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Q&AVictorino Matus talks about growing up in New Jersey and his time at The Weekly Standard. A2

Senior thesesSeniors work to meet adviser ex-pectations for their senior thesis projects. A3

‘Much Ado About Nothing’Theatre Department puts on Shakespeare’s famous comedy. B1

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Begging laws unconstitutional U.S. Court of Appeals declared Jonesville and Hillsdale’s law against panhandling unconstitu-tional. A6

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All new Hillsdale students sign the Honor Code in an ef-fort to create a campus free of crimes that plague other college campuses.

Recent thefts, however, in-dicate that students should be more cautious. The Suites and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house in particular, have seen an increase in burglary.

Director of Campus Security Bill Whorley said a lower rate of theft occurs at Hillsdale than at most other colleges.

“Stealing at Hillsdale is a crime of opportunity, though,” he said. “Students feel comfort-able on campus and just leave things around.”

He also acknowledged that, oftentimes, students do not re-

port a theft.“If students were willing to

report it, we would try to resolve it,” he said.

Suites Director Soren Geiger ’13 gets a report of stolen items approximately every two weeks. During Christmas break, a bike was stolen and, this semester, a wallet, a FedEx package, and a pair of snowboots have gone missing from throughout the building.

“There has always been some theft as it is very easy to get away with and valuables are often left out in the open,” he said.

Since the Delts have lived in their new house, theft has been a recurring problem. For the eight months that the Delts have lived on Fayette Street, $1,000 worth of property has been stolen from their house. Most of the items

stolen have been ritual mate-rials, but banners, Christmas decorations, and even food has been stolen.

“You tend to think you can trust Hillsdale kids,” said senior Derek Fields, former president of the fraternity.

Fields acknowledges that a prank culture exists within Hill-sdale’s Greek system.

“There is a big difference, though, between taking some-thing valuable and not giving it back and sorority pranks,” he said.

Much of the theft resulted from problems with securing the Delt’s new house at the be-ginning of last semester. At first, maintenance gave the fraternity keys that did not open the house doors. Then, maintenance did not put locks on all the doors. The front door of the house had

a deadbolt that could only be locked from the inside. Now, the Delts have functional locks and keys to all their doors.

The Delts have not recovered any of their property. Fields en-courages any students who have Delt items to return them.

“We’re not the kind of guys who would retaliate and vandal-ize your stuff,” Fields said. “We are above being stupid and pet-ty. It’s sad that people know that and take advantage of it.”

Sophomore Shaun Lichti had a pair of snow boots stolen from the cubbies outside of Saga. He wears his boots while walking to class and meals, and then changes into dress shoes.

“Currently, I walk around campus trying to balance my time between not falling on my butt and staring at everyone’s

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Students report thefts on campus, security chief urges students to be more vigilant

Viktor Rozsa

Outstanding Seniors

Mary Proffit KimmelMary Proffit Kimmel is from

Pensacola, Fla. An English ma-jor and eight credits short of a Greek major, she will probably end up teaching or working in marketing or public relations either in the Midwest or on the East Coast. She is a member of the Honors Program, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and the math, classics, and literature honoraries. During her time at Hillsdale she sang in chamber choir and volunteered at The Manor, a home for abused and handicapped kids. She works at Jitters and teaches Latin at the Hillsdale Preparatory School.Compiled by Ramona Tausz.

Why do you think you are the Outstanding Senior Wom-an?

I don’t know. I don’t feel as successful as Hannah Akin or Brittany Baldwin, the last two Outstanding Senior Women, and I really respect and love Jess and Grace Marie. As the whole process was happening, I was thinking, “People didn’t re-spect and love Hannah and Brit-tany because of their recogni-tion and their fame, they loved them because they were humble and kind and self-giving, and I want to be all of those things.”

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Viktor Rozsa is from Chel-sea, Mich., and majoring in physics and mathematics. He was a resident assistant in Niedfeldt and Koon residenc-es, served on Student Federa-tion for two years, played cello with the orchestra throughout his Hillsdale career, sang with both choirs on campus, and was involved in Science Olym-piad. Rozsa is a member of the Honors Program, physics hon-orary, mathematics honorary, and the Hillsdale Camerata. After graduation, he plans to attend graduate school, having been accepted to seven differ-ent doctorate programs. His top

choices are Northwestern Uni-versity for materials science or University of Chicago for mo-lecular engineering. Compiled by Micah Meadowcroft.

Why do you think you are the Outstanding Senior Man?

It’s a huge honor. I’m thank-ful to all of my friends and the faculty that have made my Hill-sdale experience what it is. I’m not really comfortable with the title because I know so many outstanding men in my class. It’s a huge honor to get to repre-sent them. It’s my greatest plea-sure to get to know my senior

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To many students’ dismay, Debbie Reynolds, who starred in the 1952 film “Singing in the Rain,” will not be attending the Romantic Comedies CCA this weekend, but, to the joy of many musical-lovers, Mitzi Gaynor will be speaking in her place.

Tim Caspar, director of the Center for Constructive Alter-natives, said Reynolds will not be able to attend because of ill-ness. While it’s not life-threat-ening, her doctor advised that she stay at home.

Sophomore Matalyn Vander Bleek said she was very sad Reynolds would not be attend-ing.

“I don’t get to meet a figure that was really important in my childhood,” Vander Bleek said. “She was the voice of Charlotte in ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ Cathy from ‘Singing in the Rain,’ and now my dreams of reenact-ing scenes with her are totally dashed. And she got to kiss Gene Kelly, and he’s the man.”

Caspar said Reynolds ex-pressed her apologies.

“She was very sorry she could not come, but was very helpful in suggesting Mitzi Gaynor to us,” Caspar said. “So she put us in contact with Mitzi Gaynor and her staff, and she graciously agreed to come and to speak for us.”

Gaynor will be speaking about the movie “South Pacif-ic,” in which she starred.

While the CCA speakers are planned months in advance, sometimes the CCA office does have to face cancellations.

“It’s pretty rare to have speakers cancel, but it does happen. Maybe it’s once every couple years. Usually it’s on short notice, like a flight was cancelled or a speaker fell ill, so we can’t really find someone within 24 hours.”

The CCA office first decides what topics would be interest-ing, and then, after some re-search, decides which speakers they should invite.

“By doing some research and reading around on things, we might find some people who would be good on the top-ics, but not everyone’s avail-able,” Caspar said. “When the program is set and in place you don’t really think about replacements. After that, we might go back to our list, or if there’s time, we might try to go back to find new ones.”

According to a police report, an 18-year-old Hillsdale woman was forced into a man’s car at this location on Hillsdale Street near Carleton Road. The victim was able to escape the car minutes later. (Sally Nelson/Collegian)

A local Hillsdale woman, 18, was abducted by a man possessing a gun while walking alone on Hillsdale Street just north of Carleton Road Feb. 23 around 11:15 p.m. The woman escaped unharmed shortly af-ter and reported the attempted kidnapping to the city police.

She told the police an un-known white male forced her

into his parked car on Hillsdale Street and drove a short dis-tance until he came to a stop near Arch Avenue and Carleton Road, where she managed to escape, according to a Feb. 24 police press release.

The unidentified man is re-ported to be around 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a thin build, short brown hair, clean shaven, and in his 20s. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a light-colored, Carhartt-style jacket with a patch sewn on

the left sleeve near the elbow. The vehicle’s make and model are unknown, but it is reported to be a newer, silver four-door car.

Hillsdale Detective Bradley Martin said it is an on-going investigation and no suspects have been identified. The po-lice have a composite sketch of the suspect, but is not releasing it at this time. While the victim is remaining unidentified, Mar-tin did confirm that she is not a Hillsdale College student. He

encouraged anyone with infor-mation to contact the Hillsdale Police Department at 517-437-6481.

Director of Hillsdale Col-lege Security Bill Whorley said incidents like this are rare in Hillsdale, and he remembers very few during his years with Hillsdale law enforcement. In a campus email, he encouraged students to travel with others, carry cell phones, and call a friend or security for a ride if needed.

Two weeks ago, The Collegian reported on a Camden, Mich., couple facing life in prison after being charged with six felonies each, including the delivery of more than 1,000 grams of a con-trolled substance and maintaining a drug house.

Douglas Dean Cardwell was vomiting repeatedly when officers from the Hillsdale County Sher-iff’s Office and the Reading Po-lice Department raided the house he shared with Michelle Ann De-mayo and their 2-year-old son.

He claimed, according to a police report, that he had tried to get treatment for his addiction to synthetic marijuana. During the raid, his withdrawal symptoms es-calated and an ambulance rushed him to the hospital.

“He had to get up in the middle of the night to smoke some to keep from going through withdrawals,” said Hillsdale County Assistant Prosecutor Rod Hassinger.

Cardwell and Demayo, his fi-ancé, owned and operated Addik-ted 2 Ink, the tattoo parlor front for their alleged synthetic marijuana store in Camden.

Cardwell’s history of selling drugs, according to a search war-rant, extends for almost 20 years. He was arrested for conspiring to sell drugs in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1994; for preparation of drugs in Defiance County, Ohio, in 2001; and for possession of marijuana in Steuben County, Ind., 2011.

“He’s been a drug dealer his whole life. He’s moved around to different drugs, and now he’s on to designer drugs,” Hassinger said. “He’s defiant. He’s open, notori-ous, and didn’t read the law.”

As part of a multi-million dol-lar ring of Midwestern, synthetic-marijuana sellers, the duo rented a space in Camden for $400 a month on a month-by-month ba-sis. Dewey Stanton, the owner of the building Addikted 2 Ink oper-ated in, said Cardwell paid seven to eight months down in advance.

Penny Hawkins, manager of the nearby Clubhouse restaurant, said that word got out quickly about what the pair was doing.

“Nobody could park because there were so many cars,” she said.

Cardwell purchased the drug from a company he called “High Profile,” located in California. He told officers a man he only knew as “Harvey” shipped him between $5,000 and $12,000 of spice five to six times a week.

“He was always on the phone buying what he called ‘parts,’”

(Caleb Whitmer/Collegian) (Sally Nelson/Collegian)

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Students attend a Koch Institute internship program presentation in Lane Hall sponsored by Praxis. Koch is one of many organizations who come to Hillsdale to seek out interns. (Courtesy of Praxis)

Victorino Matus, senior editor at The Weekly Standard spoke Tuesday on the topic of vodka and the drink’s im-portance in America. (Courtesy of Lauren Wierenga)

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Students dance at the 2014 President’s Ball in Howard Music Hall This year’s theme was the Academy Awards. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Q&A Victorino Matus

PRESIDENT’S BALL 2014

Career services boasts of a 96 percent employment and gradu-ate placement rate within six months of graduation. This per-centage reflects a high demand for Hillsdale graduates.

This year alone, 17 organiza-tions have visited Hillsdale Col-lege in search of future interns and employees. Among the organizations are recruit-ers from Fox News Channel, the Heritage Foundation, the Koch Institute, Stryker, Price-waterhouseC-oopers, Target, and Whirlpool. What makes these presenta-tions unique to Hillsdale is the involvement of Hillsdale alum-ni and student interns.

J u n i o r Kasey Darling traveled with Koch recruit-ers last week to private col-leges through-out Michigan. This semes-ter Darling is studying abroad in Washington, D.C., with the Washington–Hillsdale Internship Program. She is an intern for the Koch Institute’s recruitment de-partment.

Koch invited Darling to assist with a Hillsdale presentation re-

garding internship and employ-ment opportunities at Koch.

“I am doing a recruitment in-ternship this time around, which I really enjoy,” Darling said. “From what I have seen, we get quite a lot of applicants from Hillsdale.”

Darling said that organiza-tions like Koch continue to visit Hillsdale because of their past success with Hillsdale graduates.

“Koch’s recruitment team

thought it would be great to bring an actual student intern to Hills-dale,” Darling said. “The number of Hillsdale students that apply for the various programs is pretty large in comparison to the size of our school.”

Organizations use Hillsdale

alumni and students to recruit high-quality applicants. Junior Ashley Pieper spent last summer interning for Target in Nebraska. When Target recruiters came to Hillsdale in September, they asked her to help with the pre-sentation.

“It felt great to know that they had enough confidence in an intern to allow me to speak for their company as a whole,” Pieper said. “Target knows what

is expected of an intern position and they have seen that Hillsdale students fit the role.”

Courtney Noonan, internship program coordinator for career services, said that the increase of on-campus recruitment is driven by organizations’ recognition of

Hillsdale’s education.“Many of the recruiters tend

to be Hillsdale college alumni. They understand the value of Hillsdale’s liberal arts educa-tion,” Noonan said. “They rec-ognize the caliber of student and want to recruit. Because of the rigors of Hillsdale, our graduates and students are capable of jump-ing into any role.”

Student interest in summer internships has increased as well.

According to Noonan, freshmen and sophomores are starting to shape their professional profile.

“I have had a fair number of freshmen and sophomores coming in and getting a jumpstart on the internship process,” Noonan said. “A fair amount of our job is get-ting students that expo-sure to organizations and get them to start think-ing and asking questions about post-grad plans.”

The surge in on-cam-pus recruitment is a re-flection of the caliber of Hillsdale students. Pieper and Darling both agreed that recruiters have in-creased resources for re-cruitment at Hillsdale.

“What I have found is that students who go to our school are profession-al. We want to work at a reputable organization and make those necessary

connections,” Darling said. “This is what sets Hillsdale and other smaller colleges apart from those bigger universities. Recruiters recognize that and, therefore, we are special in that regard.”

Hillsdale interns attract opportunity

Career services is a great place to start when searching for an internship, but this year, they can do more than help find students internships — they can help pay for them, too.

The 2014 Hillsdale In-ternship Assistance Program launching this spring will help offset the costs of living while allowing interns to gain job experience. There is $20,000 waiting to be snatched up in $1,000 to $1,500 grants by stu-dents who need financial help while taking on a summer in-ternship that is unpaid or low-paid.

According to Forbes, large companies offered 69 percent of their interns full-time posi-tions after graduating and 39 percent of small companies made job offers to their in-terns. While internships are a promising way for students to find jobs, Forbes pointed out that only a third of all intern-ships are paid.

With a small chance of com-pensation, students are left try-ing to figure out how to make ends meet when considering internships.

“Students who have secured internships can apply for the reimbursement program,” said Keith Miller, assistant director of career services. “If you feel like you will lose money over the summer just to be success-ful, you’re a good candidate.”

Other liberal arts schools have similar programs, and career services wishes to com-

pete with these schools. The administration approved this pilot program and will look into how to fund the program in the future, if it is successful. If the demand is great enough, career services might expand the program with a larger bud-get.

Miller and Executive Direc-tor of career services Michael Murray started discussing the idea about a year ago. They have worked hard with the business office to make the application process as easy as possible.

Students wishing to apply must be freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in good standing at the college and must have an internship of at least six 20-hour weeks secured. The first application deadline will be March 28 at 5 p.m. with a sec-ond-chance deadline on April 25 at 5 p.m.

Students will be selected by representatives of career ser-vices and the student affairs office. Selection will be based on the quality of the intern-ship, rationale for pursuing the internship, recommendations, interviews, and a few other cri-teria.

“I would encourage students even with low GPAs to apply as well,” Miller said. “It will not be a deciding factor. Often times, students with low GPAs benefit most from internships. We don’t want to exclude any-one. We want this to be open to students going in all directions in all majors and fields.”

Applications will be avail-able in career services next week.

Career services to offer interns money

Charter school initiative hires new assistant director

Victorino Matus is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. After he graduated from George-town University, Vic landed his first and only full-time job at the magazine. In addition to The Weekly Standard, he has written pieces for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His book “Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Con-quered America” will hit book-stores this summer. Compiled by Bailey Pritchett.

