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Four house directors of the Greek houses will be leaving their current positions soon, whether they are mov-ing across the country or just down the street.

House Director of Pi Beta Phi Beckie Miller will be leaving to retire to her house in Florida, and House Director of Sigma Chi Debra Nevins will be taking her position. Alpha Tau Omega has al-ready said goodbye to their house direc-tor Kevin Foeman, who is the new head volleyball coach for Lake Erie College. House Director Deborah Zeiler is retir-ing from Chi Omega next year.

“We are losing a lot of years of ex-perience,” Dean of Men Aaron Petersen said. “We will miss them.They’re an ex-tension of the mission of the deans and student affairs to oversee the well-being of students physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially.”

Miller has been a house director at the college for 16 years, splitting her time between a former sorority and two other dorms before directing Pi Phi for eight years.

While Miller admits she does not want to leave, at age 75, she is looking forward to having the opportunity to re-turn to doing crafts, having inherited a house in the Sunshine State with plenty of space.

“It’s about time I use it,” Miller said. “I love the people on this campus. I haven’t had a bad experience at all. I hate leaving the girls, but I just need to. It’s time.”

Pi Phi will miss Miller’s humorous wit, according to the sorority’s president junior Elise Rempel.

“Beckie is really spunky and secretly loves pranks, but at the end of the day, she’s really kind and loves being with us, and we love having her,” Rempel said. “We were having a formal dinner, DQG�VKH�VWDUWHG�D�EUHDG�UROO�¿JKW��DQG�VKH�thought it was absolutely hilarious that someone threw it at me. Then she kept the roll and put it on my desk, and it kept showing up.”

Rempel also expressed how caring Miller is to the girls.

“Beckie would also get up in the

middle of the night to go to the hospital with a girl who has breathing problems,” Miller said. “She always makes sure we’re okay.”

Miller herself said she will miss at-tending the girls’ recitals, concerts, and sports games as well as watching them grow to graduate. Nonetheless, Miller said she is excited for a new journey.

“It’ll be an adventure, just like col-lege is,” Miller said.

Leaving the college is one adventure, but moving from a fraternity to a sorority will be the adventure for Nevins as she changes from Sigma Chi to Pi Beta Phi.

Having been a fraternity house direc-tor for around 10 years, Nevins said she is ready to share her feminine experience as well as a clean building.

“I would stay here. I don’t mind the dirt that much. But I wanted girls be-cause I’m older now, and I wanted a little femininity on my mind,” Nevins said. “I want to be more involved. I want to share my feminine experience. I want to nurture them. I’m looking forward to seeing the diversity between them, and it’ll be clean.”

Nevins said she loves seeing the boys grow into men. Though she said she looks forward to having similar experi-ences with the sorority, she will miss the casual relationship with the guys and the occasional back-and-forth banter.

The Sigma Chis expressed their re-gret to see her, as well as her grandson Eaton, who visits often, leave the house. They said they look forward to still see-ing Nevins around campus, according to Sigma Chi president senior Gregg Coughlin.

“Deb is like our aunt,” Coughlin said. “She is good-hearted to point out our faults, but she’s not condemning about it. She’s always had an open-door policy. She cares about her boys and wants us to do the right thing.”

Coughlin said he hopes her move to Pi Beta Phi will also bring about the opportunity to have the fraternity work more closely with the sorority.

Foeman left Hillsdale and ATO for Lake Erie on March 31. While Foeman said he has enjoyed his experience at Hillsdale and working with the men of ATO for two years, he said he does not plan to work as house director at another fraternity in his new position.

“They’re great guys,” Foeman said. “You learn to live next to people who

make a lot of noise. They kept things nice and orderly. I came at a great time. The leadership there was respectable, honest, good character.”

President of ATO senior Daniel Van-degriff said Foeman was especially busy as the assistant to the director of recre-ational sports, but he fondly recalls the workouts the men of ATO and Foeman did together.

“He was there for us,” Vandegriff said. “We worked out a lot together. Coming back from a volleyball tourna-ment, he’d text me, ‘Want to workout?’ He has the keys to the gym. We’re going to miss him.”

Zeiler is also leaving from Chi Ome-JD��$IWHU�¿YH�\HDUV�ZLWK�$72�DQG�IRXU�years with the sorority, Zeiler is retir-ing to spend time with her mother and grandkids.

“Kids keep you young,” Zeiler said. “They care. My husband had passed away in ‘05. I hadn’t decorated for Christmas since he died, and the guys of ATO had decorated for me. The girls, they’re very thoughtful. They look at you and know when you need a hug. No

matter your age, women can connect.”President of Chi Omega junior So-

phia Coyne-Kosnak said the sorority will miss Zeiler’s attention to detail and generous care.

“She really pays attention,” Kosnak said. “One time I was sick, and I didn’t even realize she knew I was sick, but she brought me a bunch of Powerade and crackers and stuff. She’s very good about getting what you need.”

While Zeiler will no longer be a house GLUHFWRU��VKH�KDV�D�KRXVH�¿YH�PLOHV�IURP�campus and said she hopes to continue attending the performances and sports games of the Chi Omega women.

As a result of all the changes, a new atmosphere will develop in each house-hold, allowing for a new chapter to start for the house directors and their students.

“It’s going to be a fun transition to have someone new,” Rempel said. “It should be fun to see the new dynamic the house takes on. We’re looking forward to the new changes.”

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When Dr. Chris Stroud VWRSSHG� SUHVFULELQJ� DUWL¿FLDO�contraception of any kind at his fertility and midwifery clinic, he was sure he was destroying his practice.

But quite the opposite oc-curred.

“I thought it would destroy my practice, and I would be over,” Stroud said. “God had a different plan in mind. The practice actu-ally exploded and has kept grow-ing.”

Now, Stroud sees patients from all over the Midwest at the Fertil-ity and Midwifery Care Center in

Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is one of the few OBGYNs who do not prescribe birth control.

This Monday, Stroud will speak in the Old Snack Bar at 7 p.m. about the theological, bio-logical, and sociological issues ZLWK�DUWL¿FLDO�ELUWK�FRQWURO��HVSH-cially the pill. The talk is entitled “The Pill: Harmful for Women, Harmful for Life.”

“I will argue that being both pro-life and pro-contraception poses contradictions,” he said. ³,¶P�JRLQJ�WR�WDON�DERXW�DUWL¿FLDO�contraception and the problems there are biologically, with breast FDQFHU� DQG� DUWL¿FLDO� KRUPRQHV��sociologically, what it has done for us since the late 1950s in terms of things like the abortion

rate and divorce rate. When you roll all those together it’s a lose-lose-lose. Everybody loses.”

Stroud converted to Catholi-cism years ago and, shortly after, transitioned from the administra-tive side of healthcare to the prac-ticing side, where ethical issues of contraception confronted him di-rectly. After much contemplation, which included reading “Humana Vitae” by Pope Paul VI, Stroud felt convicted to change his prac-tice.

+H� LV� FHUWL¿HG� LQ� WKH�&UHLJK-ton Model FertilityCare System, which is based on NaPro technol-ogy, or Natural Procreative Tech-nology, and “relies upon the stan-dardized observation and charting of biological markers that are es-

sential to a woman’s health and fertility,” according to creighton-model.com.

“It could be theological talk, but it could just as easily be all about biology,” Stroud said. “A lot of non-religious people see me because they’re worried about the chemicals in the chicken they eat, and they want to eat organic foods, and then think, ‘I probably shouldn’t be pumping myself full RI� DUWL¿FLDO� FKHPLFDOV� LQ� RWKHU�ways, either.’ When you combine the two — theology and biology — it’s a very powerful argu-ment.”

Assistant Professor of Phi-losophy Lee Cole’s wife, Kelly, helped coordinate Stroud as a speaker, and the event is being

co-sponsored by Students For Life and the Catholic Society.

Professor of English and Stu-dents for Life adviser Michael Jordan has published a review of Allan Carlson’s “Godly Seed” in the Imaginative Conservative, in which he noted that Carlson pointed out that the American Medical Association once op-posed contraception and abor-tion. Jordan argued that Evangeli-cal Christians and Catholics alike must turn away from sexual vices like contraception. He encour-aged men to attend the talk Mon-day, as well as women.

“Any man who has a genuine interest in a woman should be in-terested in her health, and in the health risks attending use of the

pill,” Jordan said. “Any man who has a concern for the well-being of his children should know that the pill can be an abortifacient. Some men applaud both the pill and abortion because it lets them enjoy sexual intimacy without discipline and responsibility.”

Students for Life Vice Presi-dent junior Magdalena Olson said she is excited to hear from Stroud.

“Most people think they un-derstand what’s going on with birth control,” she said. “This talk will be great because of the education that can come from it. I’m eager to hear about Stroud’s experiences.”

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Breana Noble Collegian Reporter

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Arthur M. Melzer, professor of political science at Michigan State University and author of “Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost Art of Esoteric Writing,” will be speaking this Sunday at 8 p.m. in Lane 125. The talk will be hosted by the Of-¿FH�RI� WKH�3UHVLGHQW�� WKH�9DQ�$QGHO�Graduate School of Statesmanship, the Dow Journalism Program, and the departments of education and politics.

Professor of History Paul Rahe invited Melzer to campus to discuss the topic of his book, the practice of “esoteric writing” found in some philosophers’ works. These writers consciously composed their public works with one message intended for the majority of their audience to understand, and another message in-tended only for the philosophically adept few.

“They were writing for two dif-ferent audiences at the same time,” Rahe said.

According to Rahe, Melzer’s book LV� WKH�¿UVW� LQ�GHSWK�VWXG\�RI�WKH�IRU-gotten practice. In it, Melzer has at-tempted to chronicle every available piece of testimony to esoteric mean-ing available to the modern historian. It was inspired in part by a section on the practice in one of Rahe’s own works, “Republics Ancient and Mod-ern.”

“I had a lengthy digression in this book, but he’s taken the subject as his own,” Rahe said. “There are a lot of people who are curious about reading works with this approach who don’t know where to go, including faculty, graduate students, undergraduates.”

In addition to his public lecture Sunday night, Melzer will be con-ducting a seminar with faculty and graduate students on Monday after-noon in the Dow Leadership Center.

Chris McCafferyStudent Columnist

Morgan DelpEditor-in-Chief

Students and faculty may listen to and challenge Honors Program seniors — and two juniors — over the course of the next week as they pres-ent their Honors theses, the accumulation of a year-long research project.

7KH� ¿QDO� GUDIWV� RI� DOO� WKH�theses are available on the college portal, and include topics like privatization in Latin America, the lost island of Atlantis, and Richard III’s genetic heritage. Associate Professor of History Richard Gamble encouraged students to look at the drafts ahead of

time and come to the defens-es ready to challenge their peers and stimulate academ-ic inquiry.

On Tuesday, four students began the nine-day series

that will continue through next week until Thursday, April 16. Each defense over this next week will be in the Heritage Room, and a sched-ule of the defenses can be found on the college portal.

In addition to students and faculty, a committee of pro-fessors has been chosen to challenge each student on the argument they have construct-ed over months of research.

“There’s something almost medieval about this,” said Gamble, who also acts as the director of the Honors Pro-gram. “It’s a public defense of

an argument.”Preparation for the honors

thesis is an extensive process. Students pick their topic a year before the defense, so as to be able to research for a lengthy period of time before beginning to write. The maxi-mum length for the paper is 35 pages, not including the bibli-ography or the bibliographical essay. The length of the paper is not arbitrary, Gamble said. 35 pages is comparable to the chapter of a book, or a short scholarly article.

“It’s not just a number. It seems to be the size of a com-plete thought,” he said.

The overall grade for the honors theses depends upon three components: the re-search process, the product of their research in a written

thesis, and the defense. Junior Timothy Troutner said there is D� VLJQL¿FDQW� DPRXQW� RI� WLPH�and effort that goes into the process, and estimated that he was “probably approaching 100 hours” of work time.

The honors thesis is con-structed for seniors within the Honors Program, so as to be a culmination of their years within the Honors Program itself, but juniors can par-ticipate too. This allows for juniors who are presenting departmental theses or other lengthy projects their senior year to balance the various projects over the course of two years. This year, juniors Timothy Troutner and Elisa-beth Wynia will be defending their theses along with 21 se-niors.

“I think it’s inspiring to see the type of work that is done on this campus,” Gamble said. “I think students should come support their friends. I think underclassmen should GH¿QLWHO\� FRPH� DQG� VHH� WKH�kind of work they can aspire to do.”

Senior Addison Stumpf recommended the Honors Thesis Program to underclass-men. Regardless of how much a student could learn about a specialized topic, Stumpf said WKH�WUXH�EHQH¿W�LV�IRXQG�LQ�WKH�completion of the process.

“The sense of accomplish-ment, the discipline required to do something of this mag-nitude — it’s valuable in and of itself,” he said.

Honors students to defend theses

Lillian QuinonesCollegian Reporter

Pi Beta Phi house mom Beckie Miller with sophomore Claire

Hughes and senior Leah Bernhardson. (Breana Noble/Collegian)

students.“The yearbook is necessary,” said junior

Meg Prom, who designs for both the Forum magazine and the Winona. “Print lasts. It’s important to continue the tradition of paper rather than just online because there is a dif-ferent authority in physical paper than just online.”

Student fees cover the budget of all three RI¿FLDO�VWXGHQW�SXEOLFDWLRQV��WKH�&ROOHJLDQ��Tower Light, and Winona). The cost to fund all three will total approximately $60,000 next year. More one-third of that will go to the Winona.

Professor of Art Bryan Springer predict-ed that students may be uninspired by the idea of a yearbook editorship, but he said this thought is unguided.

“Maybe students think of it as a cata-logue of people’s faces, and we need to dis-pel that,” Springer said. “A yearbook editor is like the creative director of a publication. Every yearbook is a blank slate that you can put your creative stamp on.”

Genome-editing and jumping spiders at Sigma Zeta national convention

Six Hillsdale students and two faculty members from the math and science departments attended the national Sigma Zeta convention in Kentucky from March 26-28.

The math and science honorary drew approxi-mately 100 undergraduate chapter members from around the nation for their annual research conven-tion.

Senior Mitchell Irmer, president of the Sigma Zeta chapter on campus, received the Sigma Zeta Honor Award and senior Annie Teigen gave an oral presentation.

“Annie did a great job,” Assistant Professor of Physics Paul Hosmer said.

Hosmer attended the convention as faculty ad-viser to Hillsdale’s Sigma Zeta chapter.

Teigen’s oral presentation, “Comparison of the CRISPR/Cas System and Traditional Restriction Endonucleases,” developed a protocol utilizing CRISPR/Cas genome-editing technology. Teigen researched this topic at a biomedical production company in Fargo, North Dakota, last summer.

“My highlight of the trip was hearing about all the research going on at different schools,” Tei-gen said. “It was surprising to realize how small the math and science world is. We are very much a community. From those connections I gained a bigger and broader idea of what is going on in the

undergraduate research world.”Nominated by the Hillsdale Sigma Zeta chapter,

Irmer was one of the only two individuals who re-ceived the Honor Award.

