Conservative scholar James Piereson is president of the Wil-liam E. Simon Foundation and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He wrote “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.” He is a guest of the Dow Journalism Program and will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Dow A & B. Compiled by Caleb Whitmer.

First of all, do you remem-ber what you were doing dur-ing the assassination?

I remember we were in sci-ence class at about 2:00 p.m. One of the other teachers comes to the door and says, “The President’s been shot,” and we didn’t know what had happened. Then 10 or 15 minutes later, the announcement came that the president was dead and school was cancelled. For the whole weekend, we were glued to our television sets as we watched

as various things unfolded: the return of the body to Washing-ton, then the assassin being shot in police custody, then the state funeral. All these images were cemented into our minds. As the rest of the 1960s unfolded, these events and images were always in the background. In 1963, when Kennedy left for Dallas, the United States was a very stable nation. We had a popular president addressing various problems that had accumulated, including civil rights. But by 1968, the country had become unglued. In some sense, people began to wonder if maybe the Kennedy assassination was the first major event in that series of events.

Do you think it was?I do, yes. It was the event by

which the United States lost its innocence. Part of that was the way it was interpreted by the journalists and the political lead-ers of the time, which then led to

The Student Federation of-fices of president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary will be manned entirely by women for 2014.

The votes are in for Student Fed elections—junior Heather Lantis won vice president, sophomore Marie Wathen won treasurer, and junior Annie Tei-gen won secretary, while junior Arielle Mueller won president unopposed.

The Hillsdale student body also voted new officers for each class — the new freshmen rep-resentatives are Jacob Thackston and Christopher Pudenz, new sophomore representatives are Dominic Restuccia and recurring representative Lucia Rothhaas, new junior representatives are Andy Reuss and Devin Creed, and the new at large representa-tives are junior Garrett West, sophomore Randy Keefe, and sophomore Os Nakayama.

Wathen, who is currently serving as representative on Student Fed, is eager to fill the position of treasurer in January.

“I’m really looking for-ward to working with the other members of Student Federation and improving some really great projects and ideas that the clubs have,” Wathen said.

Wathen claimed 70 percent of the vote in the race for trea-

surer against sophomore Jordan Finney.

“I’m really grateful to every-one who voted for me and I’m really excited to serve them as best I can,” Wathen said.

Teigen, who won secretary, is interested in working with the new group of Student Fed officers.

“It’s going to be a very differ-ent group, but I’m really excited about it,” Teigen said. “It will be fun to work with Andy and Devin, I haven’t worked with

them since freshman year, and I haven’t worked with them in this kind of capacity before.”

Lantis found it difficult to control her excitement upon winning vice president.

“I’m very excited, I’m just really excited to be able to be on Student Federation for another year and to get to work with Arielle, I think that’s going to be an incredible blessing,” Lantis said. “We have such a great group of people that have been elected and I’m really excited to

see what we can do over the next year.”

Lantis didn’t run her own campaign, because senior Gar-rett Holt, sophomore Betsy This-tleton, sophomore Eric Walker, sophomore Randy Keefe, and sophomore Ryan Jelalian took matters into their own hands.

Monday morning, students woke to find a huge poster of Lantis constructed of 144 8.5” x 11” pages hanging from the bal-cony in the Grewcock Student

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J.R. Schroeder has been in-volved in the Boy Scouts of America for 42 years.

“I joined when I was 8 and I never left,” the Hillsdale resident said.

But the Scoutmaster of on Hillsdale’s two troops — Troop 174 — has chosen to resign from the BSA as of Jan. 1, 2014.

Schroeder is not alone. After the BSA’s National Council opened membership to openly gay boys in May, about half the families in Troop 174 decided not to return, Schroeder said. Hillsdale College Treasurer and Vice President for Finance Patrick Flannery submitted his resignation. Furthermore, the Hillsdale Knights of Colum-bus decided against renewing the Troop’s charter as of Jan. 1, 2014.

Flannery and Schroeder said they have chosen to distance themselves from the BSA be-cause the new membership pol-icy affirms behavior they believe is sinful.

“This is not a knee-jerk reac-tion I made. Scouting is my life,” Schroeder said. “The Scout Oath and Law has been the biggest guide in my life, second only to the teachings of my church. I thought about it. I prayed about it. I was torn between protecting my sons and trying to be a buffer

for them so they could con-tinue on in scouting and get the benefits. But I think that this downward trend is going to continue. I wanted to leave now on my own terms and not be forced into quitting.”

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nery and Schro-eder believe the new membership policy will open the BSA to more law-suits. Eventually, they say they think this decision creates inconsistent standards for the Scouts and leaders and will lead to openly homosexual adult lead-ers.

“What we are telling boys is that it’s OK to have a same-sex attraction when you are a boy

but not when you’re a man. That it’s OK to be a youth leader and to have ho-mosexual tendencies but not as an adult,” Schroeder said. “How do you take a young man who is an Eagle Scout and a Senior Patrol

Leader,who turns 18 and

tell him, ‘Yesterday, it was OK. Today, it’s not?’”Within the BSA, leaders can

bar from membership scouts, scout leaders, and adult lead-ers who do not follow the 1911 oath to be “morally straight.” But Flannery says that this new policy would teach his sons that some sins are exceptions in lead-ers.

“It’s not the person that’s the problem. It’s the sin,” he said.

Junior and Eagle Scout Phil Wegmann said that the Hillsdale College Boy Scout G.O.A.L. Program will continue despite the new membership changes because it is a responsibility and opportunity that “shouldn’t be given up lightly.”

“While it’s unfortunate that politics have become distract-

ing, ending this program would be irresponsible,” Wegmann said. “As long as we can help kids learn to love the outdoors and to ‘do a good turn daily’ we are going to continue volunteering.”

Troop 174 will con-tinue operating because the Hillsdale Kiwanis

Club decided to pick up its charter.“I am grateful to the Ki-

wanis for being willing to ac-cept T-174’s charter, whether my family continues or not, and I am grateful to the Knights of Colum-bus for their many years of spon-sorship,” Hillsdale College Reg-istrar Douglas McArthur said.

The other troop in town — Troop 211 — retained its sponsor and leadership, the decison has made leadership more difficult, said assistant Scoutmaster Scott Allen.

“The [new membership poli-cy] is not an issue for us as far as our charter organization goes,” Allen said. “I can only speak for myself, but it makes leaders less enthusiastic because we don’t share the same values as the BSA anymore.”

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The women’s cross country team is headed to nationals.

For the fourth time in school history, the women’s team will compete in the NCAA national meet after they finished third at regionals last weekend. The men’s team finished eighth.

The women will travel to Spokane, Wash., next week where they will compete against the top 32 Division II schools in the country. A national poll ranks the Hillsdale women at 15th after the regional meet.

“We definitely showed what kind of team we are, but I don’t think that’s the best we can do,” sophomore Emily Oren said. “I do think we have more to show. We just haven’t had that race yet.”

Oren led the women, finish-ing 16th in 22:10. Fellow sopho-more Kristina Galat came in just two seconds later: 18th place in 22:12. Both women finished on the all-region team, which goes to the top 25 runners.

The next three came in within eight seconds of each other: freshmen Julia Bos and Molly Oren, then senior captain Victo-ria McCaffrey.

Bos finished in 30th after running 22:35, and Molly Oren, 33rd, ran a time of 22:41.

Saturday’s third extended McCaffrey’s collegiate running career for two more weeks. While the senior runner still has track eligibility, she’ll head to D.C. to do WHIP her last Hills-dale semester.

“I’m happy for it to end this way,” McCaffrey said. “For them it’s the beginning of some very excellent careers.”

She finished 35th place in 22:43.

The team’s top-five runners crossed the finish line within 33 seconds of each other. The team’s pack-running helps a lot, Oren said.

“If they’re right there, you have to catch them,” Oren said.

Coach Andrew Towne said the women ran a solid race, but not their best. The women run-ners shared similar sentiments. They hope their best race still lies ahead of them.

“They [the Hillsdale women] realize that we’ve evolved into a team not just trying to race at the national championship, but one that wants to run well there,” Towne said.

The men’s team entered the meet with high hopes for the national meet. But with the exceptions of junior Jack Butler and freshman Joe Newcomb, Hillsdale’s runners ran flat, according to coach Jeff Forino.

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A new North American record was set at a Rubik's Cube tourna-ment held on campus this past weekend.

USA contestant Drew Brads set a record for the Pyra-minx, a pyramid-shaped version of the puzzle. His average time of 3.01 seconds and his best time of 1.71 seconds from Saturday's game are both North American records.

Junior Anthony Brooks organized the tournament, which was held in the old snack bar on Saturday, Nov. 9. This is his third time hosting such a tournament at the college, but he said more world-class competi-tors came to this tourna-ment than previous ones. Brooks also competed in three events, taking fourth in the origi-nal cube event, second in 2x2x2, and first in one-handed.

Forty-six cube enthusiasts came to the tournament, includ-ing one from China, Korea, India, and two from Canada.

“There were a lot of really, re-ally fast guys in this one,” Brooks said.

Bhanu Savan Kodam of India set a national record for average time for the Pyraminx, with a five-solve average of 4.45 sec-onds.

Brooks said part of the draw was the number of events of-fered. The tournament included eight different events, including the original cube, 4x4x4, Pyra-minx, and other Rubik's Cube-like puzzles, as well as one-hand-

ed and blindfold solving.The youngest contestant at

the tournament was 9 years old. Most were under the age of 20. The room was full of competitors moving from station to station, or sitting at tables by themselves or with friends practicing over and over.

“In order to do really well, you kind of have to be solving it all day,” Brooks said.

Competitors would be turning their own cubes as they sat down at the table to solve a cube that was waiting for them. The tour-nament did not actually use Ru-bik’s-brand cubes, because cer-tain off-brand models turn faster.

Rami Sbahi, a 12-year-old contestant from Rochester Hills, Mich., has been solving cubes for two years and nine months. He placed sixth in the original cube competition, third in 2x2x2 and 4x4x4, second in Pyraminx, third in an event called Square-1, fourth in one-handed solving, and third in blindfolded solving. Sbahi's best time for the original cube was 9.47 seconds.

Sbahi said he had been solv-

ing cubes for 10 months before he learned to solve cubes blind-folded.

“It's incredible what these lit-tle guys can do,” said sophomore Tyler Warman, who helped judge the event.

Warman said he has never solved a cube, but was impressed

by the skills of all the contestants, especially those who solved cubes one-handed and blind-folded.

Blindfolded-solving contestants were given the chance to inspect their cube, then required to don a blindfold before making any changes to it. Their score was deter-mined by their total time spent inspecting and solving the cube. Five of the nine contestants who attempted it were unable to completely solve the cube, and only

one solved it on all three of his attempts.

“It was kind of crazy,” he said.Brooks organized the event

with other members of Alpha Tau Omega as a fundraiser for the Steve Gleason ALS Founda-tion. Brooks said they were able to raise about $400.

Brooks, who is the second-ranked cube-solver in North America said he has recently be-come more interested in organiz-ing tournaments and fundraisers. He started a non-profit organi-zation with Andy Smith, who is ranked first in North America. The organization, Cubes 4 Kids, is devoted to providing kids in children's hospitals with cubes and showing them how to solve the puzzles.

James Brandon, professor of theater and member of the 2013 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Battle of the Bands judges’ panel, had a surprisingly distinct vision of what he believed would consti-tute a good stage performance.

“Pyrotechnics would be awe-some,” Brandon said.

Brandon may not have got-ten the pyrotechnics he wanted, but there were sparks of a differ-ent sort at Battle of the Bands on Nov. 9. Senior Pat D'Amato, per-forming in nothing more (or less) than a neon tank top, Converse sneakers, and white shorts, asked the cheering audience:

“Wait – is that applause for my voice or for my immaculate body?”

D'Amato was one of the three members of the evening's win-ning group, the Electric Psyche-delic Pussycat Swingers Club. His band mates were junior Aar-on Pomerantz and sophomore Jake Coonradt.

“We like to play bluesy-rocky stuff, but we've been known to play Ke$ha from time to time, so, you know, anything is fair game,” D'Amato said.

The second-place winner, Vir-ginia and the Woolf, was led by sophomore Catherine Coffey and had a more consistent aesthetic: namely, hipster.

“We're playing a lot of things no one has heard before,” junior Josiah Young said. “She and I

both have really obscure taste.”Senior Ian Ostaszewski

played drums for the band along-side bassist Brady Bellew, junior. Young provided vocal accom-paniment for Coffey, as well as played guitar.

In order to emerge victorious, the Electric Psychedelic Pussy-cat Swingers Club jostled their way past six other bands. Eight groups were originaly registered to compete, a record for the Bat-tle of the Bands, until several of the bands were forced to with-draw due to time constraints.

Consequent-ly, the band lineup on battle night was dif-ferent from that initially adver-tised. Sesdeca-roon and the White Choco-late Chips and a duo called Frisky Falcon and the Stiff Mishap entered the competition on short notice, replacing Sleep on It and The Biting Goats, respectively.

Many of this year's acts were newly formed. The oldest group competing, Vir-ginia and the

Woolf, came together only last year. Ian Ostaszewski, a veteran of Phi Mu Alpha battles past, mused on the turnover in the Hillsdale musical community.

“Last year, I didn't go,” Osta-szewski said. “It was weird for me, because during my fresh-man and sophomore year, I was part of The Gentiles, the winning band both times. It was great to perform. All of my close friends were in the band. Then all of my

bandmates graduated at the end of my sophomore year and after that, I didn't know who to play music with.”

Senior Mark Keller also not-ed the change in music's role in campus culture.

“I think band culture was a lot bigger part of the Hillsdale cul-ture back in the day,” Keller said. “They had their own niche.”

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The Rod and Cones performed at last week’s Battle of the Bands. The winners of the battle were the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. (Sally Nelson/Collegian)

Senior Aaron Schepps and junior Wes Wright compete on the IM fields in a game of Ultimate Frisbee. (Courtesy of Aaron Sandford)

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Only one team will emerge the victor from this weekend’s Ultimate Frisbee tournament, where 11 teams will go head to head — not for a shiny trophy, but for something much greater: honor and glory.

Students leaping and diving for Frisbees is a common sight on Hillsdale College’s campus. Until last September, however, Ultimate Frisbee-lovers had to start a pick-up game with friends or wait for an email announcing a game and inviting them to join.

Now, the Ultimate Frisbee Club has a league, formed just a few months ago when senior David Graber and junior Wes Wright approached Student Fed-eration asking for funds.

The league is comprised of about 70 people including stu-dents, some staff, and even Hillsdale grads who live nearby — everyone who showed up for tryouts in September. Each team consists of six to seven players, who play one game every Satur-day. They even have jerseys.

“They’re sweet. Blue and

white reversible, with ‘ultimate’ across the chest,” Wright said.

Several students said that their favorite part about frisbee is the community it creates.

“I like the camaraderie be-cause it doesn’t really matter who’s on your team. You’re just kind of enjoying playing Frisbee with everyone,” sophomore Elis-abeth Wynia said.

Wynia said that Frisbee has enabled her to connect with up-perclassmen that she would not have gotten to know otherwise.

Junior Andy Reuss, who played pick-up Ultimate Frisbee in high school, agrees with Wyn-ia that what makes Hillsdale ulti-mate frisbee so enjoyable is the camaraderie. A higher skill level exists on Hillsdale’s campus, as well.

“I came to Hillsdale and it just reached a new level. People were playing just about every day freshman year,” Reuss said.

Though there are students who play almost every day, there are also students who never played Ultimate Frisbee before they came to Hillsdale. One thing that separates Frisbee from some other sports is that it’s an easy

game to pick up.“It’s something that people

can do without much skill — the rules are easy — but it’s the refinement of skill that makes it really good,” Wright said. “Even if someone’s gigantic, I can still throw around them a good por-tion of the time if they haven’t played much,” Wright said.

As Wright pointed out, it’s the details that make a good Frisbee player. Senior David Graber, president of the Ultimate Frisbee Club and a team captain, said that during tryouts he watched for those who could throw most accurately.

“I would say the most impor-tant part of being a good player is knowing how and when to throw,” Graber said. “So us-ing your head when you throw and also knowing how to throw deep, and how to throw long throws, and how to hit somebody while they’re running. Instead of just throwing it at somebody, you want to be able to throw it ahead of somebody so that they get there at the same time as the Frisbee.”

Not only must the “handler” — those players that are best at

throwing and keeping the Frisbee moving down the field — know where to throw the Frisbee, but a good handler can execute the par-ticular style of throw that works best. There are several to choose from.

