn.

Although the rink had been stationed on the quad for less than a decade, the ground sur-face needed a break from years of continuous use. Bigney said the new location was chosen as an easily accessible site for stu-dents hoping to enjoy the win-ter activity.

Hayden Park had also been considered, but it was ruled out since it would be more difficult for students to walk there in the wintry weather.

“We didn’t want students trekking down there with skates,” Bigney said.

Ice rink opens

Barbara and has taught at Hills-dale for more than a decade. He

is the author of “A Capitalist Manifesto: Understanding the Market Economy and Defending Liberty.”

“We have a strong graduat-ing class. These seniors have helped to keep Hillsdale Acad-

emy ranked among the top high schools in Michigan,” Calvert said.

The majority of the graduat-ing class will attend Hillsdale College.

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The archival rendering of the Knorr Student Center and Dow Center Hotel (top left) and the rendering of the renovat-ed Searle Center (top right) revealed at the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Campaign Gala. Below, students enjoy the snack bar after the construction of the old union. The planned lobby of the Searle Center is shown in the bottom right. (Courtesy of Rich Péwé and Mossey Library)

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NewsIn the article “Admissions adds

ambassadors to replace outgo-ing seniors,” a graphic listed 31 returning ambassadors. In reality, 34 student ambassadors will be returning in the fall semester.

In the article “Student union floods again,” Dave Billington was incorrectly listed as superinten-dent of custodial services. Billing-ton’s actual title is supervisor of maintenance.

SpotlightIn the article “Graduate Mus-

ings,” a picture identified as Con-nor Hamilton was actually of Con-nor Lund. Furthermore, the quote attributed to him was not said by him.

In “Campus Chic,” the name Calvin Klein was incorrectly spelled.

SportsIn the article “4 x 4 breaks

school record,” freshman Grayson Thomas’ name was written incor-rectly.

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outstanDing senior man anD woman nominees

anthony manno:After graduation: I will be moving to Mijas,

Spain to take part in a program called the G42 Leadership Academy.

Major: I am double-majoring in financial management and Spanish.

Intellectual influences: C.S. Lewis and Pastor Tim Keller of Redeemer Church in New York City

Favorite class: Readings in Leadership and Power by Dr. Blackstock

Favorite band/genre: Lana del Rey and Florida Georgia Line

Viktor rozsa:After graduation: Doctorate in molecular

engineeringMajor: PhysicsFavorite prof.: Dr. MurphyIntellectual influences: Johannes Kepler,

C.S. Lewis, Albert CamusFavorite band: Gregory Alan Isakov

traVis Cook:After graduation: I will begin full-time

employment as an auditor with Plante Moran (a large regional accounting firm) in August.

Major: I am an accounting major. No frills, I’m just a number-cruncher.

Intellectual influences: C.S. Lewis, Diet-rich Bonhoeffer, and John Wooden

Favorite class: Dr. Blackstock’s Read-ings in Power, Leadership, and Responsibility receives my top pick

Favorite band/genre:Thousand Foot Krutch

mary Proffit kimmel:After graduation: Hoping to teach, go into

marketing, or in publishing and editingFavorite prof: Dr. Smith or Bart. I really

like that whole hall in Delp: Smith, Bart, and Sundahl

Intellectual influences: G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas, Flannery O’Connor

Favorite band/genre: My favorite genre is country. That’s easy.

JessiCa youngstrom:After graduation: Three months on a

volunteer hospital ship in Africa, called Mercy Ships. Then med school after!

Favorite prof: Dr. ClineIntellectual influences: Oswald Chambers

(author of “My Utmost for His Highest”), Bruce Perry (author of “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog”), and Chris and Sarah Conley, a couple I met at the most recent CCA who have significantly enriched my life.

Favorite band/genre: Iron and Wine

graCemarie lamBert:After graduation: Getting married! Waiting

to see where her fiancé goes. Going to grad school for a masters in English

Favorite profs: Dr. Jackson, Dr. Smith, Dr. Somerville

Intellectual influences: Mom, Dr. Gamble, and Marilyn Robinson

Favorite band/genre: Bluegrass

be revealed and receive a prize.Erring on the side of tradition,

inviting the Jerry Ross band from metro Detroit ensures a lively dancing atmosphere for students and the band. Booking the band is the first order of business before the planning season of the Presi-dent’s Ball, as Arnn often requests that the band return every year.

“The band loves playing there, because the students can really dance to all of the music that the band plays,” band leader Jerry Ross said. “It seems whether we play a

swing tune, a modern tune, or a cha-cha, they all dance. It looks like they’ve been taking dance lessons.”

The 11-person band has ro-tated members for the past 15 years. Some are only seasoned a few months, others have stayed with the band since the beginning. Because of the the band’s success,

Ross was pushed by demand to open an entertainment agency that now has a 12-person staff. It is general consensus among Ross and his band that Hillsdale Col-lege is one of the most lively ven-ues they visit.

“It’s one of the most energet-ic parties of the year,” co-band leader and saxophonist Levi Jen-sen said. “More people dance to the band than most of the parties where we play.”

tors to support the school.By the late 1950s, the col-

lege was ready to build. Koon Residence was completed in 1958, and plans for a large dining hall/student union/conference center were under consideration by the Board of Trustees. The groundbreaking ceremony for Curtiss Memori-al Dining Hall, the first build-ing constructed, took place at Homecoming of the same year.

Alden Dow Associates, the architectural firm of Al-den B. Dow, student of Frank Lloyd Wright and son of Her-bert Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich., designed the building and the subsequent adjoining student union and conference center.

Saga Inc. moved to the new building from East Hall in the spring of 1959, and a dedica-tion was held as part of that year’s commencement cer-emonies.

In the years following the war, campus resumed normal operation. As students re-turned, they began to demand a recreational facility, tired of having to go to off-campus restaurants to be social with classmates. The administra-tion responded by renovating the almost-defunct Dicker-son Gymnasium, which had fallen out of regular use after the new fieldhouse (later ex-panded several times into the Roche Sports Complex) was constructed in 1928.

The barn-like Dickerson Union was very popular with students, with space for danc-ing, lounging, a snack bar, a soda fountain, a new pool ta-ble, and television tearing stu-dents from their books. It was always a temporary solution, though, and by the late 1950s students were clamoring for a more up-to-date facility.

The Knorr Student Center was built in 1963 after exten-sive student fundraising and petitioning. Students visited other schools around the area with modern student unions and were frustrated for years by financial difficulties keep-

ing any plans from moving forward.

Eventually, the family of the late Fred Knorr, donated $27,628 toward the fund. Knorr had graduated from Hillsdale in 1937 and died in December 1960. Knorr was part owner of the Detroit Ti-gers, and the newly founded Knorr Foundation received half of the proceeds from a memorial Detroit Tigers–Los Angeles Angels ballgame. These funds, along with a vig-orous fund-raising campaign by the students and a loan, were enough to construct the new building.

College President Donald Phillips presented a new plan for expansion to the Board of Trustees in 1960. The slogan “Preparation for Leadership through Learning and Expe-rience” pervaded the Phillips era, and, as the college slow-ly came out of the financial straits in which the preceding decades had left it, new plans for campus improvements were possible.

Phillips proposed a leader-ship development center as the next step in the college’s mission.

In 1961, the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation of Midland, Mich., donated $1 million for the construction of the center. Ground was broken in 1963, and construction was complete in August 1964.

The Dow Center has served the college for 50 years, host-ing visitors and conferences to further the mission of the college. With the introduction of the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Campaign, the col-lege has raised funds to bring the center a new life.

“What you saw at the gala was the Searle Center, which is the Curtiss–Phillips plan, and that is still in the works,” Péwé said. “We’re working on documents that will make us ready for construction.”

Three first-year members of Hillsdale’s forensics team won awards at a tournament without even leaving campus.

On Feb. 8 and 9, Hillsdale hosted a statewide novice tourna-ment for the Michigan Intercolle-giate Speech League. Freshman Keyona Shabazz won first place in extemporaneous, and fresh-man Erin Graham took first in both poetry and impromptu.

Junior Anna Wunderlich won third place in impromptu and in-formative.

“It’s really encouraging to know that there are up-and-com-ing novices, who will be able to come up and take the reins when we’re gone,” said junior and team captain Brandon Butz.

Hillsdale’s forensics team worked with friends and repre-

sentatives from the statewide organization to make the tourna-ment a success.

“It’s a lot of work, but we’re part of a state organization, and by volunteering to do it, it’s a form of service to the schools in the league,” said Matthew War-ner, assistant director of forensics and debate.

Members of the team helped prepare trophies, ballots for judges, and welcome packets for competitors. They also set up the tournament so everyone always knew where to go for the next event.

They also wrote questions for the impromptu and extemporane-ous events, in which competitors have a limited time to prepare a speech on a question they have never seen before.

But Butz said the hard part came during the tournament. The tabulation room is where the administrators calculate results

and prepare for the next rounds. The director of MISL decided to compress the tournament due to weather.

“It was a monumental task, but we condensed it and got it done,” Butz said. “The tab room was a constant flurry all day.”

Warner said one of his friends from Central Michigan Universi-ty and the Director of Individual Events for the state league helped to run the tab room.

“On the front end, everything looks fine,” Warner said. “A lot of times people have no idea that there’s a team of people pulling their hair out and banging their heads on tables and getting into arguments trying to solve prob-lems.”

On Saturday, the speech team will travel to a tournament at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The debate team will compete at the same tournament.

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I need to apologize for my last col-umn. It was sophomoric and ungrate-ful, a mock-ery of many things I hold dear. I failed to communi-cate my deep appreciation for the ethos of the South.

It is true that, when my fami-ly visited Hills-

dale’s campus, we advised our student ambassador not to rave too much about the statue of a Union soldier. But Southerners are more than just bigots who are bitter about the past. We possess a culture of respect for tradition and especially for our elders that I did not quite exemplify in my last article.

My grandmother is one of the dearest people in the world to me. When I left for college, she almost cried, and that was the only moment I regretted my decision. Mimi lives in a

beautiful house built in the 1950s but made to look like it was built in the 1850s: red brick with white columns and a grand staircase. It has a large lawn which slopes down to the bayou (don’t ask me to distinguish a bay-ou from a bay or an inlet), two Bradford pear trees, and one big old Magnolia we used to climb as children. We only stopped climbing when the branches began breaking under our weight.

My brother Winston and I used to play in Mimi’s attic. I was squeamish about the rat poison and dead cockroaches, but these indelicacies didn’t faze Winston. I would always play the piano (“It’s a parlor grand, not a baby grand,” Mimi informed me), especially during the Christmas holidays, until my family would scold me for making it difficult to hear the news or watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

My grandmother’s house reminds me of phenomenal hors d’oeuvres: cream cheese and pepper jelly on crackers, crab claws with cocktail sauce, cheese straws, not to mention a full open bar back in the kitchen. I had to make two batches of eggnog for my extended family over Christmas break: in-gredients include sherry, rum, bourbon, half and half, heavy whipping cream, and a dozen eggs.

But the South is more than just entertaining, cooking, and garden clubs. It has a deep, reverential respect for the home and the family. We often have four generations represented at a holiday like Fourth of July or Christmas. From the great-grandchildren to my mother and aunts, we all view Mimi with awe and love: love for her humor (She recently criticized the Tea Party Movement for being “tacky.”) and awe at her endur-ance. This woman has seen the Great Depression. She drank champagne with my grandfather in New Orleans on V - J Day. She was a nurse (lab technician, my mother corrected me) who married my grandfather, the doctor. She is a woman who has suffered much and who never liked any of her daughters’ or granddaughters’ suitors at their first visit, but her protec-tiveness springs from her fierce loyalty to her own.

Flannery O’Connor once said, “What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has ab-sorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human de-pendence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be endured.” My grandmother embodies this last principle. She takes her medicine every day, watches the oranges grow outside her window, and yells at Judge Judy when she comes on at four o’clock. And she waits for her grandchildren to call so she can tell them, “Now you know I don’t like talking on the phone,” which we all know means, “Whenever are you coming home to the South?”

From the Archives: Anonymous fliers ignite controversy

Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” to describe the galling normalcy of Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eich-mann. Covering his trial in Jeru-salem, she described Eichmann as less a cartoonish villain than a dull, remorseless, paper-pushing functionary just “doing his job.”

The phrase “banality of evil” was instantly controversial, largely because it was misun-derstood. Arendt was not try-ing to minimize Nazism’s evil, but to capture its enormity. The staggering moral horror of the Holocaust was that it made com-plicity “normal.” Liquidating the Jews was not just the stuff

of mobs and demagogues, but of bureaucracies and bureaucrats.

