Studio Incamminati hosted a nude drawing workshop at Hill-sdale Jan. 6-10, providing a pro-fessional nude model and instruc-tion from artist JaFang Lu for the 12 students registered.

“Having a professional, live model that we could work with was amazing,” sophomore Phoe-be Kalthoff said.

The week began with an in-tensive study of human anatomy using a skeleton and basic figure drawing techniques, and quickly progressed to include ample stu-dio time for the student artists.

“If you’re going to make art with a human subject, it’s incred-ibly important to have a work-ing knowledge of anatomy,” sophomore Forester McClatchey said. “Professional sculptors and painters are basically as knowl-edgeable as surgeons about the human body. It’s an unnecessary veil to have clothed models.”

Students began their study of human anatomy by looking for specific marks on a skeleton. As the week progressed, the instruc-tor placed small, red stickers on the live model to indicate which parts of the human body the art-ists needed to focus on to create realistic drawings.

Junior Maggy Smith said she learned proportions and linear construction by studying the hu-man form.

“The human body is a simple, rhythmic form,” Smith said. “It is also extremely complex and hard to draw.”

Drawing the human form is a delicate endeavor. Smith said

changing even one small aspect in a sketch inevitably affects the entire drawing.

“Being able to see and under-stand everything without it being distorted by clothing is very help-ful,” she added.

Hillsdale students learned under the direction of Studio In-camminati’s JaFang Lu, a well-known contemporary realist artist who has taught drawing work-shops for the past decade.

“Having that outside perspec-tive was really important. Our art department is incredible, but af-ter a while, you come to know all of the teachers’ approaches quite well,” Smith said. “No artist is the same.”

Lu often began the morning with a demonstration, then gave her students five minutes to warm up with gesture drawing, during which the students tried to cap-ture the motion and form of a model’s brief pose.

“There’s a process of warm-ing up to drawing that is one of the purposes to gesture drawing,” freshman Joel Calvert said. “As a former athlete, I think of it as warming up for a race. It was pretty relaxed but rigorous at the same time—intense in a fun way. Take five minutes, then slowly build up the time into more fin-ished drawings.”

By the end of the week, stu-dents were drawing based off a model holding her pose 40 min-utes at a time. They often worked in the studio for eight hours each day.

“It is actually physically tax-ing,” Calvert said. “People were tired at the end of the day. The long hours were really helpful

Student Federation President junior Arielle Mueller swore in Vice President junior Heather Lantis and Secretary junior Anna Teigen at last week’s Student Fed meeting.

Due to her surgery on a bro-ken leg, Treasurer and sopho-more Marie Wathen was not sworn in.

After the ceremony, Mueller reviewed the basic responsibili-ties of representatives and as-

signed chairmen to Student Fed committees. Sophomore Tyler Warman is chairman of the pub-lications committee, sophomore Randy Keefe is chairman of the club oversight Committee, soph-omore Alexis Allen is chairman of the elections committee, and sophomore Lucia Rothhaas is chairman of the professor of the month committee.

“I think it went really well,” Mueller said. “Everyone was comfortable.”

As chairman of the club over-sight committee, Keefe said he

would like to change the way the committee deals with club pro-posals.

“I think what we’re going to do is approach the [prospective] clubs and see if there’s anything we can assist them with,” Keefe said. “We’ll just let them know that we’re there to assist them.”

Student Fed is now welcom-ing proposals from campus clubs and organizations at their next meeting on Jan. 23 at 5 p.m. in the Knorr Room in the Knorr Student Center.

Miriam Winter said goodbye to her family when she was only 8 years old. From there, she was moved from village to village in the Polish countryside, keeping her Jewish identity a secret, and being careful never to cry.

“What happened then was traumatic and freezing. I was like a stone. I was like a frozen potato,” she told The Collegian, while sitting in her Jackson, Mich., home.

“My life all those years — it was nothing. It was completely nothing.”

Winter, 81, is one of the few remaining survivors of the Ho-locaust. She, her husband, and her son immigrated to the United States in 1969, and she has now lived in Jackson longer than any other place in her life.

“And I’m not moving,” she said, smiling. “They can carry me out by my legs, but I’m not going.”

In 1997, she published “Trains,” a book documenting the story of her survival. She will be sharing some of her story with students on Hillsdale College’s campus on Friday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m.

Professor of Politics Robert Eden attends the same synagogue as Winter, and after reading her book, wanted her to come to Hill-sdale College’s campus.

“When I read it, I was blown away,” Eden said. “I could tell that it had taken tremendous con-centration to recover her child-hood experiences. I was very, very impressed by the quality of her writing and by the content of the book.”

That’s one of the most no-

ticeable things about Winter: her intensity is inescapable. She talks like a teacher and a mother, thoughtfully selecting her words, watching your eyes, making sure you’re catching her meaning. Though her accent is still strong, her elocution is excellent.

“The older I become,” Winter said, “the more important it be-comes to me, as it does for other child survivors, to make sure that people know what happened and don’t forget.”

When Winter was 60 years old, she began the process of digging into her past, revisiting memories of her childhood, and

attempting to recreate her story. In a journey that took her all the way to Israel and through the concentration camps of Poland, she pieced the fragments of her past together.

Though her story contains much suffering, her talk on Fri-day will focus on the brave men and women whose courage stands in brilliant opposition to the cruelty of those years.

Winter was 6 when German forces swept through Poland and forced her family into the War-saw ghetto. But her memories there are of her loving family,

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Student Federation President Arielle Mueller swears in Vice President Heather Lantis in last week’s Student Fed meeting. The organization is welcoming proposals from campus clubs and other groups at next week’s meeting. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Improv group performs at SagePeals of laughter erupted from

Markel Auditorium on Jan. 17 as professional comedians sang about wiggling wombats, furry caps, jazzy cats, and sparkling snowflakes, all in the hopes of winning the “Phony Award,” a parody of Broadway’s Tony Award.

For an hour and a half, a sold-out crowd enjoyed the musical and theatrical talents of “Broad-way’s Next Hit Musical,” an awards-show style production that combines fast wit and musi-cal talent.

The New York City-based improv troupe performed songs from musicals they made up within seconds, complete with

piano accompaniment, choreog-raphy, and storyline, all based on prompts audience members wrote on slips of paper in the lobby before the show.

After each of the four artists performed their part, the audi-ence applauded for its favorite, and the entire cast then per-formed a mini musical based on the winning scene.

“Down and Out Down Un-der,” the story of an unlucky Australian businessman who re-lies on wombat friends to lift his spirits, won the Phony Award for the Hillsdale performance. The mini musical included a dance move from an audience member, which resembled a one-legged pepper-grinding hop.