“Bill Gray [director of market-ing for external affairs] can throw a flick three feet off the ground, totally straight, for 100 yards,” Wright said, speaking of one of the older men who has joined the league. “He’s just so good at the throwing and the roots and the tactics of the game.”

The game that has captured the hearts of more than 70 Hillsdale students and staff members will have its first league tournament, with a dash of pomp and circum-stance, Nov. 16. The tournament will be single-elimination, on the quad. Semi-finals and finals will be on Nov. 17, and junior Matt Melchior, who announces for many Charger sporting events, will be announcing play-by-play via loudspeakers.

“We’re not going to use the SAB speakers because I’m told they’re broken,” Wright said. “But I know a guy.”

Ultimate tourney this weekend

Battle of the Bands rocks Howard

A new lecture series begins next semester focusing on Jew-ish-Christian relations.

The Gershom Lectures will begin January 20 with a lecture from Walter Kaiser, Jr., but the series will be introduced with a lecture by Mark Kinzer, author and rabbi, today at 6:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium.

“We’ve been eager in the de-partment to do more justice to the ‘Judeo’ in our mission state-ment,” said Assistant Professor of Religion Don Westblade. “We’re aware that Judaica is kind of a weakness in the department, so we’re really happy to be able to bolster that end of things.”

The lecture series is funded through a gift of about $1 million from Messianic Rabbi G. Robert Chenoweth, a founding member of the Messianic Jewish Rabbini-cal Council and a friend of Hills-dale College.

“The project was inspired by a young friend I met in Don West-blade's intertestimental literature course at Hillsdale and who grad-uated last May,” Chenoweth said. “I was also encouraged by other Hillsdale students on both the Christian and Jewish sides of the aisle. Like Moses' son, Gershom, we are all to some extent ‘strang-ers in a strange land,’ and that can greatly enrich our lives if we will take the time to communicate in a

balanced and respectful way.”The intent is to have some

short seminar courses in the fu-ture.

“What Chenoweth is inter-ested in exploring and bringing to the fore is the Jewish-Christian relationships over the centuries, which have not been very good,” said Dean of Humanities Tom Burke. “He wants to look at it historically, theologically, socio-logically, and so forth.”

Westblade, Burke, and Kinzer are working together as a com-mittee of sorts to plan and sched-ule the lecture series and potential courses to which Chenoweth’s gift may lead.

Further plans for the grant are still under consideration and development, according to West-blade.

“There are many committed Jewish and Christian theologians and scholars who are dialog-ing with one another now about God's intended sibling relation-ship between Jews and Gentiles,” Chenoweth said.

Westblade and Burke said they may look to the religious clubs on campus in the future for involve-ment and assistance with events.

“I think there will be an ea-gerness on the part of us and the department in partnering with Chavarah and any other groups that would be interested in the question of Jewish-Christian re-lations,” Westblade said.

Lecture series introduced today

Record set at Rubik’s contest

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Schroeder said he believes there will be a significant de-crease in troops and individual units. Seventy percent of all units are chartered to faith-based orga-nizations, the top three being the Church of the Latter Day Saints, the United Methodist Church, and the Roman Catholic Church. While some sponsoring organiza-tions turned in their charters mid-year, others are simply refusing to renew on Dec. 31. Other units are disbanding entirely.

“None of those religious bod-

ies has officially said that they aren’t having anything to do with scouting anymore,” Schroeder said. “They are all emphasizing that this is improper behavior, but they are leaving it up to the individual.”

Flannery and Schroeder have begun looking into alternative, Christian programs, such as the Troops of St. George and Trail Life USA.

“We considered going out on our own,” Flannery said.

But Flannery and Schroeder wanted to find an organization they could join if possible, rather than founding a new individual group.

Allen and Schroeder agreed

that the scouts end up losing be-cause they will miss opportuni-ties.

“‘Eagle Scout’ means some-thing to a lot of people,” Allen said. “Nobody knows what a Rainbow Badge is.”

“Scouting was started in both England and the U.S. as a reac-tion to the trends in society,” Schroeder said. “Now they’re going the other way. They’re pur-posefully shortchanging them-selves and following popular opinion. I believe they used to be the leaders in this area and now they’re the followers.”

The Knights of Columbus and the Kiwanis Club did not respond to requests for comment.

There’s a new book out by visiting Assistant Professor of History Darryl Hart.

The book, entitled “Calvin-ism: A History,” details centuries of sociopolitical changes that led to the current global presence of Calvinism. On Oct. 31, he delivered a speech on his latest work to about 50 stu-dents on campus.

“I think it was a very intelligent, informative lecture on Calvinism. He wasn’t saying this is why you should agree or dis-agree with Calvinism. He was more giving you a good overall explanation of Calvinist history from his view,” said freshman Spen-cer Downing, a student in Hart’s Western Heritage class.

The 350-page volume covers the adaptation of Christianity to an expand-ing Europe, the histori-cal relationship between church and state, and the influence of politics on Cal-vinism.

“For its first 200 or so years, Calvinism largely depended upon political patrons, and for the last 200 or so years, Calvinism has been trying to get political patrons off its back,” Hart said. “Conceivably, I’m covering the entire world in this book, though it fo-cuses mainly on Europe and North America. I’ve never written a book on this large of a scale. It was quite a challenge.”

“Calvinism: A History” pri-marily gives an account for the development of Calvinism, rath-er than for its specific doctrine. However, following Hart’s lec-ture, audience members raised questions about predestination and the evolution of Calvinist doctrine.

“The only views and knowl-edge that I had of Calvinism before the lecture was from my

discussion about predestination with other students on campus. Listening to Dr. Hart speak about his book definitely offered me a new perspective and understand-ing. It’s obvious that Calvinism is not just something that popped up out of thin air,” freshman Ben Jiles said.

In addition, Hart’s lecture emphasized how his book out-

lines the difference between the historic development of Calvin-ist thought and the modern un-derstanding of John Calvin as a major Reformation figure.

“People have all sorts of ideas about Calvinism. The actual his-tory of Calvinism is quite dif-ferent than the certain ideas that many Calvinists have, specifical-ly with regard to Presbyterianism in Scotland. On the other hand, those who aren’t Calvinist seem to think that Calvinism created the modern world,” Hart said.

Finally, Hart challenged stu-dents to consider how Christians have adapted to changes in the modern West, noting that Hills-dale students can take the spread of Christianity for granted.

“We take for granted how it’s natural for Christianity to be in North America, but it’s un-natural that Native Americans didn’t send a letter to Calvin say-

ing, ‘Could we have a pastor, please?’ My book doesn’t take for granted that Christian-ity would have spread around the world. There is an incredible story about Europe here,” Hart said.

During the Q&A session, students from the audience applaud-ed Hart even before he finished wrapping up his speech.

“I really liked how Dr. Hart compared Calvinism to a stream of thought that’s con-tinually moving with-out a clear beginning point. Inadvertently, his book on history ties into doctrine. I think that it would give students a more knowledgeable play-ing field when they’re discussing free will and predestination. It adds more color to the picture,” Jiles said.

Hart plans to write a sequel to “Calvin-ism: A History” that would emphasize the

idea of Calvinist doctrine and Calvinism’s relationship to poli-tics, economics, art, literature, and democracy.

“People don’t want heaven to sound like a ‘you’re in or you’re out’ club,” Downing said. “Stu-dents on campus can sometimes give Calvinism a bad rap, be-cause Calvin was most widely known for his view of predesti-nation. I think that a book that plainly lays out what Calvinism is about would be very beneficial for all of us.”

Senior Ian Hanchett won second place in Lincoln-Doug-las debate at a Central Michi-gan University tournament this past weekend, leading his team to take second overall at the tournament, despite only bring-ing three competitors.

The forensics team attended the same tournament, where members said competition was premium.

Nevertheless, Junior Chris Landers took sixth place in per-suasion, fifth in program oral interpretation, and fourth in in-formative speaking.

“It proved that Chris Land-ers can still run with the big boys,” said junior and forensics team manager Brandon Butz.

Butz did not attend the tour-nament, but said for those who went, the tough competition allowed them to stay sharp as they prepare for their last tour-nament of the semester this weekend at Bowling Green State University.

“It was a really, really tough tournament,” Landers said. “People from our school break-

ing to the final round against some of these people and beat-ing them in preliminaries is certainly a good sign.”

Debate coach and Assistant Professor of Speech Matthew Doggett said he is pleased with the debate team's progress this season. Every member who has competed has qualified for the national tournament.

“Overall, we're doing much, much better than we could ever have hoped to do,” Doggett said.

He said the qualifications allow the team to focus on im-proving and recruiting debaters for next semester.

Hillsdale's three mock trial teams went to two different tournaments the same week-end, one at the United States Air Force Academy in Colo-rado Springs, Colo., and one in Cleveland, Ohio.

It was the first tournament of the season for the team cap-tained by junior Dylan Hoover. It was also the first time com-peting in college-level mock trial for most of the team. Nev-ertheless, Hoover said the team exceeded its own expectations.

“We were able to eas-

ily identify what our strengths were, and we found a couple weaknesses that we have a gameplan to fix before the next tournament,” he said.

Hoover said his team's new players, who played lawyers, overcame the learning curve quickly, and were getting better in every round. He said the wit-nesses were also excellent.

“We put a lot of work into giving our witnesses really in-teresting characters, and we got a lot of positive feedback from the judges on that,” he said.

Sophomore Hannah Blazek, one of the brand new competi-tors on Hoover's team, won an outstanding witness award. So did senior Abby Loxton, one of the captains of the team that went to Ohio.

Keith Miller, the mock trial coach and assistant director of Career Services, said tour-nament officials have not yet provided official results to the team.

This weekend, the debate team will compete at Bowling Green along with the forensics team. Senior Harris Wells and senior Lauren Holt will com-pete there for the first time this

season. Both have competed in the past, but have not gone to any tournaments yet this year.

“It's our last tournament, so everybody's going to be giving it all they've got,” Butz said.

The mock trial team will compete at a tournament the following weekend.

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The Hillsdale College mock trial teams have traveled throughout the country for their tournaments. This past weekend, the three teams competed at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Cleveland, Ohio.(Courtesy of Abi-Marie Loxton)

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Hart releases new bookThe audio-visual department

is looking forward to some new equipment.

Director of Technical and Media Services Ted Matko said there are plans for the depart-ment to get new “fiber cables,” which will run from their studio out to the athletic fields. These cables will allow AV to stream live video footage of games from a fixed room, instead of need-ing to move extensive equip-ment from the studio to each game they film. Such capabili-ties would allow Matko to travel with President Larry Arnn to film academic events, while Matko’s student workers film and stream a football game simultaneously.

“This allows streaming in the control room, which is much easier,” Matko said.

Currently, if Matko takes the “fly pack” – a moveable device for broadcasting – with him to an event like the National Lead-ership Conference, his students back at Hillsdale cannot film sports games. Even if they had the proper equipment, most of his student workers wouldn’t be able to set it up.

His chief editor, Sam Brown, said the setup process takes 30 to 45 minutes.

“Students can operate the fixed control room without doing engineering,” Matko said.

Right now, Matko said aca-demic events, such as NLCs, CCAs, and dedications, take pri-ority over athletics.

“They take priority because they bought the equipment,” Matko said. “It is a matter of lo-gistics. This stuff is not cheap.”

“Fibering” would also even-tually allow Matko and his team to film games other than volley-ball, football, and basketball.

“Those are the big three,” Matko said. “We would like to pick up baseball and softball.”

Some students consider the AV’s incapability of streaming games a nuisance.

Senior Andie MacGowen, who films for the football team, said her parents watch all the home games.

“It is annoying that out of state parents sometimes cannot watch games,” MacGowen said.

Freshman Colby Lufkin said his mother bought a house in Hillsdale so she can watch him play, but his other relatives would love to watch more of his games.

“To watch the action as it’s happening is the next best thing to being at Muddy Waters Sta-dium and watching us play,” Lufkin said in an email.

Joe Abraham, Hillsdale Col-

lege’s womens softball coach, said the internet streaming would immensely help his team recruit.

“That would be so big for us it is hard to put into words,” Abraham said. “It is absolutely a detriment that we don’t have it because it is more common now.”

Abraham said they recruit from all over the country and most teams they play against stream their games, so parents expect games to be broadcast.

“I had a dad say to me, ‘So I assume we can watch her games. This is the 21st century,’” Abra-ham said.

Junior Matt Melchior, who does all the internet radio feed for baseball, mentioned that be-fore he started doing their radio broadcasting, they never had any coverage.

“Video coverage would broaden my experience and help me get a job as an ESPN broad-caster,” Melchior said.

Even with the new fiber cables, Matko doesn’t expect away games will ever be filmed because of the expense of travel-ling.

As they wait for the new equipment, the AV department will cover what they can, Matko said.

“We can’t be two places at once,” he said.

AV plans equipment upgrade

“Calvinism: A History” by Professor Darryl Hart examines the course of Calvinism from its roots to the modern day. (Courtesy of Darryl Hart)

Natalie deMacedoAssistant Editor

Union.“Garrett led up the poster cre-

ation,” Walker said, referring to the huge poster of Lantis in the Union. “That’s what he’s really

good at.”Thistleton used a website to

enlarge the pictures of Lantis and make one huge poster out of 8.5” x 11” pieces of paper.

The 144-page poster took several hours to put up, Walker said.

Holt’s crew distributed post-

ers with clever slogans support-ing Lantis for vice president to student dorms, the library, and nearly every table on campus.

The newly elected officers and representatives will take of-fice in January at the start of the 2014 spring semester.

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Pi Phi to hoSt Mr. hillSdale coMPetition on SaturdayTen men, five categories, one winner. On Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium, male students will

compete for the ultimate title of “Mr. Hillsdale.”Pi Beta Phi sorority has organized this competition nearly every year since 2006. This year, for only the

second time, the event is open to independent competitors and representatives from sports teams as well as to members of fraternities. The 2013 contestants are Gunnar Meyer for track, Danny Drummond for football, Nick Sponseller for baseball, Mike Ammerman for Delta Sigma Phi, Daniel Bellet for Sigma Chi, Richard Caster for Delta Tau Delta, Nick Zawatsky for Alpha Tau Omega, and independent competitors Luke Robson, Isaac Dell, and Travis Cook.

The winner is decided based on scores in five categories: penny wars, beachwear, formal wear, a talent round, and an audience vote. Each category is worth 20 percent of the final score.

On Thursday and Friday in the Grewcock Student Union during lunch, students can participate in the penny wars. By putting pennies in the jars of their favorite candidates and silver coins or dollars in the jars of opposing candidates, students can either add or subtract points from a competitor’s penny war score. Win-ners of the beachwear, formal wear, and talent categories will be determined by judges. Then, the audience vote is determined after Saturday’s competition when the audience members can use their event tickets to vote for their favorite candidate.

All proceeds from the contest will go to Pi Phi’s philanthropy First Book, an organization that buys books for children to take home and keep in order to work on their literacy skills.

“We want people to support literacy and support the children who aren’t as fortunate as we are,” said Miranda Bauer, president of Pi Beta Phi.

The Mr. Hillsdale competition tries to make philanthropy more audience-engaging and personal by having students support a friend rather than an ambiguous child.

“You can be there for your friend and support him while he tries to support the children,” Bauer said.Tickets for the event will be available in the union for $3 during lunch on Thursday and Friday and at the

gate for $5 on Saturday night. The doors open on Saturday at 7 p.m.

–Ramona Tausz

all this conspiratorial thinking.Did that begin right away?It begins in earnest maybe

two or three years. For most of the pundits, commentators, and historians of the 1950s and 1960s, the general thought was that most of the violence came from the far right. I mean the anti-communists, the bigots, and racists in the South who were opposed to civil rights. Funda-mentalist preachers, who had a large audience on the radio, claimed that Washington was selling out the country to the communists. [The conspiracy people] kind of fused all these things together. The historians of the period wrote a lot of books about the dangers of the right. They called them the radicals. For example, the radical right said Eisenhower was a Com-munist, that the civil rights

movement was a Communist conspiracy and things like that. Kennedy is shot when he visits Dallas, and the immediate reac-tion is that he’s been shot by some right-winger. What you have is a contradictory event. In the aftermath of the shooting, this is interpreted as a reaction against Civil Rights. The fact is, the assassin was a communist. How do you take an event in the Cold War – an assassination car-ried out by a communist – and turn it into a Civil Rights event? Well they did, and this creates a gulf between the interpreta-tion and the facts. All the early conspiracy theories in the 1960s came out of the left, and for two reasons. First, they are con-spiracy-minded. Second, they understood what damage could be done to their movement if the public concluded that a commu-nist killed the president.