Now consider the stunted and ritualistic conversation (“contro-versy” is too vibrant a word for the mundane Internet chatter) about the Soviet Union sparked by the Winter Olympics. The humdrum shrugging at the over-whelming evil of Soviet Com-munism leaves me nostalgic for the Eichmann controversy. At least Arendt and her critics agreed that evil itself was in the dock; they merely haggled over the best words to put in the in-dictment.

What to say of the gormless press-agent twaddle conjured up to describe the Soviet Union? In its opening video for the Olym-pic Games, NBC’s producers drained the thesaurus of flatter-ing terms devoid of moral con-tent: “The empire that ascended to affirm a colossal footprint; the revolution that birthed one of modern history’s pivotal experi-ments. But if politics has long shaped our sense of who they are, it’s passion that endures.”

To parse this infomercial treacle is to miss the point, for the whole idea is to luge by the truth on the frictionless skids of euphemism.

In America, we constantly, almost obsessively, wrestle with the “legacy of slavery.” That speaks well of us. But what does it say that so few care that the Soviet Union was built -- liter-ally -- on the legacy of slavery? The founding fathers of the Russian Revolution -- Vladi-

mir Lenin and Leon Trotsky -- started “small,” merely throwing hundreds of thousands of people into kontslagerya (concentration camps).

By the time Western intellec-tuals and youthful folk singers like Pete Seeger were lavishing praise on the Soviet Union as the greatest experiment in the world, Joseph Stalin was corralling mil-lions of his own people into slav-ery. Not metaphorical slavery, but real slavery complete with systematized torture, rape and starvation. Watching the open-ing ceremonies of the Olympics, you’d have no idea that from the Moscow metro system to, literal-ly, the roads to Sochi, the Soviet Union -- the supposed epitome of modernity and “scientific social-ism” -- was built on a mountain of broken lives and unremem-bered corpses.

To read Anne Applebaum’s magisterial “Gulag: A History” is to subject yourself to relentless tales of unimaginable barbarity. A slave who falls in the snow is not helped up by his comrades but is instantly stripped of his clothes and left to die. His last words: “It’s so cold.”

Hava Volovich, a once-ob-scure newspaper editor turned slave laborer, has a baby, Eleono-ra, in captivity. Eleonora spends her first months in a room where “bedbugs poured down like sand from the ceiling and walls.” A year later, Eleonora is wasting away, starving in a cold ward at slave “mothers’ camp.” She begs her mother to take her back

“home” to that bedbug-infested hovel. Working all day in the forest to earn food rations, Hava manages to visit her child each night. Finally, Eleonora in her misery refuses even her mother’s embrace, wanting only to drift away in bed. Eleonora dies, hun-gry and cold, at 15 months. Her mother writes: “In giving birth to my only child, I committed the worst crime there is.”

Multiply these stories by a million. Ten million.

“To eat your own children is a barbarian act.” So read posters distributed by Soviet authorities in the Ukraine, where 6-8 million people were forcibly starved to death so that the socialist Stalin could sell every speck of grain to the West, including seed stock for the next year’s harvest and food for the farmers themselves. The posters were the Soviet re-sponse to the cannibalism they orchestrated.

If it is conventional wisdom that the Nazi Holocaust was worse than the Soviet Terror, you would at least think earning the silver in the Devil’s Olympics would earn something more than feckless wordsmithery and smug eye-rolling from journalists and intellectuals. Imagine if instead of Sochi these games were in Germany, and suppose the or-ganizers floated out the swastika while NBC talked of the “pivotal experiment” of Nazism. Imagine the controversy.

But when the hammer and sickle float by, there’s no outrage. There is only the evil of banality.

This past weekend, I went to D.C. to steal the Declaration of Independence for my Valentine’s gift.

While I was unsuccessful in that endeavor, I did attend the 7th annual International Students for Liberty Conference. Naturally, the first panel I attended dis-cussed drug policy. The modera-tor began by listing statistics in-cluding one that states 10 percent

of drug users have some kind of drug dependency.. I checked the number later and was astounded to find it backed up. This was no Obama State of the Union pro-paganda graph, this was cold hard fact. 90 percent of drug users had no de-pendency issue.

I was struck. I have been

trained my en-tire life through school, drug prevention pro-grams, and my parents to always view drugs nega-tively. They’re the gateway to living in a van down by the river, or worse, in a prison cell. Society as a whole, and especially Hillsdale, has given drug use only one label: life-ruiners. They always ruin people’s lives.

I’m not advocating for drug use in this column, but I do feel strongly about knowing the facts about drug use in America in order to better help those who

suffer from their ill-effects. I’ve only ever heard how people who use drugs all must be suffering from deep psychological issues and turn to drugs as a result. I

would imagine those people fall into the 10 percent. We as a society and a campus rue the thought of a grow-ing drug culture in any form. We joke about drugs, but we don’t actually do drugs, right guys?

All of this com-par tmen ta l i z ing drug perceptions and controlling how the public and Hillsdale students view drugs could have an awful ef-

fect on how we as individuals help those 90 percent who may be at risk of developing depen-dency issues.

As a society, we’ve focused on demonizing and belittling drug users for habits we can’t compre-hend because we don’t partici-pate in them. Even worse, when users become dependent and af-fect others negatively, we put

them through the criminal justice system where prisons overcrowd and treatment facilities make money off court-appointed treat-ment for “offenders.”

We’ve put ourselves in a com-fortable state of denial with the criminalization of drugs which hinders efforts of individuals to seek real help when a hobby be-comes a life-altering habit. We need to get out of our comfort zone and face the facts. Drugs are in use everywhere. The long-standing solutions don’t work. It’s time to acknowledge this fact and move forward to help those who want to be helped before we lose them forever.

On the last day of my macro-economics class, my professor asked in his most serious tone if we knew someone, directly or in-directly, who could get drugs, of any kind. Every hand in the room was raised.

Drugs have pervaded all of so-ciety, so why do we continue to lie to ourselves about who uses and why? When we write off those 90 percent without depen-dency problems we run the risk of losing them forever if they ever slip into the 10 percent with dependency issues.

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Give parkinG a chanceThe opinion of The colleGian ediTorial sTaff

Two weeks ago, Hillsdale police ticketed every car parked on Manning Street. Most of the vehicles on this street belonged to students who wanted to park close to their classes in Lane and Kendall Halls. Though students only had to pay $10 for the tick-ets, this should be a message to the college that campus needs to make room for parking.

The college has some park-ing lots but not enough. This winter especially, we’ve all been frustrated by our inability to find open parking spots on the hill. For the student-drivers, the only convenient and legal spots are on Manning Street, which the city

of Hillsdale deems unavailable for parking when the snowplows are on duty. And don’t let the recent warmth fool you: this is Michigan, people. It will get cold again.

Off-campus students brave icy sidewalks and fight off frost-bite as they walk to class. For those with cars, driving makes a lot more sense. But there’s no-where for them to park near the classroom buildings.

Faculty complain about the lack of parking, too. For them, walking to class is usually not an option. Yet the faculty/staff park-ing lots generally fill up around 9 a.m. Anyone arriving after then

may not find anywhere to park.College administrators have

yet to state what they intend to do with the three houses on West Street they recently bought. Hill-sdale does not need more dorms – most upperclassmen want to live off-campus anyway. Instead, the college should flatten these hous-es and make them into a parking lot or even a garage (preferably in the neoclassical style).

Concrete structures and lots are ugly. But they would simpli-fy parking at Hillsdale. And with the college trying to expand its donor base and national reputa-tion, more parking lots couldn’t hurt. Also, with more parking,

security could focus on securing the campus and not on handing out parking tickets.

Hillsdale prides itself on be-ing attentive to student and fac-ulty needs: The deans are acces-sible, Dr. Arnn eats lunch in the dining hall, faculty have reduced class loads, Brock Lutz exists, and Saga provides gluten-free meal options. Parking is a prob-lem at every college. But we like to think we are better than most schools. Why not prove it with better parking?

Martha EkdahlStudent Columnist

Jonah GoldbergSyndicated Columnist

OLYMPIC COVERAGE SWEEPS SOVIET HORRORS UNDER THE RUG

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Let’s talk about drugs, baby

“People of America and Iraq, UNITE!” urged the April 15 is-sue of the Hillsdale Communist, an independent one-page pub-lication complete with discus-sion of political philosophy and a shadowed graphic of a sickle and hammer.

Less than one week later, the New Hillsdale Order surfaced — a publication similar in style and distribution. The newsletter advocated open dissent against dorm searches and visitation hours, citing the school’s West-ern and capitalist ideologies as

basis for their argument.No one has claimed responsi-

bility for either publication.[Provost Bob Blackstock said]

the school would only consider censoring underground papers if they were pornographic.

Adam Goldstein, a legal fel-low at the Student Press Law Center, said Hillsdale would be within its legal rights to censor any publication to any extent it chose.

Dave Frank, April 29, 2004

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An apology to Mimi

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Mary Proffit KimmelStudent Columnist

But Southerners are more than just bigots who are bitter about the past.

When we write off those 90 percent without dependency problems we run the risk of losing them forever if they ever slip into the 10 percent with dependency issues.

The Internet thinks we want to constantly feel bad for people. And warm and fuzzy. And good about humanity, and depressed, and in-trigued, and shocked, and full of self loathing, and blown away, all at the same time. We shouldn’t forget any-thing we see on the web.

Obviously, we can’t feasibly do that. So the Internet helps us feel all these feels and create these everlasting memories in quick succession. Catharsis or something, hashtag: thefeels?

At least, that’s what upwor-thy.com seems to think. Here are a few titles from this week:

“The Photos Facebook Doesn’t Want You To See Are A Whole Lot Better Than The Ones It Does.”

“ W h a t Happens To Some Kids When They Go Work In This F a m o u s Indus t ry Is Awful.”

“ T h i s Guy Was Shocked By The Amount of Food His College Cafeteria Threw Away. So He Did Something.”

“What It Means That An ‘Old Fat White Guy From Dallas’ Supports LGBTQ Folks.”

Upworthy’s motto is “Things that matter. Pass ’em on.” The people behind this website seem to believe that sentimental videos with hyper-bolic titles and self-righteous com-

mentary are the best way to be aware of the world’s many problems and those decent human beings who try to solve them. Unfortunately, Up-worthy is just one of many websites built on this error.

T h e idea be-h ind

Upworthy — sharing little slices of the human experience that deserve being shared — is admirable. It is comforting to know that there are people who love other people. It is convicting to be reminded of our own shortcomings.

But no matter what the hyperbolic headlines say, the Internet is not the forum for real compassion and ca-tharsis. No matter what Upworthy

shouts at you, a three-minute video will never move anyone beyond pity. Compassion calls for action, cathar-sis for a full range of human emo-tion. Watching a video and feeling

bad or good about it is nothing more

than a self-awarded gold star, a screen to hide from real life and leave real problems be-hind.

P e o p l e are looking to the Inter-net to realize their shared h u m a n i t y . Instead of in-teracting with real people, we watch vid-eos. Sites like Upworthy let us love the human race without loving human beings.

They let us feel plugged in despite

our isolation.To transcend that

loneliness, interact with real, live human beings.

Find and thank the kind people in your life. Become a

good person by doing good for your fellow man. Be a friend to someone who’s weird or different than you.

Most of all, remember that these things aren’t confined to three-min-ute clips of other people and other people’s lives.

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Why I will miss David Griffiths

I will miss David Griffiths when he retires at the end of the 2013-14 school year after serving 40 years as technical director of Hillsdale College’s Theater Department.

His love and devotion to the theater is admirable. He has directed many of my favorite Tower Players’ plays, including “The Importance of Being Ernest” in 2011.

Perhaps Griffiths’ best year was in 1992. In the spring semester, he directed “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try-ing” in Phillips Audi-torium. This musical comedy tells the story of a window washer of a business company who eventually be-comes chairman of the board of that company by reading the book “How to Succeed in Business Without Re-ally Trying.”

I saw the play on opening night. Everyone loved it, and word of mouth spread like wildfire. Tickets for the rest of the performances became as scarce as rain in the desert.

Four days after the play’s last per-formance, the Collegian reviewed it on the front cover of its Feb. 27 issue. The Collegian praised it, too.

“The theater may be a business, but this cast and crew’s obvious success came only through hard work and inge-nuity,” the newspaper said. “Let’s hope the Tower Players can continue to put out entertainment as likeable and well-

produced as ‘How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying.’”

In the fall semester of ’92, the the-ater moved into its new home, Markel Auditorium. The first play performed in the Black Box was “Shadowlands,” which tells the heartbreaking story of C.S. Lewis, the great Christian writer, who married late in life, only to lose his wife to cancer.

The play was “as likeable and well-pro-duced as ‘How to Suc-ceed in Business With-out Really Trying,’” if not more so.