The show was part of Hills-dale’s Professional Artist Series, which brings in professional art-

ists for free performances for the college and local Hillsdale com-munity.

“I booked this group a year ago,” Professor of Theater George Angell said. “We used to have an improv group that came through regularly, but I haven’t booked them for a number of years. Broadway’s Next Hit Mu-sical is a good company, and the all-music-based improv is fun to watch and tough to do.”

Students in fine arts classes are encouraged and even required to attend such performances, but senior chamber choir member Ian Swanson said he would have attended even without Profes-sor of Music James Holleman’s prompting.

“I laughed a lot,” Swanson said. “I can really appreciate how much talent those guys have and

how they can literally roll with anything that happens.”

Swanson said he found the star of “Christmas No More,” Katie Hammond, to be absolute-ly hilarious. Theater major and senior Katherine Denton agreed that Hammond‘s physical humor was a highlight of the perfor-mance.

“When Hammond came out as the wife and was so obnoxious and so hilarious and managed to set up the entire motivation for the scene, I was so impressed. They also kept bringing back the same jokes and had wonderful physicality,” Denton said.

Deb Rabbai, another star, taught an acting class to Hills-dale students. Denton said it was one of the best of the Performing Artist Series classes she has ever

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Arts2013 was a great year for American satire, with George Saunders’ “Tenth

of December” and Thomas Pynchon’s “Bleeding Edge.” Saunders’ “Tenth of December” is not only his most original book since “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” it was far and away the best collection of short stories published last year. Whether he is satirizing the American tendency to take medications instead of developing virtues (one of his characters takes KnightLyf ™ to become more chivalric; another gains eloquence through the wonders of VerbaLuce ™), or the complete inability to take responsibility for one’s actions, Saunders shows himself to be our Juvenal, if not our Swift. However, he has never been a writer of satire only, and with the title story and several others in this collection, he writes of alienation and the melancholy of reconciliation in such a way that he sounds more like a contemporary spiritual writer rather than a satirist.

- Dutton Kearney, assistant professor of English

Although Hillsdale alumna Ruta Sepetys published her first novel, “Between Shades of Gray,” two years ago and has been winning awards for it ever since, it gained more popularity with the publication of her second novel, “Out of the Easy,” in 2013. “Between Shades of Gray” tells the story of a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl who is taken by the NKVD—the Soviet Union’s law enforcement during WWII—and kept in an internment camp in Siberia. The book highlights aspects of the war that are usually overlooked, specifically the brutality that occurred on the side of the Allied powers. The entire novel, however, is quietly beautiful and ceaselessly hopeful despite its heavy content, which sets it apart from so many contemporary novels. Hopefully, this is only the beginning of a new trend in literature.

- Mindi Popovich, junior

Few books have had the power to make me reconsider my list of favorite books. “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” however, was one of them. Neil Gaiman has taken a story told from the view of a child and made it a mag-nificent tale for adults. With stunning finesse, he brings the fantastic and the ordinary together and gives us a story guaranteed both to delight us and tear our feelings to shreds. It’s about loss, and family, and memory; three things that, whether we realize it or not, go hand in hand. Gaiman’s book reminds us that, as grown ups, returning to our roots is just as important as moving on from them. And he does this all with beautiful, simple prose. It couldn’t be told in any other way, and that, perhaps, is the real shining point of this wonderful novel.

- Maddie Overholtzer, junior

In 2011, the recently Grammy-crowned members of Arcade Fire took a trip to Haiti to assist in earthquake relief efforts. The band already had ties to the Caribbean country (singer/multi-instrumentalist Régine Chas-sagne’s parents fled from there during the oppressive Duvalier regime), but their trip brought them closer than ever to the country’s people and music. There they encountered something that had been largely missing from Arcade Fire’s body of work: music without baggage. The Haitian street music known as Rara reminded the band that music doesn’t always need to serve a better purpose than to simply get people dancing. So to record “Reflektor,” their next album, the band that once titled an album “Funeral” loosened their black ties and donned carnival masks. The result was breathtaking: an ambitious double album that traced a path from reggae and disco to electropop and hit all the right notes along the way. The title’s a bit of a misnomer: the album is less reflective than it is kaleidoscopic. Not even a late contender from Beyoncé could match this one.

- Ian Ostaszewski, senior

I have long been an admirer of Sergei Rachmaninov’s rousing piano composi-tions, but I have only recently discovered the composer’s choral music. Rachmani-nov wrote “All-Night Vigil” in 1915 as a response to the violence and suffering of World War I, but the liturgical piece was banned shortly afterward in the Bol-shevik Revolution and has only become popular again in the last fifty years.

In this new album, the 27-member Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Sivgards Klava ably sustains the rich tradition of Russian Orthodox choral music by skillfully and emotionally interpreting a wide range of musical motifs, from the grandeur of the opening and closing movements to the poignant harmonies of several inner movements. Anyone who savors the unadorned beauty of the human voice should treasure this beautiful performance.

- David Graber, senior

Creative depravity and excessive irony on the part of numerous well-established artists (Arcade Fire, MGMT, Kanye West, et al.) made room for Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, better known by her stage name, Lorde, to steal 2013. Her freshman release “Pure Heroine” has snagged a fair amount of critical praise, as well as four Grammy nominations. Lead single “Royals” garnered much attention on alternative radio over the summer before being picked up by Top 40 stations, permeating the usually impenetrable line between artistic acclaim and mainstream popularity. Start to finish, “Pure Heroine” is genu-inely inventive (a lost art in pop music) without any intention of irony (again, a lost art). In resurrecting a dull and lifeless genre, Lorde brought improbable truth to the following statement: the debut of a 16-year-old feminist from New Zealand was the best album of 2013. She is absolutely worth the hype.

- Alex Eaton, sophomore

My favorite thing about the Internet in 2013 is the fact that Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for the microblogging site Tumblr. As Tumblr users such as myself know, Tumblr is the strangest thing on the Internet. Forget Reddit, and scrub 4chan out of your brain. Tumblr is queen. There is some-thing WRONG with this website. And Yahoo is so out of date that they still post articles like “Are your teens getting high on iPads?!?” and “Cute fashion trends that men HATE” (Editor’s note: these are not actual Yahoo articles). So after the purchase was completed in late spring, the rest of my internet year was filled with the usual Tumblr nonsense tagged, “this is what Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for.” I do not recommend searching that tag.

- Anne Peterson, senior

2013 was the year of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and finding one involves solv-ing complex computer calculations. It has no government backing, so value is based on how the market is trading Bitcoins. Due to its infancy, the market is going through wild fluctuations, from $13 in January of 2013, to roughly $700 today. More and more businesses are accepting Bit-coins as payment, bringing a lot of speculation to the Bitcoin market. It’s free market oriented, digital, and almost untraceable. I am confident that if Bitcoin remains a strong currency, it has the potential to change how the world exchanges money, and possibly the Internet itself.