“Sometimes you can lose touch with why you’re doing science,” Irmer said. “But everyone who presented at the convention had research that held an immediate impact on science, medicine, and industry.”

A female student from University of India-QDSROLV�ZRQ�¿UVW�SODFH�IRU�KHU�RUDO�SUHVHQWDWLRQ�RQ�jumping spiders.

“Her videos on jumping spiders were terrify-ing,” junior Codi Jo Broten said. “They were short snippets of something I never needed to see.”

At every Sigma Zeta convention, half a day is

VSHQW�RQ�D�¿HOG�WULS�WKDW�KLJKOLJKWV�WKH�ORFDWLRQ�RI�the convention. This year, students hiked at Breaks Interstate Park.

Professor of Physics Jim Peters started the Hill-sdale chapter in 1975 and continues to serve as a faculty adviser.

“The beauty of Sigma Zeta is its interdisciplin-ary nature,” Peters said. “At conventions it is so much fun for these people to learn something new DERXW�VFLHQFH�DQG�WKHLU�¿HOG��<RX�SDUWLFLSDWH�LQ�DQ�event that makes society stronger as leaders.”

In the future, Peters said he hopes to host the national convention at Hillsdale.

“Sigma Zeta is on the up at Hillsdale College,” Irmer said.

WASHINGTON — The Allan P. Kirby Center

for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship was abuzz March 25-26 as 114 guests packed into the Van Andel Lecture Hall for WKH�¿UVW�.LUE\�&HQWHU�+RVWHO�RI�the year, titled, “Churchill and the World Wars.”

College President Larry Arnn and Professor of History Thomas Conner presented lec-tures on Churchill’s leadership during the early 20th century throughout the two days, just as they would in a classroom.

“Lectures are directly from the classroom in the spirit of the guests truly experiencing what it’s like to attend Hills-dale,” Director of the Hillsdale Hostel Program Peggy Youngs ’06 said. “Often my guests will

lament, wishing they could come back full time. It’s a learning vacation.”

Hillsdale hosts seven hos-tels in the summer at Hills-dale’s main campus, one at Rockwell Lake Lodge, and one in both fall and spring at the Kirby Center. They are primar-ily attended by friends of the college, members of the Presi-dent’s Club, and older family members of Hillsdale students. This summer, the program will IHDWXUH� LWV� ¿UVW� LQWHUJHQHUD-tional hostel, designed for both younger students and older family members.

“I think the lecturers and the way it’s laid out that we can meet all the other people — the hospitality and the inter-action among the participants — makes it especially enjoy-able for me,” President’s Club member Janet Rocker said. She traveled with her husband, Bill, from Atlanta, Georgia, to

attend the event.Hostels are two to seven

days of lectures on topics such as the ancient roots of Western Civilization, philosophy and religion, the Constitution, eco-nomics, literature, and Islam and the West.

“It piggybacks on Dr. Arnn’s mission to teach anyone who’s willing to learn. Although we have a variety of topics, there’s always a Constitutional foun-dation to the lectures,” Youngs said. “It also allows friends of the college who didn’t have the opportunity to attend to expe-rience what it’s like to sit in a Hillsdale classroom.”

While enjoying outings and social events at Broadlawn, Hillsdale’s John Anthony Hal-ter Shooting Sports Education Center, and area museums, hostel attendees enjoy sharing views and exchanging ideas with their comrades — just like being in school again.

“I think the bottom line for me is being able to be with people of like mind,” Janet Rocker said. “Where we live, we have to be so politically correct about everything that it’s refreshing to be with peo-ple who are like us, who have the same values about the U.S., about the Constitution, about personal responsibility.”

“We know that we all value what Hillsdale is doing,” Bill Rocker agreed. “That’s what attracted us to Hillsdale in the ¿UVW� SODFH�²� WKH� FDPDUDGHULH�that exists among supporters. It’s about common goals: en-thusiasm for the school, enthu-siasm for the program.”

The Hillsdale Hostel Pro-gram will return to the Kirby Center in October, with a new program titled “The War of 1812 and the Madison Presi-dency.”

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David Mills: communicating Christianity

Tri-Beta sweeps regional conference

After 15 years of changes in the department, Morrisey to retire

Kelsey Drapkin

Senior Reporter

This evening, writer and editor David Mills will present a talk en-titled “Cultural Apologetics” at 7 p.m. in Lane 124.

Mills, who has served as editor of Touchstone magazine and execu-tive editor of First Things magazine, comes to Hillsdale at the invita-tion of the editorial staff of the Hillsdale Forum, co-sponsoring his talk with the Catholic Society. He will also be speaking to the Forum staff on writing well.

“Mr. Mills is very experienced as a writer and editor and the op-portunity to have him come and speak with our staff about his experi-ence with writing, as well as speak to campus about Christianity in the public square, was a great one,” the Forum Editor-In-Chief Chris McCaffery said.

Mills explained in an email that cultural apologetics bridges the gap between explaining Christianity and being heard and understood by

those outside the Faith.“A Christian has to know and accurately read the culture to make

any kind of reasonable case for the counter intuitive claims of Christi-anity,” Mills said. “Otherwise, much that you want to say sounds like the arbitrary rules of a private club or a game. They may be interesting, or not, but they don’t make any claim to being public truths.”

Mills described the importance of writing well with similar weight.“As Orwell said, in an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a

revolutionary act,” he said. “But (this is me) we’ve got to tell it well enough to be heard over the lies.”

Moreover, Mills said, “bad ideas are usually presented in very good prose.”

Mills, who will be accompanied by his wife, has never visited Hill-sdale. He is from outside Pittsburgh, and his current impression of Hillsdale is that it is “the Midwestern Grove City.”

McCaffery said visiting speakers are usually impressed with the in-tellectual engagement of students on campus, and said he hopes Mills will have a comparably positive interaction with the Hillsdale com-munity and town.

Professor of Politics Will Morrisey was hired to replace Alexander Shtromas, a child prodigy trained by the KGB in geo-politics. He taught students who went on to careers in homeland security, international journalism, and even two who returned to teach at Hillsdale.

Morrisey has been at Hillsdale since 2000. In the course of his time here, he has seen the politics department become in-dependent, triple in size, and establish the

Van Andel Graduate School of Statesman-ship. When he arrived, the three political science professors — Professors of Politics Robert Eden, Mickey Craig, and himself — were part of the department of history and political science. Concurrent with College President Arnn’s arrival, however, the poli-tics and history departments parted ways and began to specialize.

“It used to be that you had three people teaching three areas,” Morrisey said. “Po-litical philosophy, the American regime, and international politics. I was the one who was dealing with the international politics, primarily.”

With Morrisey’s departure, the Hills-dale politics program loses its last faculty member whose primary focus was on com-parative and international politics. Early on, there was little room for specialization and a high demand on every professors’ time. Each professor taught classes within D�EURDGO\�GH¿QHG�WRSLF�DQG�VKDUHG�WKH�ORDG�of the introductory courses. Constitution 101 was not then part of the core curricu-lum, so the introductory political theory class was Introduction to Politics, which lives on as Regimes: Classical and Modern.

“We all taught the Regimes course,” Morrisey said. “But you have the three ‘food groups’: political philosophy, the American regime, and international poli-tics. Now, the department is primarily fo-FXVHG�RQ�WKH�¿UVW�WZR�´

Two students from the mists of Mor-risey’s undergraduate courses’ past were Assistant Professor of History Matthew Gaetano and Assistant Professor of English Dwight Lindley.

“But I don’t take credit for either one of

them,” Morrisey said.Lindley said, however, that Morrisey’s

FODVV�ZDV�TXLWH�LQÀXHQWLDO�IRU�KLP�DV�D�+LOO-sdale undergraduate.

“At the time, I was quite exhausted by politics and suspicious of political move-ments,” Lindley said. “Dr. Morrisey’s class ended up being refreshing to me, be-cause I was introduced to political theory in the form of Aristotle’s ‘Politics’ and de Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America.’ I learned from Dr. Morrisey to love classical political theory, and I loved the opportuni-ties I had in graduate school to study it.”

Gaetano fondly recalled the class’s treatment of the same two texts.

³,�ZDV�DEOH�WR�UHÀHFW�RQ�KRZ�WKH�DQFLHQW�and the modern thinker both addressed the EHQH¿WV�DQG�GDQJHUV�RI�WKH�SROLWLFDO�SDUWLFL-pation of ordinary people,” Gaetano said. “My only criticism was that I didn’t know WKH�¿UVW�QDPHV�RI�P\�SHHUV�ZKR�PDGH�FRQ-tributions to class discussion because of Dr. Morrisey’s charming practice of referring to students as Mister and Miss.”

Jillian Melchior ’09, now a contributor to National Review and senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, said his classes have helped her in her work abroad.

“We did a class on world leaders, which was hands-down my favorite,” Melchior said. “I think he was really impressive at looking at different regimes and seeing what problems might arise. It’s been in-teresting in my career, going to places like China or Ukraine or Iraq, and seeing things that I thought were going to be obscure while I was taking the class. They turn out to be incredibly relevant.”

Churchill hostel held at Allan P. Kirby Center

Micah Meadowcroft

Arts Editor

Sarah Albers

Assistant Editor

Vivian Hughbanks

D.C. Correspondent

Professor of History Thomas Conner speaks to an audience at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizen-ship. (Courtesy of Aaron Sanford)

The Hillsdale College chap-ter of the Tri-Beta National Bio-logical Honor Society swept the regional conference at Thomas More College in Kentucky on 0DUFK� ���� WDNLQJ� ¿UVW�� VHFRQG��and third places.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had ¿UVW��VHFRQG��DQG�WKLUG�´�$VVRFL-ate Professor of Biology and Tri-Beta faculty adviser Jeffrey Van-Zant said. “We tend to do pretty ZHOO��EXW�QHYHU�¿UVW��VHFRQG��DQG�third.”

Senior Jordan Rucinski took ¿UVW� SODFH� ZLWK� KHU� SURMHFW� RQ�the protein AbpA; Hillsdale’s Tri-Beta president senior Lydia Wassink took second place with her project on extraction and DPSOL¿FDWLRQ� RI� '1$� IURP� LQ-dividual tardigrades, or “water bears”; and senior Jennifer Bals took third place with her project determining a variety of diseases

that could affect zoo animals SDVVHG�IURP�URGHQWV��VSHFL¿FDOO\�leptospirosis.

+LOOVGDOH�KDG�¿YH�FRPSHWLWRUV�out of the approximate 100 over-all competitors at the conference. Four of the Hillsdale competitors presented oral arguments and one presented in the poster category.

Rucinski, who plans to attend dental school after graduation, has been working on her project for about a year and a half. Was-sink and Bals worked on their projects for a similar amount of time.

“My research is the study of a protein called AbpA that is found on the surface of a particular spe-cies of oral bacteria,” Rucinski said. “I designed a procedure that allowed me to identify what this protein binds to in the mouth to ultimately further knowledge about how this protein, and thus the species of oral bacteria that it is found on, causes dental plaque.”

Wassink focused on DNA isolation and extraction from in-dividual tardigrades, something

that has been tried before but has caused great frustration due to the tardigrades’ microscopic size and resistance to chemicals, tem-perature, and other environmen-tal pressures. Wassink, however, was successful in her endeavor.

Wassink said she was happy to be given the opportunity at Hillsdale to plan and execute a study, an activity that is built into the biology major.

“I discovered this past year that this kind of experience is key to getting into graduate school,” Wassink said. “I’m sure the same is true for med school, vet school, and jobs in the sciences. It’s the research experience that makes students stand out.”

Rucinski and Bals both echoed Wassink’s sentiment, not-ing the Hillsdale advantage.

“Hillsdale’s program is very individualized, in that each stu-dent takes on their own project,” Rucinski said. “You get out of it what you put in, and if you put in the time and effort, it is a fantas-tic learning experience. Students at other schools also do advanced

research, but they often work under a professor, taking on a small portion of that professor’s larger research project. I think the freedom that Hillsdale’s pro-gram offers students in regard to their projects allows for a greater learning experience.”

“At the conference the other girls and I noticed how lucky we are here,” Bals said. “We have equipment that other schools don’t have and being able to put on applications that we know how to do certain laboratory tests will only work to our advantage. I also think that the biology pro-gram has many other perks, such as the Henry Doorly Zoo intern-ship, the Africa trip, the Marine Bio trip, and the biostation. There are so many opportunities and we are so lucky and blessed to have them.”

Rucinski gets an all-expenses-paid trip to the national competi-tion which will be held in May of 2016. Her only concern is getting the time off of dental school to be able to attend.

Archery range to be added to

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By next fall, Hillsdale College will have the space to accommo-GDWH� LWV� ¿UVW�HYHU� DUFKHU\� FODVV�for students.

The college will begin con-struction on the archery range and additional shooting facilities starting in May. The new con-struction will add a 20-target ar-FKHU\�¿HOG��D�GULYHZD\��D�����E\����IRRW�SDYLOLRQ��DQ�RI¿FH�VSDFH��storage, and a concession stand to the existing shooting range fa-cilities.

The archery class was avail-DEOH�IRU�WKH�¿UVW�WLPH�LQ�WKH�FRO-lege’s history during registration this past week, and the student response was overwhelming.

“The class was full almost immediately,” Hillsdale shoot-ing instructor Bart Spieth said. “I have already received emails from 15-plus students who want to be put on the waitlist. Hope-fully, we can open up another section.”

7KLV� FRQVWUXFWLRQ� ZDV� ¿-nanced by various donors, the college, and the initial gift from

WKH� (EHUVRO� HVWDWH�� ZKLFK� ¿-nanced the massive additions to the shooting range in previous years.

Friends of NRA has also do-nated $3,800 worth of archery equipment, including long and compound bows, arrows, and quivers for students to use with the new course offerings.

Students who were lucky enough to get into the archery FODVV�KDYH�GH¿QHG�LW�DV�WKH�KLJK-light of their schedule next se-mester.

“Archery is something that many new students can be good at,” Spieth explained. “Unlike ULÀH�RU�SLVWRO�VKRRWLQJ��LW�GRHVQ¶W�take long for a new shooter to get on target and get acquainted with the equipment.”

Spieth has been instructing students in shooting sports and archery since 2004. He believes the new course will offer many EHQH¿WV� WR�VWXGHQWV�ZKR�PD\�EH�overwhelmed by the usual aca-demic grind.

“One of the things I really love about archery is that it takes you to a quiet place,” Spieth said. “You need to shut everything out to focus on a good shot. It’s a huge stress-reliever.”

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Collegian Reporter

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performing at CHP as we will have watching her.” Sachen also said she loves the mix of original songs and covers

Stovall performs. Chris Lane has played over 500 shows, opening for big names

such as Florida Georgia Line, the Band Perry, Eli Young Band, Chris Young, and Brantley Gilbert. He’s been on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, and has been named Taste of Country’s top artist to watch in 2015.

