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Alumni spotlightPalmer Schoening `11, runs his own business in Washington, D.C., called Schoening Solu-tions. A2

Convocation resultsSee inside for scholarship cup winners and seniors with the highest GPAs. A2

Stoldt focuses on GrovsenorSenior writes thesis on local historical museum.B2

Broadstreet revamp pendingPending Hillsdale City Coun-cils approval, Broadstreet will renovate its basement. A6

Career Services: Be more agressive Hillsdale needs to use different platforms to help graduates get jobs. A5

Heroes of HillsdaleHillsdale student William G. Whitney received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chicka-mauga. B3

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Fraternity members race off the starting line in their handmade chariots in the inaugu-ral event of Greek Week. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

Q&A Judge Edith Jones serves on the US 5th Circuit Court of AppealsSee Adams A3

COLLEGE WEBSITE REBUILD UNDERWAY

The Student Activities Board announced Aaron Carter as this years main act at Centralhallapalooza. The event will also include a mechanical bull, a DJ, a ferris wheel, a slide, and food trucks. (Caleb Whitmer/Collegian)

Aaron Carter to perform at Centralhallapalooza

Senior college employee retiring

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After months of running ana-lytics and patching holes in its new website that was launched last September, the college de-cided to introduce changes to the current site. A rebuild of the admissions page will be the first phase of rebuilding all sections of the current website.

President Larry Arnn ap-proved plans that were submitted by Kraig McNutt, associate vice president for digital and new ini-tiatives, and Web Content Man-ager Kokko Tso. McNutt and Tso have been the primary people working to get the new website up and running.

Kokko and I had to peek behind the curtain of the current website and determine if what was there was sufficient to meet our needs, McNutt said. We came to the conclusion that it was not the best foundation to build upon for a long-term strategy, es-pecially from a mobile and tablet optimization point of view.

Revamping the website will be a process taken in chunks over the next few years, but they have placed priority on the undergrad-uate portion of the website ad-missions and academics. Their focus is making the website user- friendly and maximizing use of the admissions database, McNutt said.

We want the website to be the best possible tool it can be with a fresher design that is eas-ier to navigate, more engaging

content, and, over time, has bet-ter integration with the databases that admissions uses everyday to store prospective student infor-mation, McNutt said.

A driving force behind creat-ing the new website is mobile and tablet optimization a con-sideration that was not included when the current website was de-signed two years ago.

Right now, the amount of traffic that we are getting from mobile devices should be about twice what it is, simply because when you look at what the indus-try stats are showing in terms of percent of overall traffic from a college like ours. The reason its not higher is that our site is not optimized for mobile and tablet use, and that is a major driver of why we are making changes, McNutt said.

They will be using a technol-ogy called Responsive Web De-sign, the next great wave in the digital world, Tso said. It factors in varying screen sizes, and it is the same technology that com-panies like Google, Apple, and Amazon use.

We will include a graphical design, coding design, and an information architecture design that is built with mobile devices in mind, Tso said. The two important things are thinking of screen size and optimizing for the mobile user who is not necessar-ily looking to read something for very long.

Ongoing improvement will last a couple years, but they will also have to keep checking back

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Judge Edith Jones served as chief judge of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals from 2006-2012. She was appointed as a federal judge by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and is a former White House Fel-lows Commissioner and former member of the National Bank-ruptcy Review Commission. Last week, Judge Jones was on campus teaching a daily class to under-graduates on jurisprudence. On Tuesday, she participated in a talk with College President Larry Arnn on the topic Lawyers, Judges, and the Rule of Law. Compiled by Ramona Tausz.

You have been on campus teaching a daily class to under-graduates. What have you been teaching?

The students seem to be ma-joring in politics or economics, and theyre very well-prepared for class, which is gratifying. I think the course was titled some-thing like, Jurisprudence. Ive been a judge for nearly 30 years, and Ive never taught before, so what Im doing is hopefully teaching some of the basics about the role of judges and law in our American constitutional system. Ill leave them, I hope, with some

tools they can use as private citi-zens or as budding law students to think about important legal is-sues that society confronts.

What do you think of your first teaching experience?

I guess Ill leave it to the stu-dent reviews as to whether they think I did a good job. Its always a useful exercise to get ready for a course because you have to sort of put your thoughts in or-der and prioritize what you think are the important components of whatever subject matter youre dealing with. It was very useful to prepare and the students were

asking good questions and were intellectually-engaged, so as long as theres mutual appreciation and theyve benefited from the teaching, I would probably do it again.

Many students enjoyed your description of clerkship in Tuesdays talk.

Its really one of the greatest things that can happen to a young law graduate, but we get many, many applications. There are probably about 2,000 clerkship opportunities open in the fed-eral courts each year and about

Chariot race starts frat Greek Week

Not many people at Hillsdale College can say they used a type-writer, let alone that they sat in the back of a van typing stats on one.

Executive Assistant to the Di-rector of Athletics Jeanie Adams, however, has done both of these things. With 45 years of service, she is the longest-serving staff member at the college.

This April, Adams will be retiring from her position in the athletics department to spend more time with her family, espe-cially her six grandchildren, who live nearby.

I love my job, I love Hills-dale College, and I had no desire to change, Adams said. Its al-ways been a happy place.

Adams said the change that stands out the most is the growth of the college, not only in stu-dent body but also in staffing and sports. Hired a week after gradu-

ating from International Business College in Fort Wayne, Ind., Ad-ams said she never even applied for jobs anywhere but Hillsdale.

Growing up in Reading, Mich., meant that Hillsdale was close to home for Adams, but she recalls that she didnt know that Hillsdale College existed until her high school literature teacher brought her to see a Hillsdale play.

Chief Administrative Officer Rich Pw said that Adams has been promoted several times in her near half-century of work, adding that she does whatever has to be done to make things work.

Pw said that Adams makes the department stronger.

Shes been a steady force over the last 45 years, he said. Shes provided the athletic de-partment with stability. Its cer-tainly a long time for anyone to work in a department.

Adams has gained experience throughout the years, not only at

Yesterday, the Student Activi-ties Board revealed Aaron Carter as the main attraction of this years Centralhallapalooza.

Carter hit the peak of his fame in the 2000s, performing with Hilary Duff and the Backstreet Boys and appearing on Disney. Some hit singles of his are I Want Candy and Aarons Party (Come and Get It).

Director of Student Activi-ties Amanda Bigney said SAB wanted to dip into rollover funds to create the biggest and best Centralhallapalooza ever, and

that meant getting someone big to come perform.

It was kind of random. I had a call come in and they said, We work with big names and do live performances. Would you be in-terested in that? and I said, Ac-tually, were looking to get some-body for our Centralhallapalooza date in April, Bigney said. So we went through a list of names and I just said, How crazy would it be if we got Aaron Carter?

Bigney said SAB wants to cater to the college crowd and treat students to fun, catchy mu-sic during the last event of the year.

We were trying to cater to the

masses, so people that we knew that most students would know or at least have some connection with he was a name we fig-ured most people would know, Bigney said. Its upbeat, its fun, and its totally throwback. Which is kind of what we were hoping for.

Promotions Chair junior Mal-lory Sachen said Aaron Carter was the obvious choice when SAB was looking through the list of names to contract an artist.

None of the options on the list were very big names, but Aaron Carter was the one we all could say, Yes we know Aaron Carter songs, Sachen said. We

all grew up with him. He was so much more recognizable than ev-eryone else.

At noon on April 9 in the Grewcock Student Union, SAB played Aarons Party, while releasing a large white banner depicting Carters face. SAB also passed out cut-outs of Carters face for students. But Aaron Carter is not the only new at-traction for the end-of-the-year event. SAB plans to bring in a lo-cal DJ, Bigney said.

Were going to be doing one hour of DJ, Bigney said. Weve gotten a lot of people asking to have more of the intermediate

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At the opening of fraternity Greek Week, a chariot lost a wheel, but not its rider, during the first chariot race on Hillsdales campus since the 1980s.

At the first fraternity event, teams of two men pulled chariots carrying one rider in a four-lap race around the parking lot be-hind the Suites, said senior Pat-rick Davenport, InterFraternity Council president. Each fraternity built its own chariot for the event.

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity won the race.

Pulling the chariots is a lot harder than you think, said se-nior Aaron Tracey, who pulled Sigma Chi fraternitys chariot. The rider is little, but youre run-ning uphill, and youre running about the equivalent of a half mile, he said.

The race also featured a Saga Inc. meal exchange cookout open to spectators.