- Brady Bellew, junior

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Best Fashion Trend of 2013: Chambray

Worst Fashion Trend of 2013: The “mullet” dress. These are the dresses that are short in the front and long in the back.

- Rachel Fernelius, junior

While I’m not sure if all would agree with this, since by no means am I a fashionista, I would have to say that the the best fashion trends of 2013 would be sock buns, leather, and the return of grunge. It allowed people to pair denim/chambray with a skirt, or add a statement necklace to a crew neck sweatshirt or cute tshirt. A nice peplum top or dress (before it was overdone) was also a great trend. I also would say the worst looks of the year 2013 would be harem pants and crop top/cutout shirts or dresses. Platform or “flatform” shoes should not have returned either. - Corinne Wiggins, sophomore

The best fashion trend in 2013 was the increased promi-nence of my favorite pattern: gingham. If you are unfamiliar with the pattern, you should Google it immediately because you are missing out. This past year I have seen gingham ties, gingham shirts, gingham phone cases, and even gingham socks! Gingham apparel has become not only acceptable but also necessary in the wardrobe of anyone who has aspira-tions of becomoing an extremely sharp dresser.

I can’t think of a particular worst fashion trend of 2013 but I will say that I am not a fan of the whole male capri/rolling pants up to the bottom of the calf thing that seemed to show up everywhere (especially in the spring and sum-mer). I am not trying to offend men who do this but I just can’t seem to grasp why guys would want to show off their ankles…

- Kadeem Noray, junior

Fashion Trends“How I Met Your Mother”

finally delivered on its promise to reveal the show’s namesake. Like most television series, however, show creators dropped the morsel of information in the last 10 seconds of the season 8 finale in May of 2013. It was long enough to spend the summer stewing over the choice. My first impression was one of slight disappointment. Maybe at the writers for leaving me hanging for three months, but perhaps it was aimed toward all of the elaborate hints at the mother culminated in a quick camera shot of a cute girl buying a train ticket to Farhamp-ton. Alas, the show I had dedicated my Monday nights to since high school fulfilled its promise and peace would come at last. Now, let’s go to the mall, everybody!

- Martha Ekdahl, senior

The best TV moment of 2013 probably had to be the Red Wedding scene in the “Game of Thrones” episode, “The Rains of Castamere.” This scene was so powerful and gut-wrenching. Since the majority of the episode seemed a bit lazy and unfinished, the ending blindsided the viewers. I was in shock for a good hour after the massacre of the Starks in Lord Frey’s home. Following the airing of this episode, the Internet universally agreed that George R.R. Martin was to be the most reviled person in the world. This episode makes the wait until the next season, which starts in April, unbearable. - Elise Steffke, sophomore

Kevin Ware’s Leg, March Madness: The game against Duke shuts down in horror when Louisville’s guard, Kevin Ware, shattered the Tibia and Fibula in his right leg — easily the most graphic and grue-some injury suffered in College Basketball.

Kanye West on BBC 1: Kanye calls himself bigger than Michael Jackson, claims he’s a civil rights movement, followed by another #KanyeTwitterRampage when Jimmy Kimmel mocks him for it.

The Nelson Mandela Memorial Fake Sign Language Interpreter: The deaf community points out that the sign language at Mandela’s memorial had been total gibberish. The interpreter, Thamsanqa Jantjie, claims to have suffered a schizophrenic episode which rendered him incapable of signing. - Whittaker Dunn, senior

I thought that the best movies of the year were “12 Years a Slave,” “Gravity” (an amazing technical achievement with a very good perfor-mance by Sandra Bullock as well), “Captain Phillips,” and “Star Trek Into Darkness” (I had to include a science fiction film—I wouldn’t really count “Gravity” as science fiction—and I thought that the homage to “Wrath of Khan” worked better than some other fans thought that it did). I thought that the worst movies of the year were “A Good Day to Die Hard” (a sad fate for the once fun Die Hard franchise) and “Grown Ups 2,” about which the less said the better!

- Donald Turner, professor of philosophy

Two movies that vie for “Best of 2013” that are not in the obvious category are “Frances Ha” and “All Is Lost.” The first is a charming story of post-college challenges (starring Greta Gerwig) that didn’t go blue the way so many of these productions do (see “Girls”). “All Is Lost” stars Robert Redford in a story about survival in a busted yacht somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Both show that you don’t need special effects or high drama for a good movie.

- Darryl Hart, assistant professor of history

I believe the best song of 2013 would have to be Lady Gaga’s song “Venus,” off of her new album “ARTPOP.” Not only is it catchy, but also it is different from all other “pop” music released over the year. She successfully combines pop and art into the song by combining Greek mythology with a psychedelic and futuristic beat. Of course, you do get the typical Lady Gaga sexual imagery as well. Also, if you feel like Pluto deserves its position as a planet again, you would enjoy her inclusion of it in the song.

- William Persson, freshman

Best SongIt’s a brag, goal, and summertime anthem all at once.

Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” topped global charts for its universal dancebility and easy listening, for good reason. The electro-pop song combines retrospection with the disco sound of Nile Rodger’s guitar and the robot-duo’s signature futurism. - Sally Nelson, senior

“American Hustle”: David O. Russell, the director who brought us “The Fighter” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” has again struck gold. The most impressive part of this movie was the cast, and its standout performance from none other than Jennifer Lawrence.

“Her”: Spike Jonze gives an interesting and believable take on what the future might hold for us. Although the idea behind “Her” might not be for the majority of Hillsdale, I think everyone can relate to its heartfelt, raw emotion.

“The Wolf Of Wall Street”: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up again to create a movie driven by testos-terone, this time depicting the life of a power hungry stockbroker in the late 1980s. Yes, it is vulgar. Yes, it is raunchy. Yes, it is wrong. But it’s also hilariously entertaining. WARNING: DO NOT SEE THIS WITH YOUR PARENTS.

- Michael Carter, senior

My pick for best song of 2013 is “Smooth” by Vinyl Thief. This is from their debut album and is a classic indie rock tune. They were a Dr. Wolfram band pick of the week and are mak-ing a breakthrough with this song.

- Gary Wolfram, professor of political economy

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March 13, 2013 marked more than the election of a new Pope. It began a new era in secular com-mentary on the Church. People who once criticized the Catholic Church now followed their criticism with a footnote about how nice that Francis guy is. The Pope's tireless dedication to doctrinal tenets like "suffer the little children to come unto me,” "the love of money is the root of all evil," and "inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me" has gained him a reputation as a radical, possibly Marxist, reformer, taking the Church in a bold, unexplored direction.