Where did you grow up? I was born in New York City.

When I was 2, we moved to Tom’s River, N.J. My parents have been in the same house since 1975. So when we go to visit, my son stays in my room where I grew up. Tom’s River is on the Jersey Shore, and it is just on the other side of the bridge over by Seaside Heights of Jersey Shore fame from MTV. So I grew up with that. I like to point out that the cast from Jersey Shore is from New York. They’re not

from New Jersey.Why did you go to George-

town? When I realized I couldn’t

go into aerospace engineering because I’m not good at math, I went into the foreign service program. There was no math or science requirement. I loved politics, international relations, history and all that. Since I was a sophomore in high school, I had always wanted to go to the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. I wanted to work in an embassy. I studied for a year in Vienna, so I aced the language proficiency test. But only two people from Georgetown were accepted into the foreign service.

Do you think you dodged a bullet by avoiding working in the foreign service?

I was told that I dodged a bul-let. It’s a hard life. You’re moving every two to three years. It’s hard to build relationships. Some joke around that the only relationship you develop is with a bottle. Ei-ther way, maybe I would have ended up writing about vodka. But I wouldn’t have ended up doing journalism. As it turned

out, that’s what I could do. As my friend reminds me, I fell ass-backwards into The Weekly Stan-dard.

What were you doing before The Weekly Standard?

I was working a part-time job in Rosslyn, Va. I lied about it. I told people it was full-time be-cause I was so embarrassed that it was all I could do. And it was for a German defense consulting firm. It was depressing. My boss was terrible. He made me copy his son’s sixth-grade science homework once. But I did it, be-cause there wasn’t anything else. He ended up going to jail because he was in trouble with the IRS.

What inspired your book? It just happened that I started

knowing more people getting involved in the industry, sort of randomly. And I thought that was weird. I knew a guy that worked for Diageo. His stories were in-teresting about that world — the vodka industry. One of my friends from home told me he plunked down something like $25,000 for a vodka start up that his buddy was doing in New Jersey. It was pretty bold. I started looking into

the numbers to see exactly how much we drink, how little time it took vodka to be the most domi-nant spirit in America, and how much we spend on something that is flavorless, odorless, and colorless. And yet we have over 1,000 brands.

Anything interesting you have learned in your research?

Vodka is, by and large, the most mixable of all spirits. I’d say half of the drinking population doesn’t like the taste of booze, so that’s why they like vodka. Vod-ka, you can make it overnight. Everyone would like to make a fine whisky or scotch, but you need to wait two or three years. Some take more like 16 years. The vast majority of vodkas are made at ethanol plants in the Midwest. An ethanol plant will be able to get your spirit and vod-ka level and then they can ship it to your little distillery where you can run it through once — that’s all you need. And then you can say “distilled at” your place.

Have your thoughts about vodka changed since you start-ed this book?

I drink less of it.

The Barney Charter School Initiative now has an assistant director.

Alumna Rebecca Fleming ’09 and her husband left Colorado to come to Michigan during winter break so Fleming could start her new job in January.

The initiative, primarily the brainchild of President Larry Arnn and Assistant Professor of History Terrence Moore, was started in 2009. In 2010, the col-lege hired Phillip Kilgore to be the program’s director. Kilgo-re publicized the initiative by reaching out to communities that wanted to improve K-12 educa-tion.

The college no longer needs to do much advertising. Two charter schools opened in 2012, and two more opened in 2013. Five are on track to open this year.

“The program has grown. It’s gotten traction all over the coun-try,” Kilgore said.

Kilgore felt the need to hire an assistant director for 2014. He eventually turned to Fleming, who taught science at Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, where Kilgore’s triplets attended school.

“She has some great experi-ence,” Kilgore said. “She un-derstands what education is. She was a leader at that school, where she taught science for four and a

half years, and she became the science chair.”

Fleming’s scientific back-ground is something for which Kilgore and Moore, the initia-tive’s adviser, share enthusiasm.

“Very often, these classical schools put so much emphasis on the humanities and on teaching history and government that it appears that the sciences are get-ting slighted,” Moore said. “The sciences are, in fact, taught better in these classical schools, but the people who tend to run them are not trained in the mathematics or the sciences. To have someone who is not only a teacher, but whose expertise is in the sciences is a real asset.”

STEM schools, schools that emphasize the teaching of sci-ence, technology, engineering, and math, are becoming increas-ingly popular in U.S. K-12 edu-cation, as many people believe they are what’s needed to make America competitive in the glob-al economy. But Kilgore thinks such schools have some funda-mental deficiencies.

“I think the fault of those kinds of schools is that the pen-dulum swings way over, and they don’t understand why math and science should be studied and in what context,” Kilgore said. “That’s where the humanity comes into play: in understand-ing the material world and lov-ing the beauty that can be found in it.”

Fleming is happy with her new position and enjoys many aspects of it.

“I’m passionate about charter school education and education in general. I also really enjoy talking with students here who are in the same position that I was in five years ago — looking to teach and maybe not having that much experience and not hav-ing certification,” Fleming said. “Letting them know what my experiences were, what I liked about teaching, how to prepare for the job fair, how to prepare for interviews, things like that.”

Fleming may also participate in teacher training seminars for the new schools and classroom observations for the schools al-ready in existence alongside Moore, Associate Professor of English Justin Jackson, Associ-ate Professor of Education Dan-iel Coupland, Associate Profes-sor of Mathematics Thomas Treloar, and Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Young.

Kilgore has complete confi-dence in Fleming’s abilities to fulfill the new role.

“When I’m not here, she’s in charge. When I’m here, most of the time, we’re working on things together,” Kilgore said.

Arnn’s goal for the initiative is to start 50 charter schools by 2022, about five per year.

“I think that’s very execut-able,” Kilgore said.

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2014 CCa TopiCs announCed

Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives has decided on next year’s topics. They will be World War I, Energy: Issues and Controversies, American Journalism Yesterday and Today, and Silent Films.

Timothy Caspar, associate vice president for external affairs, said the college has hosted an economics CCA every year for the past 12 years.

“Over the course of the past 12 or so years that I’ve been working at Hillsdale College, they’ve sort of fallen into a pattern,” Caspar said. “If you look at the September topics they tend to be politics and history or current events. The second CCA that used to be in January is now always on free-market economics, because that program is co-sponsored by the Ludwig Van Mises Lecture Series.”

Next year’s economics CCA discusses the contemporary debate over energy production, Caspar said. With regard to the other CCA topics, Caspar said faculty members and students often provide good sug-gestions.

Director of the Dow Journalism Program John J. Miller made suggestions for the CCA on American Journalism Yesterday and Today.

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Although students usually have a reading day early in the spring semester to catch up on work or sleep, this short break is absent from the schedule this year.

The administration has decided against having a reading day because spring break has been pushed to an earlier date and because Easter break is longer than usual.

“Several years ago, a reading day was suggested to give the students a short break (similar to fall break) during second semester,” Diane Philipp, vice president of student affairs and dean of women, said in an email.

Usually, the time between the start of school to spring break was much longer than the time after spring break until the end of the semester.

This year, however, spring break is two weeks earlier to divide the time better between the start of the semester and finals.

Previously, finals week started four and a half weeks after spring break. Because of the change this year, students now have six and a half weeks after they return before the start of finals. Easter break is in that time period, including a half day Good Friday, and a travel day Easter Monday.

The school’s accreditation is also a factor.“The loss of just one day can pose a problem,” Philipp said.According to Philipp, the administration is required to fulfill a certain number of academic days. If stu-

dents are given a reading day earlier, they’d have to make it up later in the semester, or the school could be penalized.

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feet, ready to pounce if I spot my poor boots,” he said.

During the first rainstorm of the semester, also near Saga, sophomore Jack Shannon had his umbrella stolen.

“Who steals an umbrella from

Saga at breakfast?” he said.Sophomore Caroline Pittard

had a flat of water bottles stolen from her in the Suites parking lot.

“I left them in the parking lot when I was moving into the Suites and poof! They were gone when I got back,” Pittard said.

Whorley encourages students to exhaust all possibilities before assuming their items were stolen. Students can visit the security of-

fice for help in finding their prop-erty. He also advises students to be more protective with their items.

“If people are a little more careful, with a little patience, we can remove the opportunity for crime to occur,” he said.

Seniors scramble on theses

Mock Trial team advancesHillsdale’s C-team in mock

trial received a bid for an Open-ing Round Championship tour-nament after competing success-fully in a regional tournament.

Both the A and B teams did not receive bids.

On Feb. 15, team 1030 com-peted at a regional tournament in Pennsylvania and won a bid to the next tournament.

One week later, teams 1028 and 1029 competed at a similar tournament at the University of Notre Dame, but ran into diffi-culties.

“We just had the lineup from Hell,” senior and 1029 captain Abby Loxton said.

They competed some of the hardest teams in the tournament, and came close to earning a spot at the next tournament, but fell

just short.Sophomore Jack Shannon, a

captain of 1028, said the tourna-ment measured a statistic called “combined strength” that gauges the difficulty of each team’s schedule by the number of bal-lots their opponents win. Team 1028 had the third hardest sched-ule, and 1029 had the second hardest.

“This is the highest level of competition that we’ve had all year, and we did extremely well under a lot of pressure,” Shan-non said. “Due to some unusual circumstances we had in the rounds, we had to adapt, and we ended up giving some of the best performances we’ve had all year.”

Loxton said she was disap-pointed with results that did not reflect the way the rest of the sea-son had gone.

“We won a tournament, we placed in every other tournament

we went to — we were in the top eight — except the one that mat-tered,” she said.

Nevertheless, she was proud of her team’s performance.

“I told my team, ‘If I had to lose an ORCs bid, I would want to lose it with you,’” she said.

Coach Keith Miller agreed that both teams performed ex-ceptionally well. He particularly mentioned 1029.

“I can’t say enough about how proud I am about the way our team competed,” he said. “This team was hard as nails, profes-sional through and through, nev-er flinched.”

Junior Philip Hammersley and sophomore Shaun Lichti were both named all-region at-torneys at the tournament.

Team 1030 will be competing in Ohio during the last weekend of spring break.

Some senior theses are due before spring break this year, and Hillsdale College seniors are hard at work on their pa-pers.

“My thesis is about priva-tizing unemployment insur-ance, and why it is terrible un-der government control,” said Mike McDonald, a senior eco-nomics major.

McDonald is exploring how unemployment insurance con-tributes to unemployment in general, especially considering the unreliability of the govern-ment in providing insurance.

“I’m using historical evi-dence to explain how unem-ployment insurance would be better as a private institution,” McDonald said.

As an economics major, McDonald is not required to do a thesis — he chose to write one. He does not have an ad-viser yet, but plans to talk to someone soon. McDonald plans to publish his thesis after graduation.

Professor of English Ste-phen Smith is advising se-niors in the Honors Program as well as those writing for their

English majors. As a thesis reader, Smith advises the stu-dent throughout the project. He makes sure that their argu-ments are coherent and effec-tive.

“When I read papers, I want to see that their mind is alive and that they have a capac-ity for wonder,” Smith said. “I want to see that they can make a good argument at a high level of competency.”

Smith has seen a wide vari-ety of topics. One thesis he is directing is on Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.”

“In our department, a suc-cessful thesis will come in at an A-, and this high level of expectation is due to the mag-nitude of the paper,” Smith said.

Emily Schutz, an English and history major, is study-ing Shakespeare’s histories for her thesis. The title is “‘But remember — For that’s my business to you:’ the Role of Wonder in Shakespeare’s Histories.” She is focusing on Henry V and how Shakespeare treats this character.

“I picked Henry V because he is constantly reading him-self as a product of history in the play,” Schutz said.

She has been working on

the paper since the summer of 2013. As a paper of this mag-nitude requires, she is working hard to unify her points and elicit what she wants to say about Shakespeare.

Her readers are Smith and Assistant Professor of His-tory Matthew Gaetano. Schutz would like to return to the idea in the future, but as of now has no desire to publish.

“My paper will probably hang in a frame on the wall of my future home, as a testament to the weeks of my life it has cost me,” Schutz said.

At 25 to 35 pages across the honors program and various departments, the senior theses have been, and continue to be, a large part of the students’ lives. According to Smith, the spread of opinion on whether or not to publish the article af-ter graduation is equal on both sides. Each student is com-mitting to the paper no mat-ter what they plan to do after graduation.

“I’d like the students to devote themselves to writing the best thesis they can, with as much love and care that they can,” Smith said. “If it’s worthwhile to do something with it afterwards, sure, I say that they should pursue it.”

I’ve always felt really stressed and torn between my involve-ment and my responsibilities and my studies and my friends, and doing well in all of them. It finally feels like I’m getting the hang of it senior year. I’m actu-ally hitting my stride and kind of balancing it.

What about your Hillsdale experience are you grateful for?

I’ve been really humbled in a lot of ways. Like getting a C on my first paper, and not get-ting hired to be a student ambas-sador. Just all those little things that wound your pride. I’ve been really humbled by how kind the people are and how giving the professors are.

Do you have any advice for underclassmen?

Multi-tasking is a myth, so if

you’re going to study, hide your phone under a rock so it doesn’t distract you. A lot of the wisest things I’ve ever heard came from Dr. Stephen Smith’s syllabus, like, “You don’t need a nap, you just need to go for a brisk walk.” Staying focused is so beneficial. If you’re socializing, socialize all the way, but if you’re studying, study all the way.

If you could major in any-thing else, what would you ma-jor in and why?

Maybe economics, because I don’t know anything about it, and I feel like I’d know more about the world if I understood money and power and trade. I feel like that’s practical knowledge that’s really lacking in me.

Who is an author that has influenced your thinking while at Hillsdale? Why?

I guess it’s cliche to say Shakespeare and Dante, because they’re the two biggest authors of all time, but I did take them

for a year in succession with Dr. Smith, and it was really informa-tive, because they both just show you how sin contorts and twists everything, and how messed up everyone can end, and how all your little decisions can bring about this tragic result. And they show both how human action can end well and how it can end poor-ly, and the importance of the will and the intellect and how they in-terplay.

Describe a memory that is representative of your whole Hillsdale experience.

There’s always a Christmas party on Dec. 1 at the Treehouse, and people wear ridiculous Christmas pajamas. We all just sing Christmas carols on a school night and have a great time, un-derclassmen and upperclassmen. The fact that people are coming together with joy and they’re not embarrassed to wear ridiculous Christmas outfits. It’s really fun and we’ve done it every year.

class in different ways.What about your Hillsdale

experience are you grateful for?

Academically speaking, I’m grateful for the synthesis of clas-sical liberal arts training but also being able to study physics and math and being in an intellec-tual climate where all these ideas are talked about. It’s incredibly unique to Hillsdale. It is criti-cal to contextualize my studies of science and mathematics in their proper roles as they relate to the rest of the corpus of hu-man knowledge and experience. Studying the humanities is cru-cial to being a good scientist.

On a personal level, I’ve nev-er been in a place with a kinder, more gracious, really friendly and vibrant community than my friends and faculty. The friend-ships that I’ve formed at Hills-

dale are dear to me and I know they will be permanent.

Music has been a big part of my life on campus. In addition to choir and orchestra, I’ve played cello for Ceilidh, snare drum for the Tulloch Ard pipe band, and am so grateful for the musical opportunities here at Hillsdale. When I think about my Hills-dale experience, some of my best memories have been formed through the music department or in playing music with friends. It’s incredible how musically tal-ented the students on this campus are.

Do you have any advice for underclassmen?

Join the choir and sing in Handel’s “Messiah.”

If you could major in any-thing else, what would you ma-jor in and why?