What did the assassination do to liberalism in the 1960s?

JFK was somewhat seen as a

victim of American culture – it fed into an anti-American atti-tude that developed in the 1960s. It also somewhat undermined the liberal faith both in the country for that reason and their faith in the future. They gener-ally had this belief that things were progressing, and now this sudden shock comes in and destroys their world. It fed into an attitude of anti-Americanism, the idea that everything is kind of absurd and meaningless when you can invest so much in a leader, and he can be shot like that. The whole positive narra-tive of America that developed in the 1950s – we saved Europe, we defeated fascism, we’re standing up to Communism, we’re the most powerful coun-try in the world – that whole positive narrative is turned on its head in the 1960s, and the assassination is the first event in a sequence of events that feeds into that narrative.

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Beeman captures Founding in new book

On the cold clear evening of December 16, 1773, few, if any, of the participants of the Boston Tea Party realized that dumping 92,000 pounds of Indian tea into the harbor would mark the starting point of the American Revolution. Yet so begins historian Richard R. Beeman’s newest book “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of

American Independence 1774-1776.”

Beeman sets the stage for the brewing conflict between the Colonies and Britain, and he recounts the events surrounding the creation of the Declaration of Independence. Not only does Beeman’s book provide histori-cal context, but he also fills in the details of the lives and per-sonalities of the men who were willing to sacrifice their very lives, fortunes, and honor to se-cure their liberty.

Early in the book, Beeman details parliament’s response to

the Boston Tea Party and the unintended consequences of British retaliation. He specifically addresses the alienation of Benjamin Franklin by the British. In the wake of the Bos-ton Tea party, Franklin called the Bostonian’s actions a “vio-lent injustice” — though he had not yet advocated Ameri-can independence. At the time he was living in England and serving as an agent to parliament for the colonies of Penn-sylvania and Massachusetts.

After the incident, Franklin was summoned to the Brit-ish Privy Council. For over an hour, officials publicly rep-rimanded him for the actions of the American colonists in Boston and even accused him of being the main instigator of a conspiracy against the royal government of Massachusetts. Franklin — exercising extreme self-control — remained si-lent; however, he was a proud man and never forgot or for-gave the British officials who publicly humiliated him. Lit-tle did the British realize that they had successfully turned Franklin against them and that he would become an ardent defender of American interests and a principal author of the Declaration of Independence.

Franklin’s is just one of the many stories that Beeman tells. The book also recounts the proceedings of the First Continental Congress that began late in the summer of 1774 to the eventual signing of the declaration in 1776. During his presentation of the historical facts, Beeman masterfully il-lustrates the personalities and the characters of the men that assembled in Philadelphia.

The delegates were a diverse group: their personalities varied from the irascible John Adams to the cold and distant Joseph Galloway, and their professions ranged from wealthy plantation owners to successful New England merchants. Yet despite their differences, they were all skilled statesmen. In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams lamented the dif-ficulty of accomplishing anything in a room full of natural-born politicians.

“This assembly is like no other that ever existed. Ev-ery Man is a great Man—an orator, a [critic], a statesman, and therefore every Man upon every Question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his Political Abilities, Adams wrote. “The Consequence of this is; that Business is drawn and spun out to immeasurable Length.”

For an insider’s look into the events leading up to the American Revolution, Beeman’s “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor” is a must-read. His narrative style brings to life the central figures responsible for American independence. Readers will not be disappointed with this engaging and detailed historical book.

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“Character is what you do when no one is watching.”

It’s a bit of a trite saying, at-tributed to coaches, motivational speakers and fortune cookie writ-ers (by the way, whose idea was it to replace fortune cookie pre-dictions with treacly aphorisms from the “Successories” reject pile?).

Still, the expression’s popu-larity illustrates the power of the idea behind it. Character is what you do when the only controlling authority is your conscience.

Because young people do not yet have fully formed characters, they often need incentives be-yond exhortations to do the right thing. That’s one reason most parents reward good behavior and punish bad behavior -- to create real-world consequences for poor decisions, and thus train the habits of the heart.

Schools do the same thing. When I was a kid, one of the chief tools in this regard was your “permanent record.” You don’t want to get caught cheat-ing, running in the halls, cutting class, drinking beer, etc., because it might go down on your per-manent record, teachers would warn.

One of the great epiphanies in life is that your permanent record is not some bulging binder kept under lock and key like some archive in East Germany. But the threat that keepers of your permanent record were watch-ing you -- bureaucratic Santas determining if you were naughty or nice -- had its uses. I’m sure it still does.

But another useful lesson in life is that jerks can avoid the scrutiny of the permanent record-keepers while still being jerks.

That’s one reason I was happy to hear that college administra-tors have taken to perusing the social media habits of applicants. A Kaplan survey of top colleges, as compiled by U.S. News and

World Report (once a news or-ganization that did college rank-ings, now a college ranking ser-vice that occasionally dabbles in news), found that about a third of admissions officers at elite schools poke around on Face-book and other sites to check out what applicants are really like.

But teenagers in the past learned how to have a good time while avoiding embarrassing entries in the permanent record. And they’ll figure it out again.

“Sure, the scrutiny may make them better at hiding what they don’t want adults to see,” writes Professor Mark Bauerlein of Em-ory University. “It will produce the same hype and earnestness we get in personal essays and re-sumes in the application packet.

“Yet,” Bauerlein asks, “which is worse: social media that in-flates the intellectual and moral credentials of the user and makes them more careful; or social me-dia that reinforces the adolescent user’s adolescence?”

In other words, there will be marginally fewer Facebook pho-tos of keg stands and more of summer vacation latrine-digging in Third World countries.

But there’s a larger point to be made here. We now live in a society in which there’s always someone watching. Text-messag-ing, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, email, etc., amount to the new permanent record. In the

past, if you embarrassed your-self in some horrendous way, you could often reinvent your-self simply by moving to a new town and starting fresh. Now your permanent record is in the Cloud and your scarlet letter can be found with a Google search.

Indeed, the Internet is creat-ing unprecedented opportunities for people of low character to ad-vertise it. If Anthony Weiner had simply used the phone as a phone instead of a handheld peep-show booth, he’d probably be the next mayor of New York. If Jofi Jo-seph (the Obama administra-tion national security aide who used his “NatSecWonk” Twitter handle to trash colleagues and superiors) had restricted his catty gossiping to water-cooler chatter, he’d probably still have a job. Miami Dolphins lineman Richie Incognito couldn’t stay incognito because of the ubiquity of cell-phone cameras and the perma-nence of text messages.

Such stories are extreme ex-amples of the Internet culture’s tendency to reward oversharing. But they also reflect a much old-er and broader cultural trend that celebrates self-expression over self-discipline. That tension has been baked into the cake since the Enlightenment, and it’s not going away. But it’s nice to see society self-correct every now and then. It’s a sign of good char-acter.

His name was Deshane. I promised to remember him.

He was 13 and I was 19. He loved the Pirates and I loved the Red Sox. His father used to rape his sister and mine used to kneel and pray while I fell asleep. I once told him that God cares for all his children, and Deshane said I could go to hell.

Deshane never read “To Kill a Mockingbird” in the fifth grade or learned to count to 10 in Span-ish, but his cousin posted him on a corner at age 11. We spent a summer together, and when it finished he asked if I would adopt him. I needed to finish school.

Now I’m 21 and still respon-sible to Deshane. I promised not to forget. And this is why I’m ap-plying to Teach For America, a nonprofit organization that sends college graduates of every disci-

pline into the inner city to teach for a minimum of two years, aim-ing to counter social inequities by educating the underprivileged. There are 15 million American children living in poverty, and less than 50 percent will graduate from high school. Deshane is one of them.

In recent months, articles in the Washington Post, the Harvard Crimson and the Huffington Post have faulted the program for its ambitious work of employing and preparing uncertified teach-ers for the classroom. While this skepticism is warranted, the cri-tiques fall short by habitually identifying the struggles of Teach For America as being particular to this institution. In reality, the problems that plague TFA are those that trouble the educational system at large.

Catherine Michna, a postdoc-toral student at Tulane Univer-sity, falls to these tendencies in her Slate article, “Why I Stopped Writing Recommendation Letters for Teach For America.” Michna explains that this program only serves to harm already disad-vantaged children, contending that Teach For America replaces veteran teachers with the under-trained. This issue compounds itself when many of these new teachers leave immediately after fulfilling their two-year commit-ment, leaving a void that will be filled by an endless cycle of un-derprepared do-gooders in dress shirts.

As Michna would pose it, Teach For America sends the fresh in face into the forbidding realm of the inner city. With resumes that warrant a peace prize, fore-heads smooth as cream cheese,

and hands worn only by the form of a pencil, the unprepared trade in their American Apparel for Oxford stripes, entering the pub-lic schools with reform on their lips. Two years later, the same ilk are trading in their stripes for My Chemical Romance shirts, flee-ing the slums with fear and angst upon their hearts.

Michna argues that the most disturbing development involves veteran teachers, most notably in Chicago, being replaced by these idealistic, union-busting youths of Teach For America. After sig-nificant budget cuts left thousands of teachers without work, the Chicago Sun Times reported that the Board of Education turned around and more than doubled its TFA participation. What followed were accusations against TFA as a neoliberal institution aimed at ousting experienced educators.

Though I can’t speak for TFA, I would say that willingly replac-ing veteran teachers with inexpe-rienced ones is patently stupid. Yet to blame TFA for offering a viable solution to an educational system floundering under fiscal concerns seems foolish. More-over, to define this organization by their involvement in this par-ticular instance is myopic.

For this is not a universal cir-cumstance. The American Asso-ciation of School Administrators found that in 2012, 41 percent of districts with fewer than 250 students had serious difficulty at-tracting teachers. This same study reveals that 55 percent of new public school teachers leave their district in less than five years, yielding an incredible need. And in inner-city schools in places such as the District of Columbia,

more than half of new teachers depart in less than two years, a reminder to Deshane that he’s not worth it.

As for Teach For America, the Harvard Graduate School of Edu-cation reports that more than 60 percent of their teachers remain in education after fulfilling their commitment. And though Mi-chna would argue that they are woefully unprepared, they enter the classroom having completed close to 300 hours of student teaching, a number that meets the requirement for an education de-gree at most every university.

TFA is far from perfect, the training is rushed, participants are underprepared, and the attri-tion rate remains high. Yet these problems touch everyone, TFA and state-certified teachers alike. Experience is the only remedy, and no one seems to have it. So why stop those who would try to attain it, those that would help Deshane?

Ultimately, Michna’s argu-ment depends on the idea that these teachers are doing more harm than good, and this is not the case. According to a 2008 study done by the Urban Institute, TFA teachers are more effective, as measured by student exam performance, than traditional and veteran teachers at every aca-demic level. Of course, there are myriad problems with reducing student success to numbers, but it’s our only objective means of interpretation.

Yes, it’s imperfect. No, it isn’t broken. More importantly, it’s one of the only things we can give to Deshane.

Reprinted with permission from The Detroit News.

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Obama sells Old ideas as new

Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate.

If that seems foreign to you, don’t worry. It is. The start of the semester’s busiest section hasn’t driven you insane. It means “abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” and demarcated Hell in Dante’s “Inferno.”

This time of year, students splinter. Some isolate them-selves to complete infinite work-

loads; others, with little concern for the future, ignore the Damo-clean sword hanging over their heads. But when that sword eventually falls just before crunch time, they’ll compress weeks’ worth of worrying into a few caffeine-fueled days.

Both approaches are unwise. The dreaded last minute hasn’t arrived yet. Less than two weeks until Thanksgiving; we’ll have a

few days afterward to gird our loins for finals.

There’s still time. You’re probably somewhat anxious about academic obligations un-fulfilled. You should be. Turn that angst into action now, not later. Take time today to plan what’s left. Discern priorities. Things will soon get crazy, but aren’t yet.

Those whom only despera-

tion can motivate: try something different. Instead of procrasti-nating until the last moment, start the endtime gears earlier this year, even if only by a day or two. Your body’s ability to endure sleep deprivation and concentrated stress doesn’t mean that you should always force it to.

After all, there’s more than one entrance to Hell.

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Why I am applying for Teach for America

Imagine needing to study, but feeling too cramped in your room, too opressed in the library, and too distracted in the eerie quiet of an empty classroom. Then you real-ize the perfect place to study: A.J.’s Café. You arrive, order some food, plop your books onto a table, and prepare to get everything done.

Then someone starts playing the piano. Your night is ruined.

Hillsdale College should get rid of the piano in A.J.’s Café. If it won’t do that, then it should at least make the piano less accessible. There are few things more annoying than trying to study, converse with a friend, or enjoy some food that isn’t

from Saga, only to have yet another Five for Fighting song assualt your eardrums.

Hillsdale College must act before the oppressed classes take matters into their own hands....

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a student body to dissolve the annoy-ance that has aggravated them, it is the right of the students to alter or abolish it.

Besides, we all know those guys are just trying to impress girls any-way.

Isaac MorrisonFebruary 14, 2013

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Lululemon, the groundbreakers of the skin-tight lycra pant movement, faces backlash from women claiming the quality of their yoga pants has decreased dramatically, according

to USA Today. No one likes her seams ripping when she hits the gym – the grocery store, or class – or work.

But wait – when did yoga pants become a substitute for tailored slacks? Better yet, when did t-shirts, sneakers, and jeans transform into “business casual” attire? Why are Americans so opposed to dressing up?

According to a 2007 Gallup poll, 28 percent of American workers said they wore street clothes to work. In comparison, nine percent wore formal business attire including suits, ties, and skirts. Other workers wear “business casual” or “uniform” attire.

Today, yoga pants and leggings are worn with anything from t-shirts to flouncy blouses. Why dress up when you can dress down?

Some professional women, such as Jocelyn Herz, senior vice president of Colin Cowie Lifestyle, wear their yoga pants all the time according to the New York Times.

“If your entire outfit looks very chic, there’s no reason not to,” she said.

But, Clinton Kelly, famous TLC “What not to Wear” host, said his biggest pet peeve was the “‘casualization’ of America,” according to his TLC Biography page.

“Don’t get me wrong -- casual wear is important, and can be fun and stylish,” Kelly said. “However, on the whole, we’ve stopped caring about what clothing is appropriate for a given situation. Just a few examples: flip-flops are never appropriate for work (unless you work in a spa); pajamas are not appropriate for the supermarket (unless you’ve got the flu and nobody else on the planet is willing to shop for you).”

Hillsdale is a fairly classy school. Ladies don heels and men sport button downs often. But not even Hillsdale is immune to the over-casualization of the age.

Walk into the Grewcock Student Union and admire the pictures of times gone by. Ladies cheer on the football team wearing dresses, gloves and hats worthy of Kate Middleton. The men look dapper in sports coats and ties. At today’s games, half the men show up shirtless with painted bodies and the girls slip into yoga pants and Charger-blue t-shirts.

There’s nothing wrong with gym-appropriate attire. No one needs to get their panties in a ruffle over leggings under reasonable-length skirts. Yes, these articles of clothing have their place.

Today, if you work for the Grounds crew or Saga, you should wear jeans and a t-shirt during your shift. However, just like we study Great Books for the sake of our future careers, we should make the harder choice and dress for class in a way that prepares us for life after college.

Perhaps the problem of yoga pants ripping at the seams reflects

how the adulthood of the Millennial generation is falling apart. Maybe

the problem doesn’t really lie within the tight weave of lycra, but in the attitude of America’s twenty-somethings.

“If it’s a casual day and you’re just working in your office and you’re pregnant and you can’t find anything else to fit, maybe yoga pants are acceptable,” Kat Griffin editor of Corporette, a fashion blog, said to the New York Times. “But for everyone else,

The great leggings debate

The common adage that “one should dress for the job she wants” is wrong. At least, the over-dressing crowd has taken it out of context.

The cliché applies to job interviews in which the job one is applying for (e.g. McDonald’s) requires less than business professional (e.g. an apron). Dressed-up should always be the attire for interviews, regardless of the position’s dress code.

Yet some take this advice too far, looking down upon people who wear casual clothing in a casual setting. For some reason people seem to think that the level of dress directly correlates to one’s self esteem, as if dressing ca-sually to the grocery store means you harbor insecurities that only straightened hair and heels can mask.

