Boosting our statsHillsdale College plans to be the most se-

lective school in Michigan within five years.As part of the Rebirth of Liberty and

Learning campaign, admissions plans to increase its applications by about 40 to 45 percent and raise the average ACT score to 31 by 2018.

“A lot of schools, a lot of private liberal arts colleges in the state of Michigan, sim-ply want to fill their class and that’s their goal, and they have a hard time reaching that goal,” Director of Admissions Jeffrey Lantis said. “We have no problem reaching that goal.”

Currently, the college averages 2,100 ap-plications for a freshman class of about 370, with an acceptance rate of about 49 percent. If they achieve their target 3,000 applica-tions by 2018, that would put the acceptance rate at about 30 percent, well below the Uni-versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor’s 37 per-cent acceptance rate.

“We want it to be a demonstrable statis-tic that we’re the most selective school in Michigan, period,” Associate Director of Admissions Fred Schebor said.

If Hillsdale were to meet that 30 percent rate, it would fall easily into the top 100 most selective schools in the nation, accord-ing to U.S. News and World Report’s rank-ing for the fall of 2012.

Hillsdale is already the most selective private school in Michigan, and schools that Hillsdale is often compared to, such as Thomas Aquinas College and Grove City College, have acceptance rates of 80.6 per-cent and 84.2 percent respectively, accord-ing to U.S. News and World Report.

Hillsdale’s numbers have not always been as impressive. In 2002, Hillsdale had an acceptance rate of 84 percent and an aver-age ACT of 26.

The ACT score of 31 would tie Hillsdale with the University of Michigan.

“Right now, we’re the best liberal arts school, we have the best academic profile of any liberal arts college in the state of Michi-gan,” Lantis said. “The University of Michi-gan reports a 31 ACT, so if we can raise our standards that high, we will be able to be as good as any school in the state.”

Lantis said the college is increasing its web and social media outreach, strengthen-ing its base of parent and alumnae volun-teers, and increasing its mailings as ways to

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In the longest, highest-scor-ing game in NCAA Division II women’s basketball this season, Hillsdale College defeated Walsh University 106-105.

With 22 ties and 24 lead changes, the game was a battle from the beginning.

At the end of regulation, Hills-dale was ahead 66-64 until Walsh tied it up with 28 seconds left.

“I was thinking, ‘Oh great, here we go,’” sophomore Madi-son Berry said.

However, the Chargers would not be taken down so easily.

“I felt like we lost the game 25 times but won it 26 times,” assis-tant coach Jon Mock said.

In the third of four overtimes, Walsh scored a 3-pointer to take a 98-95 lead with eight seconds left.

The Chargers got the ball to junior Kadie Lowery, who scored her own 3-point shot to tie the game with two seconds left, send-ing the Chargers into overtime number four.

“They refused to lose the game,” Mock said.

Hillsdale played much of the fourth overtime with a new lineup due to three starting players – se-nior Angela Bisaro, Berry, and redshirt sophomore Ashlyn Land-herr – fouling out.

Junior Megan Fogt, who earned her fourth GLIAC South Player of the Week award, played a crucial role in the game, espe-cially during the fourth overtime, when she made one jump shot and four of her five free throws, including the final free throw with one second left, to end the game.

“Honestly I’m pretty sure I was solely running on adrenaline through all of the overtimes,” Fogt said in an email. “As I’m sure many of the other girls on the team were, too.”

Fogt played 58 minutes of the 60-minute game. She had a career-high 41 points, and 24 re-

bounds, the first 40-20 game in school history.

“I’m so proud of how we came together as a team and wouldn’t quit,” Fogt said.

Fogt and Berry were the only Chargers to shoot free throws, going 28-32 com-bined. Berry also scored 32 points, a career-high.

“It was the crazi-est game I’ve ever been a part of,” Mock said. “When you play four overtimes, you don’t really forget. Especially when you come out on the win-ning side.”

Hillsdale went into the game against Walsh after an im-portant w i n

against Malone University on Thursday, Jan. 30.

H i l l s d a l e came out strong against the GLIAC South Division lead-ers, win-n i n g 8 5 -69.

Whi le Malone was able to tie Hillsdale twice during the game, they never were able to take the lead.

“It was one of our best team performances,” Mock said.

Hillsdale had four players – sophomore Kelsey Cromer, Landherr, Berry, and Lowery –

make at least two 3-pointers.As a team, Hillsdale was 60

percent on 3-pointers and 80 percent on free throws.

Hillsdale con-tinued its winning streak on Monday night with its first win at the Univer-sity of Findlay since 2009.

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fell into a lull partway into the first half, and didn’t come out of it until the last eight or nine min-utes in the game.

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The college’s 2014 senior class officers have officially kicked off a three-year student giving campaign for the senior class.

Senior Class President Josh Andrew explained that the cam-paign is an effort to increase the percentage of alumni donations given to the college.

“Historically, people who graduate from Hillsdale don’t seem to give back very much,” Andrew said. “This impacts our rankings. If people gave back $30 over three years, it will drasti-cally impact our rankings for the better.”

The idea for this three-year campaign began last year with the class of 2013. During the course of their campaign, 40 percent of the class signed a pledge to sup-port the college over a three-year period.

Colleges across the nation continually seek to increase their alumni giving rate. U.S. News & World Report publishes an an-nual report of the top 10 colleges with the highest two-year average

percentage of alumni donations.According to U.S. News and

World Report, the college with the highest alumni giving rate was Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., which aver-aged 63.7 percent.

Hillsdale College Director of Alumni Relations Grigor Hasted explained that the senior class campaign is part of an effort to increase the college’s alumni-giving rate, which has remained at 25 percent.

“Fifty percent is a good level for some of the best schools in the nation. We are among those schools, but our alumni giving rate is not commensurable with that,” Hasted said. “If you wait to cultivate that type of alumni sup-port after the students graduate, even within the first two years, it is very hard to reach them.”

In an effort to increase student participation in the campaign, the senior class officers are exploring new marketing efforts.

“Last year, the officers really restricted their marketing to sit-ting at a table above Saga. We thought that as long as people know about the campaign they

Heavy snow, in addition to high winds and frigid temperatures, has challenged the city of Hillsdale’s winter maintenance crew this season.

“It’s by far the most intense winter since the `70s,” said Keith Richard, Hillsdale De-partment of Public Services director.

DPS Working Foreman Roger Paynes said the crew’s work is never finished in weather like this.

“You get the streets open and then the wind blows them back shut,” Payne said.

So much snow is accumulating that plow drivers are running out of space to store it at the side of the road, Richard said. While the department mainly uses plows mounted un-der their trucks, it has resorted to using front plows, which push snow higher, in order to push newer snow over old piles.

Normally, warm spells throughout the winter prevent such accumulation, but no re-prieves have occurred this season.

In addition to finding somewhere to shovel old snow, the crew is having problems melt-ing new snow and ice due to the consistent, sub-zero temperatures.

“The cold makes salt less effective,” Rich-ard said.

The crew has since resorted to spreading sand on roads as well, to provide some sort of traction for drivers.

DPS has separate budgets for winter main-tenance on major roads, local roads, and the section of M-99 within city limits, called the trunk line.

When the last budget figures came out on Jan. 1, DPS had used 22 percent of its $83,840 budget for major roads, 22.5 percent of its $47,840 budget for local roads, and 45 per-cent of the trunk line’s $22,785 budget.

The trunk line budget is set by the state of Michigan, but the other two are set by the city.

Dry campus events may be a thing of the past as Saga Inc. ex-pands its liquor license.

Before the upgrade, Saga could sell alcoholic beverages in the Cur-tiss Memorial Din-ing Hall and Knorr Dining Room. But now, with the new li-cense, they can serve at other locations. A staff member who has been trained on Alcohol Intervention Procedures must be present, however.

This expansion will help groups like the Student Activi-ties Board host more attractive events that incorporate alcohol. Amanda Bigney, director of student activities, already has plans for Karaoke nights on Feb. 13, March 27, and April 29, complemented by beer.

“We wanted to create an event during the week when students could take a break from studying and have some fun without leav-ing campus.”

About 20 people on staff at Saga meet the qualifications, having gone through Training for Intervention Procedures. This program is taught by Kevin Kir-wan, general manager of Saga, who is a certified TIPS instructor.

“I made the decision that it

was the most economical and safest option for the college and us,” Kirwan said. “As a certified trainer, we have trained over 20 staff members who are certified in Alcohol Intervention Proce-dures.”

The training is required by government to help prevent al-

cohol abuse. It promotes respon-sible drinking behavior and trains staff in how to react to intoxica-tion, check for proper identifica-tion, and manage risk.

“Saga wants to be known as the ‘don’t try to get a drink if you’re not 21’ place, and a place

that will cut you off if necessary. Safety is our first priority,” Kirwan said.

K i r w a n said that the college has more f l e x i b i l i t y for holding events with the option of serving alco-holic bever-ages.

In the past, when H i l l s d a l e wanted to

serve alcohol for events such as Centralhallapalooza or Parent’s Weekend, they would have to acquire a special 24-hour permit for the event. Saga now has an off-premises SDD & SDM Ca-tering license that allows them to expand beyond their previous restrictions.

Saga Inc.'s decision to extend serving hours in the Knorr Din-ing Room this semester has suc-ceeded in increasing meal atten-dance, but the longer hours are hard on workers.

The early openings for lunch and dinner have proved mostly successful, according to Kevin Kirwan, general manager of Saga.

“What I’ve noticed on it is we’ve had a slight increase — more students are able to make it to meals,” Kirwan said. “The earlier hours are very appeal-ing to people, and on the week-ends, Friday and Saturday nights, staying open the extra half hour seems very popular.”

The extra half-hour after each weekday meal is very lowly-at-tended, however.

Junior Alex Tacoma, head student manager in Saga, says that the late hours — 1:30 p.m. for lunch and 7:30 p.m. for din-ner — have been very unpopular with students and workers. Com-ing in late means that food is old, and Saga workers have to stay at their job and continue preparing for customers who never come.

“It’s been in my opinion an overall failure, not a good idea,” Tacoma said. “We have learned

some things from it — the extra half hour the food is out it gets cold and stale. The problem with Saga is that the food is not chang-ing. It’s all in presentation.”

Tacoma says that the expand-ed hours are just another problem for a job that's hard enough to keep people in already.

“If you compare Saga to any job on campus, it’s the least de-sirable,” Tacoma said. “We have problems already, and I don’t see this changing anything.”

Having to work the late half-hour puts extra strain on student workers who have to juggle their job with homework and extracur-ricular activities.

“I think the hours are detri-mental to Saga workers, because the place basically shuts down at 7 p.m. and we all then sit around but can’t clean up until the doors close at 7:30 p.m.,” said Saga employee and sophomore Luke Adams. “Then if I want to do homework or go to a meeting or something, I can’t.”

Adams is also concerned that the extensions are expensive, be-cause more food is left unused, and each worker must be paid to stay on for extra time.

“The student’s dining dollar is going a shorter distance,” Adams said. “We have to throw away a ton of food at the end of each shift.”

Saga President Tim Morrison

says that the new hours are much more convenient for students, and the extended meals let the cook-ing staff stagger their work and avoid wasting food, as they begin making food to order in the last half hour. As to some employees’ complaints, he said that they’re not looking at the full picture.

“In some of our employees’ opinion, it’s probably not worth it to stay open,” Morrison said. “But there are a lot of aspects they’re not considering.”

Morrison clarified that once they are able to observe the new hours in action, they’ll be able to adjust for waste.

Sophomore Kendall Karpack said that she likes the new hours, but sympathizes with the Saga workers who dislike them.

“As a customer, I appreciate Saga’s efforts to make it more accessible to students, especially athletes,” Karpack said. “But I understand the complaints of the workers. It’s difficult, when you have other commitments, to work that much at a time.”

Sophomore Matt Sauer regis-tered unreserved support for the change.

“Love them! It’s the best thing to ever happen to, in, and with Saga!” Sauer said. “It’s conve-nient, it takes the pressure off and allows for more flexibility. It’s practical.”

Laura Rahe, wife of Professor of History Paul Rahe, released a new book, “From Courtship to Marriage: Reflections for the Modern Woman,” in November 2013.

“It seems to me as though there’s a lot of silence in our culture about courtship and marriage,” she said. “I intend-ed, more than anything else, to make a conversation starter.”

Rahe began writing more than a year before the book was published, when she had less work than usual at the Kalama-zoo law firm where she works part-time.

“I had a little spare time, and my kids were a little older, so I felt I had that window of oppor-tunity to actually write every-thing down, and I’m glad I had that,” she said.

She and her husband talked for some time about writing a book together that focused on courtship and marriage. But he became involved in another project, and she began working on this one.

“The book is full of common sense and that common sense is quite uncommon today,” Paul Rahe said.

The book stems from the idea that even though young women can’t completely control their personal lives, there are still many things that they can im-pact through the relationship de-cisions they make early on.

“One the one hand, if you ask people in college, ‘Do you hope, someday, to marry and have a family,’ most of them say, ‘Yes,’” she said. “On the other hand, we’re seeing a breakdown in the trajectory towards mar-riage among young people.”

Rahe’s book is directed to young women who are inter-

ested in the possibility of mar-riage and children, but specifi-cally to those who think it’s an issue to be considered at some undefined point in the future.

One of the phenomena that Rahe noticed while researching her book was the lack of aware-ness regarding the biological clock, she said.

“Science is starting to say that a woman’s fertility declines dramatically after the age of 32,” Rahe said. “There needs to be a cultural awareness that the ability to have children is not something that we can take for granted.”

Not only is there a basic lack of information regarding the problem, but there are also ideo-logical pressures at play telling women that careers and family are incompatible, Rahe said.

“There is a not-necessarily-factual perception that hav-ing children will destroy your chance to ever develop your ca-

reer,” she said. “Young women should just be a little cautious of other people’s agendas for them.”

Rahe offers a tremendous amount of advice regarding courtship, but beyond a few immutable principles, most of it is designed to provide points of consideration, primarily cen-tered around the courtship phase of a relationship.

“I had a good deal of trepi-dation writing about marriage,” Rahe said. “I thought someone who has been married for 40 or 50 years would be in a much bet-ter position to say something on that topic than I am. But I’m here writing on courtship, which I do think I have some things to say about, and I didn’t think I could adequately address the issue of courtship without marriage.”

The book was published by CreateSpace, an Amazon com-pany, and is currently available on Amazon.com.

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MISSION TRIP: HILLSDALE

Longtime aide to the registrar retiresMadeline Norris, formerly

Haslam, longtime aide to the reg-istrar, left Central Hall for the last time as an employee last week, after 16 years of service to Hill-sdale College.

“I appreciate the genuine desire that she had to help our students. Not just, ‘Here’s your transcript,’ but ‘What else can we do? How else can we make your day better?’” Registrar Douglas McArthur said.

Norris said she would miss all the students who came to visit her in the registrar’s office.

“I absolutely loved working in the registrar's office,” she said in

an email. “My son and daughter were in their late teens when I started working there, and so the students reminded me of them when they did go off to school themselves.”

Norris first worked for the college’s institutional advance-ment department. However, most students, staff, and faculty knew her from the registrar’s office.

“When you walk into the of-fice or even call, Madeline was likely the person who you were going to speak with,” McArthur said. “She was the initial face and voice that students encountered for a little more than five years. Madeline did a lot to set a posi-tive tone in here for all of us.”

Many students only had a brief encounter with Norris dur-

ing a trip to the registrar’s office, but tend to remember her as the smile behind the desk in Central Hall’s basement.

“She is my favorite person at Central Hall because she always seemed so helpful and happy,” sophomore Hannah Wolff said.

