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Simpson wins bloody battle Joe Pappalardo Collegian Freelancer Bloody cardboard, trash bags, plastic wrap, and shredded duct tape surrounded combatants in Lake Winona on Saturday as

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at each other in a brutal game pirates fought for 30 minutes before Simpson retrieved Galloway and Niedfeldt’s banner.

The naval battle, hosted by Cravats and Bluestockings, returned this year after being cancelled in 2013 due to renovations in the Slayton Arboretum.

Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers explained that the new area cleared out in Lake Winona, a small bay near Barber Drive, made the event possible Senior Matt O’Sullivan tries to climb on opposition watercraft during the annual Naval this year.

Students came throughout Battle in Lake Winona. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) the week to clean up the lake in participant had to be on a boat.

Senior Connor Gleason orga- holds, Spartan kicks, and pond preparation for the battle.

Sinking all of the enemy’s ships nized Simpson’s shore defense, scum facial rubs replaced their “We’ve been out here clear- would also secure victory. bellowing, “Blood makes the homemade swords in the closeing lily pads,” Galloway senior Galloway and Niedfeldt took grass grow,” and receiving the quarters combat.

Colton Gilbert said. deafening response, “Kill, kill, “You want to be hitting peoThe competition was a re- battalion from the Suites. kill.” ple with things,” Simpson senior enactment of the Battle of TraLed by senior Head RAs Wes Wright said. falgar. Junior Josiah Lippincott them,” Galloway’s Head Resi- Matt O’Sullivan and Andy ReHe managed to get within read a brief history of the event dent Assistant senior Antoni uss, Simpson charged into the a few feet of the other team’s while laying down the rules for Germano, shouted. water to face Galloway. the students. Trafalgar was a naThe Spanish tore through val engagement that pitted the posed of thick cardboard boxes Simpson’s ships quickly, punchBritish against the French and with tubes attached to the bot- ing holes in plastic wrap and Raising their war trophies of Spanish. The British won, but toms or sides as pontoons. tearing cardboard and duct tape masks and swords high, the men lost their leader, Admiral Hora- Wrapped in plastic wrap, these apart. Opponents grappled with of Simpson roared in approval tio Nelson. appeared to be the most struc- each other in the waist-high wa- as senior Casey McKee, dressed Hillsdale’s version of the turally sound ships, when com- ter, careful not to trip on sub- as Poseidon, trumpeted their struggle featured slightly differ- pared to Simpson’s cardboard merged tree branches and shred- victory on his conch shell. ent vessels and rules of engage- “taco” and trash-bag-covered ded lily pads. Falling beneath Two men from Simpson rement. Simpson took the role of boxes. the surface could result in defeat ceived minor injuries that sent the British, Galloway was Spain, The French from Niedfeldt, and a mud-caked face. them to the emergency room, but and Niedfeldt became France. wielding baguettes and French no one was seriously harmed.

Students were only permitted to steal Galloway boats to re- Both sides came together afterto use cardboard, duct tape, and cover from losses, concentrating wards to clean up the lake and plastic to build watercraft.To Head RA Evan Gensler, they fell remove the boat debris. upon the Simpson defense.

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Pep Band expands Lois Lesher Collegian Freelancer What do Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” “The Imperial March” from Star Wars, and Hillsdale

Randy Houser performed at the Hillsdale County Fair on Saturday night.

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Students to get outdoor seating at Knorr Phil DeVoe Collegian Reporter Outdoor seating during meals will be a reality for students soon.

Student Federation approved a purchase last week for patio furniture to be placed outside of the Grewcock Student Union, allowing students to eat outdoors while the weather is clear.

“We at Student Federation believed that outdoor seating would improve the campus, and that students would enjoy being able to eat in the nice weather,”

Arielle Mueller, president of Student Fed, said.

Student Fed spent nearly $5,000 on chairs and tables for the patio located directly outside the dining room. While there are currently tables and chairs in the gated off area, Mueller explained that these tables and chairs are falling apart and need to be replaced. The new furniture will allow students to begin using the outdoor patio area.

“Campus improvement is important to us, so the money will go towards quality furniture. The current stuff is not up to par with what we’d like,” Mueller said.

Mueller said she is hopeful that the outdoor seating will be available before the winter comes this year. Student Fed has yet to order the furniture, but plans to have it set up by November.

“Outdoor seating is always a hit with students, and I’m excited to see it at Hillsdale,” General Manager of Bon Appétit Jeffrey Every said.

The new furniture is guaranteed for 10 years.

Although Hillsdale’s weather could limit the usage of this furniture, Mueller said that she isn’t worried. She said students will

use the furniture while it’s available, and the students will enjoy sitting outside even if it’s only for a few months of the school year.

“People love nice weather, and being able to eat outside is just another way for students to enjoy the weather before it’s gone,” Student Fed Representative Tyler Warman said.

Every added that the weather probably won’t be an issue. Before coming to Hillsdale, Every worked at Trine University in Indiana and Trine’s outdoor seating was popular.

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common? All can be found on the pages strewn across the music stands of the Hillsdale College Pep Band.

The pep band, 25 members strong, is always in attendance at home football and basketball games. They gained around 10 members and 10 of the 25 students in the pep band are freshmen, giving the band a solid foundation for the coming years. With the help of new members, increased support from peers, and a $1492.32 contribution from the Student Federation, the band is looking to have its best year yet.

Back-to-back appearances in the Student Activities Board’s pep rally on Sept. 19 and the next day gave the pep band its campus what they’re all about this year. Upbeat songs and a strong sound characterized the performances.

“I think it’s tying into the student movement of getting more involved with sporting events in general,” sophomore Student Director Hank Prim said. “We’re playing more than we have in the past and we’ve

been received better than in the past.”

“We’re with the students, so we feel their emotions; we feel their excitement, and we can make that even better,” freshman alto saxophone player Brant Cohen added.

Thanks to a generous contribution from Student Fed last semester, the band was able to purchase music stands to use at performances. Instead of the clip-on folders that most marching bands use for their music, the pep band uses binders, so the stands were a necessary investment.

“Student Federation is here to help clubs carry out some of their goals. We felt the request was important for the pep band to carry out their goal of enhancing our sporting events through music,” Student Fed President Arielle Mueller said regarding the music stand contribution.

Walk by Howard Music Hall on any given Friday afternoon, and the band will be practicing its diverse selection of stand music for sporting events.

Practices and events are largely student-run under the direction of Prim, with Lecturer in Music Robert Henthorne acting as the group’s adviser.

Cohen praised the student leaders of the band, noting that they have been “really welcoming and inviting” throughout his

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INSIDE Expansion of the pep band The pep band added 10 new members and is ready to root for the Chargers. A3

Hillsdale alumna appointed to state nursing board Gov. Rick Snyder appointed local nurse and Hillsdale alumna Amy Zoll to the Michigan state board of nursing. A6

Instructor Alesia Aumock celebrates 25 years with HillsA7

Students teach dance Hillsdale students are sharing their passion for dance with peers and the community. B1 (Elena Creed/Collegian)

College alum starts patriotic wine label in Napa Valley Cody Ewers’ wine company, Preamble, makes a showing at the Kirby Center. B3

(Elena Creed/Collegian)

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Stupidity is acceptable Jack Butler talks about why the Naval Battle is stupid. And why it’s okay. A4

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Homecoming highlights Sarah Chavey Collegian Freelancer

“Go Big, Go Chargers, Go to Homecoming” is this year’s homecoming theme, and the week’s line-up of events will inspire students and alumni to join in the festivities surrounding the day.

Highlights of this weekend include an alumni awards banquet Friday night, a dinner festival and tent party on Saturday night, and the Instagram video contest that replaced the cheer contest during Spirit Week.

The alumni awards banquet or Hasted, director of business and industry and constituents/ alumni relations, said between 150-200 guests will attend, including President Larry Arnn, alumni, and students.

Tastes of Hillsdale, a dinner festival, will follow the football game on Saturday. Local restaurant food vendors, as well as the college’s food service, Bon Appétit will be in the Oak and College street lots between 7-8:30 p.m. A $20 admission fee includes three $5 dinner coupon options as well as admission to the tent party.

The tent party, open to all alumni for $5 and free for students, will feature the cover band Blue Water Kings. Anthony Manno, director of Student Activities, said the band will play two sets beginning at 7 p.m. before Mock Rock. The student dance competition at 9 p.m. Blue Water Kings will also play two sets after Mock Rock.

Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell will be one of the judges in Mock Rock; the others are still to be announced.

The tent party will also feature a “Win a Charger for a Charger” able for purchase.

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Friday

Saturday

Alumni Awards Baquet 6 p.m. Social Hour 7 p.m. Dinner Served Charger Football Alumni 6:15 p.m. dinner with team 8 p.m. cocktail reception Pep rally with Bon Fire and Fireworks 9 p.m.

All Alumni Party 9 p.m.- 12 a.m.

Cash Bar

Alumni Choir Reunion and Rehearsal 9:30 a.m.

Wild Bill’s Homecoming Fun Run 10 a.m. registration Charger Golf Outing 10 a.m. registration 11 a.m. shotgun start Varsity Tennis vs. Lake Superior State University 11 a.m.

Baseball Alumni Game and Picnic 11 a.m.

Checkpoint Charger Registration Tent Open 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m

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transition to the new group.

With several new faces, the

Charger Tailgate 12 p.m. - 4:30 Football Alumni Flag Football Game 1 p.m.

Homecoming Parade 3:30 p.m.

Charger Football vs.

Grand Valley State Univesity 4:30 Taste of Hillsdale PostGame Dinner Festival 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Charger Tent Party 7 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Mock Rock Dance Party

group is optimistic about their future presence on campus.

The band has always been a vital aspect of Charger spirit on campus, but the increased support and positive energy backing the group is sure to make

this year one to remember.

As Prim remarked, “The band’s really excited; I’m excited; the student section’s excited.

We started out strong and we’ll only get stronger.”

“I realized that working nights was taking a toll on my family, so I moved up to the grounds crew to spend more time with them,” said Campbell.

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Grover Campbell: 20 years of service

Phil DeVoe Collegian Reporter

Pep Band plays during the Chargers’ first home game on Sept. 13. They added 10 new members this year. (Photo Courtesy of Jacob Mueller )

Almanacs predict cold winter Micah Meadowcroft Arts Editor Farmers and the curious alike can go to both “the Old Farmer’s Almanac,” of 1792, and the “Farmers’ Almanac,” ets. 1818 for prophecies of weather. This year, both predict a winter with temperatures “below” or “colder-than” normal.

“I’m still scared of the cold,” Junior Allyn Morrison said.

“Any sane human being living in Michigan should be scared of the cold.”

The “Farmers’ Almanac,” according to a website post by their pseudonymous forecaster Caleb Weatherbee, indicates that the Great Lakes region will possess some of the “most frigid” temperatures in the country this winter. The end of January and beginning of February are expected to be the coldest stretch of time for the area.

“The Old Farmer’s Almanac” tion to include the end of December, and claims the whole of January will be particularly cold.

Neither publication is claiming a repeat of last winter’s “polar vortex” phenomena, though representatives of both reportedly told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week that overall this winter would be “as bad or worse” than last year’s. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service is

predicting winter temperatures around the Great Lakes at or slightly above average for the December-February period.