English. Studying literature is one of the best avenues for encountering beauty and under-standing how others have thought about human interaction and our relationship to the divine.

Who is an author that has

influenced your thinking while at Hillsdale? How?

Johannes Kepler — he had a doxological view of science, in that his science aimed to glorify God. I find it fascinating to learn from and to appreciate Kepler’s fundamental beliefs about sym-metry and harmony in nature.

Describe a memory that is representative of your whole Hillsdale experience.

Singing Irish songs at the Honors retreat freshman year and getting my first glimpse of the ac-ademic and spiritual brotherhood at Hillsdale.

Are you looking forward to being 21?

Embarrassed laughter. Yes.You’re good friends with

Caleb Whitmer, editor-in-chief of The Collegian. When did you meet?

I thought Caleb was a really weird kid. I didn’t meet him till we started throwing water at each other in our dorm — we had ice cube wars in Niedfelt.

VikTorFrom A1

NewsIn the article, “President’s Ball arrives,” the President’s Ball court was listed as having five men and five women. In reality, the court contained six men and six

women.In the article, “Everett competition advances,” a photo caption incor-rectly identified the winner of last year’s Everett oratory competi-tion as senior Jonathan Lewis.

Alumnus Andrew Dykstal was the winner of last year’s oratory competition.

The Collegian apologizes for these errors.

I discovered Hillsdale Col-lege through a Google search. The specificity of the search – “the top ten conservative schools in the United States” – fell to my love of superlatives, and it was directly followed by “what are the top ten liberal schools in the United States?” I was directed to the Young America’s Foundation and the Huffington Post, respectively.

Of the two colleges fea-tured on these respective sites, neither seemed particularly interesting. I was, however, drawn to the idea of a “dale,” and Michigan seemed exotic. This was my reasoning behind adding another underdog to the “Mighty Ducks” portion of my college list, while aban-doning Hampshire College

and the dream of majoring in Peace and World Security.From here, my story is everything you expect and less. Hill-

sdale College didn’t market itself until I arrived on campus for an admissions visit, and it stopped the moment I left. It was compelling while it lasted and even sufficient to convince me to trade my vague, undefined notions of East Coast elitism for the dark winters of the Midwest.

But the moral of the story is that it took a little search engine magic to get me to Hillsdale. The Internet forces colluded that day to direct me to this institution, turning my abstracted love of superlatives into a liberal arts education.

The unfortunate bit is that my high school guidance coun-selor never mentioned this place, and when I reflect now on the automatically generated list of 100 colleges that fit my interests and standardized test scores, Hillsdale is noticeably absent. Our institution is buried in the dark right corner of the misty cyber world where organizations like Young America’s Foundation and The Blaze reign supreme.

The perplexing thing is that I’m not sure that our college is responsible for such a limited, politically charged image. At this point, the college’s free online classes function as a corner-stone of our marketing. Until last night, I assumed that these classes on the Western Heritage and the Constitution were dif-ferent from the classes I took as a freshman; I presumed that the lectures catered toward potential donors by indulging in a political rhetoric that encouraged partisan dogmatism.

I was wrong. The talks introduced the listener to the context that underscored the American experiment of a democratic re-public. From what I saw, the lectures were fair and encouraged informed citizenship and responsibility.

Still, I was prompted for a financial gift as soon as I reg-istered, and this suggests I was right about at least one thing: This was meant for donors. Yet for a school that rejects fed-eral funding and still manages to keep its tuition and board at roughly $25,000 below comparable institutions, perhaps this approach is sensible. Couple this initial financial onus with the meager 14 percent of Hillsdale students who give to their alma-mater upon graduation and suspicion skirts to the peripherals.

Hillsdale consistently markets itself as a place of formation, both for the heart and the intellectual furniture of the mind. A place where humility is taught to be man’s essential pos-ture and learning stands simultaneously as a foundation and an end in itself. The dilemma is that the main recipients of this message doesn’t seem to listen very carefully. Usually, their curiosity is piqued, but they have already made up their minds.

Jay Nordlinger called us “the conservative Harvard” in his recent article in the National Review, and this is emblematic of the sort of bizarre statement that encourages an existential crises for Hillsdale students: those outside the college are kind enough to remind us that we’re a Christian school with a love for all things red, and we are left startled by these comments and wondering if anyone is actually interested in the liberal arts. Presently, it seems that the world lacks a name for what we’re doing and Republican and conservative stand as worthy alternatives.

The result is that high school kids only know Hillsdale as the number one option on YAF’s list of the top conservative colleges in America. And not everyone will find Michigan ex-otic.

Education is the way out. For starters, I would suggest an online class on the great books directed towards high school students. Give prospectives the opportunity to participate in liberal education, because what they’re hearing is not what they’re getting.

From the Archives: Leutheuser Exemplifies Brilliance, Sometimes

Down with stakeholders.The American Academy of

Pediatrics has come out against affordable health care for kids. Retail medical clinics -- at drug-stores, Walmarts, etc. -- are crop-ping up across the nation, thanks in part to the expected longer waiting times and out-of-pocket expenses stemming from Obam-acare. And the pediatricians don’t like it. “While retail clin-ics may be more convenient and less costly, the AAP said they are detrimental to the concept of a ‘medical home,’ where pa-tients have a personal physician who knows them well and coor-dinates all their care,” reported

the Wall Street Journal. You say “medical home,” I say locked-in customers. Tomayto-tomahto.

The pediatricians have a point, albeit a weak one. You can’t say the same about teach-ers unions, whose top priorities are to take care of their mem-bers, even when such care comes at the expense of students. In New York City, the passion from teachers unions is all aimed at pay raises, killing charter schools and keeping rules that make it harder to get rid of incompetents, criminals and even, occasionally, sexual predators.

In Michigan, until reforms from Republican leaders kicked in, the Service Employees Inter-national Union, with the help of state Democrats, claimed parents of disabled kids were “union members” just so the union could skim “dues” from Medicaid pay-ments to parents who served as their kids’ health-care providers.

I cite these examples because they involve children, the con-stituency everyone claims should come first. But this dynamic is endemic to society. The sugar lobby bilks taxpayers to subsi-dize an industry that shouldn’t exist in the United States. The life insurance industry lobbies to keep inheritance taxes be-cause, after all, people buy their products to avoid such taxes. The health insurance industry remains bought-in, literally and figuratively, to Obamacare be-cause the prospect of becoming the equivalent of guaranteed-profitable utilities is worth the

headaches of government incom-petence.

When I say that this dynamic is endemic to society, I do not mean endemic under President Obama, or under America or under capitalism. It is a natural human tendency. The augurs of ancient Rome fought any attempt to break their monopoly on di-vine prophecy by studying the flights and entrails of birds. The Luddites declared war on the machines, long before anyone had heard of Skynet, because the Luddites were market incum-bents being ousted by new, and better, technology. Taxi drivers are trying to use the law to fend off companies like Uber. Every occupational group that pushes for the licensing or regulating of its industry does it, at least in part, to keep competition out.

The standard left-wing com-plaint is to blame only big busi-ness and capitalism. But if you don’t think that exact sort of thing happens under socialist and communist systems, you don’t know anything about those sys-tems.

Despite a century of anti-cor-porate rhetoric about the power of corporations, they actually come and go with amazing rapid-ity (Only 13 percent of firms on the Fortune 500 list in 1955 were there in 2011).

But government is forever. The state has the unique ability to protect existing “stakehold-ers” from the threats posed by innovation and competition, whether those stakeholders are

businesses or unions, fat cats or philanthropies. That’s where the votes are and where the checks comes from.

But progress -- material, med-ical, economic -- comes from innovation. Economist Deirdre McCloskey notes that until the 19th century, innovation was a negative word because innova-tors upset the established order and the powers that be.

In her wonderful book “Bour-geois Dignity: Why Econom-ics Can’t Explain the Modern World,” McCloskey describes how for all of human history, hu-mans lived on about $3 a day, us-ing today’s dollars. For 200,000 years, the line was essentially flat until around 1800, when a culture that valued innovation spread from England to Europe and the New World. Since then, wealth has skyrocketed, all thanks to a culture willing to let innovators pull up the stakes of the existing stakeholders.

In Silicon Valley, where gov-ernment’s touch is light, we can see the rapidity of innovation at work. In health care, education and other areas where the gov-ernment’s hand is heavy, we see stakeholders holding on for dear life.

(Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and editor-at-large of National Review Online. You can write to him in care of this newspaper or by e-mail at goldbergcolumn@gmail.com, or via Twitter @Jo-nahNRO.)

“We have loved the stars too deeply to be afraid of the night.” Richard Hundley set these strik-ing lyrics to his 1959 composi-tion, “The Astronomers,” and offers us a profoundly optimistic image for the seeker of light in what seem to be dark times. My series, “Life and Light,” aims to briefly but honestly explore the apparent darkness of modern literature and consider where there may be glimmers of light, narratives that present a brighter vision than the time’s defining literary themes: the break with tradition, alienation of the indi-vidual, doubt and disorientation, rejection of the transcendent, and so on. Some 20th century au-thors manage to depict the mod-ern confusion and, from under the burden of their own culture, insist on promoting a more hu-mane vision. Among these men

and women who have caught my attention — and perhaps chief among them — is T.S. Eliot (1888-1965).

Eliot’s real significance, I hold, is the journey-like move-ment of his work from frustra-tion and confusion to meaning and context. The poet began to publish during World War I, distinguishing himself early on in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) and “The Waste Land” (1922). These poems, es-pecially, are recognized as land-marks of modern literature and provide a valuable picture of the modern attitude. In later po-ems, notably “Ash Wednesday” (1930) and The “Four Quartets” (1936-1942), he attempts to of-fer, as Greg Wolfe puts it, “time-less moments of grace” by trac-ing “the journey of the isolated self [from fragmentation] toward integration…a renewed sense of the presence of the past, and fleeting glimpses of union with God.” As such, Eliot is a primary figure to whom we should look if we are seeking “life and light” in literature.

The poet’s early work admits a deep loss. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” we hear of “an overwhelming question,” a man who has “measured [his] life out with coffee spoons,” claiming “I grow old…I grow old…” and we come away with a thoroughgoing sense of alien-ation, detachment, and despair. “The Waste Land,” a cryptically disjointed poem (at least on the surface) presents a barren climate in which can be found leftover fragments of bygone tradition. Eliot threatens to “show [us] fear in a handful of dust.” When the

poet claims, “I have shored these fragments against my ruin,” how-ever, we get a sense that he sees something in the fragments that may ward off utter loss. Helen Gardner writes that “The Waste Land” should be read as “an In-ferno which looked toward a Pur-gatorio.” And perhaps Gardner is right. In his notes on the poem, Eliot explains that the final sec-tion’s booming “DA…DA…DA…” refers to a fable of the Divine Thunder in the Hindu Scriptures, in which the Thunder roars, “Control yourselves; give alms; be compassionate.” F.O. Matthiessen concludes that if there is any source of salvation in the modern experience, it comes, “only through sacrifice,” as we see in the Thunder’s roar. If in Eliot’s poetry, as in Dante’s, the pilgrim must first journey down in order to go up, then Wolfe’s, Gardner’s, and Matthiessen’s interpretations of “The Waste Land” allow for the possibility of recovery.

In Eliot’s later work, poems like “Ash Wednesday” and “The Four Quartets, we find fragments being recovered and pieced back together into something new. In “Ash Wednesday,” we find the lines, “Redeem/ The time. Redeem/ The Unread vision in the higher dream…,” and refer-ences to a “place of grace” for those who seek “the face,” and a “time to rejoice” for those who acknowledge “the voice.” Appro-priate for such a Lenten, Purga-torial poem, we even find in its closing the prayer of a suffering soul: “Teach us to care…/ Teach us to sit still/… Our peace in His will/...Suffer me not to be sepa-rated…” Eliot wrote this poem

while he worked as an air raid warden during World War II, of-ten encountering London’s fires and rubble from the bombings. In “The Four Quartets,” Eliot of-fers something more. He writes that, “The only hope, or else de-spair/ Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre—/ To be redeemed from fire by fire.” He refuses to ignore the fires—literal and figurative—and chooses to see redemption through the flames. He seeks to redeem what has been lost of time and place by pointing the reader to “the still point of the turning world,” one permanent, axiomatic center around which meaningful human existence can rotate. Russell Kirk writes that Eliot “points out the way to the Rose Garden that endures be-yond time, where seeming oppo-sites are reconciled” and directs our attention to things “more en-during than wars and rumors of wars.” Eliot submits that recov-ery lies in what is transcendent and permanent.

For Eliot, religion brings the individual and society out of modernism’s “dark night of the soul.” The magnitude of his pro-lific literary contribution, howev-er, does not enable us to signifi-cantly know that his answer is the right one or that there is a truly right one. Whether or not Eliot’s vision is in any sense true or whether it is merely helpful to us, it does seem to shine some sort of light into the darkness of the 20th century. If all we can take away from Eliot’s work is an encounter with his personal experience of transcendence, then we’ve found some “life and light” and, hope-fully, a renewed desire to con-tinue the search.

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Don’t risk it, call securitythe opinion of the collegian eDitorial staff

Hillsdale is a small school in a small town.

But don’t get so used to the comfort of small-town living that you forget about the world beyond our precious “Hillsdale bubble.” Our college, like so many others, maintains an idyl-lic existence largely by insulating itself from the trappings of real-ity. Where else (outside prisons, hotels, and boot camps) do third

parties provide all of life’s basic necessities, leaving us free to ar-gue over academic minutiae?

Sometimes, however, the out-side world can rudely intrude, de-spite all of our best efforts to keep it at bay. Unlike, say, Hogwarts, Hillsdale has no magical charms to keep outsiders or malevolent forces from creeping past the in-tersection of Hillsdale and Col-lege Streets.

Just this Sunday, an 18-year-old Hillsdale woman was forced into a car on Hillsdale St. at 11 p.m., as Taylor Knopf wrote on A1. The car was parked less than 200 feet away from the police sta-tion, and less than a mile from the College.

It doesn’t require irrational paranoia to imagine this hap-pening to a college student. On a given weekend, students walk

nocturnally between campus and downtown, including some wom-en as young as Sunday’s victim.

So call security instead of walking alone. They’ll pick you up, on campus or off, and take you where you need to go after dark. Don’t feel like an imposi-tion. It’s why security exists. You can reach on-duty personnel by cell at (517) 398-1522.

Daniel TealStudent Columnist

Jonah GoldbergSyndicated Columnist

WANT AN AMERICA THAT WORKS? INNOVATE, DON’T REGULATE

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Searching for life and light: T.S. Eliot

His basic philosophies toward life are to have a good time. Life is too short to worry about things. While at a recent Delt party [Eric] Leutheuser mentioned ten rules that govern his life:

1. When dancing, never take up less than 99 cubic feet of air space.

2. When dancing, one must sweat a lot.

3. Never make plans that you cannot change at the last minute.

4. Always say the right thing at the right time.

5. Never embarrass yourself or your friends . . . too much.

6. Never do anything you don’t want to do (papers, homework, physical labor--drinking excepted)

7. Create the most elaborate and imaginative excuses possible.

8. Tardiness is next to Godliness.9. Express your ludest thoughts

in the purest manner.10. No matter how embarrassing

or controversial an action may be, do it for the story later on.

Leutheuser’s philosophy would also include disregarding all these rules if you want to.

April 8, 1982

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Hillsdale and politics

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Education

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Josh AndrewStudent Columnist

Ukraine is caught between a rock and a hard place.

In this case, the rock is Russia, and the hard place, Germany. According to her spokesman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin that “Ukraine must quickly get a government capa-ble of acting and its territorial integrity must be preserved.”