Norris’ coworkers also testi-fied to this aspect of her person-ality.

“Madeline is a very green per-son. She wanted to recycle ev-erything and is also very health-conscious. She bakes a lot of gluten-free things for her family — who she is very devoted to — and loves natural food,” McAr-thur said.

During her time at the of-fice, Norris was well-known for bringing brownies and other

baked goods to share with col-leagues, according to friend and coworker switchboard operator Susan Marsh.

“Madeline is such a very kind individual, always willing to help people and brighten their day,” Marsh said.

Norris spent most of her time helping students who expressed concerns about their transcripts, needed help with their class schedule, or had general ques-tions about their academic re-quirements.

“She is a great person to have behind the desk and was always that soothing presence to talk to — especially on registra-tion day,” junior Caroline Grace Brothers said.

At times Norris felt so touched

by these brief encounters with students that she would be teary after they left.

“She’s very empathetic and carried what other people felt. She used to actually tear up sometimes when students were having a bad day because she couldn’t help but share in their sadness,” McArthur said.

In addition, Norris had a way of making students feel comfort-able in an otherwise stressful situation.

“I just remember her being really helpful with everything,” junior Kathleen McGraw said. “She never resented us asking a lot of questions, and I never felt like I was there at the wrong time.”

According to Norris, the best

part of her day was working with students and she wishes all of them the best in their future en-deavors.

“Madeline was very good at what she did, but she’s also just a very good person,” McArthur said.

Norris was recently married and moved to Holland, Mich. earlier this week.

“She is very funny and always brought a wry sense of humor to her work,” McArthur said. “In fact, she looked for humor in just about everything and was kind enough to always look on the bright side of things. She was our giggler, and I will miss her infec-tious laughter.”

Many colleges have an “al-ternative” spring break, where, instead of spending time travel-ing for fun, students can travel somewhere to serve people in need. Hillsdale students have decided that traveling some-where exotic isn’t necessary to do ministry.

When freshman Victoria Fassett found out that Hillsdale doesn’t have a spring break option like this, she and other women in the Olds Residence Bible study decided that should change.

Head Resident Assistant of Olds junior Shelly Peters talk-ed with Fassett and freshman Kathryn Wong about starting a missions trip.

“We started with a lot of prayer; at first that was all it was,” Wong said. “We were really praying about where we should go. Shelly and I were kind of independently convict-ed that we should stay here. We just initiated with local pastors and got their input and support.”

One of these local pastors is the Rev. Keith Porter of Hills-dale Free Methodist Church,

where the attendees of the mis-sions trip will stay.

“I’m always amazed when we send teens elsewhere to plac-es like West Virginia or Ken-tucky, when there’s such a need here,” Porter said. “There’s a lot of need in Hillsdale County and Hillsdale proper.”

Throughout the week, stu-dents will spend their days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. serving the Hillsdale community and their evenings serving and encourag-ing each other.

“The week is really two-pronged in its intention,” Wong said. “The first is to really love the people of Hillsdale, and show them the love of Christ. The other is to really grow as a community and as the body of Christ.”

By the end of the week, stu-dents will have read through “Love Walked Among Us.” In the mornings, Wong said, the students will read the book, and in the evenings, pastors from lo-cal churches will speak on the topic of that chapter.

“There’s nothing glamorous about this,” Peters said. “It’s re-ally about service.”

As the adviser of Intervarsity Hillsdale Christian Fellowship, Assistant Professor of Religion

Donald Westblade agreed.“It would be so deeply sat-

isfying to participate in this,” Westblade said. “Indulge your-self in this, instead of the self-indulgence of a week on the beach. I’m not denying that a week on the beach would be satisfying, but I think that the pleasure you would get from that is a superficial pleasure compared to the real, humanly, deeply, resonating, satisfying joy of seeing needs met.”

Wong and Peters both noted that they would like to see the connection between the college and the community go far be-yond the time spent serving dur-ing break. As they have worked with GOAL programs, they’ve tried to find out how to fill the void of missing student volun-teers during the week.

“There’s as much under-standing as one might expect between a kind of work-a-day culture and a study-all-day-long culture on the hill,” Westblade said. “But, anything like this, where we’re reaching out and saying ‘we’d like to be of ser-vice to the community,’ I think is going to help build those bridges and strengthen bridges that are already being built.”

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In an effort to keep up with the ever-evolving world of tech-nology, Information Technol-ogy Services partnered with the Academic Computing Advisory Committee to develop multiple technological solutions to suit faculty needs.

Last semester, Associate Professor of Psychology Kari McArthur, a member of ACAC, sent out a survey about the t e chno log i -cal needs of the faculty members here on campus. Almost 80 percent of the faculty re-sponded that there was a need for new-er technology, and ITS went to work to sat-isfy that need.

“ITS is great,” McAr-thur said. “They bring at-tention to new technology on the market, pro-vide training for new products, and are willing to give a variety of options, which is wonderful.”

The main focus of the ITS in response to classroom technol-ogy is “simple and unobtrusive devices that will make for an efficient learning experience,” Executive Director of ITS David Zenz said.

One way they are achieving

this goal is making devices uni-versal. Professors can bring in their own laptop, iPad, or iPhone and pull up presentations, audio-visual aids, and music selections simply through wireless connec-tion.

This drastically decreases set-up time that is wasted on techno-logical difficulties during class, and also allows the professor to have the comfort of using their own device.

Recently, Heidi Bargerhuff,

end-user training & support spe-cialist for ITS, organized a “key-board fair” for the professors to try out different classroom keyboards. Two types were pre-ferred, and ITS made it possible to place both options in all class-rooms.

“Both are in rooms now, and it’s great because they meet dif-ferent needs for different folks,” McArthur said. “There is a

freedom that comes from hav-ing multiple options to create a dynamic learning experience for students and a convenient setup for professors.”

Kendall Hall has new projec-tors, computers, and the two dif-ferent keyboards in each class-room. Classrooms in Lane Hall all have new projectors, and new computers with the preferred keyboards have been ordered this week. Dow Science Build-ing and Strosacker Science Cen-

ter have also improved their technology with Apple comput-ers and new projectors. ITS has also been experimenting with Apple TVs and other wire-less devices.

M c A r t h u r denied that the upgrades were about solving technological problems.

“I certainly would not say problems,” she said. “This is about continued growth, rather, since technolo-gy is constantly

changing.”Zenz had a similar response,

saying that the project is a “work in progress.”

Zenz’s dream is for faculty, students and visitors to walk into a class and achieve what they want to achieve, with the technology operating without a hitch.

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Author to speAk on legAl Aspects of roe v. WAde

“Abuse of Discretion” author Clarke Forsythe will lecture on the legal aspects of Roe v. Wade at a Students for Life event on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

“A lot of people say, ‘I’m pro-life,’ but don’t actually know anything about what’s happening in the legal system right now,” SFL President junior Nichole Chaney said.

Forsythe’s lecture will aim to inform students on the legal aspects of Roe v. Wade by citing specific court cases as examples.

“We went to D.C. for the March for Life because we want Congress to know that this should be over-turned,” Chaney said. “We haven’t given up. If we know what’s happening in the court system, then we will be informed about what we can do to get small bills passed that slowly chip away at it.”

Following the lecture, Forsythe will be joined by Assistant Professor of Politics John Grant and Associate Professor of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter for a panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience.

“Last year, our panel discussed moral qualms with abortion. We asked questions like, ‘Why is this morally unjust?’ and, ‘Should we provide financially for people to have a baby if they get raped?’” Chaney said. “This is different. We’re focusing on informing students about Roe v. Wade from a solely legal perspective.”

The event will be held in Phillips Auditorium at 6:30 p.m., followed by an opportunity for students to purchase Forsythe’s book.

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As director of the GOAL Program, senior Travis Cook serves the cam-pus and many in the community by overseeing the 20 volunteer programs on campus. He has also been a member of the club soccer team for the past four years. Travis attends Hillsdale Free Methodist Church and leads several on-campus Christian groups. As an accounting major, Travis participates in the accounting club and looks to continue his leadership as he begins his career at Plante Moran upon graduation.

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accomplish the goal.Senior Assistant Director of

Admissions Andrea Clark said the college website is crucial for attracting students since many students check the website for information before they ever contact admissions. She said more resources were recently de-voted to the website.

“Right now we are trying to catch up, and I think the sooner we catch up the easier it will be to recruit students in that earlier

stage,” Clark said. “If we want more applicants, our web pres-ence has to be competitive with top schools.”

The college published an ad-missions iBook last semester, an example of the move toward on-line outreach.

“Online is where 18 year olds and 17 year olds and 16 year olds live so we want to make sure that we have a presence in those areas so that we can recruit better and recruit more efficiently,” Lantis said.

So many more applicants will mean more work evaluating

prospective students. Clark said there is a possibility of increas-ing the counseling staff in the fu-ture to maintain Hillsdale’s “per-sonal touch” in recruiting.

That personal touch includes interviewing a large portion of applicants, something many larger schools no longer do. The volunteer alumnae and parents network around the country help relieve the load on admissions by performing interviews and spreading the word about Hills-dale.

“As long as we stay grateful, God will help us,” Schebor said.

are going to give,” Andrew said. “Putting it online and making the campaign more interactive will increasing our participation base.”

Officers are encouraging stu-dents to participate in a video

contest where seniors can sub-mit a short video explaining why they will continue to support the college. The videos will be shown at the Senior Class Gala later this year.

In addition, the officers plan to launch a website where stu-dents can sign up for the three-year pledge. The site will allow donations to be given to specific departments, organizations, sport

teams, or clubs.“The donations are essentially

going right back to the students. We want to emphasize that stu-dents can fund their particular interests,” Andrew said.

“We want to stress that it doesn't have to be a lot of mon-ey,” Hasted said. “Just remember Hillsdale each year and what you are able to give, and that would a tremendous help to the college.”

Last week, Hillsdale’s speech and debate teams earned an award together at one of the larg-est national open tournaments in the Midwest.

The award was not won in a weekend, however, or even in a semester. At the Gorlok Gala, a tournament hosted by Webster University in St. Louis, Mo., the Traveling Award is given every year to the team that has earned the most cumulative points be-tween speech and debate in all years of combined attendance. Out of more than 40 teams, Hills-dale won the award this year.

This was the 16th time the tournament has run, but Hillsdale has only attended for six years.

“We put ourselves to the top in half a decade, which took a lot of winning, year after year after year, to get that many points,”forensics coach Matthew Warner said.

On average, most teams who win the award do it in about

seven years, according to debate coach Matthew Doggett. Teams earn points when members place high in preliminary rounds and also based on rankings in finals.

Warner said earning the Trav-eling Award was his team’s main goal this year, because they knew they were in sight of it. Forensics captain and junior Brandon Butz agreed.

“This is basically our second goal met for the year. Mission ac-complished again,” he said.

The first goal was winning a speech tournament at Marietta College early in November. Hill-sdale won that tournament with 70 points, the runner-up earning 21 points.

Butz and Doggett both said speech and debate have contrib-uted about equally to Hillsdale’s success at the tournament over the years. Because this year’s de-bate team is young and only has five members, the forensics team contributed more to the com-bined points.

Junior Kenneth Manyari-Magro made it to semi-finals in Impromptu, junior Ian Fury took

fifth in Extemporaneous, fresh-man Erin Graham was the top novice in Programmed Oral In-terpretation, and Butz took fourth in After Dinner Speaking, sixth in Extemporaneous, and made it to semi finals in Impromptu.

On the debate side, every de-bater had a 3-3 record in individ-ual debate, one win away from “breaking,” or making it to the next round.

Sophomore Kevin Ambrose and freshman Graham Deese broke together in junior varsity Parliamentary, a team debate event.

“Although we didn’t bring back many awards, given how young we are, this tournament was really successful,” Doggett said.

The Traveler's Award plaque will now be in Hillsdale’s speech and debate lounge, but only for a year.

“We get it for a year and then we have to give it back to them next year, and then we start over at zero,” Doggett said.

Speech & debate win award

Hillsdale students spending their semester in Washington D.C had their first group outing on Jan. 31.

They toured the Pentagon, and in the afternoon, a Hillsdale alum-nus working for the FBI, Michael Carroll, gave this semester’s 18 Washington Hillsdale Internship Program participants a tour of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The private tour allowed the students access to sections of the building barred from the public by post-9/11 security measures.

“I think my favorite part was the FBI, just because you see what kind of connections Hills-dale has in that they don’t even give public tours there anymore,” junior Korbin Kiblinger said, “And we got the chance to actu-ally go in and see the educational facility and see what a Hillsdale alum did with his life.”

Junior Riley Workman agreed.

“I liked visiting the FBI, espe-cially as we were given a tour by a Hillsdale grad. I learned some of the actions our government takes in the war against terror and was reassured as to the respect our law enforcement and military officers feel for our Constitution and way of life,” Workman said.

In the morning, the group’s mile and a half long tour through the Pentagon was led by mem-bers of the U.S. military.

“The Pentagon is so much like a mall – escalators in the middle and everything,” Kiblinger said. “When you see it from the out-side, you just think it’s going to be a manly facility.”

The hallways were filled with displays detailing the history of America’s armed forces.

“I was impressed by the amount of historical and educa-tional material they had in all the hallways,” junior Casey McKee said.

Along the tour, students vis-ited the 9/11 memorial within the Pentagon, a room with low

lighting, walls lined with metal, and five black acrylic panels, two of which list the names of those who died when American Air-lines Flight 77 crashed into the building.

“The 9/11 memorial room was very powerful,” junior Aubrey Neal said. “I hadn’t realized how much of the Pentagon got de-stroyed in the crash, but they’ve done a very good job remem-bering the tragedy and honoring those heroes who were killed.”

Beyond their experiences in their internships and in the classroom at the Kirby Center, the WHIP students will take ad-vantage of D.C. with more trips throughout the semester. The group’s next trip is a Shakespeare play this coming weekend.

“The fact that the school does these activities means we get to hang out with other Hillsdale stu-dents even though we don’t work at the same places,” Kiblinger said.

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“This great evil — where’s it come from? How did it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us? Robbing us of life and light. Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known.”

So asks the protagonist, Private Witt, of Terrence Malick’s war film, “The Thin Red Line,” as he en-counters horror after un-speakable horror carrying out the duties of a stretcher-bearer in World War II. We can ask the same questions of the mass killings by the

20th century’s totalitarian regimes. We can ask, in light of history, as to the events and circumstances that led

up to these horrors or we could ask, in light of philosophy, about the progression of ideas.

As a student of literature, however, I prefer to consider these questions in the context of poems and novels. I’m fasci-nated by the correlation of creative writing to the era in which it is produced. Having studied some history, I might have guessed outright that 20th century literature would reflect, in some form, the bleakness of the age. That wasn’t quite the case for me, though. When I was exposed to modern litera-ture, I was surprised by the pervasive confusion of the 20th century and found myself asking questions similar to those of Malick’s stretcher-bearer. What on earth could have happened to make T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), the most influential poem of the century? In what culture could the words of Randall Jarrell’s 1942 poem, “90 North,” capture the spirit of the age:

“Here at the actual pole of my existence / Where all that I have done is meaningless, / I see at last that all the knowledge / Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, / The darkness from the darkness.”

Rather, the majority of my short reading career has been within the great conversation of Western civilization in which the key questions revolve around concepts of truth, reality, beauty, the human condition, and the appropriate relation-ships of people with each other and with God — an altogether “meaningful” conversation. Guided by notions of reason and revelation, Homer, Dante, More, Shakespeare, and others have lead me on an invigorating journey.