The almanac’s publication, in particular the Associated Press’ coverage of their predictions, has sparked criticism of their methodology and forecasting ability.

“The Old Farmer’s Almanac” claims to use what they describe as a “secret formula” developed by original old farmer Robert B. Thomas and incorporates sun spots, prevailing weather patterns, and meteorology. The notes to the formula are kept locked in a black box in their oftools of weather prognosis on the “Old Farmer’s” website include predicting the weather with a pig spleen, the “ol’ goose bone method,” and persimmon seeds.

The “Farmers’ Almanac” also makes claims to a secret formula, incorporating mathematics and astronomy, developed by tion to sunspots, the “Farmers’ Almanac” incorporates lunar phases and tidal activities in its considerations, amongst other unrevealed factors.

While “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” boasts that it has an 80 percent accuracy rate, and its competitor’s claims are similar, critics of the almanacs say that their actual records are much lower. A number of meteorolo-

gists have said the almanac’s accuracy is probably closer to 40 or 50 percent depending on interpretation of the predictions.

The Washington Post pointed out in August that, while the almanacs predicted a brutal winter last year, they were “laughably wrong” in their forecasts for this past summer. Rather than the oppressive, unusual humidity and heat predicted, most of the country experienced a mild summer.

Last winter was quite cold as both almanacs predicted.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center said that December of last year through this past February was the tenth coldest winter in Michigan records, and the third coldest winter for Detroit.

Grover Campbell, part of the Hillsdale Maintenance crew that cleared snow everyday, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., said “last year was really really tough; it was hard on all of us.”

And while they may not work in Maintenance, students agree.

“Last year was tough,” Phoenix, Arizona native junior Allyn Morrison said. “I basically looked like a giant mushroom for four months. Marie Wathen broke her leg! It was bad. It was worse than my freshman year when I broke my ankle.” weather forecast as winter approaches, we will have to wait.

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Grover Campbell, two decades an employee at Hillsdale College and four decades a resident of the community, retires Monday.

“It’ll be nice to not have to get up early every morning, especially at 3 a.m. to plow snow in the winter,” Campbell said.

Campbell works for the maintenance department, in receiving and delivery. He delivers supplies and mail to campus. Before delivery, Campbell worked as a second shift custodian for the college.

job at the college is his current one.

There will be a retirement party for Campbell on Monday, from 1-3 p.m., in the conference room of the Fowler Maintenance Building.

Campbell was born in Texas and, after living in Wyoming, transferred to Hillsdale in 1979 with Marathon Petroleum Corporation. He has been working for 50 years, and says that he is

social security he’s built up.

With his new free time, Campbell will continue to watch the Detroit Lions and Notre Dame football, but will especially be spending time with his family.

He is married with three grown children, one of whom lives in Hillsdale and recently gave Campbell a grandson. give me time to take care of my family, and I’m excited to have time to watch my grandson grow up,” Campbell said.

Graduate on time: tips for seniors the spring.

Evan Carter Web Editor

Graduation is still almost two semesters away for most has already begun the process of helping students make sure they ments necessary to graduate in

couraging seniors to schedule an “audit” — a roughly 10-minute process that allows the regisgraduation requirements.

According to Shelley Allen, graduation requirements is not usually an issue for seniors.

that seniors have audits to make sure nothing is overlooked.

Seniors can see all graduation requirements listed on pages 20-22 of the college’s course catalogue. In addition, the regisjor requirements to any students that ask.

Seniors need:

1. 124 cumulative credit hours with a 2.00 GPA (“C” average) 2. A “C-” minimum grade in all major courses and a “C” average in major classes overall 3. Four credit hours of physical education activity courses and 2 CCA credits 4. Mathematics 105 for students who didn’t score higher than a 24 on the math portion of the ACT 5. Complete 3 semesters or through the 201 level of either French, Spanish, German, Greek or Latin (B.A. and certain preprofessional programs) 6. Take at least 36 credit hours in mathematics and in science, including at least one year of laboratory science and a minor in some science or math discipline (B.S.) 7. Additional requirements are added for each individual major and minor program; courses will not be double-counted and only contribute credits towards one discipline

Outstanding alumni to get awards Tomorrow evening in the

ing achievement in profession, the Tower Award for volunteerist spirit toward the college, and the Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award, which recognizes alumni who have

recipients will be honored at the 63rd annual Alumni Awards banquet, which takes place the Friday of homecoming week each year.

According to Grigor Hasted, director of business and industry and constituents/alumni relations, the alumni are nominated for the honors.

Three awards will be presented: the Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstand-

achievement within 10 years of graduation.

Murry Stegelmann `84 will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his foundation of Kilimanjaro Advisors and Credit Fund.

Gregory Wolfe `80 has also earned the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his work as founder and editor of IMAGE quarterly.

The GOLD Awards will be

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allocated to David Morrell `07, for his work as an associate at clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Paul Ray `08, will also receive the award for his service as law clerk to Honorable Samuel Alito.

Glorie Podgorski StonischJimenez will receive the Tower Award for her exemplary service and loyalty to the college and her work on the Hillsdale College Board of Women Commissioners.

Only Stonisch-Jimenez and Stegelmann are able to attend the banquet.

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Student Fed Amendment Student Fed will have voting in the union next week Monday and Tuesday during lunch for the new amendment that would allow for a representative from the Van Andel Graduate school. Students will cast their vote in a similar process to this week’s Homecoming voting. The Amendment reads: “One representative from the Graduate School of Statesmanship shall be chosen.”

Furniture From A1 “The seating at Trine was only available for a few months, but the students loved it,” Every said.

Student Fed is excited for the new seating, especially because of the positive impact it will have on the campus.

“It will be nice to eat outside niture is really nice, and it should make the dining experience at school much better.”

Students celebrate after Kappa Kappa Gamma wins the wing-eating contest on Wednesday night during Spirit Week.

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Q&A: Charles Cooke, a gun-loving Brit Evan Brune Opinions Editor

National Review Staff Writer Charles Cooke is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied modern history and politics. He writes on the Second Amendment, AngloAmerican history, free speech, and American Exceptionalism.

He is the co-host of the podcast “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.”

In addition to National Review, his writing has appeared in National Interest, the Washington Times, and the New York Post.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife.

You were born in England and grew up in an anti-gun culture. Now, you write in support of the Second Amendment. How did your viewpoint change?

Well, I always joke that I’m a recovering hoplophobe, and I mean that quite literally. I absorbed, a bit by osmosis, the English distaste for guns. The English see the American attitude towards guns and the American legal protection of the right to bear arms and American

gun culture as being, at best, a foible, and at worst, a character tion that. And so when, in 1996, a man named Thomas Hamilton walked into Dunblane High School in Scotland and killed 18 children and himself, I had no problem whatsoever with the British government’s response, which was to ban and gather up all handguns. When Columbine happened, I remember thinking, as did everyone in England, that there was no other reasonable solution than to summarily anyone make a case that guns should be legal or that it was a positive and virtuous thing for guns to be legal. So, I was pretty standard anti-gun Brit.

But I started reading American history. I wrote a thesis on the Second Amendment at Oxford, and I imagined I’d take a fairly standard line, which is that the notion that the Second Amendment protects individual rights is preposterous. But it’s not (laughs). It was extremely Was it all that research or did something more convince you?

I think it was three things.

Having done that research, I looked more into the practical side of things. Can you take a country with 400 million pri-

you hear the anti-gun brigade talk about Australia and talk about Britain, they are comparing countries that don’t even remotely have the same cultures.

In Britain, when they banned

Journalist Charles Cooke shoots a rifle at the Hillsdale Shooting Sports Center on Thursday. (John Miller/Collegian) make sure they only end up in the hands of the good guy? You just can’t do it. Especially with the Second Amendment and a and to try to do so would probably start a civil war. So, when

for about an hour, attended by 2,000 or so people outside Parliament. That was the end of it.

In America, you’d see death.

So, that practical side of things just doesn’t work. And the

third point, when my politics changed, my conception of how the government and the citizen related to one another changed.

I’m not sure there’s a better, more effective, more instructive proxy for that relationship than that the government is not permitted to disarm those who employ it. It really makes no sense when you stop and think about it. To say you’ve created this government to serve us, and now the representatives that we employ are going to turn around and disarm us to remove the means by which they might, in a crisis, be removed. That’s not a gun point as it is so much a general philosophical principle.

Maybe we shouldn’t fear should we fear further restrictions on guns?

I think there are two big threats at the moment. One is the continuing attempt to crimitain way, these so-called assault weapons. I have an AR-15. It looks like a machine gun, but it’s not. It’s no different than my more customizable, and it’s easier for my wife to shoot because of that. That gun has, in some

states, been banned for those reasons. There’s no material difference whatsoever. The second threat is, I think, from these universal background checks. What they’ve done, in Colorado in particular, is draw very broad laws that leave the general population in doubt as to what constitutes a transfer. There’s a woman I talked to in Colorado who was in a car accident and had a concealed weapon. She was taken to the hospital. She was in overnight and, by law, the police had that law. You don’t want rogue hospital. But when the police looked up the law, which was badly and broadly written, they discovered that they had, by taking it off of her, transferred it, and therefore couldn’t give it back to her. It took three months for her to get it back. Now this is a woman who was poor. There’s no other way of putting it. She was a cleaner, and she worked in a dangerous area. She refused to go into the area without a gun, and so she didn’t work while all of this was straightened out.

That’s just unacceptable.

Students hear Wendell Berry 30 students attend lectures on locality and community Rachel Solomito Collegian Freelancer This past weekend, 30 Hillsdale students had the opportunity to hear celebrated novelist and activist Wendell Berry speak at the fourth annual Front Porch Republic conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

The conference is held every year at various locations across America to “examine ways to promote a more comprehensive localist vision,” according to the Front Porch Republic website. “[Berry] doesn’t give that many public appearances,” said senior David Roach, who attended the conference. “So it was really interesting to hear him speak.”

“It was great to hear various responses to our very Hillsdalean questions concerning the

problem of modernity,” junior Aaron Schreck said.

The Front Porch Republic is an organization that claims its overall purpose is to raise awareness of the localist vision. Accordingly, Berry was brought in on Saturday to read some of his essays and answer questions about localism.

“This might be the only time I’ll have the chance to read a speak in person,” junior Matt Sauer said. “The way [Berry] ended his speech when he said not to worry about understanding everything, that it’s enough to just live [with what we have], that really struck me.”

Other speakers were also present at the conference, and among those who impacted the students were Justin Litke and Susannah Black.

“I had just read Dr. Gamble’s ‘In Search of a City on a Hill, ‘so I knew exactly what his-

tory [Litke] was referencing in his speech about American exceptionalism, and I really liked that,” Sauer said.

Junior Forester McClatchey attended the conference because he “wanted to hear what an ancient man had to say about sustainable farming and preserving local culture” enjoyed the weekend’s diversity.

“Everyone was talking about the loss of the agrarian way of life and the destructive force of society and Susannah, who was from Queens, gave an alternate view of preserving culture, an eloquent defense of how cities can be stimulating places in their own way,” he said.

When asked if he would recommend this conference to anyone who could attend in the future, McClatchey said yes.