“Generally with country artists, there’s a genuine kind of home feel,” Manno said. “Chris and Natalie perform in high school gyms and large arenas, so they are excited to come here. They still look at it as a very serious performance.”

“I’m obsessed with country music. I don’t know these artists, but I’m so excited because I know that after I see them, I will like them,” freshman Cassidy Syftestad said.

“I thought the hay bales were trying to cover up Beyoncé, so I’m a little disappointed that it’s not her. It’ll be interesting to watch some artists I’ve never seen before, though,” freshman Jack Sinko said.

“I’m so excited for country to come to Hillsdale, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun,” freshman Grace Schroeder added.

Both the stage and tent are much bigger this year. In contrast with the previous 12- by 24-foot stage, the new stage will be 24 by 24 feet. It will be placed lengthwise in the tent to allow more students to ap-proach it, according to Media Production Specialist Scott Pienta.

Pienta said they hope to suspend lights from the ceiling of the tent in order to allow students to approach the stage more easily. Addition-DOO\��WKH�DXGLR�YLVXDO�FUHZ�ZLOO�¿OP�WKH�HYHQW�

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The opening student band will be decided on April 10 at Band Hero. Manno said this event will give students the opportunity to per-form in front of their friends, even if they don’t win.

“We want a student band who’s going to get the crowd excited,” he said. “When you think of it, that’s what an opening band does. They excite the crowd for the bands that are to follow.”

Manno and Pienta said they are looking forward to the event.“It’s going to be a good show,” Pienta said. “It’s going to be a lot of

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than that, what made it even more exciting was how much the Reading community at large gathered around the kids and turned it into an extraordinary experience.”

Healy also said it was emo-tional to see the kids have an opportunity bigger than them-selves, surrounded by a family-like community.

Chuck North, superintendent of the school district, said the

event is no different than a state championship game, and there-IRUH��LW�ZDV�¿WWLQJ�WKDW�VFKRRO�EH�

cancelled. He said the most important

aspect of the trip was the educa-tional experience which can help children become well-rounded people.

“This is just a perfect exam-ple,” North said. “These kids will remember this and learn more from this than they ever will sit-ting in a classroom. It’s an expe-rience that we strive to provide our students.”

Every family tells its stories. We Garretts — my name comes from my paternal grandmother — like to tell how an enterpris-ing Virginian squatting on grand-ma’s land took advantage of the fertile soil to plant a lucrative cash crop: marijuana. There’s also the one about the local drunk who would take potshots at the house.

But our most exciting story reaches its sesquicentennial this week. It involves the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth at the Garrett farm.

Much of the tale is well known. After Booth murdered Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he and an DFFRPSOLFH� ÀHG� VRXWK� WKURXJK�Maryland and crossed the Po-tomac into Virginia. Ten days ODWHU�� WKH\� VWRSSHG� DW� WKH� ¿UVW�farm on the road past Port Royal,

Virginia — the farm of Richard H. Garrett, my four-times-great grandfather.

These were the boonies. So the Garretts hadn’t yet heard of Lincoln’s death. Disguised as a Confederate soldier homeward bound for Maryland, Booth begged to stay a few days. “You who know anything of Virginia,” Garrett’s son recounted, “know that there could be but one re-sponse to such a request.”7KH� ¿UVW� QLJKW� SDVVHG� ZLWK-

out incident. But on April 25, Booth began to act strangely. He brought out a map and traced a trip from Charleston to Texas to Mexico — not Maryland. Later, when a cavalry detachment trot-ted down the nearby road, he panicked and hid in the woods.

Booth’s feeble explanations unsettled his hosts. “I am afraid these men will get us into trou-ble,” Garrett told his sons. “You had better watch them tonight.” They put Booth and his accom-plice in the barn and made ar-rangements for their departure the next day.

Late that night, though, Union troops tracked him to the farm. They dragged old Garrett out of the house and threatened him with the noose. In the meantime, soldiers found the fugitives in the barn. The accomplice sur-rendered as the soldiers parleyed with a recalcitrant Booth. “Boys, bring a stretcher,” he said, “I will never surrender. Another stain on the glorious old-banner!” So the WURRSV�VHW�WKH�EDUQ�D¿UH�,Q� WKH� OLJKW�RI� WKH�ÀDPHV�� WKH�

soldiers saw Booth standing on

crutches and clutching his car-bine. One of Garrett’s sons re-ports, “He was as beautiful as the statue of a Greek god and as calm in that awful hour.”

Orders were to take Booth alive, but as the blaze grew, one sergeant disobeyed. He shot Booth, falsely claiming that the assassin had aimed his carbine at the captain. The bullet severed his spine and paralyzed him from the neck down. The soldiers then sent two Garrett boys to drag %RRWK� IURP� WKH� FRQÀDJUDWLRQ��“Captain,” Booth said once laid in the house, “it is hard that this man’s property should be de-stroyed. He does not know who I am.” These words saved Garrett from the gallows.

Booth’s tale ended there, but for the Garretts it continued.

They were poor farmers. The crippling loss of the barn only began my ancestor’s troubles. Southerners accused him of be-traying Booth for Union cash. Northerners denounced him for knowingly harboring the assas-sin. The government refused to reimburse the cost of the barn or the furniture stored inside it.

So the farm fell into ruin. Neighbors abandoned him. His FKLOGUHQ�OHIW�WR�¿QG�ZRUN�LQ�7HQ-nessee, North Carolina, and else-where. “A lonely grave, a deso-late and decaying homestead, a scattered family,” Garrett wrote late in life, “bear mute testimony to the wrong done us not only by the Government, but by our friends.”

The house and barn are gone now. Where the Garretts once

made their lives, there stands only a sign off a backwoods high-way. “This is the Garrett place where John Wilkes Booth, assas-sin of Lincoln, was cornered by Union soldiers and killed, April 26th, 1865. The house stood a short distance from this spot.” The story only survives with my family through the yellowed newspaper clippings in the attic of my great-aunt — our amateur historian.

For the Garretts, who now spread from California to Wis-consin to Florida, this tale re-minds us of the most tragic period in America’s story. In %RRWK¶V� GH¿DQW� EUDYHU\� DPRQJ�WKH� ÀDPHV�� ZH� UHPHPEHU� WKH�false heroism of the South’s un-just war. In Garrett’s misfortune, we remember the suffering of the FRPPRQ�6RXWKHUQHU��¿JKWLQJ�IRU�his home and returning to it with tattered clothes and worthless money — if at all.

But most important, Garrett’s suffering because of Booth re-minds us of the tremendous cost of Lincoln’s death. As one of Garrett’s sons later wrote, “We are beginning to learn what we did not then suspect, that the rugged, uncouth, unassuming man had in him the marks of true greatness and had in him the tender heart of a little child. Yes, it was a mad, useless, cruel deed, cruel to him, cruel to those who loved him, and to the South which so much needed then his clear brain and tender heart.”

Garrett West is a senior study-ing philosophy.

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DON’T BE LIKE ROLLING STONE

Last fall, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” an article decrying college and fraternity rape culture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It centered on “Jackie,” an anonymous female student who claimed to have been gang-raped at a party. Jackie’s story was disgusting and horrifying, moving readers with graphic details. It was the exact story Erdely set out to tell. According to Erdely’s notes of her conversation with Rolling Stone editors when pitching the idea, she wanted a single college rape case that shows “what it’s like to be on campus now...where not only is rape so prevalent but also that there’s this pervasive cul-ture of sexual harassment/rape culture.”

There’s just one problem: Most of it was a lie. The story began unraveling not long after publication.

While many sympathized with Jackie’s dreadful assault and viciously demanded prosecution for the school and at-tackers, some, such as former New Republic editor Richard Bradley, called Jackie’s bluff.

“Emotion has out swept reason,” Bradley said in his blog post “Is the Rolling Stone Story True?”

As he predicted, the story that caused hundreds of thou-sands of people to talk about the campus rape problem was DOPRVW�HQWLUHO\�¿FWLWLRXV��7KH�HUURUV�ZHUH�VR�HPEDUUDVVLQJ-ly bad that Rolling Stone asked the Columbia Journalism Review to review its editing and fact-checking process to highlight from where the problems allowing such a heinous mistake originated. Last Sunday, the Columbia Journalism Report’s report “Rolling Stone’s investigation: ‘A failure WKDW�ZDV�DYRLGDEOH¶´�UHYHDOHG�WKH�ÀLPV\�YHUL¿FDWLRQ�SURFHVV�WKDW�OHG�WR�WKH�¿QDO�¿FWLRQ��

But even now, as examination has reduced the story to a pile of falsehoods, no one will take responsibility for its myriad errors. Even after many reporters, the Charlottesville SROLFH��DQG�QRZ�WKH�&ROXPELD�-RXUQDOLVP�5HYLHZ�LGHQWL¿HG�5ROOLQJ�6WRQH¶V�JUDYH�HUURUV��QRW�RQH�SHUVRQ�KDV�EHHQ�¿UHG��Even worse, many are making excuses for Rolling Stone.

“This not only says something about journalism but also about the morality of our culture,” Maria Servold, assistant director of the Dow Journalism Program said.

“Taking responsibility is a problem in America. No one straight up apologizes — it always comes with an excuse. There is an unwillingness to own up to mistakes and take the consequences.”

Even though Jackie lied about the events, the real fault lies with Erdely, her editors, and fact checkers: “...the editors and Erdely have concluded that their main fault was to be too accommodating of Jackie because she described herself as the survivor of a terrible sexual assault,” the CJR said.

In contrast, the report shows dishonesty from Erdely to her editors, poor decisions by editors, and neglect from fact checkers. All of these disguised Jackie’s lies before the sto-ry’s publication. So while Erdely hoped to rally support for VH[XDO�DVVDXOW�YLFWLPV��VKH�OLNHO\�PDGH�LW�PRUH�GLI¿FXOW�IRU�them to be heard.

“Erdely and her editors had hoped their investigation would sound an alarm about campus sexual assault and would challenge Virginia and other universities to do better. Instead, the magazine’s failure may have spread the idea that many women invent rape allegations,” the CJR said. Erdely and Rolling Stone wanted an obscene story about fraternity rape and they found someone who would say exactly what they wanted to hear.

“[Erdely’s] intention was to prove the existence of rape culture and to shame and ostracize those whom she fervently believed participated in it,” Bradley said about the CJR’s re-port. “...you are forced to believe she failed.”The writer and editors’ biases clouded their judgement and now the frater-nity, college, and even rape victims are paying the price. We need to stop justifying Rolling Stone’s actions and demand they pay the penalty for their own mistakes. In journalism, there is no excuse for lying.

Macaela Bennett is a junior studying American Studies and journalism.

Today marks 150 years since Robert E. Lee’s sur-render of the Army of North-ern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, which ended the bloodiest war in United States history.

Even now, Americans still live with the echoes of the Civil War. As many as 850,000 PHQ� GLHG� LQ� WKH� FRQÀLFW�� )RU�every 10 soldiers who marched off to battle, one would never again come home.

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Hillsdale College. At its out-break, hundreds of students answered the call for troops. Nearly the entire male student body left its studies and took up arms. According to former Professor of History Arlan Gilbert, more than 500 Hills-dale men served in the war, the highest percentage of any non-military school in the country.

Of those hundreds, there were many who never returned to their alma mater. The Sol-diers’ Monument commemo-rates those Hillsdale students

who lost their lives in the war. )RU� WKRVH�ZKR�PDGH� LW� KRPH��life was never the same.

)RXU� +LOOVGDOH� VWXGHQWV� UH-turned with the Medal of Hon-or, the highest possible award IRU� JDOODQWU\�� $VKHU� /D)OHXU��who later became Hillsdale’s mayor, returned without his leg. Others returned with men-tal scars rather than physi-cal. Still others, like two-time Medal of Honor recipient )UDQN�%DOGZLQ��IRXQG�DFDGHP-ic life impossible and left for a military career.

Today, the tremendous sac-UL¿FHV�RI� WKRVH�ZKR�IRXJKW�VR�long ago are remembered. The impact of the Civil War is and VKRXOG�FRQWLQXH�WR�EH�UHÀHFWHG�upon.

Above all, Americans must recognize the continued re-solve that “these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

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After the nearly 14-year-long war in Af-ghanistan, the IntelCenter’s Country Threat ,QGH[�UHFHQWO\�QDPHG�$IJKDQLVWDQ� WKH�¿IWK��most dangerous place in the world. Even though America’s combat mission ended in Dec. 2014, keeping U.S. forces at their cur-rent level will help secure Afghanistan’s fu-ture through training and equipping the Af-ghan forces to deal with these challenges.

Despite ongoing violence in Afghanistan, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have PDGH� SURPLVLQJ� FKDQJHV� LQ� WKHLU� ¿UVW� VL[�PRQWKV� LQ�RI¿FH��*LYHQ� WKH�SURJUHVV� LQ�$I-ghanistan, problems in Pakistan, and chaos in Iraq, President Obama’s decision to maintain troop levels through 2015 should be com-mended. )LUVW��SURVHFXWLQJ�QRWRULRXVO\�FRUUXSW�RI¿-

cials in the Kabul Bank, beginning to reform the election commission system, establishing a National Unity Government, and improv-ing regional relations are a few examples of President Ghani and Chief Executive Abdul-lah’s commitment to creating a stable Af-ghanistan. While in the U.S., they expressed visions of modern health care, infrastructure, and education system. Indeed, “the story of Afghanistan’s path to self-reliance is already started,” President Ghani told Congress on March 25. 7KHLU�VWRU\�RI�SURJUHVV��KRZHYHU��LV�QRW�¿-

nalized. While President Ghani outlined the

need for diplomacy, strengthening Afghani-stan’s military forces, and national reconcili-ation, there is also the need for the stabilizing force of continuing U.S. military presence. As Afghanistan looks to negotiate with the Taliban from the a point of strength while simultaneously reforming the electoral pro-cess, the added security of America’s 9,800 troops now will better equip the National Unity Government to face the inevitable challenges of the future. )XUWKHUPRUH��3DNLVWDQ�LV�EHJLQQLQJ�WR�UHDO-

ize that it cannot support some terrorist or-ganizations while combating others. Pakistan has cracked down since the attack on the Pe-shawar school, but only on Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Engaging with Pakistan and pressuring it not to tolerate any terrorist ac-tivity must be a priority for Afghanistan and WKH�8�6��LI�WKH�¿JKW�DJDLQVW�LQVXUJHQW�JURXSV�is to succeed. Sanctions, suspended aid, and travel bans should be used to pressure Paki-VWDQ� WR� JHW� VHULRXV� DERXW� ¿JKWLQJ� DOO� WHUURU��but until that happens, military presence con-tinuing to assist Afghan security forces will be critical to maintaining stability. )LQDOO\�� DQG� PRVW� LPSRUWDQW�� WKHUH� LV� D�

lesson to be learned from the deterioration in Iraq. While failing to see the underly-ing problems with the Maliki government, Obama withdrew troops from Iraq too soon because he was too focused on ending the war. Not to say that ISIS is an immediate threat in Afghanistan — there is no evidence supporting that — but Iraq serves as a warn-ing to premature withdrawal based on politi-cal calculations rather than recognizing the reality of Iraq’s masked-over instability.