Not until the fall semester of my senior year, however, was I directly exposed to the literature of modernity. In its role of shaping and reflecting the ethos of common culture, literature paints a less-than-optimistic picture of the last century. Au-thors like Kate Chopin, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway and (the early) T.S. Eliot give evidence of a dras-tic break with tradition, a break which ushered in severe alien-ation of the individual, deep-rooted doubt and disorientation, and widespread rejection of the transcendent. I’ve wondered, how can meaning and significance turn so quickly into con-fusion and despair? The process of understanding the ideas and events that led up to modernity is important. I eagerly — sometimes desperately — look to authors who engage the times and offer some hopeful vision, authors like Walker Per-cy, Flannery O’Connor, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Rob-inson (and others, to be sure). Most of all, I’m drawn to the writers who engage and depict modern confusion, situating themselves in their own benighted culture, without acquiesc-ing to meaninglessness and rejecting all of the old ideas that once provided meaning for us. In short, these authors share the burdens of the times, but use the fragmented pieces of their culture to create something resonant and beautiful.

In this column, I will be focusing my attention on just such authors and trying to share why I find their words to be a source of “life and light” for the difficulties of modernity. At the end of the day they give us a way to carry on — per-haps with joy — and say, in the spirit of composer Richard Hundley’s song “Astronomers,” “We have loved the stars too deeply to be afraid of the night.”

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Wendy Davis, a Democratic state senator running to replace Rick Perry as governor of Texas, owes her political stardom to two things: a pair of pink sneakers and her unstinting support for a woman’s right to terminate a late-term pregnancy in a substan-dard clinic. Yay Feminism!

Last year, Davis led an 11-hour filibuster -- that’s where the sneakers came in handy -- to block legislation that would ban abortion after 20 weeks and re-quire abortion clinics to meet the same standards that hospital-style surgical centers do.

This was all going on against the backdrop of the sensational

Kermit Gosnell case in Penn-sylvania. Gosnell ran a bloody, filthy “clinic” where he per-formed late-term abortions with a barbarity you’d expect to find in a “Saw” movie. Sometimes he’d “snip” the spines of fully delivered babies with a pair of scissors. His instruments were so unsanitary that some women got STDs from them. Cat feces was a common sight on the procedure room floors.

In short, you didn’t need to be an abortion-rights activist to find the story of interest, but you’d certainly expect an activist to be up to speed on it.

Working on that theory, The Weekly Standard’s John McCor-mack caught up with Davis last August to ask her a few ques-tions.

McCormack noted that once you got past the squalor and filth of the clinic, Gosnell’s illegal late-term abortions weren’t all that different from legal late-term abortions in other states. “What is the difference ...,” McCormack asked, “between legal abortion at 23 weeks and what Gosnell did? Do you see a distinction between those two [acts]?”

“I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case,” Davis re-plied. “But I do know that it hap-pened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obvi-ously isn’t going to make a dif-ference.”

She should have stopped with “I don’t what happened in the Gosnell case” -- because in the

words of the grand jury report, the “abhorrent conditions and practices inside Gosnell’s clinic [were] directly attributable to the Pennsylvania Health Depart-ment’s refusal to treat abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical facilities.”

So the one thing she claimed to know wasn’t true. Also, what curious incuriosity. If you were suddenly a national leader on an issue you felt passionately about, wouldn’t you want to know what happened in a case that cuts to the heart of your cause?

Not Davis. Her time is better spent denouncing the ignorance of women who disagree with her. When McCormack asked what to make of the fact that a majority of American women support a ban on late-term abortions, Davis responded, “I again think that a lot of people don’t really under-stand the landscape of what’s happening in that arena today ...”

Think about that. In the course of a short conversation, she re-vealed that she didn’t know what she was talking about while ca-sually dismissing the majority of American women who disagreed with her as not knowing what they’re talking about.

Let’s fast-forward to 2014. Davis was recently interviewed by Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV. He asked her, “When does life start? When does a human being become one?”

Davis answered with a non-answer: “You know, the Supreme Court of course has answered this decision, in terms of what

our protections are.” Blah blah blah.

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics slammed Davis for being “too cowardly to give a straight answer, let alone a thoughtful one, to a straightforward ques-tion that goes to the heart of a matter she has made the signa-ture issue of her political life.”

I agree. But Davis is merely at the forefront of the cowardice epidemic. On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade earlier this month, President Obama couldn’t bring himself to say the word “abor-tion,” preferring instead virtu-ally every poll-tested buzzword. Indeed, in all of the “war on women” noise, abortion is al-most always wrapped in the velvety euphemisms of “wom-en’s health” and “reproductive choice.”

It should tell you something when passionate advocates of unrestricted abortion are so un-comfortable talking about ... abortion.

Perhaps all of the rage abor-tion extremists aim at their op-ponents is cover for a deep in-security -- maybe psychological, definitely political -- about the re-ality of what they are defending. Sen Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) once said that life begins “when you bring your baby home” from the hospital. That is not very far from Wendy Davis’ position. But she doesn’t want to say that -- certainly not in Texas! Better to change the subject to the evils of her opponents and -- hey -- have you seen my sneakers?

The following is a recom-mended reading list for every stu-dent to consider while attending college: (…).

And no, that is not the title of some meta, post-modern dysto-pia by (insert that writer you’ve never heard of).

The reading list is a strange phenomenon. While the cold, empty boxes of a blinking Excel document can induce pituitary activity at unsavory levels, the sight of empty squares now filled with that perfect, right-angle check can induce an existential

pride fit to place the meekest among us on the precarious brink of insufferable intellectualism.

Reading lists — even those in papyrus font — can slip qui-etly into reducing works like “The Republic” to a philosophi-cal scheme that snot-nosed kids can rattle off like baseball stats. They can strangle the Bible until it resembles the hair-trigger shot-gun of Elmer Fudd. It is here that ideas become egotistical weapons and everyone is the target. Trust me. This was once my fight.

The alternative entails listen-ing.

Job gets at this when he spurns his comforter’s advice in favor of quiet and T.S. Eliot suggests the same with his refrain “be still and wait.” But at this point recom-mending these works for reading seems weirdly contradictory.

So let’s try another medium: a commencement speech deliv-ered by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in May of 2005. The title of the speech: “This is Water: Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life.”

A diminished summary would generalize this talk as Wallace’s reflections on bridging the gap between Platonic hyperspace and the general public. In its simplest form, it offers the student a guide for exchanging his alcohol habit and reading glasses for a minivan

and a lawn mower. And yet even at this level, the

juxtaposition is profound. For we live in America, a land where people make jokes about war and weep over baseball. So while the rest of the country literally mourns the departure of Yankee’s closer Mariano Rivera, college students are salivating over Aris-totle’s “The Ethics” and wonder-ing what else they can place in their subjection.

Here, Wallace’s talk enters the discussion in another dimension, and you don’t need to be versed on the relationship between semi-otics and punctuated equilibrium for it to make sense. Its subject is humanity.

Wallace asks what you will do with the painfully mundane. To paraphrase, he considers the worth of a liberal arts education for those who make grocery trips, those who enter a supermarket that is hideously lit and infused with soul-killing Muzak or cor-porate pop. He considers how you, the liberally educated, will react when you finally reach the checkout line, pay for your food, and get told to “have a nice day” by a female cashier in a voice that is the absolute voice of death.

Wallace considers the most petty and painfully unsexy parts of adult life and wonders about education and its importance. He wonders if you will return home

thinking about that cow of a ca-shier and her menial life, or if you will consider that perhaps she is 10 hours into a shift and perhaps this is her third job and perhaps she has a child at home and per-haps her husband recently passed away.

So when you see an over-exposed picture on Facebook a week later featuring this cashier’s husband and her son at a skating rink in eastern Michigan, you will pause before mocking the clichéd comments that say, “Things are going to be okay,” and, “There is a silver lining to this dark cloud.”

For Wallace, the work of education entails debunking the single greatest myth known to man: that you are at the center of the world. The likes of George Eliot would call this “imagina-tive sympathies,” Wallace calls it “attention and awareness and discipline. Being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways ev-ery day.”

He remarks that education teaches you what to think about, extending your thoughts beyond the self. So go ahead and read Plato, read the Bible. Just realize it wasn’t written for you and your armchair philosopher friends. It’s for your neighbor, and he’s still getting over Rivera’s retirement.

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Hillsdale College has a do-nation problem — not among outside donors but rather among alumni. About 25 percent of Hill-sdale graduates donate back to their alma mater. That’s an ane-mic number compared to other top schools in the country.

To tilt donation numbers back in a direction more favorable to the school, this year’s senior class officers started a campaign to persuade every graduating se-nior to donate $30 to Hillsdale over the next three years. We en-courage the class of 2014 to heed their officers’ call for donations.

College administrators are

hoping a bump in alumni dona-tions will improve the college’s rankings and national reputa-tion. Low donation rates drop the college in rankings against other schools. The U.S. News and World Report rates colleges based on seven categories set by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Alumni giving is 5 percent of a school’s overall ranking.

Cash-strapped recent gradu-ates might see little reason to send their money back up the hill. But seniors, there are at least three reasons you shouldn’t think like this.

First, you can direct your do-nations to any organization on campus. Donating ensures future students will have access to the same clubs and programs as did you. Your Hillsdale experience, through the things you enjoyed, will live on, in part, due to your donation.

Second, Hillsdale’s ranking and national reputation should matter to you because it mat-ters to your potential employers. When alumni give, rankings in-crease. When Hillsdale is higher on the Princeton Review ratings, your education carries more clout to future employers. Do-

nate for the impressed nod of a colleague during happy hour, an extra look at your resume from a potential boss, and the “oohs and ahs” of your grandkids when they discover that you are a grad-uate from the conservative Ivy League of the Midwest.

Third, and most of all, you should give back because you like your school. We think Hill-sdale is a special place and we hope you feel the same.

Pay that tax-deductible $30 for the pride you have as a Hill-sdale grad.

Josh AndrewStudent Columnist

Jonah GoldbergSyndicated Columnist

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The introduction of the resolu-tion came after several weeks of discussion concerning the future of the Tower Light. The main section states that the publication will be cut from the current 700 issues to 150 issues.

Several weeks ago the finance board voted to increase the Tow-

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Current editor, senior Amanda Thompson, said she believed that the most important person to be asked for information about the Tower Light was the editor.

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Searching for life and light

The Uses of a

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Daniel TealStudent Columnist

A friend recently told me that he had given up on pursuing a politics major because he was disgusted with Capitol Hill and no longer wanted any direct contact with it. Instead, he explained, he was going to pursue an economics degree and participate in politics indi-rectly.

While a major in economics is a worthy pursuit, I was alarmed by his decision because I believe it is indica-tive of a larger campus trend. Students get a taste of Washington’s dysfunc-tion — either through an internship on the Hill or by watching seemingly perpetual Congressional gridlock in the news — and disengage with its politi-cal battle.

In the few months I’ve been on Hill-sdale’s campus, I’ve been shocked to find how many students are so disillu-sioned with politics. That’s not to say politics isn’t prevalent on Hillsdale’s campus. Where else would Sen. Ted Cruz’s pseudo-filibuster be as popu-lar with students as reality television shows are on other campuses? But af-ter many political discussions with my friends over the past few months, the disengagement and disgust students have with politics has become painful-ly evident. Students generally talk only about the negativity in politics — there is a lot of that these days — and ab-stract political theory. I’ve had numer-

ous discussions with friends about how Aristotle’s “Politics” is relevant to to-day’s political climate, but I very rarely have discussions about how to address the grave issues that face America to-day.

For a long time, this trend confused me. I could not comprehend how the college could do such a fantastic job of educating students, only to have those same students refuse to use that knowl-edge in the ideological conflict being waged in D.C. When I asked about how they reconcile this, my friends told me that they believe politics in America is too far gone.

Their resignation to demise, I be-lieve, is rooted in a deeper feeling of hopelessness. Hillsdale students don’t lack intelligence or passion for Amer-ica’s political system. They just don’t believe any mortal man can save it. In reality, if this view dominates, we will be guilty of perpetuating the same dys-function we all abhor. Only those with hope can have any chance to save the American political system.

Instead of being suffocated by hope-lessness, Hillsdale students need to re-alize that their very existence and the existence of other young, bright and moral individuals like themselves is that hope. It would be delusional to believe that Hillsdale students can do this alone, but they can lead the assault against the destructive status quo.

A monumental break from the status quo that leads to revolutionary change isn’t unprecedented. The soldiers fight-

ing for George Washington during America’s war for independence didn’t have many reasons to hope. They were a rag-tag militia fighting the world’s most formidable army with only one-third of the colonists supporting them. Yet through bloody defeats, harsh win-ters and insufficient rations, enough of Washington’s band kept the hope of in-dependence alive to outlast the British and win the war. If we hold onto hope that D.C. can be cleaned up the way the soldiers in the American revolution held onto hope, the path of this nation can be righted.

Only those who believe in their own causes can even hope to succeed. Washington won’t clean itself up; we have to do that. And once we believe that change in Washington is even pos-sible, there are many practical things we can do. We need to stop complain-ing about how economically and so-cially liberal the political parties have become, take them back, and fix them ourselves. Moreover, in addition to taking back the political parties, some of us need to run for office. Though Washington is the focus of many peo-ple’s political disdain, federal office is not the only level of government that needs our engagement. Policies handed down by state, county, and city govern-ments can have an equally large effect on people’s lives.

You may call me naive and say Washington will never change, but I can guarantee that if good men do noth-ing, evil will surely triumph.

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Unenforced marijuana ban undermines rule of law

Despite what headlines say, mari-juana is still illegal in Colorado. Col-orado is in the United States, where marijuana is illegal, according to the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Yes, Amendment 64 was passed in Nov. 2012, lifting Colorado’s weed ban. But under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, federal law still trumps state law. As long as the federal ban re-mains, the will of the Coloradan people doesn’t count for much legally.

So it’s odd that Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti, who bought the first legal-for-recreational-use-by-Colora-dan-standards marijuana, allowed The Washington Post to publish a photo of him committing a crime. It’s been over a month since Azzariti appeared in The Washington Post, but he has faced no charges.

Why is a criminal industry flour-ishing in Colorado with no resistance from the Department of Justice?

Priorities, we’re told. On August 29th, U.S. Deputy Attorney General

James Cole sent a memo to all U.S. Attorneys saying that the DOJ should continue focusing on eight priori-ties in enforcing the Controlled Sub-stances Act’s ban on marijuana. These priorities in-clude prevent-ing violence, drugged driv-ing, and dis-tribution to minors. Tradi-tionally they leave other ar-eas of enforce-ment to lower jurisdictions.

The memo stated that regulatory sys-tems such as the one in Col-orado support the priorities well enough that state law can remain “the primary means of addressing marijuana related activity.” Apparently, the DOJ will rely on the states, even where it doesn’t prosecute minor offenders.

Fair enough. Opportunity costs are

important. If you’re working on one case, you can’t be working on anoth-er, so it makes sense to prioritize. But when prioritization means a state can set up an entire industry around a fed-

eral crime, there’s a problem.

Obviously, the DOJ can’t prosecute ev-eryone who buys pot in C o l o r a d o , but it should p r o s e c u t e some offend-ers. It should show a com-mitment to enforcing the law. In his memo, Cole

pointed out that marijuana is still ille-gal and that the DOJ can still prosecute any user, but actions speak louder than words and there’s been no action.

My critique of the DOJ really isn’t about marijuana. If it were about mari-juana, I’d be all for it. Prohibition is a

bad policy, unsuited for free men, inef-fective, and harmful. Again, I want to live in a country where marijuana is legal.

But that’s largely because I want to live in a free country. The DOJ’s pri-oritization, though, threatens that by undermining the separation of powers and the rule of law.

