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Hilldale alumni clerk for Supreme Court justices By | Julia Mullins City News Editor

Manuel Valle ’11 will become Hillsdale’s seventh graduate in the past eight years to clerk for a Supreme Court justice. During the October 2021 term, Valle will clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Professor of Philosophy and Religion Nathan Schlueter, who is also the faculty adviser for the college’s Federalist Society, said Valle will be the second Hillsdale graduate to clerk for Thomas.

Schlueter said Hillsdale’s core curriculum and professors prepare students for success at

law school.

Megan Lacy ’07 is currently a clerk for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Michael Francisco ’04 is clerking for Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“Hillsdale taught me how to think through problems and be grounded in the matters of the Constitution and Western values,” Francisco said. “It was a challenging education that gave me the skills I needed to succeed as a lawyer.”

Valle studied English and Latin at Hillsdale and said there was not a class at law school that pushed him as much as his freshman year

English class with Professor of English Justin Jackson.

“Hillsdale’s rigorous liberal-arts education gives you fundamental skills that are necessary for studying law, especially the ability to analyze difficult texts and then write clearly about them in a way that’s easy for people to understand,” Valle said.

After teaching at Glendale Preparatory Academy in Phoenix, Arizona, for three years, Valle attended law school at the University of Chicago and graduated in 2017.

Upon earning his law degree, Valle began his first

an email. “Manuel entered the clerkship exhibiting all these qualities, which is most unusual because for him as for most clerks this was his first real job in the law.”

Valle said he was fortunate to clerk for Jones because she is a phenomenal judge and an incredible mentor.

“I would not have considered applying for the Supreme Court clerkship if not for her guidance and support,” Valle said. “Judge Jones helped me understand how to approach the law because I had been just out of law school, where everything is still theoretical.

She is so principled in her

approach to the case. Every single one matters to her.”

After his clerkship with Jones, Valle moved to Michigan and clerked for Hon. Joan Larsen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Valle said Larsen clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and previously served on the Michigan Supreme Court.

“I learned a tremendous amount from her,” Valle said.

“She was also very supportive in the Supreme Court application,” Valle said. “It was an amazing experience to work

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the Christ Chapel dedication. Regan Meyer | Collegian

Former college chaplain a steadfast Christian, friend

By | Abby Liebing Diocese of the Great Lakes when a student here, and in the Anglican Church of I enjoyed seeing him with Associate Editor North America. his fraternity brothers from After many years of Beckwith also served in back in the day: they held faithful service as Episcopal the Chaplain Corps of the him in respect, and one Bishop of Springfield, IlliUnited States Navy Reserve could tell they did back in nois, Bishop Peter Beckwith, for 27 years. He gained the college, too.”

Rear Admiral in the United rank of Rear Admiral and Arnn also noted that he States Navy Reserve and the retired in 1999 as the Deputy learned an important lesson former Hillsdale College Chief of Chaplain for the from Beckwith to “Listen Chaplain, died on Oct. 4 at Total Force. carefully. Try to make sure the age of 80, just one day After his retirement in one knows precisely what after the dedication of HillsIllinois in 2010, Beckwith is being said and the modale College’s dedication. returned to Hillsdale, and tive behind it. Then answer “In the chapel there is a though he was 71 years old, kindly on all occasions, even dedication to him. It if the answer is no.” says ‘In thanksgiving Calvert, former headfor Peter Beckwith and master of Hillsdale Acadehis service, class of my, said he always appre‘61,’” Professor of Hisciated the friendship and tory Kenneth Calvert support he received from said. “And I saw that Beckwith over the years. on the day of the Long before Beckwith dedication and then was the college chaplain, he passed away the Calvert remembered next day. He’s the first meeting him at the Episcofuneral in the chapel pal church. and his name is right “Here was a guy who up there.” really was focused on the Beckwith was born right things in the faith Sept. 8, 1939, in Battle and really impressed me,” Creek, Michigan. In Calvert said.

1961, he graduated Beckwith would often from Hillsdale College speak at Hillsdale Acadwith a Bachelor of emy’s weekly chapel Arts degree and was a meeting and Calvert loved member of the Delta seeing Beckwith’s passion Tau Delta fraternity. when he spoke at the In 1965, he married Academy’s chapel services.

Melinda (Foulke) “He hated to use a Beckwith. He then got microphone. So he would Former College Chaplain Peter Beckwith his Master of Divinity step away from the pulpit from the University of died on Oct. 4. External Affairs and kind of walk up and the South Sewanee, as he faithfully served not only down the aisle. The Acadewell as a Master of Sacred as the college’s chaplain, but my chapels are pretty formal Theology from Nashotah also as chaplain for Hillsdale affairs, but he would be like House Theological SemiAcademy, from 2010-2016. this evangelical preacher, nary. Beckwith served as the Hillsdale College Presiwalking away from the Episcopal Bishop of Springdent Larry Arnn remarked pulpit and walking up and field, Illinois, for 18 years that Beckwith was known down the aisle,” Calvert said. before he retired in 2010. He for his humor, careful in his “And sometimes he would also served as a chaplain for judgements, and devoted to slip into his admiral persothe Illinois State Police until his faith and country. na, like he was talking to a his passing.

“He was friendly to evbunch of sailors.”

In 2014, Beckwith was eryone I ever saw him meet,” appointed as an Assisting Arnn said in an email. “The See Beckwith A3 Bishop for the Anglican bishop was in a fraternity Follow @HDaleCollegian

clerkship in August 2017 for Hon. Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas.

Jones said she was most impressed with Valle’s humility and extraordinary legal talent.

“The qualities I most value in clerks are diligence in legal research and reviewing the trial court record and briefs, plus accuracy in all the details of case management, writing conventions, citations, plus the ability to spot issues our court has to tackle, and finally, the ability to write clearly and on deadlines,” Jones said in

despairing,” Thomas said. lege has provided that space By | S. Nathaniel Grime “When life is difficult and where students can come Sports Editor seems pointless, we need to discern God’s calling, to Nearly two years after a safe haven where we can pray through difficult times, construction began, faculty, escape from the storm and and to praise God for his staff, students, and friends find solace. Chapels provide faithfulness.” of Hillsdale College gaththat setting.”

The dedication began ered for the highly anticiThomas explained that with performances by pated dedication of Christ the presence of a chapel Hillsdale College’s Choir Chapel on Oct. 3. Headlinon a college campus was and Chamber Choir under ing the attendees was Clarparticularly significant. the direction of Professor ence Thomas, Associate and Music DepartJustice of the Supreme ment Chairman James Court of the United Holleman. The choir States, who delivered opened the ceremony dedicatory remarks. with a performance of “By constructing “I Was Glad,” comthis chapel, the college posed by Hubert Parry. upholds the importance “‘I was Glad’ has of its Christian roots, been sung at every Eneven as it respects the glish coronation since rights of each person to 1902. Its lyrics come worship God accordfrom Psalm 122, in ing to the dictates of which David prays for his own conscience,” peace in Jerusalem,” Thomas said to a crowd junior and Chamber of more than 800.

Choir member Gabriel The college broke Kramer said. “Christ ground on the project Chapel is meant to on Nov. 7, 2017 and the serve as a foretaste chapel’s construction of the eternal peace was originally expected that all believers will to be completed earlier experience in the New this year. After nearly Jerusalem.” two years, only minor The choir also sung interior and exterior Johannes Brahms’ construction remains, “How Lovely Is Thy The Christ Chapel dedication included and the building is open. remarks from both college president Larry Dwelling Place,” “When you walk into Arnn and Supreme Court Justice Clarence a choral setting of here, do you not look up Thomas. Regan Meyer | Collegian Psalm 84. and think of the ultimate “It describes the things?” Hillsdale College “The college years reyearning of the soul to President Larry Arnn asked quire young people to make enter the dwelling place of the audience before Thomas decisions that will affect the God,” Kramer said. “It’s an spoke. rest of their lives. They are exceedingly appropriate Thomas shared personal exposed to new ideas, new text for the opening of the remarks about the role of relationships, new distracchapel.” faith in his own life and tions, and new temptations.

The dedication ceremony noted the importance of They need a place where was live streamed on both having a sacred space for they can go to be relieved Hillsdale College’s website prayer and praise. of their troubles and what and Facebook page, and “Chapels are particularly they are bearing as so much the video is still available to important in providing a comes at them so fast,” watch. place for the burdened, the Thomas said. “By building broken-hearted, and the this chapel, Hillsdale Col-

Bauman: A “hero for Christ” By | Nolan Ryan thousands of lives,” he said. whose children also took “Many people followed him classes with Bauman, and Editor-in-Chief from Summit Ministries — a this, he said, is his legacy.

Whenever Michael BauChristian apologetics conferAfter graduating from man, professor of theology ence — to Hillsdale, and vice high school, Bauman served and culture, looked down at versa, because he had a way in the U.S. Marine Corps. He his class roster, his students of reaching them and chalstudied at Trinity College and knew he was about to eventually earned his call on someone to dePh.D. from Fordham fend a theological posiUniversity. Bauman tion. And this is how he also taught at the Uniwould use much of his versity of Oxford as class time. an associate dean with Bauman, 69, died the Centre for Medion Oct. 2 of complicaeval and Renaissance tions from a stroke he Studies. suffered this summer.

Bauman, who also Funeral services were served as the direcheld in Hillsdale on tor of the Christian Oct. 10, officiated by Studies program at his colleague Thomas Hillsdale, arrived on Burke, professor and campus in 1988 and chair of philosophy and taught courses ranging religion, who also gave from the history of one of the eulogies.

Christianity to semProfessor of Theology and Culture Michael Bauman’s brother, inars on John Milton Chris, said in a message Bauman died on Oct. 2. External Affairs and C.S. Lewis. He that he heard nothing was also the author of but praise for Bauman from lenging them like they have 20 books, as well as a blog former students. never been challenged.” on theology, politics, and “Because he was a humble Chris Bauman even said person, I had no idea that See Bauman A2 he knows of former students he had such an impact on

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College senior will be Bloomin’ Onion mascot at 2020 Outback Bowl By | Ryan Young Collegian Freelancer Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy, workout, lose weight, or break a bad habit. Senior Jake Sievers had a different goal: become the Bloomin’ Onion at the 2020 Outback Bowl.

Now, after a solid year of tweeting at Outback Steakhouse, Sievers has clinched the role and will be on the sidelines at the game.

The idea was born on January 1, 2019 when Sievers was watching his favorite hand-carved, golden, readyto-dip appetizer jumping and dancing on the sidelines of a major college football game.

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” Sievers said. “The Iowa Hawkeyes were taking on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in an exciting Outback Bowl, as they always are. I looked up from my phone and my eyes were graced with the most glorious mascot in all of sports: the Bloomin’ Onion. It was love at first sight. I immediately turned

to my mom and said, ‘Mom, I want to be that guy.’”

The excitement. The joy.

The exhilaration. The sensation. Sievers was captured by the onion’s radiant petals and he was not going to stop working, striving, and fighting until he achieved the ultimate status of the Bloomin’ Onion.

Sievers knew what he had to do. Pulling out his smartphone and opening his Twitter feed, he began to draft the first of what would become hundreds of messages to Outback Steakhouse.

“My first tweet to Outback was very simple: ‘My only goal for this year is to be dressed up as the Bloomin’ Onion on the sideline at the next Outback Bowl. @Outback how can we make this happen?’ When I started to take it seriously after a couple of weeks, I would take more time crafting the spiciest memes the internet has ever seen.”

Sievers understood that while 80% of all New Year’s resolutions fail within the first month, he was not going to give in and sacrifice his

ultimate dream for a higher test score or an extra hour of sleep. He knew being crowned the Bloomin’ Onion would require hard work, dedication, and daily sacrifice.

studying or doing something that a good Hillsdalian would do, I would forego making a meme and just keep the message simple, letting Outback know that I love them and that I was waiting,” Sievers

Jake Sievers will be the Bloomin’ Onion mascot at the 2020 Outback Bowl. Jake Sievers | Courtesy

“Hypothetically, if I was up late on a Saturday night

said. “Other nights, when I was purposely avoiding my

responsibilities, I would bust out Photoshop and make something extremely extravagant. You could probably tell how productive I was the previous night based on the intricacy of my tweet at Outback.”

Sievers’s hard work quickly received national attention and Outback Steakhouse personally responded offering him the chance to make his dream a reality.

“Outback DM’d me on Twitter in July and said that they wanted to talk to me,” Sievers said. “I’m guessing that was just a part of the vetting process and to make sure that I wasn’t going to be a bad representation of the Outback brand. They left everything pretty open-ended until September, when they announced that if I made a video that got 10,000 retweets I could be the mascot.”

Sievers began the retweet challenge by making a video that explained his year-long quest. The video received over 270,000 views and multiple celebrity retweets, including one from Fox News personality and 2010 Hills-

dale graduate Kat Timpf.

At 7,239 retweets Outback Steakhouse chose to end the challenge and crown Sievers as the 2020 Bloomin’ Onion.

“Even though I didn’t get 10,000 retweets, they reached the correct conclusion that my passion is enough to overcome whatever amount of engagement they were hoping to get from my campaign.”

Since being crowned the Bloomin’ Onion, Sievers has been featured on local news stations and radio shows.

“That was the first time I had ever been on live television which was really cool,” Sievers said. “I got to see the newsroom and the green screen and I met the legendary West Michigan meteorologist Bill Steffen. I thought it was funny how seriously everyone in the newsroom treated my story because it started off completely as a joke.”

Be sure to tune-in this New Year’s to watch Hillsdale’s Jake Sievers shake those petals at the 2020 Outback Bowl.

Bon Appetit plans for healthier options, may introduce swipe exchanges By | Emily Brickey Collegian Freelancer Students will notice many changes in the dining hall this semester, Bon Appetit General Manager David Apthorpe said. These “monotony-breakers” will provide greater options for people with stricter diets.

Bon Appetit has tried in previous years to provide a broad selection of healthy foods for students. Part of this process has been bringing food from local producers to the dining hall. It has been a slow process, one that has been held up by logistical issues in previous years. This year, Apthorpe said, students will see foods, like maple syrup and beans, from local businesses instead of from outside the area. Bon Appetit is also partnering with Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses in Hillsdale to bring fresh apples to the dining hall.

Bon Appetit is also pro-

viding students with strict diets and “big eight allergies” access to more options at meal times.

Previously, vegetarian and vegan students, as well as other students with health-related diet restrictions, have had difficulties finding full meals.

This year, the gluten-free meal section has been relocated and includes a separate microwave, waffle maker, and refrigerator specifically for gluten-free foods. Additionally, now that agreements with local businesses are finally coming to fruition, students should see more vegetarian and vegan friendly options.

One new vegetarian and vegan option is the full-service grain bar. In past years, the grain bar was fully self-service. This year, Apthorpe said Bon Appetit has “brought the bar to life” by training chefs to serve as saute chefs at the bar. Apthorpe is trying to expand the full-service option to evening

dining hours and is excited to be providing variety for a group of students that he says are historically underserved.

As a result of these new changes, he said, Bon Appetit has been receiving fewer comments related to lack of vegetarian and vegan options.

Earlier in this month, Bon Appetit installed two new ID card swipe machines in the dining hall. Apthorpe said in an email that the old machines were “obsolete and were no longer accurately reading cards,” causing longer waits in the line to enter the dining hall.

The old machines allowed students to swipe their ID cards for meals or punch in their individual ID numbers without their cards. Now, the capability to punch in one’s ID number is no longer available, and students are unable to attend meals or share their swipes with other students without their physical ID card.

Apthorpe said Bon Appetit requested that the machines be updated, but the college made the ultimate decision of which machines they would receive. Apthorpe added that neither the college nor Bon Appetit specifically requested machines that would eliminate manual ID-number-punching; that function is simply not default on the replacements.

Apthorpe said students’ initial response to the upgraded machines had been negative but, as time has passed, “by and large the student body has been able to adjust.”

Several students said they feel inconvenienced by the change, stating that the new machines make swipe-sharing more difficult.

“I usually carry my ID card so the change hasn’t been a big deal for me,” senior Briana Dame said. “But I can definitely understand how it would be so inconvenient to

other people.”

Some students said they feel the change is an insult to the Honor Code and suggests that some students would use others’ ID numbers without their permission.

“There’s a general feeling among the student body that Bon Appetit does not trust us anymore,” junior Morgan Morrison said in an email.

“We signed an honor code, and if Bon Appetit cannot trust the students any longer, then we’ve lost part of what makes Hillsdale so special.”

The change comes after responses Bon Appetit made through its comments text line which mentioned the potential for “instances of fraud we are unwilling to accept.”

Apthorpe also echoed this sentiment.

“The opportunity for someone to use another student’s ID without their knowledge had been pretty easy,” Apthorpe said.

Adding that while there

have been no reported instances of fraud, Bon Appetit “sees that as a risk worth eliminating” and is taking steps toward increasing convenience while still protecting students’ meal plans.

Bon Appetit has started developing changes to improve the new systems further. Apthorpe mentioned they are currently looking into enabling tap-to-swipe capabilities through Bluetooth-capable cell phones.

Additionally, Bon Appetit is in the process of developing a swipe exchange program between Bon Appetit locations, like A.J.’s Cafe, on campus. This would better serve students with evening engagements that prevent them from attending meals while simultaneously relieving pressure on the dining hall staff during busy meal rushes.

Students explore Detroit, Chicago on Career Services Fall Break trips By | Alexis Daniels Web Content Editor

More than 15 students spent their fall break networking and touring businesses through Career Services’ Explore Detroit and Explore Chicago trips.

In both excursions, students had the opportunity to experience what living and working in Detroit and Chicago is like. In Detroit, students tailored elevator pitches, networked with alumni at a mixer, toured the Detroit Lions stadium, sat in on a Detroit News editorial meeting, and toured Quicken Loans.

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social issues. He was known for his method of prompting students to defend a variety of beliefs and arguments.

“Whatever the student answered, he’d challenge it with the other point of view,” Burke said. “His goal was to bring the student to arrive at the truth by virtue of them seeing it for themselves.”

One of Bauman’s recent students, junior Jared Key, enjoyed this style of learning. Having taken Bauman’s Western Theological Tradition and History of Christian Thought I courses, Key said it was Bauman who made him want to study philosophy and religion. As Bauman taught mostly night classes, Key said his teaching style worked better for a two-and-a-half hour class than a short lecture period.

“On the first night of Western Theological Tradition, he proceeded to explain the first four Christian councils by making us have to defend what the councils had to defend without knowing

Sophomore Elizabeth Hughes said she’s been considering getting involved in journalism and wanted to get a sense of the field.

“I don’t want to live in Detroit at all, but I wanted to get the experience of the job and advice from the alum,” Hughes said.

Hughes said attending the Detroit News editorial meeting reminded her that while a lot of news is negative, she just needs to find the right area.

“A lot of the stories they were writing were honestly very depressing, but it was good to realize that that’s a lot of what news is: stories that

are downers,” Hughes said.

Sophomore Ashley Warden said that as an undeclared English major, the trip’s focus on journalism and writing interested her, as she wanted to explore what a career in those fields would look like.

“I would say the networking experience was nearly invaluable,” Warden said.

“There were a lot of alums who were super excited to talk to us.”

The Chicago trip also had a networking event with alumni and students who were able to tour Google’s Chicago office. Students then had a choice of visiting

Northern Trust, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Hireology, the Federal Reserve, Ibotta, Ernst & Young, or Marriott International Hotel for personal office visits.