Hillsdale showed up in spades, said junior Ian Atherton, member of ATO. We had a good

crowd. I enjoyed it a lot.So far, fraternities have com-

peted in the chariot race, a track competition, and basketball. Del-ta Sigma Phi fraternity currently leads the field by seven points.

Fraternity Greek Week will continue with volleyball 9:30 to-night at Hillsdale Academy and bowling Friday at 6:30 p.m.

Davenport said the IFC is grateful to the academy for the use of their courts.

Chi Omega womens fraternity won sorority Greek Week, which concluded Friday. Chi Omega has come in first every year but one since 1983, Chi Omega president junior Geena Pietrefase said.

We practice. We work hard. We want to win, she said.

Sorority Greek Week events included basketball, trivia, and volleyball.

I got to cheer for my room-mate and our former chapter

president while she competed in a sack race, and I had no idea she could jump so high, said junior Elizabeth Harris in an email, Pi Beta Phi womens fraternity pres-ident.

Four of the events were changed from last year, said sophomore Kelsey Lozier, Kappa Kappa Gamma womens frater-nity delegate to the Panhellenic Council. The trivia event was

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Six members of Hillsdales Enactus team traveled to Cincinnatti last week to compete in the Enactus National competition. The group won $500. (Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)

Palmer Schoening 11, runs his own business in Washing-ton, D.C., called Schoening Strategies.(Courtesy of Palmer Schoening)

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CorreCtionsNewsIn the article, Phys-ics seniors accepted to top schools, the

jump for the story was incorrect. The corrected version is online.

The Collegian regrets this error.

Wilderness survival class students learn how to create a signal fire. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Rogers)

When the polar vortex struck Hillsdale College, nine-foot snow banks loomed over the campus quad. Sinister patches of black ice stretched across the sidewalk. The days were nasty, brutish, and short.

Perfect weather for camping.Joe Kellam, the instructor for

next semesters wilder-ness survival class, set up camp with friends when few Hillsdale students dared to venture outdoors for longer than it took to dash from the Grewcock Student Union to Mossey Library.

People were calling us crazy, Kellam said. We were comfortable, though, because we had the right training.

Kellam has been teach-ing a wilderness survival class for the past semester alongside Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers. In the future, however, Kel-lam will be listed as the sole instructor.

The brunt of the teaching is his doing, Rogers said. I did first aid, some cold weather instruction, and emer-gency stuff. Next semester, he will be teaching it himself.

Kellam has, through many years of experience outdoors, become the primary wilderness survival instructor for Michi-gans Department of Natural Re-sources.

All of my adult life has been spent in wilderness education, Kellam said. I went straight out of high school to the Marine Corps I even had to sign a waiver, since I left early and learned the survival and naviga-tion skills that go with that.

The idea for the class began with Rogers but wasnt made a reality until this past semester. When the survival class was fi-nally put on the schedule, the

student reaction was far more enthusiastic than either Rogers or Kellam could have predicted.

We had nearly 40 students sign up for the class, Rogers said, but we dropped down to 20 students after the time sched-ule was finalized.

Some students have had ex-tensive experience outdoors.

Sophomore Simone Lunt, cur-rently enrolled in the wilderness survival class, has been camping for years.

I really like outdoorsy stuff like camping and hiking, Lunt said. My family has camped ev-ery year since I was a baby.

Others came to the class knowing little about survival skills. Junior Logan Nabozny originally enrolled in the class to become acquainted with out-

doorsmanship, as his father and uncle are regular hunters. But the class, more than giving him practical skills to use outdoors, has changed his perspective.

You look at things in a differ-ent light, Nabozny said. You think, This is what I have on me. What can I use it for? How can this help me survive? You also

start collecting things. You never know what youll need.

Kellams goal in the class is to bring students outside of their comfort zone, to get them en-gaged and practically competent in the case of a survival situation.

This class isnt about surviv-ing, but thriving, Kellam said. The more you know, the less you have to carry. We also focus on leadership skills, so that the students can ensure that a group

of people will make it if they are confronted with a crisis.

Ingenuity is an impor-tant part of survival. The kit mentality, according to Kellam, teaches students to work with a few core tools. From there, Kellam hopes to teach each student how to use natural resourc-es to replace each element in that basic kit.

I know how to cut down a tree with a knife, Nabozny said. A lot of things can be good, can be useful, even if its not in the conventional sense.

Junior Rob Pfeiffer was surprised at how involved the class has been.

I wasnt expecting the instructor to be such a wealth of knowledge, Pfeiffer said. We really spend a lot of time doing hands-on stuff.

Kellams practical approach is perfect for students like Lunt, however.

Someday, I want to look death in the face and live, Lunt said.

Teaching students survival 101

Alumni spotlight: Palmer Schoening

May 18, 2011 was a busy day for alumnus Palmer Schoening. On that day, he graduated from Hillsdale College and started his own business.

It was really scary, extreme-ly scary, he said.

But two years later, the busi-ness is strong.

The lights are still on, he said, laughing. Most business-es, about 60 percent, fail within the first year, so Im really hap-py.

Through his business, Schoe-ning Strategies, he runs a coali-tion of more than 50 businesses around the nation called the Family Business Coalition. The coalition comes together over shared interests to influence leg-islation.

Our goals are to kill the death tax, lower marginal tax rates, lower capital gains tax rates, and decrease regulations on these guys, because they cre-ate the majority of jobs in the

country, Schoening said.He said his favorite part of

the job is being able to make a difference.

The companys most recent successes include repealing the death tax in Indiana, Ohio, Ten-nessee, and North Carolina. This year, in two blue states, Mary-land and New York, it has made positive changes in the law to make it a lot friendlier for busi-nesses, he said.

Its nice to be able to tell the family business owners, Hey, youre not going to have to grapple with this tax anymore, Schoening said.

Schoening credits his father, who has been a business owner for years, for inspiring him to go into business himself.

I worked with him my entire life. He had a laundromat, dry cleaners, and a couple apartment buildings, he said. So after hours, I was in there cleaning out the laundry vents and stuff like that and seeing what it took day to day to run a business, so it was a little less of a shock for me.

Schoening originally went

to Hillsdale as a biology major. However, taking the Constitu-tion class, inspired him to change his course of study to political economy. He also credits his academic adviser at Hillsdale, Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram, for feeding his ambition to start a business.

Wolfram said he has spoken with Palmer a number of times since his graduation and remem-bers him as a good student.

I believe his Hillsdale edu-cation has provided him with the background necessary to affect public policy, and I am sure he would tell you the same, Wol-fram said in an email.

While at Hillsdale, Schoen-ing played for the Charger foot-ball team and was the treasurer for Delta Sigma Pi fraternity, as well as a member of Praxis.

After Hillsdale, Schoening moved to Washington, D.C., and interned with the American Family Business Institute while earning his masters degree in public policy with a concentra-tion in economics at George Mason University. He then tran-

sitioned into working for the in-stitute and climbed his way up to director of federal affairs, all while laying the groundwork for his own business.

Schoenings advice for other Hillsdale students is to get in-volved while at Hillsdale and take advantage of the WHIP pro-gram.

Schoening said Hillsdale has a great presence on the hill, and he has worked to make it stron-ger as a driving force behind establishing the D.C.Hillsdale Alumni Steering Committee.

But even with this success on the hill, Schoening isnt stop-ping where hes at.

Next week, Schoening looks forward to traveling to Hawaii with his father for a business venture.

We have a three acre plot of land outside of Hilo, Hawaii, and Ill be helping him start up our new family organic farm, Schoening said. We plan to grow avocados, mangos, coffee, and more. It should be a fun new venture.

Enactus competes at nationalsHillsdale Enactus returned

from Cincinnati last week with a $500 cash prize from the En-actus National competition. Six students made up a presentation team that won its consolation bracket.

The presentation was based on last years Hillsdale Enactus chapters activities focusing on international outreach, energy management, and community development projects.

I think our team did really well, considering that were kind of young, said senior Gena Os-ter, president of the chapter. But we have 34 devoted Enactus members, which is pretty impres-sive.

Oster said many of the teams from other colleges Hillsdale competed against have endow-ments and receive college credit for their participation, making Hillsdales competitiveness that much more impressive.

Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray, one of the groups academic advisors, said, The team did a very fine job representing Hillsdale and, I think, demonstrated themselves very admirably.

This years competition saw a shift from last year, when Hill-sdale competed at a regional competition in Chicago. The En-actus organization eliminated the regional competition from the overall program, meaning every participating team in the United States was competing in Cincin-nati.