This is ridiculous. There is a time and a place for ev-erything. And as it turns out, casual clothing is accept-able outside of a gym. Leggings were a fashion piece in the eighties and they have made a comeback. For anyone to argue against leggings and yoga pants as clothing, she must first reject the millions of dol-lars in yearly sales, the celebrities that don them in every issue of every style magazine, and the opinion of most of the population.

No, leggings and yoga pants do not repre-sent the fall of man. They are clothing that when worn properly represent a great victory for the comfort of man. Well, wo-man.

Of course, yoga pants worn in place of dress pants to a workplace, or leggings that are so tight and ill-fitting they draw horrified eyes like moths to a light bulb, are inappropriate. The same logic ap-plies for business skirts that fall too short and blouses that leave too many buttons undone. Taste and comfort are not always at odds.

At Hillsdale, many students dress up almost every single day. There is a tendency for these well dressers to look down upon those in more casual attire. Apparently, going class is not for exchanging ideas and learning, but is a fashion show of sorts, in which one is judged by the fanciness of their clothes instead of the content of their character.

Before you judge someone’s yoga pants and sweatshirts, try on a pair of that peer’s yoga pants for a day or two. You might find that after waking up at 4:45 a.m. for a two and a half hour morning basketball prac-tice, she had no time to shower and dress up before her 8 a.m. class. After a morning of classes and a quick lunch, she had to meet with her professor and lift before din-ner, after which began hours of studying to ensure a bedtime that allowed her to get at least five hours of sleep.There isn’t much room for make-up in that day.

All Hillsdale students are busy, and many simply prefer to spend their time studying or being in-volved on campus, even if that means leggings and a sweater instead of a dress sometimes.

If every wardrobe choice represents an image that por-trays one’s charac-ter, those that dress up every single day could be seen as pre-tentious and haughty.

Leggings are good for women. But don’t

get me started on “meggings.”

Lululemon, the groundbreaking company in the skin-tight lycra-pant movement, faces backlash from women claiming the quality of its yoga pants has decreased dra-matically, according to USA Today. No one likes her seams ripping when she hits the gym, grocery store, class, or work.

But wait — when did yoga pants become a substitute for tailored slacks? Better yet, when did t-shirts, sneakers, and jeans transform into “business casual” attire? Why are Americans opposed to dressing up?

According to a 2007 Gallup poll, 28 percent of American workers said they wore street clothes to work. In compari-son, nine percent wore formal business attire including suits and skirts. Other workers wore “business casual” or “uni-form” attire.

Today, people wear yoga pants and leggings with any-thing from t-shirts to flouncy blouses. Why dress up when you can dress down?

Some professional women, such as Jocelyn Herz, senior vice president of Colin Cowie Lifestyle, wear their yoga pants all the time according to theNew York Times.

“If your entire outfit looks very chic, there’s no reason not to,” she said.

But, Clinton Kelly, famous TLC “What not to Wear” host, said on his bio page that his biggest pet peeve was the “‘casualization’ of America.”

“Don’t get me wrong -- casual wear is important, and can be fun and stylish,” Kelly said. “However, on the whole, we’ve stopped caring about what clothing is appropriate for a given situation. Just a few examples: flip-flops are never appropriate for work (unless you work in a spa); pajamas are not appropriate for the supermarket (unless you’ve got the flu and nobody else on the planet is willing to shop for you).”

Hillsdale is a fairly classy school. Ladies don heels and men sport button downs often. But not even Hillsdale is im-mune to the over-casualization of the age.

There are pictures around campus of ladies cheering on the football team wearing dresses, gloves and hats worthy of Kate Middleton. The men look dapper in sports coats and ties. Today, half the men show up shirtless while girls wear yoga pants and Charger-blue t-shirts.

There’s nothing wrong with gym-appropriate attire. No one needs to get their panties in a ruffle over leggings under reasonable-length skirts. These articles of clothing have their place.

Today, if you work for the Grounds crew or Saga, you should wear jeans and a t-shirt during your shift. However, just like we study Great Books for the sake of our future careers, we should dress for class in a way that prepares us for our futures.

Perhaps the problem of yoga pants ripping at the seams re-flects how the adulthood of the Millennial generation is falling apart. The problem isn’t with-in the tight weave of lycra, but in the attitude of Ameri-ca’s twenty-somethings.

“If it’s a casual day and you’re just working in your office and you’re pregnant and you can’t find anything else to fit, maybe yoga pants are acceptable,” Kat Grif-fin editor of Corporette, a fashion blog, said to the New York Times. “But for everyone else, really, get a pair of pants.”

Hillsdale prides it-self in tradition—we rally together crying, “strength rejoices in the challenge!” Here’s your chal-lenge, Hillsdalians: strip the sweats! And maybe after all this liberal arts education, we might actually get jobs.

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(Dane Skorup)

Morgan DelpSports Editor

Natalie deMacedoAssistant Editor

Walk a mile in her leggings Hillsdale, strip the sweats

Sally NelsonOpinions Editor

The Collegian is hosting a letter competition. Finish the fol-lowing letter and send it to us by Nov. 25. We’ll publish the best letters and award the author of the winning letter with $25.

Dear Joe,We’ve been friends for years. I’ve heard you want to come

to Hillsdale. In case admissions hasn’t told you all about the place, here’s the clearest picture I can give you:

Rules: Complete the above letter in 500 words or less. Please email it to hdalecollegian@gmail.com by Nov. 25. Judging will be by a panel of anonymous students and faculty. Winning let-ters will be printed in The Collegian on Thursday, Dec. 5.

Write letter, win cash

Candidates in Hillsdale’s recent election said that the town has a good relationship with Hillsdale College in the forum on Oct. 22. This left college students wondering: were the candidates spewing political jargon or just misguided?

Hillsdale’s downtown does not have a Hillsdale College sign, poster, or even a hint that there is a school less than a mile down the road. In return, students seldom venture into the city’s shops and restaurants, of which many close before students finish with classes anyway. To solve this, Hillsdale town should work with Hillsdale College.

According to Gary Wolfram, Hill-sdale College Professor in Economics and Public Policy, the college brings in thousands of visitors a year.

But because the city has so little to offer in the way of food, recreation, and entertainment, the college has created an almost completely self-sufficient environment for its students and visitors.

Many of these guests come to campus as wealthy donors to the college. It seems logical that the community would want a piece of the pie, but the city seems uninterested in stepping up its game.

According to the United States Census Bureau’s latest study con-ducted in 2011, only 16 of Hillsdale’s 797 establishments were for the “arts, entertainment, or recreation.” To put this number in more perspective, www.accessmygov.com reports that a meager 2.23 percent of Hillsdale’s budget went towards “recreation and culture” in 2012, while Ann Arbor allocates more than double of that percentage to creating a college town for University of Michigan students.

There is one hotel in Hillsdale, leaving most visitors the option of either staying in the college’s Dow Leadership Center Hotel or in a neighboring town. And for students hoping to study late into the night, or even into the evening, there is no coffee shop or similar gathering place open past 7 p.m. any day of the week. It makes sense that students often say, “Why would I go downtown, there’s nothing to do.” There really is noth-ing to do for a college student; thus, the city doesn’t get their business. Hillsdale offers very little to serve the market the college provides.

Roads were the primary issue in the Nov. 5 election. Town leader-ship thinks that better ones will attract business and foster economic development—in about 260 years. In the meantime, why not make use of the economic resource that’s been here for 150: Hillsdale College. Unfortunately, the current focus is over whether to cut Granicus—the software used to film city council meetings—from the city budget for a bit more road money.

Although every candidate labeled the city-college relationship as good at the forum, then-mayoral candidate Brian Watkins did admit more could be done on the city’s side.

“When it’s Homecoming at Hills-dale College, you shouldn’t be able to come into town and not know that it’s Homecoming,” he said. “I think we could do a much better job at recog-nizing that we have a great college here.”

Newly elected mayor Scott Ses-sions added that he’d like to see stores selling Hillsdale College ap-parel added to the downtown.

Several Hillsdale business owners have successfully tailored their shops to these interests. For example, 8 North owner, Mindi Meyer said her sales have increased by 20 percent since deciding to sell college-aged clothing. And by finding out “what that [the college] demographic would want,” Broad Street Market Ritter said his businesses has increased dramatically.

Hillsdale Director of Economic Development Mary Wolfram explains that few businesses offer goods for the college market partially because there is a lack of students who cur-rently shop downtown.

“All of economic development is like the chicken and the egg,” Mary Wolfram said. “In order for the students to come here, we need busi-nesses they will frequent, but in order to open those businesses, we need students to come to them.”

But the success seen by business owners like Meyer and Ritter shows that if the city takes the initiative to serve the college market that the busi-ness will come.

Mary Wolfram hopes to foster a good city-college relationship. “I would really like to see Hillsdale move from being a town with a col-lege in it to being a college town,” Mary Wolfram said. “Both the college and the town have an interest in being a college town.”

Macaela BennettAssistant Editor

Give us a college town

The corncob in the government’s eye

America is fat.Nearly two-thirds of Americans are

either overweight or obese. At current rates, half of the nation will be mor-bidly fat by 2030. Not only does obe-sity cause many health problems, like heart disease and high blood pressure, but extra pounds also amplify genetic issues like diabetes and cancer.

Politicians seek to girdle the bal-looning obesity problem with aware-ness campaigns and programs that limit access to unhealthy food. Just last Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama introduced a new strategy “to leverage the power of market-ing to promote healthy products and decrease the marketing of unhealthy products to kids.”

But the government is playing a two-faced game by telling people to avoid high-sugar, high-calorie junk food while guaranteeing that food is the cheap. Every year, the government pumps between $2.5 billion and $10 billion into the industry that produces junk food’s secret ingredient: corn. Michelle Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and other politicians demonize the very same junk-food industry they support by driving down corn prices.

Corn fillers and additives are everywhere because subsidized corn has been cheap for decades. When grain prices collapsed due to overpro-duction during the Great Depression, New Deal farm policy established a

system of nonrecourse loans and price target ranges to prevent grain from flooding the market. This continued with relative success until Richard Nixon started feeling political heat from increasing food prices. And so, in 1972, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz birthed the idea of direct pay-ments to farmers. Instead of lending famers money, the government wrote checks. Since then, corn farmers have received the lion’s share of farm subsidies. American can-do kicked in to handle the resulting surpluses and corn ended up in almost everything we eat. Farmers have even begun feeding corn to farmed fish.

“Because of the subsidies, the cost of soft drinks containing [high-fructose corn syrup] has decreased by 24 percent since 1985, while the price of fruits and vegetables has gone up by 39 percent,” said Paolo Boffetta, deputy director of Mount Sinai’s Tisch Cancer Institute.

The legendary Twinkie, for exam-ple, has 37 ingredients. At least 14 of those come directly from corn. Corn products can be found in cookies, can-dies, soda, ice cream, bread, cereal, Pop Tarts, flavored coffee, and more. Corn is the primary ingredient for almost every product marketed as a breakfast food for children, providing them with the all of the empty calories they need for a nutritious breakfast.

Corn also dominates American fast food. The cheap beef and chicken come from corn-fed animals. French fries sizzle in corn oil. Desserts and sodas are sweetened with high-

fructose corn syrup. A study from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu found that almost every product from fast-food chains comes from corn.

“Out of the hundreds of meals that we bought, there were only 12 servings of anything that did not go straight back to a corn source,” said study lead author Hope Jahren.

No single straw broke this obese camel’s back. But the superabundant calories from the highly processed corn in American food certainly added a lot of weight. Food companies isolate corn fructose, or corn sugar, to create HFCS and other popular food additives. But human stomachs cannot process fructose and, consequently, pass it off to the liver. The liver then processes the majority of that content into fats, leading to obesity, liver and heart disease, and diabetes. And the US leads the world in HFCS consumption at 55 pounds per capita every year, reports a study by the University of Southern California and University of Oxford.

“Most populations have an almost insatiable appetite for sweet foods, but regrettably our metabolism has not evolved sufficiently to be able to pro-cess the fructose from high fructose corn syrup in the quantities that some people are consuming it,” said study co-author Stanley Ulijaszek.

The government’s farm policies should reflect its health policies by ending the perverse incentive of corn subsidies. Two weeks ago, the House and Senate conference committee be-gan long-delayed talks to create a new

farm bill by the end of the year. This new bill must stop skewing the market in favor of products made with inexpensive corn additives. To stop undermining its health goals, the White House needs to take an aggressive stance on subsidies, instead of harping on marketing techniques.

The government should take the corncob out of its eye.

More than 30 people filled the usually empty seats at the Nov. 12 city council meeting to witness the swearing in of the new council.

In addition to newly elected Mayor Scott Sessions, three council members, Patrick Flannery (ward IV), Adam Stockford (ward I), and Emily Stack-Davis (ward III), were sworn into Hillsdale’s City Council, taking the seats of William Arnold, Casey Sullivan, and Mary Wolfram respectively.

Outgoing mayor, Doug Moon transferred the seat to Sessions say-ing, “I’m taking my name plate and my gavel and getting out of here. From now on, Mr. Sessions will be known as Mayor Sessions.”

The council’s first order of busi-ness included electing a mayor pro tem, which Sessions’ former may-oral opponent Brian Watkins won in a 5-3 vote.

Due to the council’s limited

agenda, the meeting was adjourned after 35 minutes, what Deputy Fire Chief Paul Ken called a “record” short meeting.

“I’ve been here for 34 years, and this is the shortest meeting I’ve ever seen,” Ken said.

Ken has served the city under nine mayors during his time at the fire department and has high hopes for Sessions.

“There has been a lot of animos-ity between the council and public,” Ken said. “Scott will bring back in-tegrity to the position.”

In a statement during public com-ments, Hillsdale resident Lincoln Miller also complimented Sessions and gave him and the new council members advice.

“[Sessions] is no longer a council member, he is now mayor,” Miller said. “His very active montra about budget cuts being the solution to the street problem needs to be put on hold, and his mayoral obliga-tion is to facilitate creative, open-minded thinking on council. I urge you, Scott to fulfill that high expec-

tation, and I have every belief that you will.”

Miller also complimented Moon, Wolfram, Sullivan, and Hillsdale College Professor in Economics Gary Wolfram for what they did to improve the roads, and he chal-lenged the new council to maintain the streets as their priority.

“I certainly hope Mr. Flannery and Mr. Stockford fully compre-hend the complexity of the chal-lenge ahead of them in street, not just repair, but vast improvement in the fundamental underpinnings of the streets that is necessary,” Miller said.

Before the council adjourned, Flannery and Stockford both ad-dressed Miller, thanking him for his comments and restating their goals as council members included fixing the streets.

“Fixing the streets is number one,” Flannery said. “I just know fixing them is one thing, but getting the funding is another.”

After the meeting, City Manager Linda Brown said she was happy

with the way the first meeting went and looks forward to seeing the agenda the council will put forth in the coming weeks.

Moon added that it will take some time for the new members to adjust to their roles on council and form an agenda.

“Think about a blind date with eight other people,” Moon said de-scribing the first council meeting. “It’s awkward enough with only one other person. And in order to form an agenda, they will have to real-ize they won’t be able to change the world just because they say so.”

During the meeting, Hillsdale resident Ted Jansen also addressed the controversy about whether or not Ruth Brown’s position on city council is in a conflict of interest because she also serves on the city commission. Jansen said that the Michigan Attorney General’s opin-ion states that it is not, because the contract between the council and commission is between two public entities, which the law allows.

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Macaela BennettAssistant Editor

City council swears in newly elected members

A meeting on the new federal healthcare law turned tense when residents began asking questions about how Obamacare will benefit them.

The Health Insurance Mar-ketplace, which is called an “ex-change” in the ACA but commonly referred to as a marketplace, is an online “mega mall” where U.S. citizens can compare and purchase health care policies which comply with the ACA. Brett Williams from Michigan Consumers for Health-care told Hillsdale residents Thurs-day that it should be understood as an “avenue of competitive market-ing between insurance companies” and not a “form of national health-care.”

More than 80 Hillsdale residents attended a Nov. 7 town hall at Pe-rennial Park Senior Center in Hill-sdale to better understand the ACA and Health Insurance Marketplace. Williams explained the history of the healthcare debate, how Obam-aCare affects specifically Michigan residents, and where Michiganders can find resources for understand-ing the changes in their insurance policies.

After the presentation, a few res-idents said that while they appreci-ated the new information, they still didn’t fully understand the purpose of the ACA and Health Insurance

Marketplace.“We’re all frustrated,” Hillsdale

resident Laurie Stewart said. “I feel like the ad for the event was kind of deceiving, because I still don’t un-derstand what’s going on. There’s a lot of smoke surrounding the whole thing.”