“Excellent direc-tion by Professor David Griffiths and superb acting by several stu-dents made the play a huge hit with students, faculty, and community viewers,” said the Col-legian on Dec. 10, 1992. “All productions of the play sold out quickly, and if you didn’t see it, you missed a stunning show.”

Griffiths once told me that he believed the main purpose of a play

was to entertain. This belief has guided him to pick plays that Hillsdale College audiences have appreciated.

“Much Ado About Nothing,” which starts next Wednesday evening, is the last Tower Players’ play Griffiths will direct. One can be sure that it will be wonderfully entertaining, too.

Griffiths will go out on top.

Stephen Casai, known as “Saga Steve,” serves as customer service rep-resentative of the Knorr Family Dining Room.

Stephen CasaiSpecial to the Collegian

“Much Ado About Nothing,” which starts next Wednesday evening, is the last Tower Players’ play Griffiths will direct. One can be sure that it will be wonderfully entertaining, too.

Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor

This editorial will change how you look at editorials forever

During the last few days of my sum-mer before college, I read two books: Richard Brookiser’s “Founding Fa-ther” and Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics.” I was alarmed that I could only pronounce one of the titles.

I don’t remember anything about the assignment other than I don’t know why I needed to do it.

The Hillsdale administration should dismiss mandatory summer reading for incoming freshmen. The best insight that premature assignment provides freshmen is learning how to skimp on reading for class.

By the time Hillsdale freshmen return home for their first Christmas break, their minds are stuffed with Ar-istotle and ideals for a better America. The intellectual life at Hillsdale quick-ly inspires freshmen. But that is not a product of reading great books alone, much less mandatory freshman read-ing. Although good reading is essential to a Hillsdale education, it is not com-plete without instruction.

During their orientation, freshmen

are told that they are very trusting of Hillsdale for allowing the institution to form their minds. A large part of the process is based on the books that the students will read over the course of four years. After a quick acknowledge-ment that the freshmen have already read “Ethics,” the lectures move onto the importance of a liberal arts educa-tion, and the text remains unaddressed until the students are in a philosophy class.

There is nothing wrong with the in-tention behind assigned summer read-ing. The problem is that students do not know why they did the reading at all. Of course, that only follows the sigh of relief that there is not a test on George Washington’s ancestry during fresh-man orientation.

The two books successfully explain important ideals of the college. Lead-ership, integrity, and an Aristotelian understanding of beauty and truth are legitimate virtues any person ought to know.

But only after a semester of Hill-sdale classes do freshman begin to value the fragments of their summer reading that they vaguely remember. At the very least, each book deserves a lecture on why it applies to a Hillsdale

education during freshmen orientation.In addition to the obscure reason-

ing behind assigning these texts, sum-mer reading before college interrupts a wearisome transition time for incom-ing freshmen. The summer between high school and college marks an over-whelming lifestyle shift. Just ask every bawling mother who carries her son’s hamper and desk lamp to his dorm on move-in day. The fear of moving away from home does not need to join the fear of misunderstanding Greek phi-losophy.

“Ethics” and “Founding Father” did not ruin my last summer at home. If I wouldn’t have been anxious about reading, I would have been worrying about something else related to col-lege. I did get the chance to reread “Ethics.” My second time around made more sense and impacted me. Perhaps I needed a rough first try before a fruitful second reading.

But if the mandatory reading serves nothing more than a benchmark test, it is best to table the assignment and let high school seniors enjoy their last summer as young adults. Aristotle can wait a few more months.

Summer reading wastes timeBailey PritchettAssitant Editor

President Obama is about to issue an executive order raising the minimum wage of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. This is the most recent salvo in the War on Poverty that officially began 50 years ago. Obama will surely sign the Harkin-Miller bill, which rais-es the current wage of $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. His rhetoric in his State of the Union address is sympathetic: “Ameri-cans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.” But the minimum wage and the extensive wel-fare state have done frighteningly little to stop poverty.

In 1964 President Lyndon B. John-son launched what became known as the “War on Poverty.” Johnson aimed “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” America has been on pov-erty antibiotics for a generation, but it’s time to try the cure: a guaranteed mini-mum income (GMI).

The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-friendly research group, found that 16.4 percent of the US labor force would be directly affected by the Har-kin-Miller minimum wage increase. The argument for increasing wages is

that the real minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation. If inflation metrics are to be believed, this is a fair concern. But the fundamental belief behind Obama’s support for raising the minimum wage isn’t that certain numbers don’t match up. It’s compas-sion for working families who can’t put food on the table. As a good Democrat, he ought to be concerned: Poverty has clearly won the War.

Federal, state, and local govern-ment combined spent nearly $1 trillion on welfare in 2012, with the Obama administration increasing federal wel-fare expenditures by 41 percent. These jerry-rigged schemes have failed. The War on Poverty has only provided jobs for countless bureaucrats and estab-lished an alphabet soup of programs “run by four different cabinet depart-ments, including, strangely, the De-partment of Energy,” notes the Cato In-stitute’s Michael Tanner. He identified 126 programs that the federal govern-ment funds at the cost of $14,848 per American, per year.

A guaranteed minimum income, on the other hand, is just what it says: Each month the government would send out an $833 check ($10,000 annually) to every American citizen age 21 and above, regardless of employment sta-tus, income, or any other consideration. This figure is substantially less than the current number the government is indi-

rectly spending to combat poverty. The GMI would replace all current welfare programs. Medicare and Social Secu-rity would remain because they are not explicitly anti-poverty programs. The federal minimum wage would be phased out and eliminated over the next ten years.

This GMI is simpler and cheaper than the current byzantine bureaucracy. A single agency (or perhaps a special division at the IRS) could oversee it. It would allow the free-market system of prices and competition to operate more normally. Because the GMI is an un-conditional check, recipients are free to use it how they wish and can choose the goods and services that best suits their needs. States could eliminate their welfare programs and the associated tax burdens.

The GMI’s fairness and equality will appeal to Democrats and its sim-plicity and efficiency to Republicans and libertarians. Without raising taxes the GMI would raise the income of a four-person family on the minimum wage from $15,080 to $35,080 a year. Each adult in the family would be eli-gible to receive the GMI checks, and any income earned on top of the GMI is theirs to keep.

A guaranteed minimum income will do what no minimum wage can ever do: begin realizing LBJ’s dream of cur-ing and preventing poverty.

Minimum income solves what minimum wage can’t

Schuyler DugleSpecial to the Collegian

I'll be the first to admit that I use my time poorly. But when a quiz pops up in my Facebook feed and promises to tell me which American president is most like me, nothing short of death by flying ice cream truck is going to stay my hand.

I took the quiz. I posted my result: Thomas Jefferson.

Then my friends took the quiz and began complaining. Most were informed that their person-alities most closely corresponded with Barack Obama's. They were flabber-gasted.

So, what hap-pened? They an-swered as they ought.

In this particular quiz, the presidents were tagged with perceived traits such as “openness,” “ e x t r o v e r s i o n , ” “agreeableness,” and “conscientiousness.” Traits that many would consider signs of a well-socialized human being were most strongly associated with Obama's presidency.

I'm not particularly agreeable. I'm more than a little neurotic. I answered accordingly. Jefferson for me.

My less-maladjusted compatriots answered with an eye toward ideal behavior. They favored compassion, equity, altruism, openness. Obama for them.

Obama is often portrayed as an in-novator, a man equipped to transcend the petty struggles of contemporary politics: charismatic, idealistic, the face of the American zeitgeist.

The reality is that innovators are born and raised within the realm of the concrete, the extant; the world of particularity. The greatness they embody is peculiar to their time and place. You can have no innovation without a standard, no deviation with-out a norm.

What polemicists on both sides of the political sphere fail to acknowl-edge is that Obama is not transcend-ing or altering American culture. He has merely made manifest what has been lying dormant for decades. Pre-

suppositions that no one cares to talk about or thinks to question are, in many ways, brought to fruition in his presidency.

His father, a moral and intellectual vagrant, was not present during his childhood. His agnostic mother ex-posed him to myriad belief systems as a child. He was raised in an envi-ronment of sexual and ideological liberation and educated among those who marched in the name of cultural

enlightenment. He is the product of our self-effacing society, born of our moraliz-ing pluralism.

Today's politi-cal hierarchy is not determined by how well you think or how effective your policies happen to be. You are evaluated by your conformity or nonconformity to a set of cultural ex-pectations fostered by a long train of ide-ological abuses and usurpations. Obama is its apotheosis.

Edmund Burke once said that the only thing necessary

for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Allow me to submit a corollary: the only thing necessary for the corruption of our representative government is that the people become complacent.

Obama’s presidency indicates that the people have indeed become apa-thetic. Wielding little more than cha-risma and appealing ideological rhet-oric, he won the support of a majority of the nation. We would apparently rather resign ourselves to convenient platitudes than risk being ostracized for the sake of integrity.

With the privileges of a free gov-ernment come requisite obligations. Freedom will not long be maintained where we refuse to act on its behalf. Justice cannot be maintained if we unthinkingly accept the presupposi-tions of our culture. The stability of convention, though comfortable, must be abandoned once the precedents by which it is justified are disproven.

American culture can only be re-claimed if we challenge the long-standing premises of public conversa-tion. Question the prevalent rhetoric. Test the boundaries of propriety. Find the truth, not the norm.

Obama is not transcending or altering American culture. He has merely made manifest what has been lying dormant for decades.

Question our Obamified cultural norms

Sarah AlbersSpecial to the Collegian

First in a series.

The Hillsdale City Coun-cil with help from community members, created a list of 24 road-funding options. The po-tential solutions include ways to cut waste in the budget, priva-tize city-run projects, and gen-erate revenue, such as the in-come tax.

All ideas are included on the list, regardless of their viability. City Manager Linda Brown said some, like selling roads, may be illegal and will need to be ap-proved by the City Attorney.

Although some options are unpopular, city council hasn’t discounted anything yet because the money is greatly needed.

Unlike county roads which cost between $500,000-$600,000, city roads cost almost twice as much.

“For us to do one mile, it’s a million dollars,” Brown said. “That’s because we have curb, we have gutter, we have storm water, we have sanitary and wa-ter mains, and all those things that run under the street. When you have to replace all of that, it’s extremely expensive.”

One method city leadership has discussed is grant money, but Brown says only six streets are eligible for this funding.

“We’ve tapped into every op-portunity for grant money, but it’s so restricted,” Brown said. “Because we have what’s called a small, urban boundary, and unless that street connects to that boundary, it’s not eligible for funding.”

Once council agrees on a plan, the city will move forward with budgeting and road work

using the guidance of a Pave-ment Surface Evaluation Rating completed in June 2013.

The PASER study evaluated the 60.899 miles of Hillsdale streets on a scale of 1-10, with 1 meaning “total reconstruc-tion” and streets ranked an 8, 9, or 10 having “no maintenance required.”

More than 37 miles of Hill-sdale streets ranked as a 4 or below, and excluding the 10.04 miles of road not rated, Hills-dale’s weighted average PASER rating was 3.8, meaning Hills-dale’s streets are in “poor to fair condition” overall.

According to City Finance Director Bonnie Tew, many oth-er cities’ streets are in the same condition, and the economy is largely to blame for the lack of action thus far.

“We are at the 1992 level of revenue from the state right now,” Tew said. “It’s a triple whammy because our property taxes have declined for the last five or six years, revenue shar-ings have gone down, and as the industries left, our top employ-ers became tax exempt.”

State Rep. Ken Kurtz also addressed the economic issues holding back road funding at the Feb. 3 Hillsdale City Coun-cil meeting. Kurtz said that with the uptick in the economy, he believes fixing streets should be one of the main priorities throughout the state of Michi-gan.

“If there are dollars, we need to appropriate a good bit of that back into our infrastructure,” Kurtz said.

Every dollar invested in

preventative maintenance now will save $4 to $6 in future re-construction costs, according to a recent publication of Asset Management Guide for Local Agencies in Michigan by Cam-bridge Systematics, Inc., and the Michigan Department of Transportation.

If the street-repair process doesn’t start soon, costs will only continue to rise, and Hill-sdale isn’t the only one facing this bleak future if action isn’t taken soon.

“We are not unique in the state of Michigan or across this country with deteriorating infrastructure and reduced rev-enues,” Tew said. “While some think we’ve mismanaged things for many years and didn’t do what we needed to do, we really did do what we could.”

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy released a sur-vey on Jan. 21 that evaluated the growth in contracting sup-port services in Michigan pub-lic schools. The survey indi-cated that the amount of private contracts in Michigan public schools has increased since 2001.

Author and policy analyst James Hohman broke the sur-vey down into three categories of support services: transporta-tion, custodial, and food. Out of the three, food privatization is the slowest growing private contractor.