While the team failed to qual-ify for advancement, every team present was guaranteed at least two chances to present, and in the consolation competition, Hill-

sdale Enactus excelled. Junior Shaun Lichti, vice president of marketing for the team and pre-sentation director, saw the whole experience as a great learning op-portunity.

It was important for under-standing the new competition format, what it means to not have regionals where everyone goes straight into nationals I think we came out with a really good understanding of that, he said. Our presentation style, and the way we went about doing our presentation, using a lot of video elements with a high produc-tion value very professionally produced was a big success and really gave us an edge, and I think that with another year to finesse our projects and the way were partnering both with busi-nesses and nonprofits, well be in a very great position next year.

Beyond the experience of the competition, which Bob Black-stock, business law professor,

described as a wonderful op-portunity for students, develop-ing their rhetorical skills, the national competition included a career fair and business speakers.

Murray said fifty companies were present, many of which were Fortune 500 and 100 com-panies. The businesses ranged from Home Depot to Coca-Cola and everything in between. One of the key-note addresses was given by the president of the Her-shey company. While only the six students making up the pre-sentation team were present on this trip, Murray would like more to attend in the future, and hopes to eventually bring the whole Hillsdale Enactus team each year to the competition so they can all take advantage of the networking and job opportunities.

Lichti and Oster both said they would like to see the Hills-dale Enactus team grow.

Our drive is really just to get more people aware and more

people involved, Lichti said.Formerly known as Students

in Free Enterprise, Enactus went through a rebranding process last year. The Hillsdale chapter worked on three projects this last year. In energy management, Enactus ran the dormitory and residence recycling and energy competitions and programs. In community development, the group helped the local restaurant and addiction recovery ministry Tastes of Life manage their marketing. Also, in international outreach, Enactus is assisting philanthropist John Drakes Lin-gap Center orphanage in the Phil-ippines.

At bottom, the purpose of Enactus is to make the world a better place, Blackstock said.

Anyone intersted in learning more about Enactus at Hillsdale is invited to attend the teams presentation in the private dining room at noon on April 15.

Casey HarperSpotlight Editor

Unfinished business delays diplomas

Class of 2014 top 10 Gpas

In alphabetical order:

2014 ConvoCation results

Womens scholarship cup: Pi Beta Phi (3.276)

Mens scholarship cup: Delta Tau Delta (3.358)

The Emily Daugherty Award for Teaching Excellence goes to Professor of Business Law Robert Blackstock

Sydney BrunoChristene Diehr

Domenic DiGiovanniMargaret Freeland

Emily Goodling

Josiah KollmeyerAaron Sandford

Olivia TillyBrett Wierenga

William Zuhl

As seniors near graduation, failure to take care of business could delay their diplomas and consequently their job search.

On April 7, Registrar Doug-las McArthur sent out an email saying,We have reason to believe that not everyone who intends to graduate in May has submitted a graduation application to the Reg-istrars office.

McArthurs email hinted at a problem with Hillsdale diplomas: sometimes, students dont get them.

Failing to apply for gradua-tion can delay diplomas, along with obstacles as small as unpaid library fines.

Because many students stay an extra semester, being a senior is not enough for the college to know you will graduate, McArthur said.

The graduation application is your way of announcing to the college that you are graduating, he said.

Sometimes, panicked second-semester seniors realize they need one more class to graduate. McAr-thur said there are a few of these students every year, but the online program evaluation tools have helped with this problem.

If you dont pay library fines, it can prevent you from getting what you actually came here to get, Technical Services Librarian Maurine McCourry said.

When graduating seniors walk across the stage in May, they are

not handed their diplomas. The process is actually more compli-cated.

After grades come in, McAr-thur personally reviews every graduates transcript.

Its a good two weeks of what I do all day long, he said. Once we have actually conferred the de-gree, then we place the order for the diplomas with the vendor.

Once the college receives the diplomas, the diplomas are signed by Chief Administrative Officer Rich Pw and President Larry Arnn and then mailed out, usually by mid-June.

The graduation process also involves some email changes for students. Once graduated, students will retain their Hillsdale email addresses for one year. After that, they switch to an alumni email provided by the college.

We understand that it would be nice to have some continuity in contact information for stu-dents as they graduate so they can communicate with prospec-tive employers, said Coordinator of Alumni Activities and Events Joyce Curby. So what the college has decided to do is allow you to keep you current email address for a year that way you can transition into the workplace.

Through these new emails, stu-dents can stay updated on college news as well as reunions, through the e-lumni newsletter. Alumni can also look up fellow alumni through the college directory.

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soCiety of physiCs students to attend leCtureThe Society of Physics Students is driving to the University of Michigan to attend a physics presenta-

tion on April 12 titled, A Viking Navigational Aid: Polarized Light.Youd be interested in this event if youre interested in nature in the physical world and history to some

extent, said freshman Joshua Ramette, president of the society.The talk takes a scientific look at the historical issue of how the Vikings navigated in the North Atlantic

Ocean before the invention of the magnetic compass. Michigans visiting physics scholar, Professor Va-sudevan Lakshminarayanan, will focus on the theory that the sunstone mentioned in Viking legend was actually a calcite crystal that assisted Viking navigation though light depolarization.

The group holds meetings on the first Thursday of every month in room 108 in the basement of Stro-sacker. Group meetings typically attract physics majors, but anyone with an interest in physics is welcome to attend.

The group is really inclusive, and were really excited for non-physics students to participate, Ramette said.

The group tries to host a few events throughout the semester either on the campus or somewhere outside of Hillsdale, and the talks at Michigan have been popular in the past.

Saturday morning physics talks are our favorite events, Ramette said. Evan Carter

On the Greek ScenePi Beta Phi

Pi Beta Phi would like to congratulate Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma on another great Greek Week! A special thank you to the Panhellenic representatives who coordinated the event. We had a great week thank you for your hard work!

Chi Omega

We are excited to announce another Chi Omega Greek Week victory and would like to thank the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and the Panhellenic Council for their efforts in making it a fun and exciting week for all. This week is an exciting one for us because we are preparing for the initiation of 20 new members this weekend. We cant wait for them to be sisters!

Detailing the news and events of Hillsdales Greek houses

student fed approves Group proposalsStudent Fed approved $4,321.85 in funds at its last meeting after receiving eight proposals from stu-

dent clubs and Campus Health and Recreation.The group granted funds to Praxis, Cravats and Bluestockings, Kappa Mu Epsilon math honorary, Stu-

dents for Life, Mu Alpha, and the Hillsdale College Pep Band. Student Fed approved only half of Campus Health and Recs $3,000 proposal for new bikes.

Treasurer sophomore Marie Wathen said Student Fed wants to make sure theyre not spending too much money.

A lot of the concern was trying to figure out a balance of how much money were spending, Wathen said. A lot of the representatives just want to make sure that our spending isnt so much that were setting precedents that we cant keep.

Campus Health and Rec will be able to purchase four bikes with the $1,500 in funds from Student Fed. Junior Arielle Mueller, president of Student Fed, said if the bikes prove to be a success then Student Fed will be happy to provide Campus Health and Rec with more funds in the future.

We felt by funding half the amount it would provide people with bikes for the triathlon, and it would also serve as an experiment, Mueller said. Its kind of like a trial run. I think the consensus was that if this works out, Student Fed would be happy to hear from Campus Health and Rec again next semester or in a year.

Kate Patrick

on the changes they have made. The task is made more difficult with the quantity of information and the number of constituents they are trying to serve.

There are so many types of users, which makes it very diffi-cult, and also challenging and fun when you redesign your website. You have to look at it from the point of view of different types of users, McNutt said. For just

admissions alone, you have pro-spective students, prospective parents, guidance counselors, military students, international students. All those have varying needs when they come to our website.

McNutt, who has 20 years of digital marketing experience, came to Hillsdale last June. He said that rebuilding the website is not uncommon for schools around the country.

What we are going through is very typical of what almost every school goes through. Some went through it five years ago,

some still are not going through it, McNutt said. A majority of school websites are not that great ours currently is not that great, but we want to fix that.

Tso hopes that consistent re-evaluation of the website will ease the process for the future.

The idea is that we wont wait every three years to mas-sively change the website, Tso said. It will be an ongoing patching and updating, so we will be able to gradually ease the fish into the water rather than dunk-ing it into cold water every three or four years.

40,000 students are graduating, so you have to be very at the top of your class to qualify for clerk-ship. As you can imagine, there is a gigantic underground com-munication about clerkships by former law clerks and some pro-fessors and so on, and so theres a lot of scuttlebutt out there about which judges are the best ones to clerk for and which cities the best ones to be in and so on. Im not privy to all that, but anyone whos going to apply for a clerk-ship probably needs to explore all that.