Sophomore Michael Fleischer said he hopes to get an internship in Chicago next summer, so he attended the trip for an opportunity to network. Fleischer said his biggest takeaway from the trip was how to conduct himself in the business world.

“It’s a great experience as a sophomore to learn how to be a professional and operate in a professional environment,” Fleischer said, “Career Services did a very good job

planning and teaching all of us how to be professional in different situations.”

Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said she loves working with the alumni in the trip locations.

“It’s brought great satisfaction to me to see how caring the alumni are and how willing they are to give back by attending the network receptions and by offering their organizations for site visits,” Wiseley said.

Wiseley said she also encourages students to take advantage of Career Services programs like the Explore trips as well as their Meet Grand Rapids and Meet

Lansing trips in the spring, one-day excursions that give students an introduction to the cities.

Warden said it is key to be receptive to any avenues presented when going on trips like these.

“I would advise students to be ready to learn,” Warden said. “Be open to directions, and, even if you don’t think that you’ll be interested in a certain company, go into it, tour, and talk to people. It might not be something for you, but it also might be, and you never would have known if you hadn’t gone in.”

about them,” Key said. “After we all failed miserably to defend the divinity of Christ, he would then explain what they said.”

Joshua Klooz, ’08, took classes from Bauman. Klooz said he fondly remembers taking his C.S. Lewis seminar as an upperclassman.

Bauman’s lectures on Lewis’ novel “Till We Have Faces” were particularly memorable, Klooz said.

Klooz said Bauman was one of the most honest people he knew at Hillsdale and he showed this when he was struggling through understanding a text with his students. Bauman never worked from prepared notes, so class was always fresh, Klooz said.

“Class was combat,” he said. “You didn’t want to bring any Sunday school answer. If you gave the right answer, he’d ask why. Did you earn that answer or was it given to you?”

Klooz also said Bauman was incredibly generous with his time, in and out of the classroom. When Klooz was looking at graduate school and the military, Bauman

offered his advice on both.

“Time is so valuable, and you don’t run across very many people who are as generous with that resource as he was,” Klooz said.

One of Bauman’s friends, Bill Lundberg, assistant professor of sports studies and Hayden Park director, said Bauman’s goal in the classroom was to get students to consider their thinking process. Over the years, many of Lundberg’s student athletes would take Bauman’s classes and he recalls sitting in on some.

“He’d say to the students, ‘Coach Lundberg is here to gain wisdom, too, just like you,’” Lundberg said.

Lundberg said Bauman’s knowledge only enhanced his Christian faith, something that helped him during a series of health issues toward the end of his life.

“He was always so eloquent and great to be with and hear him speak. He was really witty,” Lundberg said.

“He was a hero for Christ.”

Professor of English Michael Jordan said Bauman spent a lot of time reading

widely.

“Over the years, I noticed he seemed to have read everything,” Jordan said.

Burke said that Bauman once told him his writing habits were inspired from conversations with theologian Alister McGrath at the University of Oxford. When Bauman asked McGrath how he wrote so much, he responded by saying he would get up every day and write for several hours. This inspired Bauman to dedicate himself to constant writing. Because of this, Burke said he ended up with a good library of published books.

Bauman was also a resident scholar for the Summit Semester, a spiritual and educational program from Summit Ministries held in Colorado. In a lecture he would give at Summit, titled “Chronicle of Deception,” Bauman would tell students the story of how he came to Christianity after subscribing to the social movements of the 1960s.

“I confess to believing, at one time or another, nearly all the persistent or pervasive

fantasies of the 1960s,” he said in the lecture. “If the truth be told, of course, I knew nothing — at least nothing worth knowing.”

Outside of his scholarship, Bauman was an avid athlete. According to Lundberg, he had a background in track and field, but Bauman especially loved cycling. He even spent time training with a world-class cyclist in Italy, Jordan said. Bauman competed in a number of cycling races, often doing well for his age group. He even won the world championship UltraMarathon in 2000, according to his obituary.

In the last few years of his life, Bauman dealt with a number of health issues, including strokes and bouts of cancer. In the fall of 2016, he was cycling with Lundberg and other professors when he fell and fractured several bones.

As a result, Bauman spent considerable time recovering in hospitals and at home.

During these times, Lundberg, Jordan, Burke, and other colleagues would visit him.

Jordan and his wife would

often bring meals to Bauman, and it was those times when Jordan got to know him better.

“I thought he was undergoing some of the afflictions of Job. The number and series of calamities that came were really trying,” Jordan said. “I think that there was a stoic and Christian endurance of affliction.”

Lundberg remembers one time he went to the hospital and Bauman asked him to help plan an escape. While they didn’t go through with their plot, of course, Jordan said that instance showed Bauman’s character of determination.

Burke said that over the years, he and Bauman would have conversations on theology and that Bauman showed a desire to pursue truth.

“He was very committed, but at the same time, he was open-minded,” Burke said.

“He changed his position on certain theological positions a number of times over the years. He loved to argue because he thought that was the way to find out what’s what.”

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In Brief: Suites to hold ‘adulting’ seminar By | Alexa Robbins Collegian Freelancer Students will put their “adulting” skills to the test in a series of lectures The Suites is hosting this Saturday from 4-5:30p.m.

“Life Skills” will consist of different speakers coming to teach students about important aspects of adult life. There will be four 20-minute sessions in which students will get the advice of adults on a multitude of topics. Refreshments will be provided in between the talks.

“Although this event is geared more towards the predominantly older population of students who live in The Suites, all campus is welcome to be a part of the event,” said House Director Christa Green.

The first session will focus on learning how to budget well in college, led

by Rich Moeggenburg.

The second session, on self-defense, will be taught by ex-military officer Joe Kellum. The third, hosted

by Career Services, will offer advice on how to find a career. Finally, Alexander Green, Suites house director, will teach students the art of changing a tire.

Each session was chosen as a reflection of some of the key rites of passage into adulthood, setting students up to reflect on what it means to be self-governing and responsible outside of the collegiate sphere.

“We created this event to prepare students who are entering adulthood,” Christa

Green said, “and Hillsdale has so many good resources to do that.”

STATIONS: 4-4:20 - Learn how to budget in college; 3rd floor lobby with Rich Moeggenburg 4:20-4:25 - Transition and snacks 4:25-4:45 - Self-defense skills crash course; main floor lobby (probably with Joe Kellum) 4:45-4:50 - Transition and snacks 4:50-5:10 - Career services crash course; 2nd floor lobby with Career Services 5:10-5:15 - Transition and snacks 5:15-5:35 - Learn how to change a tire; outside with Alexander Green

Catholic Society to hold celebration of JP II’s legacy By | Aubrey Gulick Nathan Schlueter .

Bishop Earl Boyea has Collegian Freelancer served the Lansing diocese Christ Chapel will have for eight years and was its first full religious cereraised to the office of Bishop mony next Tuesday with the celebration of a Catholic mass.

Bishop of Lansing Earl Boyea, will be celebrating mass on October 22, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. The mass is in honor of the feast day of Pope John Paul II and will be preceded by a talk given by a member of the Pontifical John Paul the Second Institute, Michael Hanby, in Plaster Auditorium at 4 p.m.

Hanby is a Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University St. Pope John Paul II’s legacy will be of America in Washcelebrated by Catholic Society. ington, D.C. His talk is Wikimedia Commons8 entitled “Sexual Revolutions: The Abolition of Man by St. Pope John Paul II in and Women.”

2002. His mass at Hillsdale This topic was chosen will be a rare event for the because of Hanby’s expercollege and the Hillsdale tise in the field of sexuality College Catholic Society. from a religious perspective, The event marks the first according to Professor of Catholic mass in the chapel Philosophy and Religion and gives the Catholic

Society an opportunity to express their fidelity and gratitude to Bishop Boyea for his continual support.

According to Catholic Society Treasurer Bridget Breckler, it is especially significant that it happens in honor of Pope John Paul II. “He was able to live the vitality of the Catholic faith in a way that spoke to people of all walks of life and ages,” Breckler said.

Schlueter emphasized that the event isn’t just for Catholics.

“St. Pope John Paul II was heavily influential for the defeat of communism in 1989 when the Berlin wall was dismantled,” he said. “This event is partly in celebration of his role in that turning point of history.”

While the event is in honor of Pope John Paul II’s incredible legacy, Breckler also stressed its role in thanking the college.

“Catholic Society is so grateful to Hillsdale for its partnership,” she said. “This entry into the chapel is a symbol of our gratitude.”

Christ Chapel near completion, regular silent hours will be set By | Ben Wilson Collegian Reporter The days of admiring Christ Chapel from the outside have come to an end with the installment of daily sacred silence hours.

The current hours are from 6-8 a.m. and 5-7 p.m, but starting Oct. 17th, sacred silence times in the main sanctuary will be extended to 6:30-9 a.m. and 4:30-10:15 p.m.

Prayer services will also be moved to the day chapel starting on Thursday.

“Students gathering for morning or midday prayer services in the day chapel should access the building through the northeast side door,” said Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé.

The door is off Galloway Drive and faces the Grewcock Student Union.

Keycard access will allow students into the day chapel.

Student worship services will be held in the main sanctuary beginning Thursday, Oct. 24.

“Starting next week, formal student services like Catholic mass and Intervarsity’s Soma will be permitted to start using it,” Hillsdale College chaplain Adam Rick said.

These limited hours are not permanent. Workers need space to complete the remaining projects like the arcade, or the covered passageways with columns on both sides of the chapel.

“As soon as the arcade is complete, the chapel will be opened to regular hours,” Péwé said.

Once the finishing touches are done, the music department will also use the sanctuary.

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“There will be students practicing and getting lessons on the organs,” Rick said. “The building will still be open, there will just be music to contend with.”

Two world-class organs will eventually occupy the space, but the second one is a few years away from completion.

Lessons won’t interfere with the spiritual life of the chapel, however, as the time for them will be limited.

“Hours will be set aside each day to ensure there’s always silent time available,” Rick said.

Lessons and extended silent hours will soon be established as the workers are nearing completion.

“We are very eager to get students in there,” Rick said. “The long term goal is to have the chapel open as much as possible.”

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To demonstrate the wide variety of interests in environmental policy, Hayes asked audience members to distinguish which environment, out of four pictures ranging from downtown New York City to a shortgrass prairie, was “best” ecologically.

“For one person, the ‘best’ is pristine wilderness,” Hayes said. “For somebody else, it’s land you can use for factories.”

Hayes, however, suggested a way to unite these separate interests: free market environ-

lations, and litigation. But the reality is that property is an asset. If you own something, Free-market supporters you have an incentive to take are consistently characterized care of it.” by the media as desiring the Junior Carl Miller, presidestruction of the natural dent of Young Americans for world, Jason Hayes, director Freedom, sought clarification of environmental policy at the for situations in which going Mackinac Center for Public to legislators is the only opPolicy said in a lecture entitled tion. He gave the example of “Free-Market Environmentalnuclear power. ism” on Oct. 5.

“How do we lobby our In his presentation, which legislators to convince folks was hosted by Hillsdale Colthat this is a really smart idea lege’s Young Americans for to do, particularly if we’re Freedom, Hayes worried about described the climate change core values the and air and Mackinac Cenwater polluter upholds as a tion?” Miller state-based free said. market think In response tank. to a similar “We look at question, markets instead Hayes sugof mandates gested that and protectadvocates for ing property nuclear power rights instead must highof prohibitions,” light—from an Hayes said. engineering “What typically perspective— happens is enwhat concerns vironmental groups Jason Hayes spoke on conservative environmental policy. the public the or your progressive Jason Hayes | Courtesy most: safety. friends will tell you “Fukushima that markets and environmentalism. He referenced the got hit by the four horsemen ments don’t go together.” book “Free Market Environof the apocalypse before it had He emphasized that the mentalism for the Next Gena problem,” he said. “Even if worldview of any group or eration” by Terry Anderson nobody is paying attention think tank will influence the and Donald Leal, founders to it, a new Generation IV policy prescriptions they of a similar environmental machine will safely shut down support. policy nonprofit, the Political on its own.”

“There are two worldviews Economy Research Center Associate Professor of Ecothat guide the way environ(PERC). nomics Charles Steele attendmental action works,” Hayes “The idea Anderson and ed the lecture. said. “First, there’s the ‘human Leal presented is that you har“I spent a summer at PERC first’ view. It’s a utilitarian ness market forces to improve as a graduate fellow,” he said. conservation mindset that’s environmental quality—to “I had hoped to do my doctorpersonified by someone like tackle challenging problems in al dissertation on environGifford Pinchot, the first chief the environment,” he said. “To mental problems under Soviet of the United States Forest do that, you need to recognize central planning, but it didn’t Service.” the value of individual decireally turn into a dissertaThen there is the “nature sion-making, property rights, tion—partly because it was so first” view, personified by the and voluntary trade.” foreign to people.” “father of the national parks,” He drew the comparison According to Steele, that John Muir. between the ease of local colmakes him all the more “It was like he wanted to laboration between different grateful for Hayes’s speech, as win souls for the natural envi- property owners and the difit put together the ideas of free ronment,” Hayes said. “A lot of ficult climb up the legislative -market environmentalism so progressive-leaning environladder to make changes. succinctly. mental groups have this sort “This is something the guys “It sounded exactly like the of John Muir-style attitude: at PERC call political envistuff we talk in economics and ‘We’re protecting nature beronmentalism,” Hayes said. “If at PERC,” he said. “You have cause it’s inherently valuable, you have a problem, you settle incentives and systems that not because people need it.’” that dispute with laws, regulead to good outcomes.”

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book, Valle said he considers Thomas to be one of the greatest legal thinkers, and greatest American public figure alive today.

Valle said he has also heard numerous stories from those who know, speaking to Thomas’ kindness and sincerity.

“I think you can see the kind of person he is from his writing and from his speeches –– totally sincere and committed to doing his job even when it’s very difficult, even when the court ultimately does not adopt his views.”

Lecturer of Mathematics Jonathan Gregg, ’11, taught with Valle at Glendale Preparatory Academy and also attended graduate school at the University of Chicago during the same time Valle attended its law school. Valle and Gregg have become great friends since graduating, and Gregg said if he had to describe Valle in one word it would be “sincere.”

“What you see is always what you get with Manuel,” Gregg said. “He’s never

hiding anything; he’s an authentic person. And he lives exactly by the way in which he claims to and believes in.

If he believes it’s good, then he lives by it.”

Looking back on law school, Valle said that he, like many law students, was moved by Thomas’ powerful majority opinions and dissents. Over the past 30 years, Thomas has influenced the law in meaningful ways, Valle said.

Before his clerkship for Thomas, Valle will spend the next two years working on appellate litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C. Valle said he’s anticipating that his year clerking for Thomas will be one of the busiest and most demanding of his entire life, especially since he will have four kids, at least, when he begins his clerkship. But he said he is also confident that his clerkship year will be one of the most rewarding experiences he will ever have.

man but below Beckwith.”

Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers said he will truly miss Admiral Beckwith and fondly remembered his exhortations of “let us pray.”

“He was a sailor’s sailor.

He was very philanthropic.

I will forever remember his kindness and generosity,” Rogers said in an email.

Beckwith was known for his outgoing and loving personality as well as his firm beliefs.

“He was in many senses larger than life. Very outgoing, very vivacious,” Rev. Adam Rick, Hillsdale College’s chaplain, said.

Rick became the college’s chaplain in 2016 after Beckwith retired, but even before coming to Hillsdale, Rick knew of Beckwith since he was known nationally and even internationally for his commitment to classical Christian orthodoxy in the

Episcopal church and his attempts to stem the tide of liberalism in the Episcopal church. After retiring as the Episcopal Bishop of Springfield, Beckwith was received into the Anglican Church in North America and appointed as an Assisting Bishop for the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes.

Rick said Beckwith was active until the end in his duties and faith and “he never rested from his labors.”

Rogers remembered that prior to his death, Beckwith told him that death is something that we will all face.

“He has now reported for duty at his last duty station,” Rogers said.

Beckwith’s funeral will be held in Christ Chapel on Friday at 11 a.m. and is open to all. Rt. Rev. Ron Jackson, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes, will preside over the service.

for her during her first full year in the Sixth Circuit, when she was dealing with many issues for the first time as a federal judge.”

One difference between clerking for the court of appeals and the Supreme Court, Valle said, is that the Supreme Court isn’t bound by the decisions of a higher court.

“Circuit courts don’t often have cause to decide a case based on the original meaning of the Constitution because they’re bound to apply the Supreme Court precedent,” Valle said.

“Working for Justice Thomas, there will be more time spent analyzing the current legal doctrine and trying to square it with the original meaning of the Constitution, and that’s something that’s really exciting for me.”

Valle said Thomas has always been a judicial hero for him ever since his parents gave him Thomas’ autobiography “My Grandfather’s Son.” Since reading this

Beckwith from A1 And personally, Calvert was struck by the genuineness and care that Beckwith showed.

“He would always take the time on Wednesday mornings after chapel to come to my office at the Academy and sit and ask how I was doing,” Calvert said. “And if there is one thing you need as the head of a K-12 school, it’s a lot of prayer. So he would come and just sit and talk and ask me how I was doing and listen and pray for me and pray for the school and for the kids.”

Beckwith also conducted Veterans Day commemoration services at the Academy and was very highly regarded among veterans.

“Veterans just loved Pete,” Calvert said. “And he could order Jeff Rogers around.

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California’s Fair Pay to Play a foul for athletes College athletes should be thankful for scholarships and other perks

By | Calli Townsend I never expected publishing a Christian daily-devotional book for athletes could land me in trouble with the National Collegiate Athletics Association.

As a college athlete, the NCAA barred me from publishing my book, even if I donated all of the profits, as it would be a way for me to use my “name, image, and likeness,” and build my brand.

But I still don’t think athletes should be paid.

As athletes, we’re given an opportunity to play the sports we love while receiving scholarships and degrees, and for that I think we should be grateful — even if it means I have to wait two more years to publish my book.

On Oct. 1, California passed its Fair Pay to Play Act, which stops four-year institutions and athletic associations from preventing their current or prospective student-athletes from receiving compensation for the use of their name, image, and likeness. But this law goes too far and threatens the idea of amateur athletics.

While athletes may feel their schools take advantage of and profit from their athletic performances, this new legislation has the potential to cripple college athletics and it showcases the entitled attitudes of some elite athletes. Millions of people go into debt for an education and millions of kids pay to play the sports they love, yet some of the top college athletes aren’t grateful enough to play the sport while getting a free degree.

The Center for American Progress released a report in June 2019 saying that one-sixth of America’s adult population makes up for $1.5 trillion in federal student loans, not including the estimated $119 billion in private loans. The fact that some of these athletes even get into top-rated schools is an honor, let alone the full-ride scholarship preventing them from becoming a part of that statistic.

Too many of the NCAA’s top athletes are privileged but fail to see it. Maybe it’s because their sport consumes most of their time and they feel they should be compensated for that.

Understandable. But on average, student-athletes in California receive $28,000 a year in tuition scholarships (not including any room and board), $1,000 per month for extra spending money, and have access to multi-million dollar facilities for practice and games.

Sounds like a decent compensation.

Even California Governor Gavin Newsom understands the power of an athletic scholarship, according to an interview on the Dan Patrick Show.

“I got into college on a partial baseball scholarship. I wouldn’t have gotten into a four-year institution, I would’ve ended up at a junior college,” Newsom said.