- Addison Stumpf, junior

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ArtsMay 20, 2013: Edward Snowden

flees the United States for Hong Kong, beginning a life on the run and eventu-ally winning temporary asylum in Rus-sia. He is either a whistle-blowing hero of personal freedom for revealing the details of a government surveillance program or a traitor who has collabo-rated with the enemies of the United States and endangered the lives of Americans. His legacy is undetermined, but sure to be contested in the years ahead, as Americans debate the dueling imperatives of privacy and security.

- John J. Miller, Dow Journalism Program director

The most important day of 2013 was March 13. This is the day Pope Francis was elected. I believe that God always sends us the pope we need, but right now, we really need Francis. In a time of strife and division, a leader who preaches compassion above all things is of great comfort to me. Our great big brains can often get us into great big trouble, but following our heart is always the right path. I am delighted that so many Catholics and non-Catholics, all over the world, are so touched by the simple message of this humble man. Be kind, don’t waste food, smile, hug, feed babies. Simple. - Barbara Bushey,

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The brand of conservatism that our school expounds collapsed on the day a nefarious cabal of undergraduates dropped ice cream cones onto Dr. Arnn’s table. During the tumult that followed, our campus had to grapple with the problem of nomenclature. We—I’m looking at you, Collegian editorial—made the wrong deci-sion. We called it “coning.”“Skyscreaming” is the superior way to refer to the dropping of ice cream from high places. Not only does it avoid the baggage of skyscreaming’s ugly cone-related, drive-thru-incorporating cousin prank, “coning,” (That’s what it’s ac-tually called!), but it also avoids sounding like an uncomfortable traffic procedure. The phrase manages all this while still incorporating the (vital!) vertical element that makes/made skyscreaming such a unique institution. Hillsdale College lost a lot in 2013: our retro gym interior, that thing where they kept the apples in SAGA, Margaret Thatcher. But we suffered no loss more devastating than that of “skyscream-ing.”

- Evan Gage, senior

2013 was the year that comic book blockbusters began their cin-ematic convergence. On June 10, Warner Bros. announced that the sequel to “Man of Steel,” its Super-man reboot, would feature Batman (weeks later, Wonder Woman joined in), with a Justice League movie a couple years down the line. It was an obvious answer to the massive success of Marvel’s “The Avengers,” the 2012 blockbuster that featured Iron Man, Thor, and others and became the third-highest grossing film of all time. Other studios are also getting in on the shared universe action: 20th Century Fox, which holds the rights to X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and Sony, which has Spider-man, also announced plans to unite their characters previously separated by individual films. And as long as audiences here and overseas continue to shell out for these effects-laden spectacles, expect more of them in our own universe’s future.

- Jack Butler, junior

The most important happening of 2013 was not a singular event, but rather an awakening of the American people. Bi-partisan and independent outrage against NSA and DOJ surveillance, IRS tax discrimina-tion, and drone policy represents an understanding that partisan squabble, while significant, is not the most important struggle in American politi-cal life. Argument may exist over the necessity of NSA surveillance or the right of the Executive to commission drones, but one would be hard-pressed to find an informed American who did not take issue with the government policy or policies that fueled at least one of these scandals. Though some established politicians turned these disgraces into partisan issues, the American people were exposed to the idea that the more fundamental struggle is not the Republicans vs. the Democrats or the Libertarians, but between citizen and state, liberty and tyranny.

- Annie-Laurie Setten, senior

Best: Anytime the Afford-able Care Act was pushed back, because it won’t work and shouldn’t exist. I was also excited when Healthcare.gov turned out to be the greatest website ever made. I remember my visit; they were “very busy right now”, but they had some neat suggestions as to what I could do while I waited, like “gather important documents.” I left my email, and apparently they’re going to get back to me.

Worst: The government shutdown ended. - Andrew Baker, junior

Best: Senator Rand Paul holding President Barack Obama accountable for his drone program. He reminded us that a single congressman can fight our goliath government and win.

Worst: Obama and Benghazi. According to a new Senate report, White House officials knew they were peddling lies when, for weeks, they claimed the attacks resulted from a Muslim demonstration hijacked by unorganized, violent radicals. The White House, which knew the attack was terrorism within 15 minutes, tried to shirk responsibility and their hubris caused them to believe they could get away with lying to the American people.

- Melika Willoughby, senior

Best: My friend Katy got a job on the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion page. Of all things remotely related to politics, I felt far and away best about that.

Worst: Obamacare. After a build up of silly ads (Pajama Boy, “Brosurance, ” fabulously offensive gay stereotypes), the government shutdown, the disastrous website launch, the cancellation notices, and Republican soapbox-ing, the Affordable Care Act was more of a Christmas disaster than “Love Actually.” In other new, I hate “Love Actually.”

- Caleb Whitmer, senior

For me, the two great people of the year are Pope Francis and Malala Yousafzai because of their love and commitment to those who are most vulnerable.

- Carmen Wyatt-Hayes, professor of Spanish

We must give credit when credit is due. Time has been wrong so many times in recent years. Remember “The Protestor” in 2011 and “The Whistle-blowers” in 2002? Yikes! But this time, the magazine got it right. Francis — the subway-riding, foot-washing, Christ’s-love-showing Pope — is most definitely the person of the year. - Daniel Coupland,

associate professor of education

I’d have to say that the moment that comes to mind is the play that gave Auburn its incredible victory over Georgia in November. Down 38-37 with 36 seconds remaining in the game, on fourth-and-eighteen from their own 27-yard line, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall threw a deep pass down the middle of the field, where at the Georgia 20-yard line two defenders were waiting. Rather than simply knock the ball down and insure the win, both defensive backs went for the interception, the ball bounced off of them and into the arms of the Auburn receiver, who took it into the end zone for the game-winning score.

-John Somerville, associate professor of English

1A) the shot by Ray Allen to force OT in the NBA finals.

1B) the Iron Bowl miracle return by Auburn against Alabama after Bama missed a field goal as time expired.