“Totes. It made me want to be friends with donkeys that

Wendell Berry speaks at the fourth annual Front Porch Republic conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Nearly 30 students attended the event. (Elena Creed/Collegian)

Amash and Calley: More beer Shane Armstrong Collegian Reporter

The brewing industry is one of the fastest-growing markets in the state of Michigan. Microbreweries are beginning to pop up at an increased rate, but some of the state’s out-of-date liquor laws might be hampering these companies’ potential.

Michigan citizens and companies are working to change these laws to make it easier for people to get into the brewing industry. Generation Opportunity cy organization based in Washington, D.C., with a network of grass roots organizations in several states. The Michigan branch of Generation Opportunity is to help the brewing industry in the state.

“The regulations against the brewing industry in Michigan are unfair and make it hard to get into the business,” Generation

Opportunity’s Regional Press Secretary Rebecca Coffman said.

Many of the laws that are in place are from the Prohibition Era and are against the growth of anything to do with alcoholic beverages. On Monday, Generation Opportunity held their “Free the Brewers” event at Founders Brewing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The goal of the event was to raise awareness about these out-of-date laws and gain support from young people in the state. Rep. Justin Amash and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley spoke at the event.

“We are out there trying to bring in people to raise awareness about these issues,” Kevin Gardner, Generation Opportunity’s state director in Michigan, said. “We are going to lawmakers to change things.”

Of all of the laws hampering the brewing industry, three stand out: the three cheers system, licensing requirements, and state and federal taxes on beer.

“The three cheers system re-

quires brewers, distributors, and retailers as separate entities,” Gardner said. “If you want to sell beer you need a middleman,

beer and hurts entrepreneurs trying to get in the industry.”

As far as licensing goes, the government is very involved in the process and makes it very the proper license to brew. There are some harsh limits about how many licenses are given out and how many barrels a microbrewery can brew in a year.

“It’s the government thinking that it knows what is best for consumers when it’s actually harming them,” Gardner said.

The tax on beer harms brewers as well. In Michigan, beer is taxed at the state and federal level. Currently the state tax is 20 cents per gallon, which is the 28th-highest tax in the country.

Higher taxes make brewing beer more expensive and tough for young brewers trying to start a company. Right now some of the laws are turning brewers away.

“I have looked into brewing as something to do after I graduate,” senior P.J. Cooley said. “If the laws for licensing and selling beer were updated and made more sense for the time we’re in, the brewing industry more enticing.”

The main focus with this campaign is to improve the conditions for current and future generations in the brewing industry.

“We know we can get the country back on track with entrepreneurs in our own states,” Gardner said. “What works is less government and more opportunity.”

Generation Opportunity will be at Hillsdale from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Dow Leadership Center as they continue their tour of Michigan campuses.

There will be free dinner and drinks while they talk about their mission and gain support.

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the opinion of the collegian editorial staff covered the proposed amendment to the Student Federation Constitution, which would secure a seat for a member of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship.

The idea has been in play since last year, and is shared by the undergraduate students as much it is by the graduate students. The grad students interviewed made the only two arguments necessary to see that implementing the amendment needs no debate. Give the grad students a seat.

jury, disease, and the invasion of mud and lily pads into parts of their bodies where mud and lily

Jack Butler Student Columnist

Good for them.

For the puerility, fatuity, and peril inherent in such an exercise also demonstrate in its participants physical robustness, courage, and manliness.

On Hillsdale’s campus, one

Last Saturday, at 2 p.m., a

event more disgusting than the

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action was illegal.

Many more of these crimes, such as the poultry regulation, are ambiguous — the text of the laws doesn’t specify whether intent is required, leaving it up to courts to decide. clarify this ambiguity. Any law enacted after Jan. 1, 2015 creating a criminal offense would be understood to require prosecutors lessly.”

This is a good start, but ambiguity isn’t the only problem. Strict liability can be a problem even when written into the laws, because crimes should require intent, especially if they’re not clearly morally wrong.

Traditionally, criminal convictions require evidence of both a criminal act (actus reus) and a criminal mind (mens rea). Theft -

its way down to the shore of of cardboard boxes. The horde hailed from Simpson, Galloway, and Niedfeldt, and they sought to restore a Cravats and

all are activities that both serve as an effective respite from the Hillsdale default mode of abstract contemplation, and should

more rugby in a monsoon than “Master and Commander.”

Staged in past years in the Arboretum pond, construction in and around that body of water forced the custom into exile last

every self-respecting male.

To the extent that modern society overprotects children and limits the playing freedom of boys (and young males), we stunt the adventurousness, the courageousness, and the bold-

the Obama administration and its allied activist groups trot out the claim that there is a rape epidemic victimizing 1 in 5 women on college campuses. This conveniently horrifying number is a classic example of being too terwould mean that rape would be more prevalent on elite campuses than in many of the most impoverished and crime-ridden communities.

It comes from tendentious Department of Justice surveys that

Strict liability offenses can destroy the lives of citizens guilty of

state legislatures should pass equivalent bills. The federal government should pass such a bill, as well as one applying to the various independent executive agencies to which they’ve delegated power.

Last Friday, the White House announced its “It's On Us” initiative aimed at combating sexual assaults on college campuses. I'm all in favor of combating sexual combating a problem is understanding it.

That's not the White House's before Election Day, its chief concern is to translate an exciting social media campaign into a getout-the-vote operation.

Accurate statistics are of limited use in that regard because rape and sexual assault have been declining for decades. So

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people’s lives than to maximize compliance.

Criminal law traditionally served to punish wrongdoing. There’s nothing wrong with unwittingly violating the plans of regulators, elected or otherwise. It’s simply unjust to brand innocents as criminals for accidental noncompliance.

Strict liability also undermines the presumption of innocence.

The defendant ought to be held innocent until proven guilty in both deed and intent.

Morissette v. United States “The purpose and obvious effect of doing away with the requirement of a guilty intent is to ease the prosecution's path to conviction.”

A free and just society doesn’t ease the path to conviction for

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too: one proto-statesman representing a couple dozen more.

So, there’s your justice argument. The graduate students just want all their rights of Hillsdale citizenship. Plus, Hillsdale is a college, a partnership.

Though these are late additions to the partnership, it doesn’t Christ’s parable of the laborers, in which the same denarius was paid “unto this last” — the late

paid to the men who came with the dawn, denies us a right to reject the graduate students’ desire to join with us in the privilege of student government.

The Hillsdale student community is more than the events and clubs that the Student tates. While the integration of the graduate students into this step toward further friendship between grad students and undergrads is simple.

ness of our youth. We produce what C.S. Lewis called “men without chests,” and we spread throughout society virtues antithetical to the thumos (“bristling reaction of an animal in face of a threat or a possible threat,” acproper to every soul.

And especially to the male soul. For, to put it bluntly, stupidity is part of the essence of manhood. Now, usually, we call this virtue “courage,” but this is mostly a difference of degree, no human, and no man especially, could motivate himself to do things neither immediately nor ever conducive to his own selfish pleasure, to be bold for its for the good of others when necessary.

In an age when cultural elites are rapidly coming to regard differences between sexes as imaginary products of a society biased in favor of men, when more women populate and graduate from most college campuses than men, and when dominated by men (construction, manufacturing, agriculture) are fading before globalization and automation, it is refreshing to see a group of young men little dirty and bloody. Theodore

purchase on this campus, but his description of masculine virtue rings true to the Naval Battle: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither You’ll probably never see me wrestling my fellow males in hone my masculine virtue in other activities. But maybe sometime I should. After all, there’s nothing wrong with a little mud.

As long as I don’t come out of it with a parasite.

Senior Jack Butler is assistant opinions editor and presi-

What war on women?

started carrying a handgun after being robbed twice. She made the low her to exercise her right to bear arms in New Jersey. She was wrong. New Jersey doesn’t recognize Pennsylvania carry licenses, so she faced a three-year mandatory minimum sentence and a conviction that would ruin her medical career. Under public pressure,

This objection is valid. Admittedly, if people can be punished

and the football stadium, but the contents of its water are questionable, to say the least. But when did such considerations ing around in the mud, scraping

whose loss not all had mourned: the Naval Battle.

Most of its vessels do not last long in the water, meaning the “battle” usually devolves into

laid aside in favor of strict liability.

The regulators, be they congressmen or bureaucrats, will counter that strict liability is necessary to ensure maximum compliance.

The original strict liability regulations were designed to force inno-

of campus. They should have a voice in how those fees are spent. If you’re worried about a coup by the didn’t-want-tostop-going-to-schoolers, stop it. They want one seat. That’s

year. Some of us were hoping this disruption would end.

But no. Yet again, armies of male students charged from their respective dorms to engage in an activity at once childish, stupid,

Too many laws to know regulations.

In Federalist No. 62, Publius warned of this: “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read...”

They cannot be guessed, either, for many laws criminalize behavior that would otherwise be acceptable. For example, in Michigan, if you are purchasing poultry for resale, you can be convicted of a misdemeanor and face 90 days in jail for failing to record the license plate number of the vehicle delivering the birds. No ethical system teaches that poultry delivery license registration is a moral imperative.

Lamentably, many of these crimes are “strict liability offenses,”

of tables. As the article men-

only a little more power than Queen Elizabeth II. It’ll be the

The naval battle is stupid, and that’s OK

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1,000-page laws. Each day, regulatory agencies issue rules with

“Taxation without representation” was the rallying cry of pears on every Washington, D.C. license plate, and lies at the heart of the statesmenin-training’s desire to have a

and other potentially caddish acts that even the DOJ admits “are not criminal.”

According to one Department of Justice survey, more than half the respondents said they didn't report the assault because they serious enough to report.” More than a third said they weren't clear on whether the incident was a crime or even if harm was intended. But President Obama uses these surveys to justify using the terms “rape” and “sexual assault” interchangeably.

And yet those who question the alleged rape epidemic are the a boorish attempt at an undesired ously.

not an exception; it is par for the course. To listen to pretty much anyone in the Democratic Party objective measure, things have been going great for women for a Women earn 57 percent of bachelor's degrees, 63 percent of master's degrees and 53 percent of doctorates. They constitute the and the majority of managers.

8 percent more than single men without children in most cities. medical school applicants and nearly 80 percent of veterinary school enrollees. “mancession” — hit men much harder, and women recovered and job choices, pay equity is pretty much here already. Sure, this is a snapshot, but few serious a race in which women are surging ahead.

A broad coalition of feminist groups, Democratic Party activists and the journalists who carry water for them refuse to recognize the progress women have made unless it is in the context of how “fragile” these victories are.

Going by the endless stream of

fundraising emails I get from the Democratic Party, Emily's List editorials — and other usual suspects, we're always one election away from losing it all. If Harry and churning butter for you.

Obviously, this isn't all about elections. There's a vast feminist industrial complex that is addicted to institutionalized panic.

On college campuses, feminist and gender studies departments depend almost entirely on a constant drumbeat of crisis-mongerrelevant courses alive. Abortion rights groups now use “women's health” and “access to abortion on demand” as if they are synsubsidy for birth control pills is tantamount to a federal forced breeding program.

Sure, women still face challenges. But the system feminists have constructed cannot long surin the permanence of women's progress. The last thing the generals need is for the troops to ended a long time ago — and the women won.

Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and editor-at-large of National Review Online.