“But my life’s path changed

because of a partial baseball scholarship at Santa Clara.”

He understands the impact an athletic scholarship can have, and his story has nothing to do with injustice.

The world of college athletics inspires younger kids and is seen as a dream — a dream current NCAA athletes take for granted.

Doug Gottlieb from Fox Sports tweeted, “Wondering why no one seems to be paying all these California G-League stars for their ‘Name and Likeness’. It proves there is no real value in a college kid’s name and likeness.

The power is in the brand of the school. Ratings for TV, values of schools to networks depend on the brand of the school. Not the athlete.”

G-League athletes who play for this minor league basketball organization are getting paid, but no one knows them. Paying college athletes would essentially create another minor league organization, but people would know them because of the power of the schools’ brands.

College athletes receive recognition because of the schools they represent. Zion Williamson wasn’t an amazing and well-known athlete before heading to play for the winningest coach in men’s college basketball history.

Duke provided Williamson with an audience and an opportunity.

Playing at the collegiate level gives athletes a platform from which they can build their careers. They aren’t paid in cash for those four years of work, but at least they’re building a brand and making connections without having to go into debt.

Not only will the NCAA suffer, but so will California.

Athletes already complain they don’t get a good education because they’re too bogged down by athletic demands. How will they find time to film commercials and fulfill endorsement contracts?

They’re already shirking their academic responsibility. With agents roaming around and the temptation of money and fame, their athletic responsibilities are bound to suffer next.

The Fair Pay to Play Act brings with it a host of other issues. If the NCAA stands by its original stance on amateurism, it won’t accept California schools as members. California schools will recruit the nation’s best players by flaunting compensation without restriction and the rest of college athletics will be weakened.

And let’s not forget that colleges receive tax exemptions as nonprofit organizations. If athletes start receiving paychecks, the state of California is going to reap the tax dollars.

Perhaps the NCAA isn’t the only organization benefiting from the hard work of college athletes.

Calli Townsend is a junior studying sports management and is an assistant sports editor for The Collegian.

The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff

When Bon Appetit announced they would stop allowing students to punch in their ID numbers for meals, students were outraged.

Without first asking why our food service provider made this decision, students took to Facebook to post their grievances.

Events of the past year show students won’t hesitate to express concerns about perceived issues on cam-

pus. We’ve seen petitions for improved sexual assault education, lively debate about Tower Light funding, and everything in between.

Hillsdale isn’t perfect. But a student who spends four years on this campus has the potential to make campus life better for the next generation of Hillsdale students.

But change does not happen unless students use the proper channels.

If you want to effect change at Hillsdale College, use the means provided to you.

Through the liberal-arts core, students know to clearly and effectively communicate.

Use your knowledge from Classical Logic and Rhetoric to establish credibility and argue your point in a respectful and logical manner.

Use your critical thinking skills to understand that the

poorly-organized petition or thrown-together Facebook group will not accomplish your end goal.

Creating change on this campus should happen the right way, with intelligence and respect. Internet trolling helps nobody, and Hillsdale students are better than that.

One simply needs to have the courage to take a stand and the heart and brains to be kind while doing so.

NBA ignores China’s human rights abuses By | Matt Fisher In February 2018, Laura Ingraham of Fox News found herself going head-to-head with NBA superstar LeBron James. After James criticized President Donald Trump, Ingraham hit back at the Los Angeles Lakers’ forward during her show, and told him to “shut up and dribble.”

The ensuing backlash resulted in adulation and support being tossed in James’ direction while Ingraham was resoundingly ridiculed.

In March, former Lakers legend and Oscar-winning filmmaker Kobe Bryant found time in his Academy Award acceptance speech to take a swipe at Ingraham’s remarks. The entire NBA and sports world rallied behind James, who then released a docu-series titled “More than an Athlete” to promote himself as a champion of social justice.

No major professional sports league does more to enable and empower their players to speak on social and political issues than the National Basketball Association.

While other leagues like the NFL struggled with controversies such as the anthem protests, the NBA smoothly navigated such pitfalls despite having some of the most loquacious superstars in the world.

All that changed last week.

On Oct. 4, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted out his support of the protests in Hong Kong. In reality, this was nothing new or unusual for the NBA. Players comment all the time on social issues via Twitter or the press: LeBron James once tweeted that President Trump was a “bum” for disinviting the Golden State Warriors from the White House. James and other superstars such as Kevin Durant and Steph

Curry have also publicly supported the Black Lives Matter movement and social justice warriors such as Colin Kaepernick.

There was something profoundly different about Morey’s tweet, however. It exposed something unsettling about the NBA’s social justice crusade.

Rather than sparking a Twitter mob of athletes rallying in support of his cause, Morey’s declaration of support was met with crickets — until the NBA forced Morey to backpedal his remarks, which they said

Harden, and Russell Westbrook towed the company line by dodging questions about the controversy.

Perhaps no moment of the debacle was more cringe-worthy than when Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr’s response to a question about Chinese human rights violations. A vocal critic of President Trump on Twitter and in the press, Kerr could have easily channeled a fraction of that passion towards standing with the protestors.

Instead, Kerr engaged in shameless whataboutism and deflected to gun control:

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr made controversial comments about China last week. | Wikimedia

insulted Beijing.

Because, of course, what company would want to insult a customer that provides a market of more than 500 million fans and a television deal worth $1.5 billion?

For the past two weeks, as teams such as the Lakers and Nets arrived for promotional exhibition games in China, the NBA went out of its way to placate Beijing rather than echo Morey’s call for solidarity with the Hong Kong protests. Even outspoken superstars such as LeBron James, Stephen Curry, James

“Nor has our record of human rights abuses come up, either,” Kerr said. “Things that our country needs to look at and resolve… But people in China didn’t ask me about, you know, people owning AR-15s and mowing each other down in a mall.”

There is no denying that America has an issue with gun violence. But to equate the evil acts of mentally-disturbed individuals with the world’s largest tyrannical government is idiocy in its most obvious form.

The Chinese government

has engaged in the systematic suppression of free speech, forced abortions, and organ-harvesting from live human beings. The NBA should also know that, while their superstars like LeBron were warming up for an exhibition game in Shanghai, thousands of Uyghur Muslims were being rounded up by the Chinese government and sent to concentration camps.

Which made it all the more frustrating when James criticized Morey for expressing solidarity with the people of Hong Kong: “We all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative... I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand,” James lamented.

The truth of the matter is the NBA’s crusade for social justice ends at the Great Wall of China, where the temptations of profit overcome any moral backbone the association may possess.

If you need any more evidence that the NBA has completely mishandled this situation, consider the fact that Senator Ted Cruz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have co-signed a letter bashing the NBA for treating China with kid gloves. When the conservative Cruz and democratic-socialist Ocasio-Cortez both agree that you are doing a terrible job, it is a safe bet that you have botched the situation.

So how much does it take to make an athlete “shut up and dribble?” The answer is $1.5 billion and legions of adoring — albeit oppressed — fans.

Matt Fisher is a senior studying politics and is a reporter for The Collegian.

1619 Project disregards history’s heroes Darkest parts of America’s history cannot be taught without the good

By | Andrew Simpson The New York Times made news this summer with the 1619 Project, a series of essays and articles written with the goal of rewriting American history, using the year 1619 as the founding of our country, as that was when the first African slaves were brought to the New World.

According to The New York Times’ website, it intends “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”

Although many argue the 1619 Project is dangerous, the essays illustrate a larger cultural problem with today’s method of teaching history.

We teach the history of our country and civilization with a focus on the evils that occurred throughout history, and fail to pass down the stories of daring deeds and praiseworthy actions.

As such, we have destroyed the beauty that is found in mankind’s history: the heroes of our past defending against evil.

While we should not only focus on mankind’s failures, there are still reasons to teach about the horrors of the past.

The story of World War II

cannot be recounted without the Holocaust, the taming of the West cannot be studied without the Trail of Tears, and our own nation’s history cannot be truly understood without recounting slavery’s effect on our founding. But we mustn’t lose the good of our heritage in light of the bad. Such an attitude turns history into a mere study of dates and tragedy. We lose the truly noble efforts of those who have gone before us.

When I was in school, lessons on the Holocaust focused on the six million Jews in Europe that were rounded up and slaughtered by the Nazis. As a third grader, I remember my teacher showing us footage of the tortured and emaciated bodies of the Jews who were discovered in the concentration camps of Eastern Europe.

She said we needed to understand the horror of the time. And I agree. We need to see the footage to understand the nature of the evil in World War II. But we also need to learn about the noble heroes that ended the war as well.

When we learned about World War II, the atrocities like the Holocaust were described in graphic detail.

The efforts to end the evils of the Axis powers weren’t so clearly painted. The dates of D-Day were provided to us

and quickly forgotten. No one spoke of the men who landed on those beaches, waded ashore, and died in the cold waters of the English Channel to stop one of the greatest evils the world has seen.

We never heard of the noble efforts of the Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in the place of another man, who had a wife and children, at Auschwitz.

We never heard of Whitold Pilecki, the Polish captain who entered Auschwitz to retrieve information. The darkness had overcome the light.

The 1619 Project attempts to do the same by focusing on a history of darkness at the exclusion of the light.

Selecting 1619 as the start of our nation based solely on the importation of African slaves takes the focus off where it should be. Our nation is one that, as Abraham Lincoln stated in the Gettysburg Address, was “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Great men and women of the past have attempted to embody this sentiment and we should teach their stories.

We must teach the stories of Washington crossing the Delaware, of Lincoln standing firm in the face of the evil of slavery, and of Rosa Parks and others opposing modern

tyranny. By all means, educate on the bad, but not at the exclusion of the good.

Yes, we have failed. Yes, men and women suffered due to American hypocrisy — none more than the slaves.

But for a country and culture to continue, they must hold up their heroes and principles as an ideal to strive toward.

We must instead teach history with the goal of instilling the virtues of the heroes of the past as a source of strength and encouragement, sacrificing neither the education of the good nor the ills of the past in our educational scheme.

C. S. Lewis once said, “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

The 1619 Project exemplifies our obsession with the evils of the past. The sins of the father have overcome the greatness of the son. We need to return to teaching about the heroes, so that one day when our children will meet cruel enemies, they might look back on the old, brave knights and draw the strength necessary to put an end to the evil of their times.

Andrew Simpson is a senior studying history.

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US shouldn’t cut ties with Saudi Arabia Saudi crown prince is a critical ally in the Middle East

The Turkish authorities kept in the future.”

Though there has been a By | Abby Liebing investigating and insinuating But though he is taking serious reaction against MBS, Surrounding its onethat there was official Saudi responsibility as a ruler, he Trump, now putting himself year anniversary, the Jamal involvement until the Saudi still completely denies that he at odds with both political Khashoggi murder scangovernment finally said they ordered Khashoggi’s death. parties, has stood up for MBS dal has been resurrected, believed it was a “rogue operThere is still a massaying that it is unlcear that haunting Saudi Arabia’s de ation.” sive global outcry against the prince had any connecfacto ruler, Crown Prince A global uproar ensued, Khashoggi’s murder. Turkey’s tion to the murder. Why? Mohammad bin Salman as many thought this was a President Erdogan in particBecause Trump knows the (MBS) again. Though he has human-rights violation. The ular refuses to stand down importance of the Saudi-U.S. continually denied any direct United Nations investigated and for the past year has been relationship. He is simply connection to the murder, he the murder last summer and calling Khashoggi’s death being pragmatic and serving is having a hard time putting concluded that Khashoggi’s a political murder and “a U.S. interests.

Khashoggi’s ghost away. murder was a “deliberate, serious threat to international Trump probably shouldn’t But the United States premeditated execution” order.” He also said it “was be so intimate with MBS, but should not be too quick to and the state of Saudi Arabia arguably the most influential at least he understands that pull the trigger and disengage had to bear responsibilty. and controversial incident of it’s vital not to sabotage the with MBS and Saudi Arabia.

The U.N. also said there was the 21st century.”

U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia. If Currently, the Saudis Congress wants to keep are the U.S.’s second MBS at arms-length, fine. biggest crude oil supThat’s maybe even a good plier, and any kind of idea. But don’t cut him measures to stabilize the off altogether. Saudi AraMiddle East must have bia, and MBS as its ruler, support from the House is not only a key U.S. of Saud. And as the business partner, but the de facto ruler of Saudi key to any sort of Middle Arabia, the U.S. has to Eastern stability. play nice with MBS — From a practical not necessarily condone standpoint, if the United or ignore his actions, but States antagonized and avoid making him an cut off every world leader enemy. that has questionable acOn Oct. 2, 2018, Jations and ethics, it would mal Khashoggi, a Saudi be a lonely hypocrite. In Arabian journalist who a cynical but true sense, lived in self-imposed exsometimes not letting ile in the United States, corruption shut down went back in Istanbul Demonstrators protest Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who is every international relation, to finalize his divorce so allegedly connected with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. | Wikimedia is what brings success in he could marry Turkish “sufficient” and “credible” Khashoggi’s murder nearly the broader scheme. citizen Hatice Cengiz. At 1 evidence to link MBS to the ruined MBS’s international Yes, MBS is probably p.m., Khashoggi entered the murder. image. Instead of being the shady, but sometimes it is Saudi Arabian consulate in The fiasco has not only reformer that he tried to set necessary to work with evil Istanbul. But he never came slowed down the U.S.’s arms himself up to be in 2017 and men for a greater good. Read out. Police later concluded deal with Saudi Arabia in the 2018, he is now being perJeane Kirkpatrick’s 1979 that inside the consulate he past year, but it has drasticalceived by world leaders, es“Dictatorships and Double was drugged, killed, and cut ly slowed foreign investment pecially the U.S. Congress, as Standards” to understand into pieces by Saudi hitmen. in the kingdom, especially another shady Arab dictator that that there is often a His remains have yet to be now that the United States that the United States and the necessity to work with lessfound. fell in line with the rest of the rest of the international comthan-stellar dictators, while Khashoggi was previously globe in demanding a full munity has ethical qualms still recognizing what they known for his criticism of investigation of Khashoggi’s about dealing with. are, for the greater good and the Saudi royal family, and death.

Though MBS tried to U.S. interests. in particular Crown Prince Just in the past two weeks, smooth things over by No, the United States Mohammad bin Salman. BeMBS agreed to an interview publicly taking some of the should not just look the other fore he died, Khashoggi said with PBS for a documentary. responsibility for Khashogway and ignore Khashoggi’s his continued criticism led In this interview, MBS made gi’s death, he has lost many murder. Go ahead, investigate to suspicion and accused the the bold move of taking reU.S. supporters to a now MBS. Be very wary of him.

Saudi government of banning sponsibilty for the murder. bipartisan crusade of justice Keep in mind his importance him from Twitter. He claimed “I get all the responsibility for Khashoggi. For example, and usefulness, and do not his move to the United States because it happened under the House of Representatives cut off relations with him. in 2017 was for safety. my watch,” and “since it was recently added language in Immediately following committed by individuals the National Defense AuthoAbby Liebing is a senior Khashoggi’s death, the working for the Saudi govern- rization Act requiring the studying history and is the Saudi government — MBS ment,” MBS said. “This was a administration to identify associate editor of The Collein particular — denied any mistake. And I must take all and sanction those found gian. connection to the murder. actions to avoid such a thing responsible for the murder.

Government intervention to blame for inefficient healthcare system By | Trevor Vogel For more than a decade now, the American political system has focused incessantly on healthcare and health insurance. High-profile tragedies have directed public ire towards American healthcare and insurance companies and now foster support for a central plank in the Democratic Party’s implicit platform — Medicare for All. Critics of America’s free market healthcare and health insurance systems generally ignore the various regulations and incentives that hamstring what would otherwise be a competitive system, and they fail to perceive the unintended consequences of past and proposed legislation in the medical sphere.

While relatively free in certain regards, America’s healthcare and insurance systems are far from optimally competitive markets.

The Affordable Care Act, for example, prohibits insurance companies from explicitly altering the risk profiles of their insurance plans and requires all Americans to purchase insurance, even citizens that prefer not to. Insurance regulations require coverage of pre-existing conditions or events like pregnancy, coverage that does not constitute “insurance” by definition.

By forcibly inserting insurers as a middleman into most provider-patient transactions, the United States overrides consumer preferences, weakens patient cost-sensitivity, and creates incentives that facilitate the higher prices interventionists lament.

The profit motive alone can’t be the culprit for these higher prices, as competition from firms like Walmart and CVS Pharmacy have significantly reduced primary care costs for vaccines and other basic medical operations in recent years.

Insulin production has incentivize safe drug stanreceived special scrutiny in dards while streamlining the recent months, and it is a research-market pipeline for particularly tricky subject new drugs. to address. The main issue To see the broader conconfronting potential insulin sequences of intervention manufacturers — wouldbeyond the FDA, we need to be competitors to the three only look at the U.S. Departcurrent producers — is the ment of Veterans Affairs. exorbitant cost of developing Terrifying government death new insulin products. Insulin panels are not just the stuff is a biologic medical product, of dystopian fiction: Numeaning it cannot be made merous waiting list-related cheaply like generic chemical deaths have haunted the VA, pharmaceuticals. and its facilities are notoriInstitutional barriers raise ous for poor cleanliness and this cost even more. Current short-staffing. patent law allows firms to exIf the VA isn’t convinctend their patents, and FDA ing enough, we can look to regulations require each new Europe as well. type of generic insulin, called In 2017, the British Nationbiosimilars, to undergo trials al Health Service condemned and testing almost as if they Charlie Gard, a 1-year-old, to were entirely new drugs. The death by prohibiting his travfixed costs el outside “All proponents of Medicare Britain involved with this for All should consider the lim- for research experiits of what they... can control, mental and regulatory understanding that the system they treatcompliment, ance are loathe is in many ways the result even extraorwhen his dinarily of the political forces to which they parents high. raised now appeal.”

Prices the monmay seem unreasonable to ey to afford it. Many centralsome, but they are necessary ized European countries also to incentivize pharmaceutical face rampant bribery to jump research and production in waiting lists and suffer from the first place. The necessity corrupt bureaucracies that and efficacy of the FDA’s regadminister health services. ulations are another matter, These phenomena are but critics of “Big Pharma” representative of the scarcity ought to at least acknowledge that motivates all economic that the invisible hand can’t activity. allocate resources adequately When governments prowith such regulatory rehibit markets from rationing straints. resources, scarcity doesn’t Reform-minded Amerijust vanish. Resources must cans ought to consider polistill be allocated, and withcies that liberalize the insulin out the price system in these market. Loosening regulamarkets, care and treatment tions or patents on biosimiis allocated through time lars and allowing consenting (waiting lists), illegal activity patients to purchase products (bribes or black markets), with lower safety standards or the whims of bureaucrats would certainly facilitate who consider themselves lower prices. Alternatives to both morally and economthe FDA, like private cerically competent enough to tification firms, would also run entire markets.

Despite the best efforts of legislators, individuals and firms inevitably respond and adjust to the realities of scarcity, changing their behavior in ways unpredicted by politicians.

Some advocates of greater government intervention in American health services contest that no one should die from “preventable” health conditions. On the surface, this sounds ideal, and it is.

Clearly, we all want Americans to live long and healthy lives. This contention, however, when examined critically, is actually quite vague. What exactly constitutes a “preventable” health condition?

After all, most conditions are likely “preventable,” but only at great cost. And no commitment, however laudable, is worth prohibitive costs to achieve.