Hohman’s survey reflected that more than 30 percent of Michigan’s town and rural school districts have signed pri-vate food contractors in the past

10 years. “We noticed some differ-

ence, there are smaller and rural schools that don’t contract out as much,” Hohman said. “Con-tracting is rarer in Hillsdale county.”

Hillsdale Community Schools shows little growth toward this trend. For the past 15 years, HCS has employed Chartwells Services as its food management contractor. Chart-wells Services is a branch off of Michigan’s largest company in food services, The Compass Group, which is based in the United Kingdom. Most of the employees under food services are paid by the school district, but the service runs under Food Director Laura Call, a Chart-wells Services employee.

Although HCS involvement in private contracting is not re-flected in the survey categories, the district does contract out in

other small areas such as lawn maintenance.

“We do have certain obliga-tions that require us to bid proj-ects out,” said HCS Business Manager Patty Knapp . “But that decision isn’t made by one person. It first comes from the finance committee and then the board.”

The largest trend difference between rural districts and state-wide statistics is in transporta-tion contracts. In rural districts, 16 percent of schools contract out transportation service while statewide more than 20 percent use private transportation ser-vices.

Last year, almost two-thirds of Michigan school districts contracted private food, custo-dial, or transportation services. Hohman’s survey shows that out of the three services, private transportation contracts have been growing the most, despite

its initial dwindling private con-tracting.

The survey states that from 2012- 2013 the “proportion of districts using private compa-nies to provide transportation services increased from 16.4 percent to 20.9 percent.” Five years ago, only 6 percent of school districts in Michigan contracted out transportation services.

Custodial service contracts in Michigan schools increased from 39 percent to 45 percent between 2012 and 2013. Only 6 percent of schools privatized custodial services 10 years ago.

“Privatization has shown to save money for smaller school districts,” Hohman said. “We’re looking at our government ser-vices, and how we can better provide these things. The an-swer is you need to contract out.”

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College emergency response team

partners with city

A core group of Hillsdale College students meet every other week to train how to handle crisis.

Hillsdale Emergency Action Response Team formed last fall after the college administration suggested the idea. The goal was to develop an emergency response team of Hillsdale College students to respond to emergencies on the campus and immediate surrounding areas.

“It was kind of the brainchild after the Sandy Hook [shoot-ing in Connecticut],” senior Kelly Tillotson, HEART team leader said. “We heard at an RA meeting that the school want-ed to put together an emergency response team to train stu-dents, who, in the event of an emergency, could step up to help security and get things back to normal on campus.”

The team meets every other week for CPR training, First Aid certification, drills, physical fitness exercises, and table-top exercises, which work through potential situations and re-sponses. The group currently rosters 50, but has a committed core of 15.

HEART will work closely with security in the event of an emergency, but the team also partners with local organizations such as the American Red Cross, Hillsdale Police Department, Hillsdale Fire Department, and the Hillsdale County Manager.

“We want to work with them,” Associate Dean of Men Jef-fery Rogers said. “How can we assist them, because what if we are OK and the city isn’t? We want to help.”

HEART trains to address campus issues as well. “If something were to happen where the services of the

city and the county are exhausted, we have to fend for our-selves,” Rogers said. “It makes sense to have a cadre of well-equipped, well-organized students that will know what to do and be able to assist.”

HEART especially attracts students for the leadership training and emergency response skills.

“They always say hope for the best prepare for the worst,” junior Markie Zimmer, secretary of HEART and pre-med stu-dent, said. “Even in medicine, being in difficult situations and working through those is a great thing, so why not get training for that,” Zimmer said. “These are always good skills to have, because you never know what situation you’re going to be in.”

Tillotson said she appreciates the leadership experience that HEART offers.

“We are not training kids to take down an active shooter. We are training students so that they can be leaders in the event of an emergency, so they have the knowledge, the background, and some practice so they can keep a level head in an emer-gency and lead other students,” Tillotson said. “We are trying to train people to be leaders by giving them this knowledge base and this network that they can work through.”

Rogers acknowledges that the team is a unique program. “It’s unique because we are a group of people who are

standing by to assist if needed – hoping never to be needed, but if we are, then we are ready to do that,” Rogers said. “With that comes a lot of training and a lot of recruiting.”

HEART hopes to grow both in the community and on cam-pus. The team is also applying to be recognized by Student Federation as an official campus club this semester. Rogers also hopes for a student representative in the community.

“We eventually want to have a HEART representative on the Hillsdale Emergency Response Committee so that we have a student lending a voice to the community,” Rogers said. “What are we here for if we are just here to get an education and not make a difference in where we are at? This is a chance for students to lead.”

Michigan schools going private with servicesBailey Pritchett Assistant Editor

Emily SheltonCollegian Reporter

Vanished Hillsdale

In July of 1914, elephants and other circus animals pa-raded through downtown Hillsdale as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus walked the animals from the train station to the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds.

Hillsdale was often the last stop in Michigan for popular troupes before they made the trek to Richmond, Va. with their entire retinue.

The fairgrounds was a popular location that merited vis-its from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Cir-cus in 1915, as well as visits from other popular entertain-ers, like William “Buffalo Bill” Cody in August of 1899.

After arriving by train, many such groups would march elephants, horses, and other animals down the narrow, dirt roads of the town center on the direct route to the fair-grounds. The visiting troupes would perform there prior to continuing their tour around the country.

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This year the Udder Side, a popular local ice cream joint and restaurant, will hold a pro-motion called the “Chubby Challenge”.

Udder Side owner Julia Bower created the challenge and hopes to aim it especially at Hillsdale College students, although it will be open to ev-eryone.

To enter the challenge, all participants must go to Udder Side in Jonesville, and pick up a

challenge card from the cashier. It has a list of 40 ice cream cre-ations that must all be eaten. The first person to eat all 40 creations and get them checked off of the card will win a $50 gift card to Udder Side.

Anyone who completes the challenge after the gift card is won will receive an Udder Side tshirt, a button, a Jonesville Dump — a type of sundae at the store — and their picture put up on the store’s wall.

Those who not feel up to tak-ing on the Chubby Challenge can still find deals at the store. Since this is Udder Side’s 25th

year in business, it will have monthly specials. For February, all splits and wraps are $2.50 on Wednesdays. Each Wednesday for the remainder of the year, Udder Side will feature a new $2.50 special each month.

“Our most popular creation is the manure spreader, which is made up of hot fudge, caramel brownies, on vanilla ice cream with whipped cream,” Bauer said.

Many college students say the Udder Side is one of their favorite places in Hillsdale to get frozen treats. Despite the fact that the store opened on

Feb. 1 during subzero tempera-tures, students weathered the cold in order to get their ice cream fix.

“My favorite flavors of hard ice cream are bear claw and co-conut,” senior Megan Korpics said.

“My favorite thing is the mudslide with brownie and pecans,” senior Mattie Butaud added.

Both seniors visited Udder Side opening week. With more than 40 flavors of hard-serve ice cream, there is sure to be something for everybody.

UDDER SIDE TO HOST ‘CHUBBY CHALLENGE’

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24 options: city council seeking road solution

Shane Armstrong Collegian Reporter

Eric Leutheuser began his campaign for Michigan state representative of the 58th dis-trict on Saturday, Feb.15, on the steps of the Hillsdale County Circuit Court.

The owner of local car deal-ership Leutheuser GMC has connections both to Hillsdale College and to the area itself: he and his wife Laura sent all three of their daughters (Anna, Clara, and Grace) to the college, and their family has local roots stretching back several genera-tions.

Leutheuser said he chose to run because he thinks the area can do better.

“Michigan can be its best again if we work together and rebuild it on the solid founda-tions that made it great before. That means common-sense re-forms, making sure government is accountable, taxes are low, families and hard work are val-ued,” he said. “It means good jobs, and good schools prepar-

ing our young people to be good citizens.”

He also said he thinks hope lies in area residents.

“I’m running to be our state representative because the states can show the way in re-building our nation. The people of Hillsdale and Branch Coun-ties have common sense and know what’s right and wrong,

and what should be done,” he said. “And they know that be-cause the work is great, it will be worth the effort, and that the time to begin is now.”

The 58th district, encom-passing areas in Hillsdale and Branch Counties, is currently represented by Representative Ken. Kurtz (R-Coldwater), who is term-limited out.

Leutheuser joins a crowded field that already includes at least two potential candidates with Hillsdale ties: Brad Benz-ing, (Hillsdale High School graduate and local business owner, who was the first to an-nounce his candidacy back in August) and Rochelle Ray, as well as Tim Hart Haberl of Quincy, Stephen Besson of Li-tchfield, and Hal Nottingham of Quincy.

More candidates may emerge before the 4 p.m. April 22 filing deadline, by which time candi-dates must submit an Affidavit of Identity and a partisan nomi-nating petition with at least 200 signatures.

The candidates who have filed successfully by that dead-line will appear on a primary ballot on Aug.5; victorious nominees will then appear on the Nov.4 general election bal-lot, according to the Michigan Secretary of State. Those elect-ed then will serve in the 98th Michigan Legislature, whose first session will begin on Jan. 7, 2015.

Leutheuser announces campaign for state repJack Butler

Assistant Editor

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After a winning fall season, the women’s club volleyball team is preparing for its spring season. The 16-member team was created this fall as the first of its kind.

“Before this year there wasn’t an intramural league either. I loved volleyball in high school and wanted to continue playing,” said club president, sophomore Betsy Thistleton.

Motivated by their love of the game, Thistleton and her friend and fellow sophomore Alexis Allen took it upon themselves to get this team started. As the women of Hillsdale jumped at this opportunity, it became clear that there were a whole slew of ex-volleyball players who were itching to get back on the court.

“I didn’t want to give vol-leyball up. I loved the sport and wanted to keep playing through college, even just for fun,” sophomore Lydia Ivkovich said.

This team provides these girls with a competitive outlet while

requiring a manageable time commitment. The team practices twice a week and plays games on weekends. This fall the team

competed well against small schools from the Detroit area, as well as a couple community colleges.

“Our team is entirely student-led, so it was fun to win against

teams with more experience and a coach,” sophomore Holly Frankfurt said.

The team had a successful

fall, finishing with a record of 5-2. However, the girls are look-ing forward to an even more suc-cessful spring season by picking up a couple new players and continuing to improve through

practice.“There’s a good turnout at

the practices, which is unique in a club team. They are able to scrimmage against each other, which is very important,” explained team advisor, Kevin Foeman.

“It is very well organized and has high expectations and goals,” said Brad Kocher, the director of club and intramural sports. “I definitely believe it is going to be one of our strongest club teams. It already is.”

On top of a winning record, the players aim to have a lot of fun with their teammates.

“I have loved getting to know these girls who I might not have known otherwise,” Thistleton said.

The team plans to partici-pate in tournaments at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Detroit Mercy this semester, as well as a handful of games in Hillsdale’s own Margot V. Biermann Center.

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BOX SCORESClub volleyball preps for spring seasonWomen’s Tennis

Hillsdale College: 0Western Michigan: 7

Men’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 64Ashland: 61

Hillsdale College: 75Lake Erie: 59

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Tim Dezelski (530)Kyle Cooper (265)

3-Pointers:Anthony Manno (49)Dezelski (39)

Offensive Rebounds:Dezelski (69)Cooper (31)

Defensive Rebounds:Dezelski (148)Brandon Pritzl (101)

Assists:Dezelski (89)Pritzl (79)

Free Throws:Dezelski (93)Pritzl (68)

Blocks:Dezelski (31)Cooper (24)

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 63Ashland: 83

Hillsdale College: 67Lake Erie: 56

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Megan Fogt (457)Madison Berry (192)

3-Pointers:Kelsey Cromer (29)Kadie Lowery (27)

Offensive Rebounds:Fogt (111)Angela Bisaro (47)

Defensive Rebounds:Fogt (252)Bisaro (72)

Assists:Ashlyn Landherr (62)Bisaro (61)

Free Throws:Fogt (123)Berry (65)

Blocks:Fogt (61)Bisaro (28)

SAAC to host breast cancer fundraiser

Jessie FoxCollegian Freelancer

Freshman Laura Williamson (left) and sophomore Alexis Allen (right) practice for club volleyball. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

Emily SheltonSenior Reporter

The Student Athlete Advi-sory Committee has worked to provide many opportunities for student-athletes to give back to the community this semester.

On Feb. 27, the SAAC will host its Pink Wave during the home basketball games, an event fundraising for breast cancer research. This year there will be a silent auction – full of private lessons and sports items donated by each team – the week before the Pink Wave, and those pro-ceeds will go towards the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The SAAC – a national organization implemented on

campuses with NCAA colle-giate athletics – allows student-athletes from each team to give input on the NCAA policies and rules, but also to organize events to unite student-athletes and serve the community as a group and not just as individual teams.