Afghanistan, while moving in a positive direction, is still fragile and vulnerable to collapse. Delaying the reduction of troops would not only help the National Unity Gov-ernment achieve better stability, but would also allow for major problems to be ad-dressed without the complete lack of a safety net. If Afghanistan collapsed into a terrorist safe haven again, it would exacerbate Paki-stan’s problem with terrorists to the South while erasing all signs of progress in educa-tion, health, and human rights.

The United States should not stay in Af-ghanistan forever — nor do Afghans want us to — but withdrawal should be based on when Afghanistan is strong enough to stand on its own, not an arbitrary date. Keeping troop levels where they are now is just the ¿UVW�VWHS��WKH�8�6��VKRXOG�HQFRXUDJH�$IJKDQ-istan’s leaders to keep pursuing reforms and, most important, keep them accountable.

On March 26, Chief Executive Abdullah VSRNH� DW� WKH�+HULWDJH� )RXQGDWLRQ� LQ�:DVK-ington, D.C., where he discussed the positive changes in the U.S.-Afghanistan partnership since the National Unity Government took over. He said the U.S. “has helped us more than any other country in the world” and “lives of millions of people have changed for better.” With his and Ghani’s shared vision RI�D�VHOI�VXI¿FLHQW�$IJKDQLVWDQ��KH�VDLG�WKDW�“I will never underestimate the challenges ahead of us. But also look at the opportuni-ties. The opportunities are endless.”

Emily Runge is a junior George Washing-ton Fellow studying politics.

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A stable Afghanistan needs US troops

In “Conversing beyond Korean lines,” April 2, the Collegian said, “The number of North Korean refugees today hovers at about 30,000, mostly in China, although some exist in diaspo-ras throughout the U.S.” This should have said, “The number of North Korean defectors living in South Korea is about 30,000. United States has 150.” The Collegian regrets this error.

In “Hillsdale confronts adult illiteracy,” April 2, the Colle-JLDQ�VDLG�WKDW�%U\DQ�+L[VRQ�UHFHLYHG�KLV�*('�FHUWL¿FDWH�IURP�Michigan Works. He received his GED from the Community Action Agency.

In “UFO: In 1966, Hillsdale had its own close encounter,” March 19, the Collegian said there is a CVS off Carlton Road. It is a Walgreens.

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Josiah Lippincott is a junior George Washington Fellow studying politics.

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Elizabeth Wynia, a junior studying chemistry, is a

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Elizabeth WyniaSpecial to the Collegian

Campus security already works

To the editor: On Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, 51 tornadoes ripped

through the nation’s Midwest, including Hillsdale County, kill-ing 223 people and injuring 1,500.

“Suddenly we heard a big roar like a train,” one local resident said.

That “big roar,” which began shortly before 8 p.m., was WKH�¿UVW�RI�IRXU�RU�¿YH�WZLVWHUV�WKDW�VZHSW�WKURXJK�WKH�FRXQW\��OHDYLQJ����UHVLGHQWV�GHDG��PRUH�WKDQ�����LQMXUHG��DQG�RYHU�100 homeless. The storms destroyed many homes. Cattle OD\�GHDG�RQ�WKH�JURXQG��&DUV�ZHUH�WLSSHG�RYHU�DQG�ZUDSSHG�around trees. Three churches and a camp lay in ruins.

Rescue and relief efforts, which included Hillsdale Col-lege students, began immediately after the storms left the DUHD��7KH�VWXGHQWV�KHOSHG�RXW�E\�GLUHFWLQJ�WUDI¿F��FOHDQLQJ�XS�UXEEOH��UHVFXLQJ�WKH�LQMXUHG��VHUYLQJ�IRRG�WR�WKH�KRPHOHVV�and rescue workers, and guarding against looters.

The Hillsdale County Sheriff said that reports of looting stopped as soon as the students started to patrol.

The students earned the respect and praise of the Hillsdale Daily News.

“While many of us and our neighbors were too stunned IURP�RXU�SK\VLFDO�DQG�¿QDQFLDO�ORVVHV�WR�HYHQ�µWKLQN�DERXW�what to do next,’ “ the newspaper said, “dozens, scores—yes hundreds of Hillsdale College students came to help us clean up the debris of our wrecked homes and property. They all YROXQWHHUHG�«�WKH\�GLGQ¶W�JHW�RU�H[SHFW�SD\�«�WKH\�FDPH�because their hearts were with us in our time of trouble.”

Fifty years ago, Hillsdale College students shined during one of the darkest times in Hillsdale County.

Sincerely,Stephen CasaiHead checker & cashierKnorr Family Dining Room P.S. The tornadoes on Palm Sunday 1965 missed

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CITY NEWS A6 9 April 2015www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Checker Records to celebrate Record Store Day

City to become

‘redevelop-ment readycommunity’

The city of Hillsdale is on its way to becoming a “Rede�YHORSPHQW� 5HDG\� &RPPXQLW\´�— a city equipped for economic growth and competition — af�ter the Hillsdale City Council decided Monday to begin the redevelopment program soon. It DOVR�JDYH�0DU�9R�0LQHUDO�&(2�'DYLG� :KHHOHU� WKH� JR�DKHDG�WR� DSSO\� IRU� D� � �������� IHGHUDO�JUDQW�WR�UHQRYDWH�WKH�)�:��6WRFN��6RQV�0LOO�

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%HHNHU� ZLOO� WUDLQ� XQGHU�$U�nold through May.

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Terry answered that Hills�dale is too big for a local busi�ness to manage.

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Assistant Editor

Smith’s Flowers owner Jane Stewart pours a cup of Metropolitan Tea. (Emma Vinton/Collegian)

Sarah Chavey

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Hillsdale police officer Shelby Rathbun recognized for saving an infant’s life with the help of Ryan Tracy (pictured right).

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Hillsdale police officer Ryan Tracy recognized for saving an infant’s life with the help of Shelby Rathbun (pictured left).

(Phil DeVoe/Collegian)

“I honestly didn’t think we

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Sports recruitment for a small OLEHUDO� DUWV� FROOHJH� LV� GLI¿FXOW�enough. Recruiting talented ath-letes who also satisfy Hillsdale’s academic requirements is even harder.

“At Hillsdale, we need good grades and a sky-high ACT,” said women’s softball coach Joe $EUDKDP�� ³7KDW¶V� KDUG� WR� ¿QG�sometimes. When your average ACT is a 29 or a 30 and you’re trying to compete with Grand Valley, recruiting is — to put it PLOGO\�²�YHU\�GLI¿FXOW�´

But next year’s class of fresh-man athletes holds precisely this sort of promise. The Charger

football team, with 29 incom-ing athletes, has reaped the ben-H¿WV�RI�UHFHQW�UHQRYDWLRQV�WR�WKH�Sports Complex. According to head football coach Keith Ot-terbein, the facilities help nudge talented prospects our way.

“The recruits have been very impressed with the upgraded weight room downstairs,” Ot-terbein said. “There’s kind of a ‘wow’ factor when they walk in and see the new gym and the state-of-the-art equipment and HI¿FLHQF\�RI�LW�DOO�´

This was seconded by Jeff Lantis, Director of External Relations for Athletics, who af-¿UPHG� LQ� DQ� HPDLO� WKDW� WKH�QHZ�facilities would give Hillsdale a leg up as it competes to attract

the attention of strong athletes and continue to develop a com-petitive Division II program.

³+DYLQJ� DQ� DFDGHPLF� SUR¿OH�that is higher than any other [Di-vision II] college in the country requires our coaches to recruit harder and more broadly as we do battle with the Ivy and Patriot League colleges as well as the military academies,” Lantis said.

John Tharp, head men’s bas-ketball coach, has only brought three freshmen into the program this year, but looks forward to growth of Hillsdale’s athletic program in years to come. This year’s recruits, including a point guard and a scoring wing, signed to Hillsdale College even before the renovations were complete.

“It’s such a beautiful facility,” Tharp said. “It really shows well. I think it’s something that young student athletes will be excited about. It’s going to be much eas-ier for us to show the facilities WKDQ�ZKHQ� ,� ¿UVW� JRW� KHUH� \HDUV�ago, and we’re all very thankful for that. Campus is already so beautiful and the reputation of the college is such an advantage, so it’s nice to have the facilities ¿QLVKHG�´

Additionally, the freshman basketball players have good reason to work hard during their ¿UVW�VHDVRQ�DV�&KDUJHUV�

³7KLV� ZDV� WKH� ¿UVW� \HDU� ZH�didn’t make a GLIAC tourna-ment since we’ve been here,” Tharp said, “so these kids are

highly motivated to make it back.”

Because of losing very few players to graduation, the soft-ball team anticipates bringing three new players into the pro-JUDP�²� WZR� RXW¿HOGHUV� DQG� DQ�LQ¿HOGHU��$FFRUGLQJ�WR�KHDG�VRIW-ball coach Joe Abraham, the new IDFLOLWLHV� KDYH� \HW� WR� EHQH¿W� WKH�softball team’s recruitment and practice resources.

“We have half the space we used to,” Abraham said. “When you don’t have a good place to practice, it makes recruiting PRUH�GLI¿FXOW�´

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cruitment each year, the type of student and athlete attracted to Hillsdale will regard the renova-WLRQV� DV� DQ� DGGHG� EHQH¿W� WR� DQ�already-appealing program.

“The nice thing is that when ZH� ¿QG� VRPHRQH� ZKR� ¿WV� WKDW�mold, once they’re on campus and they see how we’re different, there aren’t many places that of-fer what we offer,” Towne said. ³7KH\¶UH�D�OLWWOH�KDUG�WR�¿QG��EXW�RQFH�ZH�¿QG�WKHP��WKH\�¿W�´

SPORTSA7 9 April 2015www.hillsdalecollegian.com

BaseballHillsdale at Northwood L, 7-5L, 14-4L, 3-2L, 6-5

Findlay at HillsdaleW, 5-3L, 6-3

Season LeadersBatting AverageConnor Bartlett (.321)Runs Batted InBartlett (19)Chris McDonald (14)Earned Run AveragePhil Carey (3.47)Shane Armstrong (3.74)

SoftballHillsdale at Saginaw ValleyW, 4-3L, 5-1

Hillsdale at Wayne St.L, 3-0L, 4-3

Lourdes at HillsdaleW, 13-5W, 14-6

Season LeadersBatting AverageBekah Kastning (.442)Runs Batted InSarah Grunert (16)Earned Run AverageDanielle Stiene (2.16)

BOX SCORES

+LOOVGDOH¶V� WUDFN� DQG� ¿HOG�team continued to make strides as they traveled to the Bob Kahn Invite at Oberlin College in Ohio this past Saturday. Only part of the Charger contingent traveled to the meet with distance and middle-distance runners having the weekend off.

Head coach Andrew Towne highlighted freshman long-sprinter, Lane White, and fresh-man thrower, Rachel Tolsma, as standout athletes from the meet. Each respective athlete received the team’s “Athlete of the Week” award.

“Outdoors is a different sea-son, it’s a bit of a transition, and I think he’s making that transition quickly,” Towne said of White.

Throwing coach Janine Kue-stner, who is Tolsma’s event coach, was excited to see how quickly Tolsma has progressed in an event she just began com-peting in this year.

Towne was also impressed with Tolsma, calling her “the third-best freshman that we’ve HYHU�KDG�´�DIWHU�VKH�¿QLVKHG�WKLUG�in the hammer throw in just un-der 48 meters.

In addition to the impres-sive performances by White and Tolsma, a number of other Char-gers also excelled at the meet.

Sophomore Maddie Estell placed second in the high jump and won the triple jump with a jump of 11.01 meters.

Sophomore Dana Newell threw 48.78 meters in the ham-mer throw, placing ahead of

Tolsma. Freshman Jared Schipper

bounced back from his last meet, winning the pole vault in 4.90 meters.

After not competing in the last few track meets due to sick-ness and injury, freshman Han-

nah Watts placed second in de-but meet, running the 800 meter in 2:22.

Hillsdale’s All-Americans, ju-nior Corinne Zehner (1:03.1) and senior Maurice Jones (53.35), won the women’s and men’s 400 meter hurdles respectively.

According to senior sprinter Zach Meyer, because meet of-¿FLDOV� GLGQ¶W�PRYH� WKH�����PH-ter dash from the home straight, times were slow as athletes were

forced to face strong headwinds on the straightaway.

Jumps and short-sprints coach Nate Miller is happy with how his athletes are doing at this point in the season.

“They’re feeling strong, they’re feeling capable right now

— mentally and physically,” Miller said. “It’s been a long year and this is probably the strongest group I’ve had mentally, where they’re not burnt out — they’re ready to roll.”

Miller was also happy with how many of the athletes in his event group have improved since the GLIAC conference indoor track meet.

“I’ve seen big improve-ments,” Miller said. “I feel like

the athletes are becoming more FRQ¿GHQW� DQG� WKH\¶UH� DEOH� WR�evaluate themselves better. They’re more independent, and when that happens the athlete starts really improving.”

It is very important for track DQG� ¿HOG� DWKOHWHV� WR� EH� DEOH� WR�evaluate their performance to make sure they’re using the most HI¿FLHQW� UXQQLQJ� IRUP� DQG� IRO-lowing their racing plans faith-fully. Even short-sprinters, who may only be racing for 11 sec-onds in the 100-meter dash, fo-cus on race strategy.

Towne believes what he calls “race distribution,” is what sets Hillsdale’s athlete’s apart from the athletes at other schools. Af-ter every sprinter’s race, Towne works with them to break down their performance, so they can maximize their body’s potential.

“We have certain things in each race in terms of how we approach it — where we do cer-tain things in the race — they all come into play,” Towne said.

The team was originally scheduled to travel to Michigan State University for their meet last weekend, but had to switch meets as MSU’s track is still be-ing prepared for the Big Ten out-door track conference meet.

“It wasn’t where we in-tended to go, but sometimes the places you intended to go make changes, and you have to make changes,” Towne said. “We were DEOH�WR�¿QG�WKDW�PHHW�DQG�LW�VXLW-ed some of the needs we had in terms of competing.”

This Saturday the Chargers will host the Hillsdale Invitation, WKH�¿UVW�RI�IRXU�KRPH�PHHWV�WKLV�season.

Sarah Albers

Assistant Editor

Softball is a game of its

own

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Janine Kuestner joined the Hillsdale track DQG�¿HOG�IDPLO\�DW�D�SHUIHFW�WLPH��6LQFH�KHU�arrival in September, the team has achieved the most success in its program’s long his-WRU\�ZLWK�VHFRQG�SODFH�¿QLVKHV�DW�WKH�1&$$�Division II cross-country nationals and at the indoor NCAA D-II nationals.