- Brandon Pritzl, senior

2. Andy Murray breaks a British drought of 77 years and wins Wimbledon.

1. Mariano, the great-est relief pitcher in history, and a gentleman and man of faith, retires in dignity and success.

- Larry Arnn, college president

The best moment(s) in sports in 2013, in my opinion, came when Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriquez — two very successful major league baseball players, but also consummate and shameless liars, frauds, and cheaters — got exposed publicly for their wrongdoing. Great confirmation of the old saying, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” It was long overdue for MLB to go on the offensive and root out drug abusers. -Tom Conner, professor of history

There was only one worthy candi-date for last year’s prestigious award: Hillsdale College’s William P. Harris Chair in Military History, Dr. Tom Conner. An award of such grandeur would have been the only appropriate next stage of acknowledgement after his recognition as one of the “Best 300 Professors” in America in 2012. In 2013, Conner reached his 30th year of faithful service to the College and was thanked with no less than a brand-new shop vac. His forthcoming book about the history of the Ameri-can Battle Monuments Commission will surely confirm that he, alone, was the deserving candidate for Time’s Person of the Year award, last year and every year of his life.

- Daniel Teal, senior

I would choose Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel. I don’t know the intimate details of his policy, but I understand him to be a man of courage and character who is presiding over one of the most dangerous and politically challenging and tenuous situa-tions internationally and doing so both graciously and with a no-nonsense, firm will. He is, apparently, holding Bible studies in the official residence of the Prime Minister. He sees the Bible as an important aspect of Israeli life and culture and an important source of guidance for personal life and governmental policy, which I think wise and commend-able, even if that wouldn’t work in the U.S. These days we seem to have few statesemen or people of character to serve as models for the balance between efficacy in highly influential positions and God-fearing personal character, which makes him, unfortunately, a rare and comendable man.

- Bridget Ervin, senior

Oct. 19, 2013. Hillsdale College Chargers vs. Ferris State University Bulldogs. Fresh off of a shootout win over Grand Valley State, the Bulldogs came marching into Frank “Muddy” Waters Field with their vaunted offense and a defense full of Big Ten transfers. The Chargers came into the game fresh off a win over embattled rivals Wayne State. Both teams came in with their eyes set on a North Division title and berth into the DII Playoffs. This game lived up to all of the hype that was built up around it. Offenses were lighting up the scoreboard through-out the game. Early in the 4th Quarter, the Bulldog’s Jake Lampman scampers into the end zone to put Ferris up 35-31. The Chargers find themselves in danger of going three-and-out on the ensuing drive when on third down Sam Landry found a familiar target Andrew “sticks” Mott for a 69 yard touchdown to take the lead 38-35. Following a FSU field goal the Chargers had the ball with 1:27 left on the clock. Perfectly executing the two minute offense, Hillsdale marched down the field, going 77 yards in seven plays to score the game winning touchdown. The Chargers brought in a resounding victory, and, in my humble opinion, the best sports moment of 2013.

- Nick Landry, senior

Speaking on behalf of the baseball team, the best mo-ment of 2013 for our team happened on the second game of the year. We were playing against the number two team in the nation on their home turf. It was the second game of a doubleheader and the University of Tampa won the first of the two games. Lucas Hamelink started on the hill for game two and pitched the game of his life for his first ever collegiate start. We won 2-1 and upset the University of Tampa, who ended up winning the National Champion-ship. - Vinny Delicata, junior

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My picks for best moments of 2013 all dealt with two people making a lifelong commitment to each other. The purpose of our education at Hillsdale is to learn to live well; often, the love of another is essential to that life. Whether I heard the news over a late night phone call, saw the happy couple after the question was asked, or was lucky enough to witness the beautiful kiss at the altar, I knew an overwhelming beauty in each moment.

Also, Dr. Jackson called me the “most missed” individual at Hillsdale Col-lege when I was at WHIP. That was pretty neat.

- Andy Reuss, junior

One of Hillsdale’s best moments of 2013 was Student Federation’s discov-ery of significant rollover funds. With it, they were able to improve campus by replacing deteriorating library furniture and by beginning the science museum’s renovation with carpet installation.

- Annie Teigen, junior

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In the final match of the women’s soccer season, a less-experienced, but hard-working player received a long pass from a defender, and shot a fantastic goal right over the goalie’s head. This was a culminating moment of all the work we put into making this season the best one yet. - Gena Oster, senior

Prince George of Cambridge, “The World’s Most Famous Baby” and third in line to the British throne, is barely six months old. But he’s already hard at work in service to his country, boosting the economy and providing innumerable internet perusers with the classiest baby pictures ever to hit the web.

Between July and September, “Georgie”—with the help of Andy Murray’s Wimbledon win—drew 4.9 million visitors to London, making it the most popular destination in the world. He’s been named “The Telegraph’s ” Briton of the Year, made Barbara Walter’s list of “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013,” and began making waves in the British childrenswear industry.

Within four hours of his 45-second debut to the world in an aden + anais swaddle wrap, the company’s website crashed. A month later, they were still burrowing through orders.He’s not even crawling yet.

- Tory Cooney, senior

Hillsdale College’s Mock Trial program rearranged all three teams at the beginning of this semester, putting all of the strongest players together. The restructuring is intended to give the team an edge in tournaments that could advance them to na-tionals.

“All the people who had scored well in the previous se-mester, we kind of grouped them into two teams,” senior Abby Loxton said. “Unlike last year, the program is large enough and strong enough to make such changes and have them be significant.”

Because the teams have so much strength, Miller de-cided focusing that strength in two teams would give them the best chance of advancing. There are now two “A-teams,” called 1028 and 1029, and a “C-team,"”called 1030.

“Hillsdale has enough strength on its team this year that we would really like to ad-vance multiple teams past re-gionals,” mock trial coach Keith Miller said.

Three members of the team who spent last semester in Washington, D.C., are returning to competition this semester. Juniors Bailey Pritchett, Laura Rose, and Philip Hammersley participated in the WHIP pro-gram in the fall.

“It was a blast," Hammersley said. "But it's good to be back competing with the team and seeing everyone.”

Hammersley, Rose, and Pritchett were able to participate in one tournament last semester in D.C., where they took first place. When they came back, they were already up to speed on the details of the year's case.

“They've integrated with us really smoothly," said senior Abby Loxton, a captain of 1029. "It's been an incredibly positive experience.”

Miller said he enjoyed see-ing how well the three returning veterans had learned their parts.

“I got to see Bailey perform one of her characters this past weekend, and I mean, it's kill-er,” he said.

The team’s first spring se-mester tournament took place in Ohio Northern University the very first weekend after classes started. Team 1029 took third in the tournament, going undefeat-

ed up until the final round. Mill-er said they were close to tying that round, and if they had, they would have won the entire tour-nament. Team 1028 placed in the top 10, out of 38 teams.

Loxton attributes the pro-gram's ability to strategically organize its teams to the way the program has grown. With 23 competitors, the program is larger than ever.

“It's not that we had substan-tially a lot more freshmen this year,” she said. “It's that we had a lot of returners.”

That allows the top two teams to be composed of expe-rienced players who need little coaching.