Translation: Putin and Merkel want Ukraine to have a government that can be influenced, bought, or bullied in the aftermath of its current insta-bility. They would like it to have the same territory, population, and natural resources that it does now.

Merkel’s Germany is the most powerful player in the European Union. Many of the protests that precipitated what can now perhaps be called a Ukrainian revolution called for Ukraine’s enrollment in the EU.

Putin and Russia’s allies are begin-ning to take the EU seriously. In oppo-sition to it, Russian political theorists have proposed a “Eurasian Union.” This hegemony would stand against the EU as an institution tied together by power, not economic dependency.

The Eurasian Union is not a joke.

Belarus and Kazakhstan have already joined. Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are candidates for member-ship. Putin wants this new economic Warsaw Pact to create a “powerful, supra-national union” to rival the EU’s influence in Asia, a prosperous China, and the United States as a world player. In short, Russia wants the Bolshevik band to get back together — under the guise of free trade and mutual support.

So Merkel and Putin want to keep the Ukrainian status quo not because they respect the sovereignty or dignity of Ukraine. Rather, it comes from a mutual desire for something to fight over. Ukraine as a member of the EU becomes a further buffer to expansion of the Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine as a part of the proposed Eur-asian Union becomes simply another step toward putting the USSR back together again.

America, and Ukraine’s interim leadership, have pledged to support the “European choice.” Probably, Ukraine will become a part of the EU in the near future. The obvious ques-tion is: What will Putin’s countermea-sure be?

That is not, however, the only question that requires answering. The world ought to wonder: Will Ukrainians be better off if Ukraine’s

‘territorial integrity’ is preserved?

The pre-dominantly Russian-speaking territories in Ukraine border the Russian Federation. The name Ukraine means “border-land,” and it is just that to those with designs for it — a hinterland possessing the second largest military in Europe, surpassed only by Russia. The Ukrai-nian ties to Russia cannot be underes-timated. In the past few days, violence between the pro-European protesters who triggered this unrest and pro-Rus-sian groups has erupted. The populist movement in Kiev is not necessarily

the populist movement of Ukraine.Should Ukraine then remain a uni-

fied state? Clearly, neither Merkel nor Putin want a curtain dividing Ukraine. They both want it all. But perhaps those Ukrainians who desire a govern-ment representing their interests would be best served in a Western, European,

divided Ukraine, and those Ukrainians who remember with fondness being a satellite in the orbit of a superpower should look east to a Eurasian Union. The borderland would still be there, though the border would be more sharply drawn.

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Micah MeadowcroftAssistant Editor

The strain of Ukraine

Body checking should be banned

A Canadian restaurant named its soup of the day American Tears last Friday.

Team USA was bested once again by its Canadian neigh-bors at the Olympic Games in Sochi. If that’s not bad enough, they lost the bronze medal game to Finland too.

But if USA Hockey sticks with its decision to delay the introduc-tion of body checking until players are older, America will fall even lower in the hockey lineup. In order to pro-duce the best players, USA Hockey should introduce checking earlier or ban it all together.

Understandably, some fans are quick to stand up and rah that checking adds entertainment value and manliness to the game. But National Hockey League games have much less checking than amateur hockey leagues, and millions more people watch the NHL games. Checking only adds injuries while decreasing the game’s skill level.

Checking is not allowed in wom-en’s hockey leagues. Head coach of the Brock Badgers women’s hockey team Todd Erskine said in an inter-view with The Western Gazette that it makes hockey a more skillful game.

“Without body checking, there’s more of an emphasis on other skills like skating, passing and shooting,” Erskine said. “I find you can get more of a flow to a game and definitely

more of a shift away from the mental-ity in men’s games that allows things to get out of hand.”

And it has gotten out of hand.The American Academy of Or-

thopedic Surgeons ranked hockey as the most dangerous sport in the

United States for nonfatal cata-strophic injuries, and reported that more than 63,000 hockey-related injuries are treated each year. Check-ing is the cause of about 75 percent of all major injuries that happen in the sport.

Checking was traditionally introduced to the players when they reached the Pee Wee level, around the age of 10 or 11. In 2011, USA Hockey prohibited body checking

until players reached the Bantam level, which is made up of 13-and 14-year-olds, in order to reduce the number of injuries. Studies, however, show that the number of injuries has not changed. In fact, it has just made the injuries worse.

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by the University of Calgary followed two leagues, one that allowed checking at the age of 11, and the other not until 13. After two years, the study con-cluded that both leagues had around the same amount of checking-related injuries, but injuries that caused the players to take more than seven days off of playing time increased by 33 percent when checking was introduced

later.Prolonging the introduction of

checking will not decrease injuries, it will only make the injuries worse.

These findings make sense. 11- and 12-year-olds are in their prime years for learning new skills and will be able to perfect their checking while not being able to hit too hard. How-ever, 13-and 14-year-old boys don’t know how to control their strength. Some have gone through major growth spurts while others have not. Adding inexperienced checking to the game at this point in their lives has proven disastrous.

My 13-year-old brother is just starting to learn how to check. In AAA teams, the most competitive teams in his league, coaches aren’t focusing as much on the players’ skill set during try-outs. Instead, they want to stack their team with size. They know small-er kids will be the ones to get hurt this year because none of the players know how to hit.

Just after two years of the check-ing-rule change, American hockey is being transformed to a size game, like football or basketball, rather than a game of meritocracy.

The Olympic Games featured a mix of amateur and NHL players. The two-week event has left at least seven prominent NHL players benched for their regular season games due to injuries sustained from overzealous body-checks.

These injuries are yet another rea-son for USA Hockey to revoke their decision to delay checking until the Bantam level. Better yet, the hockey community should ban it from the game entirely. Without action, check-ing will continue to force talented American players out of the game prematurely.

Students who hate pulling out their phone or logging in to a computer for campus announcements, fret no more: we’re bringing the onslaught to you.

Earlier this week, flat panel dis-plays went up in Lane, Kendall, and Mossey Library. Presumably, they’ll to be used as scrolling billboards like those in the Dow Center or Grewcock Student Union. While it’s important that liberal institutions such as Hills-dale College engage with the modern, technology-saturated world, it’s even more imperative that we don’t allow that goal to contaminate our primary mission.

We may brush off Dr. Whalen’s talk at the beginning of freshman year, but that doesn’t diminish the fact: education is indeed serious business. These displays clash with the tra-ditional aesthetics of the classroom buildings and the gravitas they add to our program.

They also pose a distraction for stu-dents attempting to study there. Imag-ine this: you are sitting in the library trying to focus on a paper. Instead of merely glancing at the clock, your mind could inadvertently leap to a

color montage of potentially irrelevant information and mediocre graphic de-sign across the room. Student Ambas-sadors may soon experience the irony of touting Hillsdale’s small class sizes and emphasis on writing and the Great Books while standing beneath the LED glow of modernity.

If the Student Union is any in-dicator, students often ignore these displays entirely over time anyways, defeating the goal of effective com-munication. Many of us are guilty of using our own computers or smart-phones rather than actually studying in these spaces more often than we should, but there still is a dignified air about this campus and what we do here. Professors still become irked at cell phones in classrooms, and some students have the good sense to get off of Facebook when deadlines roll around.

These displays may not singlehand-edly undermine the liberal arts, but traditional aesthetics and a scholarly atmosphere are important and worth preserving. If Hillsdale students are going to amuse ourselves to death like everyone else, let’s at least do it discretely and not prominently in the Lane and Kendall lobbies for the visit-ing world to see.

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Netflix’s original series “House of Cards” portrays the darkest side of American politics. It’s difficult to find a character to root for because every character oozes depravity. Claire Underwood, the wife of the show’s fictional vice president, is no exception.

On Feb. 14, Jezebel called Claire Underwood, a “feminist warrior.” The article cites Claire’s bill for protection against military sexual harassment and her honesty about her abortion as a step forward for women’s portrayal in the media.

Though Claire does advocate for the same issues as American feminists, Jezebel ignores major plot points in Netflix’s original series “House of Cards.” Though she can manipulate and intimidate her oppo-nents, her pursuits have their end in her husband’s success, not her own. “House of Cards” does not portray a “feminist warrior.” Instead, the show proves the success of a wife who makes sacrifices for husband.

The show has fascinated the American people. Though Netflix refuses to give statistics, an Inter-net traffic monitoring firm, Procera Networks, estimates that 11 percent of Netflix users, or about 3 mil-lion people, watched at least one episode.

Though Claire has her own pursuits, she constantly sacrifices her desires in order to aid her hus-band. Claire gives up her position at a nonprofit to focus on ensuring Frank’s success. Both seasons show Claire’s regret for her three abor-tions - one of which she obtained to focus on her husband’s campaign. She visits a fertility doctor, but can-cels her appointment when Frank’s pursuit for the presidency speeds

up. Claire envies the motherhood of others. She even threatens to cancel the insurance of a pregnant former employee, saying: “I’m willing to let your child wither and die inside you if that’s what’s required.”

Claire knew exactly what her marriage would entail from the day that Frank proposed. In season one, she recounted his words: “I’m not going to give you a couple of kids and count the days until retirement. I promise you freedom from that. I promise you you’ll never be bored.” Taylor Swift couldn’t find any song-writing material in this proposal.

Neither season provides evi-dence of the existence of a sex life between the Underwoods. The couple’s shared cigarette every night is the closest sign of their intimacy. Their respective affairs highlight their necessity to find affection out-side their marriage.

In the end, however, Frank achieves his ultimate goal of the presidency. Claire, on the other hand, loses her job and any chance at motherhood. Yes, Claire tried to pass a bill for women’s rights in the military. She abandons the bill, how-ever, when it no longer will help her husband. Every step she took ma-nipulated those around her to help Frank advance to the presidency. She uses her beauty and sexuality to get what she wants. Claire is the opposite of a feminist warrior - she is a devoted wife, willing to make sacrifices.

Though feminists try to por-tray Claire as the modern woman, they should criticize her constant self-sacrifice. Claire epitomizes the plight of a politician’s wife — a repressed existence, focused only on her husband. Though her life lacks boredom, it is devoid of personal fulfillment.

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New screens distract

Propane prices increase, supply

limited“There are people cutting down trees in our front yard,” a

woman said on the phone to her husband.“It’s alright. I told them they could,” he said.The tree cutters sought firewood to warm their houses during

the propane shortage that has gripped Michigan since January, said Christopher Busch, professor of English and neighbor to the couple.

Increased demand for propane as households try to keep warm in an unusually frigid winter and various negative supply shocks created the propane shortage. Prices have risen significantly, while the shortage continues.

The weekly reported Michigan residential propane prices jumped 37 percent the week of Jan. 27, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. Prices peaked at $3.76/gallon the week of the Feb. 3 and have since fallen to $3.35/gallon, still 26 percent higher than before the spike.

Though the shortage was caused by many factors, increased demand this fall by corn farmers seeking to dry a wet record har-vest was especially significant, according to Caywood Propane Gas Inc.’s “Propane Supply Shortage FAQs” blog. Mechanical trouble at many supply terminals servicing large haulers also con-tributed, according to the blog, as did temperatures much lower than those of last year’s unusually warm winter.

According to the blog, decreasing propane imports and rap-idly increasing propane exports also contributed. Propane exports were 74 percent higher in 2013 (through November, the latest month for which data is available) than in the same period in 2012, according to USEIA data.

The Community Action Agency provides heating assistance to those in need within Hillsdale County.

Maxine Vanlerberg, the agency’s Hillsdale County director, said the shortage has changed the way they provide their clients propane.

“All the rules changed basically,” she said. “Nothing works the same as it has in the past.”

Not only are the prices higher, but propane companies also have been more restrictive with their deliveries. While in previ-ous years they would fill tanks at 20 percent capacity or lower, last week most were not delivering until the tanks were at 10 percent, Vanlerberg said. Most also restricted deliveries to 100 gallons at once for 330-gallon tanks and 250 gallons for 500-gallon tanks. And other companies were sold out.

The CAA is also having difficulty arranging same-day deliv-eries, Vanlerberg said. She said one local woman went an entire weekend without propane.

Not only has the shortage made fuel assistance more difficult, it has also led more people to seek help.

Between Jan. 13 and Feb. 20, the CAA assisted 86 families with propane.

Last year it only assisted 24 during the same period, Vanler-berg said.

“We’ve seen more people in a crisis mode than ever before,” she said.

“People are very stressed out. So if I tell you that we’ve been pulling our hair out, you would see why. It’s been real crazy here.”

The CAA is still able to offer aid, and those interested should call ahead.

Vanlerberg said that, though prices are still high, the situation has eased slightly since the worst of it. Most companies lifted their delivery restrictions by the middle of last week. None of the people the CAA helped Monday faced restrictions, she said.

In another blog post, Caywood wrote that they expect prices to come down slowly as the reduction works its way down the supply chain. They expect the process will be unstable, because as the price falls, some of those who’ve been holding off will start purchasing again, increasing demand and spiking the price back up.

An anonymous Hillsdale College employee said that heating her home with propane this year and the last has been extreme-ly difficult. She objected to “the whole idea that someone who works full time and is good at what they do can’t afford to heat their home in this day and age.”

“I at least have a wood-burning fireplace in my living room and a couple of electric heaters I use for taking a shower and in the bedroom at night,” she said.

She said she also uses an electric blanket.Busch said he would also use wood, but that it’s not safe to

fell trees with all this snow on the ground. He said the deep snow prevents wood cutters from moving away quickly enough if a tree falls in the wrong direction, which is why those felling trees tend to cut along roads, where the snow is shallower.

Busch has been affected by his propane company’s filling lim-its, but said he understands the need to make sure there’s enough propane left for others.

“I think they’re just trying to keep people warm,” he said.

Homeless people in Hillsdale and Jonesville, Mich., should be permitted under the law to openly panhandle within the vil-lage limits, according to a recent court decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Eight communities in Michi-gan, including Jonesville, have been notified by the American Civil Liberties Union that their ordinances against panhandling are unconstitutional and must be revoked. However, Hillsdale has not received a letter.

“It’s not a crime to be poor. Poor people have free speech rights as well,” said Rana Elmir, deputy director at ACLU Michi-gan. “Cities don’t want to be reminded about the vulnerable

members of our society. They want to protect their citizens from threats or harassments; however, there are already laws for that.”

The ACLU was originally involved in a lawsuit with the city of Grand Rapids, Mich. The case, Speet v. Scheutte, conclud-ed that begging in public places is a First Amendment right that cities in Michigan must recog-nize, according to ACLU’s let-ter to Jonesville.

“It’s made to be a crime to be poor, which is perhaps why we got involved,” Elmir said. “These individuals are ticketed and even jailed, at times. It can have an extremely disastrous effect on an individual. Being sucked into the criminal justice system is something lifelong, and it’s difficult to get out of once you’ve had an interaction

with law enforcement.”Jonesville had a similar ordi-

nance to the one struck down in Grand Rapids. The law, which was enacted in 1969, criminal-izes people who beg in a public place, “either by words, ges-tures, or by exhibiting a sign,” according to Jonesville’s code section 9-2.

“The law went into effect at a time when a lot of villages con-sidered it a public nuisance,” said Jeff Gray, village manager of Jonesville. “However, we’ve certainly had no prosecutions or arrests that anyone can recall un-der this ordinance. I don’t think anyone has even been spoken to by the police about this. There are a number of social services, which may be a piece as to why we haven’t seen as much of an issue here.”

Police officers in Jonesville

have been informed about Speet v. Schuette’s decision to rec-ognize panhandling as a First Amendment right.