“I feel really lucky and blessed to be here at this time,” Kuestner said. “It’s been really exciting.”

But Kuestner did not take the most tra-ditional career path in becoming a throws coach at Hillsdale.

Kuestner thought her own collegiate track DQG�¿HOG�FDUHHU�ZDV�RYHU�XSRQ�JUDGXDWLRQ�LQ�2003. But fast-forward eight years, and she was on a roster again.

“I had the best year of my life athletical-ly,” Kuestner said of 2011.

Kuestner only competed three of her four collegiate years at the University of Tennes-see, having redshirted her sophomore year because of an injury. After coach and schol-arship changes at the university during her senior year, she tried to transfer to continue throwing. Her transfer release, however, was denied and she decided to graduate in 2003 with a season of eligibility in the NCAA un-used.

While teaching high school in New York City and volunteer assistant coaching at a D-III school where she was earning her mas-ter’s degree in Education, Kuestner reviewed the NCAA rules book and realized she could throw for another year in D-III. She took the opportunity to throw at Ohio’s Ashland Uni-versity, training under head coach Jud Logan, a four-time Olympian in the hammer throw.

“I was the oldest person by about six years,” she laughed, but the experience earned her a new personal record and intro-duced her to her husband and coaching ca-reer.

After Ashland, Kuestner began coaching at Walsh University where she stayed for two years forming her coaching philosophy.

“Transitioning to coaching was a lot dif-ferent than I had expected. Before, I thought it was all about what you say in practice — all the technical aspects of the throws— and that is a really big part, but designing a year -long or four-year-long training regime is so important. There’s so much more to it than just knowing the event and giving the appro-

priate cues. My approach is to try to under-stand each athlete individually to the best of my ability and design a program for them to maximize their potential.”

Kuestner met the Hillsdale coaching staff at the USTFCCCA national convention last December. When Jeff Forino, Hillsdale’s previous head coach, left for a position at Davenport, newly appointed Andrew Towne reached out to Kuestner.

³6KH�ZDV�P\�¿UVW�FDOO�´�7RZQH�VDLG��³<RX�always keep a look out at other coaches, and she was getting something out of her kids that she probably shouldn’t have and that no one expected.”

Towne said he was interested in Kuestner because she had a great mentor at Ashland, but she wasn’t a “copycat coach.”

“A lot of them come out copying, but she has her own blueprint for coaching, that and a very friendly attitude,” Towne said.

Kuestner, however, wasn’t looking to leave Walsh at the time.

“For every job you weigh the negatives and positives, and for me, at that time, the positives outweighed the negatives,” Kuest-QHU�VDLG��³%XW�+LOOVGDOH�UHDOO\�¿W�ZLWK�PH�²�the academic strength of the school and the Christian foundation of the school is really important to me, and I think we have one of the best coaching staffs in the country here. I really appreciate Coach Towne’s leader-ship.”

Kuestner is now looking to steamroll the Chargers’ indoor success into the outdoor season where throwers have more opportu-nities.

“When you come to college to throw, you’re really coming for outdoor,” senior captain Heather Lantis explained.

In indoor track only two throw competi-tions are included: the shotput and the weight throw. For the outdoor season javelin, discus, and hammer are added to the lineup.

“I think our group is stronger outdoor, I’m hoping to get a couple of my kids to nationals this year,” Kuestner said. “They’re all right at or better than their PR’s from last year. They’re ready to cash in on all the hard work they’ve been putting in.”

Lantis said Kuestner has been a “refresh-ing addition to the coaching staff.”

“She’s made a strong effort to have us be more united,” Lantis said. “It’s easy to have practice times all over the place, but she tries to line them up so you’re always practicing with a teammate. There’s a lot more con-sistency in having a team atmosphere even

though it’s an individualized sport and I WKLQN�WKDW¶V�EHQH¿WWHG�DOO�RI�XV�´

-XQLRU�1DWKDQLHO�1REEV�ZKR�SODFHG�¿UVW�in his event the Bob Kahn Invite last week-end said that Kuestner has helped him im-prove his technique.

“Javelin is one of the most technique-heavy events, and with her help I have been able to identify the areas I need to work on DQG� WKHQ� ¿[� WKHP� WKURXJK� D� ORW� RI� ZRUN�´�Nobbs said.

In addition to this season’s goals, Kuester VDLG�KHU�PDLQ�JRDO�LV�WR�EH�D�³SRVLWLYH�LQÀX-ence” in her athletes’ lives.

“They come in as high school kids, they’re still very young and you see them mature over the course of a season and years and by the time they leave they’re adults ready to take on the world. I feel really lucky to have a hand in that process,” Kuestner said. “As a coach, you see more of them than their professors, and you’ll most likely have more conversations with them than their room-mates or friends. I don’t take that responsi-bility lightly.”

/DQWLV� DQG�1REEV� FRQ¿UPHG� WKDW�.XHVW-ner is reaching her coaching goals.

“Coach K is just an awesome person. She keeps things in perspective for us yet gives XV�FRQ¿GHQFH�WKDW�ZH�FDQ�DFKLHYH�PDUNV�ZH�PD\�QRW�KDYH�DW�¿UVW�´�1REEV� VDLG�� ³6KH� LV�always ready to laugh and to laugh heartily. You can just tell that she enjoys all of her athletes.

Lantis said Kuestner has been a great mentor for her this year and that “she is a wonderful role model for all of the women on the team.”

COACH KUESTNER LEADS THROWERS Sam Scorzo

Sports Editor

7KH� ÀLJKW� DWWHQGDQW¶V� VZHHW�southern drawl came over the loud speaker as she cheerfully announced, “A special welcome to our baseball team that’s with us today!”

Baseball team? I wondered. I didn’t see a baseball team board-LQJ� WKH� ÀLJKW�� ,PPHGLDWHO\� P\�eyes scoured the plane in search for the alleged boys, but I only saw my Hillsdale softball team-mates and coaches.

Suddenly, it was obvious that there were no baseballers on board, but that the good-inten-WLRQHG�ÀLJKW�DWWHQGDQW�KDG�PDGH�the most obnoxious mistake. And this was only the beginning. Over the course of our spring training trip in Florida, we were incorrectly titled as a baseball team time and time again.

While the game of softball and the game of baseball have similarities such as diamond-VKDSHG� ¿HOGV� DQG� WKH� REMHFWLYH�to run around said diamond-VKDSHG� ¿HOG�� WKH\� DUH� GLIIHUHQW�sports.

In 1887 when George Han-cock invented softball, or “in-door baseball” as it was named at the time, he probably never imagined how the game would evolve. Fastpitch softball is a distinctive sport that is widely played and should be widely recognized as a separate game.

We owe our game’s existence to baseball and enjoy the paral-lels we share. So I don’t mean to disparage our brother sport. I just want people to stop treating us like baseball’s kid sister.

Nevertheless, the differences EHWZHHQ�WKH�WZR�DUH�VLJQL¿FDQW��Baseball fences range from 300 feet to 435 feet while softball fences max out at 250 feet. Soft-EDOO� LQ¿HOGV�DUH�KDOI� WKH�VL]H�RI�EDVHEDOO� LQ¿HOGV�� RQO\� ������square feet. With 60-foot base paths and a 43-foot distance be-tween the pitcher’s mound and home plate, all dimensions in softball are shorter than those in baseball, and this increases the speed of the game.

Major League baseball pitches can reach 100 miles per hour while softball pitches max out around 70 miles per hour. However, according to an ESPN Sports Science video titled “The Speed of Softball”, a pitched softball reaches the plate in only .35 seconds while a pitched baseball reaches the plate in .38 seconds. That means a softball hitter only has 25 mil-liseconds to decide whether or not to swing while baseball hit-ters have 55 milliseconds.

Speedy hand-eye coordina-

tion is also required as an in-¿HOGHU�� DV� OLQH�GULYHV� FDQ� FRPH�off the bat at speeds reaching 100 miles per hour. With the VPDOOHU� LQ¿HOG� GLPHQVLRQV�� WKLV�means the batted ball can reach the shortstop in only .61 sec-onds. From there, the shortstop PXVW�WKURZ�WKH�EDOO�WR�¿UVW�EDVH�beating the runner who averages LQ� D� ���� VHFRQG� KRPH�WR�¿UVW�time. These quick plays only get quicker when the batter has extra speed, the ball takes a bad hop on the dirt, or the runner is a slap-hitter.

Under these conditions, it’s a good thing softball players throw like girls.

This leads me to a small detail that, to me, completely exempli-¿HV�WKH�JDS�EHWZHHQ�WKH�JDPHV��Softball players are females. We wear ponytails, ribbons and var-ious accessories. Although our XQLIRUPV�DUH�QRW�WKH�PRVW�ÀDWWHU-LQJ��IHPLQLQH�¿JXUHV�FDQ�XVXDOO\�be detected under the dirty and oversized jerseys.

Fastpitch softball is a grow-ing sport that busies the sched-ules of girls all over the world. According to the Amateur Soft-ball Association’s website, the ASA registers over 245,000 softball teams annually. That means over 3.5 million girls suit up to play in ASA tournaments over the course of each year. In addition, the ASA registers over 83,000 youth softball teams, meaning 1.2 million youths par-ticipate yearly. According to a study by ESPN, 17 percent of six to 17-year-old girls who play a competitive sport play softball.

In 2014, 371,891 of these softball youngsters furthered their careers and joined a high school team. From there, 30,874 girls went on to play collegiate softball at 1,679 colleges across the country. Though the number of players dwindles as ages in-crease, there are still millions of girls at all ages who participate in softball programs every year.

For a softball player, the dream almost always ends at college graduation. There are RQO\� ¿YH� SURIHVVLRQDO� VRIWEDOO�teams in the National Pro Fast-pitch league and only one olym-pic USA team. This lack of pro-fessional play contrasts with the popularity of the MLB that airs games on TV almost year-round.

Softball’s status will never touch that of America’s favor-ite pastime. But I still request one simple thing. I just ask that you learn to appreciate softball for its unique importance, and please, get the name right.

SPORTS TEAMS CHARGE UP RECRUITMENT REGIMEN

Track team continues progress at Oberlin

Junior Nathaniel Nobbs threw the javelin 48.6 meters to win his event at the Bob Kahn Invite this weekend. (Anders

Kiledal/Collegian)

Evan Carter

Web Editor

Hillsdale throws coach Janine Kuest-ner. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

The Hillsdale College base-ball team played a slew of games this week, splitting two games with the Findlay University Oil-ers last night after dropping all four games to the Northwood University Timberwolves over Easter weekend.

The Chargers used a combina-tion of mammoth home runs and stellar pitching to defeat Findlay ���� LQ� WKH� ¿UVW� KDOI� RI�:HGQHV-day’s home doubleheader.

After Hillsdale manufactured D� UXQ� LQ� WKH� ERWWRP�RI� WKH�¿UVW��Findlay took the lead with two UXQV�LQ�WKH�WRS�RI�WKH�¿IWK���)LQG-lay’s lead was short lived, how-ever, as Hillsdale scored four runs in the bottom half of the in-ning on home runs by junior Mi-chael O’Sullivan, junior Connor Bartlett, and sophomore Ethan :LVNXU�

The Chargers held onto this lead the rest of the game, allow-ing only one more run in the top of the sixth inning. Junior Chris McDonald threw all seven in-nings, allowing only three earned UXQV�� 0F'RQDOG� EHQH¿WHG� IURP�a Charger defense that did not commit an errors.

7KH�VHFRQG�JDPH�RQ�:HGQHV-day was a reversal of roles, as Findlay jumped out to an early lead and a Hillsdale comeback fell short as the Oilers won 6-3.

)LQGOD\� VFRUHG� WKH� ¿UVW� IRXU�runs of the game, and answered a sixth inning Charger run with one run in each of the seventh and eighth innings.

Hillsdale plated two runs in the bottom of the eighth after a single from Bartlett and a double by junior Tad Sobieszczanski.

The comeback effort was thwarted by Findlay junior Alex :LOOLDPV� ZKR� VWUXFN� RXW� WKUHH��FROOHFWLQJ� KLV� ¿IWK� VDYH� RI� WKH�season.

+LOOVGDOH¶V�ZLQ�RQ�:HGQHVGD\�snapped a six game skid for the Chargers, which was extended over Easter weekend when they were swept by Northwood in a four-game set.

7KH�¿UVW�JDPH�RI�*RRG�)ULGD\�went to the Timberwolves 7-5, but there were bright spots for the Chargers. Perhaps the bright-est of these was the successful UHWXUQ� RI� VHQLRU� LQ¿HOGHU� 9LQQ\�Delicata.

Delicata, who had been out since early March with a strained

oblique, went 3-3, driving in a run and scoring one himself in )ULGD\¶V�¿UVW�ORVV�

“Over the three weeks I was RXW� ,� KDG� WR� ¿QG� RWKHU� ZD\V� WR�help the team,” Delicata said. “So I am thankful and blessed to be able to jump right back into things and play pretty well.”

Unfortunately, four sixth-in-ning runs for the Chargers, driv-en in on singles from Delicata, sophomore Eric Shankin, and Sobieszczanski were not enough to draw them back even with the Timberwolves.

A combination of explosive bats and untimely errors by the Chargers led to an outpouring of runs for the Timberwolves as they defeated the Chargers 14-4 in the second half of Friday’s doubleheader.

³:H¶YH�WDONHG�DERXW�LW�DOO�VHD-son, but we really need to work on forcing guys to earn all of their runs,” Theisen said. “At this level you have to take more free bases than you give if you want to win very many games.”

Saturday displayed two tight JDPHV��WKH�¿UVW�RI�ZKLFK�ZHQW�WR�Northwood 3-2 on the back of a WHUUL¿F� SLWFKLQJ� SHUIRUPDQFH� E\�sophomore Logan Meadors who gave up no earned runs on only four hits in seven innings.

Hillsdale had a youngster of their own throw an impressive JDPH� DV� IUHVKPDQ� :LOO� .UXVH�gave up up only three runs on six hits over 5 2-3 innings.

Bartlett and sophomore Ethan :LVNXU� ERWK� KDG� VDFUL¿FH� ÀLHV�in the game to account for Hill-sdale’s two runs.

Perhaps the most heartbreak-ing loss of the weekend came in WKH� VHULHV� ¿QDOH� DV� WKH� 7LPEHU-wolves hit a walkoff single to complete an impressive come-back and the sweep.

7KH� &KDUJHUV� VFRUHG� ¿YH� RI�WKH�JDPH¶V�¿UVW�VL[�UXQV�DQG�WRRN�this four-run lead into the bottom of the eighth, but Northwood tal-lied four runs to pull back even.

After the Chargers went down in order in the top half of the ninth, Northwood combined a GURSSHG� WKLUG� VWULNH�� D� VDFUL¿FH�bunt, and consecutive singles to plate the winning run.