First, the separation of powers. Men sin. Power exacerbates this, in propor-tion to its strength. The Constitution’s separation of powers addresses this threat. With authority split among three branches, each person within those branches has less power, and thus less temptation and capacity for abuse. By focusing on its own eight priorities instead of the Controlled Substances Act passed by congress, the DOJ is un-dermining this separation by, in effect, legislating from the executive branch. Constitutionally, the legislative branch, Congress, makes and unmakes the laws. The executive branch enforces them.

Legislating gives you a lot of pow-er. Enforcing laws gives you a lot of power. Doing both gives you too much power. Wittingly or not, the DOJ is on

its way to too much power.Congress’s power lies in making

laws. If the DOJ can get away with failing to enforce those laws, the laws are powerless. Congress is defunct, absorbed by the executive. That’s not where we are now, but that’s where we’re headed.

Further, the DOJ’s prioritization undermines the rule of law. A nation with industries governed by memos is not a nation of laws but of individual men and their whims. Technically, the marijuana entrepreneurs and their cus-tomers in Colorado are criminals. Pros-ecutors need only decide to enforce the federal law, rather than state, and they’re in trouble. The tenuousness of these Coloradans positions’ compro-mises their liberty. Can you really build a free life on the whim of a prosecutor?

Admittedly, the federal ban on mar-ijuana is an unconstitutional threat to liberty. Yes, legalizing marijuana is a great gain for liberty. But violating the Constitution further does more harm then good.

Abandoning separation of powers and the rule of law is not worth it.

Walker MulleySpecial to the Collegian

We can save WashingtonEvan Carter

Special to the Collegian

To the Editor: Some of us in the Tower Play-

ers feel that the coverage in last week’s Collegian of “Much Ado About Nothing” — as well as Tory Cooney’s accompanying editorial — have left matters somewhat unclear as to the nature of our production’s changes to Shakespeare. Those changes are as follows:

- The setting of the play has been changed from 1500s-era Messina, Italy to 1940s-era Washington, DC. (Period-appropriate music will be provided by an onstage 4-piece jazz combo.)

- The names of locations have been changed to reflect this. Men-tions of “Messina” now refer to “Washington”, etc.

- The play’s antagonist, Don John, is now a woman named Joanna.

- Characters’ titles have been changed to suit the period and set-ting. Count Claudio is now Lieuten-ant Claudio, etc.

- The play has been shortened to allow for a more-conventional run-ning time of around 2 hours.

-Shakespeare’s original language has not been altered, simply reduced

in length. We hope to see you all at what

promises to be an enjoyable pro-duction, and a fond farewell to its director, David Griffiths.

Peter Kistler, a senior, will play Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Clarification:In the article, “Do away with the

log books, security,” a writer im-plied that the dean’s office looks at log books kept by college security. The dean’s office denies that they do. The Collegian regrets this error.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On Tuesday at 7 p.m., about 20 Hillsdale students congregated in the Simpson Residence lobby to watch prominent creationist Ken Ham defend the viability of his worldview against Bill Nye, famous bow-tie- wearing “science guy.” Freshman Eli West organized the event.

“It’s something I really have been called to have a conversation about on this campus,” he said as the debate countdown clock approached zero

Available seating quickly filled up, and many stood. What followed was civil, professional, and occasionally educational, but ultimately unfulfilling.

The debate streamed live — with some pauses frustrating to the 500,000 people who watched online — from the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. It’s a young institution, founded in 2007 by Ham and dedicated to pro-mulgating the young-Earth creationist view — essentially, that creation hap-pened exactly as described in the Book of Genesis — against the onslaught of evolutionist modernity. A key figure in this onslaught: Bill Nye, known from many childhoods as the man who made science cool.

It began with opening statements from each. Nye argued that ascrib-ing so much geological history to a catastrophic flood simply doesn’t make sense given, for example, distinct fos-sil layers. He also said that there are “billions of religious people around the world who do not accept Ken Ham’s model” and successfully reconcile religion and evolution.

Ham identified “evolution” and “science” as words that “have been hijacked by secularists,” and cited accomplished creationist scientists, including one who called himself a “stellar astronomer,” eliciting laughter from the Simpson audience.

But after this, a rebuttal period

followed, beginning not a debate but a talking-around. Ken Ham rejected Bill Nye’s (and science’s) various methods of dating the world, claiming their variety and the variation between them negates any accurate measuring of the Earth’s age. His position rested on a belief in God, the Bible, and a com-mitment to rejecting any data gleaned from a time without witnesses. “There is only one infallible dating method: from a witness who saw everything, who was there — and that’s God,” Ham said.

Nye, for all his science guy cre-dentials, never truly overcame this religious defense. He dwelt often on scientific minutiae: asexual vs. sexual reproduction, aging of ice cores, and how, if the world were only 6,000 years old, nature would have spawned 11 new species every day. He did, however, thoroughly dispense with the creationist theory of the “Austra-lian land bridge” by which kangaroos were supposed to have hopped from the Middle East to Oceania without leaving any fossils along the way (and without the bridge being evident to any subsequent examination).

Yet each man looked foolish the further he strayed into the other’s terri-tory. Ham never satisfactorily respond-ed to Nye’s request to identify some-thing that the creationist model could predict, as other scientific models can. And Nye betrayed his own religious ignorance (and brought boos from the Simpson audience), asking Ham: “As I understand it, you’re basing this on the Old Testament. Isn’t bringing the New Testament into this a little…out of the box?”

Thus, this debate showed not which side is correct, or whether creationism is viable. We have learned, instead, that until or unless both sides either make actual encroachments upon the other’s turf, speak in the other’s language, or — Darwin forbid — yield ground, then this conflict will never really evolve.

Jack ButlerAssistant Editor

J.K. Rowling has made many of us question the very foundations of our childhood by announcing that she re-grets her decision to pair romantically Hermione Granger with Ron Weasley. The world-renowned British author retroactively declared that Harry Pot-ter would have made a better partner for the curly-haired genius.

This hasn’t shocked most, as the chemistry between Harry and Herm-ione was palpable throughout the seven novels. Their alliterative names and matching talent made them a perfect pair on paper. But regardless of how real Rowling’s descriptions of Hogsmeade and Fluffy the three-head-ed dog and Remus Lupin might have seemed, the world of Harry Potter is just that: trapped on paper.

In an interview conducted by Hermione’s actress, Emma Watson, Rowling attested that she originally tried to force the union of the red-headed sidekick and the leading lady more for “personal reasons” than for reasons of “credibility.” Perhaps Row-ling was aiming to prove the existence of platonic male-female friendships, or to break up what would potentially be the wizarding world’s most powerful couple.

I digress.Despite the legitimacy of Rowl-

ing’s revisions, it does not change the fact that many will look at the series in a new light, and not just in terms of the Ron-mione love saga. For all those that will read the series in the future, Rowling has forced her readers to question every character, every event, and every relationship. For all those whose multiple readings of the series provided a first love of reading, a first group of friends, and a first sense of magic, Harry Potter is newly tainted.

We expect authors to act as the gods of their stories. When a piece truly resonates with us, we trust that god for answers in our own life, long after we turn the last page. If F. Scott Fitzgerald had come out after he wrote “The Great Gatsby” and said, “Oh, I should have had Tom end up with Myrtle,” we would feel like the whole book was a lie, and, at the least, that Fitzgerald haphazardly toyed with his readers’ emotions.

Some may say that Rowling’s con-fession was merely a publicity stunt or that it does not tint the lasting beauty of the books. But this confession took back pages and whole chapters of dia-logue and feelings that played an inte-gral part in the story. Rowling’s com-ment means something to literature. It makes us question the underdog-Rons of the world landing the Hermiones of the world. It is sad that Rowling thinks Ron and Hermione would have needed marriage counseling, even if we know it in our hearts to be true.

Morgan DelpSports Editor

Rowling’s revisions hurt her credibility

A nation with industries governed by memos is not a nation of laws but of individual men and their whims.

(Dane Skorup/Collegian)

Creation debate needs to evolve

A state-mandated energy act forced Hillsdale City Council to approve the Board of Public Utilities’ recommendation to in-crease Hillsdale’s energy rates on Jan. 20. Passed by a 6-1 vote, the resolution allows Hillsdale to comply with Michigan Public Act 295, which requires the city to raise $240,000 for its 2014 funding.

“It had to be done,” Coun-cilman Patrick Flannery said. “If the council can ever avoid increases, we will, but this was state-mandated.”

Although BPU Director Rick Rose recommended council in-crease the rates, he did so un-willingly and doubts the act’s sustainability.

“It makes me feel like we’re trapped,” Rose said. “I don’t know how long this act will be beneficial for savings. That’s $240,00 we have to grab out of the local economy and shift

to the program. I hate seeing a quarter of a million dollars tak-en from the community.”

Despite the futility of reject-ing the rate increase, council members were reluctant to pass the resolution.

Councilman Adam Stock-ford was the only member to vote against the resolution, but he said it was a “symbolic vote.”

“It was meant to g e n e r a l i z e e v e r y o n e ’s a p p r e h e n -sion,” Stock-ford said. “My voting against it didn’t make a bit of differ-ence, but fundamentally, some-one need to vote no. BPU didn’t even want to do it, so let’s not have a unanimous vote.”

The rate increase is a result of the 2008 Clean, Renew-able, and Efficiency Energy Act (Michigan Public Act 295),

which aimed to promote the use of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. It also specified that the legislation’s implementation should be cost-effective.

In 2009, Hillsdale was re-quired to fund the program us-ing .75 percent of its annual revenue and reduce its annual retail sales by .5 percent. This

was only the beginning of a graduated rate, which since has increased to 2 percent of revenue and 1 percent of an-nual energy sales.

For the first three years, BPU fulfilled the law’s re-

quirements in-house under the Michigan Public Service Com-mission, but beginning in 2012, it chose to outsource the work to Efficiency United—a state pro-gram many small municipalities use to help them comply with the act.

“The law became too cum-bersome,” Rose said. “There were a lot of details that made it difficult to ensure that we were completely complying, so we joined Efficiency United.”

Until now, energy rates were set at a price that would gener-ate the necessary funds to com-ply, but with the rate increased to 2 percent, Hillsdale would still be short $69,091 in 2014.

In order to cover this deficit, Rose recommended an energy rate increase which will raise the charges by $0.00231 per kilowatt-hour for residential customers, $8.21 per month for business and commercial, and $166.25 per month for indus-trial.

Rose plans to write a letter to the state legislature warning of the harm any future increases could have on Hillsdale and oth-er small municipalities.

“We need to get our legisla-tors thinking about the conse-quences of any further incur-sions into municipal utilities,” Rose said.

Richard warned that if storms continue at this rate, DPS will exceed its winter maintenance budgets. However, if this hap-pens, DPS will simply shift funds from the non-winter road budgets to compensate, per-forming less sweeping or trash pickup, for example.

The eight-person DPS crew works a regular eight-and-a-half hour day shift year-round, performing various road clean-up services. Therefore, winter maintenance only increases overall costs if overtime work is necessary.

Outside the regular shift, if the police, who patrol 24/7, determine the roads are danger-ous, they will call in part of the DPS crew to plow. Sometimes

this results in 12-hour days when combined with the regu-lar day shift.

Richard said that the crew has not worked much overtime this year, because storms have been conveniently timed around regular, daytime work hours.

Richard said the depart-ment’s winter maintenance fleet is aging. Many of the vehicles are from the ’90s. Optimally, every three years, DPS would replace one of the single-axle dump trucks that plow most of the roads. At that rate, the entire fleet would turn over every 20 years, about the life cycle of the trucks.

In Richard’s 13 years in Hill-sdale, he has only been able to replace two trucks. So he’s two, single-axle trucks behind. Other equipment should be replaced as well, he said.

Payne emphasized that the

winter maintenance crew works to provide the best road surface it can, given conditions. He said his crew enjoys the job, but that they’re growing weary.

“We’re ready for spring,” he said.

Richard agreed and said he appreciates citizens’ patience.

“We realize that at times it may seem to take longer than they believe it should,” Richard said, “but it’s something that we try to do our best every day.”

Freshman Frank Manning had every intention of attending the Naval Academy in Annapo-lis; however, when he visited Hillsdale College during his se-nior year, one interaction with President Larry Arnn changed his mind.

“He asked me whether it was more important to learn how to fight or when to fight,” Manning said.

Although he chose Hillsdale instead of the Naval Academy, Manning is still learning when and how to fight. But instead of enemies, Manning is fighting fires.

“Mr. Manning is, like so many here, wishing to serve and wishing to know. He sees that he can serve better if he knows better,” Arnn said. “Son of a Marine, his idea of service has a certain martial quality. No surprise that he is fighting fires.”

Manning is a part-time fire-fighter in the city of Hillsdale. At any hour of the day, he could get a text on his phone and have to drive to an emergency. He keeps all his gear — which includes a helmet, fire hood, breathing apparatus, pants, coat, gloves, and boots — in his truck at all times.

To work part-time as a fire-fighter, a 150-hour course taken over four months is required. Classes include training in ice water rescue, patient care, Jaws of Life, and CPR. On Feb. 2, Manning also participated in the city of Addison’s live training program.

“They crank up the tempera-ture to 1,000 degrees,” he said.

Manning maintains a normal course load, despite also attend-ing training four days a week and responding to calls.

“It’s really busy,” he said. “Sometimes there will be a call when I’m studying, but it’s a good break.”

Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Pauken has worked as a fire-fighter for 34 years. When stu-dents ask to work for the force, Pauken looks for dedicated peo-ple who can commit to a hectic schedule.

“I always tell kids that we don’t work a lot like in a big city,” he said. “But thank God we don’t, because then most of the town would be gone.”

Blackwater’s founder, Eric Prince, was the first Hillsdale

student to work for the force. Since then, about one or two students join every five years.

Pauken said that his current force is more mature and was in need of younger members. The group consists of every kind of person from a teacher to a fac-tory worker.

“They don’t care if your mommy and daddy are the CEOs of a Fortune 500 com-pany, or if they are barely scrap-ing by,” he said. “The thing that impresses them is a good work ethic.”

Pauken said that Manning is a good fit for his force.

“The guys like him. He is quiet, but very personable,” Pauken said. “If he sees that there is work to be done, he will jump in.”

Sometimes the emergencies

are exciting, but Manning said it doesn’t match how television portrays firefighting.

“Sometimes it is just people burning popcorn in Olds [Resi-dence],” he said.

Mostly he is called to medi-cal emergencies, because the firefighters are the first respond-ers and are responsible for load-ing a person into an ambulance.

“During my first calls, I shook the whole time because someone could die,” he said. “But I’ve learned how to handle stressful situations in a profes-sional and calm manner.”

Manning joked that being a firefighter would be a good pick-up line.

“But I have a girlfriend back at home,” he said. “So I’ve nev-er gotten to use it.”

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“I hate seeing a quarter of a million dollars taken from the community.” —BPU Director Rick Rose

Macaela Bennett Assistant Editor

Energy costs increase due to state mandate

The topic of funding Hill-sdale’s roads caused several to voice their opinions at City Council’s Feb. 3 meeting, in-cluding state Rep. Ken Kurtz.

Kurtz attended the meeting in response to a letter the coun-cil sent him asking about viable options for solving Hillsdale’s road problem.

“I’m letting it be known that, even before I received this let-ter, I particularly believed that this should be one of the main priorities throughout the state of Michigan,” Kurtz said. “That is, what are we going to do with the roads?”

Kurtz said that there previ-ously has not been the revenue in Michigan to spend on needs like infrastructure and roads, but as things are looking up, more money will be appropri-ated for those things.

“Things haven’t been com-fortable for any of us in the pri-

vate or public sector as we’ve watched the economy drop to the point it has, but we are see-ing it come back,” Kurtz said.