“These blanket bans on beg-ging are certainly a free speech issue,” Elmir said. “Essentially the law says if you’re asking for a donation because you’re poor, that is protected speech. It’s similar to holding up a po-litical sign, or saying ‘need a job, God bless.’ Simply asking for support is constitutionally-protected speech.”

The city of Jonesville will not enforce its ordinance until the law is amended. However, section 22-124 in Hillsdale’s code of ordinance, which in-cludes laws against begging and soliciting alms, is still a law, according to the Hillsdale City Police Department.

The city-wide WiFi network Hillsdale FreeNet will be up-dated this spring in hopes to in-crease the internet speed.

While FreeNet is available throughout the city, most Hill-sdale College students studying downtown said they prefer to use local business’ WiFi, such as Jilly Beans.

“[FreeNet] not super fast. I can check my email and do basic things with it, but I only use it as a last resort,” Hillsdale graduate student Margarita Ramirez said.

Hillsdale FreeNet creator

Jeff King recently moved back to the Hillsdale area and said he is hoping to do some updates to the system this spring.

“We are aware of the speed issues. There have been a few issues with the system we hope to have improved in the near fu-ture,” King said.

Hillsdale FreeNet was first set up in 2004 by King with the name “HillsdaleCoolcities.” City WiFi was still new and not very many cities were using it, even in 2006.

“Big companies and cities — like San Francisco and Pitts-burgh — were bragging about free WiFi,” King said. “In Hills-dale, it was designed to improve

the experience of visitors. It was relatively new at the time, and it was kind of a community ef-fort. It’s very common now, of course.”

Originally, the WiFi oper-ated from routers which were centralized in city hall, King said. In 2008, this was updated, and now there are WiFi nodes throughout the city, creating what King calls a “mesh net-work.”

“There’s about 20 nodes in Hillsdale. It’s called a mesh net-work because if one node goes down, there are others still in-teracting with each other,” King said. “We’ve got some on lamp-posts, one on top of city hall,

one in the library bell tower, and some individual businesses, like Checker Records and Toasted Mud.”

In 2010, the network ID changed from “HillsdaleCoolci-ties” to “Hillsdale FreeNet.”

Since Hillsdale FreeNet was set up by a private business, it receives individual donations instead of government money, King said.

King moved away to Hol-land, Mich., in 2009 but con-tinued to work on the WiFi network. In August 2013, he moved back to Hillsdale. Since his return, King plans to up-grade the FreeNet.

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Vanished Hillsdale

One of the worst fires in Hillsdale College’s history burned through Knowlton Hall on Feb. 25, 1910. The fire began around 1 p.m. and destroyed, most importantly, the rooms of many of the literary societies, incinerating their accumulated records, decorations, and treasures.

Students began to run into the building to remove whatever portable they could. The city fire company doused the flames upon arrival, and reconstruction began quickly. Classes were held again in a few weeks, and donations flooded in to rebuild and redecorate the literary society rooms. Although records and artworks couldn’t be replaced, and the Amphictyon So-ciety and Alpha Kappa Phi lost many society possession, by that fall, they were again “superior to anything of their kind in Michigan.”

The total loss was $27,772, making it the largest loss to the college since the “great fire” of 1874.

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Jonesville, Hillsdale begging laws unconstitutional

Eric Leutheuser, who just an-nounced his candidacy for 58th district Michigan state represen-tative, has always been interest-ed in politics.

His father, Paul Leutheus-er founded Leutheuser Buick GMC dealership — which Er-ice now owns — and served as mayor of Hillsdale. A product of both Hillsdale public schools and Hillsdale College, he took advantage of his time at the lat-ter to embark on the then-new Washington–Hillsdale Intern-ship Program, spending a se-mester living in Arlington, Va., and interning for former Rep. David Stockman, an experience he recalls fondly.

“It was a moment in history when the country had a sense of what President Carter called ‘malaise’ while Ronald Rea-gan was telling us that better days were ahead, to stop sell-ing America short,” Leutheuser said. “The first crack in the ice, if you will, was the ‘Miracle on Ice’ game in 1980, which hap-pened while I was in WHIP.”

That fall, Leutheuser accept-ed Stockman’s offer to assist on his reelection campaign. The contrast he discovered during this time between Washington, D.C., and the area around Hill-sdale helped him realize where he felt more comfortable.

“Hillsdale felt more like the real world, and Washington felt more unreal,” he said. “I was more built for and more likely to be happy in a small town, and so, I decided to follow in my fa-ther’s footsteps.”

And so he waited: manag-ing the day-to-day operations of Leutheuser GMC, raising three girls with his wife, Laura — Anna Dunham ’10, Clara ’12, and senior Grace — and involv-ing himself in the community in

various ways, such as serving on the boards of the Hillsdale County Community Foundation and Health Center, as well as the City Planning and Economic Development commissions, and trying to stay as informed as he could. But then the opportuni-ty arose to fill the seat of Ken Kurtz, the current 58th district state representative who is term-limited out. It fit just right.

“I didn’t run for anything be-fore because I felt like a family and making a living were full-time jobs. I didn’t have any no-tion of holding office while we were raising a family, and I was busy with the dealership,” he said. “I’m still young enough to have energy, but old enough that my kids have graduated. And Kurtz got term-limited out, and I got the support of my wife, which is crucial; she supports me as she always does.”

Family and friends agreed that timing was important.

“He had to raise three girls, but now his youngest is gradu-ating this year. So he’s moving past that phase when you’re

chasing them all over the place,” said Ron Budd, who has known Leutheuser since they were Cub Scouts together. “He certainly didn’t want to take on some-thing if he wasn’t going to do it 100 percent.

“It all just fell together.” While Laura had expected

her husband to seek office at some point, his recent decision still surprised her somewhat.

“It was a bit of a surprise. Early in our marriage, many people expected it was path he would choose. But then there were years of dormancy,” she said. “It was a surprise that fit perfectly with the changes: we’re empty nesters, the dealer-ship is secure.”

Now that his campaign has begun, Leutheuser has started selling himself to voters on his biography of customer service experience, “common-sense solutions,” and community en-gagement. It’s a message he thinks can win.

“I have a breadth of work experience, community service, and education that would allow

me to move into the workflow in Lansing, be in committees, and be very effective right out of the gate putting forward the inter-ests of the district and working with other representatives to get things done,” he said.

Budd thinks that Leutheus-er’s name recognition and cam-paigning skills should put him ahead of the crowded primary field and hopes that both he and his wife are ready for the de-mands of the trail.

“They say that sometimes the campaign is harder on the wife than the candidate,” he said.

But even though Laura said politics is “outside of her com-fort zone,” she’s ready to work for her husband.

“I have a desire to see a good man — my husband — serve. He’s the kind of man we want to see representing others like him,” she said. “He’s a fine man, the kind of man we need, not a man who’s dreamt of a political position his whole life.”

Leutheuser ready to enter the political worldJack Butler

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Hawkins said. Cardwell admitted he never

filed his income taxes because he made “so much money” from selling “potpourri.”

Demayo said it took two to three days to sell $6,000 worth of “incense.” That success proved their downfall.

“They made too much of a spectacle. There wasn’t one per-son that didn’t know,” Hawkins said. “They turned a lot of dif-ferent people against them.”

Hillsdale County Sheriff Stan Burchardt said buyers came to the shop from across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and possibly even Illinois.

Cardwell and Demayo’s suc-cess not only attracted the com-munity’s attention but also that of Hillsdale law enforcement. Hillsdale Prosecuting Attorney Neal Brady and Hassinger said

the store’s opening correspond-ed with an uptick in related crime.

“I charged a man with using another person’s financial trans-action device. When he was con-fronted with the police about it, he said he needed money to go buy more product at the Cam-den shop,” Brady said. “We had a complaint here from a father in Coldwater who had called to the sheriff’s department saying that his son had overdosed after buying this product from the Camden shop.”

Burchardt said that officers from the sheriff’s office re-sponded to the community’s uproar by talking to confidential informants in town and contact-ing Angola, Ind., law enforce-ment.

Officers from the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s office con-fronted Cardwell and an un-identified clerk over a moped traded for spice, on Sept. 23.

On Oct. 14, plain-clothes of-ficers from the Hillsdale Nar-cotics Enforcement Team made

their first undercover purchase: approximately 1.8 grams of Bizarro, a blueberry blend of spice, and 1.8 grams of Black Diamond, a strawberry blend.

According to a police report, one of the clerks said, “We have to keep expanding up here in Michigan because Ohio keeps passing ordinances against this stuff.”

After Gregory Endres, vice president of chemistry at Cay-man Chemical in Ann Arbor, said that the active ingredient in the samples, PB-22, was a “synthetic cannabinoid” and an “analogue” of other schedule 1 substances, officers made a sec-ond buy on Nov. 13: another 1.5 grams of Bizarro and 3.5 grams of blueberry “Angel’s Breath.”

When officers conducted the search warrant on Nov. 14, they found Cardwell suffering from withdrawals and Demayo with dirt on her hands. She admit-ted to ripping marijuana plants out of their pots in an attempt to destroy them. She knew that her medical card had expired

more than a year ago, and that Cardwell’s had two weeks be-fore.

Officers seized 11 marijuana plants, 229.3 grams of suspect-ed marijuana, 1,149.4 grams of spice, approximately 267 grams of marijuana butter, and $7,906 in cash, rolled and secured with rubber bands.

At the shop, officers seized 4.15 pounds of spice, more than 500 glass pipes, 600 packages of rolling papers, and business logs indicating $191,791 in sales.

“They seized fake urine kits they sold so people could pass urine tests,” Hassinger said.

After the conduction of the warrant, the duo was arrested in Angola, Ind., waived extradi-tion from Indiana, and were ar-raigned in Hillsdale County.

Cardwell is in the Hillsdale County Jail after fleeing to In-diana, and Demayo is out on bail. Both were unavailable for comment.

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Going to basketball games this season, students may have noticed cameramen and women with shoulder-mounted cameras under the basket at each end of the court.

“[Operating the camera] is super nerve racking because you have to stand under the basket, and the players are right there and you’re in the danger zone,” said Elaine Hanson, senior cam-eraman and student manager of Technical Media Services.

The students working the cameras are part of a larger team that produces broadcasts of the basketball games. Standing behind both shoulder-mounted cameras are “cable wranglers”; a third camera is stationed up in the stands, getting shots of the whole court. The video from the cameras is sent to a mobile production unit, called a “fly package,” where it is refined by a director, as well as slow-motion and graphics operators. The video is then combined with game commentary by Timothy Wells and Eugene “Pat” Krueger. The whole broadcast is produced by Director of TMS, Ted Matko. The resulting broad-cast is either streamed online for a fee through America ONE

Sports, or is burned onto a DVD for later purchase from TMS.

“You develop an apprecia-tion for the technical work that goes into little easy things like basketball games,” said Micah Meadowcroft, a sophomore cameraman and TMS worker.

“Watching ESPN and seeing the level of coverage they have, I realize for myself, what kind of effort and concentration and strength and coordination that takes.”

In addition to capturing video at men’s and women’s home basketball games, football games

are also broadcast.“I prefer football games, I

really enjoy those. Probably because I understand football better,” said Daniel Sunne, a sophomore who works for TMS. “It’s almost like you’re watching the game for fun, but you’re also

getting paid to do it.”TMS is looking to revamp

the sports broadcasting program and expand the number of sports it broadcasts. A year and a half ago TMS switched over its video equipment from analogue to dig-ital. Furthermore, in the future it hopes to broadcast all home

Charger sporting events with the noted exceptions of tennis, cross country, and swimming.

Fiber optic lines will run to numerous classrooms, the field house, the Margot V. Biermann Center, the baseball and softball fields, and Muddy Waters Sta-dium. With cameras connected to fiber optic lines going directly to the TMS office, all video production will be done in the office’s main studio.

This change will allow games to be broadcast more consistent-ly since the “fly package,” which is also used by the college at off-campus fundraising events, will no longer be needed.

“I am a support wing of [Hill-sdale’s] fundraisers and that’s where this (capacity to produce broadcasts) started, and then it allowed us to move into sports,” Matko said. “When those pri-orities come up, I can’t shoot a basketball game.”

In addition to the technology upgrades, Matko plans to make the online streams of sports games available for free through Hillsdale’s website.

“The goal is to eliminate the pay service and get it on our webpage so you can just watch it for free,” Matko said.

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BOX SCORESHillsdale to expand sports broadcastsMen’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 86Walsh: 73

Hillsdale College: 80Malone: 81

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Tim Dezelski (584)Kyle Cooper (302)

3-Pointers:Anthony Manno (50)Dezelski (42)

Offensive Rebounds:Dezelski (74)Cooper (34)

Defensive Rebounds:Dezelski (168)Brandon Pritzl (106)

Assists:Dezelski (99)Pritzl (86)

Free Throws:Dezelski (100)Pritzl (72)

Blocks:Dezelski (36)Cooper (30)

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 75Walsh: 63

Hillsdale College: 69Malone: 75

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Megan Fogt (495)Madison Berry (192)

3-Pointers:Kelsey Cromer (32)Kadie Lowery (30)

Offensive Rebounds:Fogt (122)Angela Bisaro (55)

Defensive Rebounds:Fogt (278)Bisaro (81)

Assists:Ashlyn Landherr (68)Bisaro (65)

Free Throws:Fogt (129)Berry (65)

Blocks:Fogt (67)Bisaro (30)

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Sophomore Daniel Sunne films a men’s basketball game earlier this season. (Photo Courtesy of Technical Media Services)

Victory sends Chargers to GLIACs

On Saturday, the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team came back home after two weeks on the road to defeat Walsh University.

The Chargers were able to celebrate Senior Day by clinching a spot in the GLIAC tournament with the 75-63 victory. Walsh was the first team Hillsdale has defeated both times they have met this season. So far, Hillsdale had gone 1-1 against every other South Division team.

“Everyone was in it for each other,” sophomore Kelsey Cromer said. “It was a fun atmosphere.”

Senior Allyson Lloyd had nine points in her first career start.

“It’s great that the coaches were willing to let me go out on that kind of note,” Lloyd said. “I’m very grateful.”

Junior Chelsea Farrell set a new career high and led the team in scoring with 22 points. She also had nine rebounds.

“We have so much talent on the team,” senior Angela Bisaro said. “It’s fun to see that and to play with them.”

Junior Megan Fogt had 18 points, 19 rebounds, and six blocks. Fogt earned her sixth GLIAC South Player of the Week award. She also was named the Women’s Division II Bulletin February Player of the Month. Fogt leads the division with 16 rebounds per game, and is second in the division with 18 double-doubles.

Fogt also had a good game on Thursday, Feb. 20 against Malone

University, with 20 points and 18 rebounds.

Despite Fogt’s performance, Hillsdale lost 69-77 at Malone, a team that has gone 11-2 at home.

“It’s tough to win on the road,” head coach Claudette Charney said.

Hillsdale finished the first half down 29-39, but was able to tie up the game with 9:40 left in the second half, 56-56.

“We couldn’t get over the hump,” Charney said.

Hillsdale was never able to take the lead during the game.

“Our biggest problem is that we were in our own heads, and we weren’t playing as a team,” Cromer said.

She explained individual play-ers were able to make important plays, but they couldn’t put them together as a team.

Junior Brooke Borowski had 15 points in her third game back since being injured.

“We had the opportunity to swing the momentum, but we didn’t take advantage of those moments,” Lloyd said.

On Thursday, Feb. 27., Hill-sdale plays its final game of the season at home against University of Findlay.

This will be the last time the seniors are able to play at home, and Bisaro said they hope to fin-ish strong against their rivals.

“We’ve already beat them,” Cromer said, “but we can’t let them have their revenge.”