³,W�ZDV�GH¿QLWHO\�IUXVWUDWLQJ�´�IUHVKPDQ� 3KLO� &DUH\� VDLG�� ³:H�ZHUH� GRZQ� DIWHU� WKH� ¿UVW� WKUHH�games and everybody saw that game as an opportunity to get back into a rhythm.”

Carey threw an exceptional game, pitching seven innings in which he gave up only one run RQ�¿YH�KLWV�

“My goal that game was re-DOO\� WR� MXVW� ¿OO� WKH� VWULNH� ]RQH�with fastballs and strikeouts. If you can do that hitters tend to get themselves out,” Carey said.

7KH� &KDUJHUV� FRQWLQXH� */,-AC play this weekend, hosting Ohio Dominican for a four game set.

Coming off two pummeling victories against Lourdes Uni-versity, the Hillsdale College softball team is gearing up for crucial conference games this weekend.

The Chargers routed Lourdes 15-3 and 14-6 Tuesday after VSOLWWLQJ� DJDLQVW� 6DJLQDZ� 9DO-ley on Friday and dropping two JDPHV�DW�:D\QH�6WDWH�RQ�6DWXU-day. The Chargers will face Ash-land University, Lake Superior State University, and Northwood University in doubleheaders Fri-day through Sunday.

³:H¶UH�NLQG�RI� KLWWLQJ� WR� WKH�pitching we’re facing. Fortu-nately we’re getting runs off of pitchers we should, but we need to pick up our hitting against bet-WHU�SLWFKHUV�LI�ZH�ZDQW�WR�¿QLVK�LQ�the top half of the league,” head coach Joe Abraham said. “Over-all as a team, we need three or four more hitters to start stepping it up.”

Charger bats were hot Tues-day, when the team racked up 28 total hits in ten innings against WKH�1$,$�*UD\�:ROYHV��

“Since it was a non-confer-ence game, we wanted to get ev-eryone on the team in for at least one game of at bats,” Abraham said. “The pitching isn’t what

it is in our league, so it’s a rare chance for our girls to gain some FRQ¿GHQFH� DW� WKH� SODWH� DQG� SLOH�up a few statistics.”

-XQLRU� 6DUDK� .ORSIHU� WRRN�advantage of Tuesday’s opportu-nity, tying the school record for RBIs in a single game with six.

“I didn’t know of that record, and Brad [Monastiere] told me after the game. I was shocked,” .ORSIHU� VDLG�� ³'XULQJ� WKH� JDPH�I don’t think much about what’s happening except for the score and what I can do to help the team.”

.ORSIHU� ZHQW� �� IRU� �� ZLWK� D�home run in the second game of Tuesday’s home games.

“Hits are contagious,” she VDLG�� ³:H� QHHG� WR� EH� FDUU\LQJ�our bats with us this weekend to score needed runs, because the other teams will score too.”

Although Hillsdale didn’t win ERWK�JDPHV�DJDLQVW�6DJLQDZ�9DO-ley Friday, they did avenge the pounding losses the Cardinals LQÀLFWHG�XSRQ�WKHP�LQ�ODVW�\HDU¶V�doubleheader.

³:H� UHPHPEHUHG� ODVW� \HDU�and how badly they beat us,” VRSKRPRUH�%HNDK�.DVWQLQJ�VDLG��“It was a good opportunity to JHW� EDFN� DW� WKHP�� :H� WRRN� WKH�game really seriously because we weren’t going to let them run over us. In another sense, it was a new game and a new chance to prove ourselves.”

+LOOVGDOH� WRRN� WKH� ¿UVW� JDPH�4-3 before falling 5-1 in the sec-RQG��.ORSIHU�SLWFKHG�DQG�JRW�WKH�ZLQ�LQ�WKH�¿UVW�JDPH��

Last Saturday, Hillsdale faced :D\QH� 6WDWH� 8QLYHUVLW\�� ZKR�Abraham said has the best pitch-er in the league.

“[Lyndsay Butler] shut us out in game one. Then, when .ORSIHU� KLW� D� WKUHH�UXQ� KRPHU�in game two to bring us to 3-4, they brought Butler back in and she shut us down,” he said. “She pretty much singlehandedly beat us in two games on Saturday.”

Hillsdale will now face the league’s best hitting lineup in Ashland tomorrow.

“Ashland really, really hits the ball well. They’re the best hitting team in the conference,” Abraham said. “Up to this point, Ashland has probably been the best team in the conference. It’s going to be a challenge to hold Ashland’s offense down.”

Ryan O’Hearn is a freshman baseball player from Toledo, Ohio. Although he described himself as a utility player, he has lately been playing center-¿HOG��

What has been the most nerve-

wracking or fun part of joining

the team and playing collegiate

baseball?

I think playing with people that DUH� ¿YH� \HDUV� ROGHU� WKDQ� PH��That can be a little intimidating, but that’s also a lot of fun playing baseball and learning the college way of playing baseball. The speed of the game in college is a lot faster and changes the way the game goes. The pitchers are

a lot better and throw harder and throw funkier pitches at you. In high school, not everyone is the best, but in college everyone was best on their high school teams.

Do you have any pre-game rit-

uals? If so, what are they?

I don’t have too many pre-game rituals. I always pray before the game with my teammates. Pray-ing is always a must. I also like to listen to some pump up music whether that be Lecrae, who is a Christian rapper, or sometimes I like to listen to some mellow music like some Dave Matthews Band. But that’s about it. I don’t have a lot.

Why do you love baseball?

I love baseball because I played a lot of sports in my day: foot-ball, basketball, soccer, but baseball is different. There is no clock on the game. It could go for days on days, which makes the game unique. A lot of other sports require just athletic abili-ties, but I’ve heard people say that baseball is 80 percent men-tal, and only about 20 percent physical. I am constantly learn-ing something about the game.

You can never be great at base-ball because you can always be better.

Who are your baseball inspira-

tions?

:HOO� ,¶G� OLNH� WR� VD\�P\�EURWKHU�¿UVW�RII�EHFDXVH�KH�SOD\HG�EDVH-ball here. I want to live up to what he has done, but also try to form my own legacy here at Hillsdale baseball. I also look up to Ryan Rayburn who used to play for the Tigers and now the Indians. He is a small guy out there who likes to get dirty, have fun, and play hard.

What would you say to the

people who think they should

speed baseball up?

At some points I would agree with them because sometimes the game can get too slow. You ZDQW� WR� NHHS� WKH� ÀRZ� RI� WKH�game. A long game can get bor-ing. So I half agree with them.

What have been your favorite

memories from baseball so far

at Hillsdale?

I’d say the memories that we PDNH�RII� WKH�¿HOG� LQ� WKH� ORFNHU�room and in the hotels over the

weekend. There are too many to point out one. The team bonding RII� WKH� ¿HOG� KDV� FUHDWHG� VRPH�great memories.

When did you start playing

baseball?

I’ve played baseball for as long as I can remember. Probably when I was a 7-year-old for my school. That’s when I started.

When did you know you want-

ed to pursue baseball on the

collegiate level?

Sophomore year of high school I realized I was good enough to play in college. So when I found out I could play for the school my brother played for and sister goes to, it was a no-brainer.

What’s the most challenging

part of playing baseball for

you?

7KH� PRVW� GLI¿FXOW� SDUW� LV� VWD\-ing out of my head, because in baseball you can’t think during games and I think too much. But when I don’t think, that’s when I play the best baseball.

What makes a good baseball

player?

6RPHRQH�ZKR� LV�GH¿QLWHO\�KDUG�working and has a strong mental side of the game. Someone who can cope with failure, and learn from it and who is a good team-mate.

What would you say to high

school students hoping to pur-

sue baseball in college?

:RUN� H[WUHPHO\� KDUG�� DQG� LQ�everything that you do make it FRXQW�� :KHQ� FRDFKHV� FRPH� WR�watch you play they look at how you swing, how you feild, how you react with error on the play and when you strike out. Never get too high or too low because that will hurt you in the long run.

Who is your favorite profes-

sional baseball team?

7KH�'HWURLW�7LJHUV�GH¿QLWHO\��0\�whole family are all Detroit fans.

What makes baseball a bet-

ter sport that any of the other

sports you’ve played?

I do love football. That’s tough. But baseball is such a team sport, not an individual sport. It’s such a different game because it is so mental, and not as physical. It’s America’s pastime. Everyone grew up throwing a baseball in their backyard, getting dirty, and having fun.

-Compiled by Natalie deMacedo

9 April 2015

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When the spotlight shone on the 8-year-old boy, it gave him a new life.

The spotlight was part of the show of Lance Burton, a former Las Ve-gas stage magician who retired in 2010 after 31 years of performing. The 8-year-old boy was Tom Novelly, whom the light beckoned to the stage to place his hands on an empty bird-cage, from which a dove somehow PDJLFDOO\� ÀHZ��$QG� WKH�life was that of a magi-cian, which Novelly, now a sophomore at Hillsdale, took up that night all those years ago, after the fortune of the spotlight rewarded him also with a free magic set.

“I got no sleep that night,” Novelly said, ZKR�LQVWHDG�VSHQW�LW�¿J-uring out his prize.

$IWHU� SOD\LQJ� DURXQG�with the set for two years, Novelly joined the International Broth-erhood of Magicians (though he is no longer a member). The admission process involved, among other things, an audition to show what he could do.

“It wasn’t nearly as hard as getting into Sigma Chi,” he said.

From then on, it was several years of bi-weekly meetings of the Brotherhood, and perform-ing — at the ripe old age of 11 — for businesses, at parties, tal-ent shows, and, particularly, at restaurants, all in the Nashville

area, where he also won several magic competitions. He has since IRUPHG�D�GH¿QLWH� VWDJH�SHUVRQD��based in part on Gob Bluth from ³$UUHVWHG�'HYHORSPHQW�´

“Gob is my favorite character.

He’s my idol,” he said. “I’m not as seductive, though.”

Novelly uses “The Final Countdown” by Europe as per-formance music, as well as “Magic” by B.o.B. ft. Rivers Cuomo. His favorite tricks are “Metamorphosis,” in which he inserts a dollar bill into a lemon without cutting it, then removes the bill to prove it’s the same one, as well as simpler card tricks — a

favorite for parties. But don’t ask him to spill any of his secrets: he’s bound not to reveal them. He also won’t perform any trick more than once for the same au-dience, or perform any trick he

hasn’t thoroughly prac-ticed.

Though he stopped taking his magical career as seriously as the years went on, he resurrected LW� EULHÀ\� IRU� WKH� FROOHJH�admissions process, per-forming at Leadership Weekend to distinguish his application.

“I did put profes-sional magician on my college resume,” No-velly said. His life as a magician has continued on the side at Hillsdale, even as he’s downplayed it in favor of politics, journalism, and fraterni-ty life. This past fall, he was the Sigma Chi con-testant for Mr. Hillsdale, and he performed at the Simpson Talent Show.

Those who know him well appreciate his tal-ents, but admire his per-VRQDOLW\� PRUH�� $OKRXJK�sophomore Gianna Mar-chese thought Novelly was joking when she ¿UVW�OHDUQHG�KH�SUDFWLFHG�magic, she has since be-

come one of his biggest fans (she would love to be his assistant if he ever needed one). “I’m a child at heart,” Marchese said. “See-ing Tom do magic gets me every time.”

6KH� ¿QGV� WKDW� D� JRRG� PDJLF�trick can always brighten her day, and Novelly’s talents add to an overall impression of his char-acter.

“He cheers people up. That’s

a great talent to have — to make people smile,” she said. “The fact that he just does it nonchalantly makes it that much better.”

-XQLRU� 'DQLHO� %HOOHW�� 1RYHO-ly’s Sigma Chi big brother, said you’d never know he was so tal-ented if you didn’t ask. He didn’t know himself about Novelly’s

“magic powers” until after he be-came Novelly’s big.

“He never talks about it,” Bel-let said. “Usually you have to ask him to show people. He doesn’t break it out.”

Novelly himself, though he has shifted his own spotlight away from magic in college, re-

mains appreciative that it is part of his life. “I’ll always have a passion for magic and always do LW�RQ�WKH�VLGH�´�KH�VDLG��³$Q\�WDO-ent you have, you have to glorify God through it.

“Being able to make that or-dinary object do something ex-traordinary is always fun.”

On Friday nights at the Old Snack Bar, the sound of music can be heard as the Hillsdale +HSFDWV� 6ZLQJ� 'DQFLQJ� &OXE�meets for a swing dancing les-son, followed by open dance.

Lots of behind-the-scenes effort goes into planning each event, from selecting music to putting together a lesson for those interested in expanding their swing dancing repertoire. 7KH� FOXE¶V� RI¿FHUV�� LQFOXGLQJ�President senior Wes Wright and Vice President junior Haley O’Brien, are in charge of orga-

nizing each week’s meeting.“We pick at least a lead and

follow to teach those lessons and prepare beforehand,” Wright VDLG�� ³$VLGH� IURP� WKDW�� WKHUH¶V�also reserving the room, and set-ting the speakers.”

$V� WKH� FOXE¶V� KLVWRULDQ��O’Brien maintains the facebook page and posts pictures, and as SUHVLGHQW��:ULJKW� RYHUVHHV� RI¿-cer meetings.

“Wes is in charge of basically running the club,” O’Brien said. “He makes sure whatever we need to talk about for that week, whether that’s the lesson plan-ning or a theme night, T-shirt orders, he makes sure everything gets talked about and gets done.”

:ULJKW� ¿UVW� KHDUG� RI� VZLQJ�

club through word-of-mouth, de-cided to try it out.

“I had met some Hillsdale people prior to coming to the school, and they all raved about it, and I thought I would give it a shot.” Wright said. “It just hap-pened to be something that I re-ally enjoyed.”

$FFRUGLQJ� WR� :ULJKW�� VZLQJ�club serves as a connection point for people who enjoy social dance.

“It’s a time to be with friends and people who enjoy the same things you do.” he said. “The dance in and of itself is a joyous thing, a celebration of motion and partnership.”

$IWHU�¿UVW�EHFRPLQJ�DQ�RI¿FHU�partway through his sophomore

year, Wright had the idea to help increase the club’s knowledge of different types of swing dancing by going to lindy exchanges. $W�WKHVH�JDWKHULQJV��GDQF-ers from various organiza-tions and cities meet to ex-perience different styles of /LQG\�+RS��D�VSHFL¿F�VW\OH�of swing dancing.

“Before we started do-ing that, the club was a lot more insular, and going out to those other scenes enable us to dance with other people and improve our dancing, and not just have that incestuous re-lationship with the club alone,” Wright said.

Lindy Hop, an eight-count GDQFH�� ¿UVW�developed out of Charleston in the 1930s. Its main fea-ture is the “swing-out,” in which the lead dancer and his follow swing apart from each other while still holding hands.

Knowing differ-ent styles of swing dancing, such as Lindy Hop, allows club participants to dance to a wider va-riety of music. This

year, reordering the lessons has allowed for wider participation for newer dancers.