“Since there are no inex-perienced people, it's not like we need to be teaching people. There are captains in name, but everyone's pulling their weight,” Loxton said.

Hammersley said he was im-mediately able to tell a differ-ence.

“We have a lot more expe-rience," he said. "This year, we have a better sense of what we're doing and how to move forward, so I feel like it's more organized and more focused.”

The next tournaments will be the regional tournaments at the end of February, where re-sults will actually affect teams' ability to advance to the next level of tournament, called open round championships.

“It's still obviously a lot of pressure, and you can never guarantee what's going to hap-pen,” Loxton said. “But I've never felt this confident going into regionals.”

Miller said the success is largely due to the students' hard work.

“The amount of time they're putting in is truly remarkable,” he said. “That's why we're going to go places.”

Hillsdale’s forensics and de-bate teams both started off the spring semester with a tourna-ment at Butler University.

The forensics team took third overall. Junior Brandon Butz placed fourth in Impromptu Speaking, and freshman Chris Landers placed fourth in Persua-sion and sixth in Programmed Oral Interpretation.

On Jan. 25, the forensics and debate teams will travel to St. Louis, Mo. to compete in the “Gorlok Gala” tournament at Webster University.

who she said shielded her from much of the pain of that place, and other Jews who worked to make life good for the children.

“In those cruel conditions, there were people who risked their lives to teach the Jewish children in the ghetto. I didn’t even know that the school was il-legal,” Winter said.

Winter likely would not have survived the war had it not also been for the bravery of two wom-

en, Cesia and Maryla.Cesia smuggled Winter out

of Ozarow, the city to which her family had fled from the ghetto, onto a train. Maryla met Cesia there, and took Winter off young Cesia’s hands, finding work for her in rural villages until the end of the war.

Those years were especially trying for Winter — she had to endure winters without a coat, and sometimes without shoes — but her love for reading helped get her through.

“I think that books saved my soul,” Winter said. “I was reading

a lot.”After the war, Winter finished

high school and went on to col-lege, where she earned a degree in theater. She met her husband at 29. They married, and later moved to the United States, where she lived in several places before moving to Jackson.

These days, after earning her doctorate at age 59 and teaching at Michigan State University and Jackson Community College, she is now retired. She keeps busy with writing, volunteering, exer-cise, and sharing her story when possible.

Reading, writing, and for some, napping, might be a bit more comfortable in Mossey Library now that new furniture purchased with a grant from Student Federation has been installed.

The new chairs and tables arrived last week and have al-ready replaced some of the de-cades-old, regularly-breaking furniture that was purchased when the library was built.

“I wanted something shovel-ready that we could do right away,” Library Director Dan Knoch said, “so students could benefit from it immediately.”

The library ordered 56 chairs and five large tables, to-talling $27,280.28. Shipment was delayed slightly because of recent snow, but all the fur-niture arrived by the first week of classes.

The furniture was ordered to match the existing furniture as closely as possible. New lean-back chairs now surround study tables in the Dow special col-lection room, and new rectan-gular study tables on the sec-ond floor occupy the stacks and study rooms. More new chairs are spread throughout the sec-ond and third floors.

The furniture was part of a larger list Knoch submitted to Student Fed last semester. The federation voted to grant the library money for the new furniture, but other capital im-provements will have to wait until the library’s budget can afford them, which could take years. A Scan Pro 2000 Digital Microfilm/fiche scanner, the 1986-2006 Times of London

digital archives, and a new Xe-rox 5550 two-sided printer are among these.

“This is speeding up consid-erably,” Knoch said. “It would take several years to do this, and with the Student Federation grant we can do it this year.”

The old furniture will be stored by the college, used else-where on campus, or sold at the women’s commissioners sale, provided it is still usable.

Library furniture is designed to be very durable, so it can withstand decades of use and abuse by a demanding student body.

Public Service Librarian Linda Moore explained that the furniture purchased when Mossey was opened in 1971

was made using pressed wood that routinely peeled and split. She thinks the poor condition of the old furniture contributed to abuse.

“If you have an old chair that has some damage, people are going to add some more dam-age,” she said. “It’s like graffiti. If you maintain the look of your environment, people are more respectful.”

The new furniture is made of hardwood, and will also give the library a much more uni-form look.

“Library furniture is tough-er, harder, better-made furni-ture,” Knoch said.

Knoch pointed out one table, in use since it stood in the old Carr Library in the 1950s. Lift-

ing it and setting it down, he demonstrated how sturdy it still is.

“I guess you have to say they don’t make them like they used to,” he said.

Former Student Fed rep-resentative and junior Casey Harper defends the controver-sial decision to grant the money to the library for the purchase.

“Some students have been critical of the decision, but this was an important, one-time purchase that helped the library out, that would have been diffi-cult on their own,” Harper said. “The last chairs they brought lasted 40 years, so this is really an investment in the library.”

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PhotograPhy show oPens in the Daughtry galleryShowing a mixture of fine art, commercial, and journalistic photography, “Perspectives on Photography”

opened last Saturday in the Daughtrey Gallery with a presentation and reception the following day. This show is the first exhibit in the Hillsdale College Art department’s Professional Artists Series this spring.

The exhibit, running until Friday, Feb. 14, features four photographers: Casey Fatchett `97, Roxanne Fogel Kaufman, Lon Horwedel and Mark James.

“I wanted to host a photography exhibit of this sort for some time. I was interested in featuring the images of multiple photographers specializing in the various niches of photography, both fine art and commercial,” Pho-tographer and Lecturer of Art Doug Coon said. “My hope is that students can examine the prints and note the commonality of producing quality images in terms of technique and aesthetics irrespective of utilitarian consid-erations.”

James presented Sunday on the art and science of pinhole photography and his attempt to bring reverence back to photography.

“I want to restore sensitivities,” James said. “Beauty has the power to arrest.”See the next issue for more detailed coverage of both the show and James’ presentation –Sally Nelson

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Sophomores Zoe Knorr and Tirzah Ashmore study on the second floor of Mossey Library using new chairs purchased by Student Fed (Evan Brune/Collegian)

A charcoal drawing sophomore Phoebe Kalthoff complet-ed during the life form drawing workship hosted Jan 6-10. (Courtesy Phoebe Kalthoff)

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attended. Improv club member and freshman Hailey Morgan concurred that the new improv games she implemented in class stretched students in new and

beneficial ways.“She helped with a lot of the

things I kind of struggle with,” Morgan said. “In one drill, we were taught that you’re not sup-posed to act negative, or go against what the other improviser does. You’re supposed to go with it and be positive, and I struggle with that a lot. But they all played off of each other so well. It’s so

crazy.”Besides providing laughs and

a new look at how musical the-ater and improv can blend, the performance left Hillsdale with something else, at least according to Swanson.