The Chargers play their first game of the GLIAC tournament on March 5.

“This team is very capable,” Lloyd said. “There is no reason we can’t win.”

Charger Chatter: PJ Cooley

PJ Cooley, an accounting major, is in his fourth year as a pitcher on the baseball team, but plans to stay a fifth year. In 2012 and much of 2013, Cooley sat out with a shoulder injury. Now he is back to full strength and is looking forward to this upcoming season, which will begin on Saturday.

Do you have a player who most inspires you?

It’s going to be pretty cliche,

but I guess I’ll say Derek Jeter. Not just as a pitcher but just his work ethic and what he’s put on and off the field in the past. This is his 19th season and he’s now retiring. I think he’s a good guy to look up to for a lot of guys, strictly because he’s got such a good work ethic, he’s such a great athlete, he’s been such a great teammate, they don’t call him a captain for nothing, so I would say he probably inspires me most.

You were injured your sopho-more year. What was that year like and how did you make it through?

It was weird. That was the first time I’ve ever had serious pain or injury, so I didn’t know how to handle it. Just staying positive and being there for the team was definitely huge for myself and for everybody else, and just showing them that I’m still supporting them regardless of my injury. I’ve always been optimistic and positive, so just being able to carry that over de-spite some setbacks has helped me get through the past couple

years. I’m 100% now, so now I’ll finally have another full season like my freshman year so I’m pretty excited.

What are your plans after graduation?

I’ve got an internship again this summer with the same com-pany I worked for last summer, and I’m hoping that after this summer I’ll get a full-time offer with that accounting firm after I graduate. I’d love to keep play-ing baseball if it’s in the cards. Whether it’s softball or an adult rec. league or something further than that, I’d be grateful for whatever competition it is because I love the game so much. Hopefully I’ll grow old but I’ll still be able to have fun and play the game that I grew up playing.

What is the legacy you hope to leave on this team?

I think guys kind of look at me as a jokester. I’m okay with that, but I also hope to be someone guys kind of look up to and come to for advice

whether it be on the field or off the field situations. I hope that when I leave guys will look to me as that one teammate who was always there for them.

What activities do you enjoy on campus?

In all honesty, going to practice and playing games. I talk to guys about this all the time. It’s my one getaway from all the stress, whether it’s work or a test I didn’t do well on or a test I have to study for, or volunteer work, or anything that doesn’t have to do with baseball. I re-ally look forward to going to practice. Even though some-times practices aren’t fun, you have running, you have condi-tioning, you have weightlift-ing, and the two or three hours I get to spend with the team kind of just take my mind away from everything. I enjoy that the most. It takes your mind off everything and it’s really relaxing.

Do you have a favorite Char-ger moment?

Even though I wasn’t there last year when the team was down in Florida and they beat number two-ranked Tampa, I was back here, and I was actu-ally at the Charger basketball game with a couple other guys who didn’t travel due to injury. We were watching the game on our computer in the arena dur-ing the basketball game, so we saw it go down and we were all pretty excited. That’s got to be my favorite Charger moment. That’s when I got most excited about the team.

Do you have a favorite winter Olympic sport?

Gotta be hockey. I’m a big hockey fan, a big Redwings fan. I grew up watching hockey with my parents. I don’t know how to skate, but I love watch-ing hockey. It’s on at our house all the time.

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throw, senior Brett Dailey took 3rd as well as a provisional mark.

Sophomore Nick Shuster took 1st place in the high jump, winning a jump-off, and in the triple jump, Etchemendy took 2nd. Both sopho-more Todd Frickey and freshman Joseph Newcomb took 5th in the 60-meter dash and mile run respec-tively, and in the 200-meter dash, juniors Zachary Meyer and Damian Matthews took 7th and 8th.

“I think the meet went well for everyone across the board,” Shuster said. “The 4x400 relay had such a sweet finish that it’s hard to remember anything (else) that anyone did.”

As for the women’s team, sopho-more Corinne Zehner took 2nd in the 60-meter hurdles, breaking the school record, which she had set. She also was part of the women’s 4x400 relay, which with her teammates freshmen Allison Duber and Danielle Gagne,

and sophomore Emily Guy, broke the school record and took 2nd.

“Corinne Zehner had a really good week, both on her own in the hurdles and as part of the 4x400 team, break-ing the school record and currently ranked 11th in the nation,” women’s head coach Andrew Towne said. “The whole team did a really good job.”

Freshman Alex Whitford took 1st along with a provisional mark in the pole vault, junior Amy Kerst took 1st and a provisional mark in the 800-me-ter. In the same event, sophomore Shena Albaugh took 3rd, and in the 3000-meter, freshman Molly Oren took 1st. In the long jump, freshman Sarah Benson took 2nd, in the high jump, freshman Dana Newell took 6th, and senior Grace Leutheuser received a provisional mark and 7th place in the weight throw.

“The girls have done a really great job of controlling their approach and their effort, and we have had a really good three weeks,” Towne said. “I think we are really well prepared for the championships this weekend.”

Senior Allyson Lloyd goes up strong for a la-yup against Walsh University on Saturday. The Chargers won and will go to the GLIAC tourna-ment. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)Senior Matt Raffin competes in the hurdles at the Hillsdale Tune-

up last weekend. The Chargers are prepping for the indoor confer-ence championships this weekend. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

This past weekend Hillsdale hosted the Hillsdale Tune-up on Feb. 22 in the Margot V. Biermann Center.

In their final meet prior to the GLIAC Indoor Track and Field Cham-pionships, which Hillsdale will host this

weekend on March 1 and 2, the men’s and women’s track and field teams ended with several athletes meeting the qualifying marks for the upcoming championship, and even more receiving top positions in various events.

The men’s 4x400 relay team, com-posed of seniors Matt Raffin, Maurice Jones, and Elliot Murphy, and fresh-man Ty Etchemendy, continued its strong streak, taking 1st in the event

and beating the school record. Raffin also broke his own school record in the 60-meter hurdles and took 3rd place. Senior John Banovetz received a pro-visional mark and 3rd place in the shot put. Sophomore Matthew Harris also received a provisional mark and 2nd place in the pole vault, and in the weight

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Both men’s and women’s 4x400 relays break school records

After a semester and a half of drills, weights, running, scrimmages, drills, “chalk talks,” game-planning, roster-tweaking, and more drills, Charger baseball begins their season this weekend.

First-year head coach Eric Theisen leads the squad as they try to improve on last season’s record (20-25), which was the team’s best in a decade. Theisen said their season goal comes down to winning each game. But for the postseason?

“If we get into the conference tournament, anything can happen,” Theisen said.

The team holds the paradoxi-cal distinction of being both young and experienced. Its roster boasts 15 sophomores, many of whom played extensively last season. Otherwise, it is made up of four freshman, seven juniors, and five seniors.

The Chargers open the 2014 season against Davis & Elkins College. Junior Shane Armstrong will take the mound in Louisville, Ky., on March 1 at 2 p.m.

Gordie Theisen, father and assistant coach to Eric Theisen, leads the pitch-ing staff. He said the team has dropped its E.R.A. nearly a point each of the last three seasons, resulting in 2013’s 4.53 mark.

Bettering E.R.A. gets harder the lower it gets, but Gordie Theisen said the team hopes to do just that.

“That’s my job,” he said.Besides Armstrong, the weekend’s

starters will include senior Matt Reck, sophomore Jacob Gardner, and fresh-man Jacob Lee. For Gardner and Lee, these will be their first career starts.

The pitchers are generally healthy, Gordie Theisen said. The big excep-tion is sophomore pitcher Lucas Hamelink, who was kicked in the hand

by a horse in early February. He had surgery on his pinky and will be out for six more weeks.

“I told the pitchers his injury gives other guys opportunities, gives them experience, and makes us better and deeper,” Theisen said, while adding Hamlink would be missed.

Coming off of injury after an entire season’s absence is senior Tyler Hag-gerson.

“Today (Wednesday) is the first time he’s facing live batters in over a year,” Gordie Theisen said. “That is a good thing.”

Haggerson will see limited action during the early games as coaches ease him back into play. Haggerson, along with junior shortstop Vinny Delicata, was voted captain by the team.

Eric Theisen moved junior Nolan Breymaier from shortstop to third base and Delicata from second base to shortstop for this season. Junior Sean Bennett and sophomore Lincoln Reed will switch back and forth between catcher and first base.

Meanwhile, the outfield will be the same as last year.

Although he didn’t reveal the team’s opening day lineup, Eric Theisen said the team’s two, three, four, and five batters will be “a scary combo to deal with.”

The lineup generally consists of what Eric Theisen described as a “strange combination” of power and speed.

“Probably four or five guys are le-gitimate power threats,” he said. “But we only have two guys batting open-ing day with average or below average speed. We’re hoping that leads to some exciting offensive production.”

The team missed the GLIAC tournament by two games last season. Delicata said the team is excited about getting the season started and pursuing a tournament berth.

“Give everything, expect noth-ing,” Delicata said. “That’s our team motto.”

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Kurtz to compete at nationals

Winning in basketball isn’t determined merely by which team shot the higher field goal percentage or grabbed more re-bounds. If the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team had any doubt of that before this week, they learned it the hard way last Thursday at Malone University in a heart-breaking 81-80 defeat.

“When you shoot 60 percent and you outrebound them, you kind of feel that would lead to a victory,” sophomore Kyle Coo-per said. “We couldn’t get stops when we needed them.”

“We just didn’t get it done,” assistant coach Brian McCauley

added.The Chargers were unable to

find the bottom of the net in the final 2:08 of the game, a stretch in which the only point scored by either team was a Malone free throw that gave Malone its 81-80 win.

“Close games have been our kryptonite,” senior Tim Dezelski remarked. “But we’re learning, we’re taking everything as a positive right now.”

The Chargers got positive news shortly after their tough loss on Thursday, hearing that they had clinched a spot in the GLIAC tournament as a result of Wayne State University’s

loss to Ferris State University.“It’s wonderful to make the

tournament,” McCauley said.

Hillsdale has now made it to the postseason in each of the seven years that head coach John Tharp has been leading the Chargers.

“It’s a little bittersweet,” Cooper added, referring to the Malone loss preceding clinching a spot in the tourney. “But it’s nice to make the postseason.”

The Chargers looked to get back on the right track against Walsh University on Saturday, Feb. 22, which was also Senior Day. All six seniors were hon-ored in a pre-game ceremony. During the game, one senior especially stood out.

“You can’t say enough about what Tim Dezeleski does,” McCauley said in praise of the fifth-year senior.

Dezelski scored 33 points and garnered 16 rebounds, leading to a dominating 86-73 Hillsdale victory.

“Walsh gave it to us at their place, so we had a little extra revenge on our mind,” Dezel-ski said. “Everyone came out focused with a lot of energy.”

Hillsdale started the game on a quick 7-0 run, and never relinquished the lead throughout

the whole game, only letting Walsh cut the deficit to as close as three in the second half.

“It’s an emotional day for all the seniors,” Cooper said. “We wanted to get in the right mind-set for the playoffs, so we got it rolling here.”

The team will play their final game of the regular season tonight against second place University of Findlay, but won’t be treating it like a regular sea-son game.

“There’s still a possibility that we get matched up to play Findlay in the GLIAC playoffs, so we’ve almost got to treat Thursday like it’s the GLIAC playoffs,” Cooper remarked. “We don’t want to get going to the postseason on a bad note, so we’re going to do everything we can to prepare and play our hearts out.”

The Chargers could finish as high as the fifth seed in the tournament, or finish as low as the eighth seed. The Chargers will look to finish off the season with a win in pursuit of hosting a GLIAC tournament game.

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Last year, junior swimmer Rachel Kurtz missed going to nationals by a mere one-hundredth of a second. This year, however, things are different.

At the GLIAC championships a couple of weeks ago, Kurtz earned a B-cut in both the 50 and 100-yard free-style. On Feb. 26, those B-cuts became a ticket to nationals for Kurtz. The national meet will take place in Geneva, Ohio from March 12-15.

Hillsdale hasn’t had many swimmers go to nationals; since 2002 only two have gone. Most recently, school record holder Linda Okonkowski ’12 repre-sented the Chargers. The national meet is extremely competitive and draws only the best swimmers. To earn her spot in the meet, Kurtz swam some pretty impressive times at the GLIAC champi-onships: 23.28 in the 50 and 51.19 in the

100. Both of those are school records, and no swimmer in Charger history has

even approached those times.Despite her impressive performanc-

es, Kurtz will have her work cut out for her. In the 50, she is seeded 7th and will be competing against stiff competi-tion (two of her opponents qualified with times under 23 seconds). The time spread for the event is extremely tight: 16 girls are spaced out within eight tenths of a second of each other. Kurtz’s opponents in the 100-meter are equally as formidable; the top ranked swimmer is seeded with an incredible time of 49.71.

Even though Kurtz will have to drop a significant amount of time (fractions of a second are a lot in sprint events) if she wants to place, she is no stranger to dropping lots of time at once and swim-ming big personal records.

Over spring break, while the vast majority of Hillsdale students will be lounging in the sun and minimizing physical activity, Kurtz will be swim-ming the most important race of her life so far.

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Junior Vinny Delicata tempts the defense at a game last season. (Collegian File Photo)

Sophomore Zach Miller saves the ball from going out of bounds last Saturday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Sophomore Corinne Zehner broke the school record in the 60-meter hurdles. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Charger swimmer ranked 7th in 50-yard freestyle

Filling the halls –– or at least the Formal Lounge –– with memorized verse and archaic language, the Shakespeare So-ciety held its first sonnet competition on Friday, Feb. 14. Students across campus prepared and re-cited sonnets. The club originally planned to per-form exclusively Shake-spearean sonnets.

“We dropped that re-quirement just because we didn’t want to limit it,” said sophomore Tyler Groenendal, treasurer of the club.

The competition was opened for students to re-cite sonnets in any struc-tural form and from any era.

“It was very casual. We didn’t want to intimi-date anybody,” senior and president Rachel Cook said. “We just sat around in a circle, and everybody performed their sonnet.”

Even Professor of Eng-lish Stephen Smith, the judge of the contest and their faculty ad-visor, had a sonnet to perform.

Groenendal was awarded Best Overall. Seniors Kodiak Dschida and Max Kleber were other forerunners. Rhythm, qual-ity of the recitation, enunciation, and awareness of meter, accord-

ing to Smith, were the criteria the contestants were judged on.

The Society has been meet-ing unofficially for the past few months. Cook had the idea last semester but didn’t act on it un-til she received encouragement from others, such as freshman Luke Martin, who is now the

secretary of the club.“Luke came up to me in the

Student Union last semester and said, ‘You’re Rachel Cook, right? I heard that you like Shakespeare. Will you be the president of a Shakespeare So-ciety?’ And I said yes –– on the spot –– which may have been foolish, but it’s been a really

good experience,” Cook said.The Society is now officially

recognized by Student Federa-tion.

“The club was approved unanimously yesterday [Feb. 20],” senior and Vice President Gwen Stoldt said. “Now the So-ciety can advertise publicly in a

more official capacity and, hope-fully, have a table at the Source in the fall.”

Even though English majors head the Society, Stoldt noted that it is open to all majors.

“We really want to empha-size that it’s open to everyone,” Stoldt said.

“You don’t have to know

a bunch about Shakespeare to come and hang out with us ––and read aloud, or laugh, or par-ticipate,” said Cook.

One of the goals of the Soci-ety is to promote and encourage Shakespeare after Great Books.

“We’re hoping to make it a fun, outside-of-the-classroom,

interactive thing,” said Stoldt.

Shakespeare is a name said in awe, and in some cases fear, in the class-room. The Society wants to eliminate the fear fac-tor.