Blind commitment to such intuitively appealing ideals inevitably comes with unforeseen costs and unintended consequences. A commitment to eliminating all “preventable” medical deaths through any centralized system will require sacrificing the work preferences of doctors; the preferences of insurers, the insured, and the uninsured; and the foregone productive capabilities of all the resources employed in such mass coercion.

F.A. Hayek wrote, “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” All proponents of Medicare for All should consider the limits of what they or their representatives can control, understanding that the system they loathe is in many ways the result of the political forces to which they now appeal.

Trevor Vogel is a junior studying economics.

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Bon Appetit thanks Hillsdale community for 175th Gala By | Dave Apthorpe On behalf of the entire Bon Appetit team, I would like to thank the Hillsdale College community for their incredible commitment to our partnership as we successfully orchestrated the 175th Gala celebration.

Executing food and beverage service for these events took an enormous amount of coordination and cooperation that couldn’t have happened without a great partner.

In addition to the dozen or so Bon Appetit associates from other accounts — some coming in from as far as Miami, Florida, I saw students, entire sports teams, staff and faculty from practically every department pitching in to help clear tables, serve salads, and assist with clean-up of the events.

We appreciate the patience of our guests in Grewcock

Student Union as we adjusted our service to take pressure off of our dish crew who had to wash an additional 800 guests-worth of dishes each meal.

We are grateful for the support and partnership that we’ve built over the course of five years at Hillsdale. The level of commitment demonstrated between the Hillsdale College community and Bon Appétit was tremendous.

We are extremely proud to have been selected the food service provider for Hillsdale College and appreciate the commitment to success that is instilled into every member of this community.

We look forward to continuing our growth with the college and exceeding expectations in all aspects of our service.

Dave Apthorpe is the general manager of Bon Appetit.

American healthcare system needs less government By | Christopher Martin Cal Abbo’s Oct. 3 op-ed (“Market-run healthcare system puts profits over patients”) rightly condemned the avoidable suffering caused by our dysfunctional healthcare system. But the system isn’t dysfunctional because of inherent problems with free markets. It is dysfunctional because poor government policy has repressed market dynamics, most particularly competition.

Abbo correctly points out that demand for insulin (and many other life-saving medications) is inelastic, meaning that people buy close to the same amount even if price increases steeply.

But this is only a problem for consumers if there is limited competition among the suppliers of a good or class of good. My demand for food is also relatively inelastic, but if Kroger tries to charge me $50 for a loaf of bread, there are many other stores eager to win my business with more reasonable prices.

Competition is the consumer’s guardian.

But competition within healthcare markets is weak, and mainly because government policy makes it so. A few manufacturers are able to charge sky-high prices for insulin because the federal patent system gives them near-monopoly power. Firms have been known to maintain such power through ruthless legal strategies, including suing potential competitors and “evergreening” patents with insignificant product improvements.

Existing hospitals and medical service providers pull off the same trick, for instance by using state-level “certificate of need” laws

to limit competition. If an entrepreneur wants to open a new health facility in Michigan, increase the number of beds in a hospital, or start providing certain new medical services, she needs to get permission first from an arm of state government, which works off review standards developed by a committee mostly composed of industry insiders. On a more general level, but on the same theme, professional organizations of existing doctors work to limit the number of new doctors.

And there are, of course, many other ways government policies distort healthcare markets — the most salient probably being the bias built into the tax code towards employer-provided health insurance, which is often insensitive to patient needs.

Since some companies and individuals profit handsomely from government-granted privileges, they lobby hard to keep and extend them.

So Abbo is partly right to sense that many profit and price phenomena in our healthcare system are antisocial. What he doesn’t reflect on is that they can only exist because of existing government intervention in the market.

We wouldn’t help a poisoned patient by giving him more poison — why should we try to fix our tortured healthcare system with yet more government involvement, potentially stripping even more power away from individual patients? We need more real free enterprise in healthcare — not less.

By | Clint Pagurko On Oct. 3, the Collegian published an opinion by Julia Mullins arguing in favor of emergency risk protection orders. Often billed as a reasonable solution to lower gun violence rates, these “red flag laws” are not only ineffective, but even dangerous on several levels.

These bills are often pushed as anti-suicide measures, but in the study cited

by Ms. Mullins it was found that 90 to 95 percent of the orders issued were against people who did not pose an actual threat to themselves.

The primary author of that study stated that he believes due process is not being followed. In Connecticut, the first state to enact such laws, the execution of such orders accompanied an overall increase in suicide rates.

In most cases, seizure orders are executed without the accused being made aware of the allegations against them

and even before the police show up at their front door.

The entire process following the actual seizing of weapons is the epitome of “guilty until proven innocent” judicial malpractice. In most states, the accused are not entitled to legal representation.

While these laws are obviously a gross violation of the Second Amendment, the problems go deeper.

If the justice system in America means anything at all, it is the right to a fair trial.

We cannot allow punishment to begin before a fair trial commences. Emergency risk protection orders allow law enforcement to act as judge, jury, and — in at least one case already — executioner.

It’s not just firearm owners that should oppose red flag laws but anyone who believes people should not be prosecuted for a crime they haven’t committed.

Christopher Martin is an associate professor of economics at Hillsdale College.

Emergency Risk Protection Orders raise red flags

Clint Pagurko is a senior studying history and German.

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Hillsdale Senior Apartments: Wallick Community waiting on state grant By | Genevieve O’Gara Collegian Freelancer Wallick Communities, a full-service real estate, general contractor, and property management company out of Ohio, will begin construction on Hillsdale Senior Apartments in the Fall of 2020 if it is granted funding by Michigan State Housing Development Authority.

MSHDA sells tax-exempt notes and bonds and then loans the proceeds to private developers who use the money to build, own and operate low and moderate-income rental housing. Wallick Communities has applied for MSHDA funding and will receive an answer from the state in January 2020.

According to Joe Hall, development manager for Wallick Communities, the residence will be restricted to individuals who are 55 years of age and older and who earn below the median income for the area, which is $34,000.

Hall said Hillsdale Senior Apartments will be located on a five-acre wooded lot on Logan Street. The southern side

of the property will connect residents to a walking trail.

The apartment complex will have 60 units, the majority of which will be one-bedroom apartments. The building will also have a laundry facility, elevator, fitness room, activity and community space, and a computer and business center.

The Hillsdale City Council granted a Payment in Lieu of Taxes approval to Hillsdale Senior Apartments but rejected the same exemption to a proposed 40-unit, rent-controlled apartment complex on West Street.

According to Councilman Greg Stuchell, the decision was influenced by the general opinion of the community, for many members of the West Street neighborhood voiced their opposition to having an apartment complex next to Davis Middle School.

For the Hillsdale Senior Apartments, the council narrowly approved the tax exemption in a 5-4 vote.

Stuchell said the lack of information about the project may have prevented community members in opposition

from attending the meeting and voicing their opinions.

Stuchell, who voted against the project, said he wants to make sure the council is protecting Hillsdale’s best interests.

“My concern is what we really need as a community is not more apartment complexes, but a focus on single-family homes. If more people own their own homes, it will naturally lift the economic health of the community,” Stuchell said.

A 2017 Economic and Demographic Outlook Report by the Institute of Labor, Employment, and the Economy at the University of Michigan, predicts that by 2045 almost 23% of Michigan’s population will be over the age of 65.

Hillsdale Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker said the disproportionately large senior population is part of a phenomenon called “the missing middle.”

“Lots of the baby boomer generation are middle income, but don’t want single family homes,” Beeker said. “They want to be in a walkable distance of amenities. Hillsdale

doesn’t have that, but the areas that do have it, that’s where people are moving to.”

Hall said Wallick Communities seeks to aid Hillsdale seniors looking for residence that’s easily maintained and allows them to still contribute to the greater Hillsdale community.

The project will create approximately 70 temporary construction jobs and two full-time positions. Wallick Construction will serve as the general contractor and the Ohio-based company RDL Architects will be building Hillsdale Senior Apartments.

If MSHDA approves funding for the project, construction will start in the fall of 2020, and the apartment should be open for tenants in the fall of 2021, according to Hall.

“In addition to expanding its presence in Michigan, Wallick views Hillsdale Senior Apartments as an opportunity to join Hillsdale’s outstanding, stable community and help fulfill its need for affordable senior housing,” Hall said.

By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor Last year, local businesses kept their doors open late to celebrate fall with the Hillsdale Business Association’s ninth annual Awesome Autumn event. This year will be no different as 21 businesses prepare for scavenger-hunt festivities that will take place downtown on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 5-8 p.m.

Participants in the Awesome Autumn event will receive a checklist with the names of each participating business. Businesses this year include Toasted Mud, Smith’s Flowers, Hillsdale Filling Station, and many more.

Each participating location will have either a snack, a pumpkin to find, or both.

Once participants visit the location, they’ll receive a

stamp on their list. Hillsdale Business Association Secretary Amanda Honeywell said the HBA is expecting another great turnout this year.

“We had between 250 and 300 people last year. We’re anticipating about the same,” Honeywell said. “Families, friends, and people with kids come out. A lot of them start with the maps. They’ll start at Smith’s Flowers, or some people start at the library.”

People can submit their completed checklists to be entered to win one of four prizes: a $50 gift certificate to Volume II Bookstore, an after-hours party at Toasted Mud, a $25 gift certificate to Nash Drugs, or a $15 gift certificate to Jilly Beans.

New this year is a competition for the participating businesses. They can choose to compete in a “soup-off ”

Local businesses organize first annual ‘Boo Bash’ By | Gladys Oster Collegian Reporter More than 40 local businesses have partnered to participate in Hillsdale’s First Annual Boo Bash, and sign-ups are still open. All proceeds will go to Hillsdale’s Court Appointed Special Advocates, an organization that trains members of the community to advocate for children affected by abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

The Boo Bash event will be on Oct. 26 from 2 to 5 p.m. and will include trunkor-treat, a costume contest, crafts, pumpkin painting, a fear factor, and more.

Each “trunk” in the trunkor-treat is sponsored by a different business or organization in the county. The cost to reserve a spot in the trunkor-treat is $10. Hillsdale College teams, organizations, sororities, fraternities, and clubs are all encouraged to make a trunk for the trunkor-treat, or donate any time or money they are willing to offer.

County National Bank and Small Town Sweet Boutique said they worked together to bring this event to life.

Brandy Titus, the mortgage loan officer at County National Bank, said she thought of the idea when she took her two sons to a pumpkin trail. She said she realized that Hillsdale needed more events that bring the whole family together, so she talked to Small Town Sweet Boutique to turn her idea into reality.

“We wanted to make a local, family-oriented, safe event that kids can go to and parents can know is safe,” Titus said.

Alexandra Brock, manager of Small Town Sweet Boutique, said she loved the idea and thought it would be a good opportunity for Hillsdale’s community.

“We think it’ll be good not only for businesses, but also for everyone to come to the center of town and build community,” Brock said.

Brock and Titus both said any participation from college students would be greatly appreciated and the event presents an opportunity for the college and the city to connect. For more information or to reserve a spot, call (517) 610-5403.

Ninth annual Awesome Autumn will take place Oct. 22

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competition and a pumpkin decorating contest. The winners of each of these competitions will receive a lunch from a local restaurant of their choice.

“People will vote on which soup or pumpkin they think is best,” Honeywell said. “The HBA committee will buy the winner and their staff lunch.

We encourage them to choose one of the other restaurants that participated in the event.”

The library will also be hosting a fun night for children during the Awesome Autumn event. Vickie Lee, the children’s librarian, said she hopes the library sees as many if not more kids than last year, which was about 250.

“We’re going to be doing pumpkin painting from 5 until 6:30. We’re having a costume contest and the winner

will receive a candy bouquet from Small Town Sweet Shop.

And Batman and Spiderman will be here from 5-8, and from 6:15 until 8 we’ll be showing Hotel Transylvania 3 and serving popcorn for everyone that comes to the movie,” Lee said. “We will also be doing a children’s ID event from 5-8.”

The child ID event is a way for parents to gather all the information they would need to work with the police if a child were to go missing. The forms will be available at the library, pictures will be taken, and all of the information will be put together on a CD for parents to take home.

Hillsdale College athletic teams will also be involved in the event, as they are invited to decorate a scarecrow to be placed downtown and voted on by a secret judge.

Hillsdale youth football follows national decline Residents suggest in numbers, high school football not affected project ideas for By | Allison Schuster Features Editor demolished property NFL players suffered 281 concussions in 2017, more than any in each of the previous five years, and parents in Hillsdale are taking note.

Youth participation in local football has severely declined, although this effect hasn’t reached the high school level yet. Hillsdale High School Athletic Director Dave Pratt said during the three years he has been at the high school, participation has remained stagnant with around 60 to 70 team members each year.

Across the nation, high school 11-player football is down 9.6% from its 20082009 season, according to the National Federation of High School Association’s latest participation survey, released in late August.

Youth football is on the decline on the national level, and many coaches, parents, and players say the cause is the concussion-scare that developed earlier in the decade.

The City of Hillsdale’s Recreation Director for 13 years, Michelle Loren, said the Hillsdale football program for students below the high school age is suffering from fewer numbers at a higher rate.

Loren said prior to her taking over the position, the football program was more dangerous than today. She and Chad Culbert, the Board of Public Utilities Executive Electrical Superintendent, came in at the same time and revamped the program from what it was before.

“It was pretty wild football at that time, almost out-ofhand,” she said.

Culbert aimed to get back

to the fundamentals of football and restructured it to be safer for younger children. At the time, fathers voluntarily coached the teams, and Loren said many encouraged illegal behavior such as being intentionally tough on the field.

This behavior included ‘clothes-lining,’ or knocking someone down by grabbing their neck. To combat this behavior, Culbert paid closer attention to the coaching and modified the practices.

playing basketball, baseball, and soccer. Hillsdale’s club soccer is more popular than ever.

Although Loren said the program has gotten safer within the last 10 years, numbers don’t reflect this change.

Hillsdale College Head Athletic Trainer Lynne Nuekom said people are often more scared of concussions in football than they should be.

Concussions occur at a rate of 26.3% with youth

Hillsdale’s youth football coaches gather their players after each game. Courtesy | Ted Jansen

“It wasn’t supposed to be NFL football out there with these little boys,” Loren said.

The program had remained unchanged for over 20 years prior to the major changes with the coaching techniques.

Loren said it used to be considered the best program to participate in, having 167 participants one year from all over the area, including Pittsford, Jonesville, Coldwater, and Adrian.

In 2012, the program had 70 boys, but decreased to 52 boys in 2013, which is the year that Jonesville pulled out of the program. Pittsford left shortly after, contributing to dropping numbers. Loren also observed that more boys are

football — the highest of any age group. That number has significantly increased from 10.4% only 10 years ago. The reason, Neukom said, isn’t that concussions are occurring more, but because trainers and coaches are better at recognizing and evaluating them.

Younger children involved in football, Nuekom said, are at a more dangerous risk.

From ages 8 to 13, concussions expose children to the possibility of repetitive trauma to the brain since their brains are going through the most changes in that time period.

Youth football overall leads to more injuries. Next to con-

cussions, the most common injury is ankle sprains. Nuekom said the reason kids are at the greatest risk is because their growth plates are still open and there are different types of fractures associated.

And with growth, the bones develop faster than tendons do, so there is more stress on the bones. Typical ankle sprains often result in more serious fractures for that age group.

Different measures are in place now with the organization Heads Up Football which teaches teaching tackle techniques. Coaches undergo coaching certification, which now includes learning how to identify concussions.

Regarding concussion training at the high school level, Pratt said they train coaches to be on the lookout for any potential issues.

“As we learn more about concussions and the more we are prepared for them, it’s changed the level of awareness of our coaching staff as well as our trainers,” Pratt said.

In 2017, there were over 1 million children who played youth football. The injury rate is 4.7% for every 1,000 exposures, which Nuekom said is low.

Aside from injuries, one cause for the decline in football numbers Nuekom has noticed is early sports specialization, especially the increase of youth soccer.

“Every sport has injuries, but what people fail to remember is what sports offer: learning to win and lose, leadership, organization,” Nuekom said. “Injuries happen and we don’t want them to, but I think the good outweighs the injury.”

By | Joshua Newhook Collegian Freelancer The empty lot at 23 and 25 N. Broad St., next to St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, is in the beginning stages of redevelopment as the city searches for a developer to build on the spot.

This will be Hillsdale’s first project completed in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation since being certified as a “Redevelopment Ready Community” by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in August.

The certification allows more opportunities to attract new businesses to the community.

One resource that comes with certification is the assistance of the Redevelopment Service Team, led by Redevelopment Services Manager Nate Scramlin.

“Once a community is certified, my team becomes engaged with the community and works with them to identify some priorities sites that they would like to attract investment on,” Scramlin said.

“The Broad Street parcel was one of the priority properties that they had identified.”

Scramlin said he is working in conjunction with City Administrator Alan Beeker, who is also hard at work to get this project started.

As of now, Beeker said the lot has been cleared of the former, dilapidated building, but a new building will not be constructed anytime soon.

“We are probably a couple years out from seeing any actual construction,” Beeker said.

Scramlin said this project has the potential of transforming the look of downtown and presents an exciting opportunity for the community.

Scramlin said the City of Hillsdale understands this project will have a big impact on the residents and has asked them to respond with ideas for the site on a Facebook article posted on Oct. 2. Comments listing ideas for the property ranged from a YMCA to a homeless shelter.

Richard Murphy, project manager for the Michigan Municipal League, recognizes the importance of the citizen’s input.

“It helps to have the people who are on the ground in downtown give us the perceptive in addition to the high-level data points,” Murphy said.

The city listened to people’s opinions by hosting an openhouse at the Hillsdale Community Library on Oct. 9.

“We had about 15 people attend the meeting,” Murphy said. “There was definitely interest in first-floor use that is activity-generating and brings foot-traffic downtown to help support the surrounding businesses or brings employment downtown.”

More information should be available to the public on the project in the coming months.

“There will be another meeting in a couple months where our team brings back a few different concepts for feedback in order to converge towards a final, preferred concept,” Murphy said.

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Michigan receives a ‘D’ grade in its accounting practices By | Alex Nester Opinions Reporter Michigan placed 38th in the country in the annual Truth in Accounting’s Financial State of the States report, which was released in September. Michigan received a “D” grade for its accounting practices.

The report says Michigan’s $5 billion in debt has not been addressed and would result in a $17,000 burden for each taxpayer in the state.

Truth in Accounting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has released this report for the past 10 years, highlighting many states’ illegitimate bookkeeping practices. The report says 40 states did not have enough money to cover its expenditures in fiscal year 2018, which is required by law in 49 states. The report claims that states will often hide or underreport expenditures in order to appear as if they are law-abiding.

Bill Bergman, director of research for Truth in Accounting, said Michigan has made improvements over the past 10 years and has risen consistently since its 2012, 44th-place ranking.

“Once you’ve dug a hole,

the first thing you have to do is stop digging. And Michigan has, for the large part, stopped digging the hole,” Bergman said.

The states received a grade-ranking based on the state’s taxpayer burden or taxpayer surplus. A “D” ranking indicates a per-taxpayer burden of between $5,000 and $20,000.

Bergman said that although the group’s grading system is arbitrary, it predicts the states’ actual accounting standings better than the credit rating system — which, like a personal credit rating, estimates the state’s debt and its ability to pay the debt back. And Michigan’s credit rating has stayed consistent over the past ten years.

