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Michael Ward speaks during a 2005 CCA on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings.
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CCA Q&A:
Richard
Brookhiser
INSIDE
Sharp shooting
Sophomore Josh Hamilton and
senior Shaun Lichti pursue
B3
Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship last summer, and the speech was wellreceived by students there.
The students will warm to him and wish they
could have had him as a professor. And we might
not actually let him return. We might just duct tape
him to a chair and put him in Kendall or Lane and
wait until next fall, Whalen said jokingly. Hes a
delightful, articulate, intelligent, unprepossessing
man.
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American retreat
Must America remain the
worlds policeman? A4
NEWS
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Jaffa
From A1
political philosophy was not an
end, but Jaffas point of departure
to understand great minds like
Lincoln and important events like
the American founding.
Jaffa led a distinguished proat Ohio State, then Claremont
Graduate University. Jaffa wrote
six books, including what is believed to be the preeminent book
on Abraham Lincoln, Crisis of
the House Divided, as well as
numerous articles.
He was also a distinguished
member of the Claremont Instiremont Graduate School) where
Craig claimed he was the animating light.
Lincolns legacy as a tyrannical
increase of government power.
Jaffa was always high on
A2 22 Jan. 2015
More than 70 Hillsdale College students gathered in Washington, D.C., at noon today for
March for Life 2015.
March for Life, an annual
demonstration on the annivermore than 500,000 participants
and is the largest pro-life event
in the world.
The best part of March
for Life is seeing the body of
Christ come together and act
on what they believe, StuNichole Chaney said. When
you march with a half million
people and everyone has the
same heart to see the transformation in Americait gives
you the head knowledge that
your heart knowledge can be
accomplished in this world.
Hillsdale College students
left campus in two buses on
Wednesday evening, drove
through the night, and arrived
in Washington, D.C., earlier
this morning. They took turns
chatting, praying, and sleeping
throughout the night.
The formal March for Life
program began at the National
Mall where participants gathered to rally before marching to
the U.S. Supreme Court buildsang songs, prayed, and shared
their testimonies about abortion
throughout the march.
One of the most amazing
moments of March for Life
is when you walk to the top
of Capitol Hill and you turn
around and look down, SFL
Treasurer sophomore Victoria
Fassett said. All you can see
The Hillsdale Mock Trial teams had a tournament for the record books this past weekend, with
history.
We got all of the ballots this weekend, and that
rarely happens, sophomore team member John
Church said. A lot of times the winning team wins
6-2 or 7-1, so to us this was a big deal. Having the
as well.
In addition to the outstanding overall performance of the teams, Hillsdale was able to win four
outstanding attorney awards and two outstanding
witness awards.
Collectively we won a fourth of the individual
awards, and a third of our team won an individual
award. I would say that is pretty impressive for a
small school, sophomore Jennifer Matthes, cap-
Mock Trial A team members celebrate their tournement win. (Photo Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)
Bringing
Home Connection provides
quesadillas back
visitors with housing
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
semester.
We just wanted to introduce
slowly, Beasley said. Weve listened to students and are trying to
bring things back.
She added that more items may
be gradually introduced back into
the menu as time goes on.
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
Hillsdale College is now providing
more opportunities for its visitors to stay
nearby through the Hillsdale College
Home Connection.
The new initiative, which started its
pilot program at the beginning of January,
has already received interest according to
It links local friends of the college with
open guest rooms to out-of-town visitors.
guests of Hillsdale College, Tim Wells,
energy education specialist and head of
the program, said. Theyre typically
within a 1 to 5-mile radius of campus.
You dont have to worry about being not
as comfortable with things here locally or
travel time from Jackson or Coldwater.
The college serves as a booking service through its webpage, HillsdaleCollege.Lodgify.com. Users may select the
dates and number of rooms they need and
that include photos of the spaces, offered
amenities, the houses distance from the
college, and pricing options. The website
also includes the terms and conditions of
the service.