In addition to discussing funding solutions within the Michigan House of Represen-tatives, Kurtz held a meeting with the chair of the transpor-tation appropriation commit-tee Wednesday to review the monetary needs, particularly in Hillsdale and Branch counties, to fix the roads.

In addition to Kurtz, Hills-dale residents Allison Hutchin-son and Jaminda Springer ex-pressed their opinions about road funding. Both were re-sponding to the recently pub-licized list of road-funding op-tions and urged the council to dismiss the city income tax.

“Let’s focus on new ideas,” Hutchinson said.

—Macaela Bennett

Two local men charged with four meth-related crimes Matthew Walter Barron of Jonesville and Charles Henry Os-

born of Osseo — both in their 30s — appeared before Hillsdale County District court Wednesday for a pre-trial examination after each being arraigned Monday on four charges: maintaining a drug lab involving methamphetamine, conspiracy to run a drug lab in-volving meth, maintaining a drug house, and possession of meth.

Barron, represented by public defender Kim Burger, settled on a plea bargain with the prosecutor. He will appear before the Hill-sdale County Circuit court next week.

Osborn, on the other hand, was reluctant to agree on a plea bar-gain. The prosecutor refused to drop charges lower than posses-sion of meth, which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. Osborn, represented by public defender Barry Poulson, ex-pressed a desire to take his case to a jury trial. However, Poulson cautioned Osborn of a jury trial, due to a spoon found in Osborn’s bedroom that tested positive for meth.

The state police officer who initially investigated Osborn’s residence testified before the district court Wednesday as well. The officer said he visited Osborn’s trailer after being informed that Barron and Osborn had recently cooked meth there. The of-ficer found used lithium strips and filters with Coleman fuel in the on-site dumpster, which he said are all necessary ingredients for meth.

The officer said that, at the time, Osborn told him that he al-lowed Barron to cook meth at his trailer, and that Osborn him-self had used meth. The officer said Osborn was cooperative and showed him the dumpster.

Osborn will appear with Barron before the circuit court next week.

—Taylor Knopf

Out of the library and into the fireEmmaline EppersonCollegian Reporter

Vanished Hillsdale

One of Michigan’s most severe union strikes lasted 102 days, involved 180 disgruntled employees, a 1,000 peacemak-ing National Guard troops, and it occurred 60 years ago across from what is now Johnny T’s Bistro.

Hillsdale was once the home of the Essex Wire Corporation, where, on Feb. 28, 1964, 180 employees left work to picket outside the building located at West Street Joe and East South streets. The picketers, members of Local 810 of the Interna-tional Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, de-manded working conditions more comparable to those of other wire corporations, particularly the Essex Wire plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The union had been negotiating with management for several months, arguing for higher pay and more seniority benefits, but it claimed talks were going nowhere.

Inside, the plant continued to operate using non-strikers while violence was building outside on the picket line, and on May 27, a picketer’s club struck a guard hired to protect non-strikers. The guard’s gun fired, and the outraged mob de-manded his arrest.

Concern about the seemingly uncontrollable mob influenced Michigan Gov. George Romney to declare a state of public emergency and send 1,000 National Guard troops to Hillsdale.

On June 9, 1964, the strike ended when IUE members ac-cepted a pact between the union and management. This agree-ment granted many allowances to employees, such as higher pay and more paid vacation.

The last guardsman left Hillsdale on June 10, the same day the Hillsdale Daily News published a quote from Hillsdale Mayor C. Audrey Paul that read, “I sincerely believe I voice the feelings of all our people when I say that because of our days of trial, Hillsdale has become dearer to us.”

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Seahawks vs. Broncos State Rep. KuRtz ReSpondS to RoadS

Hillsdale College students watched the Seattle Seahawks destroy the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2. Despite the many Su-per Bowl-watching parties on campus, some students prefered to watch the game with cheap beer, discount appetizers, and dedicated fellow fans in downtown Hillsdale. Broad Street Downtown Market and Tavern and Here’s to You Pub ‘n Grub extended their Sunday hours and offered drink and food specials to accommodate students and residents wanting to watch the game at the bar. (Emmaline Epperson/Collegian)

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(Laura Williamson/Collegian)

Both the men’s and women’s track teams earned third overall at the Grand Valley Winter Clas-sic this past weekend, placing among nationally acclaimed ath-letes. The two teams that placed before them, Lincoln University and Grand Valley University, are top-ranked teams.

Head men’s coach Jeff Forino said the team did very well, and several athletes broke their personal bests.

With two young groups and predominantly underclassmen both this year and anticipated for next season, the coaches were pleased with this week’s perfor-mance, and look forward to the upcoming home meet. While at Grand Valley, they achieved some of their best performances of the season.

“It’s really the cliché but it’s the little things that a young team needs to learn, like making sure that at every practice they get the most out of themselves that they can,” head women’s coach Andrew Towne said. “The nice thing I felt was that we had

a lot of good individual perfor-mances from every event area and this was the first time we’ve shown that this year.”

For the women’s team, sophomores Emily Oren and Kristina Galat took first and second place in the 3000-meter, freshman Allison Duber placed third in the 400 meter, and sev-eral other Chargers placed in the top 10 positions in other events. Oren and Galat beat upperclass-men All-Americans from Grand Valley.

“The two that stood out most were Kristina Galat and Em-ily Oren. They ran the second and third fastest 3000-meter in school history,” Towne said. “And they’re ranked 8th and 9th in the country right now. What’s really neat about their perfor-mances is it really embodied what we’ve talked about from day one.”

Senior Amber Mueller and junior Heather Lantis took second and third respectively in the shot put, senior Grace Leutheuser and freshman Dana Newell placed third and fourth in the weight throw, and Newell also took fourth in the high jump. In the pole vault, fresh-man Alex Whitford placed third,

receiving NCAA provisional marks with her score, and fresh-men Madison Estell and Jordan Ahlers took fourth and sixth in the triple jump.

“The team did really well and there were lots of highlights in the meet,” Oren said. “Alex Whitford did really well in the pole vault, set a new personal record, I believe, and bettered her national provisional mark. (Sophomore) Corrinne Zehner ran a really tough meet with a lot of events and she handled it really well. Allison also showed up in the 400 with her seasonal best which was really cool to see.”

The men’s team encountered equal success. Senior Maurice Jones placed first in the 400 meter and received an NCAA provisional mark. Junior Da-mian Matthews and sophomore Alexander Mexicotte finished fourth and fifth in the 60 meter dash, and junior Joshua Mirth took second in the 3000-meter. In the hurdles, seniors Matthew Raffin and Elliot Murphy placed first and second, both receiving NCAA provisional marks and marking Murphy’s lifetime best. The 4x400 meter relay team of junior Jared Van Dyke, Raf-

fin, Murphy, and freshman Ty Etchemendy took second.

“For this meet the focus was to beat as many competitors as possible and not to worry so much about performance and personal best, but to place as a team,” Forino said. “The team did this really well, and we ended up within two to three points of Lincoln, nearly getting second. This is really great for us.”

The teams’ next meet is Feb. 7-8 and will be hosted by the Chargers in their home arena. It is a two-day event that will see 900-plus competitors, making it the largest indoor meet the team has hosted.

Forino said the team is excited to host the meet, and although the sheer number of participants will require a steep learning curve, he and coach Towne are up for the logistical challenge.

“The next meet is this weekend at home so it should be fun to be able to compete in the place that we always practice,” Oren said. “Everybody is look-ing forward to it and is looking to better upon this past week-ends performances.”

Current Oakland Raiders and Hillsdale alumni Jared Veldheer ‘09 and Andre Holmes ‘11 made strides this season, proving their ability to play at the highest level and further establishing their place in the NFL. Their play was one of the few highlights in an otherwise disappointing 4-12 Raiders season.

“Your main focus (in the NFL) is on trying to make the most of your opportunities,” Holmes said.

Wide receiver Holmes made the most of his opportunities this season setting a career best in re-ceptions, recording his first 100+ yard game and scoring his first touchdown. Holmes described scoring his first touchdown as “surreal.”

“On play I was not even an option, as far as scoring a touch-

down. I was supposed to occupy the corner that was on me, and a guy was going to run a slant underneath me. I looked back and no one had gotten the ball yet, so I just made myself open. No one else was open and I got the ball.”

For Holmes, the biggest game of the season was against his former team, the Dallas Cow-boys: “If I had a calendar on my refrigerator, this game was the one I marked an ‘X’ on.”

Holmes had seven receptions and 136 yards in that game, which Holmes said gave him “confidence about what he could do on game day.”

Holmes described playing on the same NFL team as former college teammate Jared Veldheer as “crazy.”

“Hillsdale is such a small school and we’re not in a premier division of the NCAA. Sometimes I’d notice that Jared was in the same huddle...it’s really cool to represent HIllsdale

in that way.”A torn tricep kept offensive

tackle Jared Veldheer off the field for all but the last five games of the season. Though the injury was a setback, Veldheer played well in his return, holding opposing teams to only six sacks in the last five games. In the eleven games Veldheer didn’t play, the Raider’s quarterback was sacked 39 times.

Though his season is over, Veldheer has been in the news recently because his contract with the Raiders is ending in March.

In a radio interview with Oakland’s 95.7 FM, Veldheer said, “I’m really hoping and I’m pretty confident that I’ll continue to keep playing in Oakland.”

Talks between Veldheer and the Raiders have been going on since the end of last season, but a deal has not yet been reached.

Showcased by the success of Holmes and Veldheer, the Hillsdale football program has

experienced tremendous success the last few years with a number of Hillsdale Football players get-ting tryouts in the NFL.

“We’ve been fortunate to have probably a dozen [Hillsdale football players] go to (NFL) camps,” said Keith Otterbein, Hillsdale’s head football coach.

Though a number of play-ers have gotten tryouts with NFL teams, only three have made it past final preseason cuts: Holmes, Veldheer, and cornerback Nick Hixson ‘12. Holmes and Veldheer are the only players to have made it into a game, with Hixson playing on the practice squads of both the New Orleans Saints and more recently, before being cut in Au-gust, the Carolina Panthers.

“I think it’s a great tribute to Hillsdale College, and a great tribute to Division II football,” Otterbein said.

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TRACK TAKES THIRD AT GRAND VALLEYHillsdale to host 900-plus athletes at home meet this weekend

BOX SCORES

Shane ArmstrongCollegian Reporter

Charger teammates reunite as RaidersMen’s Basketball

Hillsdale College:71Findlay: 74

Hillsdale College: 58Walsh: 82

Hillsdale College: 86Malone: 71

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Tim Dezelski (436)Kyle Cooper (212)Brandon Pritzl (190)

3-Pointers:Anthony Manno (39)Dezelski (31)Pritzl (30)

Offensive Rebounds:Dezelski (51)Cooper (25)Tony Nelson (19)

Defensive Rebounds:Dezelski (120)Pritzl (82)Cooper (67)

Assists:Dezelski (75)Pritzl (65)Zach Miller (32)

Free Throws:Dezelski (77)Pritzl (58)Cooper (37)

Blocks:Dezelski (26)Cooper (15)Nelson (7)

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 106Findlay: 105

Hillsdale College: 66Walsh: 61

Hillsdale College: 85Malone: 69

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Megan Fogt (378)Madison Berry (173)Angela Bisaro (126)

3-Pointers:Kelsey Cromer (24)Kadie Lowery (17)Marissa DeMott (12)

Offensive Rebounds:Fogt (97)Bisaro (31)Sarah Theut (17)

Defensive Rebounds:Fogt (209)Bisaro (62)Theut (40)

Assists:Ashlyn Landherr (52)Bisaro (49)Berry (40)

Free Throws:Fogt (104)Berry (60)Landherr (41)

Blocks:Fogt (50)Bisaro (23)Alex Moynes (6)

Career services puts spotlight on sports

Evan CarterCollegian Freelancer

Sophomore Madison Berry prepares to shoot a free throw last Thursday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Matt MelchiorCollegian Reporter

Teddy SawyerAssistant Editor

Career services will be spot-lighting Hillsdale’s Sport Studies program on Monday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Gilespie Room in the Dow Center. Faculty will provide a brief overview of the two year old program, followed by talks from five professionals, who will share how they found their success in sports.

“This is part of the initia-tive to do departmental focused career nights,” said Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray. “We want to work with departments to give students the opportunity to learn about potential jobs and careers within their program.”

The Sports Studies program includes a major in each of the following: Physical Educa-tion, Exercise Science, Sports Psychology, and Sports Man-

agement. According to Lynne Neukom, athletic training pro-gram director, there are about 40 students enrolled in the Sports Studies program.

“This event is invaluable for students to attend if they’re interested in this field,” said Kurt Kirner, women’s swim coach. “Often times they don’t even know the amount of opportuni-ties there are out there.”

Five professionals are schedule to talk to students on Monday. Three of the five were former athletes at Hill-sdale. Football player Dave Mifsud ‘86, basketball player Jack Furlong ‘85, and baseball player Michael Bauer ‘12 will be accompanied by Josh Burgett, senior director of corporate part-nerships at Michigan Speedway, and Jake Neukom, physical therapist and athletic trainer. All of these individuals work in sports-related fields.

Non-swimmers can’t appreci-ate what swimmers go through during their lengthy and arduous season.

Starting in early September, the girls have practiced for countless hours with one goal in mind: swim as fast as possible at the GLIAC championships. Their training regimen has included swimming tens of thou-sands of yards (a truly absurd amount), doing dryland training, Navy SEAL challenges, and lift-ing weights.

For the majority of the sea-son, the girls would swim twice in one day, with the first session starting at 6 a.m.

They are now going through taper, which is the process whereby their muscles finally have a chance to fully heal. After being torn apart for months, the athletes will receive the most rest they’ve had since Septem-ber.

Taper is sophomore Alissa Jones’ favorite part of the sea-son.

“As sprinters, we love qual-ity (shorter, faster intervals)

work over endurance (longer, relatively slower). The end of the season gives us a chance for more sprint workouts, which we really enjoy,” she said.

Fellow sophomore Sarah Rinaldi enjoys taper as well.

“The beginning of taper will hurt and you won’t feel good, but once your body is fully healed you’ll feel great,” she said.

Rinaldi also noted that the girls are preparing themselves mentally. For many people, the mental aspect of racing can be just as important as the physical one.

Sophomore Mikalah Smith enjoys taper as well, but for her own reason.

“We have a long season, and swimming can be a drag sometimes. Everyone is getting excited, and this is the fun part of the season,” she said.

The girls have come a very long way since the season began, and don’t have long to go. The team will be travelling to Cleve-land, Ohio for GLIACs, which begin Feb. 12.

Doug WilliamsCollegian Freelancer

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sore,” Berry said, “but since we won we still had that energy and fire.”

Junior Chelsea Farrell had a career-high 12 points and seven rebounds.

“Chelsea Farrell really kind of saved us,” Mock said. “Dur-ing a second half timeout, the team was looking glossy-eyed,” Mock said.

He explained that after the timeout, Farrell went into the game and turned the team’s energy around after diving for a ball on the ground.

Soon after, Cromer and Landherr scored four 3-point-ers in a row with nine minutes left in the game to put Hillsdale back in the lead and to ulti-mately win.

“Once again, I am so proud

of how we came together, grit-ted our teeth, and got another great win,” Fogt said. “Four in a row feels great!”

This weekend Hillsdale hopes to continue it’s four-game winning streak against Tiffin University on Thursday, Feb. 6, and against Ohio Dominican University on Saturday, Feb. 8.

The team has been resting from their busy weekend of games and working on defense, Berry said.

“We have done a poor job in turnovers the last few games,” Mock said. “Take care of that and not too many teams will be excited to play us.”