What options are avail-able for students who dont get clerkships right out of law school?

Well, theyre like me! I didnt

get a clerkship. I wasnt able to look around a lot for various rea-sons and, you know, you go and practice law and learn it in law practice. It worked out.

Is a clerkship ever more than a temporary position?

That is a very good question. Unfortunately, in my view, there are more and more judges who are hiring what they call perma-nent clerks. Its a great job, be-cause you are serving the judge and therefore the cause of justice permanently. You get all the ben-efits of federal employment. Not as high a salary, but the main ben-efit is reasonable working condi-tions. But still, there are a lot more student clerks, than there are permanent clerks. A lot of the permanent clerks work for older judges, who have less work to do. The judges dont want to be bothered by having to train new people and hire new people every

year.At your talk, you mentioned

that despair is a sin when looking toward the future of our country. How do you dem-onstrate optimism in your work and how might you encourage students to stay optimistic?

Well, for myself, I just am do-ing my judicial job as well as I can, pursuant to the principles that Ive tried to teach the stu-dents today, which are strict regard for the rule of law and a conception of the proper role of the judiciary in our society. As for the students, I think its im-portant for each student to make decisions and then pursue excel-lence in whatever course they choose. Then no matter what ex-ternal forces may seem to buffet them at the end of the day, each one will be able to say, I did the best I could.

honors thesis defense sCheduleThursday, April 104:00-5:00 - Samuel Stoneburner: The Heart of Science: The Necessity of Liberal Motivations for Scientific Inquiry5:15-6:15 - John Walsh: Why 2+2=4: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Arithmetic

Friday, April 112:30-3:30 - Evan Gage: He Reysyd Uppe the Grett Root Oute of the Depe Depnesse: Hell and the Hermeneu-tics of the Harrowing in Julian of Norwichs Revelations of Divine Love3:45-4:45 - Josiah Kollmeyer: Keep the White Horse White: The Victory of Christian Humility over Nihilistic Pride in G. K. Chestertons The Ballad of the White Horse

Monday, April 142:30-3:30 - Grace Ramsey: Sex, Lies, and the Founding of Rome: How Venus Genetrix Evolved from Aphro-dite3:45-4:45 - Viktor Rozsa: Harmonices Mundi: Johannes Kepler and the Metaphysics of Scientific Discovery5:00-6:00 - Grace Marie Lambert: A Response to Absence: Reading Marilynne Robinsons Gilead and House-keeping in Tandem

Tuesday, April 154:00-5:00 - Erin Mundahl: All the lonely people, where do they all come from?: A Socio-Psychological Exami-nation of the Loner in Society

Wednesday, April 162:30-3:30 - Brett Wierenga: Beyond Supply and Demand: Wilhelm Rpke on the Extra-Economic Context and Function of Economic Science3:45-4:45 - Emily Schutz: But rememberFor thats my business to you: The Role of Wonder in Shake-speares Historical Memory5:00-6:00 - Andrew Pappas: A Defense of Jury Notification

Thursday, April 174:00-5:00 - Ellen Georges: The abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men: F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby as a Case Study in Teaching Literature at the High School Level5:15-6:15 - Deborah Ross: Remember This Day: The Historical Significance of the Exodus and the Reliability of the Biblical Date

her job, but with the college and its people. She has worked for five athletic directors since 1970 and says the knowledge she has acquired from her bosses has been unmeasurable.

Director of Athletics Don Bru-bacher, a college employee for

six years, said that Adams likes to keep a low profile but has great perspective and makes logical decisions.

She knows so many people and their position within the col-lege, Brubacher said. She helps a new person like me connect with lots of entities around cam-pus.

According to Brubacher, family is at the center of her life, and that close bond is of utmost importance to Adams.

She has weekly family dinners on Sunday and goes on a family vacation each summer.

Adams said she will miss her Hillsdale family the most when she retires, but does look forward to spending time with her biolog-ical family.

I have no big plans, she said.As of yet, no one has been

hired for Adams position in the athletic department.

You dont replace someone like Jeanie, Brubacher said.

music just to dance to and enjoy. Theyre going to be bringing in lights and fog and really creating that concert-like atmosphere, so that will be a lot different from last year.

Senior Alex Anderson, media

chair of SAB, said Aaron Carter will be a particu-larly fun addition to the night.

We thought it would be a great way to end the year and the night with an artist I think a lot of people can recognize both name-wise and content-wise, Anderson said. Its kind of exciting to say, Hey, a childhood star came to my col-

lege.Because SAB is spending

so much money on Centralhal-lapalooza this year, Bigney said its probably going to be the best event of the year.

Its probably going to be the biggest Centralhallapalooza thats ever been on campus, be-cause were going big this year, Bigney said. We want to make sure everyone really enjoys it.

Garrett West presents paper at UNC conference

When junior Garrett West pre-sented a paper on Medieval phi-losophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a student said theyd never met a theist who could actually have a conversation about philosophy.

Being there really made me appreciate me being at HIllsdale. I recognize how rare the sort of ed-ucation we receive here is, West said. I hope I was able to show a little bit of this education to the people I met.

West presented his paper at Chapel Hill as part of its Under-graduate Conference on Philoso-phy on March 29. He submitted a paper on Saints Bonaventure and Aquinas to Chapel Hills phi-losophy club after Phi Sigma Tau, Hillsdales philosophy honorary, forwarded the call for papers over

Christmas break.I realized the Bonaventure pa-

per was under the word limit and submitted it, West said.

The philosophy club selected Wests paper, along with three others, out of the more than 100 papers it received. The club flew West to North Carolina for an all-day conference at which he pre-sented his work.

In his paper, West offers a cri-tique of Bonaventures reworking of Augustines theory of illumina-tion and presents, instead, Aqui-nas epistemology.

Ive always been really inter-ested in epistemology in particu-lar, West said. I started to read Aquinas theory of knowing and I was comparing it to Bonaventure as I was reading.

West submitted it to Lee Cole, instructor of philosophy, as the fi-nal paper for Coles survey course in Medieval philosophy. Cole learned that West submitted the

paper only after it was accepted.I had only remarked that it was

an especially strong paper. Garrett is always an especially strong stu-dent, but he turned a corner here in his writing, Cole said. He was flirting with graduate level writing and reflection.

Wests paper stood out among the other papers presented, since the other papers focused on ethics and language rather than philoso-phy, and there are no Medieval philosophy professors at Chapel Hill.

How alien Wests topic is speaks all the more to the quality of the work, Cole said.

I had to do a 35 minute Q and A after, West said. Basically, I talked about Thomas Aquinas the whole time. Before I went, I think that none of them would have thought that any medieval philosopher could have a robust philosophical system thats still applicable today.

revised and kickball, Freaky Fri-day, and Finish the Lyric were introduced. Freaky Friday con-sisted of less competitive events

such as a wheelbarrow race and an egg toss.

Lozier said the new events were well-received.

Overall, it was super success-ful this year, she said.

Finish the Lyric consisted of teams from each sorority choos-ing categories of songs. Part of a song would be played and then

the women would attempt to fin-ish the song, KKG president ju-nior Mary Kate Kibbe said.

She said those who success-fully finished difficult songs won much support.

It was really nice to get the houses cheering on together, Kibbe said.

My mom in-forms me that be-ing a housewife is more than painting your nails and eat-ing bonbons. She volunteers, takes care of my grand-mother, sings in the church choir, and is a full-time law partner. I

thought being a house-wife meant just baking and singing Frank Sina-

tra to yourself in the kitchen.In my efforts to become a good housewife, I once spent an

entire summer trying to find the perfect pound cake recipe. There are several. People recommend different wet ingredi-ents: sour cream, butter, Crisco, etc. I have found that sour cream works best. Then there is the almond/lemon deci-sion. Of course vanilla will be an ingredient, but you must

choose whether you want your cake to have a nutty or fruity overtone. Or you can make a chocolate pound cake, which resolves these difficulties for you.

This love for baking was born in me, I believe, out of a severe habit of procras-tination. At Hillsdale, the night before a paper was due, I would always bake. I perfected Seth Stricklands bread recipe, venturing out with such additions as hon-ey and chopped fruit. Bread is perfect for studying, or rather, not studying. Add

the yeast to the water, and go study while it gets foamy. Add the flour, study a little. Knead a little, write some more. Wait four hours for the bread to rise while you actually get some studying done. Finally, once you have baked the bread to a golden brown, you can offer it to your friends, continuing your strain of avoiding that paper. At least, it worked for me.