The lodging associates, those who are
contracted with the college to rent out
parts of their homes, set their own prices,
and choose the amenities they wish to
provide. Some associates offer a guest
room and restroom while others will provide additional living space, a pool, or
other features.
They have the opportunity to practice
free market capitalism, Wells said. Its
highly customizable. Some lodging associates work full time; some are retirees;
some travel. We have a process and system that isnt pushy or demanding. The
expectation for them is minimal. They set
everything up. It is not an expectation of
our lodging associate to host. It seeks
to make sure theyre comfortable, and if
according to Wells.
There had been talks of adding onto
the Dow Center, Wells said. Those
ideas are being tabled for the time being
for other things more pressing, namely
sented the idea six months ago, and administrators began looking at opportunities through Airbnb late last summer,
December for those the college believed
might be interested in the program generated a positive response.
Hillsdale college donors. Theyve had
kids here. They are faculty. Its a reliable
solution at an affordable price.
college held about 25 on-campus events,
but now there are more than 90 annually
with the hostel program, charter school
initiative, and growing number of attendees to Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars.
It serves as an elastic band; it can expand, and it can contract depending on
said the Hillsdale College Home Conwatch their students play as well as recruiting efforts.
There is a need for lodging in Hillsdale especially with the growing potential
of events on campus, Stephanie Gravel,
assistant volleyball coach and contracted
lodging associate for the program, said.
On busy weekends it can be extremely
While the program is not a bed and
breakfast service, the college looks forward to growing its partnership with the
city of Hillsdale.
said. As people come to and from the
lodging, theyre seeing restaurants;
theyre seeing stores.
to have 50-75 rooms by the time the pilot program ends and the Searle Center
opens in late August.
Wells is planning for 50-75 locations
to be open for rent in the next 18 months.
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A3 22 Jan. 2015
Sarah Chavey
Collegian Reporter
Eight teams of two will take over Bon Apptit tomorrow in Hillsdales very own Charger Chopped. Based off the popular cooking
show, the competition requires contestants to work together to create a delicious dish in 30 minutes. The catch? Each team must use
four mystery ingredients, unknown to the competitors until the time
begins.
ments from other cooking shows. If you turn on the TV, theyre all
the rage, Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said.
Evan Brune
Collegian Reporter
ple that can do it. We needed a lot of representation, but at the same
time we needed people who can cook, Manno said. Though not all
(Amanda Tindall/Collegian)
(Amanda Tindall/Collegian)
Pietrefase and Sakelaris have cooked together several times before, but neither knows what
to expect.
says, Pietrefase said.
I know we dont look like we know what
were doing, but we do, Sakelaris added.
(Kate Patrick/Collegian)
(Amanda Tindall/Collegian)
Meadowcrofts
roommate,
sophomore Shelby Ripley, saw
the leak as it happened.
Initially, I thought that a localized stain on the ground was
from something we had spilled
last semester, so I worried that
we would have to rent a steam
cleaner to hide it, Ripley said.
As it grew, I realized that the
water was coming from the sub-
Mr.
to
Dr.
Heckel
Hillsdale Academy teacher earns Ph.D.
Madeleine Jepsen
Collegian Reporter
The hard work of Christopher
Heckel, the chemistry and biology teacher at Hillsdale Academy, has paid off, as he earned
his Ph.D. in biological sciences
at the University of Pittsburgh.
The process of obtaining the degree, which spanned 10 years, included advanced coursework in
ecology and evolution, summers
with a dissertation.
While earning his degree,
Heckel began teaching biology and chemistry classes at the
academy. He continued working
on his research and dissertation
throughout the school year.
Each week I would Skype
into the weekly lab meetings
that my lab group would have,
Heckel said. I was at a slower
pace, during the school year es-
Christoper Heckel helps students with science homework. (Photo Courtesy of Madeleine Jepsen)
WELLS OF COACHING
Lillian Quinones
Collegian Reporter
Calling his point guard over,
Timothy Wells took a knee.