“Michigan state government has done a good job of ‘walking the walk’ and keeping expenses lower than overall revenue,” Bergman said. “Illinois has not done that in five of the past seven years, so Michigan has a lot to be thankful for.

Hillsdale College Professor of Economics and Political Economy Gary Wolfram said he was concerned that Michigan’s 38th-place ranking

is misleading because it fails to take into account the steps Michigan has already taken to address their unfunded liability problem.

Bergman, however, said the grades are not based on yearly change or improvements.

“They take everything, including past conditions, into account.”

The total state budget deficit for all 50 states in fiscal year 2018 was $1.5 trillion, which decreased by $62.6 billion from fiscal year 2017, according to the report. Two of the largest categories of this debt are unfunded pension payments, at $824 billion, and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) at $664.6 billion.

Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie said the issue is more of a statewide problem than a city problem. Hillsdale, for example, has roughly 80-85% of its liabilities, city retirement plans, paid for, though it might change a point or two based on the health of the stock market.

Other small cities and communities are the same, according to Mackie.

“They’ll have to pay off the debt some day,” Mackie said.

Hillsdale College aids city in paying for road projects By | Ben Wilson Collegian Reporter During the Oct. 7 City Council meeting, councilmembers expressed gratitude to Hillsdale College for its financial contribution toward the road construction projects around campus.

The city is currently doing restoration work on College Street and a complete mill and overlay project on both Galloway Drive and West Street.

Richard Péwé, the chief administrative officer for Hillsdale College and overseer of the funding given to the city, said the aid is an expression of appreciation to city travelers and close neighbors.

“For being so understanding about the college’s on-going capital improvement projects, which do indeed improve the surrounding area but also sometimes bring temporary street closures, heavy construction traffic, and inconvenience,” Péwé said.

This is not the first time the college has helped the city finance repairs; the partnership has existed for the good of all Hillsdalians for over a decade.

“For many years the college has been financing road improvements,” said Péwé.

“Hillsdale, West, Union, Galloway, Barber, and College streets are examples in the last 15 years.”

Péwé added that the working relationship between the

city and college is essential to the mission of the school.

“It is important that the college be a good neighbor,” Péwé said. “Street improvements also help advance the college’s educational mission, which is the justification for providing the financing.”

Mayor Adam Stockford, who has served Hillsdale since November 2017, said he is appreciative that the college is paying for the repairs

said. “The college puts a lot of effort into promoting the city and we are thankful for its efforts.”

The contributions and support of the city make the area better for residents and students.

“It’s these types of partnerships with our local employers that help drive our local economy,” said Mackie. “They make Hillsdale a great place to live, work and study.”

During the meeting, the council also discussed potential upgrades and renovations at the Hillsdale Police Station.

Hillsdale Chief Police Scott Hephner said the station needs improvements to increase safety.

“We deal with a number of people who plan to commit suicide by cop,” Hephner said. “We have safety concerns and need to protect our staff.”

The recent spike in attacks directed at police across the country prompted the department to expedite improvements.

“We need more space and we need an interview room for when we have a victim in the building,” Hephner said.

“I’m asking for the funding to be moved forward so we don’t have to wait for three years.”

The department adjusted its budget to get the funding and the council passed it in an 8-0 vote.

“For many years, the college has been financing road improvements,” Pewe said. “Hillsdale, West, Union, Galloway, Barber, and College streets are all examples in the last 15 years.” around campus as it helps alleviate costs for residents.

“Construction of streets is a costly venture,” Stockford said. “It’s appreciated that the college has found a way to take ownership of their neighborhood in a way that removes the burden from the average working-class taxpaying resident of Hillsdale.”

Hillsdale College supports the city in more ways than just road construction.

City Manager David Mackie oversees infrastructure projects for Hillsdale.

“The city has a good working relationship with Hillsdale College,” Mackie

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Jonesville updates its 40-year-old water facility with new system By | Nolan Ryan Editor-In-Chief By next spring, the City of Jonesville plans to have more advanced technology and equipment for filtering water and reading water meters.

Jonesville’s water plant, built in the early 1970s, was in need of repairs, according to Rick Mahoney, water and wastewater superintendent for Jonesville. A water system improvement fact sheet, put out by the City of Jonesville, notes that the original equipment will be replaced with more modern equipment to better ensure safe drinking water for residents.

The updated system, including pressure filters, will continue to help oxidize iron in the water more efficiently, Mahoney said. Funds for the projects are coming from the city, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program, and Jonesville’s Local Development Finance Authority.

Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray said these updates will renew the plant to keep running well for several more decades.

“The water treatment plant is more than 40 years old,” Gray said. “Our staff has done a very good job of operating the plant, but it’s reached its natural life span. That’s going to take place anytime you’re pumping water 24/7 through a facility.”

The process for filtering the city’s water will remain unchanged, but the plant will have new well pumps, a new aeration system, and updated communication equipment, according to Mahoney. The city, Gray said, uses ground water aquifers. They then dissolve the iron from the

water before treating it with chlorine and fluoride. The water is then sent out to the businesses and residents in Jonesville.

According to the city’s fact sheet, iron in water is safe to drink, but it can “affect the appearance and taste of the water.” Meanwhile, the chlorine and fluoride are used to ensure the water is clean for drinking.

Gray said the challenge of renovating the water treatment plant is doing all the necessary work without shutting off the city’s water. This means they need to renovate the facility in stages. They aim to have the plant mostly renovated by the spring.

The city will also be updating the meter-reading process for local customers. The city’s fact sheet says in most cases, the wireless transmitter will be mounted on the outside of the building. The new meters will send signals to the city hall offices, allowing for instantaneous water usage readings, which will help the city keep an eye out for spikes in water usage, according to Gray. Mahoney said customers will also be warned if there is a spike in water usage.

Some customers have already had boxes installed, and the rest should be changed out and ready to be implemented by the winter, Gray said.

With the new meter, the plant doesn’t have to send out employees to do routine checks on-site. This will free up employees to work on other things, making the whole process more efficient, Mahoney said.

One of the benefits for customers is that they will know right away if something is wrong with their water.

Because the plant only reads meters every two months as of now, a customer might have two months of high water bills if they don’t know there’s an issue with their water usage. Now, the customer will be notified immediately.

“For the customers, there will be a feature with a red flag. So if they normally use 300 gallons, and it jumps up to 2,000, the meter will red flag it,” he said. “We’ll be able to contact the customers to let them know.”

Gray said the city got a favorable bid from HydroCorp to take care of installations for the new water meters.

“HydroCorp is handling all of it on our behalf. They are sending out notices. There are multiple ways to schedule an installation. People can call, or go to an online portal,” Gray said. “We tell people it’s typically about 30 minutes to do the meter installation, and the water shut off on the premises during that time.”

When it comes to funding these projects, Gray and Mahoney said the city had been setting aside money for this over the last several years.

As a small, rural community, Gray said Jonesville was also eligible for funds from the USDA, and they obtained a low-interest loan.

This loan, he said, will allow the city to accomplish the major renovation projects. Gray also noted that the Local Development Finance Authority’s contributions for the next few years will help offset the interest rates on the USDA loan.

“We know you can’t do a $2.5 million project on a system our size without increasing fees,” Gray said. “But we planned ahead.”

City’s first leaf pick-up is Oct. 26 By | Liam Bredberg Assistant Editor

Residents in the City of Hillsdale are required to put leaves and brush in bags for pick-up by Modern Waste Services this fall. The city released a notice in September outlining the new procedure for leaf pick-up stating that there would be two pickup dates on Oct. 26 and Dec. 14.

The city will still be picking up cut branches less than 8 feet in length on the same dates as when they’ll pick up the brush. Residents will also be allowed to haul their brush to the compost site on Waterworks Avenue Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The city will not be picking up dirt, large stumps, or stones.

“Modern Waste offered a price to pick up leaves of $19,500 annually,” Director of the Department of Public Services Jake Hammel said. “The process utilizing bags is the only method they can offer.”

While the new method for pickup may be more work for residents, Hammel said it is the only possible way to complete the task in the short amount of time the city has.

“Modern Waste utilizes all of the garbage trucks they have available to them in order to quickly pick up all of the leaves on a Saturday,”

Hammel said. “The garbage trucks have to run regular garbage collection Monday through Friday, so bagging leaves is the only way to make it possible to get it all done in a single day.”

Before Hillsdale switched to Modern Waste Systems, leaves could be left in piles near the street where they would be picked up.

Mayor Adam Stockford said the money saved with the new policy has led to a lot of improvements within city lines.

“The leaf policy was changed for two main reasons,” Stockford said. “First, we’re trying to find ways to get more out of our budget for street work, and privatizing leaf pickup was a way to save the citizens $50,000 a year in expenses, as well as give our public services more time to work on our streets. As a result of cuts like this, we were able to fix 13 miles of street this past summer. That’s over a quarter of our total local streets.”

Stockford met with Hillsdale College Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers prior to releasing the news of the new regulations in an effort to get the college involved in the leaf pickup efforts.

“Chief and I have had conversations about a leaf pick-up contest,” Stockford

said. “Unfortunately, though not the fault of Chief, it’s been difficult to get all the people in the same room to further our conversation about it and the clock is ticking.”

Scott Lowery, a senior at Hillsdale College and a member of the football team, heard of the potential leaf-pickup competition around the city and said he would be delighted to take part in it.

“Me and some guys from Galloway used to shovel snow from driveways for people that needed help,” Lowery said. “We had a great time.

I think picking up leaves for people would be just as fun and be a big help.”

While there is a case to be made against the changes when it comes to the high cost of the bags required by the city, the decision made the process easier for Modern Waste employees, saved the city money, and allowed for a solution to a bigger problem.

“We can look at providing the bags to the citizens,” Stockford said. “I would definitely be open to that conversation, although it would likely evaporate much of the savings we’ve created through privatizing.”

Any questions regarding the new policy can be directed to the Hillsdale Department of Public Services.

Small Town Sweet Boutique brings Hogwarts to Hillsdale

By | Madeline Peltzer Assistant Editor Harry Potter fans can get their fix of butterbeer and quidditch at Small Town Sweet Boutique’s third annual “A Night at Hogwarts” event.

The festivities will take place Oct. 19 from 6-11 p.m. at the McCall’s Center Reception Hall.

According to store manager Danielle Brock, the event was inspired by her own love of Potter and desire to share it with others.

“Our goal really is to just have something unique to Hillsdale and the surrounding area because there aren’t a lot of these kinds of events around here,” Brock said. “It’s a special, once-a-year experience that people don’t have to

travel to Orlando to enjoy.”

This year, “A Night at Hogwarts” will include several new additions.

“We’ve expanded to the other side of the event center,” Brock said. “We’ll have a large projector screen playing Harry Potter movies where guests can watch the films with other Potter fans and eat free popcorn. We’ll also have a Honeydukes candy bar and they can fill up their bags with treats. In addition, we’re adding a magical creatures activity based off of the new ‘Fantastic Beasts’ movie. There’ll be clues and riddles and people will have to guess what the creatures are.”

Brock said fans of all ages are welcome and dressing up as characters from the series is encouraged.

“We’ve had guests from 8

years old all the way to their 50s and 60s,” she said. “It really is a family and community affair.”

Amber Gibbs and her sons have participated in the event for the past two years.

“It is so nice to have an event like this in town,” Gibbs said in an email. “They pay so much attention to the details.

I have encouraged family, friends and colleagues to go to the event, and they have all enjoyed themselves. Honestly, attendees don’t even have to know anything about Harry Potter to have a good time.”

Admission is $25 and includes all activities and the movie lounge, although there is an additional charge for the Honeyduke bar. Tickets are available for sale up until the start of the event.

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Chargers remain unbeaten in G-MAC By | Liam Bredberg assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers went two-fortwo in conference play this weekend, defending their undefeated G-MAC record and cementing their status as favorites to win the conference. The team is ranked 16th in the country, a slight increase from previous weeks. The Chargers’ record rose to 14-2 overall, and 5-0 in the G-MAC. “The team is continuing to grow stronger as individuals and as a team,” head coach Chris Gravel said.

“If we continue down this path throughout the season, I believe our play will help achieve a good standing within the conference.”

Chargers have now earned 17 of the 20 total G-MAC Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week recognitions awarded this season.

Senior Taylor Wiese earned the G-MAC Defensive Player of the Week award for her impressive performances in the two weekend matches. Wiese led a defense that held both opponents to a hitting percentage under .100. She averaged 6.5 digs per set leading the G-MAC and had an astounding 19 digs in the three set win over Cedarville. The award was Wiese’s second on the season.

Sophomore Karoline Shelton was awarded the G-MAC Offensive Player of the Week award after leading the Hillsdale offense in two impressive wins. Shelton clocked a double-double in both matches with 15 kills and 11 digs versus the Tiffin Dragons and 10 kills and 13 digs against the Cedarville

Yellow Jackets. She also had three service aces and four total blocks on the weekend.

The award was the first of Shelton’s college career.

The Chargers faced the Tiffin University Dragons in a highly anticipated Friday afternoon matchup. Both teams entered the match undefeated in G-MAC play, the winner taking sole possession of number one in the conference. Hillsdale beat the Dragons with impressive set scores of 25-8, 25-15, and 25-16.

En route to victory over Tiffin, the Chargers earned a season-high .633 team hitting percentage in their first set against the Dragons.

They put down 16 kills with zero errors in 30 attempts.

The team finished the match with a .443 hitting percentage while Tiffin hit for .092.

Hillsdale also led in blocks and digs with four and 80.

Junior Lindsey Mertz, the reigning G-MAC offensive player of the week, put up an impressive performance in the win with a career-high 52 assists, averaging 17.3 per set. Junior Allyssa Van Wienen added 19 kills, a .731 hitting percentage, three digs, and two blocks. Shelton stepped up and provided 15 kills to the offensive effort as well.

Wiese, sophomore Madie Schider, freshman Audrey Riley, and Mertz all had double-digit digs in the match with 20, 16, 14, and 10, respectively.

Tiffin fell to 10-8 overall and 4-1 in G-MAC play after the loss to the Chargers.

The Chargers proved their dominance against Cedarville in three sets in an impressive showing the next day. They won the sets with

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MIDWEST REGION CROSSOVER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 | indianapolis, in 1:00 P.M. 16 H illsdale (14-2) vs. 17 R ockhurst (16-4) MIDWEST REGION CROSSOVER | indianapolis, in 10:00 A.M. 16 H illsdale (14-2) vs. S aginaw V alley (13-4) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19

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scores of 25-21, 25-13, and 25-16. The Chargers defense controlled the game with 61 digs, four solo blocks, 11 block assists, and holding the Yellow Jackets to a .073 hitting percentage in the match. Hillsdale led in hitting percent, blocks, digs, and aces in the match.

Wiese and Schider led the defense with 19, and 10 digs in the match. Shelton led the offense while still contributing defensively with a double-double of 10 kills and 13 digs. Van Wienen had a quiet but vital performance with seven kills, three solo blocks, and two block assists. Senior Hannah Gates finished the

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match with six kills, four total blocks, and a .750 hitting percentage. Mertz added 35 assists, and seven digs, to the team's impressive match win.

“We have played great teams early on in the season, which helped us to prepare for conference play,” Gravel said. “Each team we play will challenge our team, both mentally and physically.

Until our season comes to an end, we expect to be challenged.”

The Chargers will travel to Indianapolis for the Midwest Region Crossover Tournament this weekend.

They’re looking to improve upon a defeat from last year’s

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5-0 14-2 4-0 10-4 5-1 10-6 5-1 11-8 3-2 8-8 2-3 11-10 2-3 7-12 2-3 5-12 2-4 2-16 1-3 6-12 1-4 6-7 1-4 1-14 0-5 8-11

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5. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN t6. TREVECCA NAZARENE t6. LAKE ERIE t6. FINDLAY 9. OHIO DOMINICAN 10. MALONE t11. OHIO VALLEY t11. URSULINE 13. ALDERSON BROADDUS

NCAA DIVISION II RANKINGS SCHOOL

1. CAL STATE SAN BERNADINO 2. WESTERN WASHINGTON 3. NEBRASKA-KEARNEY 4. WASHBURN 5. CONCORDIA-ST. PAUL 6. NORTHERN STATE 7. MINNESOTA DULUTH 8. ST. CLOUD STATE 9. CENTRAL MISSOURI 10. LEWIS 11. WAYNE STATE (NEB.) 12. SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE 13. FERRIS STATE 14. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 15. REGIS 16. HILLSDALE 17. ROCKHURST 18. ANGELO STATE 19. UPPER IOWA 20. WINONA STATE 21. WHEELING 22. WINGATE 23. TARLETON STATE 24. MICHIGAN TECH 25. TEXAS A&M-COMMERCE

tournament. Hillsdale will play Rockhurst, Saginaw Valley State University, and Lewis University. Lewis and Rockhurst are both nationally ranked teams.

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“We were fortunate to draw one of the toughest schedules for Crossover,” Gravel said. “It will be one of our biggest challenges to date.”

charger chatter: Scott Lowery Q: Your journey to play college football was unique, can you tell me about that?

Q: How to you balance playing football and academics?

SL: I played baseball through high school, four seasons a year, travel ball, that was my life. I was kinda burned out with it so I didn’t play when I got here. I went the first year and a half without playing football and then I started missing sports a lot. I wanted a new challenge.

Football seemed easier to just walk on than baseball, so I sent Otter an email, ‘Hey, do you have a spot for me?’ and he said ‘Sure, just work hard.’ I just decided to give something new a try, I guess.

SL: Since I had a year and a half, to do school, I got settled in there so I have just always been pretty comfortable with being able to get stuff done. For me the focus is definitely on football and then school kinda just fills in the rest of it because I know I can handle my classes, I know I can handle that so it is just about I am putting my energy into football first and then everything just fills in naturally.

Q: How have you been enjoying your college football experience?

SL: I love it. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a lot more complex than it seems like. There is so much to learn. Learning a new sport and then learning Sophomore wide receiver Scott Lowery it at the college level is just a different thing. It has been really hard just getting up to the level hillsdale college athletic department I need to be at but it has been such a fun process and there have been so many great people to do that with that it has just made it really enjoyable the whole time.

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Q: What is your favorite part about being on the football team?

SL: Definitely the people, for sure. The brotherhood that you have is something that you really can’t take for granted. There is nothing really like that outside of sports. It’s not just that you’re friends, but you lift together, you practice together, you win together, you lose together, you celebrate together, you have the depressing bus rides home after a loss together.

You go through all of that and just experience that day in and day out with them.

Q: What is it like being on such a big team?

SL: It is definitely interesting. The weirdest part is taking a month and a half to learn freshmen’s names. But it’s really not bad.

There is definitely friend groups within the team and you split up so much based on position that is almost like you have a little team within the greater team, so that’s nice.

But generally, there is so much energy and so many people at practice that is almost like a small city.

Q: What motivates you?

SL: For me, it’s all about being the best I can so I can just do my role to help support my teammates. I know I am not the most athletic person on the field, I never have been. But what gives me purpose is trying to pour all of the energy that I have into other people, or all the energy I have and doing things with effort. That is how I find my fulfillment in it is just working as hard as I can and just pouring as much energy as I can into others.