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Explore the connections inherent in all knowledge Rebekah Basinger Special to the Collegian I’m an English major who is hardly ever happier than when analyzing a poem and who would never tire of rereading parts of “Gilead.” But rather than taking as many English classes as possible, I have taken classes in history, politics, and philosophy. I’ve found it a fruitful approach among many possible rewarding courses of study, and would encourage fellow students with a broad interest in the humanities and who have only one major to do likewise.

To an underclassman considering an English, history, politics, or philosophy your deepest love in the humanities. It may be hard to choose, but don’t doublemajor and don’t have any minors. This method will allow you to have a clear focus, and help you maintain the necessary balance in education between breadth and depth.

But then, from that central major, you can branch outward. Take the other classes in the humanities that interest you. And

certainly take classes in math, science,

All knowledge is ultimately connected.

There are direct applications between the insights of 17th-century political thinkers that you learn in Western Heritage II with Assistant Professor of History Matthew Gaetano that can illuminate your appreciation of those same thinkers in the Congress class with Associate Professor of Politics Kevin Portteus.

Extra humanities classes are enjoyable, make your mind work in different ways, and ultimately reinforce the central trunk of your main major. I think I’m a better English major because I’ve taken American Political Thought and Medieval Philosophy. From the outset of my studies here, I have been able to think about exactly (Art by Joel Calvert) what studying English means in part by considering it alongside simi- politics class on a person you’ve covered lar alternative disciplines. Biochemistry in a history class, such as Locke. Maybe could show you what English is not. But you’re an English major who isn’t planby being more related, history, philoso- ning on taking a philosophy class. You phy, and politics have showed me what may be surprised how much Instructor of

Truth is worth dying for Emma Vinton Collegian Reporter Their names are James Foley and Stephen Sotloff. They were two American citizens killed this year under the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorist regime.

Freelance journalist James Foley was beheaded in Syria by ISIS in response to U.S. airstrikes and military actions in August. This month, ISIS militants murdered journalist Steven Sotloff after his year-long captivity.

Both Foley and Sotloff are witnesses to things worth dying for.

They were both journalists who freely worked in the most dangerous parts of the world. They realized that journalism, rather than just being a career, was a vital necessity to life.

They saw the evil of the world and decided to live amid it in order to report the truths of it. Foley, after his rein 2011, proceeded to Syria, where he was murdered. The horrors of kidnapping, torture, and death were fears that could not restrain Foley from pursuing the truth where it could be found, and ensuring that Americans knew that truth.

In the words of Secretary of State John Kerry, Foley was a courageous American who “went to the darkest of places to shine the light of truth... who lived out the meaning of the word journalism.”

They recognized that truth is something worth dying for.

More important than just being journalists, Foley and Sotloff were American citizens. They are still American citizens, and should be revered as true citizen to be killed by ISIS. And a strike against an American is a strike against the whole country itself.

And most importantly, they were devout men of faith who upheld their beliefs at all costs. They did not just

is unique to my major as well as the strengths all four disciplines share.

But even if you are an upperclassman, you can still follow this approach. Maybe you’re a history major who hasn’t taken a politics class beyond Constitution. For your last semester here, you could take a

say that they believed, but they put their faith into action at great personal risk, even to the extent of laying down their lives.

During his captivity, Foley prayed the rosary by counting off the 100 Hail Marys on his knuckles. It was a source of comfort and hope for him.

Despite the separation from his friends and family, prayer was a connection to those he knew were praying for him also.

“If nothing else, prayer was the glue that enabled my freedom, an inner being released during a war in which the regime had no real incentive to free us,” Foley said, after being released in 2011.

Sotloff was a devout Jew who fasted and prayed during his imprisonment. The Washington Post reported that he would feign sickness during Yom Kippur in order to keep the fast, and would pray facing toward Jerusalem by adjusting the angle at which his Muslim captors prayed.

Foley and Sotloff recognized that faith is something worth dying for.

Americans can, should, and indeed must learn from these exemplary men.

They are an endangered species in America these days. Foley and Sotloff were the truest patriots and faithful Their names are Foley and Sotloff, and they must be remembered for their love. It was love which prompted them to do what they did. It was love for journalism, for the seeking of the truth, which prompted them on their way.

Love for America was their crime.

Love for God and their faith supplied the stronghold throughout the strife, love will provide the reward.

Junior Emma Vinton is a member of the Dow Journalism Program studying English.

Natalie deMacedo News Editor The Washington Post reports that as many as 70 percent of married men cheat on their wives, while the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that only 14 percent of violent crimes are committed by women. Men cheat, but women don’t kill.

Gillian Flynn entangles the typical with the atypical, the believable with the unbelievable, in her 2012 crime novel, “Gone Girl.” A movie rendition of the book debuts in theaters Friday.

“The truth is, women are not given enough credit for how mean, and how feral, they can be,” Flynn told the Chicago Tribune last week.

She’s right. Women aren’t used to seeing themselves as purely evil characters. Even if we blast Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” after a bitter break-up, we will probably settle for a carton of Ben and Jerry’s and exposing our unfaithful partner on Facebook and Yik Yak. The book took only a month to make it to number one on the the New York Times best-seller list and it has sold over six million copies.

This wild success has readers, critics, and publishers asking the same question: “What made this book so popular?” Simply put, it tackles an ever present problem — what to do with a cheating man — with a convention-destroying twist.

The book begins in the present with husband Nick Dunne, a clueless fool, searching for his missing wife Amy.

— a serious affront to marriage, no doubt, but also somehow more understandable. Nick doesn’t like his wife, but neither do we. us, little is left for us to like about her.

In the last pages we see murderous and manipulative Amy has enslaved Nick, forcing him to raise her baby and never turn her in to the police.

Flynn doesn’t let him escape.

Justice doesn’t rule.

Does Nick’s punishment actual-

own perspective. Maybe you’ve taken Intro but are intimidated by an upper-level philosophy course.

You might get it the second time around,

It’s a worthy challenge.

stance, you should still try to take all four, not omitting the one that scares you or you might disagree with the most. Yes, you may have taken core classes in all of these disciplines. Though the introductory classes are a necessary beginning, further classes truly introduce you to the discipline and the style of writing proper to it. Here’s an example: In Western and American Heritage, you don’t have to write a full-length paper. You could go through Hillsdale as a humanities major without writing a history research essay. you started.

Yet what I have appreciated most about these extra classes in all four disciplines is that they remind me that my discipline, beautiful and insightful as it is, is help my understanding of man’s multifaceted nature be a little more complete than it otherwise would be.

Junior Rebekah Basinger is a George Washington Fellow.

of pursuing wisdom and thinking rightly.

Saul Alinsky: required reading Nate Brand Special to the Collegian Hillsdale College needs a little more Lucifer.

Lucifer, the original “radical,” receives a shoutout in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which should be required reading for every Hillsdale College student.

Alinsky’s views and tactics go against everything the college stands for, and that is why his book, or excerpts from it, should be added to the American Heritage Reader. The Reader already contains speeches from Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt which are included to provide a contrary school of thought.

It is time to arm students with some insight into modern progressivism and its tactics.

“Rules for Radicals” provides a look at the American left that students will not get from studying Wilson and Roosevelt, and that they definitely won’t receive from studying the Founders. Wilson and Roosevelt offer a nice look at the roots of progressivism in America, but say very little of the tactics the progressives use. And it is great and all that Hillsdale students can quote the Founders like robots, but no good will come of that when the left smears them as close-minded, bigoted, racist tea-baggers.

The importance of reading Saul Alinsky is twofold. First, what better way to truly know what you believe than confronting one of the bluntest outlines of the opposing viewpoint? Second, when the left throws a punch your way, it is best to know where they are coming from so you can react.

Hillsdale is comprised of students who come mostly from conservative Christian households, many of which have as much exposure to progressive thinking as having once driven behind a Prius. No one will deny that the “Hillsdale bubble” exists and that, at this point, it’s a cli-

The fury of the scorned Interspersed are Amy’s perfectly romcom journal entries from the past.

They meet, he’s charming, she falls in love — and then things start spiraling downward. Go no further, unless you want to ruin the movie for yourself: spoilers ahead.

The Amy of her journal is altogether likeable. She gives up her wealth, urban life, and standard of living for a self-absorbed, angry, put-off husband.

She tries to be the “cool girlfriend,” the southern wife, and the supportive daughter-in-law every man desires.

But the Nick of Amy’s diary and the one who narrates half the book fesses his professor-student affair, he loses his charm. The rest of the novel spins from Nick’s dirty secret.

From here, “Gone Girl” could have become a conventional tale of the wronged woman and her quest for justice — the plot of a typical Lifetime channel movie. Yet Amy is the quintessential “unreliable narrator.” As Flynn unveils Amy’s sordid past, we learn that Nick may be a cheater, but that his wife is a sociopath. This puts

Philosophy Lee Cole’s teaching Aquinas on human nature helps you to think more deeply when Robinson talks about the soul in “Gilead.”

Maybe you’ve decided what you think about the intellectual disagreements between the history and politics departments, and you’d rather take classes with what you consider a more robust account of Lincoln. Being willing to take classes in departments with a different angle on the world but examining the same sorts of topics that your favorite department does is a way of showing that you are open to dialogue and discussion. And what is liberal education without the exchange of ideas? Hearing what Associate Professor of History Richard Gamble has to say about Lin-

wife worth a lifetime of living in fear of her? Perhaps if Amy hadn’t murdered her doting ex-lover Desi, you could see her as insane, but not evil.

Her past actions, however, and selfabsorbed nature negate any goodness she previously had.

Flynn’s carefully-crafted c l e v e r ness keeps readers devouring pages.

By the time we make it to the end, we, like Nick, can’t escape. Even if seeing Nick trapped by an evil wife makes us sick, there is no way to put the book down before we cringe at Amy’s last word.

The book’s moral compass is questionable, but Flynn is remarkable.

With disturbing brilliance, she allows women to live vicariously through Amy. We get the sweet revenge on our cheating ex-lover we never could have plotted. But we never have to battle through the ethics of Amy’s decision.

We wonder if we could be a criminal mastermind like Amy, and then pass “Gone Girl” on to a friend telling Flynn doesn’t let us moralize until it’s too late. She created a thriller without a clear protagonist or antagonist that manages to spin the story of an estranged marriage into a merciless tale of meticulous planning and devious plot twists, all while satiating the vindictive, feral side of womankind: There should be no mercy for the cheating man.

Junior Natalie deMacedo is news editor studying English and journalism.

ché. But bubbles pop, and students need to be exposed to the real world before it shakes them down for all their marbles.

Saul Alinsky can quickly enlighten students to what they are up against in the war of ideas. The book starts by outlining his ideology of change. Like the liberal elite he influenced, Alinsky views the average citizen as nothing more than a pawn to be manipulated in a game of chess. The public will succumb to the pressures of the culture. And as an agent of change, it is your role to manipulate what the public believes.

He continues by giving examples

Hillsdale College needs a little more Lucifer.

that life is a series of conflicts between the Haves and the Have-Nots, and through organized revolutionary change, history progresses. This is entirely contrary to the thinking of the College. Hillsdale’s Mission statement explicitly says: “The College values the merit of each unique individual, rather than succumbing to the dehumanizing, discriminatory trend.”