“The committee’s goal each semester is to provide athletes with an opportunity to give back to the community,” committee member and senior Matt Raffin said.

President of SAAC and senior volleyball athlete Lindsay Kostrzewa said it also helps broaden student-athletes’ experi-ences.

“[SAAC] helps get the full student-athlete experience and helps broaden the presence of student-athletes on campus and

in the community,” Kostrzewa said. “I have been on the com-mittee since my freshman year and it’s been a great experience to get to know other athletes from other teams and get in-volved in the community.”

The SAAC kicked off the se-mester with an academic recog-nition night at the home basket-ball games on Thursday, Jan. 30, when the committee recognized athletes who received a GPA of 3.5 or higher last semester.

The committee has also organized weekly volunteering at the local King’s Kupboard food pantry, and at the end of the year the committee will host an athlete formal, with ticket sales going towards Make-A-Wish as well.

Tennis coach and advisor to

SAAC Nicole Walbright said she was a part of the organiza-tion when she was a student-ath-lete at the University of Dayton, and still enjoys being a part of planning activities for each year.

“I am always excited for them to be involved with their fellow student-athletes. It’s nice to see everyone work together outside of sports,” Walbright said. “We have really tried to grow our volunteer base, which adds to the community. Student-athletes have a great voice in the community and I think it is important they take the skills they learn from their sports and use them outside of their typical environment.”

Junior Megan Fogt was named to the 2013-14 Capital One Academic All-America Second Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

She is the first Hillsdale Col-lege women’s basketball player to receive this award that only 15 players in all of NCAA Divi-sion II receive each year.

“I am honored and grate-ful,” Fogt said. “It’s a really cool thing to be one of only 15 people in the country.”

Earlier in the year, she was named to the all-district all-academic first team, which made her eligible for the all-American award.

The awards are voted on by the sports information direc-tors from the colleges across Division II, Hillsdale Sports Information Director Brad Monastiere said. Being in the second team means she received between the sixth and tenth most votes of all the districts’ first team players.

“I’m extremely proud of Megan for winning this award,” Monastiere said. “It’s nice to see this kind of recognition on a national level be given to some-one who works so hard in the classroom and on the court.”

Fogt is majoring in exercise science and minoring in biology,

with a 3.9 cummulative GPA, and achieved a 4.0 in the fall semester of 2013.

“I take it one day at a time and try to do the best I can to

stay on top of things,” Fogt said.She said coming into college

she wasn’t the best at time man-agement, but has learned since her freshman year.

Fogt averages 15.8 rebounds per game, the highest in Divi-sion II this season. She is second in the GLIAC with 19.9 points per game. She currently has 363 rebounds and 61 blocked shots this season, the second highest in school history.

“I thank God for all the op-portunities I’ve been given,” Fogt said. “All the credit goes to Him.”

Monica BrandtCollegian Reporter

Fogt awarded for academic prowess

The Hillsdale College women’s basket-ball team defeated Lake Erie College on Lake Erie’s home court last week.

Previously, on Jan. 23, Hillsdale had lost to Lake Erie at home.

“We underestimated them the first time,” sophomore Alex Moynes said.

But on Thursday, Feb. 12, the Chargers came back and defeated Lake Erie 67-56.

“We made ourselves realize that we are the better team,” junior Brooke Borowski said.

Head coach Claudette Charney said the team played an okay first half, but had a much better second half.

Hillsdale was behind 27-29 going into the second half, and junior Megan Fogt had been held to six points and four rebounds.

In the second half, the Chargers scored 40 points, with 20 points coming from Fogt. She also added 14 rebounds in the second half, to finish the game with 26 points and 18 rebounds.

Moynes scored seven points in only five minutes of playing time. Three players –

senior Angela Bisaro, sophomore Kelsey Cromer, and junior Kadie Lowery – each scored nine.

“It was not our best, but we played well enough to win,” Charney said.

The game against Lake Erie was Borows-ki’s first game back since being injured in the beginning of January.

“It was so nice to be on the floor play-ing,” Borowski said.

She said that Charney had told her she might be needed to play this game, but fig-ured she would only be put in at the end of a half. Charney put her in the game with 13 minutes left in the second half.

“I just looked at her like, ‘are you sure?’” Borowski said.

She played for seven minutes, with one assist and one foul.

On Saturday, Hillsdale lost to Ashland University 63-83.

In January, Hillsdale had defeated the defending Division II national champions, but were unable to defeat them on Ashland’s home court.

Hillsdale played a strong first half, and ended the half ahead by one point.

Ashland was able to score on seven pos-sessions in a row in a 25-0 run to take a solid

lead early in the second half.“We never really got that spark,” Moynes

said. “We needed somebody to bring it home and nobody was able to.”

The Chargers were able to cut the lead to 11 points, but couldn’t get over the hump, Charney said.

“It was our worst defensive game in a long time,” Charney said.

Fogt fouled twice in the first five minutes of the game, and was limited to eight points, seven rebounds, three assists, and two blocks in 24 minutes of playing time.

With Fogt limited in time from her aver-age 35 minutes per game, Moynes used her increased time to set career highs with 15 points, six rebounds, and five blocked shots in 20 minutes.

“She had her best effort this year,” Char-ney said.

Hillsdale plays at Malone University on Thursday, Feb. 20. They return home to play Walsh University on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m.

“We are definitely ready to work this week to beat Malone and make it to the tournament,” Moynes said.

Charger Chatter: john banovetz

John Banovetz is a Hillsdale College senior who throws for the track team and plays the viola in the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra. Due to an injury, Banovetz currently only throws shot put, but he hopes to begin competing in both shot put and hammer dur-ing the approaching outdoor season. Banovetz is the third of four siblings who have attend-ed Hillsdale, and he will marry a former Hillsdale thrower on June 21.

Why did you decide to attend Hillsdale?

My older two siblings both came here before me, so that had a lot to do with it. Also, the track team and orchestra gave me some good scholarships which influenced the decision.

Why did you get involved in track?

I’ve always been of a bigger stature, so throwing always came kind of naturally to me, and I’ve always enjoyed it and been relatively success-ful. I started track in 5th or 6th grade, but for a brief period in 7th grade I did sprints.

How long have you been involved in orchestra?

I have been playing viola for 15 to 16 years and orchestra since elementary school. It was something that all of us as kids did — all of my siblings play instruments. My mom encour-aged us to do that.

What is your most memora-ble experience with the track team?

Indoor nationals last year. That was a lot of fun. We go for five

days, and get to watch all the other top athletes in the nation, cheer on our teammates, and hang out with the coaches. It’s kind of like a vacation, and a lot of fun. Personally, I did very badly, but there are hopes for this season.

What is your biggest goal in track for this year?

My biggest goal would be All-American in any of the events.

How does being involved in both Hillsdale athletics and music affect your life?

It makes it busy. I have track practice everyday from 2 to 4 p.m., at least, and orchestra rehearsals for two hours twice a week. Ensemble is an hour a week, and twice each semester, we have concerts, so concert weeks are really busy.

How did you meet your fiancé?

Adrienne Bigelow was a senior when I was a freshman, and we met because she was also a thrower on the track team. We went on a spring break trip together and it went from there

I guess.

What are your and Adri-enne’s plans after you gradu-ate?

Right now she is managing a consignment shop in Jonesville and also working some hours at 8 North in Hillsdale. She’s thinking about opening and

managing her own consignment shop, but I’m pushing her to become a personal trainer — I think she’d be really good at it, and she could help me stay fit, which would be nice. I’m cur-rently looking for jobs, and we want to move somewhere other than the Midwest for at least a few years, since we’ve both lived here for all of our lives.

Would you like to continue in track after college?

I would definitely like to coach at a high school or maybe at a college somewhere.

-Compiled by Macaela Bennett

CHARGERS SPLIT ROAD GAMES Monica Brandt

Collegian Reporter

Megan Fogt ’15

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The Hillsdale Women’s swim team placed 6th overall out of 10 teams and beat four school records at the 2014 GLIAC championships in Cleveland, Ohio.

The action for the Chargers kicked off on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Sophomore Zoe Hopkins led the way in the 1000 free, tak-ing 3rd place while swimming 10:18.52, breaking the school record and earning a B-cut in the process. Fellow sophomore Jen-nifer Wheeler placed 6th. Fresh-man Kylie Powrie and junior Jordan Rucinski also scored for the Chargers, placing 12th and 13th respectively.

In the 200 IM, sophomore Sarah Rinaldi placed 10th, swimming 2:07.89 and earning a B-cut.

Thursday was another good day for the Chargers. Hillsdale’s 200 Free relay, made up of senior Hayley Johnson, sopho-mores Alissa Jones and Wheeler, and junior Rachael Kurtz placed 5th. Hillsdale’s best event of the day was the 200 freestyle. Hillsdale had four girls score points. Rachel Kurtz came in on top for the Chargers, placing 7th and swimming 1:55.32, with Powrie (13th), Wheeler (14th), and Hopkins (16th) rounding out the scorers for the Chargers.

Friday saw a battle in the 500 freestyle. Hopkins bet-tered the previous mark of 5:06 by a couple of seconds in the morning prelims, only to have Powrie drop it even further by swimming 5:01.38 in the finals. Hopkins was close behind with a time of 5:01.64. Both girls

earned B-cuts in the event.Later in the day, sophomores

Wheeler and Hannah Leitner placed 5th and 12th respectively in the 200 fly, which earned Wheeler her second B-cut to na-tionals. In the final event of the day, Hillsdale’s 800 free relay placed 5th.

Hopkins, after already having a successful meet, smashed her old school record in the 1650 free, swimming 17:18.95 and earning another B-cut. Powrie, who also earned a B-cut, was not far behind in 7th place, and Leitner came in 16th.

Kurtz wasn’t content to return

with only one school record. In the 100 free, Kurtz placed 3rd, earned a B-cut, and swam a new school record of 51.19. Fresh-man Emily Balog grabbed a piece of the action too on Satur-day, setting a new school record in the 200 breaststroke (2:24.28) while placing 13th. Freshmen

Emily Shallman and Powrie, as well as Wheeler and Kurtz fin-ished the meet by coming in 6th place in the 400 free relay.

“I was happy with both [my 50 and 100 freestyle times], but I’d say I was happiest with my 50 because I have a better chance of going to nationals,” Kurtz said. “I was pretty excited about how we did as a team. Everyone had a great meet and a lot of girls swam fast times.”

Coach Kurt Kirner was pleased with his team’s results and impressed with Kurtz’s improvement.

“The team score (of 6th place) was not as good as we would have liked but we had a lot of girls swim fast times,” he said. “It’s outstanding how much [Kurtz has] dropped in the 50. It’s quite a substantial amount of time to drop for someone who’s already an established sprinter,” he said.

The Division II National Championships will be held March 12-15. Until they know whether or not they qualified for the meet, the girls who are potential qualifiers will keep training hard.

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FOUR SCHOOL RECORDS FALL Charger swimming takes 6th place at GLIACs

At the Grand Valley State University Big Meet on Feb. 14-15, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams had members qualify for provi-sional marks and break personal records in several events.

“The women’s team did really, really well, and it was a really strong meet for us across the board,” women’s head coach Andrew Towne said. “All around it was a really great week for us, and for next week we’re just trying to get ready and make final preparations for the GLIAC championships.”

The women’s team made high marks in a variety of events, and almost broke the school record in the 4x400-meter relay. The team composed of freshmen Allison Duber and Jessica Hurley, and sophomores Danielle Gagne and Corinne Zehner, ran with a time only .12 seconds below the school record.

“The distance girls specifi-cally were extremely strong this weekend,” freshman Sarah Benson said. “It’s a great accom-plishment for the team in general when so many girls are perform-ing at a national level.”

Duber and fellow freshman Alexandra Whitford received provisional marks in the 400-me-ter and pole vault, respectively, as did junior Amy Kerst in the 800-meter. Sophomores Emily Oren and Kristina Galat both made provisional marks in the mile. The distance medley team of freshman Kathryn Royer, Kerst, Oren, and sophomore Emily Guy also met provisional marks and took 6th.

“This meet was probably the best so far this season just because everybody showed up and did really well,” Oren said.

“There were a lot of personal bests on the girls’ team; a lot of provisional qualifying times and nearly provo times.”

For the men’s team, senior Maurice Jones took second in the 400-meter, breaking his personal record and meeting the provi-sional mark. Junior Joshua Mirth met the provisional mark and placed 6th in the 3000-meter, sophomore Matthew Harris took 4th in the the pole vault, senior Brett Dailey 5th in the weight throw, and sophomore Nick Shuster 5th in the high jump. Also, in the 4x400-meter relay, freshman Ty Etchemendy and seniors Jared Van Dyke, Mat-thew Raffin, and Jones, made the provisional mark and received 7th place.