Keeping eye-to-eye contact with
his player, he gestured toward
the court. His intensity never
let up despite a consistent lead
throughout the game, giving the
Hillsdale Academy Colts a 5927 win Friday night.
Last spring, Wells replaced
Rick Milligan as the head coach
of Hillsdale Academys varsity
boys basketball team. Since
2011, Wells has worked in Administrative Affairs as the colleges energy specialist and was
an assistant coach for the Hillsdale College womens basketball team from 2006-2011.
He is doing a great job getting players to work hard, to
reach their potential, and to play
together, Hillsdale Academy
Athletic Director Mike Roberts
said.
Striving to reach their poten-
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American retreat
recognizing
into something
less than a work
of art, something that is not
and
Chris McCaffery
Student Columnist
When ideology
is given dominance
over aesthetic judgment, art becomes
a shallow extension
of morality, philosophy, or politics.
itself.
market.
Conservatives
ing, pragmatic commentary.
While many have examined the
tance of the
tying the principles it proclaimed to the
present. Lincoln explained
that the present is not divorced from
the past, and
can history.
The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education
by Forester
McClatchtey
achieve-
appreciated (or
criticized) on
practical
artistic
Jack Butler
Opinions Editor
Selma should only get Academy Awards if its artistic quality earns them
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Mike Sabo
Special to the Collegian
Jaffa opened the work the only way he knew how: Castigating the scholars of his day for their historicism and positivism, which they had uniformly taken for granted in their works. They had reduced
tives a contest with no principles at stake. Jaffa devoted more than 100 pages arguing
for Douglas and his policy of popular sovereignty, which took a pragmatic middle ground
between radical Republicans, who wanted rid the nation of the sin of slavery at virtually
any cost, and the Southerners, who called for disunion and secession. Lincoln argued that
there was no middle ground between right and wrong.
Lincoln used the Constitution and principles set forth therein to keep the Union dedithen for the extirpation of slavery, Jaffa presented Lincoln as improving upon the low
but solid principles of the Founding. In his sequel, A New Birth of Freedom, Jaffa instead
taught that Lincoln had not transcended Founding principles but had appealed to them.
Reading and thinking about Jaffas Crisis emancipated me from my own positivism
and historicism and allowed me to see that human action, and not the progress of History,
was the impetus behind whether good or evil would triumph. The United States was an
exceptional country because of its exceptional principles. I had been a political conservative prior, but I did not know that what I was trying to conserve was not tradition, history,
or place: It was these principles that made liberty possible. In his Eulogy for Henry Clay,
Lincoln stated the following, which applies to Jaffa as much as it did to Clay: He loved
his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country,
and he burned with a zeal for its advancement, prosperity, and glory, because he saw in
such the advancement, prosperity, and glory of human liberty, human right, and human nature.
to Saul being transformed while on the road to Damascus. Reading Jaffas Crisis
of the House Divided had a similar effect on me as an undergraduate.
During my freshman year at Ashland University, Jaffa visited and lectured
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on Lincolns statesmanship at a colloquium hosted by the Ashbrook Center for
Public Affairs. He was in his mid-80s but still a forceful speaker, though his
speech was delivered with a slower cadence than it had once been. Sensing that this man had something important to teach and witnessing the reverence Professor of Political Science Peter Schramm
then Executive Director of the Center and the other professors at Ashland University had for him,
Mike Sabo is a second-year Masters candidate at the Van Andel Graduate School of StatesmanI picked up a copy of his most well-known book, Crisis of the House Divided. (Schramm told me that ship.
undergraduates shouldnt be reading that book, but knowing the heart of man, he understood that the
fruit he said was forbidden wouldnt go untouched for long.)
part
of
a
trend. Many
in the
media
have
tried to
play it off as an
isolated
incident, but attacks
on
Jewish communi- ties around
the world have been on the rise in
recent years.