The real value of reading Saul Alinsky is to understand his tactics for being an effective organizer and agent of change. These tactics can be seen played out in American politics every single day. They outline how to obtain power and influence, how to motivate people, how to ridicule

and polarize your enemy, and how to bring about change. Progressive leaders like Obama and Clinton were influenced by much of Alinsky’s thinking, and they have been successful in utilizing his tactics.

Two examples that quickly come to mind are the dehumanization of Sarah Palin in 2008 and the vicious attacks on Romney and his time with Bain Capital. Alinsky’s final rule, of the 12 outlined in the book, is “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” and it has been effectively deployed against conservative leaders. Hello, Koch brothers.

Just last week, the Washington Free Beacon discovered a series of fangirl-like letters from college-age Hillary Clinton to Alinsky. This relationship went as far as Alinsky offering Hillary a job, which she turned down to attend Yale Law School.

Even William F. Buckley, one of the founders of the modern conservatism, did not shy away from Alinsky. In fact, he brought the community organizer onto his show “Firing Line” to discuss their differences.

Hillsdale College does a tremendous job preparing students for living a life in pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful, but none of that matters when the left uses Alinsky tactics to demonize you. Then, far too often, conservatives get stuck in the mud, and fail to articulate their message.

The solution is simple: Expose Hillsdale students to the ways of Alinsky and to modern progressive tactics by adding “Rules for Radicals” to the American Heritage Reader.

Senior Nate Brand is the founder of Hillsdale Young Americans for Freedom.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, In her piece on the recent debate between Rea Hederman and John Strinka, Kate Patrick badly mischaracterizes the Hillsdale College Economics program, suggesting that it “tends to be one-sided in its teaching.” I wish to correct this view. As and Political Economy programs I’ve looked at over 20 undergraduate economics programs at strong liberal arts colleges and major universities. Our Hillsdale programs are very competitive and are not “one-sided” or biased in the way her piece suggests.

First, economics is a social science, not an ideology. Ms. Patrick seems unaware of the distinction (hence her mischaracterization of Mr. Strinka and later of advocates of Distributist or Agrarian policies as economists). As with other sciences, there is a standard body of generally accepted theory and method within the discipline. This is what we teach at Hillsdale, and our program does not differ from economics programs elsewhere in this respect. We work very hard to ensure that our majors receive an education in the discipline that is comparable with what they would receive in economics programs at other schools. It is fairly easy to demonstrate our success in this — for example, the percentage of our students going on to strong graduate programs is remarkably high, and their success rates in these programs are well above average.

Second, the Hillsdale economics program actually gives students a greater exposure to socialist thought

than do the vast majority of economics programs I’ve examined. My own History of Economic Thought courses — mandatory for majors — cover Marxism and other forms of socialism in some depth, and give them a very fair treatment. We also offer on occasion (e.g. next semester) Comparative Economic Systems. Socialist arguments for central economic planning are also covered in the two elective courses in Austrian economics. So contrary to Ms. Patrick’s assertions, Economics at Hillsdale does not put students into a “bubble.” Our students generally have far more exposure to serious socialist thought than those in other schools I’ve taught or examined. That examination of soone-sidedness or ideology — there are very serious conceptual and practical problems with socialism. This is why most economics programs I know of give no consideration at all to socialist economic thought (unlike Hillsdale, ironically).

The Hillsdale Economics program has been quite successful in building a reputation for rigorous economics and we are continually working to improve it. It is important that it not be misrepresented.

Sincerely, Charles N. Steele, Ph.D. Herman and Suzanne Dettwiler Chair in Economics Associate Professor

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Students pet exotic animals at county fair Bob Evans expands

Hillsdale facility

Jessie Fox Collegian Reporter

The Hillsdale County Fair is usually a place to ride the Ferris wheel or indulge in fried food, but this year, visitors could also meet a baby tiger.

Representatives from Premier Animal Attractions Inc. — a family-owned, private zoo — offered fair-goers the opportunity to hold and be photographed with Aurora, a 13-week-old Bengal tiger.

Senior Sheridan Markatos anticipated meeting her favorite animal all week and immediately fell in love when the tiger was placed in her lap.

“Her paws were so big! She was wrapping them around my arm as I was feeding her the bottle,” Markatos said. “I just wanted to take her home with me.”

“There was no way I was missing that opportunity,” sophomore Jessica Hurley said. “It was totally worth twenty dollars.”

A steady crowd of spectators crowded Premier Animal Attractions’s tent the entire fair

Walker Mulley Collegian Reporter

(From left) Sophomore Sarah Benson, junior Corinne Zehner, and senior Sherdian Markatos hold 13-week-old Bengal tiger Aurora at the Hillsdale County Fair. (Courtesy of Premier Animal Attractions Inc.)

week, eager to catch a peek of Aurora climbing and running in her cage between photos. When Andrew Gehringer, her handler, would approach the cage with a bottle of milk, she hungrily lept

into his arms so he could deliver her to the participants waiting on a nearby bench.

Although Aurora is young, she already consumes three pounds of meat per day. In ma-

turity, she will weigh around 400 pounds and consume over 100 pounds per day.

Participants also had the opportunity to pose with a Fennec fox or a Sulcata tortoise.

Bob Evans Farms committed to expanding its Hillsdale plant this summer and is working to select a construction company, according to Margaret Standing, former senior director of corporate communications at Bob Evans Farms, Inc. The $4 million investment in the Hillsdale plant, one of the company’s packaged food production facilities, is intended to increase production volume, improve quality assurance, fund renovations, and add 17 jobs according to a Bob Evans Farms press release.

“I’m extremely excited about it, and it’s a great honor for Hillsdale for Bob Evans to be expanding its facility and creating much-needed job opportunities,” Hillsdale Mayor Scott Sessions said. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for Hillsdale.”

The 17 new jobs will likely add $600,000 to local payroll,

according to the press release.

The facility already employs more than 100 people.

“I hope this is just the beginning of greater employment growth and better economic times for the city of Hillsdale,” Sessions said. “I’m just really thankful to Bob Evans for doing this in Hillsdale.”

“As we look to the future, investing in the communities where Bob Evans has enjoyed just makes sense,” Bob Evans Farms Chairman and CEO Steve Davis said in the press release.

Bob Evans Farms, Inc. operates more than 500 Bob Evans restaurants and, under its BEF Foods segment, produces and distributes refrigerated side dishes, pork sausage, and refrigerated and frozen convenience food items under the Bob Evans and Owens Inc. brand names.

Governor appoints local nurse to state board Kacey Reeves Collegian Freelancer Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Amy Zoll, director of obstetrics and women’s health at Hillsdale Community Health Center and Hillsdale alumna, to serve as one of the four new members on the Michigan Board of Nursing Aug. 13.

Zoll and the other newly appointed members will meet with the rest of the board monthly to discuss and revise what Zoll describes as “the big picture” of Michigan nursing — regulations regarding hospital standards, accreditations for nursing schools, and disciplinary actions against malpractice.

“These are great choices for will effectively assist the board in overseeing the practice of Michigan’s registered and practical nurses and nurse specialists,” Gov. Rick Snyder said in a press release.

Zoll will represent nurse midwives, a group of midlevel practitioners expected to grow in size as levels of primary care providers decrease, until her term ends in 2017.

“Obamacare has changed the game so you’re going to see less M.D.s coming out of school. We have a lot of exciting things go-

ing through the legislature right now with the midlevel and I want to be a part of that. I want to have a voice and speak for my colleagues and hopefully make some good change,” Zoll said.

2011.

A chairperson from the Mich-

Midwives reached out to Zoll and invited her to apply for the board earlier this year.

“I was having one began nursof those moing at HCHC ments where in 1993 after I felt like, ‘Is she earned this all there her bachis?’

Then elor’s degree this email in history came and I from Hillsthought, ‘Oh dale College my gosh, and her assowhat an opciate’s degree portunity to in nursing be a part of from Jackson this great Community board and (Courtesy of Judy Gabriele) College. Over what they’re the next seven doing with years she served as staff nurse, innovative changes,’” Zoll said. charge nurse, patient representative, and quality improvement expressed surprise when they coordinator in the obstetrics de- reviewed Zoll’s application and partment. learned that she was from a Zoll left to become a midwife small town, but Zoll was thankin 2000 at the urging of Chuck ful for the opportunity to repreBianchi, HCHC’s CEO. She sent Hillsdale. earned her nurse midwife cer“I want them to know about Hillsdale because we have made and practiced midwifery until the patient our focus and safety she was asked to rejoin HCHC our focus,” Zoll said. “We do as the director of obstetrics in things well and our statistics

2014 Elections Washington State House of Representatives Eric Renz v.

Hans Zeiger Nathan Brand the November election, voters are inundated with negative TV ads, junk campaign emails, and mailers that only get looked at

on their way to the recycling bin.

Hillsdale alumnus Hans Zeiger is breaking through the clutter by personally reaching out to voters to secure his re-election bid.

Starting in 2010, when he House of Representatives, Hans Zeiger and his volunteers began hand-writing postcards to constituents to make a personal connection. In 2010, Zeiger and his volunteers sent 18,000 postcards and in 2012 his campaign sent 19,000 more. He anticipates eclipsing those numbers for this election.

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Along with a personal note on every postcard, Zeiger includes his phone number so the constituent is able to respond to the message.

“I actually get a lot of calls thanking me for the postcard,” Zeiger said. “With so many mailers going out during election time, people on the receiving end appreciate the personal touch.”

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“It’s really an honor. We’ve never had something like this before. They couldn’t have picked a better nurse,” HCHC obstetric nurse Gloria Groshko said. easily transition into her new role on the board while maintaining her current responsibilities at HCHC. “I work with amazing nurses who have been very supportive of this appointment and are willing to do whatever they have to do, because it’s about them too,” Zoll said. “I’m not representing Amy — I’m representing nursing and the community.”

Zoll is grateful for the opportunities she’s been given at HCHC that prepared her to serve on the board.

“I knew very early what my profession would be, but I did not know that it would take me where it has,” Zoll said. “I feel fortunate to be a part of HCHC.”

teers enjoy participating in the unique campaign tactic.

“Volunteers like it just as much as the people on the receiving end,” Zeiger said.

Zeiger hosts postcard parties where volunteers meet likeminded peers, eat pizza and soda, and write individualized notes to constituents. According to Zeiger, volunteers enjoy this much more than phone banking and other volunteer activities.

Volunteers can also write postcards on their own time. One committed volunteer, a retired school teacher, loves writing postcards. She “literally writes hundreds of postcards,” Zeiger said.

With more people today getting rid of their landlines, candidates are having to get creative to reach their voters. Zeiger’s postcard efforts may be the solution since everyone is required to have an address to vote.

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In the Midwest Regional tournament, Hillsdale’s golf team showed they can compete with nationally ranked teams.

The tournament was hosted at Chicago’s Harborside International golf courses.

The Chargers carded an overall score of 625 with a seasonlow tournament round of 302 on Monday.

After sitting in the middle of the pack at 17th place at the end school Ohio Dominican for 21st place out of 34 teams. Hillsdale College (32), as well.

Senior co-captain Matt Chalberg continued his streak as the Chargers’ tournament low scorer with rounds of 73 and 79 for a total of 152 which gave him a Freshman players Ben Meola and Joe Torres shot tournament scores of 159 and 168, respectively.