“What we taught has changed, and the way we taught it,” Wright said. “In the years prior to my time at Hillsdale, there was a lot more East Coast swing dancing, and we’ve shifted to teaching Lindy right at the be-ginning of the year, and this year,

teaching Charles-WRQ� ¿UVW� VHPHVWHU� DV�well. Which, I think, broadens the number of songs that stu-dents can dance to.”

7KH�RI¿FHUV� KDYH�DOVR� PRGL¿HG� WKHLU�approach so as to maintain a balance between newer and more experienced dancers.

“We’ve worked out some things about the music that we would like to play, and the em-phasis of our teach-ing, that I think have improved the club,” Wright said. “New-comers aren’t there to get knee-deep in technique, they’re there to have fun and learn how to actually dance.”

7KH� RI¿FHUV� ZLOO�continue to make de-cisions such as these in the coming years of the club. Each

\HDU�� QHZ� RI¿FHUV� DUH� FKRVHQ�for open positions based on the evaluations of the current club RI¿FHUV�

Freshman Mary Blender-mann, recently chosen as an of-¿FHU�� QRWHG� WKH� WUHPHQGRXV� UROH�Wright has played in the club’s

Always in the swing of things

Madeleine JepsenCollegian Reporter

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He’s magic, ladies and gentlemen

Sophomore Tom Novelly may have set his cape and wand aside when he came to college, but he’s still a magician

Things To do and see This week

April 7-10; April 13-17Senior Art Exhibits #2, #3Daughtrey GalleryGraduating art majors present their KIX[\WVM�M`PQJQ\[�QV�XIZ\QIT�N]TÅTTUMV\�of the art major requirements. April 10Hillcats Faculty Jazz Ensemble8 p.m. McNamara Rehearsal HallA concert of original works with jazz vocalist Sunny Wilkinson.

April 11Percussion Ensemble8 p.m. McNamara Rehearsal HallHillsdale’s Percussion Ensemble will put on a diverse program of various combinations of percussion instruments which will feature Edgar Varese’s “Ionization.”

April 12Faculty Woodwind Quintet Recital3 p.m.McNamara Rehearsal HallHillsdale’s Faculty Woodwind Quintet will perform Carl Nielsen’s “Wind Quintet, op. 43,” and Samuel Barber’s “Summer Music.”

April 15-18“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”8 p.m. (with 2 p.m. performance on April 18)Quilhot Black BoxSage Center for the ArtsWinner of the 2013 Tony Award, Outer Circle Critic’s Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Award, and Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play. This is the most lauded and beloved new American play in many years. A hilarious and touching mash-up of Anton Chekhov’s four major plays, as set in contemporary Connecticut. The Tower Players will produce this gem as an intimate, fully mounted, black box production.

Sophomore Tom Novelly (Micah Meadowcroft/Collegian)

Senior Wes Wright dances with sophomore

Taylor Kemmeter.

(Photo courtesy of Wes Wright)

The Swing Dancing Club, led by Wes Wright, in action at a dance event. (Photo courtesy of Wes Wright)

Even as a club president prepares to gradute, the swing club’s future looks bright

See Swing Club B2

(Nathanael Meadowcroft/Collegian)

(Compiled by Andrew Egger)

Jack ButlerOpinions Editor

Sufjan Stevens supposedly recorded “Carrie & Lowell” in the living room of his Brooklyn apartment. Such is the closeness of the album that you, the lis-tener, could be sitting on an adja-cent couch, humming along with the apartment’s air conditioning unit. In past albums, Stevens pre-sented his emotionally damaged myths with bombastic kitsch or-chestras, either analog or digital. (YHQ�³6HYHQ�6ZDQV�´�RI�³ORZ�¿´�fame, possesses a showmanship that just isn’t present in “Carrie �/RZHOO�´�,QVWHDG��ZH�¿QG�PX-sic that is stripped of Stevens’ particular talent for doing gaudy in just the right way. Gone are the trumpets, the 80s-inspired drum samples and any trace of the Christmas Unicorn.

In “Carrie & Lowell,” Stevens FRQ¿QHV� KLPVHOI� WR� D� JXLWDU� DQG�banjo, a synthesizer, God and his emotions — all revolving around Stevens’ drug-addicted, schizo-phrenic, and depressed mother, the eponymous Carrie. She is the album’s focal point. Her death in 2012 launched Stevens into all WKH�HPRWLRQV�\RX�¿QG�KHUHLQ��VHH�a Pitchfork interview titled “True Myth” for more background — like all of Stevens’ albums, this one requires some homework). The album is about a boy aban-doned by his mother, and a man now grappling with her death. The pain of her abandonment, Stevens tells us, became the cen-ter of his life: “everything I see / returns to you somehow,” he sings on “The Only Thing.” For

those of us blessed with intact homes and in-fact parents, the breadth of brokenness Stevens shows us here is, perhaps, hard to grasp fully. But “Carrie & Low-ell” helps us understand.

7KH� ¿UVW� WUDFN�� ³'HDWK� ZLWK�'LJQLW\�´�VWDUWV��³6SLULW�RI�P\�VL-lence / I can hear you / but I’m afraid to be near you.” Here re-turns an ever-present theme in Ste-vens’ music: the tension between peace and destruction i n f l i c t e d by the p r e s e n c e of God. I think it’s fair to say Stevens is o b s e s s e d with the paradox — a paradox he applies to his re-lationship with Carrie. He wants to be near her, she aban-dons him; she brings him peace, she destroys him. Once you no-tice how deliberately Stevens employs ambiguous pronouns, it will drive you nuts with mystery and admiration. Is the spirit of Stevens’ silence God or Carrie? I suppose both.

Look to the next song, then, “Should Have Known Better.” Put simply, it’s gorgeous. For its ¿UVW�WKUHH�TXDUWHUV��WKH�O\ULFV�ORRS�through mythic regret and depres-sion relating, of course, to Carrie. But then comes the breakdown, which channels, of all things, the emotional uplift of “Impossible Soul,” the 25-minute psychoso-

matic technological fever dream that concludes Stevens’ 2010 offering “Age of Adz.” It’s all black shrouds and demon spells until Stevens’ guitar abruptly gives way to a piping synthe-sizer: “I should have known bet-ter,” he repeats, “Nothing can be changed / the past is still the past / the bridge to nowhere.” Perhaps out of context, those lines sound dark; in reality, they are any-

thing but. I n s t e a d , they repre-sent a sad-eyed, but r e l i e v e d , realization about the world. Ste-vens rejects the pasts’ bridge — a path that u n d o u b t -edly leads to Carrie-i n s p i r e d s e l f - p i t y and bitter-ness — and

turns to a new one that leads to…where? to what? Stevens answers at the song’s end: “My brother had a daughter / the beauty that she brings / illumination.”

Biography abounds in “Carrie & Lowell.” Take “Eugene,” for instance. We hear a story of tod-dler Stevens knocking over Car-ULH¶V�DVKWUD\��³,�MXVW�ZDQWHG�WR�EH�near you”). We hear another an-ecdote about the man who taught young Stevens to swim and who FRXOGQ¶W� TXLWH� VD\� 6WHYHQV¶� ¿UVW�name: “Like a father / he led / community water on my head / And he called me ‘Subaru’ / And now I want to be near you.” First,

notice how much heartbreak and longing Stevens’ packs into the work “like.” Then follows the parental absence, a reference to baptism, a funny detail, the ines-capable abandonment — and all this draws us deeper and deeper into Stevens’ emotional space. These stories build on each other until the title track, “Carrie & Lowell.” When Stevens whisper-screams, “Carrie come home!”, we need her to come home, too.

The album’s last three songs VZLQJ� LQWR� D� GH¿QLWLYH� ¿QDO�movement, starting with “John My Beloved.” At the end of that track, Stevens tells Jesus, “I need you / be near me.” But the next song, “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross,” returns to the holy WHUURU�RI�&KULVW¶V�VDFUL¿FH�LQ�UHOD-tion to Stevens’ sins. So where is Stevens going with this? He tells us on “Blue Buckets of Gold,” WKH� SHWLWH� ¿QDOH�� ³6HDUFK� IRU�things to extol,” he sings, “Lord, touch me with lightning.”

Present until the end is that tension between peace and de-struction in God’s presence. Also still present is Stevens’ fear of abandonment. “Carrie & Low-ell” does not end happily. But as Waugh’s Sebastian points out, happiness doesn’t seem to have much to do with it.

Caleb Whitmer ’14 majored

in English and minored in jour-

nalism through the Dow Journal-

ism Program. He was Editor-in-

Chief of the Collegian from 2013

to 2014. He is a reporter for the

Star newspaper in Auburn, Indi-

ana.

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analyze art,

enjoy it too.

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Meadowcroft

In a world without rules, a world unfettered by reason or rationale, “Furious 7” reigns su-preme.

Like its far-too-revealing trailer, “Furious 7” hits all the familiar notes in a spectacularly star-studded yet rote and inane extravaganza of babes, beaches, and Bugattis.

The newest installment of the Fast and Furious saga has amped up its already impressive cast, bringing in characters from past installments and new ones like Rhonda Rhousey, Jason Statham, 'MLPRQ�+RXQVRX��DQG�.XUW�5XV-sell. The cast seems largely wast-ed though, serving only as ves-sels for clunky dialogue, painful exposition, and predictable ac-tion.

To begin with, “Furious 7” is virtually plotless. In one scene, the audience expects to be prepped for an upcoming bout ZLWK�6KDZ��6WDWKDP¶V�FKDUDFWHU���%XW� 'RP� DEUXSWO\� DQQRXQFHV�their need to depart and hurriedly leads the team into their black (VFDODGHV��:KHQ�'RP� WHOOV�\RX�to go, you go. Pedal to the metal, no questions asked. This is for-JLYDEOH�� WKRXJK�� 'R� \RX� UHDOO\�

want to hear the science behind the omniscient ‘God’s Eye’ de-vice that can hack into any and all technology with the press of a button? If you paid for a movie ticket, I highly doubt it.

And as cool as it is to hear “The Rock” tell Statham he’s going to break KLV� ¿QJHU�six differ-ent ways and stick it where the sun don’t shine, the d i a l o g u e c o u l d n ’ t save the seventh in-s t a l l m e n t from ful-¿OOLQJ� LWV�stereotype. I n s t e a d , most of the lines were agonizing, like shov-ing handfuls of broken glass into your ears. Tyrese Gibson en-tertains with idiot humor as the team’s clown, which works well with the nails-on-chalkboard dialogue. But any time drama took precedent over action or a one-liner was pitched before a ¿JKW�� DXGLHQFH� PHPEHUV� VWLÀHG�laughs. Somewhere in Los An-

geles, hunched over a desk in a dimly-lit, single room apartment, a screenwriter is laughing at the fools he duped into paying him.

And for this Furious movie, laughter is the best medicine. What starts as hushed, embar-

r a s s e d c h u c k l i n g ends in laugh-out-loud fun DV� WKH� ¿OP�pushes you to accept its ridicu-lousness, or be beaten senseless by it. When the clichés are f e a r l e s s l y confronted and under-mined by outlandish action or childish hu-

mor, the movie becomes palat-able. But scenes that attained this level of self-parody were few and far between.

Some of the best scenes in the movie came as transitions to the action and struck a resounding, cinematic chord. When the au-dience sees the team bedazzled in tuxedos and gowns and the Arabian-dance beat drops, a tan-

JLEOH� H[FLWHPHQW� ÀXWWHUV� DERXW�the theater. This scene lasts only a few seconds, however. If even a PRUVHO�RI�WKH�VW\OH�DQG�ÀDUH�WKHVH�scenes possessed were instilled in the others, the movie could have subverted its genre clichés, or at least bulldozed through them.

And maybe this was the big-gest problem with the movie: it added nothing new to the genre. It simply made viewers forget about the last movie, a curse that will inevitably apply to “Furious �´�RQFH�'RP�DQG� WKH� WHDP�WDNH�to the streets of New York City in “Furious 8.”

One bright spot is worth not-ing. In light of the tragic death of Furious star Paul Walker, the movie takes on a different mean-ing, becoming much more about the relationship of the characters, with each other and with the au-dience, than with how likely it would be for a foreign helicopter to destroy Los Angeles and get away with it. “Furious 7” pays its respects to the memory of :DONHU� LQ� D� WUXO\� WRXFKLQJ� ¿QDO�scene, leaving the audience to ru-minate not just on death but on the gentle soul and kind heart of an action hero who left behind a legacy larger than life.

A.J. Maruna is a senior from

Montgomery, Alabama. He is

majoring in English.

Austen fans, rejoice. Tomorrow, April 10, starting

at 8 p.m., the Cravats & Blue-stockings — the group that hosts the annual Naval Battle in the Arb and puts on weekly student-professor teas — will be hosting this year’s Regency Ball in the .QRUU�'LQLQJ�+DOO��

The dance will go until 12 p.m., and will serve refreshments throughout, while dancers enjoy English line dances to live music.

Sophomore Katherine Korte-peter, Minister of Publicity for the Cravats & Bluestockings, VKDUHG�KHU�¿UVW�5HJHQF\�%DOO�H[-perience.

“The Regency Ball was my favorite night of freshman year,” Kortepeter said. “This is a really different event, something you wouldn’t get to do otherwise.”

The dance is Regency-era themed, which most students at Hillsdale are familiar with through the works of Jane Aus-ten. Formal dress is encouraged, but not necessary. Some girls make their own dresses, while others simply dress in semi-for-mal attire. Guys generally wear suits, but some add small touches WR�WKHLU�RXW¿WV�LQ�RUGHU�WR�LPLWDWH�what men would have actually worn in the period.

“This is the one night a year that you get to see everyone in costume, as if they really lived in the Regency era,” Kortepeter said. “I look at the people around me and think, ‘Whoa, those are my friends.’ Everyone looks so GLIIHUHQW�LQ�WKHLU�RXW¿WV�´�

Students who do not dance RIWHQ�VKRXOG�QRW�¿QG�WKDW�LQWLPL-dating.

“People walk you through each dance, so you really don’t need any previous dance experi-ence,” Kortepeter said.

The food at the dance will be homemade, and everyone in the club will contribute. Foods such as tea sandwiches and other snacks that represent the Regen-cy era will be offered. Kortepeter emphasized that the ball is not only a great cultural experience, but also encourages meeting new people.

Last year, the event attracted over 50 people. Kortepeter said WKDW�WKH�6QDFN�%DU�ZDV�¿OOHG�

“When people lined up for the line-dances, they were going out the door,” Kortepeter said. “The entire room was packed.”

“The whole thing is very so-cial,” Kortepeter said. “You have to talk to people.”

Students who do not buy a ticket through the club’s table in the union may purchase one at the door of the event: $4 per per-son, $6 per couple.

This weekend will be a busy one for the Hillsdale College Mu-sic department, with three per-formances involving a number of styles and groups scheduled to take place in Howard Music Building’s McNamara Rehearsal Hall. No tickets are required for any of the three events, which are free to any who wish to attend.