“The classroom can be very intimidating and competitive,” Cook said. “We want to provide an-other outlet for Shake-speare that isn’t quite so determined.”

Shakespeare can be quite hilarious and the at-mosphere and openness of the meetings aim to lend to that side of things.

These consist of a 30-second play synopsis and a different discussion topic each week for what-ever play they happen to be studying at the time.

Attendees discuss what they’ve observed in the readings and what they think about it.

“We just try to get a conversa-tion started,” said Cook.

The meetings are usually held Friday afternoons at either 4 or 6 p.m. in the Formal Lounge and are open to everyone across campus.

Live, soft jazz sparkles as the final troops of World War II in the Pacific return to Wash-ington D.C., the setting of the theater department’s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”

The show opens with the re-turn of Don Pedro and his com-panions Benedick and Claudio from the Pacific theater. Dressed in khaki uniforms, the entourage is welcomed with patriotic cel-ebrations to the home of Senator Leonato, played by sophomore Micah Meadowcroft. Inquiries into potential lovers’ availability are peppered with Shakespeare’s quick wit, updated slightly to make sense to a modern audi-ence.

Shakespeare’s comedy fol-

lows the story of two couples: Hero and Claudio, who, after becoming engaged, trick Bea-trice and Benedick into falling for each other. The plot involves malicious trickery, wedding day tragedy, and malapropos watch-men who catch the culprit.

This production of the bard’s timeless romantic comedy takes a fresh angle and demonstrates the versatility of the play’s lan-guage. Other than updating some comedic lines, only a few words were changed to be consistent with the setting. Money is re-ferred to as “dollars” instead of “ducats,” and the ruler of the city is mentioned as “the president” instead of “the prince.”

The rendition of the play also involves gender changes of sev-eral characters, which helps the flow of the drama and gives a nod to the play’s new setting. Because so many men had been away at war in 1945. Director

David Griffiths saw a good op-portunity to make certain charac-ters female to reflect the changed social norms.

“Dave did a really good job making it work, rather than just dropping a bunch of female ac-tors into male roles and saying ‘play this as guys’ –– there are a lot of things that work better this way,” senior Sam Stoneburner said. “Having a woman sing ‘Sigh no more’ makes so much more sense. What man will warn women about men being untrust-worthy?”

Sophomore Catherine Cof-fey, who plays the villainess Countess Joanna, was excited to hear that the Don John character would be female and was drawn to the role immediately.

“It’s a unique opportunity, and of course, I wanted to grab it while I could because when else am I going to get to play this part?” she said. “This is the first

time I’ve played a villainess in five years. So it’s nice to be evil again. She’s just so sassy and so mean.”

Foundation for the conflict between Don Pedro and Joanna is explained by the tensions be-tween democratic and commu-nist influences in the Philippines post World War II.

“My thought was there was a lot of activity going on in the Philippines during the war and right after the war with guerrilla groups,” Griffiths said. “We did some research, and there were actually a number of women in some of these communist guer-rilla groups, so we took this idea that Don Pedro was a democratic person looking to lead the newly freed Philippines, and Joanna his sister is part of that communist group, and she wants to rule the country too.”

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Griffiths to retire from the Hillsdale theatre department

This weekend the Hillsdale theater program will perform “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Professor of Theatre Dave Griffiths will direct his last play at Hillsdale.

“It’s been just about 40 years,” Griffiths said. “We’ve been rounding it off a lot, but it does not make a huge differ-ence –– it’s been a long time.”

Griffiths has worked in the theater program –– designing sets, directing, and teaching –– since 1974. He came to Hills-dale as a student and graduated in 1971. In his time away from Hillsdale, he moved with his wife to Ohio and then back to Michigan for graduate stud-ies. He received his Masters in Theater with an emphasis in scenic design from Michigan State.

Ever since, he has working in theater, watching and help-ing the program grow from the sparse stage in Phillips Audito-rium to Markel Auditorium in the Sage Center for the arts.

“When I was a student here, there was very little technical theater,” Griffiths said. “We were working on the stage of Phillips and often with noth-ing but the curtain in the back-ground and a bit of old furni-ture laying around. We didn’t have design; we didn’t build things; we didn’t paint things; we didn’t have any lights –– it was a very minimal sort of a program.”

Steve Casai, who has worked in the dining service since it was in the Curtis Din-ing Hall, described Griffiths’s office as the “cubbyhole across from Phillips Auditorium.” It is now used as a closet.

“I would go downstairs sometimes, and we would talk about the theater,” Casai said.

“We both like the theater a lot. He knew a lot about it.”

Casai was surprised to hear Griffiths was retiring.

“I thought he was going to go on forever –– he loves the theater. I’m sure he will stay active in some way, in Sauk [Theatre] or something,” Casai said.

From the mid-70s to the early 90s, Griffiths would con-tribute his design and directing experience to the Jonesville community Sauk Theatre. He did two or three shows every summer and was the President of the board for a few years. Since the early 90s, he has not volunteered as much time.

However, it is not unusual to find Griffiths in the college set workshop on a Friday af-ternoon doing the detail work usually reserved for students.

“Dave is one of those peo-ple in the program that you just expect him to be there,” senior light specialist Mattie Butaud said. “He’s just such an inte-gral part of the theater. We are excited for him that he’s retir-ing, we are excited for the new gal that is coming in, but it’s weird to think of the program without Dave. We have all worked with him in one capac-ity or another and he is just a familiar part that will definitely be missed.”

His students say Griffiths intentionally makes the theater fun. A favorite show of his is “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” –– a production he has been a part of three times –– and he also enjoys Oscar Wilde’s “Impor-tance of Being Earnest” and Moliere’s “Tartuffe,” though he said it is hard to choose fa-vorites.

Griffiths said he does not

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Upper left: sophomore Micah Meadowcroft, freshman Nick Baldwin, and sophomore Victoria Zajac act out the first scene of “Much Ado About Nothing.” Upper right: Senior Peter Kistler (Benedick) and Zajac (Beatrice). Lower left: sophomore Heather Linder (Mar-garet) and freshman Grace Link (Hero) Lower middle: Baldwin and Professor of Theatre George Angell. Lower right: Angell talking to the watch, freshman Anastasia Dennehy and junior Leslie Reyes. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

It all started with a Face-book plea from Motor City Percussion asking for help finding a rehearsal space large enough for their drumline to practice. Director of Band at Reading High School Joshua Sholler responded online that he knew a place “an hour and 40 minutes [away] in good ole’ Reading, MI.”

This is how a nationally-ranking drumline came to practice and perform at the high school in Reading, Mich., a city about 20 minutes from Hillsdale.

Motor City Percussion is an independent winter percussion ensemble from Wayne county which competes throughout

Michigan and the Midwest. It’s 38 members range from high school to college-aged students from the Detroit area. The drumline competes in two different circuits, the Michigan Color Guard Circuit, which competes with other drumlines in Michigan, and the Winter Guard International, which at-tracts competitors from more than 50 other groups through-out the country. Last year, MCP placed within the top ten at the WGI competitions in Dayton, Ohio.

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My fundamental question after seeing “Winter’s Tale”: by which method did Hol-lywood acquire author Mark Helprin’s permission to totally eviscerate his most famous work: torture or bribery?

Benjamin DeMott’s New York Times book review on the back of the book “Winter’s Tale” reads “Is it not astonish-ing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high-jinks and comic flights, stands forth centrally as a mor-al discourse?” He continues, “I find myself nervous, to a de-gree I don’t recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately display-ing its brilliance.” Worry not, Mr. DeMott, because noted screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, in his directorial debut, has just failed the work enough for two. Or rather, for everyone.

The trailer revealed the first of several bad signs. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t see why writers of film adapta-tions replace perfectly good dialogue with their own mush. Even the most seemingly un-important details of a novel may have been carefully craft-ed by its author to later bloom into profound relevance. Therefore, deviating however slightly from his or her exact choice of words is like failing to carry a digit while attempt-ing to solve a very long and complex mathematical equa-tion.

That said, “Winter’s Tale” seemed quite accurate –– at least up until the part where the heroic thief Peter Lake (played by Colin Farrell) meets the dy-ing Beverly Penn (played by Jessica Brown Findlay). I was ready to give the film the ben-efit of the doubt. In fact, it got some of the most seemingly-random parts of the book right down to the smallest details,

including Peter Lake’s discov-ery of his companion, a white horse named Athansor, early on. The define-the-relation-ship conversation between Pe-ter Lake and Beverly’s father Isaac Penn (played by William Hurt), which is quite comi-cally conducted like a job in-terview, draws from the book almost word-for-word.

On the whole, however, “Winter’s Tale” is a white-hot mess.

Of course, Hollywood has the upper hand even in its ad-aptations, as some moments of this film could be anticipated by neither a reader of the book nor his confused date. Take, for example, the jump-scare of Pearly Soames (played by an adequately monstrous Russell Crowe, but with a woefully bad Irish accent) abruptly kill-ing a waiter and revealing he is a demon at the same time. I almost completely checked out. Despite plenty of religious symbolism in the book, there are no demons. Add Soames’ pandering to a bureaucratic Lucifer, played by Will Smith anachronistically dressed in a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt and read-ing “A Brief History of Time.” This confusing scene is — you guessed it — not in the book, and for good reason. I under-stand that I was watching fic-tion, but inserting Lucifer into Helprin’s story is like, say, in-serting space aliens into “Indi-ana Jones.” Oh, wait.

The depiction of Virginia Gamely (played by Jennifer Connelly) and her sick daugh-ter Abby is as no better. De-spite factoring majorly into the film’s finale (and much more so in the book), we are not given nearly enough time to care about them. Maybe these characters should have wasted one or two lines fewer on talk of chicken and ice cream.

As for Athansor, he is in-deed a flying horse. The film chooses to convey this by routinely depicting him with wings. Sparkly, glittery, very

poorly-animated wings. His flying scenes look like they be-long on VHS, and culminate in some spectacularly bad “deus ex machina” near the end. The less said of that, the better.

Speaking of finales, the novel regales of a burning city, soul-crushing chaos, an engineering wonder, heart-melting redemption, and an earth-shaking mass rebirth. And the film? A horribly lame, low-stakes fistfight on the ice between Peter and Pearly (complete with cartoonish punching sounds), and a con-trived, princess-reviving bed. Not a satisfying substitute.

What other characters and story elements didn’t make the cut? Why, Sarah Gamely and her life-giving hospitality, As-bury Gunwillow and his fate-ful boat, Christiana Friebourg and her talking fireplace, Hardesty Maratta and his dead father’s salver, Harry Penn and his powerful press, Praeger de Pinto and his golden age, Jackson Mead and his rainbow bridge, and much more. To be shown this hollow snooze-fest as a sample of its source ma-terial is like being sat before a grand feast and only allowed to chew on an appetizer — or your napkin. What hurts the most is realizing that the last time Crowe, Connelly, and Goldsman all worked together was in 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” — winner of Best Pic-ture that year. What has hap-pened in 13 years? Does prac-tice make radically imperfect?

I would happily sepa-rate “Winter’s Tale” from its source material in my judg-ment, but Hollywood very much informs the public imagination, no matter what it creates or adapts. Where is it taking ours? Helprin’s classic, long considered un-filmable since its 1983 publishing, would have stood a much bet-ter chance as a miniseries, if anything at all. Skip the mov-ie. Try the book.

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Sophomore Matt Sauer, who plays Don Pedro, juxtaposes the seriousness of the conflict with Joanna with the carefree revelry of the end of the war.

“I love that Don Pedro is for-mal –– he’s a general –– but he’s a complete and utter jokster,” Sauer said. “It’s so much fun to play be-cause he’s serious; he’s in charge of an army. But he’s got this very, very juvenile side that is a blast to play around with.”

The show features cameo per-formances by the student jazz quartet Rob Roy, which sets the tone for scenes throughout the production. While incorporat-ing music into a play is not un-usual, having a jazz band live and on stage provides a level of

authenticity not usually possible. Members of Rob Roy blend with the actors and tune the audience attention to the era of fedoras, gloves, and pin curls.

“One of the best parts of the production is the jazz band,” sophomore cast member Jona-than Fiore said. “It has such a cool effect.”

Dogberry, the inept constable of the watch, is played by Pro-fessor of Theater George Angell. Acting opposite a professor on stage has been an odd, yet helpful experience for students who play in scenes with Dogberry during the show.

“I’m actually in one of his classes right now –– and I put him down on stage, which is re-ally weird,” sophomore Allie Cuccinelli said. “It’s been really enjoyable to work off of him be-

cause he knows just so well what he’s doing.”

The cast put on an additional performance at 10 a.m. on Feb. 18 for approximately 300 area high school students. The mati-nee performance was arranged by Professor of Theatre James Brandon at the request of several schools, and students performing in the play were excused from academic classes in order to par-ticipate. The department usually performs a student matinee once a year.

“If we were doing Shake-speare in its original time period, there would be a lot more devo-tion to the formalities of the the-ater,” said Sauer. “But we’ve got some jazz music –– it’s easy to keep things nice and easy and swingin.’”

have any major plans for his re-tirement. He said he will prob-ably work with the Sauk Theatre, but he is also excited for the time to read and learn for the fun of it.

“My student keep on telling me about various and sundry television programs that I am unaware of,” Griffiths said, “so sooner or later there will be lots of binge watching, too, just to see what they’ve been talking about all this time.”

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he played the trombone. This is now his second year as the di-rector of band at Reading High School.

“I’ve known quite a few of the staff members in that drumline since high school, and we have a really good connection,” Sholler said. He also said he has known the co-director of MCP, Wesley Noeyack, the longest.

Sholler said members of the drumlines were willing to travel far for practice space because large facilities are both hard to find and expensive in Wayne county.

MCP is currently preparing for the WGI Regionals, which will take place on March 8 in Dayton, Ohio.

The drumline practiced through the whole weekend,

sleeping on the gym floor and taking breaks only for meals. The event was free to students and five dollars for adults. Sholler said he expected a large turnout.

“I’m expecting at least the front side of the gym to fill up quickly,” he said.

The drumline performed the routine they are working on for the competition and also gave an introduction to the winter drum-line.

Hillsdale sophomore Kristin Dau is a graduate of Reading High School, where she partici-pated in the band program. She has played the clarinet since fifth grade and stuck with it through high school.

Dau said that she became fa-miliar with MCP through Shol-ler, whom she knew through high school band.

“Over the summer he asked me to help teach his marching band camp,” she said. “I agreed

and either the two of us or the high school students themselves have been in touch ever since.”

Dau said that she has never seen an MCP show but has al-ways loved seeing marching bands and drumlines perform. The chance for the small high school to host the drumline is an opportunity that many there will never have again, Dau said.

The drumline’s 2014 show, titled “Heroes,” portrays the life and struggle of a superhero to overcome adversity.

“Reading is a very small town, and like many other towns, a lot of the students grow up there and raise their own kids there. I know some students who have never left the state of Michigan. See-ing them have the opportunity to witness such an event and realize how far in life you can get with music if you stick with it is amaz-ing.”

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Annie Clark is an enigma. Since she released her debut album as St. Vincent in 2007, the singer/guitarist has always been hard to pin down. Surely every one of her fans has been stumped on at least one occa-sion by the question, “what genre is she?” (The answer usually involves at least two hyphens.) Besides her musical identity, her state of mind seems to vary not just from song to song but from verse to chorus. There is probably no other con-temporary artist who can at one moment woo an audience with lilting vocal melodies and at the next moment take a stage dive.