Freshman Steve Sartore cardonly two shots back of Chalberg in the tourney.

“Steve has gotten a little better

every round and it is to his credit.

He has made some improvements to his game and it’s paying off,” head coach Mike Harner said.

Senior co-captain Brad Mitzner shot both a collegiate career low and a high on the two days of the tournament, scores of 75 and 90 for a 165 total.

“The weather and swing gave way,” Mitzner laughed.

Coach Harner said this speaks to the drastic change in conditions from Monday to Tuesday.

“To his credit, [Brad’s] demeanor didn’t change from one swing to another, through the highs and the lows. That’s something that’s very important,” Harner said.

The tournament served as a good measure of comparison for the team, Harner said.

“We know we can shoot competitive rounds. Malone is nationten shots back,” Chalberg said.

The team played two different courses on days with completely different conditions. In addition, they were only able to play a practice round on one of the two courses.

“The weather on Monday was 76 with hardly a puff of wind and the courses were there for the taking,” Harner said.

“The Windy City lived up to it’s reputation” on Tuesday, Chalberg joked.

the golf team will head to Ada, Ohio for 36 continuous holes at the Polar Bear Classic, the last Conference

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To prepare for the championship, Harner has invited Champion’s Tour player Michael Allen to work with the team next week.

“On Monday we’re going to do some stone-cold sober evaluation of every player’s technique.

Michael is another set of eyes and one of tremendous experience and knowledge. I think our kids can learn a lot from him,” Harner said.

Tuesday, the team will play a round at their home course, Bella Vista, in Coldwater.

“We will move [Michael] around the course to play a couple holes with different groups and have him teach them about course management. One of the unique things about college golf is sometimes you don’t get to practice a course before you have to play the course. You have to be able to read a course and get your ball around. Being able to have a game that travels is the sign of someone who understands how to play the game of golf. Michael will help us with all that.”

INTENSE CROSS-COUNTRY TRAINING UNITES RUNNERS

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cause we never get a break. It seems like I’m always running,”

It’s Thursday, and for crosscountry team members, that means they woke up at 6:00 a.m. and started practice at 6:30 a.m.

tough, but I couldn’t imagine Hillsdale without it.”

The pressure placed on a cross-country runner to perform well is different from other team sports. Cross-country is teamoriented but at the same time, success is determined solely by individual performance.

Running is a whole-body experience. If all the important elements are not balanced, like water, protein, sleep, vitamins, and reduced stress, runners won’t perform well and the team will not succeed, head coach Joe

runners practices together 5-6 times a week while in season.

Cross-country runners are in season or training about 90 percent of the year, which makes for an intense schedule, but one that “It’s just easiest to hangout with fellow runners. They just get it. All my other friends are just starting their homework at 10 when I am heading to bed,” senior Rachel Warner said.

Training for the fall crosscountry season starts in June.

After cross-country ends in December, the athletes have a couple weeks off before indoor track. Following indoor, they move right into the outdoor season. The last couple weeks in May allow the runners to recover in order to gear up again.

ance for everything. Running, academics, social, faith all need to be in order,” he said. be eating iron-rich foods that are closest to their natural state.

“Some of us feel guilty when we eat three Oreo cookies,” Warner said.

his diet: “Mostly I eat healthy.

Whatever and whenever I want.

I mean, not to the point of getting fat. It’s mostly about developing a healthy lifestyle.”

On top of running a weekly average of 45 miles for the ladies and 75 miles for the men, Coachathletes to spend time outside of practice cross training. The team spends a few hours a week in the pool, on the elliptical machines, and stationary bikes. workouts. However, we can’t just look at our cross-training workouts as a break from running. We still need to approach it with the same work ethic as our normal practices,” senior John Wierenga said.

The runners need constant support from their team as they participate in what seems like a never-ending season.

Aumock celebrates 25 years with fitness program Emma Vinton Assistant Editor

On her way into work, Alesia Aumock listens to the song “Maniac” from the movie “Flashdance” from her own mixtape for motivation. Her day starts with cycling at 8 a.m., then again at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., with Aerobic Dance at 5 p.m. and Mat Science at 6 p.m.

Aumock has been active in the October 1st marked the 25th anniversary of the institution of the Hillsdale Fitness program, piloted by Aumock. a little girl, Aumock enjoyed taking dance lessons and life guarding at Sandy Beach recreation area during the summers.

She was a cheerleader at Hillsdale High School and College, and then was the college’s cheer coach for three years. She also tions in Jackson and Jonesville, Michigan.

On Oct. 1st, 1989, she was hired by the athletic director at

the time, Jack MacAvoy, to start the community. A few months later, she began formulating col-

“Over the years, it’s just continuously doing something fresh and new, and you have a variety of choices,” Aumock said. “I want to give everybody something new and exciting. I dont get injured, because I don’t do the same thing all the time.”

Though she teaches a variety of classes, from cardio kickboxing to deepwater aerobics, Aumock says that her favorite thing to teach is a combination of everything she knows how to teach. She

she is always learning something new. Over the years, she has also worked with most of the Hillsdale College athletic teams. “[The best part of my job is] valuable to the people that are participating, so they can reach their goals,” she said. “And on the side I like it when they sing

in class. It makes it really fun.”

Director of Athletics at the college, Don Brubacher, who has worked with Aumock for the past six years, said that she has been committed to her work, especially towards the community members.

“She is very interested in the individuals she works with,”

two years, so Instructor Alesia Aumock high-fives students in her cycling class. (Elena Creed/Collegian)

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us to bring all the video feeds back to a control room in the stu-

The Audio-Visual Department is now streaming free broadcasts of volleyball, football, and basketball home games. Additionally, they have added a slow motion aspect and a third camera.

Although the AV department already streams live broadcasts of campus lectures like CCAs and has offered a paid streaming service for sporting events,

cable allows the video feed to stream to the internet much more easily.

“The current system is new. In the past the slow motion replays

“There’s a recently completed ber optic cable that runs from different points on campus, including the sports complex. It allows

liberal arts well.

“It starts with brain function and goes to every aspect of life: intellectual well being, physical, mental, emotional,” Brubacher said.

Aumock also an essential part of the liberal arts.

“In order to have

Charger games to stream live

broadcasts are free and improved quality. Brad Monastiere, sports information director, said that the college has committed to improving its video equipment, and this is one of the results.

Sam Brown, video content editor, said the improved quality is a result of the AV department’s

Brubacher said. “She provides an individualized approach to all her work. She cares a lot about her clients and students.” cially in the new physical well-

now it’s hi-def, and it’s actually the same system that ESPN and a lot of professional sports use, which is also something that not very many colleges have,” Brown said.

Parents of Charger athletes new service.

“On our volleyball team alone, we have players from Washington, California, and Virginia, among other states. This service allows them - free of charge - to watch the games live,” Monastiere said in an email.

Kyra Rodi, a volleyball player from California, is among those players whose parents are most excited about the change.

“Both my parents and I are

really excited to have free, livebroadcasting of our games. It’s great to be able to share with family and friends how hard our team works, even when they can’t be at our games in person,” Rodi said.

Brown said alumni are also excited about this. the volleyball game against Findfootball broadcasts will occur at the homecoming game against Grand Valley on Saturday.

Brown said that students will be able to watch the game from the TVs in the union, as well as from their computers.

“It has the potential to draw more people to a game if they happen to see it online. If [students] can see that a game’s going on right now and something exciting is happening, they might want to make the quick walk down to the stadium,” Brown said. “I think it will increase our student body’s connection and appreciation for our sports.”

In addition to enhancing student involvement in the athletic department, this also provides the opportunity to sell advertisements. Brown said there will be local and national ads.

The AV department will also be able to make highlight videos of the games.

Sophomore Nathanael Meadowcroft, student worker in the AV department and technical director for Chargers volleyball games, is looking forward to using the new equipment.

“With three cameras and slow motion, it was a little more dif-

“It is the dimensions of wellness.”

Sophomore Rachelle Ferguson, who took Aumock for Physical Wellness, said that Aumock made the class fun.

“She has kind of a quirky personal-

ity,” she said. “In the lab especially she was super comfortable and very friendly and warm.”

Aumock, who has been patiently awaiting the opening of the new Dawn Potter Arena and quetball courts for her classes for the last three weeks. She hopes that the new center will open this week.ww “It’s like a dream come true,” she said of the new center. “It’s just fabulous.”

Aumock said that she has a growth mindset, and optimistic attitude which energizes her and enables her to accomplish whatever is set before her, despite the challenges. She has no plan to “If they think I can do it, I can,” she said. “This type of work is in a very rewarding ca“And when I get on the bicycle, it is automatic, I start smiling,” she continued. “I like it, it makes me happy. And the music, and moving and dancing. I love that. I guess you just really have to think it’s fun. I do.”

BOX SCORES Football Hillsdale: 19 Indianapolis: 24

Tackles: Tim Moinet 7-2

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Volleyball Hillsdale: 0 Northern Michigan: 3

Alex Fogt 4 yd pass from Weekly Leaders Rushing: Jack Wiseman 11-71 Passing: Receiving: John Haley 4-62

Hillsdale: 1 Michigan Tech: 3 Season Leaders Kills: Assists: Marissa Owen (355) Digs: Brittany Jandasek (133)

nice,” Meadowcroft said about “Hopefully we’ll end up having graphics too, so I’ll have a scoreboard and stats, and I can build my way up to that,” Brown said that eventually the program may also expand to baseball or indoor track events.

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CHARGERS COME UP SHORT IN INDIANAPOLIS

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If you just looked at the stats, you’d think Hillsdale pounded their way to a convincing win against a playoff-caliber team in Indianapolis.

The Chargers outgained the Greyhounds by 116 yards, ran 27 more plays on offense, and won the time of possession battle 35:10 to the Greyhounds’ 24:50.

But Indianapolis came out on top in the one offensive category that ultimately matters, holding off the Chargers for a 24-19 victory.

“We moved the ball with ease for the most part, but then when we’d get to the end of the drive we’d stall out,” redshirt junior offensive lineman Justice Karmie said. “Luckily we have a great kicker. Steve [Mette] is a stud.”

Mette knocked through four “The good news is we’ve got a really good kicker and he makes Otterbein said. “The bad news is goals. It comes down to that.” end zone until redshirt sophomore quarterback Mark LaPrairie connected with redshirt junior wide receiver Alex Fogt for a 4-yard touchdown with 8:41 remaining in the fourth quarter, making the score 24-19.

Hillsdale’s defense followed up the score with a stop, giving the ball back to the offense with a chance to win the game on the

The Chargers drove all the way down to the Indianapolis 12-yard line, but were stopped on fourth-and-2, dropping their overall record to 2-2.

“We just had to convert a little bit better,” LaPrairie said. “If we go in the end zone the game goes completely different.”

“You change one of those touchdown and we’re kicking a of the game,” Karmie added.

“But on the plus side it’s nice to see that we are moving the ball as well as we did against a really good defense.”

249 yards through the air and a touchdown to go along with 33 yards on the ground. Redshirt sophomore tailback Bennett Lewis missed the game with an ankle injury, but is hopeful to return on Saturday.

Tailbacks sophomore Jack Wiseman and junior Wade Wood sence.