A family friend from Belgium
anti-Semitism beginning years
ago, especially in France, the
Tom Novelly
Special to the Collegian
This past Monday, our nation observed
the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther
Founders in identifying the inalienable
rights of all human beings. King preached
peaceful protest, hard work, and strong
individual character as a means to social
success. So this MLK day, many progressive Americans and special interest group
leaders were pushing agendas for racial
equality. However, Kings message has
been distorted over time, and the modern
many of the lessons from its king.
something far removed from current progressive policies. There is no way that
King would have defended the use of raadmitted into a university or workplace
based on the color of your skin or so that
racist. King believed his children would
one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of their character. To have
an institutional policy in place that deviates from the character of the individual is
a pitiful excuse for progress.
King most famously said, Darkness
cannot drive out darkness; only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only
Michael Lucchese
Special to the Collegian
Arielle Mueller
Special to the Collegian
love can do that. He drove a revolutionary non-violent protest that achieved true
change. King would be disgusted by recent
events such as the numerous Ferguson riots or the slaughtering of the two Brooklyn
cent race movement, King recognized that
not all cops were bad, but only a few. There
was a clear distinction drawn between the
outliers and the group.
King would have fought against entitlement mentalities. King was a huge advocate for hard work, and that no matter what
the circumstances are, you should always
be pursuing your best. It did not matter
your occupation, for If a man is called
to be a street sweeper, he should sweep
streets even as a Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. King believed in
charity and help for the needy, but he was
a clear advocate for personal responsibility
and hard work as well.
King fought social injustice by advocating virtue, nonviolence, hard work, and a
recognition of the inalienable rights that
pertain to all of us. The modern race movement culture has gone far off the tracks.
Disunity and distortion of roots will not
lead to success for any cause or organization. So lets celebrate what Martin Luther
King really meant, and not advocate for a
distortion of it.
Tom Novelly is a sophomore studying
politics and journalism.
immigrants.
The hard-liners are wrong about
the CRomnibus. Overall, the bill was
a Republican victory, not a surrender.
The bill had a number of measures that
conservatives ought to support. For
standards set to be imposed on light
bulbs soon, cut the IRSs budget, put
the brakes on Michelle Obamas school
lunch program, and eliminated certain
provisions from the Dodd-Frank Act
which put unnecessary regulations on
banks. Not only that, but the government is being funded until September;
Republicans and Democrats will not
face the prospect of a government shutdown in the critical early stages of the
new Congress.
Also, just because the GOP did not
push through measures counteracting
President Obamas unconstitutional executive actions does not mean the party
will not take action against it in the new
Congress in fact, the House recently
passed a bill which repeals the presidents actions in full. What hard-liners
do not understand about the CRomnibus is that Republicans need to plan
battles wisely. There is a time to win
debate on issues like the presidents un-
CITY NEWS
A6 22 Jan. 2015
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Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
After acting as Hillsdale
city manager since 2011, Linda
Brown stepped down for medical reasons in October and will
not have her contract renewed.
The Hillsdale City Council
voted to terminate the automatic
renewal of Browns contract at
the councils vote, her contract
would have automatically renewed for a year in May.
Acting Manager Doug Terry
tober. In March, Terrys contract
will expire, and the council will
of which Terry also serves as
city manager to discuss how
much longer Hillsdale will require Terrys services.
Council is also accepting reclerk position until elections in
November. Deputy clerk Michelle Loren has served as city
clerk since January 2012, but
the council decided to alleviate
some of Lorens duties since she
tion.
ber, Terry said.
Councilperson Mary Beth
Bail made a motion to appoint
Loren as city clerk until November, but no one supported the
motion.
I didnt second the motion
not because Loren doesnt have
ValuePenguin ranks Hillsdale the 124th safest city out of 186 in Michigan. (Jack Butler/Collegian)
a Dairy Queen.
According to Spieth, the
news is not exactly what people were hoping for.
Theyre hoping its an ice
cream place or a taco place or
something else for the college
but its none of the above,
Spieth said.
Stewart,
owner
of
caterers, photographers, cakemakers, people who create invitations and one woman who puts
together gift baskets.