Then theres always impressing the boys. The way to a mans heart is through his stomach. I wont say I didnt try this on Carl. I definitely made him pound cake before we were dating. And now he makes me Swedish pancakes, so it comes full circle. But really, baking is an important way of showing affection to the men in your life. Although they would probably prefer a mighty-meaty dish, I usually make Carl and his friends scones. Or cookies. Their oven is a little finicky, so sometimes we end up eating cookie dough, but its a communal experience nonetheless.

Being a housewife is more than baking. Its also the crazy soccer-mom adrenalin that you need to keep you going all day. I think Hillsdale has also prepared me for this. I know that balancing Kappa and Chamber Choir and Jitters (and studying) is nothing compared to actually being a mother, but it must contribute some skills of time management or at least not losing your mind. I may not drive a minivan, but I do enjoy the feverish business of a to-do list.

Furthermore, the perfect housewife always wears pearls. Rain or shine, studying or sleeping, I always strive to wear pearls. I think it gives a professional touch to the grungiest outfit. It also keeps at bay the impending hipster-dom. As long as I have this remnant of the fifties, I cannot fall into the laissez-faire matching of any and all patterns and fabrics garnered from thrift stores and the Womens Commission-ers Sale. Pearls are the emblem of the eternal: spherical and white. They add the garnish of peace to an otherwise harried appearance.

Hillsdale has prepared me to be a housewife by teaching me how to maintain outward calm in spite of inward anxi-ety, how to impress others while at the same time improving yourself, and how to be productive when you procrastinate.

For years, Republicans ben-efited from economic growth. So did pretty much everyone else, of course. But I have something specific in mind. Politically, when the economy is booming or merely improving at a sat-isfactory clip the distinction between being pro-business and pro-market is blurry. The distinc-tion is also fuzzy when the econ-omy is shrinking or imploding.

But when the economy is simply limping along not good, not disastrous like it is now, the line is easier to see. And GOP politicians typically dont want to admit they see it.

Just to clarify, the difference between being pro-business

and pro-market is categorical. A politician who is a friend of business is exactly that, a guy who does favors for his friends. A politician who is pro-market is a referee who will refuse to help protect his friends (or anyone else) from competition unless the competitors have broken the rules. The friend of business sup-ports industry-specific or even business-specific loans, grants, tariffs or tax breaks. The pro-market referee opposes special treatment for anyone.

Politically, the reason the lines get blurry in good times and bad is that in a boom, the economic pie is growing fast enough that the friend and his competitor alike can prosper. In bad times, when politicians are desperate to get the economy going, no one in Washington wants to seem like an enemy of the job creators.

But in a time when people bitterly wonder, Is this as good as it gets? Republicans have to decide whether European-level growth means we should have European-style policies. In Eu-rope, big corporations are nation-al institutions where big labor unions collect their dues with help from the state.

Democrats, who often look longingly at the way they do things across the pond, dont have the same dilemma as Re-publicans. For a century or more, progressives have believed in public-private partnerships, in-dustrial policy, Swopism, corporatism and other forms of

picking winners and losers. The winners always promise to de-liver the jobs of tomorrow in return for help from government today. (Solyndra is running be-hind on keeping its end of the deal.)

Many Republicans are rhetor-ically against this sort of thing, but in practice, theyre for it. (Even Ronald Reagan supported trade protections for Harley-Da-vidson.) This is especially true at the state level, where GOP governors are willing to do any-thing to seduce businesses their way. Texas is a good example. Gov. Rick Perry has been heroic in keeping taxes and regulatory burdens low. But hes also helped his friends -- a lot. Few on the right in Texas care, because Tex-as has been doing so much better than the rest of the country.

GOP politicians cant have it both ways anymore. An eco-nomic system that simply doles out favors to established stake-holders becomes less dynamic and makes job growth less likely. (Most jobs are created by new businesses.) Politically, the lon-ger were in a new normal of lousy growth, the more the fo-cus of politics turns to wealth redistribution. Thats bad for the country and just awful politics for Republicans. In that envi-ronment, being the party of less less entitlement spending, less redistribution is a losing proposition.

Also, for the first time in years, theres an organized or

mostly organized grassroots constituency for the market. His-torically, the advantage of the pro-business crowd is that its members pick up the phone and call when politicians shaft them. The market, meanwhile, was like a bad Jewish son; it never called and never wrote. Now, theres an infrastructure of Tea Party-affiliated and other free-market groups forcing Republicans to stop fudging.

A big test will be on the Ex-port-Import Bank, which is up for reauthorization this year. A bank in name only, the taxpayer-backed agency rewards big busi-nesses in the name of maximiz-ing exports that often dont need the help (hence its nickname, Boeings Bank). In 2008, even then-Sen. Barack Obama said it was little more than a fund for corporate welfare. The bank, however, has thrived on Obamas watch. Its even subsidizing the sale of private jets. Remember when Obama hated tax breaks for corporate jets?

Friends of the Ex-Im Bank are screaming bloody murder. Thats nothing new. What is new is that the free market is on line two.

(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.)

From the Archives: Centrallhallapalooza to feature Elephant

I finally got around to my edu-cation in my junior year.

There are a lot of people who will say their freshman year didnt count, usually because its hard to get good grades as a Hill-sdale freshman. Were willing, as a community, to pass over our collective academic slow start, and put the beginning of our ac-tual education at sophomore year. I did begin to succeed, if not ex-cel, academically in my sopho-more year, but there still wasnt a whole lot of education going on.

Junior year, I hit my stride, by which I do not mean to claim I became a straight-A student. I did, however, enjoy every mo-

ment of my classroom experi-ence. I promise, Im not making it up, there was wonder every-where!

Of exactly the sort that Dr. Smith talks about when he sneaks a talking point on Shakespeare into a class on Homers Iliad. I could actu-ally get buried in a discussion, instead of get-ting lost in one, and I walked out of classes with g o o s e b u m p s just because of the powerful ideas. Suddenly, I didnt care in the least that my grades showed me my short-comings. I was simply having too much fun.

I say all of this because I feel this college presented me with a two stage educational process. My first two years werent about the academics, even though those poor grades played a huge role in my growth; those years were about sobering me up so that my own person wasnt constantly between my eyes and the ideas in the classroom. I went from actively rejecting my studies freshman year, to elevating their

evaluation of my worth to a nigh- spiritual status sophomore year. In both of those periods, the only thing on my mind was myself.

My own image dominated my vision of the world, and I learned nothing that wasnt filtered through my self-perception.

My junior year was defined by fascination. Everything I read was deep, even the abhorrent descriptions of a rotting corpse in Edgar Allan Poes Narrative of Arthur Gor-don Pym. (You may not know, or even have wanted to know, but that book, once read, will never leave your waking or sleep-ing mind alone...

ever.) I was so busy thinking about

the books in front of me that I forgot, for the first time in my college career, to pay attention to myself. I found myself stridently bellowing Anglo-Saxon gibber-ish, completely unselfconscious, giggling with my fellow juniors at the sheer awesomeness of the dead language we were dabbling in.

I dont pretend to know exact-ly what changed between sopho-more and junior year. But I do know that I wanted to be in class, not to check it off of a list of re-quirements, but because the class itself was intoxicatingly beauti-ful. I felt drawn into a level of contemplation that begged me to look at the world and be dazzled by it.

And I was.I think this is what they mean

when they give us that stuffy monologue about the linguistic roots of the word education, and tell you that it will draw you out of yourself, and into a larger conversation. I cannot count the number of times Ive parroted that speech in defense of the lib-eral arts, but I didnt understand its substance until my studies dis-tracted me from myself.

No one could have explained that it would be joy, and not the disappointment of learning my finitude, that would make me an educated man. I feared my own failure far too much to see that if I knew everything, I would never be surprised or entertained again. Junior year, I no longer took care to know and understand every-thing, but instead was delighted in the fact that I knew nothing; every moment became a discov-ery, and every conversation an education.

OPINION10 April 2014 A4 www.hillsdalecollegian.comThe income Tax can fix The roads

The opinion of The collegian ediTorial sTaffIts no secret that the roads

in Hillsdale need a lot of work. Just drive down Wolcott or Vine Street at 15 mph and pray your tires make it.

The city needs to fix them, but it cant without money. We suggest city council repropose the income tax that was voted down in 2012, and we encourage city residents this time around to vote yes.