“Both are probably playing the best football they have in their career here so far,” coach Otterbein said. “[They] had some

did a nice job with pass protection.” yards on 11 carries, and Wood contributed 64 yards.

The Chargers will look to bounce back on Saturday against another tough opponent in Grand Valley State University. The team is looking forward to playing in front of the homecoming crowd.

“The whole homecoming environment is going to be really cool to play in,” LaPrairie said.

“I’m really looking forward to it.”

Grand Valley is just 1-3 on the season, but they are better than their record shows, Otterbein said. The Lakers were ranked No. 2 in the nation at the beginning of the season before dropping their off an impressive 66-28 victory over Lake Erie on Saturday.

“They’re coming in and they’re angry,” Karmie said.

“They know they’re not a 1-3 team.”

Grand Valley will pose a number of challenges for Hillsdale. “[They’re] really fast,” coach Otterbein said. “They are as good as any program in the country.”

The Chargers will look to take advantage of a raucous home crowd on Saturday to grab an impressive win and improve to 3-2 on the young season.

Volleyball loses match, mars perfect record Morgan Sweeney Senior Reporter

games and garnering a 5-0 record, the Chargers left their unblemished record in the Upper Peninsula.

Following an eight hour drive to Northern Michigan University, the Chargers lost all three sets to the Wildcats on Friday. The Chargers drove an additional two hours to Michigan Technological University on Saturday where they fell to the Huskies 3-1.

As of Friday, NMU was not only tied with Hillsdale for a perfect season, but they were the keepers of a rather sterling record against the Chargers: In the past 12 years, Hillsdale has managed to defeat them only once.

Despite the discrepancy in past performances, however, the Chargers fought hard and put up a challenge for the Wildcats.

NMU defeated the Chargers by In the second set, the Chargers came out strong but were not able to overcome the wellforced the Wildcats to climb to 29 points to snag the win.

Wolfert came in on the 12th point and served the next six, including three aces. During her serving streak, she also made a key save and a kill from the back row, proving she’s a player that thrives on chasing a comeback.

“I personally love pressure situations,” Wolfert said. “I just told myself it was go time and we just had to at least go down Sophomore Erin Holsinger led the offense with nine kills and a .412 hitting percentage.

Freshman Jessie Kopmeyer also made six kills and no hitting errors in the third set. Freshman libero Brittany Jandasek led the team defensively with 13 digs.

Hillsdale struggled for kills, making 26 hitting errors by night’s end.

“Hitting against [them] this weekend was rough because of the hard defense we faced,” junior Haylee Booms said. “We tried to hit from different angles, one. They penetrated the net really well.”

When Hillsdale was able to get its hits past NMU’s block-

Sophomore Steven Mette kicks one of his four field goals against the University of Indianapolis on Saturday. (Photo Courtesy of Sheridan Markatos)

Top: Junior Jordan Denmark spikes the ball. Bottom: Junior Emily Wolfert celebrates with Denmark. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

ers -- hits that would have been kills against previous opponents -- NMU’s back row turned them into a neatly run offense. The the same.

“They had a strong offense been able to handle it,” Jandasek said. “We just failed to execute everything the way we normally do and know we can.”

The Chargers lost the third set, 22-25.

In Saturday’s match against Michigan Tech, the Chargers Huskies secured wins in both the second and third sets.

Head coach Chris Gravel attributes the Charger loss, at least in part, to the Huskies’ tenacious

middle, which made 12 block assists compared to the Chargers’ four. “[Their middle] did a great job capitalizing on each opportunity and their setters read our positioning very well and distributed their sets accordingly,” Gravel said.

Nevertheless, the Chargers will learn from the weekend. ished a little stronger,” Wolfert said of the Chargers’ game against NMU. “But it just shows that we’re still not where we want to be yet and we still have a lot of work to do if we want to reach our goals.”

The Chargers will play at Wayne State University and at Saginaw Valley State University this weekend.

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Students lead dance lessons throughout the community, sharing love and skill

Hillsdale students are channeling their passion for dance by teaching community lessons.

From ballet to swing dancing, students are sharing the beauty of dance with peers, professors’ children, Hillsdale community members and more. With the help of these college students, little girls are learning to pirouette, twirl, and leap, and students are swinging, hopping, and bopping.

Senior Naomi Wells took over a program started a few years ago that teaches ballet to the children structor of Philosophy Lee Cole hosts the class in his basement for his two daughters and other children of Hillsdale faculty. At the end of the eight week class, perform a recital.

“My students get so excited to show what they’ve been working so hard on,” Wells said. “Seeing them take pride in what they’ve learned is rewarding.”

Wells began dance when she was eight. Since then, she has taught dance at her home studio as an assistant in high school, performs with Hillsdale’s Tower Dancers, and started teaching last year. to escape the busyness of life,”

to do it because it teaches them grace and discipline.”

Senior swing club president Wes Wright teaches a beginner Lindy Hop swing class during dance nights. Lindy Hop is a popular partner dance that fuses a number of dance styles to create an opportunity for individual through an inside turn pass by, and she hit the guy who would be president of swing club the next two years right in the throat.”

That summer, Wright explained he went home and took another beginner lesson. Putting his emphasis back on the basic step over more complicated moves and spins helped him to become a better dancer.

Now, Wright enjoys Lindy exchanges that include lessons with advanced dancers, and he has been teaching swing since his sophomore year.

of fun.”

Off campus, students teach Hillsdale community members at Studio 55 downtown. Juniors Valerie Oresko, Sophia CoyneKosnak, and Anna Kucharski instruct classes in the studio.

Oresko started dance her freshman year of high school, thinking it would be an easy substitute for physical education.

The class did not meet Oresko’s expectations, as it included conditioning and other “CrossFitlike” exercises. However, Oresko fell in love with dance and continued with the help of her

Aaron Pomerantz, who will play male lead Alceste, said. They are focused on how others dress, wear their hair, and how wealthy they are.

Angell added.

The play originally mocked the manners and customs that

so, she’ll stop pulling my hair.’ giving me dirty looks in Bon Appétit.’ Like, wow! Thank you!”

Oresko said teaching has become an “ultimate passion” for her. walk into the studio, and immediately, there’s this chorus of ‘Ms. sibly walk out of that studio without a smile on my face,” Oresko

my future,” Oresko do it, and it would be a really awesome opportunity to own a studio straight out of college.”

to share joy,” Wright said. “Seeing [begin- Junior Valerie Oresko teaches class at Studio 55. ners] get it and then (Elena Creed/Collegian)

Tower Players begin rehearsals for “Misanthrope”

Next month, “The Misanthrope” by Molière will debut on the Tower Player’s stage.

The play, originally written in 1666, tackles human foibles and behaviors that director and Theater Department Chairman George Angell said are just as worthy of having fun poked at them today as they did when the vember 19-22.

According to Angell, the play forces the audience to confront the question of whether or not you should tell the truth all the time no matter what, or rather, you should lie all the time despite the consequences. Unlike in a typical melodrama where good triumphs over evil, “The Misanthrope” leaves the audience wading in a pool of grey.

The society in “Misanthrope”

young, beautiful children’s minds,” Oresko said. “Sometimes [we] forget about the wisdom and joyfulness of children.

They will tell me these little les-

life without it.”

Oresko added that the owner of the studio recently made a suggestion she be the next owner of Studio 55 in a couple years. ing it up to God because that’s a big deal.

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teacher.

Since then, Oresko has taught dance classes at camps and started working for Studio 55 last year. She instructs ages three to 18 in tumbling, modern, pom, and jazz.

Over fall break, Oresko is planning on enduring several long days of training, lectures, and learning dance theory in orba and Pilates as well.

Oresko’s faith is woven with dance since Studio 55 is a Christian business, and she can even open classes with a prayer.

invaded French court during the time period. Angell said he has wanted to direct this play for a long time, but has plans to bring the work into the modern world.

“People expect something nice, safe, and traditional,” Pomerantz said. “[Our rendition] isn’t dangerous, but it isn’t safe.” century French court fashions, dramaturg senior Jennifer Shadle is taking inspiration from 21st century runway fashions.

Shadle said. “Capri pants for men called joggers? That’s so silly.”

Angell and Pomerantz both mentioned suits with shorts as a bizarre new men’s fashion they may incorporate. Pomerantz said “meggings” -- or jeggings for men -- may make an appearance, but he’s hoping they don’t. men up,” Pomerantz added. “The characters are so self-involved and ridiculous.”

Shadle said the only problem with a crazy set and costumes is keeping the audience focused on what is being said. people will still pay attention,” Shadle said.

As a dramaturg, it is Shadle’s that could enlighten actors, set

design and costuming. For example, Shadle said Molière inserted much of his marriage relationship with his wife into his main characters of Alceste and Célimène.

“This could be helpful for the actors to know to help enrich their acting process,” Shadle said.

All three are most excited about their plans to incorporate social media into the production.

Shadle said they are hoping to make a Snapchat account, where actors or audience members could Snapchat each other during the performance. say to please turn off your cell phones, we would ask the audience to turn them on and up,” Angell said.

The kinks of the technological but Angell said they are modernizing every aspect of the play. read a poem or letter on paper, the Tower Players will read them on an iPad or their cell phones.

Cell phones or not, Angell said the messages of the play transcend time. Shadle added that while reading through the know someone like that.”

“The way people treated each other back then is the exact same way we treat each other now.”

Senior Meredith Caton and freshman Gary Dunkerly read in “Misanthrope” auditions.

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Coyne-Kosnak followed her mother’s footsteps and became a professional teacher at the age of 15, 12 years after starting dance.

She has taught a variety of styles in the past, but currently instructs tap, hip hop and lyrical.

Kucharski started dance when gan as an assistant instructor at the age of 13, eventually taking more responsibility as she grew older. Her older sister originally taught at Studio 55, and Kucharski taught as an assistant with her sister before taking over her own ballet classes, teaching girls as young as two and a half to as old as nine.

be in their lives through dance.”

Currently, Studio 55 is expanding and will be adding classes, including adult lessons, in the near future. with dance experience to stop by the studio if they’re interested because we’re always looking to take on more people,” CoyneKosnak said. “Anyone at Hillsdale College who is missing the studio life would love it.”

Even professors practice Melissa Knecht taking sabbatical

Morgan Delp Editor-in-Chief Director of String Studies Melissa Knecht will spend the semester on sabbatical, focusing studying other professors in action, and performing with professional string ensembles.

Danae Witter and Emily Rolka, both commuting from Ann Arbor, will work together to take on Knecht’s immense workload. “[Knecht] typically teaches 16-18 private lessons a week,” Music Department Chair James Holleman said. “She takes on a huge load, and works all day, every day. Not only will she now have the ability to do a research project, but sabbatical also gives her a chance to not be in this sort of intense, non-stop teaching

and focus on something totally different.”

The biggest project for Knecht’s semester is completing “Developing your Music Memory Bank,” a book she has been working on since her last sabbatical, more than seven years ago.

Knecht has gathered research from studying performers in the Chicago and Toledo symphonies.

She said she has already shown the book to Shar Music in Ann Arbor, Mich., which is the largest string supply store in the country.