Everyone gets a bridal bag
with literature or business cards
from some businesses that might
not be in attendance, Stewart
said.
Rhonda Carrier of Rhondas
Every Body Yoga is offering one
participants.
I know women are looking
es, Carrier said. Every year
I want to get my name out and
help support the brides.
She offers classes in Hillsdale at 5:45 p.m. on Monday
John Waldvogel, Hillsdale College 91, is transforming 101 Hillsdale St. from a pizza joint into an investment firm. (Emma Vinton/Collegian)
Vanished
Hillsdale
Chris McCaffery
Student Columnist
Before fraternities and sororities were introduced to Hillsdales campus, student life was
dominated by literary societies.
and two for women, were organized. According to Historic The Amphictyon Literary Society poses with President Mauck in
Hillsdale College by Hillsdale 1910. (Photo courtesy of Hillsdale College Archives and Special
College historian Arlan Gilbert, Collections)
the societies offered students state law, giving them an indeopportunities for self-improve- pendent existence from the col- student body as new national
ment that complemented class- lege with which they associated.
gained administrative favor,
room work. Excellent writing
and public speaking skills re- rooms in Knowlton or East Hall, along with local groups such
as the Princes of the Orient
sulted.
which were extravagantly deco- for men and Sigma Alpha for
rated in otherwise drab 19th cenaway with the traditional liter- tury Hillsdale College. Many of women. Even laborious alumni
ary society system by the turn of these elaborate paintings, drap- efforts to restore the meeting
the century, Hillsdales student eries, books, and chandeliers,
groups were active and success- as well as valuable records were failed to convince students of the
ful well into the 20th century.
ing
to
The
First
Hundred
Years
Societies like Alpha Kappa Phi, Knowlton in 1910.
of Hillsdale College, the societthe Ladies Literary Union, and
Literary societies gradually ies names had disappeared from
Amphictyon incorporated under faded out of popularity with the
records completely by 1929.
Mancusos building
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor
to $88,000.
Its hard to go back and
look those people in the eye, afcut everything, and turn around
and give somebody $5,000 more
out of the fund balance that we
really dont have, Brown said.
Although Brown couldnt legally reveal all of the countys
said it is largely due to funds the
munity Mental Health, a facility
Hillsdale.
gle year for the next 10 years,
she said. So theres $80,000
right there when were $88,000
in the red.
She said Lifeways claims the
county did not fund them properly in the 1990s and is now requiring the county to catch up
on payments.
The other piece of the puzzle is that the park board didnt
support [park director Ted Jan-
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SPORTS
A7 22 Jan. 2015
BOX SCORES
Mens Basketball
Hillsdale: 69
Northwood (Mich.): 74
Womens Basketball
Hillsdale: 80
Northwood (Mich.): 72
Hillsdale: 69
Lake Superior St.:74
Hillsdale: 59
Lake Superior St.: 54
Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Kyle Cooper (21.6)
Stedman Lowry (10.9)
Rebounds Per Game:
Cooper (10.8)
Jason Pretzer (3.1)
Assists Per Game:
Zach Miller (6.2)
Cooper (1.8)
Field Goal Percentage:
Cooper (55.3)
Rhett Smith (53.1)
Nick Archer (50.0)
Season Leaders
Points Per Game:
Megan Fogt (15.5)
Kadie Lowery (9.3)
Rebounds Per Game:
Fogt (9.4)
Allie Dittmer (5.4)
Assists Per Game:
Ashlyn Landherr (2.4)
Madison Berry (2.3)
Field Goal Percentage:
Fogt (61.5)
Dittmer (48.6)
Kayla Geffert (45.5)
Micah Meadowcroft
Arts Editor
The Hillsdale womens cross-country team made school history with their 2nd-place
finish at the NCAA Division II National Championships on Dec. 6. Four runners received
All-American status with their top-40 finishes. Senior Joshua Mirth placed 12th in his
race with a time of 30:59, earning him All-American status as well. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
cords.