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Head women’s coach Claudette Charney addresses her team during their win against Malone. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Freshman Kenzi Dickhudt is a walk-on for the Hillsdale swim team and has been swimming since she was seven years old. A native of Detroit, Mich., Dickhudt loves the strong com-munity at Hillsdale and plans on majoring in economics.

How long have you been swimming? I have been swimming since I was seven. I was on club teams in the summer, and then I was on a winter club team for two years, but mostly I swam in the summer. What do you love best about swimming? Definitely the end-of-the-year meet. It’s where we taper and rest up and really work, and it’s all the years’ preparation going into a couple races. You usually drop a lot of time and it’s really exciting and sometimes you make cuts…that’s why I love it, because finally all your hard work comes into a specific time and you can see it visibly – you made your goal, or you even surpassed your goal. What do you like best about

the Hillsdale swim team? The community. All the girls are so nice and so supportive and really encouraging, and not just about swimming, but about your tests, homework, profes-sors, classes, everything. They want to really help you, and it’s not just the sophomores and the juniors, it’s the seniors too. I just think it’s so cool to have that area where you get upper-classmen mentoring freshmen and also just having a blast do-ing something we all like to do and sometimes we all hate, but it’s like that common love and common hate at the same time. How does Hillsdale compare to teams you’ve been on in the past? It’s definitely more intense, by far. But I mean it’s col-lege, and we’re DII, which is really, really cool. Teams I’ve been on in the past have been

all age groups, so sometimes we’d have seven-year-old kids swimming in the same meet as 18-year-olds. [Hillsdale] is just girls, and it’s a lot more intense. Do you get a lot of support from your family? Yes, so much. They’ve been to every single one of my home meets. That’s been so great. They’ve been so supportive throughout the whole process, saying, “Hey, I don’t care if you get on the swim team or not, whatever you do, I’m still here for you and still support-ing you.” Even one time, when working with the NCAA, I wasn’t able to swim because I hadn’t gotten all my paper-work filled out. My mom still came up and said, “Yup, I’m still here to see you, I don’t care that you’re not swim-ming.”

What are you thinking about majoring in? I’m thinking about majoring in economics. We’ll see – I really like my economics classes so far, but who knows. I really want to intern in Washington, D.C. What’s your favorite part about Hillsdale so far? The people. It’s so true that motto, “it’s the people.” It’s so cliché, but it’s so true. The professors are great, the classes

are great, but the majority of your time is spent with your fellow students – having amaz-ing people encouraging me and challenging me to grow spiritually, emotionally, and in classes as well. It’s very competitive, yet an encouraging environment, where everyone is striving to be the best and to encourage everyone else to be the best as well.

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CHARGERS FALL TO TOP SOUTH TEAMS

Everybody knows that college sports are serious business. Students devote many hours to practice and conditioning each week, as well as traveling to away games and tournaments. But not everyone knows about the crucial role of fundraising in col-lege sports.

Because of Hillsdale’s small size and its status as a private university, its teams must make a commitment to fundraising every year.

“We’re always coming up with new ideas,” said Chris Gravel, Hillsdale’s wom-en’s volleyball coach. “Men’s basketball does a reverse raffle. They kind of do one huge fundraiser, whereas we do a bunch of smaller ones all year.”

A recent “smaller” fundraising proj-ect for the volleyball team was one they did this summer, for the renovation of the George Roche Sports Complex. The revamp included replacing the gym’s old hardwood floor.

“Everybody wanted to do something to sell the floor,” Gravel said.

So, he and his team set about the task of pulling up its boards, one by one. It was tedious work, but the team made a substan-tial profit. They had the floor made into

“Charger Time” clocks and marketed them as “a piece of history.”

While Gravel and his head assistant coach are mostly responsible for the fundraising ideas, the players must devote a specified amount of time to fundraising activities, including running concessions at home basketball games and hosting a golf outing every summer. The women are also given the names of businesses they must reach out to for sponsorship.

“It’s an ongoing process,” Gravel said. “It’s made to help cover budgets and hope-fully, once every four years, do something extra.”

That something extra in 2013 was a tour to Austria and Italy. The team had all of the trip’s costs covered one month prior to departure. While abroad, the Chargers played four professional volleyball teams and went 3-1.

“The team that we lost to was an all-star team, and they were really good,” Gravel said.

The volleyball team has its own plan for yearly fundraising, as does each Hillsdale College sports team. The swimming coach hosts kids’ swim nights. The baseball team does the parking at football games and big track events.

An interview with Laura Klutsarits, women’s softball coach at nearby Siena Heights University, a Catholic institution

comparable to Hillsdale in size, revealed similar fundraising strategies. Klutsarits’ assistant coach worked at Hillsdale Col-lege for one year and learned about the men’s basketball reverse raffle here. Now, Siena’s annual reverse raffle is the softball team’s biggest fundraiser, bringing in about $15,000.

Fundraising is something Siena coaches tell their players about before they even start school there.

“You have to have buy-in from all of your players,” Kutsarits said. “The reverse raffle is something we talk about through the recruiting process so that students who are coming here know that this is something they’re going to have to do. We require x amount of tickets per student, and they’re responsible for that. Whether they’re buying them themselves or whether they’re selling them is totally up to them.”

Several of Siena’s sports teams work concession stands for NASCAR races at Michigan International Speedway. The teams send between 70 and 80 students there during weekends of NASCAR’s sum-mer season.

“Fundraising is such a vital part of being on a sports team,” Charger sophomore and swimmer Hannah Leitner said. “It’s kind of our way of giving back.”

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Fundraising: a necessary member of any team

The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team came just a few shots away from escaping a tough stretch of games with a 2-1 record. But on Monday night against Findlay Uni-versity, the Chargers fell just short, and now find themselves facing two virtually must-win games heading into the final stretch of the season.

The week started with a quality 86-71 victory over Malone Univer-sity. Senior guard Anthony Manno led the way with 24 points and some fan-tastic 3-point shooting.

“Anthony Manno came out very impres-sively. It’s a great boost to the team when you have those threes fall-ing,” senior Tim Dezel-ski said.

Manno converted six of his eight attempts from beyond the arc, an incredible 75% clip.

“Our 3-point shoot-ing on Thursday was a result of us attacking the basket and then drawing defenders in,” sophomore forward Kyle Cooper said.

Unfortunately for the Chargers, Walsh University, the first place team in the South Division of the GLIAC, gave them a taste of their own medicine in an 82-58 rout on Saturday.

“We gave up too many dribble drives, and so when you’re preventing easy layups around the basket, you’ve got to give up something else, so they found their open guys and they hit open shots,” Cooper said about the loss.

“Our defense let us down,” Dezelski said.

The Chargers allowed 15 threes to Walsh in just 23 at-tempts, a very poor 65.2% from a defensive standpoint.

“We just got outcoached, got outplayed,” assistant coach Brian McCauley added.

The Chargers headed into Findlay, the second place team in the South Division of the GLIAC, the following Monday, looking to bounce back, but couldn’t convert in the closing minutes.

“We didn’t capitalize down the stretch. We had a couple open looks as the game was winding down that we missed,” Dezelski said.

During the last 10 minutes of the game, each team took mul-tiple leads, but neither team could push their lead past three points. The Chargers took a 71-69 lead on a layup by Cooper with 1:47 left, but weren’t able to tack on any more points after that, lead-

ing to a 74-71 loss.“It came down to our

turnovers, and also the free-throw line,” Mc-

Cauley said.The Chargers

shot eight of 15 from the charity stripe, a poor percent-age especially con-sidering how close the outcome of the game was. The Chargers now have seven games left, needing to win a vast majority, if not all of them, to have a chance to win the GLIAC.

“Our backs are against the wall,” Mc-Cauley said. “It’s time to pick up the pieces… we’ve just got to play them one at a time and try and make a little run here.”

“We’re still in the race for the GLIAC,” Cooper said. “There’s no time to dwell on the past.”

The Chargers will look to get on the right track tonight on the road against Tiffin University.

“They’ve got one of the best scorers in the league in (Joe) Graessle, and defen-sively they really mix

up their defenses and always keep you guessing a little bit,” McCau-ley said about Tiffin.

After their game against Tif-fin, the Chargers return home on Saturday to face Ohio Dominican, a team who beat the Chargers earlier in the season.

The Chargers will be looking for revenge and a couple of wins this week to keep their pursuit of the GLIAC crown alive.

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Above: Hillsdale students pose after a tennis clinic that the Hillsdale women’s tennis team taught early in the fall semester. The team has raised money by teaching lessons to professors’ children and community mem-bers as well. (Photo Courtesy of Sydney Delp)

Right: Sophomore volleyball player Jenalle Beaman serves patrons of the concession stand at last week’s basketball game. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Award-winning wedding photographer Casey Fatchett ’97 came to Hillsdale to study physics, left with degrees in the-atre and English, and ended up pursuing wedding photography as a career.

When Fatchett graduated, he went to New York to pursue act-ing. But then his friends from school started getting married.

“I would take my camera and shoot a couple rolls of film,” Fatchett said.

For each wedding, he would pick a few of his favorite shots, blow them up, and give them as wed-ding presents to the couple.

“A few people wrote me back and said they were bet-ter than the person they hired and that I should look into wedding photogra-phy,” Fatchett said.

In 2000, he de-cided to research the wedding pho-tography business.

“When I photographed my first full wedding, I really fell in love with it,” he said.

Fatchett’s work is on dis-play in the Daughtry Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts as part of Hillsdale’s current Visiting Artist Series, “Perspec-tives on Photography.” Since he began, Fatchett has shot about 300 weddings, between 25 and 30 annually. Though he and his wife, Caroline Fatchett, live in New York City, Fatchett has traveled across the country shooting weddings as far as Cal-ifornia and Florida.

In addition to his double ma-jor, Fatchett graduated with cer-

tification from the Dow Journal-ism Program. At different points in his stint as a Collegian staffer, Fatchett edited the News, Opin-ions, Features, and Backpage sections.

“He was really out-going and funny when he was here,” Pro-fessor of Art Doug Coon said.

Since graduating, Fatchett has maintained a relationship with Hillsdale, particularly with Professor of Theater George Angell. He also plans to return to Hillsdale in June to shoot a wedding for Angell’s daughter, Rhiannon Angell ‘06.

“He’s like one of the fam-ily; he’s that close,” Angell said.

“He’s always been that way.”The Hillsdale Theater De-

partment hired Fatchett to cho-reograph its 2000 production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”

“Casey also played Mac-beth,” Angell said. “He got to work his own fight choreogra-phy.”

Fatchett’s fellow actors, An-gell said, were enamored with the longtime, bad-luck supersti-tions surrounding the play.

“Casey just hated it. He thought it was complete non-sense,” Angell said. “He wanted to disband the myth forever so, for his first entrance, he was go-ing to repeat ‘Macbeth’ as many

times as he could. He would then go out on stage and prove that it was a stupid legend no-body should pay attention to.”

But the moment Fatchett stepped out on stage, his father collapsed in the front row.

“That was the only time we have ever had to stop a show to bring in emergency techni-cians,” Angell said. “His father was O.K., though. It certainly was quite the moment.”

Superstition aside, both An-gell and Coon credit Fatchett’s acting training for much of his ability to read people and judge how they respond to a moment.

“His photos show great sen-sitivity to relation-ships and bringing out the personalities involved,” Angell said.

“His work is very theatrical and dramatic,” Coon said.

Further, Fatch-ett’s training with choreography and experience on stage has complimented his ability to com-pose as a photogra-pher.

“He’s used to looking for in-teresting compositions between people and working with archi-tecture, “ Angell said. “He also does nicely with outdoor shoots, finding wonderful textures and colors to back up the colors and textures of the wedding party.”

Fatchett said that the best wedding photographers know where to be and when to be there.

“Observation has always been one of my strong suits. But it’s also something as a wedding photographer you have to de-velop,” he said.

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From the Howard basement to the national main stage, the Hillsdale College Department of Music connects talented stu-dents with opportunities outside the Hillsdale bubble to sharpen their abilities and compete with others in their field.

Closely following his recent Hillsdale Concerto Competi-tion win, senior Jacob Martin entered Bowling Green State University's Double Reed Day Oboe and Bassoon Solo Com-petition. Martin's former oboe instructor Nermis Mieses, now an assistant professor at BGSU, notified him of the opportunity and encouraged him to enter. He submitted a recording of the third movement of Bohuslav Martinů's concerto for oboe.

On Jan. 25, Martin and fel-low senior oboe student Teddy Sawyer travelled along with their oboe instructor, Adjunct

Teacher of Music Kaycee Ware-Thomas, to Bowling Green, Ohio for the competition. Dur-ing the day of trying-out high quality instruments and mas-ter classes, the two mixed with professionals in the field, in-cluding Alaine de Gourdon, maker of F. Lorée oboes. Based in Paris, F. Lorée is the oldest firm specialized in oboe manufac-ture, and each F. Lorée instru-ment is made by Gourdon.

Though he did not place, Martin was pleased with the the challenge the competition offered. He says the competi-tion, like his experience with the oboe at Hillsdale, has helped him gain confidence in his art.

“Before coming to Hillsdale, I was playing mostly second

oboe, and being in the orchestra forced me into position to play orchestral solos,” he said. “That helped me develop the confi-dence to be comfortable in posi-tions like that.”

The BGSU oboe competi-tion is just one of the many op-portunities avail-able to music students beyond Hillsdale’s cam-pus. Music stu-dents have also been involved in competitions by the National A s s o c i a t i o n of Teachers of

Singing, in addition to the de-partment's own annual aria and concerto competition.

“Guest judges are always amazed at the quality and depth of what they hear from our students,” Professor of Music James Holleman said.

Music faculty also endeavor

to allow students to take advan-tage of educational opportuni-ties to develop skills in their field of specialty. Among these are the American Choral Di-rector's Regional Conference, International Conferences of the Percussive Arts Society, the American String Teacher's As-sociation National Convention, the Exploring Trumpet Mu-sic Festival in Greece, and the Pilson Music Academy in the Czech Republic.

“We were able to bring students to a Suzuki method teaching workshop where pro-fessional teachers go,” said Pro-fessor of Music Melissa Knecht, teacher of violin and viola to many students. “They were able to get the information early.”

The faculty sometimes hesi-tates to encourage students to take part in these opportunities. With rigorous academic sched-ules, students often are not able to miss days of school to partici-

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• Dave Mifsud ‘86, Head Football Coach & English Teacher, Western H.S. (Parma, MI), BA, Elementary Education Major

• Jack Furlong ’85, Vice President at Gardiner C. Vose/Porter Gill Exclusive Porter Athletic and Gill Athletics Dealer, BA, Accounting Major

• Michael Bauer ‘12, Team Sales, Top Cat Sales (Rebook & Adidas Dealer), BA, Marketing Management Major• Josh Burgett, Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships at Michigan International Speedway, MA, Sports Admin, Eastern Michigan• Jake Neukom, Physical Therapist/Athletic Trainer, Omega Physical Therapy, Hillsdale, MA, Physical Therapy, Andrews University

Alumnus Casey Fatchett went from physics to photography, with his work featured in big-name publications like Glamour and The New York Times. (Courtesy of Casey Fatchett)

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“We want them to go out into the world and have

these experiences during these im-portant years.”

Professor of Music Melissa Knecht

With 115 lighthouses in Michigan, it’s a lighthouse-lover’s heaven. Hillsdale county resident Mary Segur lives in Osseo and spends her retirement time painting light-houses all throughout Michi-gan, selling them at art shows and events throughout the state.

When little Mary Segur was just a 1st-grader living in Toledo, her mother took her to the Toledo Museum of Art. Ed-ward Drummond Libbey, the first president of the museum, had stipulated that, into per-petuity, the museum would be free for the public and children could receive free art lessons. The students only had to pay for materials.