“I think the meet went pretty well. It’s always good when we go to Grand Valley for the big meets. There were over 2,400 athletes and there are always a lot of good competitors, so you have competition,” junior John Wierenga said. “Everyone has competition at their level, and everyone rises to the challenge.”

With the GLIAC conference meet on the near horizon, the teams are taking on a somewhat lighter meet this week and work-ing on qualifying for nationals.

“The tune-up is a smaller meet focusing on recovering, and we’re trying to do some fine-tuning,” men’s head coach Jeff Forino said. “We’re hoping to get some people doing the meet like us, competing in one or two events and working on getting some good times and lanes for conference the next week.”

The Chargers will be at home this week for the third time this season. The Hillsdale Tune-Up will take place in the Margot V. Biermann Center on Feb. 22. On the following weekend, March 1 and 2, Hillsdale will host the conference meet.

TRACK MAKES STRIDES AT GVSU

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With a new home at Premier Equestrian Center LLC in Hudson, Mich., a new arena completed in September, the Hillsdale Col-lege Equestrian team has been able to thrive this past year.

New riders had the opportunity to compete, and more experienced riders have advanced further in competition. This year at regionals, junior Daniel Kish represented Hillsdale in Stock seat, which was on Feb. 8 and 9, and Anna Purzycka will compete in Hunt seat on March 1.

For the Stock Seat competition, which is also known as Western riding, Kish won fourth place.

“As great as qualifying for regionals is, it’s also a great accomplishment for the team as well,” coach Danielle Cole said. “Out of the 29 riders he was competing against, he was fourth in the region. The riders that placed above him were from very large schools. It was a particular accomplish-ment because they have a lot more access to riding. I’m so proud of him for competing and placing where he placed above riders that have so many more opportunities with

horses.”Since arriving at Hillsdale as a freshman,

Kish has been competing at the collegiate level.

“I’ve never made it this far before,” Kish said. “So I’m really excited to have been able to compete.”

Senior Anna Purzycka advanced to the regional competition as well, but in the Hunt Seat division. Purzycka began this season in Advanced Walk, Trot, and Canter, but quickly made it into the Novice division.

Purzycka has been riding since she was 14 years old, and has competed in horse shows since joining the equestrian team three years ago.

“I’ve grown incredibly over the past year with Danielle and Ingrid (Poissant) coach-ing. At every show, you walk away learning something new about yourself and yourself as a rider. You have a different horse every time and different judges, and you have different people in the ring, so in navigating between all of that you learn a lot.”

While Purzycka and Kish were the only students to advance to the regional competi-tion, many of the younger or newer riders made great strides.

“Some of our freshman riders go from just barely walking and trotting to being on

the correct diagonal.” Purzycka said. “It’s great to see how they’ve grown as riders, but then also to see the new friendships that have come out of it.”

One of these freshman riders is Lillian Quinones, who has ridden both English and Western. This year was her first year in show, as she competed in the Walk, Trot division.

“The nature of the IHSA competition, the fact that we ride different horses everytime we compete, is very scary,” Quinones said. “You learn so much about different horses. It’s just so different when you have a horse that you know.”

Overall, Quinones said her time this year with the team has been very rewarding.

“Our coaches have been really amazing. They sacrifice so much. They drive us to our shows at 5 a.m. and get back so late,” Quinones said. “I’ve made some really great friends. And we have the awesome new arena.”

Anyone is able to compete, Cole ex-plained, as they’re always looking for new riders.

“They cut us off at around 20 per divi-sion,” she said. “Up until that point, we’ll always accept new members, even if they’ve never ridden before.”

Equestrian advances two to regionals Amanda TindallAssistant Editor

Junior Rachael Kurtz (center) celebrates with teammates during GLIACs . (Photo courtesy of Becca Remmes)

Men’s basketball snags two road wins in OhioOf the Chargers’ seven losses,

five of them have been by five points or less, while just two of the team’s previous 15 victories before Saturday were won by the same margin. However, the

Chargers were able to reverse their fortunes on Saturday at Ashland University and make some big plays down the stretch, leading to a hard fought 64-61

victory.“Those close games, they’re

great learning experiences,” senior Tim Dezelski said. “Some

of them haven’t gone our way, but we feel like that’s helped us to get to the point now where we’re pretty confident that we can win and we can make those plays that it takes to win.”

Dezelski’s play was huge as always for the Chargers, as he scored 25 points and recorded 11 rebounds, including a clutch play in the closing minutes.

“Tim Dezelski came up with a huge offensive rebound on a missed free throw by [Brandon] Prizl,” assistant coach Brian Mc-Cauley said.

Dezelski’s offensive rebound and layup gave the Chargers the lead for good with 90 seconds left in the game.

“Our older guys, all our

seniors, they stepped up,” sophomore Kyle Cooper added. “It’s coming down to the home stretch here for them and they know what’s on the line, and they showed it [on Saturday]. They stepped up when they needed to and made big plays and big shots.”

The Chargers’ gutsy victory came just a couple of days after they knocked off Lake Erie Col-lege on the road, 75-59. After falling behind early in the game, the Chargers responded and took their first lead of the game with 15:25 left in the first half, which they never relinquished.

“They hit a couple shots early, took a little lead on us, and we just kept on attacking,” Mc-

Cauley said. “We played with a bit of tenacity, and we controlled the game.”

“We were really locked in and ready to go,” Dezelski added. “We were able to get it done.” Dezelski turned in another remarkable perfor-mance, garnering 25 points on an efficient 69 percent shooting average to go along with his game-high 14 rebounds.

The Chargers now have three games left in the regular season, and none of them will be easy. Following the game tonight at Malone University, the Chargers will host Walsh University on Saturday, the first place team in the South Division of the GLIAC.

“Malone is a game behind us right now and their place was a tough place to play last year,” McCauley said. “Walsh took care of us pretty easily down in their place so I think we’ll be ready for them.”

“They’re two big games,” Dezelski added. “We’ve got to win them both.”

The Chargers don’t expect these final three games to be easy, but are determined to keep their three game winning streak alive.

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Senior Maurice Jones broke his own personal record in the 400-meter dash at the GVSU Big Meet last weekend. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Kelly Chisum ’13 found work after graduation to be quite enjoy-able and exciting.

Chisum, an art major at Hillsdale College who graduated last spring, now works for Copper Cup Images, a graphic design com-pany out of Bartlesville, Okla. –– a town near Tulsa and close to where her family lives now.

“I love it. I get to do something creative every day,” Chisum said. “I get to work on billboards, and posters, and ads, and websites. There is a lot of variety, which I like, and a lot of creativity.”

Chisum found the company through an internship opportunity she

had there the summer before her senior year. During her internship she focused on graphic design for a movie production.

“I was doing logos and posters for the movie, and I did a lot of logo design,” Chisum said. “After I graduated I was looking for a job and they had an opening, so it really worked out because I already knew them, and we got along well.”

Chisum said she focused on graphic design while at Hillsdale, taking many classes from Bryan Springer, professor of graphic design. She also said she took the children’s illustration class and loved it. Her love of children’s illustration has carried into projects in her position as a graphic designer.

“Probably the project I had the most fun on was at the local community center for a children’s theater performance [put on] every summer,” Chisum said. “It was really fun to work with that because you know it is something that will help kids and help this organization.”

Chisum designed a logo for the “Peter Pan” production, creating illustrations of Peter Pan and Wendy and other characters for the logo, posters, and postcards advertising the show.

Springer said her style suits children’s illustrations well.

“She was very interested in classical children’s illustration, which tended to find its way into both her graphic design and Il-lustration work,” Springer said. “I enjoyed watching her illustration technique mature. She used colorful ink washes with detailed pen and ink overlay to develop whimsical characters reminiscent of Beatrix Potter and Elsa Beskow. I was very excited to hear that her skills were sought after by her cur-rent employer.”

Fellow art major Hannah Akin ’13, who

graduated with Chisum last spring, describes Chisum’s work as “charming.”

“There is a carefree and fresh spirit, especially in her illustrations, that captures the imagina-tion. [Her designs] were varied depending on the as-signment, but still very clear, clean, accomplished work. She definitely understands the principles of design and color,” Akin said.

Chisum explained that she misses aspects of Hills-dale, especially the people, but she said she is excited for her work because it is re-warding, and she enjoys the opportunity it gives her to create.

“Everyone who gradu-ates finds that it is a difficult transition, but a good one,” Chisum said. “I like that I can see real tangible results for what I am doing now. I drive down the highway and I see a billboard that I made

and I know that I have helped the company and my work had a direct impact on them. I really enjoy that, and that is not something you get in college.”

The cast of ‘Lost in Yonkers,’ the Sauk Theater’s latest produc-tion, has overcome quite a few obstacles to bring Neil Simon’s Pulit-zer-Prize winning script to Jonesville.

High school sophomore Brock Hayes and his eighth-grade brother Bradley –– cast as leads Jay and Arty Kurnitz, respectively –– have never been cast in a non-musical production before. Their mother, Jennifer (J.D.) Evans, cast as their Aunt Bella, has never performed in a speaking role before now.

“It’s a lot more difficult,” Bradley said, referring to the shift from a musical performance to a straight play. Brock concurred.

“You can’t just do what the director says,” Brock said. “You have to make it seem natural.”

Despite the difficulty of adapting to the new theatrical style, the Hayes brothers, along with the rest of the cast, have worked dili-gently to bring the script to life, rehearsing four times a week.

“The cast is a dream,” says Trinity Bird, president of the Sauk Theater and director of ‘Lost in Yonkers.’ “We all believe in the ma-terial. I adore this play. I have directed it before, but not here.”

Cast members are not the only people enthused about the play. The opening-night audience was incredibly responsive.

“Opening night was crazy,” Bird says. “The audience was clap-ping for the characters, laughing with them, and then went complete-ly silent during one of the intense scenes. It was exactly what we had

hoped for.”In order to bring scripts like ‘Lost in Yonkers’ to the stage success-

fully, the Sauk relies upon the time and talents of both its dedicated core team as well as around 300 community volunteers during an average season. No resource goes unused or unappreciated.

The crew’s love for and meticulous dedication to the theater is written into the very walls at Sauk: the seats in the small audito-rium are clean, carefully kept, and slightly threadbare. The ceiling, adorned with a completely new lighting system, has been stripped of large patches of water-damaged plaster during recent renovations.

“It’s an old building,” Bird said. “There is always something that needs to be fixed. A lot of people look at this place and see obstacles. We see opportunities.”

For example, during their recent production of ‘Shrek the Musi-cal,’ the small stage space posed a problem when deciding where to place the singing, moving dragon.

“We had a 24-foot dragon that sang and flapped and lived in the scene shop,” Bird said, laughing. “For us, there is no ‘far away.’”

Though the intimacy of the small space is prized, Sauk Theater has plans to expand its staff in the near future and extensively reno-vate the building, giving it a more energetic presence in the commu-nity. They call the 2014 production season the “season of identity.” ‘Lost in Yonkers,’ the first production of Sauk’s new era, is a promis-ing start.

Starring Trinity Bird as Eddie Kurnitz, Brock and Bradley Hayes

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Theatre students accepted into

DePauw conference

One hundred percent of Hillsdale student applicants were accepted into the De-Pauw Undergraduate Honors Conference in Communication and Theatre this spring.

On Feb. 7, sophomore Catherine Coffey, junior Aaron Pomerantz, and senior Kather-ine Denton received notice that their research papers had been selected for their exemplary quality and worthiness of in-clusion in the conference.

“When we first started out, maybe one out of three of our students got picked,” Profes-sor of Theatre James Brandon said. “We’ve been steadily im-proving.”

Brandon submitted the three students’ outstanding research papers by the dead-line of Jan. 11. The papers were written for his History of Theatre I class last semester. Each of the submitted 80-100 papers are read and judged by two members of the DePauw faculty, and students with the highest ranking are invited to attend the conference.

The 40th annual confer-ence will be held April 17-19, which falls on the tech week of “Woyzeck,” the play that Den-ton is directing for her senior project.

Denton’s paper is on the popularity of ancient Athens Theater.

“My angle was, ‘Why was it so popular and what can we learn about it today’ because theatre is not as popular to-day,” she said.

Coffey wrote about the Japanese theatre, with a focus on the Bunraku and Kabuki styles. The title is “Of Puppets and People: The Influence of Bunraku Doll Theatre on the

Development and Performance of Kabuki Theatre of Japan.”

“My main argument is that the Bunraku Puppet theatre of Japan, by contributing sig-nificantly to Kabuki’s aesthetic and style of production, has been an integral part of the growth of Kabuki theatre into a Japanese cultural icon,” Cof-fey said.