Mirth probably wouldve
broken the record if he had raced
heat with their own guys, leaving
and cross-country head coach
Andrew Towne said. IU didnt
think he could keep up with
them, but he couldve.
Coach Towne explained that,
for most sports, the gap between
DI and DII schools athletically is
too great to overcome, but that is
not the case with track.
In cross and track, the levels
of competition are much more
even many Hillsdale runners
turned down DI scholarships to
run here, making us viable opponents for better schools,
Towne said.
Towne hand-picked Oren,
Galat, and Mirth for the race
in Bloomington based on their
performances during the crosscountry season last semester.
Oren and Galat helped the wom-
vision II Nationals.
We all performed really well,
which was amazing, considering
when Nationals was, Oren said.
With Oren already qualifying for Indoor Track nationals
Mirth running times that should
get them there, Oren and her
teammates are very excited
for the rest of the season. With
Indoor Nationals only a short
time away in March, the team is
working hard to continue with
the success they found last week
at IU.
Were very excited for the
rest semester, especially after
the success in Indiana. Well be
back next week and well try to
do better, Oren said.
22 January 2015
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
Charger Sports
Junior Kyle Cooper goes up for a shot in a game against Wayne State University. (Anders
Jessie Fox
Collegian Reporter
The Hillsdale College womens basketball team brought
home two wins last weekend,
boosting their impressive road
record to 9-1.
The Chargers, now 10-4 on
the season, beat the Northwood
University Timberwolves 80-72
Charger victory at Northwood
since 2012. Head coach Claudette Charney called this game
a key matchup and said her
teams solid defense led to the
win.
After falling behind early in
the game 17-12, the Chargers
improved their rebounding and
began to press their opponent,
turning the game around to enter
halftime with a 14-point lead.
Charney said her players
maintained control well, limiting the Timberwolves perimeter
shooters and also stopping the
inside shot. The Chargers outrebounded Northwood 42-31,
led by senior Kadie Lowery who
grabbed 11 rebounds.
Senior Megan Fogt also
played an impressive game. She
scored 19 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked four shots.
For her performance, Fogt was
named the North Division GLIAC Player of the Week for the
second time this season.
On Saturday, the Chargers arrived in Sault St. Marie with momentum, helping them win 5954 against Lake Superior State
University.
Sophomore Morgan Blair led
the Chargers in scoring with 17
points. Seven of these points
were crucial free throws in the
last two minutes of the game.
Morgan has been very
steady, Charney said. She
makes adjustments during the
game defensively, and is very
good shooting from the perimeter as well as driving to the basket.
Though the Chargers had
less rebounds and shot slightly
less accurately than the Lakers,
sophomore Morgan Blair said
her team stayed calm at the end,
which allowed them to snag the
win.
Kiledal/Collegian)
pursue
medical
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Back in black
Chamber Choir starts semester on a high note
Andrew Egger
Assistant Editor
See Dramaturgy B2
Things
To do and see
This week
January 22
Thirsty Thursday: Live Jazz
Broad Street Underground
9:30 p.m.
A jazz band sets the mood
tonight at the
Broad Street Underground.
January 24
3rd Annual Downtown Hillsdale
Wedding Walk
The Elks (60 N. Manning St.)
10 a.m. 3 p.m.
Prize giveaways will be offered to
brides-to-be all over downtown
Hillsdale.
For information, contact Jane at
Smiths Flowers (517-437-4485) or
Chris Bahash at
Hillsdale Jewelers (517-439-0100).
January 24
The Novella, with Stereo Story and
Casey Rockin Rowe
Historic Dawn Theater
7 p.m.
Three talented local bands bring
their music to the Dawn Theater.
$5 cover charge.
January 22-25
55th Annual Hillsdale
Tip-Up Festival
3835 Bird Lake Rd S,
Osseo, MI 49266
The Hillsdale Conservation Club is
sponsoring this festival, which will
include a Euchre tournament,
music, and more.