“Now we have the ‘wombat wiggle’ to be added to the Hill-sdale vocabulary for all of eter-nity,” he said.

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for my learning because drawing takes time and it’s something that you need to take a lot of time at to become good. It’s not something that you can pick up and put down for 10 minutes every day.”

Students were also challenged by Lu’s linear approach to figure drawing and emphasis on techni-cal skills.

“At Hillsdale we have an addi-tive style. We start with a skeleton and build from that,” Smith said. “JaFang Lu taught us to carve on paper, create shapes and add de-tail as time goes by.”

Participants of the workshop emphasized the importance of practicing technical skills, learn-ing from a new instructor, and drawing based off the form of a nude model.

“You’re looking at the angles and the form,” Kalthoff said. “The human body is one of the most beautiful things, made in the image of God, and we, as artists, try to recreate what we see.”

Library receives new furniture Mock Trial revamps teams

HERE COME THE HILLSDALE BRIDESThe brides-to-be of Hillsdale

will march through downtown this Saturday during the 2nd Annual Wedding Walk, an event hosted by Smith’s Flowers.

Owner Jane Steward said that the event is to help brides with ev-erything and anything they need for their big day.

“The gals are in love,” Steward said. “It’s a fun group of girls com-ing in.”

The brides will start at The Elks Lodge at 10 a.m. and walk through the various shops until 4 p.m. They will be given a bag of fliers and

magazines and can collect more information and freebies along the way. They will also be given punch cards to fill out at all the different stops.

“There is everything from cakes to flowers, venues, jewelry, hair and places to register,” Steward said.

Steward will showcase wedding flowers, bouquets, and displays, and said that close to 30 other Hill-sdale businesses will participate. Businesses include Hillsdale Jew-elers, Cake Thyme, The Hair Cut-ter, All Aboard Travel, 8 North, Ev-ery Bodies Yoga, and many others.

Steward said that last year, she saw about 27 brides, which is a lot for a small town like Hill-sdale. Because last year’s date for

the Wedding Walk coincided with Hillsdale College’s winter break, many brides from the college were unable to attend. This year, the date was pushed back with the hope that more college brides will attend the event.

“You put your best foot forward, give it hell, and go for it,” Steward said.

Senior Gretchen Sandberg, re-cently engaged to Ryan Johnson, plans to participate in the walk with her best friend.

“I think I’d still be interested in going even if I wasn’t getting mar-ried in Hillsdale, but I am, probably in May,” Sandberg said, who plans to have the ceremony at College Baptist Church.

She is mostly attending the walk to check out the floral shops, their prices, types of arrangements, and how they can personalize her wed-ding.

“For me, I’m mostly checking out the flowers,” Sandberg said. She plans to visit Ann Arbor later that day to go wedding dress shop-ping at the Brides Project and Da-vid’s Bridal.

Though the event is primarily for brides-to-be, girlfriends and es-pecially moms of brides, Steward said, are encouraged to come as well.

“It’s not just to show brides what we offer,” she said. “It shows the community what we offer, what we have down here.”

voice of charger football Passes awayParke Hayes ’67, the longtime radio announcer for Hillsdale College sports on WCSR, passed away on

Jan. 10.An inductee in the Hillsdale College sports Hall of Fame, Hayes’ voice narrated hundreds of Charger sports

games over the past 50 years. He was 67.First Presbyterian Church of Hillsdale will hold a memorial service for Hayes on Jan. 25 at 11 a.m.The Collegian will publish a full story on the life and legacy of Hayes in next week’s issue. –Caleb Whitmer

On Jan. 11, the Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center of-ficially hosted its first college track and field meet: the Hills-dale Winter Opener. It was also Hillsdale track and field’s second meet of their indoor season, as well as the first meet of the semester.

“Biermann is fantastic,” junior thrower Heather Lantis said. “The facility is so beautiful, really top-notch. It allows for higher degree of training to take place.”

The Hillsdale Winter Opener was followed by the Northwest Ohio Invitational at the Univer-sity of Findlay on Jan. 17.

Both men’s and women’s

track teams have performed well so far, despite the difficulties that inevitably follow a break away from campus training facilities, head men’s coach Jeff Forino said.

Three men have provisionally qualified for nationals: junior Maurice Jones in the 200 and the 400, senior John Banovitz in the 35 weight throw and shot put, and fifth year senior Brett Daley in the 35 weight throw.

At the Findlay meet, junior Amy Kerst provincially quali-fied for nationals in the 800. In addition to her, athletes in other categories racked up top finishes.

“A lot of athletes are just below those marks [to provin-cially qualify],” Lantis said. “So it’ll exciting to see how the season continues. It’s been a good start.”

The improved facilities allow

Hillsdale to host more meets--including this year’s GLIAC indoor championship--which means the team will travel about half as much as in the past, Lantis said.

“It’s a beautiful place,” Forino said. “It has the widest, flat 200-meter track in the world, which is so much better on our bodies. And there’s so much room.”

One of the benefits of the new athletic facility is safer practice conditions. Pole vaulters don’t have to literally practice around the basketball team and long jumpers don’t have to cut across the track.

“It’s a lot less stressful because it’s less dangerous,” Forino said. “Now we have a nice throwing area, and curtains that come down so nobody will accidentally hit someone walk-

ing through. The track and field event areas are so much better.”

The track teams still have plenty of training and improving left in the facility, as they are not expecting to peak until the last third of the season, in time for the GLIAC championship meet.

“Track is one of those sports where you train for your last meet, so you focus on doing things correctly and performing excellently,” Forino said.

“At the GLIAC conference meet, we compete wholeheart-edly as a team. We have our individual goals throughout the season, and bettering ourselves betters the team,” Lantis said. “Throwers and long distance runners are very different, but we always support each other.”

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Over winter break I went to Orlando, Fla. for Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings to pursue my dream of becoming a professional baseball announcer. I had never been to Florida before and I had no idea what to expect of baseball’s famous net-working event that only happens once a year.

These meetings are the largest gathering of baseball execu-tives in the world. League and organizational meetings are conducted between luncheons, banquets, galas, and tradeshows. In the background, a job fair is conducted for those like me try-ing to get into the business.

In any business, especially baseball, it’s who you know. I knew some people, so I contact-ed them for some advice.

“Don’t wear a tie,” Mitch Duggins, assistant scouting and player development video co-ordinator for the Chicago Cubs, told me.

Jon Paul Morosi, national MLB writer for FOX Sports, told me to dress for the position and look professional. I played it safe and loaded my luggage with everything from three piece suits to a polo and khakis and headed to Detroit to catch my flight.