In the aftermath of the citys rejection of the income tax pro-posal, street funding solutions were constantly debated during the 2013 election cycle. Each candidate for Hillsdale City

Council vowed to make it a pri-ority. Once a new mayor and council were elected, the city government compiled a list of 24 possible solutions to fund road reconstruction.

On our City News page, the Collegian has explored some of the more plausible options in a series throughout the spring se-mester. These have included such measures as installing parking meters, selling the Public Board of Utilities, and selling streets. But only two of the councils solutions generate a substantial long-term revenue source.

A private firm assessed Hill-

sdales roads and concluded that the city needs $39 million to entirely reconstruct its roads. Bringing them all to a well-functioning condition, however, would cost significantly less.

After thorough research, we think that passing an earmarked income tax with an expiration date of 10 years, specifically for a local roads fund, is the best op-tion the city has. The tax would generate roughly $1 million a year not enough to outright cure Hillsdales road malady, but enough to make it substantially less miserable.

Most Hillsdale students dont

pay taxes here. So, yes, theres a problem in our supporting the tax: We get all the benefits and suffer none of the financial bur-den. But if we cant convince you to vote for the tax, we en-courage you to look into the mat-ter yourself.

The roads are only getting worse. They will only get fixed if city residents approve a way for the city to pay for them. We think the income tax is the solu-tion. What do you think?

Jonah GoldbergSyndicated Columnist

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Education should draw you out of yourself

Centralhallapalooza, hosted by the Student Activities Board and boast-ing live bands, a beer tent and a moon bounce, will also feature free elephant rides from 7-11 p.m. Saturday.

Rebekah Dell, Director of Student Activities, said SAB officers began look-ing into bringing an elephant to Central-hallapalooza after a student requested one at their meetings.

Eventually, SAB found one through the Funny Business Agency of Ada, Mich. The board rented the elephant as part of a deal with the moon bounce, in-flatable obstacle course and high jump, and Dell said the entire package cost around $4,000 including insurance.

I was shocked at how simple the whole process was, Dell said.

The elephant, whose name is Laura, starred in the 1995 movie Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Dell said.

Ive heard it can maybe even throw a baseball, she said.

Freshman Lena Pantely said she thought the elephant was a joke when she first heard about it.

I think its exciting that we can do something even a big university hasnt done, Pantely said. With the economic downturn, only in Hillsdale would we still get an elephant.

April 23, 2009Kirsten Adams

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How Hillsdale prepared me to be a housewife

Mary Proffit KimmelStudent Columnist

Hillsdale has prepared me to be a housewife by teaching me how to maintain outward calm in spite of inward anxiety, how to impress others while at the same time improving yourself, and how to be productive when you procrastinate.

I felt drawninto a level of contemplation that begged me to look around at the world and be dazzled by it.

I used to always complain about seeing heroes walk out into the sunset unscathed. Now it seems theyre lucky if they survive with half their limbs in-tact.

Death is the new clich in televi-sion. And though George R.R. Martins habit for the mass murdering of fiction-al characters does make for greater sus-pense in Game of Thrones, its hard not to feel that television is following a popular trend thats dulling deaths impact.

It wasnt until the season four finale of The Walking Dead that I realized this. Following the episodes conclu-sion, plenty of fans took to the Inter-net to lament that nobody died. For all the seasons faults, I was pleasantly

surprised to see so few prominent char-acters killed for once. Sure, it was a rocky and inconsistent ride, but fewer deaths allowed for character develop-ment that would otherwise have been impossible.

Unfortunately though, character assassination is becoming ever more synonymous with stuff happening. I call it death porn. It compels writers to look to death as the primary source of catharsis for their characters. Alter-natively, it compels them to kill their characters when they cant be bothered to figure out where to take them next.

In the past, plenty of shows have butchered a majority of their origi-nal cast. To name a few: Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Lost, Strike Back, Homeland, The So-pranos, The Following, Justified, and Under the Dome.

There are good reasons to kill off characters, of course. Some deaths are inevitable for characters whose stories have reached their natural conclusion (see Homeland). Other times, the death of one character is necessary for the development of another (see Breaking Bad).

But when the prevailing question on everyones mind is whos going to die tonight? then perhaps the narrative is too dependent on death for the sake of death. Death has no real meaning for the audience if its happening all the time. The very surprise inherent to the concept vanishes. The problem isnt as acute in movies because they end be-fore death becomes repetitive.

The reason people like George R.R. Martin and Robert Kirkman (producer of The Walking Dead) started killing their characters in the first place was to avoid predictability. They thought

suspense had been cheapened. Death is now the victim of cheapening. Jumping the gun on character deaths can also backfire by ruining all the groundwork made to attach the audience to certain characters. Every time someone dies, another must enter as a replacement. Recreating an equally strong bond is a tricky feat that doesnt always succeed.

My personal favorite show, 24, is arguably most notorious for this and was the first prominent show of the 2000s to establish the Anyone Can Die rule. It was like, in their maniacal pursuit, the writers relished the chance to kill almost the entire cast. For a long time, this approach worked because of its novelty in reminding viewers that no one is safe. That was part of its for-mula.

But even 24 became a caricature of itself in its later seasons. Shock-and-awe became shock for the sake of

shock. Death became predictable, with less impact. Since 24, TV has be-come a hub for fictional mass murder.

Even non-action based shows like Downton Abbey and House of Cards are guilty of their own share of twist deaths. In their defense, however, those shows do a lot to reinforce the notion that there are other ways to im-press audiences with twists and turns that do not involve death.

Shows dont need to resort to heroes and villains rejoicing together around a fire singing Kumbaya, but reducing the body count is a good step toward keeping death surprising and meaning-ful.

I suppose that, while Im casting blame, I really ought to point my finger at Shakespeare. Just look at Hamlet. Only Horatio made it out of that one alive.

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Death and violence in television has become clich Marcus HedenbergCollegian Reporter

Hillsdale College reported a 94 percent placement rate of graduating seniors in either a graduate school pro-gram or a desired profession last year. At first this number seems impressive, but in comparison to similar private col-lege statistics it is nothing but average.

This statistic has always bothered me, not because of its numerical value but because of its conventional label. Hillsdale does not produce convention-al students and hopes to attract increas-ingly qualified applicants. By 2019, the college seeks to be the most selective school in Michigan. Such an achieve-ment will require not just a rigorous ad-missions process, but an overhaul of the colleges career placement strategy for graduating seniors.

The quality of employment for Hill-sdale graduates is vital to the long-term success and reputation of the college. Beyond just the four-year experience, a degree seeks to prepare students for professional success.

In comparison to a vocational de-gree, a liberal arts education is often seen as an unconventional degree be-cause it lacks a specific skill set. But in todays job market, a liberal arts educa-tion is in high demand. A 2014 report conducted by the Association of Ameri-can Colleges and Universities found that 93 percent of employers prefer ap-plicants who can write, communicate clearly, solve complex problems, and adapt in new environments, over a spe-cific major or minor.

If the college wants to increase its selectiveness it needs to direct more at-

tention toward career placement. Hill-sdale College needs to market their stu-dents unique and outstanding qualities to nationally competitive job markets. If the following proposals are properly implemented, Hillsdale could build a professional profile upon the colleges outstanding educational and indepen-dent reputation.

First students need to be connected to opportunities. Quite often the re-sources of the colleges friends, donors, and supporters are forgotten. I cant tell you how many times I have met a donor at a CCA who had expressed interest in helping students pursue a variety of ca-reer paths. The college has over 2.7 mil-lion subscribers to its monthly publica-tion. They have raised over 1.1 billion dollars in its 40-year fight for indepen-dence. The college should capitalize on these connections to advance Hillsdale students careers.

Conventional employment tactics cause students to miss out on valuable resources. Many colleges rely on alumni connections for student internship and job opportunities. If Hillsdale wants to stand apart, it must embrace its uncon-ventional resources in a more aggres-sive and personalized way than Charger Connect. Some office whether it be Institutional Advancement, External Affairs, or Career Services needs to take initiative by connected willing supporters with ambitious students.

Second, Hillsdale must hire a full-time, professional cover letter and re-sume writer. The first thing that will make Hillsdale students stand out in the job interview process is a well-con-structed cover letter and resume. Hiring managers decide within seconds wheth-er the applicant is a viable candidate

based on the quality of the cover letter. It is no secret that top job applicants from other schools hire professional resume writers to help construct their image for a certain position. The imple-mentation of the Student Affairs Mentor program has motivated students to craft thoughtful resumes. But no matter how helpful a SAM may be, no SAM has the expertise of a professional resume writ-er. This is a simple change that would immediately improve the professional image of Hillsdales students.