“They had good teachers, and they taught you every as-pect you can imagine,” Mary Segur said, reflecting on her years in Toledo. “They had

clay modeling, pen and ink, and tempera paints. You would graduate, and you could try wa-tercolor and oil.”

Every day from 1st-6th grade, Segur received art les-sons, and eventually, having graduated into watercolor and oil, she began to take private lessons in high school.

As a high school teacher for 25 years, Segur saw many schools go through budget cuts, and even as an English teacher she always objected to the elimination of, or reduced funding for, music and art pro-grams.

“I always argue that practi-cality isn’t the whole purpose of schooling any more than it is of life,” she said. “The thing that artists create, whether it be music or literature or the visual arts, are not only expressions of their talent and their message, but they’re also a way of bond-ing people together.”

Segur said she’s done land-scape and portraits, but por-

traits are a lot of work. “I must have been in my

mid-twenties, and visited Lud-ington State Park, and saw the Big Sable Point Lighthouse,” Segur remembered. “You have to walk about two miles down the beach before you see it. I just was mesmerized. I fell in love with it.”

For Segur, the bond between this sea of language and cul-tural barriers represents what she loves about lighthouses. It brought her closer to express-ing a human bond that is often missing in everyday life.

“What drew me to the lighthouses was really what they stood for,” Segur said. “They’re kind of from a time when people were more willing to risk their life to save a total stranger. I don’t see people do-ing that today. The keeper that stayed there had to get in a boat and row out in a horrible storm to try to save people who were

Mary Segur works on her most recent painting. She’s been protraying the Michigan lighthouses since 1982. (Ben Block/Collegian)

Painting beacons of hopeLocal artist paints the lighthouses of Michigan

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“Lone Survivor,” Peter Berg’s newest film to grace the silver screen, is a rare feature. It is not just another All-Amer-ican, testosterone-fueled, gritty action film. It is personal. It leaves audiences with a palpa-ble sensation of loss and draws viewers deeply into the moral dilemma of the plot. Violence is not used to make viewers laugh or cheer, but it causes them to sympathize and wince. Ulti-mately, after watching the film, movie-goers are left with feel-ings of patriotism, gratitude, and a sobering grasp of the re-ality of war. Few action films, whether they are based on truth or fiction, are cable of connect-ing with their audience in this way. Peter Berg has raised the bar for action films, but it is the true story behind this director’s piece that sets his film apart.

“Lone Survivor” follows the lives of Marcus Luttrell and his fellow SEAL Team 10 of

soldiers on their 2005 mission to kill a top Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, a mission in which Marcus Luttrell was the sole survivor. During their mis-sion, they are compromised by a few young goat herders in the mountains. The SEALs could either “terminate the compro-mise” or let them live and risk tipping off the Taliban.

The team lets the group of boys live, but they are soon sur-rounded by enemy fire. Berg’s use of silence gives this piv-otal moment space to breathe. Gut-wrenching, pathetic irony is tangible when these men seal their fates with this final act of kindness. From here on, the audience must watch the group struggle and crawl their way through open fire, as their bodies are tossed and cascaded down rocks and rough edges, all while being pelted by en-emy blows. Often, actions se-quences like this can come off as “cheesy” or overbearing, but Berg’s use of slow-motion vio-lence and frantic panning and cutting between close-up and

long-shots allows this scene to have a true-to-life effect. The audience almost feels as though they are part of this disorientat-ing battle in the mountains.

After showing a presumably real footage clip of the SEALs, the “Lone Survivor”closes by showing pictures of the actual SEALs –– pictures from their wedding day and pictures of them holding their newborn children. Despite all of the toughness and the occasional, witty one-liners, the movie forces its audience to remember that what they witness is based on a real event. Real men lost their lives and left their fami-lies behind. Overall, Peter Berg and the cast did these men jus-tice. The director never tried to make political claims about the war, nor did he try to aggran-dize these men into Hollywood action heroes. His film is about the humanity and courage of these Navy SEALs. This film well warrants the attention it is receiving. I highly recommend it.

As of course you know, there is a bit of a socio-economic chasm in the town of Hillsdale between those who are associ-ated with the college and those who are not. While I myself am guilty of creating this di-vide as much as anyone, in re-cent times it has frustrated me. I have wished that there was a way to bring together the community of Hill-sdale with the college, other than going to the “Tip-Off Festival,” where there is a coyote catching contest.

Broad Street Mar-ket is part of the so-lution. We have seen a large number of changes at Broad Street, particularly the construction of the bar and restaurant (pub?) recently, and these are some of the most posi-tive additions down-town Hillsdale has seen in decades. It is this which I believe has created the envi-ronment for the community and college to come together on a common ground, and because of that, I implore you to consider spending some time there if you have not already.

An ever-rotating selection of craft beers are on tap, and the majority of them come from Michigan breweries –– a testa-ment to the dedication of the owners to supporting the out-standing beer scene here. Broad Street also hosts “tap takeovers” when they can, wherein a brew-ery comes and showcases their range of beers at very affordable prices.

This is not to say that Broad Street is expensive in the first place; their prices can often be jaw-droppingly low, even on particularly rare beers. This rule applies to the liquor selection as well. Though small in selection, quality reigns on the liquor shelf where one can find many craft distillery offerings.

The food at Broad Street ex-cels beyond normal bar fare as well. While falling on the more expensive side (for Hillsdale),

quality, they offer traditional American food for much of the day. Want a top-grade hamburg-er? Broad Street delivers with locally-produced ground beef. The seafood also meets a high standard, as they use fresh, un-frozen fish, something of a rar-ity in this part of the country.

I also highly recommend the smoked pork chop. Tender and flavorful, it is the best thing on the menu, in my opinion. Be careful, though, depending on the cook, you can wait for what seems like millenia, and some-times he’ll forget your order entirely. If there is a problem, just go talk to Robert, one of the owners. He is almost always there and always professional.

Broad Street has also worked to maximize available space. They have just recently redone the basement of the building, of-fering a large venue for parties, and upstairs they will always work to accommodate whatever the size of the party. Somehow they manage to constantly make me feel welcome, regardless of how full or empty it is.

So, what then is the rel-evance of Broad Street in the larger scope of Hillsdale? Un-

like other establishments which either emphasize the commercial nature of their operation, or have become bastions of the lower elements of soci-ety (that’s to you, Pub and Grub), Broad Street has become an environ-ment where people feel welcome to come, relax, and have a good time with one another. It has transcended merely be-ing a place where people get a drink.

And so, I salute the owners of Broad Street.

They have raised the standard in this town, and I feel that for quite some time they shall re-main at the center of the Hills-dale community as place where students, faculty, and everyday citizens can come together. It is the place where best friends will celebrate engagement, the place where people will come for birthdays, hard conversations, or just catching up. It is the place where alumni will regret-fully mumble about “wishing we had a place like that when we were here.”

So go to Broad Street, and build something beyond our little college.

pate in conferences.“We offer these opportunities

when we feel students can balance academics and musical work,” Holle-man said. “It's something we have to do with caution.”

Participation in such a wide range of opportunities would not be possible without excellent daily teaching.

“We have such confidence in our training here that we feel comfortable offering these opportunities to the stu-dents,” Knecht said. “We want them to go out into the world and have these experiences during these important years. Our students have performed comparably to music students in Eu-rope.”

To “make it” in the music world is difficult, and in such a competitive field, the opportunities for specialized training and competition give Hills-dale alumni an extra edge.

“I really don't encourage people to become music majors,” Teacher of Voice Melissa Osmond said. “There are very few people that make me say 'you have got to give this a shot.' The people who do go on –– I can count them on two hands.”

One alumna who has gone on to do quite well is Natalie Doran '12. Doran is currently finishing her mas-ter's degree in vocal performance at the University of Michigan. She plans to compete in the Herold Haugh Light Opera Competition in Jackson, Mich. this March.

Nick Nestorak '11, graduated from the University of Michigan master's program in 2013, and is currently in the Young Artist's Program of the Palm Beach Opera in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he will be until March.

“He's competed over in Italy,” Holleman said, “and he's doing really well.”

Nestorak was given an Encour-agement Award by the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and performed with the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar during their 2012 production of Mozart's “Magic Flute” in Weimar, Germany.

As a French and Theology double major, with a music minor, Jessye Wright '96 did not intend to pursue a career in music.

“Singers often say that music chooses them, not the reverse, and for me this was definitely the case,” Wright says in her artist biography. “I told myself I didn’t have the abil-ity, desire or strength to pursue such an unstable career. But a force greater than myself kept pulling me back to music, and I finally had to give in and accept my fate.”

She is now crafting a success-ful career, performing operatic roles throughout the United States and abroad in France, Austria, and Bel-gium.

“Jessye was the one with the im-petus for getting the opera workshop started,” Osmond said. “And now that happens every year –– and that's what she ended up doing with her life.”

Whether or not students go on to brilliant musical career, the music department offers challenges for stu-dents to more deeply cultivate their musical talents.

“I think a lot of musicians who go to conservatories to study only music aren't intellectually challenged,” Hol-leman said. “Our students are intellec-tually challenged, and that contributes to their music. Critical thinking in the liberal arts helps us make smart musi-cians, and smart musicians do well.”

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“He gets the little details,” Coon said.

When Fatchett started his career, wedding photographers had two dis-tinctive styles, shooting either posed, formal shots or journalistic im-ages. Fatchett tries to blend the tradi-tion of the former and the storytell-ing of the later to reflect the person-alities of the bride and groom.

“No two cou-ples are exactly alike,” he said.

For each wed-ding he shoots, Fatchett attempts to think of at least one photo he has never shot before

and experiment. “There are a lot of people who are

happy to do the same pictures at each wedding. That’s a disservice to my cli-ents and myself,” he said. “If you’re do-ing things exactly the same, you’re not going to stand out from the crowd.”

Fatchett’s work has been featured

in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Knot, Glamour, Bridal Guide, and more. For three years in a row, Fatchett has earned a spot on The Knot’s “Best of Weddings” list based off of the feedback of his clients. The Wed-ding Industry Expert Awards ranked him “Best Photographer” in New York

City and one of the “Top Ten Wedding Photographers” in the country, in 2013.

Fatchett says he thrives off of the pressure of shooting someone’s special day.

“It’s such an im-portant day for the couple, and they’re trusting me,” he said. “It’s not like when you’re doing headshots or even a landscape and you can try again.”

Broad Street Market: food, drink, and a chance to get to know your community. (Courtesy Robert Ramsey)

“Technically, there are no mis-takes.”

So says junior Emily Dickinson, one of the 16 students involved in the Hillsdale College Big Band. The entire ensemble will attend the Uni-versity of Michigan Jazz Festival this Saturday, Feb. 8. But don’t let her fool you –– the Hillsdale jazz program has been growing, and the pressure is on.

The festival occurs every other year, drawing jazz ensembles from the region. Hillsdale College has at-tended since 2006. Over the course of the day, ensembles perform, are critiqued, and watch other ensembles

play. Junior Joe Banovetz attended his freshman year.

“It was fun –– and exhausting,” Banovetz said. “We spent all day running from performance to perfor-mance, watching and playing.”

Hillsdale College has sent strong ensembles to the festival in the past, but the jazz program has grown con-siderably in recent years. Both the quality of its musicians and the size of the program itself have improved since the last festival.

“The jazz program has been get-ting bigger every year,” Dickinson said. “More performances, more prac-tices.”

Banovetz has been a member of the Hillsdale College Big Band since his freshman year.

“When I was a freshman, we be-came a good band,” Banovetz said. “People began to expect a lot out of us and we began performing more of-ten.”

The growth is due to an influx of talented students, as well as adminis-trative support for the program.

“Holleman and McCourry have brought in really good talent and great adjunct faculty,” Banovetz said, re-ferring to Professor of Music James Holleman and Teacher of Music Chris McCourry, director of the jazz ensem-bles. “They have also given students access to jazz-specific lessons. For ex-ample, I take lessons from a musician from Albion College. That has helped me a lot.”

Dickinson hopes that the big band

ensemble will continue to grow.“The band has a lot of new talent

–– we’re really building the ensem-ble,” Dickinson said. “I think that the college is realizing how much talent and dedication we have in the jazz program.”

Among the new talent is Kyle Shil-lingstad, one of eight freshmen in the band.

“Learning to sight read has been one of the biggest things about com-ing into the jazz program,” Shilling-stad said. “We perform at afterglows without ever really practicing the piece beforehand. I mean, at the last afterglow, we just made up a piece on the spot.”

The relative inexperience of re-cent additions to the ensemble doesn’t

seem to be a concern for jazz program veterans.

“I think that there are enough people returning to the program that adjusting isn’t really a problem,” Banovetz said. “I mean, there will be social adjustments –– getting to know everyone, getting comfortable playing together. But we have core musicians that have come back, and so our sound has remained pretty consistent.”

Sophomore Tricia Clarey laughed when asked what she thought signi-fied a good performance.

“It comes together,” Clarey said. “We have fun, the director likes it, the audience likes it. And we all manage to end the song at the same time.”

Sarah AlbersCollegian Reporter

Hillsdale College Big Band ensemble to attend jazz festival

drowning from a shipwreck.” While the lighthouse represents the

necessity of community, the beacon of light symbolizes hope in the midst of a storm. It has a sort of salvific quality from the waves.

“Something about that beacon of light and the way it turns, it’s symbolic of a lot more than just showing sailors the way,” she said. “A lot of churches have adopted the symbol of a lighthouse because there’s a parallel there. It has a metaphorical application to your life.”

Since she first fell in love with light-houses in 1982, Segur has painted a

great number of the lighthouses in the Great Lakes area and Michigan. Her friend and fellow artist, Rich Katuzin, who draws similar subjects with pen and ink, takes photographs of the light-houses for Segur to use as reference, since painting plein air didn’t turn out as she would have liked.

“I used to paint plein air and I had an easel, and I was painting with oils,” Se-gur said. “I had gotten a palette knife and I was really putting it on thick because I was doing waves, and all a sudden that wind picked up and blew the canvas off. It went face down in the sand. And it was like ‘Oh! Texture!’ I decided right then and there that I couldn’t do it.”

Living in a little house on Lake Pleasant in Osseo, with model ships sit-

ting on the window sill above the front door, Segur filled her home with her paintings of lighthouses. Her painting she now calls her “retirement hobby.”

Along with her paintings, Segur sells high-quality copies of her work and cards that include the history of each lighthouse on the back.

As she travels to various art shows, Segur is able to talk with those who have similar interests as well as with people who have never quite understood the hopeful and valuable symbolism in both art and lighthouses.

Segur admitted the hobby will never make her rich, but after she sells a paint-ing it does pay for gas, paints, and can-vasses so she can start all over again.

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“The campus became a bare, desolate place. Girls began to learn the enjoyment of each other’s company.”

— The Winona

COLLEGE BAPTIST RICH WITH HILLSDALE HISTORY

New face brightens Olds Dorm

Vivian HughbanksCollegian Freelancer

Bailey PritchettAssistant Editor

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On Nov. 20, 1855, booksellers in Hillsdale an-nounced a new up-and-coming literary hit for sale: Frederick Douglass’ “My Bondage and My Free-dom.”

The next day, a group of eight men signed the Articles of Association, founding the First Free Will Baptist Church of Hillsdale on College Hill – the church now known as College Baptist Church.

“We agree to promote the benevolent enterprises of the day,” the Articles read, “such as missions, sabbath schools, moral reform, anti-slavery, and education and every other that may have the pres-ent and eternal well-being of mankind and the glory of God for its object.”

The original eight signers included a Hillsdale College professor, two students, and the president of the college, Edmund Burke Fairfield.