It came as a pleasant sur-prise, then, when, in a recent interview, Clark explained why she simply titled her fourth al-bum “St. Vincent”: “I sound like myself on this record, so I just self-titled it.” Since her last solo album, 2011’s “Strange Mercy,” Clark has released both a full-length album and an EP in collaboration with professed St. Vincent fan, David Byrne. Despite the high stakes of that collaboration-that-dreams-are-made-of, it never succeeded in getting either artist out of their comfort zone, and the results were unmemorable. The music world is ready for a St. Vincent album where Clark doesn’t have to be anyone other than herself.

In truth, the stories that Clark tells with her music have always been deeply personal — it’s just sometimes hard to tell whether she’s talking about herself or someone else. And between the paranoid schizophrenic of “Actor Out of Work” and the chemically-sedated housewife of “Surgeon,” you sometimes hope that the songs aren’t about her. On her self-titled fourth al-bum, Clark drops the personas that characterized her earlier work and sounds more candid than ever.

Opener “Rattlesnake” starts out with just a bouncing syn-thesizer accompanying Clark’s voice. As soon as she asks for the first time, “am I the only one in the only world?”, the band kicks into a syncopated groove that could have been played by Prince and the Revolution. The song builds tension as Clark grows increasingly anxious (“runnin’, runnin,’ no one will ever find me”) before launching into a molten guitar solo. There’s no time for a breather, though, as soon as “Rattlesnake” con-cludes, Clark counts off “Birth in Reverse” with clanging guitar chords. “Birth,” like much of the

rest of the album, is fairly sparse — it’s got jagged riffs, jittery post-punk drums, and not much else. It’s a mode that we haven’t heard Clark (a master arranger) work in often, but it underscores the album’s no-nonsense atti-tude.

“St. Vincent” features some of Annie Clark’s most honest and contemplative songwriting. “Prince Johnny” is an intimate

conversation with an old friend — one who’s anxious and un-happy, yet you don’t want to cast judgement on them. “I Prefer Your Love” is a heartfelt tribute to Clark’s mother, who recently overcame a serious illness, and “Severed Cross Fingers” is an honest portrayal of a relationship that you know you held on to for far too long (“I got hope, but my hope isn't helping you”).

Elsewhere, Clark sounds absolutely fearless, like on the poised strut of “Every Tear Dis-appears”: “Oh, what about the pain? / Don’t ask me how, I just know that it fades.” The lyrics to “Huey Newton” are more eso-teric, owing to the fact that Clark wrote them in an Ambien-in-duced haze during a late night on tour, but the fearlessness comes across in the music. The song

begins with subdued R&B but, about halfway through, is trans-formed when Clark lays down a gut-wrenching, sludge-covered riff. Her yelping lead vocal — backed by an eerie choir of mul-titracked Annie Clarks — makes your hair stand on end.

“Digital Witness” will prob-ably provoke cries of “David Byrne wannabe” because of its bizarre, minimalist music vid-eo, but it also bears similarities to contemporaries and fellow critical darlings Arcade Fire. Both those loveable Canadians’ “Reflektor” and St. Vincent’s “Digital Witness” feature lyrics that lament the lack of human interaction in an increasingly digital world. The similarities don’t stop there, though. Arcade Fire’s recently-released fourth album was also by far their least anxious and most fun. “Digi-tal Witness” features one of the funkiest beats on any St. Vincent album, and it’s also highly func-tional: most kids at St. Vincent shows are probably gonna be too busy dancing to document the show with their iPhones.

Though most of “St. Vincent” is brimming with confidence, one of its most memorable mo-ments is incredibly vulnerable, when, in the middle of “Re-gret,” Clark sings: “I’m afraid of heaven because I can’t stand the height / I’m afraid of you because I can’t be left behind.” A few seconds’ pause lets the anxiety linger, but she quickly interjects with “oh well! / there’s a red moon risin.’” She knows that her fear, whether it’s fear of failure or fear of success, is just fleeting. It’s that attitude that makes Annie Clark the reigning queen of her genre — whatever that genre is, anyway.

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Pictured above: Professor of Theatre Dave Griffiths, who is retiring this year. (Anders Kiledal/ Collegian)

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The house that Reynolds built: 140 years later

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DELT GALLERY

Caleb WhitmerEditor-in-Chief

The Reynolds property (above) in the 19th centu-ry. The house in which the Delts lived from 1917 to 1971 (left) and from 1971 to 2003 (center). They now live in the Reynolds home (right). (Courtesy of Linda Moore)

Spotlight When Lorenzo Reynolds heard the fire alarm, he

ran the mile from his lawn to his insurance office in downtown Hillsdale. The building in flames, he hurried inside to recover his books. An explosion threw him out of a second story window and into the street, where he was resuscitated and carried back to his home.

The former secretary and treasurer of the college spent the next two weeks recovering in his home, which stood then and still stands today at the corner of Fayette and Manning Street. Today the building houses Hillsdale College’s Delta Tau Delta frater-nity.

Over the past 140 years, the Reynolds’ house has changed hands among a variety of owners, including the Reynolds’ family, the Slovacek fam-ily, and professor of biology Dan York, before the house returned, again, to college ownership. For 20 years it was even used as an elderly nursery home.

Reynolds himself designed the house and built it between 1874 and 1876. It has about 40 windows, York estimated, many of which still today have the original glass.

“Removing the windows would be like taking a museum piece and throwing it away,” York said. “But it’s a hell of a house to heat.”

The Reynolds family was something of a Hill-sdale College dynasty. Reynolds’ father was one of the founders of Michigan Central College, the precursor institution to Hillsdale College that began in 1844. Reynolds attended Michigan Central and sent three of his children to Hillsdale College.

After the board elected him to the positions of secretary and treasurer, he helped rebuild campus and the college’s endowment after the 1864 fire. He built his house during his tenure with the college.

Despite that success, he was voted out of his po-sition in 1877 amid, possibly dubious, accusations of dishonest bookkeeping, only one year after com-pleting his home just blocks from Central Hall. His insurance office burned down two years later. Ac-cording to the Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County, he was still recovering from the nervous shock as of 1888.

In the obituary of Reynolds’ wife, the Hillsdale Herald reported that “Hundreds remember her home as one of the pleasantest, and to which the college people and students were always welcomed.” Mary Reynolds died in the home surrounded by her fam-ily, and her funeral was held there on Feb. 26, 1891.

Reynolds, who remarried, died in 1920 at the age of 90. Besides his work for the college, The Collegian reports in his obituary that he “was the chief force in bringing about the construction of the city hall,” which is still used by the city today.

The college, sometime around the turn of the century, took ownership of his house.

When President Joseph William Mauck be-came president in 1902, the college offered him the Reynolds home. He disliked it, however, and bought instead Sunny Crest, or the current Alpha Tau Omega house.

Over the next 70 years, the building changed

hands several times. From the 1940s the the 1960s, the house was used as a nursery home for the el-derly.

The Slovacek family bought the house in the late 60s. They converted it into a modern home, remnants of which were still around when York bought the house in the late ‘90s: wall to wall shag carpeting and tile ceilings being two of them.

York owned the house for more than a decade. Over that time, the saloon-style bar he built in a room on the east side of the house became a Friday night gathering place for faculty, staff, and students.

In 2012, York sold the property to the college.

It then gave the orphaned Delts a home – albeit a temporary one. Since the fraternity rechartered in 2007, they’ve hoped to build a new house.

“For now, that’s on the back-burner,” said Delt president Rossteen Salehzadeh.

The Kappa chapter of the Delta Tau Delta frater-nity moved around the hill at least as many time as the Reynolds house changed hands in the 20th cen-tury. Pictured above are several of the houses the Delts lived in, including a property where Whitley Residence currently resides.

The Delts lived in that house from 1917 until 1971, when they built their Union-street house,

which is also pictured above.After the college disbanded the Delts in 2003,

firemen burned down the Delts house as part of a training exercise. The college then erected the Suites on that property.

The fraternity is slowly settling into the their new house as they add furniture and maintenance updates parts.

“A year ago, you wouldn’t have recognized this place,” Salehzadeh said.

Long-term, the fraternity still plans on pursuing the construction of a new place. For now, the Reyn-olds house is home.

founders of the A. A. Milne Society made sure that the readings were held in the afternoon so that members could nap.

Attendance var-ied widely: if the professor hosting the reading was popular, as many as 20 to 30 students might appear. More often, small groups seated on carpet squares would qui-etly assemble in the Knorr Center or the auditorium of Knowlton Hall, a building that has since been demol-ished and replaced by Delp Hall.

Milne’s appeal endures across generations. The A. A. Milne Society, among others, love his literature for its simplicity and nuance. By founding the society, they hoped to give others the opportunity to dis-cover it for themselves.

Milne crafted characters that were charming and accessible to young children, but the underly-ing complexity of the Hundred Acre Wood was not lost on older readers. Many grow up with Winnie the Pooh and return to the books long after they have left home.

For some readers, like junior Weston Wright, Milne’s stories never fully separate themselves from childhood.

“Listening to Dr. Somerville read Winnie the Pooh is like listening to a kitten,” Wright said, “that is also your grandmother taking warm cook-ies out of the oven while knitting you a sweater on a snow day... that is also your birthday. But about 12 times more tender.”

In a world domi-nated by the pres-

sures of adulthood, the Hundred Acre Wood continues to

stand as a place of respite for Hillsdale College stu-dents: a glimpse of childhood charms, a window into whimsy.

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ver from the 1860s. “I had to contact local Denver

historians,” he said. “I had to bur-row through and find people.”

Eatough’s plots are dictated by the characters that form while he’s planning a story.

“Wasting characters is a hor-rible thing – you have to give your character a good resolu-tion,” Eatough said. “Since one of my characters in “The Western Gods” is an immortal goddess, I intend for that to give her some resolution as a character. It’s very important to give your characters a good grounding and a good resolution, a good story.”

Sometimes, Eatough realizes that his characters have aspects of people in real life, but this only oc-curs after the character is complete in their own

right.“I write characters, and then only later do I find

out that they were based on someone,” he said. One protagonist in “The West-

ern Gods” is an Irish catholic priest named Alan Cormac. Eatough said that he recognizes aspects of him-self in Cormac’s character. The other main character is an Ameri-can Indian goddess named Eithne.

“If I have my sister read out her dialogue, it’s exactly in the voice that I imagine Eithne speaking,” he said.

For now, Eatough continues to write. Since finishing his book, he has continued work on other ideas including a nine-book series and a thriller short story.

“I have margins full of jots of ideas, especially in my philosophy notes,” he said. “They’ll frequently

spring up in class. I always keep a notebook handy with me because I never know when an idea will spring up.”

Charter members of the A. A. Milne Society play Pooh Sticks on an outing in 1997. (Courtesy of John Somerville)

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CAMPUSCHIC SAVANNAH FALTER, FRESHMAN

Who or what inspires your style? I like this film, “Rear Window,” and in it Grace Kelly’s character says she’ll only wear the same dress once. I can’t imagine only being able to dance around in a dress once.

Describe your fashion sense in five words or less. Frilly. Lacy. Quirky. Flowery. Whimsical.

What is your favorite item of clothing? My socks. Knee-highs. Polka dots and stripes. Floral. Knit. Lace. I wear my heart on my socks.

What is your most embarrassing item of clothing. Probably my Spider-Man unisuit!

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What happens when an Irish Catholic priest heads west to 1864 Colorado to evangelize an Amer-ican Indian tribe? In sophomore Caleb Eatough’s recently published book, “The Western Gods,” that priest falls in love with an American Indian goddess named Eithne, and other gods retaliate.

“Sometimes things don’t really have a realistic solution,” Eatough said. “The last chapter of the book, there has been a relationship between the two characters, Eithne and Alan. They have a parting of the ways as it were. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s kind of a happy ending. It’s bittersweet.”

Eatough remembers the exact date that the idea for his book came to him. It was Feb. 10, 2010: more than two years before coming to Hillsdale. Now, four years later, his book is available in print on Amazon.com. Eatough self-published his 316- page work “The Western Gods” over winter break, culminating the long process of planning, writing, refining, and editing.

“I learned that I was too wordy,” he said of one of the early drafts. “It was very, very wordy. Writ-ing is like panning for gold. You have to sift out the sand.”

The book was first published in electronic form in August of 2013. The cover artwork for both hardback and paperback editions was created by Eatough’s sister, Brianne. Eatough said it is up to the reader to determine the owner of the eye dis-played on the cover. It could belong to one of two important characters.

“I sort of told her what I wanted and she drew something that would fit it,” Eatough said. “I gave her a lot of creative license.”

Eatough’s goal is to make his writing both ex-citing and thought provoking. As an ebook, The Western Gods has received positive feedback from readers online.

“I found myself frequently setting aside the novel and pondering the questions raised for myself before continuing to find how the characters resolve them,” an Amazon reviewer said.

Now that his book is published, Eatough’s top priority is garnering interest in his book. Having no background in advertising, he took the process as a learning experience.

“Marketing is a foreign concept to me,” he ex-plained. “Since I’m self-published, my problem is discoverability, not distribution. Distribution is easy with Amazon because then it’s there for any-one who finds it.”

As a child, Eatough preferred reading to writing. Works by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Brian Jacques influenced his writing style and provided core themes to draw from while writing later.

“I like to try to write it to the end,” Eatough said. “If I leave something incomplete it feels wrong. So if I start something, I will finish to the end. That was me from an early age too.”

Eatough’s parents encouraged his interests. He learned horseback riding and earned a scuba diving certification at the age of 12.

“It’s those life experiences that have a lot to do with my writing,” Eatough says.

While the places in “The Western Gods” are mostly fictional, Eatough draws on experiences from his own life travels while writing descriptions of scenery.

“I’ve been to Moab, Utah. I’ve seen the desert,” he said. “I’ve walked in the desert and felt the dry heat. I’ve also been to Costa Rica. You write what you know.”

His descriptions were also influenced by the to-pography and environment of his home state, Colo-rado. Eatough did extensive research for the book,

Associate Professor of English John Somerville is seated in a leather armchair, one loafer resting against the opposite knee, a hardcover book in his hands.

“Oh, that’s such a tender picture,” he says, lifting his eyes from the page. He sends the book to his right, indicat-ing a small illustration in the middle of a break in the text. “Pass it around.”

The book and its whimsical il-lustration are passed with reverence from hand to hand, making a slow cir-cuit around the room.

Most of the students present are crammed onto couches. Some are seated in chairs. Others are perched on the arms of chairs or have decided to sit cross-legged on the floor.

As the book is returned to him, he allows himself a faint smile.

“I just couldn’t keep that to my-self.”

The A. A. Milne Society hosted the reading on Monday, Feb. 17. Somer-ville chose to read a chapter from “Winnie the Pooh” titled “In which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents.” The tender picture was an ink sketch of Piglet, one of Milne’s characters, running with his arms

wrapped tightly around a balloon in-tended for Eeyore.

But why would Hillsdale College students care about Piglet or Eeyore?

Somerville suggested that perhaps it is the wonder of childhood that draws Hillsdale’s notoriously goal-driven students to Milne’s stories.

“Often, a lot of the students who come to the A. A. Milne Society’s meetings are very academically gift-ed,” Somerville said. “But when you see a small child on campus, everyone stops. The students are fascinated. It’s something that we don’t have on this campus. We’re so sophisticated, and along comes a child! It’s delightful!”

Senior David Krueger also noted that children’s literature, as a genre, is a simple affirmation of lessons learned early in life.

“On a basic level, it’s just relax-ing,” Krueger said. “Children’s lit-erature is also supposed to help form your morality. The stories instill val-ues to young children, teach them les-sons.”

When the A. A. Milne Society be-gan, it organized member outings to play Pooh-Sticks, sold hot chocolate, and even hosted readings of Winnie the Pooh in foreign languages. The

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