The two-part teaching manual is for private string teachers of contains a test of musical expertise, which incorporates how experts process music mentally. ple get better and others don’t,” Knecht said. “A lot have had expensive lessons, and stop at a cer-

tain level. Maybe 95 percent of all students quit violin or never get better after a certain age. The way the 5 percent organize things is the way any expert does, in chunks. A musical scheme is like any other language.”

Knecht sets out to understand this type of music comprehension by comparing the language of music to the rules of spoken language. remember hundreds of things, and the way they ‘chunk’ things together allows them to remember many things at once,” Knecht said. “Nobody ever applies music theory to their instrument.

This does some of that, applying music theory to the actual instrument, and what we call knowlbe every solution, but it’s a start.”

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Things

To do and see This week

October 2 Rob Roy Broad Street Underground 9 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.

One of Hillsdale’s own jazz combos, led by vocal-

“Thirsty Thursday’s with Chris McCourry” at the Underground.

October 3 Stonehenge I, II, and III: Paintings by Brian Curtis opens Daughtrey Gallery, Sage Center for the Arts Artist’s Reception on Sunday, 10/5 at 2-4 p.m.

Artist’s Lecture Sunday, 10/5 at 3 p.m. in the Hames Room Former Hillsdale College Art Department faculty member (1979-81) and current director of the Graduate Program in Studio Arts at the University of Miami, Curtis exhibits a series of 40 Stonehenge paintings that explore the mythic dimensions of this iconic Neolithic monument.

October 4 The Guardians Quartet

Doors open 5:30 p.m., concert begins 7 p.m. $5 admission A nationally touring gospel quartet formed in 1988 October 4, 5 Auditions for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 10/5 at 5 p.m., 10/6 at 7 p.m.

A one-minute comedic monologue is required.

Director Kristin Hood will hold auditions. More inOctober 8-11 Almost, Maine Tower Players Production 8 p.m.

“Almost, Maine,” written in 2006, comprises nine short plays that explore love and loss in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. The play has become the most produced play in North “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and has been hailed as the “Our Town” for the 21st Century.

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Christopher Martin: from think tank to classroom Recently hired professor Christopher Martin left his job at the University of Oklahoma to teach at Hillsdale College Jack Butler Assistant Editor Demand had begun to exceed supply.

Last year, economics classes were approaching 28 students per professor, a ratio far above the Hillsdale average of 15.

To rectify this, according to Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram, the economics department began a wide search for partment, a multifaceted process of winnowing down an initial group of about 100 potential candidates by examining resumes, letters of recommendation, interest in undergraduate teaching, At this time, Christopher Martin said he was teaching econom-

ics at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. A previous job as education director at the Institute for Humane Studies had inspired him to return to academia after earning a history degree at Yale and a master’s degree in European studies at Oxford.

“It reminded me how much I loved college, thought, and ideas,” Martin said.

To this end, Martin said he enrolled in George Mason University while still working in D.C. to earn his doctorate in economics, where Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Clark also studied. Though they did not overlap, they shared thesis adviser Dan Klein, and Clark got to know Martin through their education connection.

“I knew of Chris’ character, and I thought very highly of

him,” Clark said. “We studied through the same program, we attended the same conferences, and did mutual research.”

So when Martin learned of the job opening in Hillsdale’s economics department, he applied even though he had a teaching position in Oklahoma. He learned about Hillsdale through his previous career.

“Hillsdale is special,” Martin said. “At IHS, some of my best students and employees had come from here.”

Martin made it through the application process, even guestteaching Clark’s Principles of Macroeconomics class. According to Clark, Martin’s use of an economics experiment demonpolicy earned positive feedback from students in the class. But

the similarity of Martin’s impressive resume to Clark’s actually worked against him a little bit in the hiring decision.

“On paper, he’s unreal, he’s great,” Clark said. “He’s essentially me, but better.”

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“The students here are the best I’ve ever taught.” offering Martin a position as assistant professor of economics, which he gladly accepted.

“So far, it’s been a great decision,” Martin said. “The students here are the best I’ve ever taught.”

This semester, Martin is teaching classes on Labor Economics

and Principles of Macroeconomics, both of which accord nicely with his areas of interest in economic history, constitutional political economy, Smithian political economy, and labor economics. Despite moving away from academic studies of history, he maintains an interest in the subject.

“I got into economics partly from an analysis of the history job market, and partly because economics provides a very rational way of analyzing the world,” Martin said.

Now that he’s on campus, Martin is trying to get as involved in campus life as his wife and young toddler will allow. Already, he moderated the PraxisEnactus Socialist Debate. He said it “turned out to be a lot of fun.”

Beyond economics, Martin

enjoys hiking, running, board games, and a certain book series likely to endear him to campus.

“I know it’s cliché, but I’m going to have to say the ‘Lord of the Rings’ are my favorite books,” Martin said.

The rest of the economics department said they are happy Martin has arrived.

“Now we’ve got a stable group of faculty, and they’re all skilled and committed teaching,” Wolfram said. “They all understand and are comfortable with the mission of the college.”

Lecturer in Economics Lewis Butler agreed.

“He’s super-nice, his door is always open, and he really likes here,” Butler said. “He must be valuable if he already has an of-

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perks of having a son in the wine business.

“I’ve learned a lot about wine,” she said. “All of Cody’s friends work in the Valley and work in the wine industry and it’s fun to visit him.”

Family holidays tend to reign in Ewers’ unique skill set.

“Christmas is really fun because before we open gifts, we get in the hottub, and drink champagne that Cody brings,” she said.

The wine label’s debut in the Hillsdale College community launched on Constitution Day at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington D.C. Upon request, Ewers’ label comes with a copy of the Constitution at a small extra cost.

Craig Kreinbihl, the director of operations at the Kirby Center, picked up on his fellow alumnus’ efforts and knew the project would embellish Hillsdale College events

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in Washington, D.C. “We got to get both good wine and a good message,” Kreinbihl said. “It made sense at the Constitution Day event. I think there’s a natural message about the Constitution and that’s our work here — but our work isn’t serving wine.”

Since his start in 2010 at 50 cases of wine, Ewers’ 425 case supply sells in California, Washington D.C., and on the road to Ohio and Michigan markets.

Although the company has received the bulk of Ewers’ care, the purpose behind the label allows him to recall the reason for his move out West from Cincinnati, Ohio.

“I get tons of great feedback from liberal union workers and right wing tea partiers about the label’s apolitical message about the education of self-government,” he said.

“That what I love about it. It’s not a Republican banner, it’s the banner of truth. At least, that’s what I sell it as.”

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Baw Beese Trail Distance from Campus : 0.75 miles Trail Distance: Up to 10 miles (there and back)

The Baw Beese trail is the shortest way to Lake Baw Beese, one of Hillsdale’s most beautiful areas. The trail is largely covered by trees that turn various shades of autumn hues. Seeing ducks on Lake Baw Beese is not an unusual occurrence either.

Fall Trails We Love The Hillsdale College Cross-Country team provided a series of its favorite fall trails ranging in length and view. (Photos Courtesy of Joel Calvert)

Hayden Park Mountain Bike Trail

Hayden Park Cross-Country Course

Half Moon Lake Road

Distance from Campus : 0.8 miles Trail Distance: Up to 8.5 miles

Distance from Campus : 0.8 miles Trail Distance: 5k, 8k, and 10k

Distance from Campus : 1.2 miles Trail Distance: Up to 10 miles

It may have been designed for bikes, but runners are also welcome on the well-labeled dirt paths of Hayden Park’s MBT that wind through the woods in and around Hayden Park.

Give your knees a rest with the grassy rolling hills and wooded dirt trails that comprise Hayden Park’s cross country course. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch Hayden Park Fitness/Recreation Director Bill Lundberg (or he’ll catch you).

Experience the challenge of rolling hills with surrounding autumnal foliage. Runners who complete the entire 10 mile out and back should note that Half Moon road shifts slightly to the east after North Adams.

Alum boosts freedom with California Red Cody Ewers, ’10, moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Napa Valley, California to start his own wine label, The Preamble Wine Co., with his college roommate.

Bailey Pritchett Spotlight Editor For a Ewers family Christmas, Cody always brings the wine.

Cody Ewers ’10 graduated from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Arts in history and German, a keen business instinct, and an enduring appreciation for wine.

Although wine was not the focus of his summers throughout college, it managed to make an appearance. During a summer internship at the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Ewers worked at a wine bar in northern Michigan after a day of work at the local newspaper. He also spent a summer in Germany where he had “Because the lady was speaking German mostly, I had no preconceived notions of what the wine was supposed to taste like,” he said. “At that point in time I was brewing beer in my closet.

Wine wasn’t even on my radar.”

About a year after graduation, Ewers reconnected with his old college roommate Alex Wignall

’10. Over the course of several phone conversations, the two decided to contribute to the future of America by starting a wine label. Wignall devised the label’s name, Preamble, and Ewers contributed the label’s extra touch.

“Being a Hillsdale student and a son of Mary Ewers, I thought it would be a great idea to put the Constitution on the bottle,” he said. “Alex, being a true American, loved the idea.”

Six months later Ewers moved out West to Napa Valley, California to reconnect with his business partner and start the Preamble Wine Company.

When the friends were not engaged in their day job, they poured their time into selling 50 amble, a California Red. “The wine was made by somebody else so we could feel out the market,” Ewers said.

“Neither one of us had a formal education.”

In addition to learning on the job, Ewers took a few classes at the local community college which helped the pair develop a stronger business plan and sense of the wine industry. About a

year into their partnership, Wignall assumed different career opportunities leaving Ewers with sole ownership of the company.

Ewers has worked several day jobs in the Valley from bussing tables at a wine bar to selling vineyard irrigation systems to selling oak barrels to various wineries across California, the job he holds now.

“Napa is a small Valley and

“I thought it would be a great idea to put the Constitution on the bottle.” somehow my name was passed around,” he said. “I interviewed to keep my resume sharp and it Ewers’ current employer, Seguin Moreau, sells oak barrels, an essential tool in the aging process of wine.

“It’s basically like I’m an advisor to a painter,” Ewers said.

“I’ll recommend a splash of col-

Although Ewers plans to eventually make his label a full time job, winemakers in the Valley have counseled him to keep his day job.

“Without a day job I would be nowhere. I’d be the same dumb kid as when I got here,” he said.

“Working has been important for my personal growth and business growth. “ Ewers’ experience at the viticulture supply company contributed to his business education in the wine industry, a facet he did not expect to develop.

“Selling irrigation systems taught me the brass tax of how to put together a vineyard,” he said.

“That knowledge has proven incredibly useful to me as I go out to look for grape contracts because my business depends can’t make good wine out of bad grapes. That experience began my real time education in the Mary Ewers, Cody’s mother and director of parent relations and the president’s club at Hillsdale College, has enjoyed the

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MARK NAIDA, FRESHMAN Describe your fashion sense.

Homeless frat boy, starving artist What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?

Red and yellow plaid caddyshack style golf pants What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?

Sperry’s and khakis with a polo shirt What is your favorite item of clothing?

Tweed blazer from Salvation Army Who inspires your wardrobe?

The discount rack

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(Top) Grapes from recent harvest that Ewers uses in his wine blend. (Bottom) Ewers’ recent label for his Sauvignon Blanc and Rose. (Photos Courtesy of Cody Ewers)

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