Pomerantz’s paper was titled “Plato’s Mitre, Plato’s Mask: Platonism in Medieval Sacred Theatre.”

He and Denton are both un-sure they will be free to attend the conference, but Coffey said she plans to go. The theatre department covers all the stu-dents’ expenses.

According to Brandon, stu-dents at the conference are as-signed to groups and critiqued on their work. Each group is given a mentor –– a professor from another undergraduate school –– to help them. There are typically two speech pro-fessors and one who special-izes in theater.

“It’s almost like a little boot camp for research skills,” Brandon said. “[The mentors] are the exact people who will be mentoring and teaching stu-dents at the next step. In at least one case, for a student we sent there a couple of years ago, their mentor is now who they are being taught by at graduate school. That connection is not expected, but it is a nice side effect.”

In the spring of 2012, se-nior Anne Peterson attended the conference with “Atreus,” a paper she wrote in Brandon’s History of Theatre I class her sophomore year. She was one of five to apply and be accept-ed into the conference from

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Something creative every day: art graduate pursues career in graphic design Emily Shelton

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Chisum’s render-ing of Dickens’ character, Betsey Trotwood. This and many more quaint illustra-tions appeared in Chisum’s senior art show last year at Hillsdale Col-lege. (Courtesy Kelly Chisum)

Kelly Chisum ’13, (Courtesy Kelly Chisum)

Jennifer Evans (left) acts the role of Aunt Bella alongside her two sons, eighth-grader Bradley Evans (middle) and high school sophomore Brock Evans (right). Bradley and Brock play Jay and Arty Kurnitz, respectively. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

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JOHNSON’S: DELICIOUS PIZZA IN NORTH ADAMS

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I don’t expect you to have heard of North Adams. The town is literally a crossroads with a blinking yellow light suspended in the center, and from what I can tell, this does not cause anyone to slow down or speed up.It does host a nudist colony (in the summers, though, in case you were wondering how that worked), and quite a few Amish people. In North Adams, bars have not been allowed to sell liquor since before Prohibition, which “is a major bummer” according to the very kind locals I talked to. It’s about 10 minutes northeast of Hillsdale out in the cornfields. Just Google it.

I found myself there with friends a few weeks ago. I had dis-covered the place while looking on old maps, and, as it was the last place in Hillsdale county I really hadn’t been, I wanted to see what it contained. There are two restaurants in North Adams: The Coffeehouse, which doesn’t really have much to do with coffee but does have good pie, and Johnson’s Pizza and Subs, which “sells the best pizza in Hillsdale County.”

The title of best pizza was not applied by me originally, al-though I agree with it; it came from the mouth of Randy Johnson, the pizza shop’s owner and an all-around stand-up guy. He bought the place a few years back and runs it with his sons, who are each about three times the size of Randy but share his penchant for hospitality and friendliness. In the back of the very small pizza restaurant is a very large pub, although they bring you your pizza into the pub if you want it, so maybe they’re just the same thing.

First, let me make it clear that the pizza is incredible, particu-larly for the price. For $5 you get a four-topping, 10-inch per-sonal pizza that will blow away any “personal pizza” you got for reading books at your local library when you were six. The crust is first class, and they use the correct flour (pizza’s should be made with high-protein, low-water absorption flour, like 00 flour) in order to get that classic thin crust that seems to be miss-ing in so many Midwestern pies (Oh, you like Chicago-style? That’s not a pizza. It’s a casserole). They also use great moz-zarella at Johnson’s; commonly-used cheeses like colby-jack or cheddar, though cheaper, make a greasier pizza. These types of cheeses contain fats that dichotomize at high temperatures, form-ing a shell of grease on the top of the pizza. The toppings are also fresh, and the meat brings you back to when you were a kid and thought that pepperoni was probably the greatest thing God put on this earth.

The beer selection is decent as well. They have about eight taps, which are mostly domestics, but they do cycle through a variety of craft beers as well. The beer is also incredibly cheap –– if you go at happy hour, which lasts until 6 p.m., you can get a craft beer for two bucks. Be sure to look at the bar as you grab a beer; for $5 you can carve your name into it and it has seen it’s fair share of interesting customers.

The atmosphere is eccentric. Deer heads hang on the wall, the tables look like they came out of a public high school cafeteria in the 60’s, and a Confederate flag bearing the logo of the local biker gang hangs above the free pool table. It’s a cozy eccentric, though, and I enjoy it thoroughly.

Johnson’s is perhaps one of the most unabashedly old-school midwestern places I have ever been, from the people to the food to the lack of liquor. I heartily recommend it to anyone looking to get out of Hillsdale for a bite but not wanting to go too far.

Hillsdale.“I was blessed to have a

great guest scholar mentor my group, Dr. Judith Sebesta of Lamar University. I loved her enthusiasm, helpful feedback, and genuine interest in my fellow students and me,” she said. “Because Hillsdale is a small school in comparison to most other institutions that were represented at the con-ference, all five Hillsdale stu-dents were placed in the same group, so I also enjoyed hear-ing my fellow students pres-ent their research papers,.”

Peterson said she learned the importance of being able to defend her work, not only to a professor, but to a group of peers.

“I got a small taste of the

competitive academic world,” she said.

Papers presented last year

include “Mourning, Grief and Facebook” by Allie Jordan

from Millsaps College and “Your Programmer is in Anoth-er Castle: A Study of Women in the Video Game Industry,” by Salem State University’s Blair Bailey.

This year’s mentors will be Cheryl Black of the Univer-sity of Missouri, Patrice Buz-zanell of Purdue University, Kathleen Turner of David-son College, and Mary Beth Oliver from Penn State Uni-versity. This year’s keynote speaker will be Sarah Vowell, the bestselling author of six nonfiction books on Ameri-can history and culture. For twelve years, she was a con-tributing editor for National Public Radio’s (NPR) “This

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I had a suspicion, about a month ago, that the cruel Michigan winter would not end until I finished Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel “Win-ter’s Tale” — as if the 700-page, epic, real-world fantasy is somehow capable of directly intertwining itself with the lives of its readers. And, in many ways, it absolutely is.

Those of us in the senior class might re-member Helprin as Hillsdale’s commence-ment speaker in 2011. While some devout fans seem to prefer his other works — such as “Re-finer’s Fire” and “A Soldier of the Great War,” both in the college bookstore — his most well-known book is “Winter’s Tale.” And, given Helprin’s other role as a conservative com-mentator (and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute), I’ve had the curious experience of perusing left-leaning book blogs and forums online to find their patrons just as enamored with Helprin’s literary genius as the general public — some even puzzling, “How could a conservative have possibly woven such beau-tiful words to paper?!” Not bad. So what could keep the reading world this shaken up after 30 years?

In summary, “Winter’s Tale” is a mythic ballad of New York City, a juxtaposition of a city’s beauty with its ugliness as experienced by various charac-ters whose different narratives all miraculously converge on the city itself, bringing their destinies together for reasons that are not quite clear until the end. In a fashion truly reminiscent of a “city upon a hill,” the book repeats thematically, “For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone?”

The main storyline belongs to a man named Peter Lake, aban-doned by his immigrant parents near the start of the 20th cen-tury, raised in combat on a shrouded island by the clam-fishing Baymen, tutored in engineering at a boys’ orphanage by the Rev-

erend Mootfowl, and coerced into burglary by the psychopathic Pearly Soames and his bowler-wearing gang of Short Tails. When Peter betrays Pearly, he must go on the run — with the help of his guardian angel, a majestic white horse named Athansor. It is in this lonesome capacity of a burglar whence comes the defin-

ing moment of his life. As he attempts to rob the West Side mansion of Rockefeller-esque Isaac Penn, Peter instead encounters and falls in love with Penn’s dying daughter ,Beverly. And with her eventual death, Pe-ter is given a sort of new life. That is, after disappearing and having been long forgot-ten, he resurfaces — at the other end of the century, in a vastly different New York City, without his memory. It is then, in the book’s third quarter, when Peter’s path is destined to cross both with the modern characters whose narratives together span the majority of the novel and with some of his aged ac-quaintances or, in the case of the Penn fam-ily, their descendants. As the book informs us: “Nothing is random.”

Helprin writes beautifully, and he is proudly unconventional as well. Despite serving heaping mounds of charming simile to improve the reader’s experience, his nar-rative style is straightforward and focused on furthering the story, save for fun mo-ments such as, “the rooster was so happy that had he been a chicken he would have laid three eggs a day. Or was he a chicken? Who knows? The point is, he thought he

was a cat.” All in all, better than just telling an epic tale, Helprin crafts a

world filled with human characters just like him: talented eccen-trics. No one is ordinary, but everyone has a task and does it well. Reading through, they reminded me vividly of my fellow Hills-dale students, in fact. I confessed earlier that “Winter’s Tale” gets inside your head and, as good art does, tries to resonate with your life in countless subtle ways. Perhaps this is just one reason why.

‘Winter’s Tale’: the book revisitedDane Skorup

Collegian Reporter

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Garrett Swanson, a Hillsdale alumnus on the curatorial staff at the DIA, said that the mu-seum raises about $12 million a year to operate. To raise the $100 million it has pledged, the DIA will have to now raise an average of nearly $18 million annually for the next 20 years. He and the DIA want it to be clear that none of the $100 mil-lion will ever come to the DIA, rather, it will all fund Detroit’s pensions.

Miller is happy to see that the vulnerability and need is being recognized and ad-dressed not just by the gov-ernment or the DIA, but by independent foundations and charitable organizations.

“I love that these private philanthropies are stepping up and trying to solve a crisis for the city and, not just the city, for the region,” he said. “This collection is not just for De-troit, it means a lot for Michi-gan.”

For most art museums, there wouldn’t be a question of a museum’s art collection being monetized to help pay its city’s obligations, but unlike most American art museums, the DIA is not a private institution.

“It’s tragic,” Miller said. “The institution and the city made a huge mistake early on which was to have the city, the government, own the collection instead of putting the collection in private hands, which is how virtually every other collection in America is run. They’ve cre-ated this incredible vulnerabil-ity.”

If approved, the current plan would transfer from the city of Detroit to the DIA the free and clear title to the museum’s

buildings, property, art collec-tion, and other assets, removing the possibility of any of the art being sold in response to De-troit’s financial situation.

The plan still requires the approval of the directors of the DIA, the city of Detroit’s man-agement, the State of Michi-gan, participating philanthro-pies, pension representatives, and three Detroit-area counties whose property tax is helping support the museum over 10 years.

Swanson said that some of the most important pieces in the DIA’s collection were bought

during the period of acquisi-tion considered for liquidation. These included a self-portrait by the Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh, and “The Wedding Dance” by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel—com-pleted in 1566.

“It’s a very important piece in the history of American mu-seums,” Swanson said, speaking of Van Gogh’s self-portrait. “At that point America really didn’t have a name, when it came to museums. We didn’t have a cul-tured side to us, at least, in Eu-ropean eyes.”

Swanson explained that the purchase of the self-portrait proved that the DIA, and Amer-ican museums, took art serious-

ly, and recognized nearly con-temporary genius when it saw it — Van Gogh painted the self-portr ait in 1887, only 35 years before the DIA acquired it.

Barbara Bushey, associate professor of art, said that the Van Gogh and Bruegel paint-ings are probably the most valu-able in the DIA’s collection and most attractive to foreign col-lectors.

She said, however, that the choice between our humanity, found in the art, and the needs of human beings, like the pen-sioners, is impossible. Both are priceless, and that’s why fund-raising efforts are so important.

“You can’t take a Van Gogh portrait and put it on this side of the balance and put 50 hungry pensioners on the other side,” Bushey said. She explained that it’s not an issue she be-lieves can be broken down to pure monetary relations.

“I just think it’s so important to have a collection of things like that together,” she said. “And I think it’s important to support them, and to go look at them.” Then she added, “I can only hope that this initiative for fundraising is successful.”

Bushey, who grew up go-ing to the DIA, said, “As a girl, my favorite thing was the spiral staircase. It felt like you were in a castle that went on forever.”

Miller is also a native Michi-gander and grew up in Detroit. For him, the whole situation is sad. He finds it especially trou-bling that the DIA is in this posi-tion not because of the misman-agement of the museum itself, but because of the mismanage-ment of Detroit as a whole.

For now, it seems that a plan will be put in place to save the city of Detroit from the hard choice between the treasure of its art and the integrity of its promises to its people. Reckon-ing day averted.

Everyone thought Anjan Sundaram was insane. At 22, he abandoned his graduate stud-ies in mathematics at Yale and turned down a high-paying job from Goldman Sachs to report on the war-torn Democratic Re-public of Congo.

“I’m going to try to be a jour-nalist,” Sundaram said.