Many other residents expressed similar doubts to those of Stewart during Williams’ presentation, ask-ing questions like why women over the age of 50 are now required to purchase insurance policies that in-clude maternity care.

Williams answered that mater-nity care is one of the 10 essential b e n e f i t s that ev-ery insur-ance policy starting in 2014 must cover. He added that customers can choose the amount of coverage they want by decid-ing between bronze, silver, gold, or platinum policies on the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Williams’ presentation also cov-ered the history of healthcare and the purpose of reforming it. He said that reform is necessary because healthcare costs could reach 30 per-cent of the gross domestic product within the next decade if the coun-try does nothing.

“We’re not going to talk poli-tics, because I’m just the mailman,”

Williams said to begin the presen-tation. “Check that at the door, be-cause this is law.”

Williams said regardless of one’s political affiliation, healthcare re-form is beneficial for families and small businesses because it keeps rates competitive, ensures people will no longer be turned down for coverage, and regulates the amount of money companies can use for administrative and marketing costs.

“The Affordable Care Act wants to prevent care before it happens. That’s why government healthcare is important,” Williams said. “It’s a proactive approach.”

Wi l l i a m s also attempt-ed to dispel c o m m o n myths about ObamaCare.

“ W h o ’ s heard that the ACA is more than 2,000 pages long?”

Williams asked. “That’s a myth. It’s only 960. It’s a great read. And when compared to Harry Potter, it’s really not that long.”

He also said Congress has not excluded themselves from the ACA, stating that they actually have more stringent guidelines. Williams admitted that despite its many benefits, there are still “tough politics” involved in implementing the ACA.

“I’m not going to lie to anyone,” Williams said. “There are taxes in-

volved.”He said taxes will increase for

those in the higher income brackets as well as for companies who pro-duce goods to sell to hospitals, and tanning salons.

Williams also addressed the shortcomings of the HeathCare.gov website saying that, while the government trouble shoots the site, people can still enroll over the phone or using paper forms.

In an interview after the presen-tation, Williams said he hoped that everyone took away a full under-standing of the law and how it will affect them and their families.

“There are issues when they don’t know that the law isn’t the same as how it’s portrayed in the media,” Williams said.

He added that many small busi-nesses he has presented to have been very positive about the law. Some residents still seemed doubt-ful of the ACA’s benefits though.

“I just got the notification that the policy I’ve had for 14 years is can-celed, and I have to change before Dec. 1,” Hillsdale resident Mary Houtz said. “With ObamaCare, the price of my insurance jumped from $350 to $1,400 a month, and now I have to add all this stuff I don’t need. This is ridiculous. I just need something to cover my husband and I.”

Steward agreed. “Is it going to be worth it in the long run? I don’t know.”

Hillsdale residents question ObamaCare at town hall

A Few Good Men will host a commu-nity-building dinner “A Few Good Pan-cakes” on Nov. 18 from 5 until 8 p.m. at Hillsdale Free Methodist Church. The event will include live music, breakfast food, and an opportunity to become more involved with AFGM. A $5 donation is ap-preciated with admission.

“The goal,” Anna Shoffner, AFGM director of communications said, “is to spread the vision of A Few Good Men and inform the community about A Few Good Men, giving them an opportunity to be-come involved.”

AFGM Executive Director Ben Holscher will give a presentations at 5:30 and 7 p.m., and students will have the op-portunity to join with AFGM to provide volunteer support.

“We want to invite business leaders, teachers, church members and neighbors to be a part of the AFGM team on the giv-ing side and not just the receiving side,” AFGM Institutional Advancement Officer Brianna Walden said. “We are asking peo-ple to partner with us to serve on a crew, protect those we help by joining our fol-low-up ministry, or give financially to sup-port the needs of the community through AFGM.”

In addition to getting more community involvement in the organization itself, AFGM officers hope to raise a substan-tial amount of money to be able to move forward on pending projects. So whether you’re hungry for pancakes or hungry to become more involved in the Hillsdale community, “A Few Good Pancakes” by AFGM will surely satisfy.

“If each person leaves with a resolve to do their part,” Holscher said, “then we will be a giant step closer to breaking out of the spiral of depression, poverty, and in some cases moral bankruptcy that we find our-selves in today.”

Broad Street Market to open basement bar, event venue

Vanished Hillsdale

The Hillsdale Skirmishers was a group of Hillsdale high school students who touted the merits of a military education. The Skirmishers banded together at the turn of the 19th century and into the 20th century.

According to the Hillsdale Histori-cal Society, On May 31, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt made a train stop in Hillsdale. At the time, the Secret Service was still new and not adequately prepared for its role as protector of the president. Hillsdale’s Skirmishers rose to the chal-lenge when given the task of protect-ing the president and “securing the site around the train.”

Later, a Hillsdale High School student by the name of Stanley Bryan started a news magazine published by students at the high school. The magazine, titled “The Skirmisher,” was published in honor of the original Hillsdale Skirmishers and their role in the Hillsdale Community. “The Skirmisher” is pictured above.

-Compiled by Abi Wood

“I feel like the ad for the event was kind of deceiving, because I still

don’t understand what’s going on. There’s a lot of smoke surrounding

the whole thing.”— Resident Laurie Stewart

Scott Sessions is the newly elected mayor of Hillsdale, Mich. Interview complied by Taylor Knopf.

How does it feel to be mayor?It feels good. I’ve been a little

nervous lately, but I’m very excit-ed. I think the first council meet-ing went pretty good.

Moving into this new council session, what are your top three priorities at the moment?

Getting council to work togeth-er is one of the priorities. Like councilperson Patrick Flannery said, we are going to meet and go over some goals, which I think is a good thing and we are going to do that in the next few weeks. I think

by working on the goals, that will lead us where we are going to go. Fixing the streets is one of the those goals and working on the blight issue as well. I want to talk to council and get their feedback on what they want to do. I’m here for them. I want us to all work together. That’s the main thing—I want to listen to them and hear what they have to say.

What did your son, former mayor Michael Sessions, say about your election to mayor? Did he give you any advice?

He was very happy. The last couple weeks, him and I went door-to-door together. And so he came to Hillsdale and helped me in the last few weeks, because I got behind with the forum and stuff. I had to play catch up and he helped me.

Is there anything you want to say to the people of Hillsdale?

Thank you to everyone who supported me and voted for me. I really appreciate all their support. Everybody has been wonderful.

ScottSeSSionS

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A Few Good Men to host pancake

breakfast fundraiserVivian HughbanksCollegian Reporter

(Shaun Lichti/Collegian)

Macaela BennettAssistant Editor

The Skirmishers

Broad Street Market’s base-ment is currently a large cement room with a shuffleboard in the middle. By next year, the own-ers hope to have the space trans-formed into a bar and event hall.

Located in downtown Hills-dale, the market sells specialized foods items, deli items, alcoholic beverages, and provides catering and dine-in services. The idea to include a bar has been a dream of co-owner Mick Ridder for a long time.

“He’s been looking forward to something like this for quite some time,” co-owner Robert Sa-cho said. “The first time we went down there, we couldn’t stop talk-ing about the possibilities. Now we’re getting all our pieces in place to make it happen.”

Sacho said that they hope to start the project in January and

have it open by April.“There’s a lot of work that

needs to be done, so the timing’s very dependent on a lot of things,” Ridder said.

Ritter and Sacho are looking to build a bar, a bathroom, another exit from the b a s e m e n t , and additional parking near the separate e n t r a n c e . They also hope to con-nect the two parts of their basement that are currently closed off by a wall. The smaller, adjoining part would ideally become a game room with a pool table, table tennis, and shuffleboard.

Despite all these changes, they do want to preserve the base-ment’s cement walls and embrace the industrial look.

Socha said they are aiming for

a speakeasy-type of atmosphere.“My wife and I are both very

excited,” Socha said. “We both love to dance. You’ll be able to eat dinner upstairs and go dance downstairs. We want to keep peo-ple in Hillsdale, and right now,

there aren’t re-ally any places around Hills-dale where you can do that.”

He said they will establish regular Thurs-day through Saturday hours where people

18 and up will be “welcome to hang out, dance, and just have a good time.”

Socha said he envisions having students from Hillsdale perform either live music or theater per-formances at night.

In addition to the weekend hours, the basement will also be available to rent for special events

for around 200 people.This summer, Broad Street

hosted its first event in the base-ment, which was a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the fourth of July.

Manager Kristen Aho, Hills-dale alumna `13, said she thinks the addition will be successful based on the amount of customers the market already has.

“There’s a great demographic for it here. The college has a lot of dance clubs, improv groups, and bands. This will be a great, relaxed atmosphere for them to perform at,” she said.

Ridder has great aspirations for the place.

“The hope is that it helps con-nect the community and the col-lege more. It already feels like it does that a little,” Ridder said.

“Talking with people from around town or students or staff, and getting to know them over a great beer or great glass of wine is my favorite part of this place.”

Sam ScorzoAssistant Editor

“The college has a lot of dance clubs, improv groups, and bands. This will be a great,

relaxed atmosphere for them to perform at.”

— Manager Kristen Aho ’13

They finished eighth in the meet.

“Disappointed might be too strong of a word, but its in the right direction,” Butler said. “We all felt that we all could have done better and should have done better.”

Butler led Hillsdale’s run-ners with 800 meters to go. A Wayne State University runner tripped him up, however, and he tumbled to the ground, cutting his arm, leg, and back. He got up and kept running, but was unable to catch back up to the Wayne runner.

Junior Joshua Mirth, who was the sole representative of Hillsdale College at last year’s national meet, kicked Butler down with 100 meters left and finished first for the Chargers in 38th at a time of 32:38. Butler followed two spots and four seconds later.

Newcomb, 51st, finished next in 32:55, and junior Luke Hick-man, 63rd, and freshman Luke Daigneault, 80th, rounded out Hillsdale’s top five.

A lower leg injury knocked junior Matt Perkins off of Satur-day’s roster. This is the second

year in a row injury kept him from competing at regionals. Se-nior captain Matt Van Egmond replaced him.

Although the team ran short of what they wanted this year, Van Egmond said it still marked an improvement from last year.

“Last year we had to have a great day to place 9th at region-als,” Van Egmond said. “This year we had a poor day and placed 8th. We’re on a different level physically than we were last year.”

Unlike McCaffrey, Van Eg-mond will run track for Hillsdale next semester. This does mark the end of this cross-country year, however.

“I sat back at the end of the season and really tried to appreciate being part of every-thing,” he said. “It wasn’t the greatest day to go out on, but I’ve enjoyed it along the way.”

Although the 2013 season ended somewhere near disap-pointing, Butler said he’s opti-mistic for the future.

“Now that we’ve shifted into our new competition paradigm, I’m optimistic about what hap-pens next,” he said.

Emily Oren ‘16

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BOX SCORES

Three players scored in double figures for the Hillsdale College women’s basket-ball team as the Chargers defeated Olivet in an exhibition game by a final score of 81-68.

Junior Megan Fogt had a double-double for her third consecutive game, tallying 12 points and 14 rebounds. Senior Angela Bisaro added 18 points and junior Brooke Borowski put in 13, including three three-pointers.

After a slow start in which Olivet put up seven unanswered points to start the game, the Chargers went on a 23-5 run to go up by 11 with 10:46 remaining in the first half. The team never looked back.

The game against Olivet on Tuesday night came three days after the Chargers played back-to-back in Austin, Texas. The team dropped both games, 80-70 to St. Edwards on Friday night, and 64-56 against Central Oklahoma on Saturday night. The Chargers won many of the important statistical battles, including field goal percentage and rebounds, in both games. Playing against St. Edwards, senior Marissa DeMott scored 24 points, including six three-pointers on just 11 attempts.

“[DeMott] is a shooter,” head coach Claudette Charney said. “She can shoot it from the arc and is an experienced

player.”“I really had a good flow of the game,”

DeMott said about her performance. Unfortunately, the team’s good shooting and rebounding were marred by turn-overs and fouls. The two main things that the Chargers will take away from their back-to-back stint in Austin are protect-ing the ball and being more careful on the defensive end.

“We’ve got to clean up the turnovers,” Charney said. The team committed a total of 57 turnovers during the two games, leading to 48 points for their opponents.

“We need to reduce our turnovers, and we need to stop fouling,” Fogt remarked. The Chargers’ opposition drew a total of 68 free-throw attempts, converting 58 of them.

The increase in fouls can be partly attributed to a change in emphasis for referees this season in the NCAA. The NCAA has enacted rules to help increase offensive production as the national scor-ing average has been dropping recently.

“The rules are changed a little bit to not allow so much contact and physicality,” Charney said. “Every game is going to be different and our players have to adjust in the game on the fly.”

Next weekend, the Chargers will travel to Springfield, Ill. for another back-to-back against two non-conference oppo-nents, McKendree and Ill.-Springfield, before opening their conference schedule at Northwood on Dec. 5.

Nathaniel MeadowcroftCollegian Freelancer

Sophomore Sarah Theut drives to the bas-ket against Olivet. (Carsten Stann/Collegian)

Women’s basketball beats Olivet

The Chargers started off their regular season with four missed field goals. By the end of their 2013 season opener, the Charger offense was firing on all cylinders. They dominated Lourdes University in their first game of the season, winning by a final score of 88-64.

As a team, Hillsdale shot nearly 50 percent from the field and converted 11 of their 27 attempted three-pointers, including a stretch during the first half when they made seven straight from beyond the arc.

Senior Tim Dezelski had an especially

good game, scoring a team high 22 points on 8-11 shooting and converting four of his seven attempts from downtown.

The Chargers also shot 85.2 percent from the stripe (23-27) and scored 23 points off of 19 Lourdes’ turnovers.

After Lourdes jumped out to an early 16-11 lead, the Chargers reeled off a 24-8 run capped off by a Cody Smith three-pointer to go up by 11 with 6:58 remaining in the first half. Lourdes cut into the deficit by halftime, reducing it to 42-35 at the break.

The Chargers responded by going on a 19-7 run to start the second half, increasing their lead to 19 with 14:07 remaining. The team slowly increased their lead throughout the rest of the game, providing some daz-zling offensive plays along the way.

Sophomore transfer Garrett Jones demon-strated his skill by converting two beautiful drives to the basket in which he cut through multiple defenders and put in the layup. Then with 1:06 remaining in the game, sophomore Kyle Cooper got the crowd going by dunking home an alley-oop pass from beyond the three point line, scoring what turned out to be the Chargers’ final two points. It was a fitting way to cap off a great performance in the team’s opening game.

The Chargers play next on Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. against Cedarville in Jesse Phillips Arena, looking to build off of a strong start to the season and put another tally in the win column.

MEN’S BASKETBALL TROUNCES LOURDES

Volleyball tops Michigan Tech

The Hillsdale College vol-leyball team beat Michigan Tech University on Saturday, guaran-teeing them a spot in the GLIAC tournament. Hillsdale started off the first set against the Huskies with a 3-0 lead but quickly fell behind. They managed to come back from being down 16-21 to tie the set 21-21, but eventually lost 22-25. “We started off a little bit shaky,” junior Bailey Lindner said, “but we were just sick of losing.” Hillsdale dominated the rest of the game, winning the second set 25-11, the third set 25-17, and the fourth set 25-20. Redshirt-junior Lindsay Kostrzewa had 10 block assists and eight kills. “I had been struggling a little,” Kostrzewa said, “but I told myself ‘you need to stop the opponent or somebody else is going to do it for you.’” Going into the game against Michigan Tech, Hillsdale was coming off of a five-set loss to Northern Michigan University on Friday night. Hillsdale came out strong in the first set against Northern Michigan, winning 25-13. How-ever, in the second set, Hillsdale lost by nearly the same margin, 15-25. “We were pretty inconsis-tent,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “At this point in the season, you hope you can be more con-sistent than what we provided. It

ended up costing us.” Hillsdale lost the third set 20-25, but came back to win the fourth set 25-18. Going into the fifth set, the Chargers had momentum and started off the set 2-0. In that rally, Northern Michigan’s libero was injured, and the game was delayed until NMU determined

that she was able to continue playing. “That definitely took away our momentum,” Kostrzewa said. “We had all the energy and momentum, but you can’t recre-ate exactly what you had before. That was unfortunate.” After their libero recovered, Northern Michigan took the

next five points, and they only allowed Hillsdale to win one point before scoring four more to bring the score to 9-3. At this point, the score went back and forth between the two teams one point at a time until Northern Michigan won the match 15-9. “They had nothing to lose and played with no qualms and no fear. We didn’t,” Lindner said. Lindner was recently named to the Capital One CoSIDA Aca-demic All-District First-Team. The list, released by the Colle-giate Sports Information Direc-tors of America Organization, said it recognizes “the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances athleti-cally and in the classroom.” “The key to balancing the two is setting short-term goals,” Lindner said. “It’s the only way to do it without getting really overwhelmed.” Hillsdale plays its last two home games of the regular season this weekend. They will face Ferris State University, ranked second in the conference and region, on Friday at 7 p.m. The Chargers will then match up against the Grand Valley State University Lakers, who are ranked number one in the con-ference and region on Saturday at 5 p.m. “The goal is to have four good practices. So far we have had some good and some bad, and it’s been the same in our matches,” Gravel said. “We have to prove we can show up everyday. If we do, we can win.”