ARTS
22 Jan. 2015 B2
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IN FOCUS
(Collegian File Photo)
Micah
Meadowcroft
Whether its
your major or
not, pursue art this semester
Last semester I asked you to
read this column, and read this
section, because it all of the
crafts and creativity that makes
up the arts is your friends
world. Hillsdale is home to a host
of talented artists we live and
learn next door to. It is also home
to a host of the less talented, and
the lazy.
This semester, regardless of
your major, I want you to consider cultivating whatever artistic
talent you have. Actually, I would
like you to do more than consider
it do it. If you look upon your
fallow, till the earth there and explore. Techne, the transliterated
Greek word for the arts, implies
skill and a rational mind. Its not and the Hepcats
strictly grammatical, but
art is a muscle. If you look upon your
It needs exercise.
the art plot fallow, till the
If you have earth there and explore.
ever felt an
itch to write, Techne, the transliterated
draMaturgy
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sees things the way a literary
scholar would see them, he said.
Coffey won in the category
Critics, Dramaturges, & Scholars
for a project she had prepared in
Brandons dramaturgy class last
semester on the play August:
Osage County by Tracy Letts.
She was judged on written work
she had emailed in beforehand,
such as a playguide giving a biography of the playwright, a glossary of the plays terms, and charshe and the other competitors had
to set up lobby displays featuring
presentation.
I saw all these fantastic lobby
displays, and here I am putting
up things with twine and clothespins, Coffey laughed. Literally,
I used a trash bag. It ended up
looking like a country curio shop
when I was done with it.
Despite her nerves, Coffey
won and now has the chance to
go on to the national level of the
competition in Washington, D.C.,
in April. After each of the other
eight regional competitions have
chosen to continue to D.C. Coffey is waiting to hear if she is one
of the chosen four.
Shadle also won an award for
her work in dramaturgy, though
her category, Design Storm, does
not have a national-level competition. Shadle worked with a
team of other students from other
schools in Region 3 to present
a concept for the play Sweeney
Todd. Each member of the team
Emma Vinton
Assistant Editor
The Art Department is drawing both artwork and crowds this
spring semester.
The department is bringing in
two artists for their Professional
Artists Series: Mark Mehaffey,
whose exhibit will be from Jan.
31- March 1, and David Lippert
from March 21- April 3, artists
who are both making their livings
in the profession.
Mehaffeys exhibit will display watercolor paintings of both
abstract and representational
styles.
Professor of art Samuel
Knecht said of Mehaffey: I
the previous year, Sauk Presidramaturgs work on theatre pro- dent Trinity Bird said. But because were a theater, we try to
ductions right here on campus.
spice it up a bit.
The meeting will also include
cords, the election of the Sauks
board of directors for 2015, and
chaMber choir
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Advanced members of the
College Choir, which is not auditioned and is open to all sufcally join the chamber choir not
just for a more intensive musical
challenge, but also because of the
community the choir nurtures.
Not only was the level of
work appealing, but also just the
people in it were really wonderful
and welcoming, McLeod said.
I think the camaraderie has actually grown over my years in it,
which isnt always the case in an
auditioned group: it can be very
competitive. But I think we have
a unique type of group on Hillsdales campus, which is great.
The talent in the room is just
immense from everyone: the music majors, the people who are
just doing it because they like to
sing, Naida said. All that just
makes everything so much easier.
The Chamber Choir still most
often performs alongside the
College Choir, of which they are
a subset, at college-sponsored
concerts, where they add a dimension of variety to the performances. While the chamber choir
performs almost exclusively a
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Horsin around
in Florida
Bailey Pritchett
Spotlight Editor
The chances of her interning
in Wellington, Florida for the
Phelps Media Group internship
were slim. After all, the internship program invited every college equestrian in the country
to apply. As senior Glynis Wilof her fall semester at Hillsdale
College, she never thought that,
in a matter of days, she would
board a plane for Florida.