“To play the fool,” his men-tor and professor Serge Lang blurted out.

His mother cried, his friends mocked, and his Congolese ac-quaintance, Anna, told him that one doesn’t just go to the Congo.

But Sundaram did.In “Stringer: A Reporter’s

Journey in the Congo,” the young writer chronicles his journey from his first article in print to the explosive election in 2006. Sundaram writes with the fluid precision of a mathemati-cian — each word poignantly descriptive — and the sensibili-ties of a novelist. This brilliant coming-of-age story has earned critical acclaim, with the Ameri-can Booksellers Association hailing it as one of the best de-buts this spring.

When Sundaram first ar-rives in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, he has no money, no job, and frighteningly little foresight. That paucity of precaution, com-bined with Sundaram’s tenacity, serves him well, surprisingly, and he lands a stringing gig with the Associated Press. As a stringer, he was paid by words published, not words written. When the AP didn’t run his sto-ry, Sundaram and the Congolese family he lived with and sup-ported didn’t eat.

Sundaram’s writing shines

when he describes his experi-ences coming to terms with the Great War in Africa, the deadli-est conflict since World War II. The war has involved nine Afri-can countries directly and innu-merable more through trade and mining, killing more than 5.4 million people and displacing untold millions more.

The writer left Yale over-whelmed and frustrated by the fantastical otherworldliness he saw in mathematics — “Sub-

lime laws were substituting for life” — only to be floored by the incomprehensible violence and suffering in the Congo. By seamlessly weaving his com-mentary into his personal nar-rative, Sundaram offers unique glimpses into the “why” behind the war.

Dictators, he writes, destroy a nation’s consciousness by shat-tering and manipulating history. They raise statues to themselves and change the country’s name. Most Congolese people remain “docile in their misfortune” because they have no national identity and succumb to customs created by tyrants.

Further disempowering the Congolese, Sundaram writes, these tyrants are propped up by foreign powers. America, for example, sent the CIA to culti-vate Mobutu Sese Seko and aid his coup in the 1960s. Mobutu is guilty of unquantifiable and hor-rific human rights violations.

Sundaram links the decades of foreign interest in the Congo to the $24 trillion worth of raw mineral ore in the country. This global interest in Congolese mines extends back to early 20th century Belgian King Leopold II committing genocide to pillage Congo for rubber and to WWII when the Manhattan Project use uranium from the Shinkolobwe mine to make the first atomic bomb. Profit from these and other resources prop up the rebel groups that ravage the coun-try. Recent conflicts have been heightened due to increasing de-mand for tin to make conductors in electronic circuits.

“We currently live in what some say is the Fourth Great Pil-lage,” Sundaram writes. “The world now needs cell phones, and Congo contains 60 percent of known reserves of an essen-tial metal called tantalum. It is the curse: each progress in the world produces some new suf-ferings.”

In “Stringer”, Sundaram el-egantly captures that suffering without downplaying the indi-vidual experiences of the people he meets. In the second chapter, he describes a midnight visit to a group of drug-addled teenagers living in a dump. Despite inar-guably painful circumstances, the teenagers seemed to feel an “extraordinary and implausible” joy. Through stories like this and his personal narrative, Sundaram makes the blistering devastation both accessible and, at moments, staggeringly beautiful.

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as brothers Jay and Arty Kurnitz, Jennifer (J.D.) Ev-ans as Aunt Bella, Marla Gilpin as steely Grandma Kurnitz, Trevor Tracy as Louie Kurnitz, and Mary Jean Dulmage as Aunt Gert, the play consists of two acts broken by a 15-minute intermission.

The play will be per-formed this weekend, Feb. 21-23. On Thursday, Fri-day, and Saturday nights, the curtain will rise at 8:00 p.m. On Sunday, an afternoon matinee begins at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are available online at www.thesauk.org or by calling the box office at (517) 849-9100.

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“It’s almost like a little boot camp for research skills. [The mentors] are the exact people who will be mentoring and teaching students at the next step.” — Professor of Theatre

James Brandon

“This collection is not just for Detroit, it means a lot for Michigan.”

— Director of the Dow Journalism Program

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SpotlightA closer look at

Hillsdale’s historical homes

and igloos, but never to this extent,” Evan said. “This is by far the Taj Mahal of my snow forts.”

By Tuesday night, a combination of rising temperatures inside and outside the igloo forced the group to condemn their handiwork.

Holt believes the igloo melted so soon because they forgot to christen it.

“That’s a huge oversight. That’s why it melted, because we didn’t give it our bless-

ing,” Holt said. “Number one in fort build-ing: christen it. Give it a name. Give it your blessing. Don’t forget it. We did, and you saw what happened.”

Holt and Evan both hope to build more igloos in the future.

“We’ve been scoping out a few other mounds, but we don’t want to make any promises to the student body of where our next igloo will show up,” Evan said.

Because it is getting so warm this week, Holt is unsure as to whether or not another igloo will be built soon.

“If there’s another snowstorm we’d love to,” Holt said. “It’s kind of a fun way to get away from homework.”

Book club provides discussion

The discussion was heated, though friendly, between two factions who have debated the question for years: “What are Fanny Price’s merits in Jane Austen’s ‘Man-sfield Park’?”

Women around Hillsdale, many of them Hillsdale College professors’ or staff mem-bers’ wives, agree to read certain books, from “East of Eden” to “The Hunger Games.” In addition to fruitful discussion, they enjoy each the friendship.

The women draw on their academic back-grounds, with varying areas of study, to add something unique to the discussion.

“We fall very easily back into this role of analysis and penetrating discussion,” Amy said.

The book clubs are not only about books, but also friendship. Jaminda Springer, mar-ried to Art Instructor Bryan Springer, orga-nizes one of the clubs. She said that, often, halfway through a meeting someone asks, “Shouldn’t we talk about the book?”

“Although we do touch on really impor-tant points and ask hard questions, and we are all educated and well-read, we don’t let that get in the way of laughing and having

a great time together during the discussion,” she said.

Kelly Cole, who attends the club Amy or-ganizes, expressed similar sentiments, say-ing those in her club often joke about how long it takes to get around to discussing the book.

The clubs provide good motivation to keep reading amidst the day-to-day routine, Jaminda said. Kelly Cole, who is married to Instructor of Philosophy Lee Cole, said that without the club, she’d probably read very little fiction. The club keeps her reading lit-erature and enhances that reading, because she gets to hear her fellows’ insights, she says.

The clubs also serve to welcome new-comers to Hillsdale.

“We all know how isolating it can be moving to a new town and how difficult it can be to make new friends, to begin to feel that you belong,” Jaminda said. The book clubs ease that process by providing a regu-lar time to meet.

“I think that the Hillsdale argument is that the art of reading itself makes us more authentically human and community makes us more authentically human,” Maier said. “To pair those pursuits is of great service in helping us to live our vocations, as humans, wives, and mothers.”

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Every week, Spotlight will dive into the history of a new house. Here are the houses and the dates you can expect them to appear. Photos by Caleb Whitmer.

only one person has come, but it has been a different person each week.

“Each study goes completely differently than I had thought,” Ahern said. “I think ev-ery week has been a fruitful time.”

Senior Grace Marie Lambert helps lead an older, more widely attended Bible study on campus at the Waterman Residence. As a freshman, Lambert was one of about 20 women that attended each week. That sum-mer, she thought about what she wanted her sophomore year to look like.

“I knew I wanted to invest in campus ministry while I was in college,” Lambert said. “So I emailed the girls that I knew were leading it that coming semester, and they said the sophomore who was going to help had dropped out, so they needed someone new.”

That hour each week she devotes each week to being with other women and study-ing God’s word has made a huge difference all throughout college, according to Lam-

bert.“My favorite thing is the joy that I’ve

been given in setting aside that time each week and learning to count it as sacred,” Lambert said. “As a freshman, I would be so stressed and sometimes think I didn’t have the time. But you learn that you do, and there’s a peace and goodness that comes over you while you’re there, assuring you that you do have the time, and that it’s good you’re there.”

Sophomore Lucas Hamelink helps lead the college baseball team’s study. Junior Vinny Delicata approached Hamelink and several other sophomores at the beginning of the year about co-leading the study.

The focus of the 10-week study is what Jesus accomplished on the cross, starting with the purpose of Jesus’ coming and dis-cussing the theological implications of his sacrifice. About 10 to 12 men consistently attend each week.

Hamelink said that doing the study to-gether creates a strong bond among the men.

“Obviously when you get together and talk about the deeper spiritual things, you grow a lot closer to each other,” Hamelink said. “You’re becoming more than team-mates, you’re becoming brothers.”

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Spotlight

A group of Simpson men build a fire inside an ig-loo where they roast marshmallows, eat Swedish fish, and tell ghost stories. Freshman Alex Reuss downloads “The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace,” a fairy tale, onto his phone and begins to read aloud. Senior Garrett Holt, ju-nior Evan Gensler, sophomore Colin Wilson, and fresh-man Ian Gensler pass around a bag of Swedish Fish as they listen intently.

The igloo is small enough that it warms up quickly, but smoke can’t funnel out of the hole in the roof fast enough. Finally, Reuss has to stop reading and the men scramble out into the clean night air. Later the group jumps on the roof to destroy the melting igloo, putting an end to their midnight excursion.

“It reminds me of the Dead Poets Society,” sopho-more Hannah Leitner said. “In the movie they go into a cave at night and read poetry to each other.”

On Sunday, Feb. 16, sophomore Betsy Thistleton found herself digging through a snow pile behind Cen-tral Hall with Holt and Evan.

“Garrett and I talked about how we wanted to tun-nel through the snow a while ago, because that would just be fun,” Thistleton said. “I was just watching the Olympics when Garrett called and said, ‘Come behind Central Hall in 10 minutes, we’re going to build an ig-loo.’ So I was like, sweet, abandoned all other plans like homework, and went to build an igloo.”

This is not the first time Holt has built an igloo be-hind Central Hall.

“Last time we made an igloo almost in the same spot, me and Alex Gage,” Holt said. “We tried to sleep in there. That was a terrible life choice. Alex left halfway through the night, and I would have but I forgot the keys to Simpson.”

Evan also has experience in building igloos, but be-lieves this is the best igloo he’s ever created.

“When I was younger, we used to build little tunnels

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Last semester, Hillsdale had a Bible study in every dorm, seven studies off-campus, and seven sports team studies. There were five Greek-house studies. All of these studies were connected with InterVarsity, but more continued independently.

Now, students continue the growth and community.

Junior Hannah Ahern is leading a new study in the art department. It wasn’t her idea, however.

A friend and fellow art major encour-aged Ahern to lead a study there during Ahern’s sophomore year. But Ahern wrote it off for many months, thinking that God could not possibly want to use her to do it.

“I was really excited about it at first,” Ahern said. “But then I just hit this wall, where I was like, ‘No, I’m not. I don’t think that’s where God wants me.’”

Ahern got the push she needed when she visited her high school art teacher during the 2012-13 winter break. Ahern told her teacher that some friends had

challenged her to start a Bible study in the art department at Hillsdale. Her teacher responded by showing her a painting she had been working on, of Nehemiah’s wall.

“She dragged me out into this room ...” Ahern said, “She looked at me, and she was like, ‘Whenever somebody walks by this mural, I want them to re-member that God has given them gifts and talents in their lives, and God ex-pects them to be using their gifts and talents for His kingdom.”

Just a few months before, senior Ben Holscher had used that same analogy when talking to a group of Hillsdale students at the Intervarsity Compelling conference in East Lansing, Mich.

Standing in front of the mural, Ahern knew what she needed to do. This se-mester, Ahern started a study of the parables, which she leads with an inter-esting twist.

“We sort of encourage drawing while we’re studying just to engage with it,” Ahern said.

Each time she has held Bible study,

Good friends, good food, and the good book

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Who or what inspires your style?My cat and Pinterest.

Describe your fashion sense in five words or less.It’s all about neutrals.

What is your favorite item of clothing?Probably my American Eagle skinny jeans.

What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?My teal Christmas sweatshirt with Santa’s face cross-stitched on the front.

What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?As much as I love them, leggings aren’t pants.

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Inside the iglooSimpson men burrow into

‘Taj Mahal’ of snow forts

Morgan SweeneyAssistant Editor

The entrance to the snow fort behind Central Hall was just big enough to slide through (top). Sophomore Ian Gensler, senior Garrett Holt, freshman Alex Reuss, and junior Evan Gensler sit by a fire (left), stand by their creation (middle), and warm them-selves by the fire (right). (photos by Ben Strickland and Casey Harper)

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Countryside Bible Church Pastor Bob Snyder leads a college student bible study at an off-campus house, “The Bounce House,” every Wednesday night. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Students bond while studying the Bible

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