Finally, the college must be more intentional about placing students in di-verse careers paths. A liberal arts educa-tion does not limit students to careers in education, government, or non-profits. There is no better way to spread the colleges message and increase sup-port than by actively placing students in jobs throughout the nation. The college needs to connect with organizations, companies, and industries outside of its conventional niches. We should strive to have recruiters and competitive pro-grams visit campus in demand for Hill-sdale students. I am the first to admit, I do not have a LinkedIn account, nor do I want one. I believe in the strength of personal connections. Connections are only useful when you establish a relationship. Try to connect personally with alumni by accessing the listserv through the Alumni Office.

In addition, I believe that each stu-dent is on a different career journey. The Hillsdale community, however, must always strive to meet the chal-lenges of modern life. Such a challenge requires us to leave the Hillsdale bubble and bring its message to new platforms.

Alex AndersonWeb Editor

Hillsdale: Focus more on jobs

One Sunday morning a few falls ago, I woke up alert, anxious, and excited the same kind of feeling I got as a child when I woke at daybreak on a summer morning ready to dash around Ana-heims Disneyland park. This particular Sunday morning promised every ounce of mayhem as those summer days, but this time, I would not dart after every costumed character I saw. Instead, I locked my eyes on the 8:45-per-mile banners bobbing in the hands of hired pace-keepers, and chased them through the streets of Chicago.

Marathons are legendary. Simply saying the word conjures fear, awe, and respect for those who have attempted one, while also evoking an image of an emaciated world-class athlete simply

gliding. Not much about that October morning confirmed that image: Though world-class athletes did glide over the streets, 40,000 runners of all sizes, ages, and talents running also ran be-hind them. One year, a man even ran the Chicago Marathon with a foam Eiffel Tower structure strapped around him.

It takes a stroke of madness to sign up for a marathon. It is, however, one of those challenging experiences that is worth attempting. Running is known to reduce stress, sharpen focus, and improve mental stamina things that could be helpful for college life.

Olympian runner Steve Prefontaine once said, You have to wonder at times what youre doing out there. Over the years, Ive given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

To many who commit to run a mara-thon, the race itself is only the climax of months of preparation and, if they were dedicated and smart with their training, the race is hardly a struggle in comparison.

I began lightly training for the Chi-cago Marathon in January after taking a break from running. I had finished my cross country season for Hillsdale the past December, and decided to resign from the team. I signed up for a half-marathon in June in Vancouver, Wash., just north of my hometown in Oregon. I knew I needed a goal sooner than the October marathon. I was used to 10-to-12-mile long runs on the weekends during cross country season, but that half-marathon marked the farthest I had even run.

In the following months, I built up mileage and tried to have faster runs. It was grueling. I often wanted to skip the long-distance runs the most impor-tant runs for marathon training but the thought of comfort on that October

morning alone kept me running.Any determination I had did not

ward off the miserable runs they are like old bad jokes now. Like when I ran seven miles out on a road and could only make it three miles back; I had to walk the last four miles because my legs would not take me any farther. Or the runs I had to squeeze in around class when I got back to Hillsdale. Or the 85 degree, summer afternoon run when I ran around Seattle trying to find 18 miles worth of pavement to carry me to the end of the run. When I hobbled into my sisters apartment afterwards, I col-lapsed on the floor, slurped down a 24 ounces protein smoothie in practically a gulp, and then floated in the pool for the next hour.

It was entirely taxing and exhaust-ing, but without those experiences, I wouldnt have known how important food, directions, hydration, and pa-tience were to long distance running and how rewarding it could be. Those months of training, however difficult, led to one of my most profound learn-ing experiences.

Those months prepared me for that early October morning when I timidly ate my bagel on the train from a friends house in Hinsdale to the heart of Chi-cago. Runners of all ages and types spewed from all directions, streaming into the start corrals as the sun rose. A couple anxious minutes passed and then the gun went off. The pack of 40,000 runners followed Columbus Street north from Millennium Park and off on a tour of the city.

The only thing left was to trust the training I had committed to and to en-joy being with the thousands of people lining the streets it was almost a con-test among Chicagoans to determine which part of town could rally the larg-est cheering crowd and then thrive with thousands of runners each trying to reach the same goal: 26.2 miles.

Emily SheltonSenior Reporter

Why you should run a marathon

Our student body, as a whole, avoids asking the hard questions about what justice requires of our so-ciety.

When I read that gem of a line from last weeks Collegian op-ed The liberal arts must include opposing thinkers I was incredulous. Gar-rett Wests argument that all Hillsdale students live in an ideological echo chamber with little serious exposure to philosophers and philosophies they disagree with is bunk and needs to be addressed.

According to the author of the piece, this college needs a more di-verse conversation which consid-ers seriously thinkers like John Rawls, G.W.F. Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx. The only problem with the authors claim? That conversation is already happen-ing on campus. Every thinker the op-ed claimed Hillsdale students werent reading I have studied in-depth in class.

For an hour and fifteen minutes every Monday and Wednesday in my Modern Political Philosophy II course, Dr. Pestritto goes through core portions of major texts from Kant, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx line by line, argument by argument. Two-thirds of my American Politi-cal Thought class with Dr. West was spent on the American progressives and post-modern liberals, none of whom would ever be confused with supporters of the Founders or their vi-sion of government. Dr. West placed special emphasis on the influential liberal thinkers John Rawls and Ron-ald Dworkin. He required us to read large portions of their most signifi-cant writings so that we might better understand the impact of their argu-ments.

I cant speak for the other fields of study, but I do know that, in my politics courses, Ive been exposed to dozens of thinkers and writers who stand outside the generally conser-vative disposition of the college. My

politics professors have challenged me to read those authors closely, even sympathetically. In doing so, my abil-ity to think critically has sharpened immensely.

The op-eds sweeping claim of widespread ideological blindness among students angered me. Not only did it unfairly insult my own liberal education, but in doing so wrongly implied that my professors were in-tellectually dishonest, either hiding opposing arguments out of fear of their effects or a refusal to leave their own bubbles of thought. That claim, considered in light of my own experi-ence in the politics program, is utterly fallacious.

Ive taken 8 of the 11 required courses for a politics major and my syllabi dont lie by sheer volume Ive read far more Hegel than Locke, far more Nietzsche than Strauss. The politics professors do ask their stu-dents hard questions about justice. They present the evidence and ask us to work through it. They force us to read closely and to think critically. Of course, my professors hold positions and defend them in class, but that does not mean we dont approach op-posing thinkers or that we treat them as sub-par intellects unworthy ofthoughtful reading.

While colleges across America churn out political science students primed to man the machinery of the modern administrative state and fully indoctrinated in the dogmas of the liberal holy trinity of race, class, and gender, Hillsdale stands apart. The politics education at this college is superb and well worth pursuing. It is anything but one-sided.

Its true; Ive heard students at the college make outlandish claims about political thinkers that illustrate their own ignorance, but that does not mean such students are indicative of the whole population.

If youre going to make sweep-ing claims about the nature of the education here at Hillsdale, do your research. The results might surprise you.

Josiah LipincottSpecial to the Collegian

Congratulations Hillsdale College Class of 2014!

Politics at Hillsdale: Superb, valuable, and well-rounded

Michigan maple syrup production has skyrocketed in the last few years, piquing the interest of several nearby families and Hill-sdale College senior Ben Holscher.

Syrup is one of the worlds healthiest sweeteners. It has just as many nutrients as honey and theres nothing added to it, Holscher said. I think its health benefits are part of the reason why were seeing a huge increase in demand. Its also just delicious.

After graduation in May, Holscher plans to move back to his native state of New York and expand his familys maple syrup busi-ness.

Our family got into the business because we have 150 acres of maple trees, Holscher said. This year we have 11,000 taps [trees], but we hope to add 8,000 taps this summer and ultimately aim to manage 50,000 taps in five to seven years. My goal is to be one of the biggest maple syrup producers in North America.

Currently, Michigan ranks fifth nationally in maple syrup pro-duction, averaging 90,000 gallons of syrup each year, according to the Michigan Maple Syrup Association.

Im a fourth-generation syrup maker with 27,000 taps, and a pretty good-sized sugar bush, said MMSA Director Dale Forrester. I eat, breathe, and drink maple syrup. Its what I do for a living, and I love it.

MMSA aims to accomplish two goals: ensure that Michigan syrup is high quality and promote Michigan maple syrup producers.

We want to help educate and support our syrup makers, For-rester said. Have you ever smelled a first crop of maple in the spring? The smell of syrup boiling in the spring is the best smell in the world.