I had every intention of
graduating this spring, Williams said. When I got the
Im around people
who are world
champions and
Olympians.
email to apply, I was sitting in
the kitchen with my parents
and my mom said, Apply right
now. I wasnt planning on leaving school the next semester, but
the stars aligned. It is literally
my dream job.
Williams was the only student
who had applied to the internWellington is the mecca of
horse shows, said junior Gianna Marchese, Williams teammate. Anyone whos anyone
competes in these shows. Those
people have been riding their
entire lives. And those horses
can probably do a lower-level
show without a rider even on
them.
A few days after wrapping
Florida and began working after
New Years Day.
As a speech major and a
competitive rider, the internship
was the perfect hybrid. Williams
was placed with a subset of the
company, p.s.dressage.com, a
blog that follows dressage news,
an equestrian discipline with
roots in military manuevers.
Her duties include submitting
articles and photos of shows to
the website.
Rink
From B4
out of the snowbanks all the
time.
At the far end of the ice, a
wire with a large curtain attached stretches across the
rink.
On warm days I push it
over to block the sun to keep
it from screwing up my ice,
Connor said. I call it a sun
curtain.
The wires are attached to
two of the four light poles that
illuminate the ice for nighttime hockey games.
When the ice melts, Connor leaves the boards up and
takes his liner out. The Connors then use the exposed
sand beneath as a riding arena
for horses.
On the side of the rink sits
a sizable warming hut. Inside
the hut is a hockey fans paradise.
Detroit Red Wings memorabilia line the walls along
with a blown up black-andwhite photo of Connors
father in goalie pads. He
played for the Boston University team. A black-and-white
photo of the Hillsdale mens
hockey team in the 70s also
has a place on the wall.
At the front of the room, a
lacing up their skates and padding up for a game. Shelves of
old hockey skates and hockey
pads line one of the walls, offered to any visitors to use for
play.
Bob Blackstock, professor
of business law, played hockey growing up in Sault Sainte
Marie, Mich. and again in law
school. He occasionally plays
a game at Connors house
when hes not maintaining his
own backyard rink.
Its a great service that he
Members of the mens track team chug chocolate milk for their act in the Sixth Annual Michael Finch (12) Track
Talent Show. Other acts included musical performances, human lifting, stand-up comedy, and magic tricks. (Photo
Courtesy of Heather Lantis)
ShooteR
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that stuff was something I hadnt
really gotten to do before and was
a lot of fun to shoot.
At Hillsdale, Lichti has been
hired by sorority Kappa Kappa
Gamma twice as an independent
contractor to help shoot their recruitment videos. The most recent
video, titled Perfect Day, was
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sharpshooters
Senior Shaun Lichti and sophomore Josh Hamilton
- al and verbal
tion, allowing them to shoot on abuse and how
it affects lives.
resolution camera.
Producing a movie is a long
Lichti brought up eight tons production, but
and expensive process. Finding of equipment from Los Angeles Lichti plans to
success as a director can take
release a teaser
years.
Hillsdale students Shaun Lichthe next couple
ti and Joshua Hamilton recognize
of weeks and
they are in for the long haul.
Lichti, a senior studying mar- to happen in a
within the next
keting management, began his
six months.
The movie was
ducing experience in 2009 as a
originally intended to
sophomore in high school.
to Fresno, California where they be 25 to 30 minutes long but LiLichti was looking for somechti thinks it will end up a little
thing to do as a summer project crew of about 150 professionals
so he got some friends together and many more volunteers.
to make a movie. After getting
a good screenwriter on board to way to get catapulted into the
help draft and edit the script, LiLichti, in looking back at his
chti and his friends showed the
script to others.
years ago, sees how far his style
People liked the script so much
has come.
Lichti was able to raise more than out about the power of emotionNathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
wondering, wow, is
this still representative
of my work? No; but
-
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(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
Students warm up before a pick up game on the hockey rink in Craig Connors 77 backyard.
Sam Scorzo
Sports Editor
(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
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