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Football

Hillsdale College: 27Michigan Tech: 30

Scoring Plays

Isaac Spence 1 yd run (Steven Mette kick)Andrew Mott 31 yd from Sam Landry (Mette kick)Mette 35 yd field goalSpence 2 yd run (Mette kick)Mette 36 yd field goal

Weekly Leaders

Rushing:Jack Wiseman 15-88Wade Wood 11-56Isaac Spence 13-45Passing:Landry 22-39-1-229Receiving:Evan Bach 6-90Mott 4-53Tackels:Tim Moinet 8-4Daniel Pittman 8-2Sacks:Zach Swaffer 1-7

Volleyball

Hillsdale College: 3Michigan Tech: 1

Hillsdale College: 2Northern Michigan: 3

Season Leaders

Kills:Emily Wolfert (259)Caitlin Kopmeyer (169)

Lindsay Kostrzewa (155)

Assists:Alexis Waugh (500)Marissa Owen (466)Digs:Caitlin Kopmeyer (331)Sydney Lenhart (296)

Men’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 88Lourdes: 64

Season Scoring Leaders

Tim Dezelski 22Brandon Pritzl 16Kyle Cooper 11Jason Pretzer 9Tony Nelson 8

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College:81Olivet:68

Hillsdale College: 56Central Oklahoma: 64

Hillsdale College: 70Austin, Texas: 80

Season Scoring Leaders

Megan Fogt 39Marissa DeMott 32Angela Bisaro 29Brooke Borwoski 25Ashlynn Landher 17

Sophomore Emily Wolfert (left) and redshirt-junior Lind-say Kostrzewa (right) block a hit from their opponents last weekend. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Chargers bounce back from five-set loss to NMU

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Junior Joshua Mirth placed first for the Hillsdale men’s cross-country team in the regional meet last weekend. The men came in eighth overall, while the women’s team placed third. This qualifies the women for the national meet in Washington State. (Photo Courtesy of Sarah Hickman)

It took two overtimes for the Michigan Tech University Huskies to finally defeat the persistent Hillsdale Chargers on Saturday. With a four yard run by quarterback Tyler Scarlett, the Huskies did just that, winning 30-27.

Michigan Tech jumped out to an early lead in the first drive of the game. In under three minutes, Scarlett found the endzone with an eight-yard touchdown pass to receiver Ian Wienke.

The Huskies went on to control much of the rest of the game, forcing key turnovers to stunt Char-ger drives, and even blocking a kick in the third quarter. The Charger offense, however, moved the ball effectively throughout the game. Using a three-back rotation, the team broke the 200-yard mark on the ground for the first time this season. Redshirt-freshman Jack Wiseman led the Charger backfield with 88 yards on 15 attempts in his third week as a featured back.

Nonetheless, the Chargers had difficulty putting points on the scoreboard. They struggled on third down, converting only 28 percent of the time. The offense also turned the ball over each of the first two quarters, both in Husky territory. Sophomore Wade Wood lost a fumble on the Chargers’ first drive. In the second quarter, senior Sam Landry threw a rare interception, only his third this season.

Down 17-7 late in the fourth quarter, the Char-gers mounted a dazzling comeback with pivotal performances on both sides of the ball.

Landry orchestrated a 90-yard touchdown drive in which he went seven for 10 with 83 yards pass-ing to put the ball in the endzone with 2:38 left in the game. Junior Evan Bach, offensive player of

the game, made two vital first down catches, the second on fourth and one.

Down by three, 17-14, the Charger defense forced a quick three and out to put the ball back in Landry’s hands. The Chargers started from their own ten yard line for the second time in as many drives. This time, the resilient squad marched the ball down to the 18-yard line in just more than a minute. Redshirt-freshman Steven Mette tied the game from 35 yards out with 0:58 left in regula-tion.

The two teams exchanged touchdowns in the first overtime. Scarlett marched in a one-yard score for the Huskies, while senior Isaac Spence punched it in from two yards out. The Chargers began the second overtime period with the ball. Mette successfully booted in a 36-yard field goal to give the Chargers their first lead of the game. The Huskies responded with a decisive touchdown drive and escaped town with a victory.

Head coach Keith Otterbein explained that “every week there’s a different thing that stops you from winning a football game.”

He praised his team, saying, “We’ve been ready. We’ve played hard.” A loss after two overtimes and a brilliant comeback has a way of highlighting the narrow line between a loss and a victory.

The Chargers look to end the season on a positive note at 1 p.m. this Saturday against the Northwood University Timberwolves at Muddy Waters Stadium. The Timberwolves are coming off their sixth straight loss, a 42-10 defeat at the hands of Ferris State. Otterbein said that down to this final game of the season, the Chargers will “stay the course,” sticking to their philosophy and their fundamental approach of leaving the football field with a win.

Garrett Jones is a sophomore on the men’s basketball team. He transferred to Hillsdale this year from the University of New Hampshire. Jones has already seen time on the court as a point guard. He is adjust-ing to Hillsdale’s academics and is planning to major in sports psychology.

Was Hillsdale one of your original options before choos-ing the University of New Hampshire?

Before I went to the Univer-sity of New Hampshire, I was looking into going to Loyola

because I got a scholarship to play basketball there. They were in the process of getting new coaches so I kind of waited it out at New Hampshire. They were the last to offer so I took a visit out there and made the decision to go there.

How did you come to find Hillsdale?

Coach Kowalczyk at the Uni-versity of Toledo. I contacted him to ask for help; I con-tacted a lot of people, coaches, teammates, friends and got in contact with him. He put me in contact with Coach Tharp. I came at the end of April for a visit here and made my deci-sion.

How have you adjusted to Hillsdale academically and socially?

It’s a big adjustment because the University of New Hamp-shire had around 14,000 students while here there are about 1,500. It’s a huge adjust-ment socially, but academically Hillsdale is a little tougher- you have to push through it.

What is your favorite aspect of the college so far?

Basically the relationships because, even though I’ve only been here for about two months, I have gained great relationships outside just my teammates: the women’s bas-ketball team, regular students, people in the dorms. Basically you know everyone on campus, which is a good feeling.

What is the most surprising aspect of Hillsdale for you?

I have met many people from different areas in the country. I didn’t expect I would be with people from California or Seattle. I have never seen that many people from the West Coast come to a school in the Midwest because of the differ-ent environment. Because in a couple of weeks here there will be snow and they could have stayed in sunny California.

How have you gelled with the team?

Pretty well. They have had open arms with everything. We recently got back from our road trip this past weekend. It was a great experience playing at Toledo and playing at Indiana. It was great being around them

and also the coaches and the whole team in that environ-ment.

How did you feel stepping out onto the court at Assembly Hall?

It was a different experience. One of my closest friends almost went there to play basketball and he’s told me stories about being there. For me, it was just a surreal feeling. I have never in my life thought I would be playing basketball there or even play against Indiana. I was kind of, not star-struck, but I was just gazing about how big the building is and how many people they can pack into that gym. It gets very loud, but it was a great experi-ence.

You have been starting as a point guard in the exhibition games, how has that experi-ence been for you?

It’s a different transition. At the University of New Hampshire, I was on-ball and off-ball. I wasn’t playing that much point, but coming here it is an easier transition mainly because the coaches and team encourage me to make sure I

do certain moves, make certain movements, and get everyone involved. It’s a good transition.

How would you describe your playing style?

I am more of a creator. I’m not necessarily the “shoot-first” person. I enjoy passing the ball to teammates and creating plays to get them open. I like to pass first and then look for my shot after I get them open.

What is the most nerve-wracking part of the game for you?

Because I took off the whole last year, I was nervous for our first possession, but as the game continued the nerves went away and I focused in.

Do you have any pregame

rituals or superstitions?

I wear socks that are labeled “left” and “right.” I always put on the left sock first because with wins and losses, the wins go to the left and the losses go to the right, so I always put on the left one first.

What are your goals for the team this season?

For our team, we want to win our conference and then hope-fully make a good run in the tournament for Division II. I believe we can do that.

-Compiled by Sarah Klopfer

14 November 2013

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FOOTBALL LOSES HEARTBREAKER

The Hillsdale women’s swim team winning percentage for this season jumped from zero to over .500 within a 24-hour period, as they notched four wins in this past weekend’s meets.

On Friday night, the Char-gers hosted and topped Albion College (111-103) and Tiffin University (128-47). The Char-gers capped off their successful weekend the following morning as they beat both Olivet (165-44) and Ohio Northern University (131-87).

The Chargers took first place in almost all their events on Friday night. Sophomore Zoe Hopkins kicked off the winning streak for the Chargers, taking the 1000 free in 10:58.05. Junior Rachel Kurtz, swimming her longest event, won the 200 free in 1:59.73. Sophomore Alissa Jones led a 1-2-3 sweep for the Chargers in the 50 free, coming home in 25.93.

Freshman Emily Balog next won the 200 IM in 2:15.93, and was followed by sophomore Jen-nifer Wheeler, who dominated the field in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:14.93. Junior Ali Bauer came out on top in

two events, winning the 100 free in 56.26 and the 200 breast in 2:33.23. Freshman Emily Shall-man rounded out the win for the Chargers, taking the 500 free in 5:24.72.

The Chargers capitalized on Friday’s wins and carried the success into Saturday as they beat both of their opponents. The Chargers won every single free-style event, with Wheeler taking the 1000 in 11:01.73, Shallman the 200 in 2:01.37, Kurtz both the 50 and 100 in 24.98 and 54.67 respectively. Also, sopho-more Naofa Noll, freshman Kylie Powrie, senior Hayley Johnson, and Kurtz won the 400 freestyle relay in 3:44.98.

Hillsdale’s depth paid off helped in two events they didn’t win, namely the 200 IM with Bauer and Noll going 2-3, and the 100 butterfly, with Shallman, sophomore Hannah Leitner, and senior Alison Johnson going 2-3-4. Hillsdale’s depth was especially pronounced in one of its stronger areas, breaststroke, as junior Cayley Cruickshank, Balog, Bauer, and senior Kate Smith managed to go 1-2-3-4 in the 100 breast.

Kurtz had a great weekend. Despite still being slightly sick, she managed to win every one of her events.

Kurtz said she is happy with how things are going this season and that she wants to avenge her disappointment from last year when she missed going to nationals in the 50 free by .01 seconds, a tantalizingly small amount of time. She also said she is looking forward to the Chicago Invite, where the com-petition will be stiff and where everybody will be gunning for fast times.

Head coach Kurt Kirner was very happy with the four wins from the weekend.

“We had a chance to swim around different events, and we had some really good times considering that the girls are training very hard right now and are fatigued,” he said.

The girls will next swim at Malone.

“We have a strong rivalry with Findlay, and our main goal for our meet at Malone is to beat them,” Kirner said.

Following Malone, the team will travel to Chicago for the most important meet prior to GLIACs. They will rest briefly before the meet, swimming slightly less and easing off the weights. Until then though, they will stick to their rigorous train-ing schedule and keep working hard.

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Senior quarterback Sam Landry hands off the ball to junior Alex Fogt in Saturday’s thriller versus Michigan Technological University. (Carsten Stann/Collegian)

Sophomore Zoe Hopkins takes a breath mid-stroke in a free style race last week-end. The Chargers went undefeated at home. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Swimming clobbers four teams in homestand Second-half rally falls short in 2OT

Shakespeare, Milton, and Austen are dead. We killed them. They are be-ing killed in public schools across the country because of the standardization of the Common Core, according to Ter-rence Moore, assistant professor of his-tory.

Moore recently published his new book, “The Story-killers: A Com-mon Sense Case Against the Common Core,” which addresses the issue of the implementation of the Common Core in the American educational system. Moore’s book specifically addresses the way the new core reinvents the way teachers present literature.

“The common core is a testing and curriculum regime which has taken over 45 states in the nation,” Moore said. “It is a coup over the entire na-tional education system.”

According to the website “Hoosiers Against Common Core,” the core was established “to develop a set of aca-demic standards to be used in common across all states. The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English language arts and mathematics. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace exist-ing state standards in these subject areas.”

Moore is featured on the website, as he has done a lot of work in opposition to the Common Core in Indiana.

Moore, an Indiana native, said that the standard was passed in 2010. Since then, the core has become an increasingly politi-cal issue taking place at the state level.

“It passed with very little public discussion,” Moore said. “Nobody knew what was going on, and that was by design.”

He has testified before three state legislative committees on the issue.

“I’m trying to help people be able to

articulate what is wrong with the com-mon core,” Moore said.

The core standards implemented throughout the country are replac-ing classic authors with modern au-thors, multicultural authors, and “in-formational texts,” which are basically government forms. Moore said that the English stan-dards of the core will replace the literature, diminish the amount read, and increase the amount of these in-

formational texts. “That’s the kind of stuff that’s going

to replace Shakespeare, Melville, Jane Austen,” Moore said. “When I say re-place, I’m assuming the schools are ac-tually reading that, which is usually not

the case anyway.”The core also eliminates religious

texts and authors, such as the Bible, Augustine, Milton, and John Winthrop.

“In my mind that’s not education,” Moore said. “It is, first of all, just silly. Secondly, it’s actually programming. The more you look into the standards and the things that they want taught, the more you can see that it is biased politically. In modern political terms, there is a deliberate undermining of the Founding Fathers and the Constitu-tion.”

In his book, Moore looks into how the core effects literature in schools, and how it is taught.

“The book goes into all of the as-sumptions and what the Common Core is trying to do,” Moore said. “It goes into the classroom and shows how they want lessons to be taught. They’re against liberal education, and they’re

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screening Sarah Gerber ’10 will be screening her recently-released documentary,

“The Way Back To Yarasquin” Friday Nov.15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hames room of the Sage Center for the Arts. The film features Mayra Orellana-Powell, a woman from rural Honduras whose life is grounded in coffee. The film follows Orellana-Powell as she moves to the United States for an education and ends up starting a business called Catracha Coffee Compa-ny. The film focuses on the difficulty and beauty of crossing cultures with the uniting bridge of family, relationships, and coffee. The event is co-sponsored by the Dow Journalism Program and the art department. There will be a presentation of the documentary, as well as refreshments and an opportunity to meet the filmmaker afterward.

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“Making Special” is not a typical name for an art display, but senior art major Tommy Lundberg said it fits his senior art show perfectly.

“People naturally just want to make something, to make art,” Lundberg said. “Professor Bushey called that instinct ‘making special.’ I’m just a continuation of that.”

Lundberg will be showing over 50 pieces of his artwork from his time in the Hillsdale art department in his solo se-nior art show. The show will be open Nov. 18 through 22 in the Daughtry Art Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts.

With a focus on drawing and illustration, Lundberg’s art-work has a distinct style, mixing mediums and bold lines. He said his favorite subjects are taken from what he and every-one around him see everyday but drawn in a new fashion or with a different twist.

One of his collections called, “My Town,” features draw-ings of recognizable buildings and landmarks in Hillsdale. Within this collection, Lundberg has a drawing of Hills-dale’s courthouse. He used pencil, marker, and watercolor to create the finished product.

“I like to trick people,” Lundberg said. “My favorite compliment as an artist is for people to look at my work and say ‘How did you do that?’”

Professor of Art Samuel Knecht said Lundberg has an eye for good composition and bold contrast as well as a good connection to his audience.

When asked what he would miss most about Lundberg when he graduates, Knecht said: “His good cheer. Tommy has good character traits typified by persistence and determi-nation to succeed.”

Originally, Lundberg came to Hillsdale intending to be an economics major, but, by the end of his sophomore year, his love for art and his passion for creativity caused him to switch to an art major, despite many people urging him to pick a more “practical” major.

“I think that many times people forget that whatever you choose to do in college and in life, it’s not the thing itself that will determine whether you are going to be successful or not,” Lundberg said. “It’s the time and the effort you put into it.”