Bryan Debois shares this sweet passion. A resident of North Ad-ams, Mich., Debois grew up working in the maple syrup industry and will manage 50 maple taps this year.

My family used to do it for years and years. Even my great-great-grandfather was doing it, Debois said. Well, then I worked for a guy by the name of Bernard Crater and hed done it for what seemed like forever. He used to call down to the high school look-ing for volunteers to go to work.

This is the first year since 1987 that Debois will tap maple trees for sap, but he still remembers everything he learned while working for Crater.

Mr. Crater used to do between 1,000 and 2,000 gallons, and we worked all over the county, Debois said. We used to take his old trucks outthey had tanks built on themand we used to go over to Jonesville Middle School and collect sap out of the park all hours of the day. You can actually drink what comes out of the trees. Its not dangerous at all.

Maple sap is only 2.5 percent sugar and it looks like water. The sap is then converted into syrup by boiling off the water, and at ex-actly 219 degrees, the transformation is complete. Even one extra degree will turn the syrup into sugar.

Martin and Helen Jones of Niles, Mich. know all about the time commitment maple syrup making involves. This year, the couple will tap approximately 1,100 gallons of sap, which will make about

22 to 23 gallons of syrup.You can only boil off about a gallon per square-foot per hour,

Martin Jones said. But if you have an interest in being outdoors, or you enjoy making something with your hands, then you would enjoy making maple syrup. Theres fulfillment in using your hands to make something that God causes to grow in an amazing way.

A large maple pumps several thousand gallons of sap through it every year. The sap originates in the roots of the tree, where it is stored for energy as a starch. Then, the sap is pushed up the tree and converted into energy.

We just enjoy doing it together. We also do a lot of canning and make grape juice, apple cider, and soap, Martin Jones said. Any-one could pick up a knack for this.

Fifth in a series.

The income tax initiative, vot-ed down in 2012, is back on Hill-sdale City Councils road-funding list.

In order to fund fixing the city roads, council compiled a list of options and included an income tax as one that should be re-eval-uated.

There are really only two options left: the millage and the income tax, Councilman Brian Watkins said. In theory, the in-come tax is as fair as were going to get in paying for the roads.

Watkins pointed out that many Michigan cities are dealing with the same problem of poor roads and little money to fix them.

This is because Michi-gan cities two primary revenue sources, property taxes and state revenue sharing, have significant-ly decreased since 2004, accord-ing to a Citizens Research Coun-cil of Michigan publication.

Michigans prolonged eco-nomics recession is creating fiscal stress for many local governments and causing city government of-

ficials to seek alternative revenue sources, said CRC in its publica-tion, Local-Option City Income Taxation in Michigan.

City Financial Director Bon-nie Tew said that the tax would be one percent for those within the City of Hillsdale, and a half percent for those working within but living outside the city. Tew supports the income tax, as she watches the citys extra fund bal-ance decrease.

You have to have something you can fall back on, Tew said. You are either going to have to increase your revenues coming in or decrease your expenses go-ing out. The only way we have of doing that is to lay people off. Something is going to suffer when you get rid of people. To maintain the level of services we have, we need the people we have.

Due to state restrictions, state grants for road funding must be used on major roadways. This leaves Hillsdale responsible for maintaining all but six roads.

Local units of government are where we should focus, said Gary Wolfram, professor of eco-nomics and consultant on the in-come tax initiative.

Wolfram advised that the best solution to raise road-funding revenue is still an income tax ear-marked for streets with a seven

to 10 year expiration date that exempts business owners. He es-timates that the tax would gener-ate approximately $1 million per year.

That $1 million would fix about one road each year.

Wolfram said that the city would have to better educate the voters about the income tax if it has any hope of passing in the fu-ture.

The income tax would have been earmarked for roads, he said. But the ballot didnt say that, so people went in to vote and were asked if they wanted the city to levy an income tax, so they said no.

Councilman Patrick Flannery said that an income tax should not be currently considered, because the voters already voted it down.

To me, the voters said no by 70 to 30 percent. So we should not consider it, because to me, thats going against the will of the people to even reconsider it at this time, Flannery said. In a certain period of time, Id say that it would be OK to look at it again, but that would be five to 10 years from now. But even then, Id only feel comfortable if it was the people coming forward and saying, We think an income tax is something we want.

Flannery suggested that a

combination of smaller options be considered to fund the roads, such as reassesing fees, special assessment projects, closing un-necessary roads, and looking for ways to cut the budget.

I dont think the road funding is going to be one, big magical thing, Flannery said. It will be us reducing the expenses we have and looking at the fees that we charge people and taking a look at a lot of little things, and they will all add up.

Some of the main objections to the income tax are that it is an extra burden on families and that it does not promote economic development, according to local attorney Bethany Miller. Miller campaigned with a group against the income tax in 2012.

Its a well-known fact that taxation doesnt encourage eco-nomic development, Miller said. It discourages business.

According to Wolfram, im-proved roads could raise prop-erty values enough to offset the income taxs cost for families within the median income range.

It boils down to how badly people really want the streets done, Watkins said. Because one way or another, they have to pay for them.

A football and basketball player, track and cross country competitor, and Valedictorian at Jonesville High School, Jeff Jacques 02 said he was an all-american teenager.

He never thought that one day he would be running for state house of representatives in the 58th district he calls home.

He has run several business-es, including a store that sells outdoor recreational equipment and a retirement community.

The tenacity of an outdoors-man and athlete will come in handy for Jacques, who will have a tough time competing in a crowded republican primary.

Id rather make some noise in two years than take up space for six years, Jacques said.

Jacques found his political voice attending Hillsdale Col-lege, where he met his wife Ingrid Jacques, deputy edito-rial page editor for The Detroit News. While at Hillsdale, he developed an understanding of free markets and limited gov-ernment.

I do wholeheartedly be-lieve in pursuing a free market agenda with less taxation and regulation, he said. I do want to grow business, jobs, and tax base in this district.

The new political interest took him all the way to Wash-ington, D.C., where Jacques worked after graduation.

As a Hillsdale economics

major, he held to his convic-tions. Soon, though, the atmo-sphere of D.C. took its toll. No

production or creation, he said, only layers of bureaucracy.

Besides his political inter-ests, Jacques harbored an en-trepreneurial spirit that soon led him away from D.C. and into a series of businesses. He said his time operating busi-nesses allowed him to person-ally encounter the difficulties and wastes imposed by certain government regulations.

Thats when you start want-ing to do something a little big-ger than the business youre in, he said. You want to try to af-fect the lessons you learned to improve society.

Its a very crowded Repub-lican primary, however, with multiple Hillsdale alumni can-didates. Grigor Hasted, director of alumni relations and business industry, knows Jacques, but

has already expressed his sup-port for a different alum, Eric Leutheuser.

I think Jeff would be a great candidate, but I think there are a lot of people like me who have already given their support to somebody, he said.

Bringing business to the dis-trict is a priority for Jacques.

Were well positioned be-tween Detroit and Chicago and have a good standard of living. Consequently suppliers should want to locate here, he said. Theyve got a good stable situ-ation, theyve got a good afford-able workforce. We need to do everything in our powers to get industry here.

One of the most important issues of the campaign is road funding.

At this point I am not yet convinced that we need to raise taxes to invest better in our roads, though we do need to invest in our roads, he said. Theres still fat to cut.

Jacques said he supports the second amendment, traditional marriage, and is pro-life. He now campaigns while keeping an eye on his business ventures.

Spending much of his life in Jonesville, then some away, and coming back has made him ap-preciate the place he hopes to represent.

You know all your neigh-bors, theyre keeping an eye out for you and youre keeping an eye out for them, he said. As you go away and come back you start to realize what you had and how lucky you really were.

CITY NEWS A6 10 April 2014 www.hillsdalecollegian.com

Casey HarperSpotlight Editor

City revisits income tax option

Sara Lisznyai has always been a high achiever. Not only does she run a legal practice Marks & Lisznyai in Jones-ville, Mich. but she is an ac-tive volunteer.

Since moving to Jonesville in 1996, Lisznyai has served on the board of eight community organizations, including St. Pauls Lutheran Church, and the Hillsdale County Interme-diate School District Board of Education, of which she is now vice president.

In the fall, Lisznyai will be running for Hillsdale County District Court Judge against Hillsdale County Prosecuting Attorney Neal Brady .

Attorney Kevin Shirk has known Lisznyai for about as long as she has been in Jones-ville and considers her a wor-thy candidate.

Shes on the opposite side of a lot