The Hillcats Faculty Jazz En-semble will perform on April 10 at 8 p.m., the Percussion Ensem-ble will perform on April 11 at 8 p.m., and the Faculty Woodwind Quintet will perform at 3 p.m. on April 12.

The Hillcats Faculty Jazz En-semble performance will include a number of original works as well as performances from jazz vocalist Sunny Wilkinson. Other members of the band include trumpet player Chris McCourry, Jonathon Gewirtz on saxophone, Lawrence Ochiltree on drums,

bass player James Ball, and Ar-OHQH�0F'DQLHO�RQ�SLDQR�

Each Hillcats performance is unique: most of what the audi-ence hears is actually improvisa-tion. Hillcats members will rely on sheet music for only a fraction of the performance.

The 16-member Percussion Ensemble is a diverse group, including freshmen and seniors, beginners and professionals, whose musical backgrounds vary from harp to rock drumming.

“It will be an extremely eclec-tic and exciting concert,” said Teacher of Music Stacey Jones, who organizes the ensemble. “Listeners can always expect to be surprised.”

The ensemble will perform “Ionization” by Edgar Varese. A unique piece at the time of its release in 1939, “Ionization” is FRQVLGHUHG�WKH�¿UVW�PXVLFDO�SLHFH�to be written solely for percus-sion instruments.

“It was a groundbreaking and controversial composition in its time, and actually caused come audiences to riot,” Jones said.

“Air raid sirens and anvils are among the 40 or more instru-ments played by 13 performers.”

Other pieces will include a drumming feature for a freshman trio and a lineup of trash cans.

“The performance’s loose theme is ‘musical sounds with trash’ — we will be performing on a variety of pieces of junk: metal, auto parts, trash cans, clay pots and other ‘found’ items that are not typically thought of as in-struments,” Jones said.

7KH�¿QDO�FRQFHUW�RI�WKH�ZHHN-end, the Faculty Woodwind Quintet, is composed of Jamie :DJQHU� RQ� WKH� ÀXWH�� .D\FHH�Ware-Thomas on the oboe, An-drew Sprung on the clarinet; Cin-G\�'XGD�3DQW�RQ�WKH�EDVVRRQ�DQG�Alan Taplin on the French horn.

The quintet will perform a number of pieces from Hungar-ian composer and teacher Ferenc Farkas, including his 1959 work ³(DUO\� +XQJDULDQ� 'DQFHV�´� DQ�DUUDQJHG�VXLWH�RI�¿YH�VKRUW�+XQ-garian dances of the Baroque era.

Carl Nielsen’s Op. 43 will also be performed.

“Written in 1922, Op. 43 is a staple of the literature,” Sprung said. “It is one of the most widely performed woodwind quintets of the 20th century. With this work, Nielsen is credited with inaugu-rating a way of composing based upon the character of the individ-ual instruments.”

“Three Stories,” a composi-tion by Associate Professor of Music Mathew Fuerst, will also make its world premiere at the recital.

Each of the performances will be truly unique, both to each other as well as to their respec-tive past performances. Whether you enjoy smooth jazz, the clas-sic sound of a woodwind quintet, or the artful use of junk as a per-cussion instrument, the music de-partment has certainly scheduled an entertaining weekend for any music lover.

If there’s one thing I’ll take away from the Great Books se-quence here at Hillsdale, it’s that in great literature every sentence, every phrase, and every word has a purpose. The same principle can be applied to any form of art, whether painting, music, theater, RU�¿OP�

A great artist is a purpose-ful artist. Nothing he produces lacks meaning. For this reason, we closely analyze the works of great authors, painters, compos-ers, playwrights, and directors, seeking the meaning and truth behind their art.

While examining and analyz-LQJ�DUW� LV�EHQH¿FLDO��ZH�PXVW�EH�sure not to allow analysis to get in the way of enjoying art.

Art is unique. It is the physical expression of an artist’s imagina-tion and creativity. Art exposes an artist’s own experience. Through examining that experience, we can learn about what it means to be human, to be emotional, to love, to hate, to be joyful, to be angry. This is a good thing.

Art reaches into our hearts and our minds. Through our intellect we understand its meaning, but through our soul we identify with its emotion and imagination.

This is why we analyze art. For some reason, a reason we cannot completely quantify, art speaks to us and we listen to it.

Even before coming to Hill-sdale, I found myself trying to peel back the layers in everything from TV shows to classic works of art. Spending a full academic year studying great literature and examining the layers of meaning RQO\�VROLGL¿HG�WKLV�KDELW�

(YHQ� LQ� D� ¿HOG� OLNH� MRXUQDO-LVP�� ,� ¿QG�P\VHOI� GLVWUDFWHG� E\�wondering how a great reporter was able to gather together all the information in the piece I’m reading rather than just enjoying a great work of reporting.

Likewise in any form of art, ,� ¿[� P\� DWWHQWLRQV� RQ� WU\LQJ� WR�realize the motivations of the art-

ist. Why is this melody this way? Why is this word used rather than this phrase? Why does that direc-tor use that camera angle? Why does that actor emphasize that syllable?

These are certainly not bad things in and of themselves. I am thankful for an education that taught me to ask such questions. %XW� ,� ¿QG� WKDW� LQ� DVNLQJ� WKHVH�questions I oftentimes miss the true point of art.

Too many times I focus so much on analyzing the melodic line that I forget to appreciate its beauty and the masterful artist behind it.

Too often I look closely at a single word or phrase rather than taking in the work as a whole.

Too often I think about what I would have done differently rather than honoring something that is beautiful and good.

This is the danger of a liberal arts education. You can take a good thing too far and twist into something detrimental.

We analyze art because it is good and because it is beautiful. We lose the latter when we let examination get in the way of ap-preciation.

So next time you put in your earbuds to listen to that new song by that artist you’re still not sure \RX� OLNH�� EH� VXUH� WR� ¿UVW� DSSUH-ciate the human creativity, the imagination, the drive, and the talent that it took to create the melody. Then examine why it is the way it is.

Art is beautiful. Honor its beauty.

Nathanael Meadowcroft is

a sophomore from Vancouver,

Washington. He is majoring in

mathematics and minoring in

journalism through the Dow

Journalism Program. He serves

as the assistant editor of the Col-

legian’s Sports page.

For the motherless in Brooklyn: ‘Carrie and Lowell’

Regency Ball tomorrow

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Anders Hagstrom

Collegian Freelancer

A.J. Maruna

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Carly Howell

Collegian Freelancer

Caleb Whitmer

Special to the Collegian

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He wants to be near her, she abandons him; she brings him peace, she destroys him. Once you notice how deliberately Ste-vens employs ambiguous pro-nouns, it will drive you nuts with mystery and admiration. Is the spirit of Stevens’ silence God or Carrie? I suppose both.

Some of the best scenes in the movie came as transitions to the action and struck a resounding, cinematic chord. When the audi-ence sees the team bedazzled in tuxedos and gowns and the Ara-bian-dance beat drops, a tangible H[FLWHPHQW�ÀXWWHUV�DERXW�WKH�WKH-ater. This scene lasts only a few seconds, however.

leadership. While the potential presidents for next year have similar outlooks on swing danc-ing, the way lessons are taught and meetings are run could be subject to change.

“He seems to provide the sort of stylistic direction that the club takes, because every president can do that differently,” Blend-ermann said. “I think he has em-bodied so much of what swing dancing club is for the past year

or two that once he’s gone, it’s going to be ‘Okay, what are we doing now?’”

Though Wright will be gradu-ating, he has high hopes for next \HDU¶V�RI¿FHUV�

“I’m excited to see what the UHVW�RI�WKH�RI¿FHUV�ZLOO�GR�LQ�WKH�future. I think the way we’re looking with who is going to run the club next year is going a good direction,” Wright said.

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Spotlight

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Factory

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Anders Hagstrom

Collegian Freelancer

Charlotte Truitt is one of the women that has knocked on dorm doors every morning, and has been for the past 38 years.

Truitt has devoted herself to Hillsdale housekeeping for nearly four decades—a length that sur-passes even the most long stand-ing of professors. This semester will be her last, however, as she plans to retire this summer.

Having worked at Hillsdale for such a vast amount of time, Tru-itt will surely never be in want of memories. Truitt has interacted with a massive number of students during her time here, giving her a unique perspective on what sort of college Hillsdale was in the past and how it is today.

“It’s one of my favorite aspects of Hillsdale, from a non-academic standpoint,” said junior Simpson resident Josh Hamilton. “The fact that I don’t have to clean my room never ceases make my friends at home jealous.”

Truitt always treasured the perks of her job in creating rela-tionships with students.

“Meeting the kids has always been my favorite part of the job,” she said. “In my time here I feel as though I’ve met people from all over the world. The students have always been so kind and respect-ful.”

Truitt spent 32 years of her time at Hillsdale working in Mauck Residence. She also worked in Simpson Residence and the Suites and currently oversees Galloway Residence as well.

“Every time I go into a room I want to start a conversation with whoever is inside,” Truitt said, “I love getting to know the kids. Where they’re from, what they hope to do. Everyone always has such unique stories.”

Freshman Joshua Paladino says he will miss his morning chats with Truitt.

“It’s always a joy to receive a knock on the door from Char-lotte in the morning,” Paladino, a Galloway resident, said. “She is warmhearted and genuinely tries to get to know the guys in Gallo-way. I believe that all of Galloway feels the same way, will miss hav-ing her around.”

Part of the original screen door factory building, facing the railroad tracks. (Dakota Michael/Collegian)

Describe your fashion sense.My friends like to describe it as “modern-day prophet.”

What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?Probably a Christmas tie with alien snowmen on it.

What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?Poorly tied ties.

What is your favorite item of clothing?Tweed jackets.

Who inspires your wardrobe?Humphrey Bogart and Dr. Lindley.

JOSHUA MIRTH, SENIORCAMPUSCHIC

Photos by Hannah Leitner

In 1900, the business now known as the Hillsdale Screen Company changed ownership to Corvis M. Barre, the Hillsdale Daily News reported.

“Its advance was only tem-porarily retarded by a disastrous ¿UH��ZKLFK� GHVWUR\HG� WKH�ZKROH�plant and proved to have been of incendiary origin, set for the pur-pose of hiding the murder of Joe Cawsey, the night-watchman,” the Hillsdale Daily News report-

ed in the 1929 article “Screen Door Factory Dates Back To Early History of Hillsdale, Al-ways Important Cog in Local ,QGXVWU\�´�UHIHUULQJ�WR�WKH�¿UH�RI�1903 and the Cawsey murder tri-als which followed in 1906.

³5HDOO\�WKH�¿UVW�VFUHHQ�GRRUV�ever made in the United States and put on the market were made in Hillsdale, and this is the plant that made them,” reads the 1915 Hillsdale in History Yearbook. “The business has grown to such an extent that the Hillsdale Screen Company sells its product at wholesale to retail dealers in 10 different states.”

Although Gelzer & Sons

bought the building in 2011, Gel-zer said there aren’t any plans to renovate it right now.

“If I had my way, I’d make the downstairs parking and maybe some businesses, and make the upstairs loft apartments,” Gel-zer said. “We just don’t have the funds.”

Gelzer & Sons CEO Grant Baker said the building is cur-rently “a work in progress.”

“My interest in it is commer-cial,” Baker said. “I was interest-ed because it was vacant.”

Baker said Gelzer & Sons still maintains the building — they KDG� WKH� URRI� ¿[HG� LQ� ����� DQG�still upkeep small things, like in-

VWDOOLQJ� D� QHZ� GRRU� DQG� ¿[LQJ�leaks.

Even though it is unused, the old screen door factory reminds residents of Hillsdale’s impor-tance in industry and commerce during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on the brick structure and spaciousness of the facility, the factory still possesses the potential to be a force for economic good in the city of Hillsdale. It is corpora-tions like Gelzer & Sons that can JLYH�LW�WKH�FKDQFH�WR�EHQH¿W�+LOO-sdale someday in the future.

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The exterior of the old screen door factory, facing the railroad tracks next to Family Video. (Dakota Michael/Collegian)

Walking through the aban-doned screen door factory on Carleton Road — that old brick giant sitting next to Family Vid-eo — is about as close as you can get to meeting the people who lived, worked, spoke, and breathed in Hillsdale 150 years DJR�� <RX� ZDON� WKH� VDPH� ÀRRU-boards they walked, you touch the same brick they touched, you open the same doors they opened, and you sneeze the same dust they sneezed.

Who said time travel doesn’t exist?

They’re like weird time cap-sules. You walk inside, and you’re experiencing the same building people experienced more than a hundred years ago.

7KH�YHU\�¿UVW�VFUHHQ�GRRU�IDF-tory in the United States is one of the coolest “time capsules” I’ve ever seen. I walked past it one Thursday and happened upon some construction workers put-ting on a new door. I asked them who owned the building — which turned out to be the H.J. Gelzer & Sons Inc. — and promptly called the Gelzer & Sons Hardware to talk to someone about the old factory.

Employee Andrew Gelzer agreed to let me inside the build-ing. On a Tuesday evening, se-nior Dakota Michael and I met Gelzer at the factory with a cam-era, a notepad, and irrepressible curiosity and excitement. He un-locked the door, let us in, and had trouble getting us back out.

(YHU\�ÀRRU�KDG�WR�EH�H[SORUHG��Every door had to be opened. Mi-

FKDHO�²�DV�WKH�RI¿FLDO�SKRWRJUD-pher — used the camera, but that didn’t stop me from snapping as many photos as I could on

P\�SKRQH��:H� FOLPEHG� WKH� ¿UVW�staircase through a door with a hole beaten through it, laughed at WKH�JUDI¿WL�RQ� WKH�H[SRVHG�EULFN�walls, and strolled through huge dark rooms with thick wooden

columns, and broken windows. We peered up the huge wooden elevator shaft, examined the rot-ting conveyor belts, and dodged the cords and pipes hanging

crookedly from the ceilings.Four staircases later, I found

WKH�WRS�ÀRRU�DQG�D�ODGGHU�OHDQLQJ�against the rafters. It trembled as I climbed it, and when I reached

the top I pushed on the wooden board covering the skylight, but it wouldn’t give. So much for a view from the roof.

After answering Gelzer’s que-ry of “think you’ve got enough?” nearly a dozen times with “yeah, in a minute,” we’d sated our curi-osity, and left the factory.

Believed to have been built in 1879, the building was a chair and upholstery factory belong-ing to Albertus E. Palmer, ac-cording to the 1888 Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County. When the William T. Buchanan & Sons Screen Door Works building burned down in 1891, the business moved to Palmer’s building in 1895, the Hillsdale Herald reported in a front-page article.

Abandoned factory: A snapshot of Hillsdale’s rich historyKate Patrick

Assistant Editor

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You walk inside, and you’re experiencing the same building

people experienced more than a hundred

years ago.

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The wooden elevator shaft inside the abandoned screen door factory. (Dakota Michael/Collegian)