Despite horror stories of starving artists, Lundberg re-mains undaunted by his choice to pursue a major in art, es-pecially since he has the support of his family behind him.

Kate Lundberg ‘10, his older sister, was also an alumna art major of Hillsdale College and said she is proud of her little brother. She said she encourages him to find what he loves to do.

“I’m really happy that I could go before him and show him that people really can do a job that they love and get to do day in and day out.” Kate Lundberg said.

With the support of his family and his determination to succeed, Tommy Lundberg said he doesn’t think getting a job after college will be any more difficult for him than oth-ers.

“You could say good luck getting a job to history majors, or English majors, or science majors,” he said. “Everything we do, there are thousands of other people trying to do the same thing. You’ve just got to be a step ahead of them and work harder than them and you’ll be good.”

But despite the competition and the challenge,Tommy Lundberg said he looks forward to graduation and continu-ing to “make special” despite the hardships in the art world.

“It’s a challenge, but it’s a fun challenge,” he said.

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For the first time in more than 10 years, the Hillsdale College Theatre Department is updating its student publication “Our Students Speak,” a booklet with a combination of blurbs, quotations, and photographs from recent theatre productions for those interested in learning more about the department.

Junior theatre major Aaron Pomer-antz, guided by Professors of Theatre George Angell and James Brandon, is compiling the new edition, gathering quotations and bios from the students in the department, and choosing the best, recent photos to include in the booklet.

“I have been in the program for three years and I only know one of the names in the current booklet out of about 11. It actually starts to alien-ate when it gets that old,” Pomerantz said. “All the students I’m including still attend, and I’ll include pictures from the past few years of shows.”

The theatre department produce “Our Students Speak” to give poten-tial students a better understanding of the department and to show what kind of productions they have recent-ly put on. Senior theatre major Kyra Moss noted that, as a student publi-cation, “Our Student’s Speak” offers easily accessible student insight into the program.

“Aaron asked that everyone share our thoughts about the theatre de-partment, so students who are inter-ested can find out what our students think who are part of it,” Moss said. “I think it’ll help give people insight from a student perspective, which they’d otherwise only get by talking to students on campus.”

Though intended for an audience of prospective students, “Our Stu-dents Speak” likely will increase gen-eral knowledge on campus about the theatre department, Moss said.

“I think the updated pamphlet will

help people to hear about the depart-ment” junior theatre major Jennifer Shadle said. “I did theatre in high school, but never thought of it as a career or major, but I think this pam-phlet shows it as a legitimate aca-demic field and that we actually have a really good program here.”

While Pomerantz and Shadle are both theatre majors, Pomerantz plans to approach the publication so it en-compasses the whole department, es-pecially the large portion of students who are neither majors nor minors, but want to be –– and can be –– in-volved in the productions.

In the same way it features stu-dents from multiple aspects of the theatre production world, even those that regularly receive less of the di-rect spotlight.

“It’ll show that it’s not just about showing actors you see performing, but to shall all sides of our theater department,” Pomerantz said. “Our techies are fundamental to the whole productions and there are audience members, and even actors, who don’t even seem to realize how important these people are.”

The photographs will likely focus on former theatre productions in their final form, but these photos will show the flexibility and aptitude of the the-atre department.

Pomerantz said it should show that the department is both diverse and well-established, despite their rela-tively small program.

“I think the pamphlet will help ev-eryone to have visuals because then they can see, ‘wow, these are legit costumes,’” Moss said. “I think it’ll show the positive qualities of our pro-gram and how many students aren’t majors or minors but enjoy taking a class or two when they have time and audition for all the plays.”

The new edition of “Our Students Speak” is estimated to be completed by the end of the Fall 2013 semester, and should be available the following Spring.

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I don’t usually expect to be surprised by movies—I’m one of those obnoxious people who guessed the ending of “The Sixth Sense” when I first watched it. That said, I never expect to be surprised by super-hero movies.

But “Thor: The Dark World” actually led me to gasp audibly at one point. And grab at the arm of my nearest fellow moviegoer, who I luckily happened to have met before.

The plot had its gleam-ing moments, carried by good writing and good acting, but it wasn’t the absolute greatest. There’s this glowing-red power-goo called “the Aether” that a bad guy named Malekeith is try-ing to get a hold of so he can re-turn the universe to the primor-dial darkness his people sprung forth from, thereby destroying life as we know it.

If that sounds similar to “The Avenger’s” glowing-blue power cube called “The Tesseract” which had to be kept from an-other bad guy, that’s probably because it is.

But as Loki himself points out in “Dark World,” he didn’t want to destroy everything, he just wanted to rule it. Subtle differences are still differences, people.

Besides, The Avengers and SHIELD fixed that little Tesser-act problem. To overcome the Aether, however, our favorite god of thunder has to save the day along with Lady Sif and the Warriors Three, the crew from Midgard (a.k.a. Earth), and Thor’s charmingly psychopath-ic brother Loki, who unabash-edly steals the show.

This is partially due to the fact that Tom Hiddleson’s char-

acter is one of the most delight-fully complex in the current Marvel movie franchise and was practically built for all the best one-liners. (Look out for his impression of one of the Avengers. I won’t say who it is, but it’s hilarious.)

But it’s also due to the fact that Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is actually likeable and exhibits signs of both intelligence and abstract thinking. In “Thor,” he was a basically an oafish, warmongering princeling with a ridiculous musculature and great hair. In “Dark World” he

keeps the chiseled abs and flow-ing blond locks but also reveals the product of his character arc in “Thor” that we only get a hint of in “The Avengers.”

As a result, the interactions between the two (and their fa-ther and mother) are far more entertaining and engaging.

Adorable scientist Jane Por-ter (Natalie Portman) is also improved—despite the fact that she and Thor only appear to be thrown together through her overly convenient run-in with the red goo of power. But she’s less googly eyes and sidelong glances when it comes to Thor, enabling them to have actual conversations and something resembling a relationship.

To top everything off, the glossy, candy-coated CGI ef-fects are everything you could expect from a Marvel movie, in which the action pops back and forth among three planets as quickly as it pops back and forth among superhero, sci-fi, and fantasy genres.

Some critics have claimed that it was “overwhelming” and “too much.” But we don’t go to these movies for their exceed-ingly subtle artistry and com-mitment to realism.

So go. Embrace the fact that you’ve seen the plot a hundred times before and you’re prob-ably going to witness more “traveling through space” visu-als than are strictly necessary. You’ll have a blast.

The Coffee CupFierce rivalries exist on this campus between those who like the Cof-

fee Cup and those who like the Palace Cafe, and both places are often packed until they close at 2 p.m. Let me throw my lot in: the Coffee Cup serves the best breakfast for the money, hands down. The omelets are massive, the pancakes come in a wide range of sizes and thickness, and the bacon is immaculately cooked. I myself greatly enjoy the mini-special, which, for the price, is the best breakfast in town in regard to the number of calories purchased. The Coffee Cup will also let you swap in ham steak for free as a substitute for bacon or sausage, something absent from other restaurants in Hillsdale. While it’s not breakfast, they also serve the only good ethnic food in town with their Thai options.

On the negative side, don’t come to Coffee Cup with more than four people. Space is extremely limited and you end up inconveniencing ev-eryone, including the staff, if you try to amalgamate a bunch of tables to squeeze everyone in.

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Alex EatonCollegian Freelancer

They say in the days of the old gods that men awoke in the mornings and were hungry until the sun reached it’s apex; St. Anthony then came with all his bacony ways and blessed the heathens, giving them the gift of breakfast.

Breakfast is a funny thing for us Americans. Unlike most countries where people either eat essentially nothing in order to prepare for lunch (Latin-speaking countries) or those who eat the same sort of things for breakfast as for lunch (see: Asia), we inherited a unique set of foodstuffs from our Ger-manic forefathers which we think of almost solely as break-fast food, yet we are willing to eat at almost any time of the day.

We are also fiercely particular over our breakfast foods. Like pizza, it is almost ubiquitous and can be found any-where, yet everyone has their “own place” where they break their fast (how liturgical). I felt that the time had come for me to explore the breakfasts of Hillsdale and weigh the pros and cons of the various options. While I know that almost all of you have eaten at one if not all of these places, I aim to put

The Palace Cafe

Just recently the Palace announced they would be open 24 hours on the weekend. Hopefully, they will be able to reclaim the legendary status of the now-defunct Pink Pan-ther, whose late-night offerings sated many a student’s post-consumption desires. The Palace also wins the charm award; its turn-of-the-century decor with its raised ceilings and low bar feed my Ameri- cana loving soul. The Palace can also accommodate larger groups, a definite plus for any late night outings. It’s food is decent, while not incredible. Their speciality is their belgian waffles. Be sure to order the sausage links, as they are quite good.

The Palace is cash only. This is stupid. If you don’t have a Square at this point, someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Also, the Palace is overpriced. If you’re going to skimp on portion sizes, at least let me use my debit card to pay.

The Finish Line

While the Palace and Coffee Cup could be defined as “diner” style restaurants and thus be expected to have good breakfast, the Finish Line is a family style restaurant that just happens to have good breakfast on the side.

If you enjoy Nascar and senior citizens, the Finish Line is for you. It’s also the place you’ll probably take your parents on Sundays when they visit because it’s the only decent restaurant besides Saucy Dogs that’s open then.

The prices are also good at the Finish Line. I personally love both the chicken fried steak and the break-fast burritos, which are cheap, and I can rarely finish either of them.

Also, the ice cream is delicious and should not be passed up. The restaurant is open every day until 10 p.m., and they do take cards.

The Finish Line doesn’t quite have the atmosphere or quality of the other two, but it was never trying to be the other two in the first place. Don’t go to the Fin-ish Line if you want a diner experience, go because you’re hungry and it’s open.

Breaking the fast the right way

Tory CooneyCollegian Reporter

The right kind of superhero

Paul McCartney has nothing left to prove.

“New,” Paul McCartney’s sixteenth studio release, isn’t an “Abbey Road” or “Sgt. Pepper,” but it is by no means a disap-pointment. Expecting the music legend to recreate, at the age of 71, what is arguably the best al-bum in the history of music is unrealistic.

McCartney’s newest album achieves something rare in the music industry: a work which is brilliant and bears signifi-cance simply because it is the 16th album released under Mc-Cartney’s name. “New” is by no means the best work of Mc-Cartney’s illustrious career, but the fact that he is still putting out decent music is worth lauding.

After sharing his innate mu-sical gift with the public through the Beatles, Wings, and a leg-endary solo career, McCartney could walk away from music at any moment undeserving of condemnation.

McCartney’s work has al-ways been characterized by a special listenability few other artists can produce. The open-ing track “Save Us,” reminis-cent of “Band on the Run” at the peak of its build, shows Mc-Cartney’s age in no way hinders his songwriting. It’s clear from the opening seconds of “New” that McCartney is in touch with contemporary audiences. Pleas-ant and passionate, “Save Us” could be a beneficial musical tu-torial for today’s whiny, brood-ing, hipster bands (Best Coast, your career’s almost over).

Utilizing a robust acous-tic guitar and a spacey falsetto chorus, “Alligator,” though pos-sessing prevalent Beatles influ-ences, is unlike anything Mc-Cartney has released to date.

“Early Days” is the album’s low point. McCartney’s relent-lessly vibrating falsetto (think of Mrs. Miller singing “A Hard Day’s Night”) transforms what could be an adequate deep track

into four minutes of disappoint-ment. McCartney recovers quickly, however. Beatles-esque lead single and title track “New” takes the listener right back to “Magical Mystery Tour.” Perky quarter notes, masterful harpsi-chord integration, and perfectly timed horn runs create a modern synthesis of “All You Need is Love” and “A Day in the Life.” “New” is the closest sounding tune to a Beatles reunion the on the album.

McCartney shows Muse he can do Muse better than it can itself with “Appreciate.” Over-powering electronica-based choruses and distorted vocals, McCartney, while retaining originality, flawlessly captures Matt Bellamy’s neo-arena rock timbre. The second half of “New,” though weaker than its first, is by no standards a flop. Introspective “Hosanna,” smooth and energetic “I Can Bet” (arguably the latter half’s highlight) and the emotional conclusion “Road” are well

worth a listen.No other artist of any era has

found a way to remain relevant in seven different decades the way McCartney has. With noth-ing musically left to prove, Mc-Cartney has achieved success simply by recording a good, contemporary album at the age of 71.

McCartney and the Beatles captivated the baby boomers on Feb. 9, 1964 with an iconic per-formance (to the largest televi-sion audience ever) of “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and 50 years later partied with college students in Manchester, Ten-nessee this June as he headlined Bonnaroo.

There is no greater link in popular culture between the baby boomers and Generation Y than Paul McCartney.

By producing a solid album in 2013, McCartney has validat-ed his genius of the 1960’s and his status as god among men in the music industry.

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Album review: ‘New’

for doing all the most Mickey-Mouse things you could possibly imagine.”

Moore gave the example of a section of a textbook on Mary Shelley’s “Fran-kenstein.” Of the 17 pages covering the subject, not a single one contained ac-tual excerpts from the book. Five and a half pages of a Saturday Night Live skit spoof off “Frankenstein” were included instead.

He also said that his strong opposi-tion to the Common Core is not based on a conspiracy theory. It’s in the books. Moore would know. He has spent the last four months meticulously going through the standards and pouring through text-books to see how lessons are actually be-ing taught.

“You have to know what you’re look-ing for,” he said.

Throughout the writing process, which started for Moore back in early July, he learned many things.

“I learned how truly incompetent and yet polished the people who are in charge of progressive education really are. They’ve sold this, and they’ve sold it well,” Moore said. “The other thing I learned is how little people who have to make decisions about education actually know about education.”

Moore is also author of various ar-ticles, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and the Clare-mont Review of Books. He also wrote a novel, “The Perfect Game,” which, Moore said, has a gradual readership. His new book will soon be available in the Hillsdale College Bookstore.

Moore further said that Hillsdale’s education offers the antidote to what is infecting the rest of the country.

“Hillsdale is offering a model of lib-eral education at the college level that is not tainted by progressivism,” Moore said.

He has spent a significant amount of time working with the K-12 education through the charter school initiative in Hillsdale, for which he is main adviser.

“Hillsdale is a place that people are looking to to try to have an answer for what this thing is,” he said. “I’m hoping that I am providing that answer.”

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hearing their opinions com-paring Germany and America regarding topics like politics and school. Since I lived there, it makes me feel connected to the culture and country I grew up in when I hang out with them.”

Bettinger and Moss have be-come good friends and spend time together on a regular ba-sis. Bettinger said the best thing about Hillsdale is all of the friends she has made in such a short time.

“Everyone was really wel-coming, nice, and helpful,” she said. “People made us feel like home away from home. We have found some great people.”

For Krieger, going to the shooting range for the first time with junior Eric Hodgdon is one of his most memorable American experiences so far.

“I was never in the German army, so I had never held a gun in my life,” Krieger said. “One of the highlights for me was going shooting with Eric. I was quite happy. It was fun.”

Hodgdon said he enjoyed sharing his passion for firearms, what he views as an essential piece of American culture. As a German minor, he also ben-efits from speaking German with Krieger and Bettinger and ex-changing paper editing services.

While they have enjoyed their Hillsdale experience, Krieger and Bettinger said what they miss most from home, apart from their friends and family, is the German beer and bread.

“The American beer tastes watered down,” Bettinger said. “Since we are students and poor, the beer we can afford tastes wa-tered down.”

After Hillsdale, Krieger will return to Germany to finish his

degree and would ultimately like to become a translator. Krieger is already a state-certified physical therapist, and said he just ready to be finished with school.

Bettinger would also like to find a job in translation; howev-er, she does not want to stay in Germany.

“I want to find a job with a company that has branches in the U.S. or Latin America,” she said. “My mom is already learning English for the grandchildren, she says. She is convinced I will marry an American.”

Eberhard Geyer, the Hills-dale College German department chair, established the exchange

program with Saarland Univer-sity more than 15 years ago, and there has been a good balance of student exchanges each year between the colleges. This past summer, Wolfgang Heintz, the international relations coordina-tor from Saarland University, visited Hillsdale’s campus after years of working with Geyer to get a better understanding of the school.

“Mr. Heintz was very glad to visit our campus and get a feel for Hillsdale in general, and he left with a very good feeling that the German students are in good hands here,” Yaniga said.

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Lincoln Reed is a sophomore at Hill-sdale College. He’s the catcher for the baseball team. He’s trying to settle on a major — speech or history. Oh yeah, and his 270-page, 75,000 word book came out on Amazon in June.