In its first decade, church meetings were held at the college chapel. Nearly one month before the Civil War ended at Appomattox, Va. in 1865, church officials decided to incorporate and buy land to construct a building for the church.

While the church bought a plot of land at the corner of Fayette and Manning Streets, college pro-fessor Ransom Dunn traveled throughout Europe and the Holy Land, touring gothic and romanesque churches of the Old World. While there, he made measurements and drawings to incorporate into the plans for the building in Hillsdale.

“Dunn and his son went to Europe, looking at the architecture there,” Jason Mekelburg, the cur-rent pastor of College Baptist, said. “When they got back, they put the ideas together into a blueprint.”

During construction, The Hillsdale Standard reported that the church, when finished, would be the “largest church in the West.” The building was designed to hold 1,600 people: 800 in the sanctuary and 800 in the balcony.

At 10 a.m. on Jan. 5, 1868, the congregation gathered to dedicate the new building. Dedicators admired the spired bell tower, the beautifully fres-coed ceiling, and walls of stained glass windows.

The total cost of construction was more than $20,000, or in today’s dollars, more than $300,000.

“It is finished in a neat and substantial manner,” The Hillsdale Democrat announced. “With enough ornamentation to look well, there is not so much as to be likely to attract the attention of the congrega-tion from the services of the hour.”

On Sunday mornings, members of the Hillsdale community walk through the same doors that wel-comed dedicators in 1868.

Attendees enjoy comforts that were not possible when the building was first completed. Running water was installed in the bell tower, allowing the construction of indoor restrooms.

The electric lighting that was eventually in-stalled caused the congregation to lower the ceiling in order to make room for wiring. The curled fres-coes that decorated the church in 1868 are now only visible inside the crawl space above the sanctuary.

“You can crawl through a hole in the hanging ceiling and find more of those curly decorations up there,” Mekelburg said. “The ceiling is sky blue.”

Now, the only testament to the existence of the old decoration is the small border of scrolled fresco on the walls running the length of the church.

Originally, a stately spire decorated each cor-ner of the bell tower. When a storm sent one of the spires crashing down to the sidewalk below, the other three were also removed.

In the 1950s and 60s, the front of the church was altered to make way for the church library, the church business office, and the Riker Room, a large room upstairs for church gatherings and sunday school classes.

In the 80s, the original pipe organ needed ex-tensive and expensive repairs. The church replaced the organ with an electric organ, placing speakers behind the already-existing pipes.

The building is not the only aspect of the church that has changed over the years: more recently, the church’s denomination changed as well.

“After my predecessor left, we spent a year re-searching denominations that we agreed with theo-logically,” Mekelburg explains. “We wanted a de-nomination more in line with our people and our beliefs.”

In 2005, the church left the Baptist General Con-ference and joined Converge Worldwide.

Despite these changes, Sunday morning still finds college students and townspeople alike fill-ing the pews, while light streams through the same stained glass windows that have enclosed the sanc-tuary for the past 146 years.

The building has been the site of numerous mo-ments in history during the past century.

When two-thirds of the main building of the col-lege was destroyed by fire in 1874, college activi-ties were transferred to College Baptist while the

buildings were repaired.On Christmas Eve of 1896, “Free Baptist

Church” hosted a special visitor: “the veritable Santa Claus and his spouse, Mrs. Santa Claus.”

“Altogether, it may be safe to say, that a little such nonsense, once a year, is conducive to good to both young and old,” The Hillsdale Herald re-ported. “Verifying the saying that happy Christian people are more likely to be good than those who fear to offend their Heavenly Father by a little well timed merriment.”

The church was also used for many college func-tions including speeches, debates, and other events.

“There used to be chapel in here every day,” Me-kelburg says.

Chapel on Feb. 12, 1919, featured an address by Lt. Stephen Jessop ‘19, the first Hillsdale soldier in World War I to return to tell of his experiences in France.

Jessop was a recipient of the Croix de Guerre, a military decoration of France awarded to foreign

military forces allied with France. Jessop and an as-sistant carried several wounded soldiers away from the front lines after their ambulance was bombed.

“Lt. Jessop said that it will be years before the soldiers realize all the things they have seen,” The Collegian reported. “It was not American troops who won the war but their spirit of ‘let’s go’ trans-mitted to the allies.”

After the war, the community dealt with a battle of another kind: the Ku Klux Klan. To combat the Klan’s popularity, the Rev. W. H. Roberts gave a Sunday night talk on the evils of the Klan.

School “continued at an approximately normal pace” during the early years of World War II, ac-cording to the Winona. But chapel on the morning of March 6, 1943 brought change to the whole cam-pus.

“President Turner was making the usual an-nouncements when suddenly his voice chanted out, ‘All E.R.C. men – March 15, 1943 – so sorry you boys have to leave us.’”

The Winona described the scene that followed.“The church was silent, deathly silent, then,

shouts of joy echoed and re-echoed. ‘This is it! We’re in the army now!’ And so they soon were. The campus became a bare, desolate place. Girls began to learn the enjoyment of each other’s com-pany.”

In 1977, Ronald Reagan gave his first speech at Hillsdale,“Whatever Happened to Free Enterprise,” at College Baptist as an installment of the Ludwig von Mises lecture series.

“Inflation (a depression of the value of money) is caused by one thing, and has one answer,” Reagan said. “It’s caused by government spending more than government takes in and it will go away when government stops doing that and not before.”

College Baptist has been a venue for perfor-mances of visiting professional artists, orchestra, and choir performances. Above all, it remains a place of worship near and dear to the hearts of Hill-sdale’s students.

“It’s really special to worship in a place where there’s been so much history,” Sophomore Sarah Kreuz said. “So much has happened there. You’re really connected with worshipers past and present.”

After her mother passed away, Linda Grav-el wanted a fresh start. This past August, she moved to Hillsdale where her son and daughter-in-law coach the college women’s volleyball team. From bouncing between Troy, Mich. and Hillsdale to babysit her grandaugh-ter, Gravel knew the Hill-sdale community well.

When the Olds Resi-dence’s House Direc-tor, Mary Cobb, took a leave of absence, Gravel received a call from Hillsdale College. Di-ane Philipp, the dean of women, told Gravel they needed a new “house mom” for Olds Residence, a freshman dorm. Gravel did not need much convincing.

“I thought to myself, ‘I have been a par-ent for a long time, this won’t be a prob-lem,’” she said. “Finally, I get paid for be-ing a parent.”

Gravel worked as a massage therapist for 20 years in Troy. For ten years she worked in Nordstrom Spas and finished her last ten working with a local chiroprac-tor. Although she is retired now, she still has clients in Troy. Her residents say that her spontaneous, conversational backrubs are hard to beat.

“When she comes up and gives you a massage it makes your world,” resident as-sistant Anna Barhanovich said.

Gravel’s relationship with the eight R.A.’s is “involved, but not controlling,” according to Barhanovich. On occasion she will drop by the Monday morning R.A. meetings at 7:15 a.m. to stay in the loop. The girls refer to her as “Mama G.”

It is common for Gravel to stop by the front desk to chat when R.A.’s are on their evening watch.

“For the Super Bowl, I had to sit desk and Mama G bought me snacks,” R.A. Betsy Thistleton said.

Along with many of her residents, Gravel is a fan of the PBS television hit “Downton Abbey.” She likes to invite girls into her room to watch the show.

Outside of Olds Residence, Gravel en-

joys eating in the Saga Inc. cafeteria with the other house directors. She eats in Saga every day.

“I love my job,” Grav-el said. “I’m working 24/7, but it doesn’t feel like I’m working.”

Upon her arrival, Gravel was quickly initi-ated into the duties of a house director. During the first week of her new job, R.A. Marie Wathen slipped on a patch of ice, breaking her fibula and tibia. After Wathen’s sur-gery, Gravel insisted that Wathen live in the house director room in the dorm. Wathen agreed.

“We’re pretty good roomies,” Gravel said.

Wathen said that she broke Gravel into her house director duties im-mediately after her break. Gravel met Wathen in the

hospital on the night of the accident to check up on her and form a gameplan for Wathen’s living situation.

Wathen’s mother drove to Hillsdale from Nebraska on the night of the acci-dent. Although she was tempted to bring her daugher home, Wathen and her mom agreed that with Gravel’s help, she could finish the semester.

“I need help with every part of my day. From something simple like turning on a light to getting ice,” Wathen said. “Like, I need ice constantly. She has been essential for me and for many other girls.”

In the words of Barhanovich, Gravel treats every girl like a “precious gem.”

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Frisbee takes icy spin

Alum hosts hockey games

It’s common to see pick-up games of Ultimate Frisbee on the quad in the autumn weeks of fall semester or the sunny days of spring. But it’s a little more unusual to see a disc spinning over snow drifts and ice patches in the middle of winter.

Last Friday a group of men gathered on the quad for the semester’s third game of “Lantzball,” an icy alternative to Ultimate Frisbee that takes place at night, in the snow, and allows the defending team to tackle the advancing player.

The game began almost 10 years ago, when Jason Lantz ’06 came up with the idea after a Mu Alpha meeting the winter of his sophomore year.

“The idea was largely just an in-the-moment, creative, off-the-wall, ‘wouldn’t something like this be crazy, stupid idea that I had no expectation of ever actually happen-ing,” Lantz said.

Lantz’ friend Victor Joecks, sitting nearby, liked the idea and announced that the group of Mu Alphans should play immediately. He also dubbed the game “Lantzball.”

“I actually protested the name because I didn’t see why we should name it after me, and it had nothing to do with a ball,” Lantz explained. “Still, Victor insisted, and so Lantzball it became.”

After the game Joecks explained his affin-ity for “legacies” and connecting people with the traditions they began.

“I think he got his wish,” Lantz said, ex-plaining that when he comes back to campus he is often linked to the game: “Wait –– you’re the Lantz? As in, the Lantz of Lantz-ball?”

Lantz said he thought it a trivial thing to be

remembered for, but even a trivial thing can create a lasting legacy.

“I may have had the idea,” he said, “but Victor was the catalyst that made it happen, and good friends making good memories is what has kept it going. That’s the legacy. I was just the first domino in the chain to fall.”

Lantz now lives in Holt, Mich., –– a suburb of Lansing –– with his wife and two daughters. He said while he has the time to play an occasional game of Ultimate Fris-bee, he hasn’t been able to convince a group of guys in Lansing to play Frisbee, at night, tackling, in the snow.

“Lantzball has a certain college quality to it that is difficult to replicate with folks who have families and aren’t in the shape to take on full body tackles,” he said.

Bumps and bruises are an expected part of the game, especially considering the tackle element. Unlike Frisbee, any successful catch can be followed by the receiver running the Frisbee down the field until defence tackles the advancing player. This doesn’t result in a turnover –– the offensive team simply throws the Frisbee again to advance. The Frisbee only changes possession with incomplete passes or interceptions, consistent with the rules of Ultimate.

Senior David Graber, president of the Ultimate Frisbee Club and the instigator who revived the sport this year, said he first heard about Lantzball his freshman year when Michael Peters, ’12 organized a game. At that time, the ice rink made it impossible to play on the quad, so the teams had to navigate the darker Intramural fields. Graber said he prefers playing on the quad.

“We haven’t played much Frisbee down on the IM fields because its far away from cam-pus,” he said. “If you play on the quad then

people just join in and play –– and girls come and watch you.”

He added that the first recorded women’s Lantzball game happened this semester. Ten women showed up in -5 degree weather to tussle their way through the sport.

Junior Julie Finke, who helped organize the women’s match, said, for her, Lantzball was a challenge.

“I love a challenge and I love adventure in any way, shape, or form,” she said.

Finke said the strategy was difficult to pick up, but highly entertaining and a good learn-ing experience.

“I have brothers and I love to play with them, but I don’t always have the experience so anything that can assist me in tackling them harder is a good thing,” she said.

She said the camradrie was her favorite part.

“Because yeah it’s really cold, and it’s really snowy,” she admitted, “but when you are breathing hard and getting pummeled face-first into the ground play after play, and you’re doing it with your friend it’s worth it.”

Graber also said the blood, sweat, and tears come with the territory, and the weather is just part of the fun.

“It’s not cold and miserable when you are playing because it’s such an intense game that it warms you up really quickly,” Graber said. “It’s better than Ultimate Frisbee in the winter because if you play regular Frisbee in the snow you get cold. You don’t get cold when you are tackled a lot.”

Participating in a game is as easy as show-ing up with the willingness to take a few hits and have a blast.

“It’s the ultimate test of manliness and the best way in Hillsdale to gain kleos,” Graber said.

In the woods, on the outskirts of town, is a place that carries on the memory and love for a game that has not been a part of Hillsdale College athletics in over 25 years.Craig Connor, ’77 graduate of Hillsdale College

and left wing on the college’s hockey team, has constructed an outdoor hockey rink on his property so he and his friends can continue to play the game they love.“It rekindles my passion for the game of hockey,”

sophomore Michael O’Sullivan said. “It’s great having a place to skate. It’s the best outdoor rink I’ve ever played at.”The rink, built in 1993, has everything needed to

have a great outdoor hockey experience. Though it is not the only outdoor rink around, Connor’s creation has unique features. The rink has lights for nighttime play, a screen that blocks a glare from the sun during the day, a heated shed where players can thaw out, and boards from Michigan State Uni-versity’s former home arena.“I built this because I just love hockey. I had one

in my yard as a kid in Toledo” Connor said. Every year since its inception in ‘93, the rink

gets improved and maintained by Connor and his friends.“Keeping it up is not too bad. We make small

improvements every year” said Connor. One of the best features of the rink is the boards.

which allow the game to have a fast pace, non-stop action. “Before the boards we just used the snow banks

to surround the ice. The puck doesn’t go as fast when it lands in the snow” Connor said, chuckling.To maintain the quality of the ice players shovel

as needed and Mr. Connor has a man-powered zamboni to resurface the ice. The zamboni is made of PVC pipe which is connected to a hose. The pipe has holes drilled in it to allow water to come out evenly as it is being pushed up and down the ice. They also snow blow the rink to keep it clear when it snows. Under the 12 in of ice is a plastic liner that is at-

tached to the sides of the rink. During the warmer months the liner is power washed and the plastic and boards are taken.With all of the work that goes into maintaining

a rink like this Connor has had many friends help out. One of those friends is his lifelong buddy Brand Ramsey who grew up playing with Connor in Toledo and went on to play at Bowling Green State University.“I wouldn’t have got into hockey if it wasn’t for

Craig’s dad. I will come here and play with Craig till you pry the stick out of my cold dead hands,” Ramsey said. Ramsey currently resides in Florida but comes up

every winter to play and work on the rink to make sure it is ready for people to use.“I moved down to Florida to get away from the

cold but I come up here as my vacation” Ramsey said.Another visitor to the rink is the Connor’s dog

Louie, a border collie that loves to watch hockey.“Louie is one of my favorite parts of coming to

the rink,” junior Sean Bennett said.Hillsdale students have been enjoying the ice year

after year.“Every four years you get new guys coming and

playing. As long as I know who they are they can come whenever they want,” Connor said. The rink has become famous for hockey lovers.

Large publications like sbnation.com have visited to showcase this well-kept secret. The rink provides a reprieve from the snowy,

sunless winter days and an opportunity for hockey players to hit the ice again.“Winter is long, this makes it go by quicker,”

Connor said.

Shane ArmstrongCollegian Reporter

Abi WoodArts Editor

Senior David Graber tack-les Micah Meadowcroft into the snowy quad in a game of Lantzball (left).Sophomore Micah Mead-owcroft reaches out to stop junior Nathan Wilson (right).(Ben Block/Collegian)

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