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David Graham Josef Hissom Ty Cox Christian Shepler Alex Giampietro Luke Keller Casey O'Brien Jake Umholtz

25 161 6.4 1 28 4 29 7.3 0 13 2 26 13.0 1 15 3 14 4.7 0 6 1 7 7.0 0 7 5 7 1.4 0 13 1 5 5.0 0 5 2 1 0.5 0 4

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1 60 60.0 1 60 3 49 16.3 1 48 3 41 13.7 0 17 6 40 6.7 0 9 2 31 15.5 0 28 2 19 9.5 0 13 1 3 3.0 1 3

Zach Herzog Alex Anschutz Drake Temple Dan Shanley Jason McDonough Kyle Kudla Nate Chambers Nate Jones Matt Harding Wain Clarke Nate Canterbury Schuyler Snell Nick Crum Josh Peroni Derek Branyan John Pearson Matt Gray Kendall Tobin Calvin McNellie Gabe Nickels

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David Graham Luke Keller Josef Hissom Alex Giampietro Matt Gray Casey O'Brien receiving

K.J. Maloney Joey Bentley Alec Foos Alex Giampietro David Graham Martin Petersen Casey O'Brien defense

Dan Shanley Zach Herzog Nate Jones Jason McDonough Drake Temple Derek Branyan Nate Canterbury Nate Chambers Alex Anschutz Wain Clarke Matt Harding Kyle Parran Joe Royer Alex Giampietro Josh Peroni Ty Cox Joe Schneider Gabe Nickels Martin Petersen Kendall Tobin

VOLLEYBALL october 4 18 Hillsdale Findlay

Karoline Shelton Allyssa Van Wienen Emily Lachmann Hannah Gates Megan Kolp Taylor Wiese Audrey Riley Maggie DePorre Lindsey Mertz Madie Schider

october 11 17 Hillsdale Tiffin

Allyssa Van Wienen Karoline Shelton Emily Lachmann Hannah Gates Maggie DePorre Emma Noskey Megan Kolp Lindsey Mertz Audrey Riley Dani Jones Taylor Wiese Madie Schider

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Chargers on pace for strong postseason meets By | Calli Townsend assistant editor After their recent performances at the Joe Paine and Lansing Community College invitationals, the Hillsdale College Chargers are on track for a successful conference championship race in a couple weeks.

The team split up and competed at two different meets on Oct. 4. A group of seven traveled to the University of Notre Dame while five others competed in Lansing, MI. Three Chargers set new personal records and many more are hovering around their best times. With championship season around the corner, they’re peaking at just the right time.

At Notre Dame, Hillsdale was the only NCAA Division II team to place in the top 15, finishing 11th overall.

Cal. State Fullerton, Miami of Ohio, and Clemson University took the top three spots, respectively. Nearly 200 runners from 24 different schools competed in this 5k race.

“They were in a very competitive race when you talk about teams like Valparaiso, Clemson, and LSU, really big Division I schools, and I thought we did a really nice job,” assistant coach R.P. White said. “We knew that the race was going to go out crazy fast and up until that point we haven’t done anything super fast in practice

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so you could tell they’re in a really good spot from a strength standpoint, now we just need to fine tune some things.”

Senior Arena Lewis and junior Maryssa Depies both ran near their personal best times, taking 42nd and 43rd, respectively. Lewis finished in 17:58.65, earning the G-MAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week award.

For Depies, this was her first race of the season after dealing with an injury, and she finished in 17:59.52.

Beating her PR from her freshman year, junior Christina Sawyer finished 52nd overall with a time of 18:06.8. Her previous personal best time was 18:11.7 from the beginning of her college career.

After finishing her freshman year placing fifth in the conference in the 5k for outdoor track, sophomore Claire McNally carried that momentum into Friday’s race. She beat her previous PR by nearly a minute with a time of 18:16.9 which put her in 71st place.

“I went out fast exactly like coach told us to and I still felt good the second mile, I felt like I still had more to give,” McNally said.

“I just started picking it up more and passing people, and it was just a good day.

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I think it’s that point in our training where we’ve started to taper so my body is actually starting to feel good and I’m able to run fast.”

White said McNally’s performance was comparable to a 5k on a smooth, flat track.

“She was close to her track PR, and when you talk about doing that out on the grass, she’s a different person than she was a year ago,” White said.

Freshman Meg Scheske was two seconds off her PR from high school as she finished in 96th place in 18:37.14. Right behind her was sophomore Sophia Maeda who took 106th in 18:42.27.

Senior Addison Rauch came in 134th in an impressive field of mostly Division I athletes. Her time of 19:02.51 was just a half second shy of her PR from her freshman year. She’s on pace to end her collegiate career on a strong note.

At the Lansing Community College Invitational, the Chargers took second place to Oakland University, an NCAA Division I school.

Oakland had 44 points, Hillsdale had 69, and thirdplace Siena Heights University had 115.

The duo of freshman Gwynne Riley and senior Kate Vanderstelt led the way

for the Chargers. They finished 11th and 12th, respectively. Riley’s time of 19:08.5 beat her previous PR of 19:18.8. Vanderstelt finished right near her personal best as well, in 19:10.4.

Freshman Natalie Martinson came in 25th overall with a time of 19:35.9, while sophomore Amber Mango took 29th in 19:41.5. Rounding out the pack for the Chargers was junior Megan Poole who came in 34th with a time of 19:53.4.

“It was a strong showing on the girls side. We need to be able to put together a whole team effort that’s probably more similar to what we did at Calvin moving forward into the conference championship, regionals, and nationals,” White said. “I think the biggest takeaway from Notre Dame and LCC was that we know there’s some areas we can improve and we’re confident we can fix those things.”

The Chargers will travel to Pepper Pike, Ohio, for the G-MAC Conference Championship on Oct. 26.

Hillsdale is currently ranked No. X in the nation, ahead of all other conference competitors.

“We have a lot of really talented people on the team this year,” McNally said. “They’re people who work really hard and I know everybody on the team is committed and really excited and want to do well.”

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Chargers set 10 personal records prior to G-MACs By | Calli Townsend assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers put together an impressive pair of races to earn 10 new personal best times at their recent meets on Oct. 4. Two groups split up to run at the University of Notre Dame’s Joe Paine Invitational and the Lansing Community College Invitational, where they finished 13th and 5th as a team, respectively.

At Notre Dame, the Chargers ran against a large field of Division I teams, with Utah Valley, Miami of Ohio, and Kansas State finishing first through third. More than 150 runners competed in the 5-mile race, which is .03 miles longer than the typical 8K race they’re used to running.

Senior Joey Humes showed he can compete with some of the best as he finished second overall with a time of 24:14.8. After adding some extra mileage to his training, Humes is right on track with his personal best time and is leading the conference. He earned the G-MAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week award, which is his second of the season.

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Junior Mark Miller and sophomore Adam Wier each ran their best times to take 50th, and 57th, respectively. Miller’s time of 25:22.23 beats his previous best by 12 seconds, and Wier dominated his old record by more than a minute. He finished in 25:25.15.

“I was really nervous beforehand and everyone was going to go out really fast, but then I just got into it,” Wier said. “I just felt like I was rolling and it was a really good course, a really good day, and I thought we were eating people up the whole time. We placed well and ran fast.”

The next few Chargers all finished within 30 seconds of each other, but ranging from 91st to 119th place, showing the depth of competition in this race. Junior Jack Shelley was the first in this pack as he finished in 25:54.56. Fellow junior Morgan Morrison took 107th in 26:12.89, and senior Alex Oquist came in at 26:26.35. All three runners beat their own personal records.

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finished 142nd overall in the biggest race of his career, giving him a good taste of what the upcoming championship season will be like.

He handled it well with a new personal-best time of 27:15.80.

At the Lansing Community College Invitational, the Chargers raced the unusual 5-mile distance as well.

Senior Charles Holbrook led the way with a big PR of 27:06.8. He finished 30th overall out of 211 runners.

Freshmen Isaac Waffle and Sean Hoeft finished next for the Chargers, each beating their own personal best times. Waffle came in 33rd with a time of 27:09.6, and Hoeft took 50th in 27:37.5.

“We’re starting to increase mileage and in our workouts we’re doing more reps, so I think we’re just getting ready for the longer distances,” Hoeft said. “ I felt a lot better this time now that I had a race under my belt. I was more prepared and knew what to expect a little bit.”

While dealing with a slight injury, sophomore James McClure managed to

run right around his personal best time, taking 51st in 27:39.7. He was followed by freshman Dylan Palmer in 103rd with a PR of 29:05.4.

While the Chargers haven’t made major changes to their training to see their times drop, a few things have helped them feel strong and faster, according to assistant coach R.P. White.

“There’s always tweaks from year to year, but I haven’t totally flipped the script. We’ve done a lot of strength stuff, a lot of stuff out at Hayden Park, which obviously prepares you to be pretty strong,” White said.

“We’ve been more selective with our races too. We’re not racing as much so I feel like we can put a little bit more emphasis each time that we’re out there.”

With a couple more weeks of this solid training, the Chargers will be ready to roll at the Conference Championship meet on Oct. 26 in Pepper Pike, Ohio.

“I think those races gave our team a big confidence boost heading into the postseason. I’d say we have a great shot,” Wier said. “It makes me feel like I’m ready to perform well there and place high.”

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Chargers fall to Davenport By | Rachel Kookogey assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers lost to the Davenport University Panthers in their season opener on Oct. 5.

The Panthers’ final score of 165.5 to the Chargers’ 133.5 was mostly due to the fact that Davenport scored points in diving events while the Chargers have no divers on their team.

The meet featured several strong performances from the debuting freshmen,

especially Leah Tunney and Marie Taylor.

Taylor won the 50 freestyle and the 100 freestyle with times of 25.06 and 55.34, respectively. She was also a member of the winning 200 freestyle relay.

Tunney won both the 100 backstroke and 500 freestyle with respective times of 58.84 and 5:12.53 and placed second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:13.78.

Tunney said her first meet went better than she anticipated and was glad to see the results follow her effort.

“Everyone came into the meet with the mentality that as long as we try our best we’re gonna do fine,” Tunney said. “Everyone today tried their best and the times followed.”

The Chargers also went 1-2 in the 100 butterfly as senior Catherine Voisin finished first in 1:00.76, with freshman Anika Fassett close behind 1:01.59.

Junior Katherine Heeres also snagged a first-place finish for Hillsdale in the 200 freestyle. She finished in 1:58.95. She took second

in the 200 backstroke in 2:11.03.

The Chargers’ top performances were matched by strong performances from the Panthers, who took first in seven of the 14 swimming events. Between this and the Panthers’ points in the diving events, the Chargers couldn’t secure a win.

“We had a lot of kids who did a great job and put in the effort we expected,” Kirner said. “But there are a lot of little things we need to clean up.”

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Chargers come back from 16-point deficit to win fourth straight game By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers overcame a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit on the road Saturday to defeat the Northwood University Timberwolves in overtime, 37-30. The win improves Hillsdale to 4-2 this year in its final non-conference game of the regular season. The Chargers scored the final 23 points of the game in the comeback victory.

“We’re a little cliche about it but we talk about ‘Every Player Every Play,’ playing one play at a time, and we did an unbelievable job at that,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “So many

things had to happen Saturday the way they happened in order for that comeback to be possible. We didn’t have any kind of sense of panic or distraction; it was just line up and play, and we did a great job.”

Redshirt freshman quarterback Luke Keller, whose touchdown run from one yard out on the Chargers’ first overtime possession proved to be the game-winning score, earned the G-MAC Offensive Player of the Week award, the first of his career, for his all-around performance in the win.

Keller completed 16 of 26 passes total for 228 yards and two touchdowns through the air, and gained 40 more yards on the

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ground, including his overtime score. After throwing six interceptions in his first four games of the season, Keller did not throw an interception for the second consecutive week.

“His development has been good. He’s continued to have a calm demeanor.

I think it’s slowing down some,” Otterbein said of Keller’s performance through six games this season. “I thought he did an excellent job of reading the option plays. He showed some toughness and some grit and determination; put a few throws right on the money. He’s making progress along the way.”

Keller spread the ball around in the passing game, connecting with seven different targets through the air. On the Chargers’ first possession of the second half, Keller found junior wide receiver K.J. Maloney for a 26-yard touchdown that cut Northwood’s lead to just one score.

Maloney again led the Chargers’ receiving corps, hauling in five receptions for 67 yards and a touchdown, his third of the season. Since missing all but one play of the team’s first game of the season, Maloney has averaged 92.6 yards receiving per game in Hillsdale’s last five games. The Chargers have won their last four in a row.

By the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves had rebuilt their lead to 16 points, but on the first play of the fourth quarter, on a 4th-and-11 attempt, Keller connected with sophomore wide receiver Alec Foos fo a 29-yard touchdown to get the Chargers back in the game.

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two-point conversion to make the deficit just eight points, and after a defensive pass interference penalty on its first attempt, senior running back David Graham pounded in the conversion on the ground to cut Northwood’s lead to 30-22.

After forcing a threeand-out defensively, the Chargers pieced together an 18-play, 75-yard scoring drive that included two third down conversions and two fourth-down conversions to ultimately tie the game at 30.

Sophomore running back Josef Hissom capped the drive with a one-yard touchdown rush, the first of his career.

Keller connected with Maloney for a two-point conversion to tie the game.

The Chargers’ first fourth-down conversion of the nine-minute drive came on a 4th-and-3 opportunity from their own 32-yard line.

Hillsdale lined up to punt, but sophomore defensive lineman Matt Gray received a direct snap and rushed the ball six yards to convert and get the Chargers’ offense back on the field.

Five plays later, Keller rushed for two yards on a 4th-and-1 to keep the drive alive, and at the Timberwolves’ 16-yard line, Keller again rushed for two yards on a 3rd-and-1 to move the sticks. The game-tying drive featured 44 yards in the air and 31 on the ground.

“The circumstances dictated how aggressive we were.You’re looking at the clock and you’re looking at how many possessions you’re gonna get,” Otterbein said.

“The execution of the fake punt allowed us the chance to win. Getting the two point conversions were big.

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play with you, and they’re a good football team that knows how to win, knows how to compete,” Otterbein said of the Oilers. “Last year’s game went down to the last play. That’s the same kind of game we’re expecting. As we mature and develop, this is a major test.”

The Chargers’ final five games of the regular season all come against G-MAC opponents, with two games at home and three coming on the road. Aside from Hillsdale, the Tiffin University Dragons are the only remaining team unbeaten against G-MAC opponents, at 2-0. The Chargers and Dragons will play each other in Tiffin, Ohio, on Nov. 9.

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on both sides on the line of scrimmage. We really controlled that part of it.”

In overtime, the Chargers’ defense stood firm after their offense put the pressure on the Timberwolves. Hillsdale kept Northwood out of the end zone four times from within the 10-yard line, ultimately forcing an incomplete pass on a 4th-and-goal attempt from the two-yard line to seal the win.

After a two-week break from playing conference opponents, the Chargers return to G-MAC play this Saturday as they travel to the University of Findlay to take on the Oilers. Hillsdale defeated the Oilers last season on the road, 20-17.

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Forever 21 declares bankruptcy By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor While the media rushed to explain the economic causes when Forever 21 declared bankruptcy two weeks ago, there’s one issue they didn’t mention: fast fashion.

The Wall Street Journal reported that until the late 1970s, the U.S. produced at least 70% of the apparel that Americans purchased, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the late 1980s, “fast fashion” broke out, and consumers could purchase “trendy, inexpensive garments mass produced at lightning speed in subcontracted factories and hawked in thousands of chain stores world-wide.”

Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram explained

that the rise of online retail and the U.S. tariffs on China were probably the leading causes of Forever 21’s collapse.

“A reasonable amount of their material came from China,” Wolfram said. “If they’re cheap fashions, that means they’re trying to sell a lot at a low margin. When you have a tariff, that means your margin is already low. I don’t know this, but I would guess the tariffs have a significant effect on Forever 21’s business. Had they been selling high-end fashion, I’m going to bet they would have done better.”

But while fast fashion wasn’t the leading cause of Forever 21’s bankruptcy, over the past several years, conscious fashion-lovers have called out Forever 21 and other similar clothing

stores for selling “fast fashion” — mass-produced, impossibly-cheap clothing, only made possible by foreign laborers working 14-16 hour days to satisfy quotas. These companies are able to sell extraordinarily cheap products by manufacturing in countries where laborers making as little as 14 cents an hour, or in some cases, are government-forced.

Many countries such as Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, and China — the global leader in clothing production — also hire child laborers to work in the dangerous machinery from as young as 5 years old.

Marketing Coordinator William Persson, co-host of Hillsdale’s “Green Is The New Black” podcast, said the fast fashion industry also produces a lot of waste, both in

extra clippings and in leftover clothes at the end of each season — for a store like Forever 21, that can be as many as 52 of these “seasons” in one year.

“In order to protect the brand, whatever isn’t sold a lot of companies will burn or get rid of somehow, to maintain brand integrity,” Persson said.

“This is dangerous because a lot of the materials are synthetic, and so burning them releases a lot of chemicals into the atmosphere.”

Senior Lillian Schmitz, who designs costumes for the theatre department and plans to be a costume designer after she graduates, explained the time-cost of making just one piece of clothing.

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By | Emily Brickey Collegian Freelancer The Sauk Theater was buzzing the evening of Thursday, Oct. 10 when director Trinity Bird’s cast put on Jonesville’s first theatrical performance of “Lord of the Flies” at the Sauk.

This performance was deeply important to Bird; “Lord of the Flies” is a story that has been very close to his heart since he first read it in high school.

“Lord of the Flies” is a play about the lives of 11 young boys left on a deserted island after a mysterious plane crash.

The boys are alone on the island with no adults and must govern themselves for survival. Conflict arises between two boys: Ralph, the chosen leader of the island, and Jack, an older choir prefect who thinks he should be in charge. During their time on the island, the boys become increasingly savage and violent.

The play is based off William Golding’s 1954 novel of the same name and was adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams. The actors, some of whom were as young as 10 years old, and none older than juniors in high school, were energetic and engrossing. and there were several, very touching moments. One especially moving moment occurs during the final moments of the play: naval officers arrive on the island to rescue the boys right as a group of the survivors stand over Ralph, moments away from killing

him. They stand and exit the stage with the officers as Ralph, stands alone in the center of the stage and weeps for his murdered friends.

The play was so moving to audience member Susan Schray that she remarked afterwards she wishes she had already read Golding’s novel.

It “just shows that between generations kids — people —

By | Alexis Daniels Web Content Editor Hillsdale College students will be performing a staged reading of contemporary playwright Lauren Gunderson’s play “Silent Sky” on Oct. 17 and 18 in the Fine Arts Building – a historical piece about a young woman pursuing her interest in astronomy at the Harvard College Observatory.

The play is based on the life of Henrietta Leavitt, a female astronomer at the Harvard College Observatory in the early 1900s. At the time, the Observatory had a group of women who were tasked with computing data from the telescope, referring to them as “computers.”

Leavitt made some import-

ant discoveries in her time there “that led to influence people like Hubble,” according to Victoria Matsos. The play also includes Leavitt’s love interest in the lab they both work in.

“It’s her navigating her work and her life,” Matsos said.

Matsos said the staged reading series has previously done “new and unpublished” plays, but “Silent Sky” differs in that it is a published play by a contemporary playwright.

Lauren Gunderson is a Southern contemporary playwright who focuses on historical figures. After trying to make a start in New York, Gunderson headed out to the Bay Area and “started gaining a lot of traction” in their the-

and other boys with hunting spears. Whether they were hunting pigs in the forest, dancing and feasting like savages, or fighting each other on the island beaches, each actor was moving throughout the entire performance.