When he was in third grade, Reed be-gan writing short stories. He wrote of-ten and would bring his stories into class and read them to his classmates.

Lincoln Reed’s mother, Rebecca Reed, said that his third-grade teacher encouraged him in his writing.

“She’d say to Lincoln, ‘If God has called you to be an author, then go be an author,’” Rebecca said.

Lincoln Reed followed her advice and continued writing. He joined a cre-ative writing group in high school and would bring his work to them for feed-back. When he was 17, just a junior in

high school, Reed decided to write his first novel.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, so I started it the first semester of my junior year and finished it the day before I came to Hillsdale,” Reed said.

Reed titled his novel “Judgment.” Reed tells the story of a future, dysto-pian America on the decline. The coun-try faces an impending food shortage. The powers that be pass the Omega Act, a law that sends people convicted of crimes to labor camps with the purpose of producing food to feed the nation.

The protagonist is Nate Stephens, a high school senior at a Catholic school. He is accused of heinous crimes. Believ-ing that he has been framed, Stephens is given an opportunity to clear his name and bring his oppressors to justice. If he fails in his mission, however, he faces a grim future as an inmate in a labor camp.

As he begins to unravel the mystery

surrounding his situation, he discovers a great evil and a conspiracy to undermine the social structure of America. The fur-

ther Stephens journeys into darkness, his vigilante tactics leave him asking

one question: Will he become what he set out to destroy?

Sophomore Alexis Haley is a friend of Reed’s who has read the book. She describes it as “thought-provoking and intense.” She added that “it’s pretty gory and very graphic but not in a gross sense.”

Haley was originally persuaded by a mutual friend to read the book. And even though the violence did not appeal to her, she still gleaned from the story.

“I really liked that it made me think about what my beliefs are and how true I would be to them if I was put in a simi-lar, less extreme situation,” Haley said. Haley said the book touches on themes of loyalty to friends and living honor-ably when faced with evil.

Reed said that some of what sparked the ideas behind “Judgment” was his high school experience, but the rest of it had to do with some of life’s biggest questions.

“Much of it was just my experiences and emotions reacting to the evil that we see in society and in the political cli-mate,” Reed said, “dealing with sin as a Christian, dealing with the concepts of grace. Is there redemption? Are we all equally sinful? Is evil something all of us deal with? How does a teenager deal with these things?”

Those who know Reed describe him as trustworthy and loyal, always help-ful, dedicated, and passionate.

“I think he has two passions,” Rebec-ca said. “Well, three: Following God, first. Then baseball and writing are neck and neck.”

Rebecca also said that Lincoln Reed has a sequel in mind, but the demands of his schedule while in school don’t allow him to pursue it.

“We know it’s just the beginning,” Rebecca Reed said.

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The Hillsdale Alumnus manages social media for the New York Post. Sometimes he communicates with his roommate in sound effects. He’s been backstage with Lady Gaga and forgets to mention it. But’s that’s just Joel Pavelski ’11—Hillsdale’s “yes” man.

“My attitude is to say yes to ev-erything,” Pavelski said. “I was not your typical Hillsdale kid: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, a clean-scrubbed conservative, the Christian ‘good kid.’ Not to say that I’m not any of those things, but I was a member of a minor-ity group that said yes to things other people didn’t.”

Before graduating from Hillsdale with a double major in English and theater, Pavelski certainly stood out on campus. He became known as the guy who never said ‘no,’ a bold approach that Pavelski attributes to growing up as a homeschooler in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin.

“I felt like the default answer was always ‘no.’ We were denying our-selves because we needed to be good Midwesterners and eat our vegeta-bles,” Pavelski said.

At Hillsdale, Pavelski felt free to make his own decisions. Life seemed to take on a new slant when he discov-ered his niche in the theatre depart-ment, where he often starred as the villain in plays, and as a reporter for The Collegian.

“Joel was very assertive, certainly not someone you forgot once you’ve met him,” said James Brandon, profes-sor of theater at Hillsdale and Pavel-ski’s former faculty adviser. He’s the kid who came out in The Collegian. That was a big deal. That’s the kind of thing Joel does though,”

Fast forward a few years and Pavel-

ski is still coloring his life with theater and news reporting, only now his of-fice is a block from Times Square.

“One of the things I love about working at the New York Post is that we have our own thing going. It’s unique with a fun voice,” Pavelski said. “It has a character, jokes about itself, and chides celebrities who do stupid things. There’s definitely a space for that in the more national online audience.”

Pavelski manages the New York Post’s social media platforms, trains its journalists to promote their own sto-ries, and constantly searches for ways to make its website easier for users to navigate.

“Journalism is changing,” he said. “The business model of the past is being cannibalized by the Internet. We want engagement—power readers and sharers of our content. Everyone’s try-ing to figure out how to connect with readers and inject their best content into people’s lives in a way that adver-tisers would pay to be a part of.”

When he’s not spearheading the effort to integrate social media and journalism, Pavelski said he still finds time to create havoc: attending theater performances, hanging out at Central Park, going to museums, thrift shop-ping in Brooklyn, and—of course—writing.

“I’ve been writing a book. It’s about my experiences growing up in a Christian home, coming out when I was 16, going to Hillsdale and being who I am, then going to New York.” Pavelski pauses to take a breath, as though he’s content with leaving it at that, but continues anyway, “I’ll be writing an emotionally heart-wrench-ing chapter, like when my brother died, and think I know the title. But there’s still no title.”

Pavelski hopes to publish his mem-

oir sometime in the future, along with a children’s novel that he’s also work-ing on for his little sister—a different side of the man who often played the villain on stage.

“Just meeting him, people wouldn’t understand how incredibly sweet Joel is,” said Kirsty Sadler, a 2011 Hillsdale alumna and theater major who now lives with Pavelski in New York. “For example, he’s really tall and when I need something on a high shelf, he will smile and come get it for me. Joel is the best roommate ever.”

The two roommates find plenty of ways to keep themselves entertained in the city. During a bar hopping outing last Halloween, Pavelski and Sadler created a game to amuse themselves: trolling strangers.

“I love your costume! Are you Hon-ey Boo Boo?” Pavelski asks a random lady, trying to ignore Sadler’s grin.

“What! How can you not tell that I’m the Queen of Hearts?” frowns the drunken woman, completely appalled and totally unaware that she is the sorry victim of a silly joke.

The roommates laugh for a long time. In fact, Pavelski seems to spend a lot of his time laughing, even at himself.

“Joel was surely one of our ‘go to’ actors. He always got along with ev-erybody down here really well,” says George Angell, professor of theater, “One of the last things he played was a role as Tim Ferdinand of Spain and he had a page boy cut wig that he had to wear. Joel became the butt of much teasing. He has a great sense of humor.”

His friends this fun-loving side of Pavelski’s personality last New Year’s Eve during an expedition to Times Square.

“We just wanted to see the ball drop! But we were too far away. My

friend tried flirting with some of the cops standing at the barricades, even I did a little, but no such luck. We tried sneaking past them and got shouted back and nearly arrested,” Pavelski recalls with a smile.

Undeterred, the yes man came up with a new idea. He had a pass from the building security at his work to get into his office in case he needed to work that weekend. The only problem? The pass expired at noon on December 31.

Pavelski and friends tried to get though 43rd street with the pass, but the police ignored them. They tried asking at 44th street, but were not successful. Then, after being rejected at 45th street, the expedition seemed hopeless.

“At 46th, we walked up just as they were closing the street barri-cades behind a police horse. I shouted ‘Hold the gate!’ as we ran up, trying to act important. The police stopped us. I said, ‘I work right there, here’s my pass, we need to get by.” And he waved me on. Past the thousands of people lining the sidewalks, we walked down the empty barricaded streets right into the center of Times Square,” Pavelski grins.

Of course, until the music started, Pavelski and friends couldn’t have realized that they were standing five feet from where Lady Gaga would be performing that evening.

Pavelski plans to continue develop-ing the New York Post’s social media platform and won’t be searching for a new job anytime soon. However, he also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of moving on to a new opportunity sometime in the future.

“Joel’s going places,” Sadler said. “He is a guy who always says ‘yes’ to something new. Wherever life takes him, he’ll be up for it.”

Ikawa also enjoys food-eating challenges. A sports bar in California once offered patrons this deal: if you can eat 50 extra hot buffalo wings in one sitting without any water, the wings are free. Ikawa took them up on the offer—every Wednesday, which prompted the restaurant to discontinue the promotion.

His most recent food chal-lenge was an attempt to eat a 2.5 lb burger in Jackson along with a pound of french fries. Had he completed the chal-lenge, he would have won a T-shirt. As it was, he hit his

ceiling with about an ounce of burger to go.

“I still love to tease him about it because I know it both-ers him,” said Sweeney, who was there at the time.

Ikawa plans on returning to the restaurant and complet-ing the challenge, after a bit of training. He will also be sure not to make the mistake he made last time: eating lunch first.

Originally from Indianapo-lis, Ikawa has lived in or near Pittsburg, Los Angeles, and Chicago before finally settling in the bustling city of Hillsdale. He still commutes to Chicago regularly to visit his wife, who still lives there and works for an airline.

Her job helps make travel easier for him. This summer,

Ikawa spent a month in Paris and visited Thailand.

While in Paris, he had the unfortunate experience of being mugged. “The thieves took my fake Rolex,” he said. “They didn’t take my billfold, they didn’t take my iPad or iPhone; they took my fake Rolex.”

As far as Jeopardy! goes, he said it’s a good way to get cred with students. He only wishes the show back then had been more like it is today. Now, winners get twice the cash they used to, and they can stay on until they lose, instead of being automatically retired after five victories.

“In later years they gave these people cars too,” Ikawa said wistfully. “I didn’t get any cars.”

Jordan FinneyCollegian Reporter

Student brings ‘Judgement’ to the world in new book

(Taylor Knopf/Collegian)

Professor of Accounting Bruce Ikawa plays at the World Series of Poker.(Courtesy of Bruce Ikawa)

Spotlight(Ben Strickland/Collegian)

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Professor of Accounting Bruce Ikawa treks through the rainforest in Peru (top). Ikawa eats a 2.5 pound hamburger (bottom left). Ikawa cycles on the Alsace Wine Route in France (bottom right) (Photos courtesy Bruce Ikawa)

Daniel SlonimCollegian Reporter

Ikawa’s adventuresProfessor plays in World Series of Poker, travels the

world, and wins on Jeopardy!

campus chic

Valerie Copan

- Compiled by Casey Harper - Photos by Laura Williamson

Who or what inspires your style?

Nicki Minaj, Hillsdale College’s William the Well-dressed, and also J. Crew’s men’s

line. It’s a bit of a spectrum.

Describe your fashion sense in five words or less.

East-coasty, snuggle-bus, chill-town, eclec-tic, cozy-coze, hyphenated.

What is your favorite item of clothing?

My canvas-fatigue-like L.L. Bean jacket with the thermometer on the zipper.

What is your favorite store to shop at?

Call me hipster or whatever, but thrift stores have always been my go-to. But if I

had more money — and thought spending exorbitant amounts on clothing was worth it

— I’d hit up J. Crew and Anthropologie.

SpotlightThis professor of accounting has played

in the World Series of Poker, been mugged in France, trekked through the rainforest in Peruf, been barred from a casino for card-counting, and won more than $80k on the show Jeapordy!

Ikawa has been at Hillsdale for 15 years—a quarter of his life. Every year, Hillsdale’s accounting club holds parties where they watch tapes of his appearances on Jeapordy! in 1990.

“We all cheer for Dr. Ikawa and boo the other people,” said Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney. “It’s kind of a ritual for the accounting club.”

Ikawa was first on the show in 1990 and won five times in a row—the most you could win at that time. The next year, he was called back for a “Tournament of Champions,” in which he lost his round by a few thousand dollars. Finally, Ikawa was brought back one more time for a game in which winners from three different decades competed. He said he didn’t do so well that time.

“It’s definitely a young person’s game,” Ikawa said. Almost as important as knowing the facts is having the reflexes necessary to beat other players to the buzzer, which Ikawa said involves more than most people see on TV.

“What people at home don’t know is that you’re not allowed to ring in until they signal you to. And that’s where the hand-eye coordi-nation comes into play.”

Ikawa said he used his $86,619 of win-nings to put a new roof on his house and buy a leather-bound encyclopedia. He also spent some of it on travelling and gambling.

He goes to Las Vegas about twice a year where he plays Blackjack and participates in

poker tournaments. A ticket to the World Se-ries of Poker costs $10,000, but you can earn an entry by winning satellite tournaments. Ikawa started at a $10 satellite tournament, won entry to the next level up, and from there progressed to a third tournament where he won his ticket to the World Series.

“I think it’s every poker player’s dream to play in the World Series. So I got to do that for $10,” Ikawa said.

Ikawa won his first round in the Series, but lost in the second round on a hand he still remembers. Ikawa said he ran it through a simulator later and found out his chance of beating his opponent on that hand had been 70 percent.

Last January, Ikawa was barred from playing blackjack at a casino in Las Vegas because he was counting cards.

“It’s not cheating,” Ikawa says. “It’s just playing well. But casinos are allowed to throw you out if they think you’re playing too well.”

“They’re games of skill, and the math-ematical aspects appeal to me, but I think at heart, it’s probably the same reason anyone gambles. It’s fun to gamble. You do it without any expectation of making serious money. It’s just fun,” he said.

For that reason, he isn’t bitter about being barred from Blackjack. “The story is worth more than I could have won playing,” he said.

Ikawa enjoys telling stories, and has quite a few, like the time a faith healer in the Phil-ippines used a magic stone to ease the pain of his ribs that had cracked when a Chinese mas-seuse had tried to walk on his back in Guam. The pain did not stop immediately, but who knows how much worse it otherwise would have been, Ikawa said.

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From Saarbrücken to Hillsdale

Anika Bettinger and Johannes Krieger had an adventurous jour-ney to Hillsdale when they realized the lack of public transportation in America. After landing in Chicago, the two German exchange students caught a train to Jackson, Mich. In route, they inquired about transpor-tation to Hillsdale and realized it doesn’t exist. They eventually found a man who offered to drive them. Once in Hillsdale, they lived at Days Inn hotel for almost a week until they found an apartment.

“We really just winged it,” Krieg-er explained.

Hillsdale College has become slightly more diversified through the years with its various foreign student exchange programs, including the relationship with Saarland Univer-sity in Saarbrücken, Germany. Bet-tinger and Krieger are this year’s representatives.

Bettinger and Krieger were al-ready friends at Saarland and both study comparative sciences of lit-erature, language, and translation with an emphasis in the English and Spanish language. They are in their third year of studies, and the major requires they spend at least three months in an English-speaking coun-try. Bettinger will study at Hillsdale

for a full-academic year while Krieg-er is here for the fall semester only.

They had three American colleges to choose from: University of Mis-souri, Boise State University, and Hillsdale College. Both listed Boise State and Hillsdale College as their first and second choices.

“I didn’t have any specific image of how it would be,” Bettinger said. “I was excited just to go. There were a lot of people applying. I was just happy that we made it.”

Krieger also expressed apprecia-tion to just be part of the program and said that while Hillsdale is not the “stereotypical college experi-ence,” he is happy to be here.

They were surprised to find Hill-sdale’s campus to be quite a pictur-esque haven amongst the little south-western Michigan farm towns.

“It’s very clean,” Bettinger said. “Everything looked like it came out of a book. I liked it though.”

Krieger expressed a similar first impression.

“Everything looked new and fresh cut,” he said. “It felt like some-body went around with a toothbrush cleaning.”

Through Fred Yaniga, Hillsdale College assistant professor of Ger-man, both students made many

friends and become involved with campus activities. They participate in the German honorary events like the recent St. Martin lantern parade and the building of the Sukkah shelter to celebrate Chavarah with the Jewish club earlier this semester. They both attend the weekly Stammtisch in the Knorr family dining hall, where stu-dents studying German meet to prac-tice speaking over lunch.

“Both Anika and Johannes speak English with great fluency, but they are generous enough to frequently speak German to students who are practicing also,” Yaniga said. “I think that it is exciting for Hillsdale students to meet students from Ger-many on our campus. This breaks the stereotype of Hillsdale being a small, relatively closed campus. It demon-strates how we are open to the world, and not just in word only.”

Senior Kyra Moss particularly enjoys having German students on campus after living in Germany as a child for more than five years while her father was stationed there with the U.S. Air Force.

“I love being able to speak Ger-man with them and use German slang,” Moss said. “I also like

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