One audience member Sally Fallon said just watching the boys wore her out.

“Their agility is just unbe-

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prey on each other in similar ways.”

Now, after seeing it on stage, she said she hopes to read the novel in the future.

The Sauk’s performance starred Noah Honeywell in his debut theatrical performance as Ralph, Jonah VanderHoff as Piggy, and Jacob Boswell as Jack. Each performer was on stage for nearly the entire one-and-a-half-hour play, jumping on and off set pieces and running from “beasties”

lievable,” Fallon said.

She added that Bird’s direction of the play and actors was “just amazing.”

Bird and cast have been working on this production since auditions began the week of Aug. 5.

Honeywell said after the play that he worked on his part every day, on stage and off, only taking an occasional night off the entire time he was preparing for the role.

He practiced at the Sauk

as well as at home, where his parents helped him memorize his lines, cues, and learn his onstage blocking.

“My parents really supported me,” Honeywell said. “They helped me memorize my lines.

My dad even recorded me reading them so I could listen to them over and over.”

Honeywell said he was nervous before Thursday’s first performance but added that now having conquered the first performance, in future performances he would just “be confident!”

“Lord of the Flies” was Honeywell’s first-ever onstage performance. In fact, five of the 13 actors made their Sauk debuts Thursday night.

Honeywell was tremendously excited, as were the other boys.

Offstage, still blood-stained and painted like warriors, the actors were all smiles, asking Bird to rate their performances and the success of the play overall. Their camaraderie was very evident behind the scenes, even though onstage many of the boys were bitter enemies. Offstage, their energy was electric.

Bird was proud of his actors.

“I may or may not have teared up a little bit when you all took your places,” he told them after Thursday’s performance. “I am so incredibly proud of you guys.”

“Lord of the Flies” showed Oct. 11-13, and will return to the Sauk stage on Oct. 20.

‘Silent Sky’ to stage story of female astronomer aters and has become popular across the country, according to Matsos.

“Silent Sky” is one of Gunderson’s most popular plays, and Matsos said she loved how the playwright used more contemporary language in a historical story.

“There are lovely comic moments, it’s emotionally a very satisfying story, and it’s a wonderful vehicle for the actors that are in it. They’re doing a beautiful job,” Matsos said.

Freshman Colleen Blockhus, who plays Henrietta Leavitt, said she fell in love with the play instantly because she is interested in space and science herself and found the story to be “very funny, very human, very heartbreaking.”

She said the play revolves around Leavitt trying to navigate her passion for science, her life with her family, and her romantic life.

“I think the heart of the play is how Henrietta figures out how to exist in those three worlds because a lot of time it feels like there’s not enough of her to go around,” Blockhus said.

Blockhus said the actors and Matsos are very passionate about the production, and Matsos’ love for the project is “so infectious.”

“I think the important part of it is how much passion and joy that has been put into it because I guarantee you’ll get that passion and joy out of it,” Blockhus said.

The end of fast fashion: A race for consumer meaning By | Gabe Listro Collegian Freelancer I want to buy Ritz crackers. Is it wrong to save 20 cents and not grab the Susan G. Komen-labelled ones?

Why do we have consumer “sins”? Are we responsible for how the company that designed my phone pays its workers? Or how the sheep which grew the wool for my sweater was handled?

I would never consciously cause someone harm or act unjustly towards another human, but in the age of information we seem to be constantly notified of our rampant consumerism, and the trail of destruction it leaves. In a world of consumer evils, is there something beautiful, something I can honor by my purchase?

A prime example of changing consumer needs was visible last week in the collapse of clothing company “Forever 21,” which The Washington Post claims fell due to their inability to adapt to changing market demands. Americans are no longer looking for low prices to the detriment of ethics.

Despite the low prices, The Post writes that “the environmental effects of fast fashion are well-documented: The apparel industry is a major source of water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide…

There is also a human toll: Such retailers tend to rely on low-wage workers in countries such as China and Bangladesh, where they have few protections.”

Condemned with charges of “‘Fast Fashion” by the court of consumers, Forever 21 has been sentenced to bankruptcy.

The ethical integrity of

a business has become a determining factor for where people spend their money.

Consumers are willing to pay more for a product which supports a cause they stand for. This is evident in everything from pink ribbons on milk jugs, to REI closing for Black Friday to promote anti-consumerism.

A prime example of this push for a more ethical form of consumerism is Patagonia.

In an article for Time Magazine, Alana Semuels recently wrote that “today’s customers want their dollars to go to companies that will use their money to make the world a better place.”

Patagonia embodies this philosophy of principle-driven consumerism. In an interview on NPR’s “How I built This,” Founder of Patagonia Yvon Chouinard said he believes he should use the resources of his company to present a different way of doing business.

“We’re trying to teach people that you don’t throw things away, you repair, and we’ve committed ourselves to owning the product forever,” Chouinard said.

In this new flavor of consumerism, principles come before profit. There is an almost evangelical bent to the very mission of Patagonia. They are not just making great coats but changing hearts and minds. Once our minds our changed, we want to be a part of the brand lifestyle: We buy the merch, we flaunt the stickers, and we honor the principles the brand stands for. Modern consumers venerate a brand because of those principles, rather than just its product.

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Lumineers’ ‘III’ dives into danger of substance abuse By | Alex Nester Opinions Editor Stories about the trickiest parts of the human experience — like drug and alcohol abuse — are the most compelling.

The Lumineers are nothing shy of masters of this kind of musical storytelling.

In their third album, “III,” released Sept. 13, the band takes their storytelling a step further. In addition to the album, the band released videos to accompany each song which combine to create a short film. The album is split into three anachronistic chapters (a fourth can be found on extended versions, which includes bonus tracks).

Each chapter represents the effect of alcoholism on one of three generations — mother and alcoholic, Gloria Sparks; her son, Jimmy, who later becomes a drug addict; and Jimmy’s son, Junior.

The cinematography of the short film is nothing short of movie-quality. It adds to the experience of the album

and gives Gloria, Jimmy, and Junior real faces. It gives the characters life and makes them human, instead of just figments of the band’s collective imagination.

Both Schultz and Friates experience secondhand the trauma of Fraites’s brother’ drug addiction. Schultz’s unnamed family member also struggled with addiction, and became homeless as a result.

The album opens in the middle of a story, after Gloria Sparks, a struggling alcoholic, gives birth to her son. The accompanying music video shows how her alcoholism impacts her parenting as she downs bottles of vodka and stumbles around with her child, Jimmy Sparks, at her hip, or leaves him on the floor with empty glass bottles and fumbles into bed to take a nap.

“Your mother never was one,” Schultz sings of Gloria’s mother Donna in the song of the same title, suggesting Gloria’s parents might have contributed to her addiction.

“You couldn’t sober up to hold a baby,” he adds.

The second chapter is about Jimmy Sparks, and begins with “Leader of the Landslide,” cutting to Junior’s teenage perspective on living with his father’s addiction to drugs, alcohol, and gambling.

“The Lumineers haven’t hesitated to unwrap the dark parts of human nature.”

The video opens with Jimmy leaving his son to bury their dead dog in the backyard alone, while he and a cackling band of friends go home to smoke pot, snort cocaine, and drink booze.

Contrasting with the previous songs on the album, in which external voices comment on Gloria and Jimmy’s addictions, the

Silverpoint art exhibit features a modern take on a medieval art form By | Ashton Mills Collegian Freelancer Lauren Redding, an artist and curator based out of Naples, Florida, is bringing her art exhibit on silverpoint drawing to Hillsdale this Friday, Oct.18.

Barbara Bushey, chairwoman and professor of art, welcomed anyone on campus to come enjoy the monthlong exhibit.

“The department is happy to show these drawings, executed in an old and exacting medium,” Bushey said in an email. “The work honors the craft of artists such as Leonardo, while also looking at the contemporary world.”

The art department invites multiple artists throughout each year to bring their shows to Hillsdale. Each show is unique and high-

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six hours to make this skirt,” Schmitz said. “Making a little clutch or something, that can take two hours, but I’ve done ballgowns and those can take anywhere from 40 to 60 hours.

It depends on the design.”

Schmitz explained that while a factory is much more efficient at producing these things than one person, the clothes-making process is arduous. Most factories break down the labor process, with each person sewing one side seam or a hem, she said.

Because clothes have to be produced extremely quickly to keep up with the trends, they are not made with much care.

“I think it has stemmed from our necessity to always have new things, our materialism,” Schmitz said. “Yves Saint Laurent has this quote about how trends change, but style is eternal. It’s really easy to go online and if you want that dress for $10 in two days, you can have that. It’s instant gratification. I think it’s important to invest in pieces you really love, and think about the quality of your clothing more than the quantity of it.”

Because the overseas factories are run by a third party, whether the government or another company, they are not ultimately responsible for

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Nicea which rejected Iconoclasm explains the connection between a religious icon and the object of the image.

“The honor paid to an image traverses it, reaching the model, and he who venerates the image, venerates the person represented in the image,” the council wrote.

This connection to a higher principle is the basis of modern consumerism.

Through our veneration of a brand we seek to connect with the lofty principles of environmentalism,

most thought-provoking and troublesome song is “My Cell,” in which Jimmy digs into his addiction on his own.

It’s a lonely place, with “painted windows,” The Lumineers sing, suggesting Jimmy can’t see beyond his alcoholism, and nobody can see into

lights different types of art.

The upcoming show will focus on the silverpoint drawing technique developed in the middle ages, which uses the element of silver to draw pictures.

“I think silverpoint drawing is a super unique technique,” Reagan Linde, a sophomore and art major, said. “While it seems plain at first glance, a silverpoint portrait done well shows a true mastery of the art of drawing.

I think it is wonderful that Hillsdale can host this sort of exhibit because it diversifies the type of art typically seen in the gallery.”

Senior Caroline Hennekes, also an art major, said that this exhibit stands out because of this nontypical technique.

“This really helps inspire and broaden our horizons

beyond what Hillsdale offers in classes at a school this size as well,” Hennekes said.

“I also think it is important for students outside the art major and the department to have access to the exhibits. Art is just as much a part of the liberal education as English, History, or the sciences.”

These exhibits are just one example of how the art department contributes to the culture of our campus—one that is necessary in Hillsdale’s quest to provide a well-rounded, liberal arts education.

The show will stay in the Fine Arts Building until Nov. 20 and is free and open to the public. The opening is from 5-7 p.m. this Friday, and Redding will be in attendance to share her story behind the show.

ensuring good labor conditions. If consumers don’t want to support the manufacturing methods, that’s their choice, Wolfram said.

“The consumers are the ones,” Wolfram said. “If they didn’t want to buy the clothing from the Chinese slave company, than the Chinese government wouldn’t be able to sell it.”

But Wolfram said the extent to which American consumers can change these horrible conditions is limited.

“Slavery’s a bad thing, and if we want to say as consumers we shouldn’t be buying that product, we can say that,” Wolfram said. “There’s a difference between being forced — that we shouldn’t have — but how can we enforce anti-slavery in another country? That’s a hard thing to do. We can boycott slave labor, but who knows what the government would do if we did?

They may just keep lowering the price, and keep doing it.”

Senior Reagan Cool said she used to shop at Forever 21, but because of the cheap quality of clothing now shops at other stores, looking for quality over quantity.

“A lot of times it’s just for the budget,” Cool said. “You look at stores like Forever 21 and is the material as good?

No. Am I going to wear it in six weeks? Probably not. But

then you look at the store model, and that’s what makes money: The fashion are fast and it’s okay that they’re cheap because they’re going to go out of style so quickly. It’s rewarding to see that that’s not even profitable, because it’s wrong in so many other ways.”

Cool explained that the problem with fast fashion is it cultivates an attitude of needing the trends right when they come out.

“The whole allure of fast fashion is, ‘Wow, oh my gosh, that’s so cute and look who has it, I need to look like that,’” Cool said. “‘Oh my gosh, look, she’s already disposed of that, and now I look at that thing that she has, I need that.’ The attitude of inadequacy that it perpetuates is extremely unhealthy mentally.”

Cool said instead of shopping for “the sweater of the season,” we should use this as an opportunity to shop for pieces that last us much longer — quality over quantity.

“Obviously, the ideal would be cheap and available and ethical, but you can’t really have all three,” Cool said.

“H&M was starting down the track of Forever 21, but they realized that wasn’t popular, so now they have H&M Conscious, which is fairly well-made.”

breast cancer awareness, or LGBTQ+ rights — or in the case of Forever 21, denounce fast fashion.

In venerating a brand, I’m now worshipping the principle it stands for rather than what it sells. I may have no need for a Yeti water bottle, but I like what it stands for, so I buy it.

My wallet is now 20 bucks lighter, but so is my conscience. In a dark world of capitalist greed, perhaps I have found a beacon of hope by shopping at a company that honors my principles.

Postwar consumerism

was motivated by patriotism: People spent their paychecks so they could receive the next one. Because patriotism no longer hinges on consumerism we’re more luxurious — social issues drive our spending patterns.

But what social issues are motivating these habits, and will they remain pure while also being used to generate a profit? If I grab the Susan G. Komen crackers, who comes out on top: Ritz, breast cancer research, or me? In the battle for my dollar, is a pink ribbon just a weapon?

it. The song leaves listeners with a lingering, discomforting impression that at least once, the addict could choose to love the bottle.

“Falling in love is wonderful/Falling in love is so alone,” he says. “My cell. My pretty little cell.”

The album ends with a final breath of hope. The band borrows the acoustics

and some fitting lyrics from “Sailor Song,” a track off the deluxe edition of their second album, “Cleopatra,” released in 2016. They reprise the lyrics in “Soundtrack Song,” the last bonus track on “III.” “Loneliness, oh won’t you let me be/Let me be and I will set you free./Don’t you think if it was up to me/I would choose to be happy,” they sing.

The video accompanying this song depicts grandson Junior fleeing from his father who is drunk and bleeding from a head wound in the family’s old blue truck.

“Victory is in the fight/In men with hearts that bleed tonight/And only rest and rest is what is right,” the lyrics read.

The tender emotions of the album are reflected in the band’s signature raw, stripped sound of an acoustic guitar and clattering piano. Though the lyrics dive deep into the pain of alcoholism and addiction, the acoustics are still lighthearted and pretty.

Like a fall morning, though the night is over, a chill clings

to air — like Gloria clinging to the bottle, or Junior clinging to hope.

The band continues to develop its style in this album, but the core features haven’t changed. The Lumineers are being who they are, and doing that well. They aren’t becoming something new, which can’t be said for the third album of many other bands.

The best part of the album, though, is not the artistry of the music or cinematography of the videos or even the band’s commitment to its own sound. Instead, it’s the band’s willingness to poke at old wounds and make uniquely troubling experiences relatable for all.

Not every family struggles with alcoholism, but we all struggle with something.

Once again, The Lumineers haven’t hesitated to unwrap some of these dark parts of human nature, taking a shared experience of pain and suffering and discovering through it a shared hope.

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‘Who Killed Civil Society?’

By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter Americans are materially far better off than they were a century ago. A vast social safety net enables even those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder to have their basic needs met. And yet, despite ample government spending on various welfare programs—at taxpayer expense—many Americans fail to reach their full potential.

In “Who Killed Civil Society?: The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms,” released Sept.

10, Howard Husock argues that the promotion of middle class values is missing from our attempts at social uplift.

A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Husock was moved by his father’s life story to write about this issue. Though orphaned at age 10 during the Great Depression, his father still enjoyed a pleasant childhood and successful life. Husock recalls his father crediting an entity he referred to as “the Agency” with equipping him to live happily and comfortably.

“The Agency,” Husock discovered, was the Juvenile Aid Society, a private charitable organization.

In “Who Killed Civil Society?,” Husock examines the attributes of effective charity, analyzing the merits of values-based civil society and the failures of the modern welfare state.

Since the late 19th century, six figures have shaped the rise, decline, and revival of civil society: pioneering philanthropist Charles Loring Brace, social reformer Jane Addams, social work founder Mary Richmond, social worker Grace Abbott, civil servant Wilbur Cohen, and contemporary social activist Geoffrey Canada.

Husock tells each of their stories, explaining the lessons we can learn from their work.

In 1853, Brace founded the Children’s Aid Society to care for New York City’s street children. Guided by the idea that children’s principles were decisive in determining their well-being, he

provided not only food and shelter to needy children, but also educational and spiritual opportunities, and taught them good behaviour.

Brace believed that individual strength and integrity were the keys to a fulfilling life, and taught children not to resent their circumstances, but instead to overcome them through honest, hard work. Because it was mostly privately funded, the Children’s Aid Society was free to pursue causes according to its own vision.

In Brace’s lifetime, the Children’s Aid Society empowered more than 170,000 children to become upstanding, productive citizens. Husock upholds Brace’s efforts as a model for charity work, and contrasts it with that of later reformers whose work departed from his ideals of inculcating social norms and relying on private funding.

Addams began her philanthropic career in 1889 as the founder of Hull House, a settlement house on Chicago’s West Side in which better-off residents lived among immigrants and members of the lower class and taught them American values by example.

Husock writes that Hull House’s unabashed moralizing would be discounted as patronizing today, but that the mingling of classes and intentional promotion of bourgeois norms is imperative to a healthy society.

Addams, however, later redirected her efforts to social reform, discrediting the power of individual initiative and instead promoting the idea that it was the government’s responsibility to facilitate economic justice.

The head of several prominent charity organizations, Richmond wrote “Social Diagnosis,” which outlined the tenets of modern social work. She popularized the concept that people’s deficiencies of character or psyche were the primary factors that caused their misfortune, and needed to be treated. Turning from the instillation of universally beneficial bourgeois norms, she categorized people’s ills and prescribed therapies to “cure” them.

In the twentieth century,

Abbott and Cohen’s work proved detrimental to civil society. Abbott, a respected authority on social work, professionalized social work and furthered the idea that social ills must be analyzed and treated. As one of the principal engineers of the expansion of the social service state, Cohen transformed — and often corrupted — private organizations with federal funding. Both believed that it was up to the government, and not to private citizens within communities to care for those in need.

Husock charts the decline of civil society in the middle four chapters of “Who Killed Civil Society?,” but ends the book on an encouraging note by praising the work of Harlem Children’s Zone founder Geoffrey Canada.

Canada aimed to improve central Harlem by setting norms for children in the neighborhood.

Mostly privately funded, the Harlem Children’s Zone cleaned up portions of Harlem and established a range of programs to support Harlem families and prepare Harlem students for college.

Canada is focused on longterm results, but the Harlem Children’s Zone’s accomplishments are nonetheless impressive: 27,573 adults and children were served by its programs in 2017 and 861 students who participated in its programs have gone on to college.

In “Who Killed Civil Society?,” Husock provides a candid inquiry into the foundation of successful charity work, illustrating the unmatched efficacy of privately funded, values-based civil society. Unrestrained by political correctness, he champions bourgeois norms in a time when some consider them old-fashioned, irrelevant, and even offensive, providing an honest assessment of the needs of America’s poor and the strength of traditional principles and individual integrity.

Husock’s insight reveals that diligence and neighborliness are timeless and that civil society remains the most powerful defense against despair.

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Course Encourages MRS Degree By | Callie Shinkle Columnist The Hillsdale Collegian published its most inconsequential front page headline on Feb. 28, 1951: “Home Ec Hears Decoration Talk.”

How did this become a front page-worthy news story, you may ask?

Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for you, but I will try to expand more on Hillsdale’s history with home economics.

The Feb. 28 article reads, “Mrs. Abraham of Hudson, Michigan … spoke on the basic principles of decorating a new home. She worked out color and material combinations for decorating various rooms in the home.”

Finally Hillsdale College was offering a class explicitly designed for its ring-byspring seekers.

The article continues, “Mrs. Abraham stated that the main ideas to consider in decorating a room are to make it comfortable and restful. She also informed the girls that it was now acceptable to mix antiques with modern furniture.”

Well thank God for that.

Now I can finally place my antique vase next to my lava lamp.

The article states that the lecture concluded with a question and answer session.

I cannot imagine what kind of thought-provoking questions were asked.

But a decoration talk was

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Most recently, Lucy Darling wanted to create a gift wrap that could only be made using a machine overseas. Only two manufacturers in the U.S. had the machine they needed to create the product, but both manufacturers only produce in-house designs and refused to create the gift wrap for Lucy Darling.

“If we wanted that product created, we had to do it overseas,” Kevin Meyers said.

Kevin Meyers added that his wife has two very strong qualities that have helped the business succeed: predicting trends and creating beautiful products. As a result of Haily Meyers’ creativity, Lucy Darling has begun sourcing more products overseas.

“As much as we liked making stuff in the U.S., what she could make here was super limited,” Kevin Meyers said.

“It was very hard for us to make that decision to make stuff overseas, but once we made it, it’s just totally opened the doors to what we could do, and it’s just really exciting.”

Reflecting on the history of Lucy Darling, Kevin Meyers said the biggest advice he would give anybody looking to start a business is to ask for help. Having no background in business, Meyers said he found himself asking mentors questions about things like minimum orders and how to sell products online.

Kevin Meyers credits his willingness to seek good counsel to Proverbs 15:22, which says plans will succeed with many good advisors.

He also said Hillsdale taught

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Estruth said that her actions reveal the love and joy she bears for the women she serves.

“She just does all these little things to love us. It’s been so beautiful to be able to be on the inside of that and connect to her and see her heart for the girls,” Estruth said.

Petrie also played a key role in the recent Benzing floods. She had decided to make a quick stop at Benzing to check on her girls

not all that was offered to the home economists. On March 20, 1952, The Collegian published, “Home Ec Group Sees Style Show.”

Decorating and fashion: the only things a girl needs apparently.

The article states, “The Home Economics Club sponsored a group of our students and faculty members last week, when they

This fashion show did not display just any clothes however. The Collegian wrote, “Entitled ‘Spring Fashion Salad Bowl’ the clothes were modeled in new shades such as blueberry, coconut, cucumber, avocado and black olive. The styles ranged from shorts and pedal pushers to formals and short jackets.”

Fruits and vegetables may be kosher, but they are

1957 Home Ec Club, printed in 1957. Winona Yearbook

drove to the University of Toledo for a preview of fashions for this coming spring and summer.”

Do any professors think that it would be a good use of their academic time to accompany this trip? In retrospect, the professors of Home Economics probably thought it was a good idea.

certainly not couture.

Once again, I have to assume that this article took a little creative liberty when choosing sources because when talking about the experience of the show the author quotes Miss Olive Berry.

It cannot be possible that the first and last name of the only source for a sal-

him how to build valuable relationships with those who possess wisdom in a field.

“We’re reading a lot of old books, so we’re learning from a lot of those who have gone before us and also those who have gone just directly before us, the professors,” Kevin Meyers said. “And one of the benefits of being here is being in an environment where you can develop those relationships with your professors.

That’s the framework I’ve taken here in the business field.”

One professor who helped shape Kevin Meyers’ time at Hillsdale was Professor of History Thomas H. Conner.

“He was an excellent student who never did anything less than A-work,” Conner said. “He has a great personality and was very capable.

It’s a source of great joy and immense satisfaction to see him do so well in his business and raising a family.”

Conner added that he and Kevin Meyers, along with Hillsdale graduate Lt. Jack Shannon, took a trip to Germany after he graduated in 2009. The trip was not planned by the college and something the three organized together.

Before this spontaneous trip, Kevin Meyers attended Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany as part of the German department’s student exchange program.

Chairman and Professor of German Eberhard Geyer said Kevin Meyers was a good student and achieved brilliant success during his semester at Saarland.

“He was a wonderful communicator,” Geyer said. “He

made international friends and joined a church while he was there.”

Geyer added that it’s likely that Kevin Meyers’ strong communication skills helped him achieve success in the field of business.

“Every field has its own lexicon, and I’m sure he learned his business vocabulary very quickly,” Geyer said.

Kevin Meyers added that he and his roommate invited professors to Saucy Dog’s Barbeque one day a week for 25cent wings on Tuesdays and $1 pints on Thursdays when they turned 21 years old.

“We went with Victor Davis Hanson, we went with Doc, Dr. Geyer,” Kevin Meyers said. “I don’t recall all the guys who went, but there were several. And that was just really cool, and that was one thing that’s just really special about this place is the professors caring.”

In addition to professors, Kevin Meyers said he has learned to ask God for wisdom.

“I believe God has been faithful,” Kevin Meyers said.

“And we’ve done our best to be faithful.”

Today, Lucy Darling products can be found in large retailers including Nordstrom, Land of Nod, and Anthropologie, as well as over 800 boutiques across the country.

“If you’re interested in building a business, starting a business, you should absolutely pursue that,” Kevin Meyers said.

before beginning work at the Sage Fine Arts buildingthat morning when she realized the dorm was flooding.

“She ran downstairs into the water banging on doors to get people out because she was worried about an electrical current,” Estruth said.

Petrie helped salvage the girls’ belongings and comforted the girls during all the chaos.

“I think it speaks to her character that she could do the bare minimum with her

job but she loves the girls so much that she takes a step above,” said sophomore Essie Molloy. “She doesn’t just take care of the kids, but really calls us her girls.”

Petrie’s definitely deserves the honor but never would have expected it or asked for it, Estruth said.

“There’s just so much anger out there in the world,” Petrie said. “Just that little bit of happiness that you can show to someone could change their whole day.”

ad-themed fashion line are both salad ingredients. I refuse to fall for The Collegian’s traps this time.

Finally, the Home Ec department also offered lectures on silver. An article published on April 24, 1952 reported, “A representative of Wood and Seybolds Jewelry store entertained the girls of the Home Economics Club at Ambler house.”

The article continued, “He displayed many different types of beautiful silverware of historical interest. . . The girls were very pleased that such an evening had been planned, as they are sure that they gained valuable pointers in the history and the purchasing of silverware.”

I don’t want to point out the obvious, but what college student is able to afford fine silverware? The plastic forks and knives at McDonalds are a financial stretch for me, let alone genuine silverware.

Most likely due to these expansive opportunities, the Home Economics major was surprisingly popular.

According to the May 6, 1941 issue of the Collegian, almost 11% of the graduating senior class were Home Ec majors.

I don’t know what this says about the past of our college, but I am certainly happy that I never had to take a class that required me to both make salad and dress like one in order to pass.

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who filled the space.

Andrew Gelzer said he thinks the company purIt’s estimated that the chased the space in the 1990s Wholesale Grocery Compaand used it as a furniture ny took up residence in the store. “We used the large building in the 1930s and space in the back as our furnibuilt a big three-story warehouse in the back of the store. ture warehouse, and that was it,” he said.

It didn’t stick around long, In 2015, Grant Baker of however. By 1940 the Scoville the Gelzer Hardware Store family bought the building heard that Roy and Felicia with plans to turn the wareFinch were looking for a house into a feedmill. place to open up a restaurant During World War II, the Office of Price Administration and brewery in Hillsdale. rented out the original part of He reached out to them, and Felicia Finch said they fell in the building that operated as love with the building and a hotel. its long, unique history. They While in possession of soon purchased the property the building, the Scovilles on 25 Hillsdale St. and began constructed a chicken hatchrenovations, finally opening in ery and a feed processor in January 2018. the third story of the wareThe Finches maintained house. Operations continued the building’s original strucuntil Richard Scoville died in ture and architecture. Its in1963 and his family sold the dustrial-style exposed beams building. and pipes tie the building’s Soon after, Wilson Auto history with a modern feel.

Parts moved in and used the Ruder said the building was building as both a warehouse also a bank at one point, and for parts and a store front. the safe Wilson that was Auto “The train station used to be used by Parts bankers operatdown the road a little ways so is still ed here until the the ladies in the brothel would there today. late ’80s.

“The When it stand in the upper windows.” safe closed from the its doors, bank is what is actually still intact, ” Ruder now the Hillsdale Brewing said. “We’ve turned it into Company became a storage storage but you can see they facility.

ArtWorks of Hillsdale Inc., had cupboards where they would’ve kept coins or the a non-profit art organization, filled this empty building next safety deposit boxes in.”

The main floor is broken in the early ’90s. Its goal was up into several segments and to provide a place for local artists and musicians to show- is used as the bar and dining room, and the kitchen is case their talents. ArtWorks, however, never quite managed located in part of the wareto bring the dream of a gallery house closest to the dining area. None of the upstairs is to fruition, as retired presicurrently being used, however, dent Don Heckenlively said.

Ruder said there are plans to “They looked at that tur it into an event space. building but the expense In some ways the building made ArtWorks go belly up,” has come full circle, returnHeckenlively said. “I was not ing to a welcoming place for directly involved at the time, friends and family to gather but I helped resurrect Artfor good food and fun. This Works about 15 years ago.” time, however, it entertains After ArtWorks left the in a more family-friendly building, it was used as fashion with trivia nights and storage once again, but this live bands. There’s even a kids time the Gelzer family of the section on the first floor of the Gelzer furniture, hardware, building with bins of toys. and sporting goods stores

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Vegetables from The Root Project’s summer harvest in the children’s garden at the Barber House. Courtesy | Jessica Frenkel

Farm to table: The Roots Project takes on food waste By | Cal Abbo Assistant Editor Senior Jessica Frenkel looks like a woman on a mission.

With her baseball cap tipped downward and her sweatshirt zipped up, she’s busy trying to save the world.

One small step at a time.

This summer, Frenkel dreamt up The Roots Project, an ambitious venture to bring us closer to our food by educating peers about food sustainability, reducing the college’s food waste, and starting a conversation about our role as consumers in the food economy.

With The Roots Project, Frenkel bridges the philosophical and concrete.

“When you think about food in general, it’s such a deeply nourishing and natural thing that we don’t really talk about,” she said.

Through farm visits, waste composting, and even gardening, Frenkel wants people to feel more connected to the food they eat and think about how it’s produced.

“We go to a grocery store and half of our cart will be filled with what you might call ‘food-like substances’ that are

packaged in plastic,” Frenkel said. “We’ve gotten to a point where we’re no longer focusing on real food … things that actually come out of the earth,” she said.

Frenkel points to evidence that consuming food in this way can be harmful to our health, and that’s what initially got her interested in sustainability.

“As I started learning more about the way that we produce food, I realized there’s so much going on that a lot of us are very ignorant of,” she said.

“The humane treatment of animals is one side of it. There are also questions of environmental impacts. Those two things are deeply unsettling when you consider the reality of what’s going on,” Frenkel added. “I’m really interested in how we can reverse that or take steps to move away from the harmful effects of food production.”

Frenkel said she was partly inspired to start The Roots Project by a climate change lecture series last semester.

Ken Hayes, professor of physics, gave three lectures explaining the physics behind climate change.

Frenkel said that the lecture sparked a lot of conversations and educational moments with fellow students who were becoming more interested in their role as consumers because it was no longer a political issue.

Hayes is an example of someone who has made more significant changes to reduce his own carbon footprint. He eats grass-fed beef and will only board a plane in case of emergency because of how much it contributes to climate change.

Hayes began seriously studying the climate problem in the early 2000s. Because of the urgency it demands, he said he feels “a moral responsibility to educate students” on the topic both in and out of the classroom.

“When you hear ‘environmentalism,’ I think it sends up a red flag for a lot of conservative thinkers because it’s become so attached to the other side of politics,” Frenkel said.

“I think that caring for the environment and considering our impact as consumers doesn’t need to be a political issue. I think that it’s a deeply human issue, and I’m really

interested in how we can revitalize it as such and have a conversation about that and not about politics.”

As a physics professor, Hayes uses data to tell the story of climate change. He created a miniature model to show the effects that even a small amount of carbon can have on temperature.

He points to easy-to-digest graphs to convince students to accept the scientific consensus on climate change.

Hayes’ teaching method seems to work wonders. At the beginning and end of each Great Principles of Physics course, Hayes gives students an anonymous survey to understand their current views on different scientific problems. In the past few semesters, around 45% of students in his classes indicated that they accept the scientific consensus on climate change; at the end of the semester, that number is above 90%.

Hayes will participate in a lecture series next month on food sustainability, hosted by The Roots Project. Another lecture will feature a Bon Appétit fellow and focus on local food sourcing.

According to a Bon Appétit study, one college student produces 112 pounds of plate waste per year. “With around 1,400 students at Hillsdale, that’s potentially 156,800 pounds of food going to waste each year,” Frenkel said.

The Roots Project will kick off the semester with its first event starting Monday, Oct. 21. Frenkel is teaming up with Bon Appétit for an event called Weigh the Waste. “For an entire week, we’re going to weigh food that’s left over from the dining hall,” Frenkel said. She hopes this will bring attention to just how much food we leave behind after our meals, and, eventually, The Roots Project will start composting that food waste.

Frenkel is also planning several local farm visits to show students the tremendous amount of work that goes into food production. In addition, The Roots Project is maintaining and revitalizing the children’s garden at the Barber House.

On Oct. 23 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., The Roots Project is hosting an event called Garden Fest. Attendees will help clean up the garden while

enjoying snacks from the summer’s harvest.

Frenkel offered advice to those who are interested in practicing sustainability but aren’t interested in lifestyle changes.

“There are a lot of organizations that encourage people to uproot their entire lives for the sake of the environment,” she said. “I just don’t think that’s practical or helpful.”

Frenkel suggests carrying a reusable water bottle and thermos, walking or biking short distances, and buying local, grass-fed beef from farms like Chef ’s Way, just a short drive from the college.

Frenkel also recommends taking smaller portions in the dining hall and going back for seconds, if you’re still hungry.

“We’re geared toward habit and routine, but within that, we can find ways of bettering our own impact everyday,” Frenkel said. “Those little changes add up in the long run to more than we think.”

Those who want to get involved in The Roots Project should watch for events in the SAB newsletter or email jfrenkel1@hillsdale.edu.

Unsung Heroes of Hillsdale: Benzing Custodian Pam Petrie By | Reagan Gensiejewski Collegian Reporter Whether Benzing Residence is free of waves or full of them, Pam Petrie stands out as a hero among all the dorm’s ups and downs.

Petrie has been working at Hillsdale College for 12 years, including seven years on the night shift, custodial work at Olds and Koon, and now a second year at the Benzing dorm.

“I have 52 girls,” said Petrie.

“I have two of my own and 50 from all over the United States. And I love every single one of them.”

Whether it be the professors, custodians, security, or maintenance, many faculty members at Hillsdale form meaningful relationships with students. Petrie, however, exhibits an honorable example of the joy and pride the faculty consistently provides across campus, according to Benzing residents.

Petrie’s devotion to the girls reveals itself through

her simple mission of making sure every girl feels like they belong and have a home at

ever feel homesick, or that somebody doesn’t care, because somebody does care.

Unsung hero and maid Pam Petrie sits outside Benzing dorm.

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Hillsdale.

“Wherever I am, I try to make the kids feel as at home as they possibly can,” Petrie said. “I don’t want them to

It’s a new beginning for them, and I just want them to know that even though they’re not close to home, home is still here.”

Not only does Petrie care for the girls of Benzing practically through her maintenance work, she also said that she offers up her prayers and work daily for the girls.

“I pray really hard for them,” said Petrie. “I pray before Thanksgiving because I know it’s exam time. And I pray in the fall when they first come back, and I especially pray for all the freshmen because it’s their first year away from mom and dad and everything is going to be different.”

Jolene Estruth, junior and current head Resident Assistant at Benzing, attests to Petrie’s love and sympathy toward the girls.

“She was talking to me in my doorway one day and saw a girl walk past that she didn’t know,” Estruth said. “She ran down the hall to go ask her what her name was and see how she was doing. She just loves building relationships with all the girls.”

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The bar inside the Hillsdale Brewing Company on Hillsdale St. Courtesy | Calli Townsend

Brothel to bar: A Hillsdale Brewing Company history By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor From local brewery to Saturday morning lunch destination, the Hillsdale Brewing Company does it all. Its current, eclectic range of service is nothing compared to the wild history of this big brick building on the corner of Hillsdale St. and E. Carleton road. Owner of the Hillsdale Brewing Company Felicia Finch, intrigued by the building’s history, decided to

do some research. She shared her findings online with the Hillsdale Brewing Co. Facebook page.

The building first opened in the 1880s and served as a hotel, brothel, and saloon, but the city eventually shut it down in 1916.

“The train station used to be down the road a little ways so the ladies in the brothel would stand in the upper windows,” Jessia Ruder, Hillsdale Brewing Co. waitress said.

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Lucy Darling: Alum creates ‘beautiful products’ for babies By | Julia Mullins City News Editor When Kevin Meyers graduated from Hillsdale College in 2009 with German and history majors, he never imagined that he would be running one of the most successful businesses for baby products three years later.

Kevin Meyers and his wife Haily Meyers sold their first product from their business Lucy Darling in 2012 and were officially formed, according to the Arizona Corporation Commission, in

May 31, 2013. Lucy Darling offers several products including: sticker designs, nursery art prints, closet dividers, and memory books.

The business, Kevin Meyers said, got its start when his wife wanted stickers for their first child, Lucy Meyers.

At the time, he did not fully understand his wife’s vision for producing the stickers.

“We started with $100,” Kevin Meyers said. “It was a three day conversation that my wife and I had about whether or not we could afford the $100 investment.

I was teaching and she was a freelance graphic designer, and $100 was a lot of money.

But I believed she knew what she was talking about in this particular area, and I trusted her.”

After finding success selling the stickers, the Meyers decided to try selling memory books. Kevin Meyers said this was the first major product for Lucy Darling.

The memory books were more expensive than the stickers, Kevin Meyers said, and the production process was a little scary.

The memory books, however, have turned into Lucy Darling’s most successful product.

“Our memory book was really significant in its time,” Kevin Meyers said. “We made it four years ago, and there was nothing else on the market like it. It was new in a space that was not new. Everything about our book was unique when it came out.”

Unlike previous memory books, the Lucy Darling memory book had a ring bind, was square, and was designed for square images

– like those found on Instagram. Kevin Meyers said the Amazon bestseller list is full of products that are copies of the original Lucy Darling memory book.

“That is certainly difficult with a business,” Kevin Meyers said. “You come up with a unique idea, and then everyone rips you off. It’s a bit frustrating, but you have to stay ahead.”

During the early years of Lucy Darling’s history, Kevin Meyers said the most challenging aspect of having a business was finding a mar-

ketplace to sell the products.

“You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, no one’s going to buy it,” he said.

Up until now, Lucy Darling designed and manufactured all of its products in the U.S., most of them in Phoenix, Arizona. Kevin Meyers said this was a big part of Lucy Darling’s identity, but some products simply can’t be made in the U.S. because production has shifted, or it’s physically impossible to manufacture the products here.

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