The Winter Meetings were held in Disney’s Swan and Dol-phin resort. The resort features two five star hotels separated by a 400-yard walkway over water. The Swan is where most of the 600 job fair attendees spent their time while competing for the 400 jobs offered. Meanwhile in the Dolphin, everybody who’s anybody “worked.”

I parked at the Swan and filed in line for a chance to view the job postings. If I wasn’t 6’3” it would have been impos-sible to distinguish me from the other job-seekers in our suits and cheap nametags. This could not be the path to getting a job in professional baseball.

In the ballroom, unemployed fans crowded around the rows of bulletin boards that advertised entry level jobs as ticket sellers. Each posting had a number in the top right-hand corner that was to be placed on a resume and put in a box to be considered for the position. After the quick application process was finished, we headed to the workroom and waited. Every half hour, a guy in a white job fair shirt would come out and post a piece of paper

on another long line of boards listing which candidates were lucky enough to have a personal interview. Within seconds, he was trapped in a crowd of unem-ployed sports fans.

I did not have time for this waiting game. I headed over to the Dolphin. I walked in the lobby and up the escala-tor and immediately knew this was where I needed to be. The MLB Network was rolling live on their set backed by a 40-foot Christmas tree and a huge sign reading, “Baseball’s Winter Meetings, Orlando 2013.” Ken Rosenthal, FOXSports.com’s senior MLB writer, stood not 10 feet away, furiously tweeting MLB rumors. To my right, Clint Hurdle, the Pittsburgh Pirates manager, slouched against a pil-lar in a Hawaiian shirt.

I was surrounded by all of the owners, managers, agents, scouts, and media in baseball and nobody seemed flustered. This wasn’t a fan meet and greet or a place to get autographs. It was a workplace that I desper-ately wanted to be part of. I quickly realized that if someone was important, they were either wearing a suit much nicer than mine or they were simply wear-ing jeans.

From that point on, I ditched my fellow job fair freshman and began to network. I started everyday at 8 a.m. and I didn’t quit until 2 a.m. I handed out over 100 business cards in four days. I shook hands with former Phillie and ESPN tal-ent John Kruk, former Detroit Tigers skipper Jim Leyland, and Rosenthal, just to name a few. I watched as the Mets announced their $60 million, four-year contract with Curtis Granderson. I was in the mix.

I only received one interview from the job fair and I didn’t even have time to go to it. I was busy working out the details of job offers for teams that didn’t advertise positions.

In baseball it’s about who you know. The Winter Meetings is a perfect place to get to know peo-ple. For the most part, nobody is above shaking a new hand and offering a minute of advice for those willing to take the initia-tive. I now know people some would consider to be celebrities, but for me, they’re mentors and potential employers.

Shane ArmstrongCollegian Reporter

Above: Junior Maurice Jones runs in the Biermann Cen-ter on Jan. 11. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Track hosts first meet at BiermannMen’s Basketball

Hillsdale College:55Ohio Dominican: 57

Hillsdale College: 67Tiffin: 58

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Tim Dezelski (348)Kyle Cooper (137)Brandon Pritzl (126)

3-Pointers:Anthony Manno (27)Dezelski (24)Pritzl (18)

Offensive Rebounds:Dezelski (41)Cooper (20)Tony Nelson (16)

Defensive Rebounds:Dezelski (94)Pritzl (62)Cooper (43)

Assists:Dezelski (54)Pritzl (50)Zach Miller (21)

Free Throws:Dezelski (64)Pritzl (44)Cooper (26)

Blocks:Dezelski (20)Cooper (10)Nelson (6)

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 56Ohio Dominican: 75

Hillsdale College: 73Tiffin:53

Season Leaders:

Total Points:Megan Fogt (261)Madison Berry (106)Angela Bisaro (94)

3-Pointers:Kelsey Cromer (13)Marissa DeMott (12)Brooke Borowski (11)

Offensive Rebounds:Fogt (61)Bisaro (28)Sarah Theut (15)

Defensive Rebounds:Fogt (151)Bisaro (36)Theut (29)

Assists:Bisaro (37)Ashlyn Landherr (36)Fogt (26)

Free Throws:Fogt (69)Berry (36)Landherr (33)

Blocks:Fogt (30)Bisaro (18)

On left: Sophomore Kelsey Cromer dribbles past a Wayne State de-fender. On right: Senior captain Angela Bisaro attacks the basket. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Swimming wins in FloridaDoug Williams

Collegian Freelancer

Over Christmas break, while the polar vortex ravaged the midwest, the Hillsdale Women’s swim team was busy on their annual training trip in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Training trip is a hellish period that marks the peak difficulty in the season. With only one day of rest in a 10-day period, the girls either swam two times each day or lifted weights in addition to a session in the water.

For senior Megan Smith and sophomore Alissa Jones, highlights of the trip included “naps on the beach, our day off, and some team bonding activities that we did.”

While they were there, the girls had a chance to compete at the International Swimming Hall of Fame against many other teams. Smith swam better at this part

of the season than she did this time last year, and was happy with her times.

The girls normally swim in yards, but this meet was long-course meters, which explains the discrepancy in times.

Hillsdale took first place among all Division II schools, and received notable performances from junior Cayley Cruick-shank in the 50 breast (35.31 for first place overall) and junior Rachel Kurtz in the 50 free (28.02 for second place overall).

Other notable performances included sophomore Sarah Rinaldi and freshman Emily Shallman, who each took third in their respective events (200 IM and 100 free), as well as distance swimmers sopho-mores Zoe Hopkins and Jennifer Wheeler, who placed second and third for DII and fourth and fifth overall in the 400 free.

Coach Kurt Kirner was pleased with how the training trip turned out.

“This year our trip was two to three days longer than it normally is, which allowed

us to really get some good training in,” he said.

Although they lost to the University of Indianapolis on Jan. 11, Kirner noted the bright side of things. Indy is traditionally a Division II powerhouse, and they attract talent from all over the world, so they didn’t lose to just anybody.

“We were able to get lots of good training in over break, the girls are really healthy right now, and now that Lewis and Indy are gone from our conference, girls who might not have had a chance before may now get one to compete in GLIACs,” he said.

The girls will swim about two more weeks of regular practice before begin-ning their taper leading up to GLIACs. The Chargers will be competing in their last meet against Ashland University at home on January 24 at 6 p.m.

Tory CooneySenior Reporter

Charney said Hillsdale had an alright first half, which ended with Hillsdale down by only five points, but struggled offensively and defensively in the second half.

“We were out-rebounded,” Charney said. “That doesn’t happen.”

Charney said Hillsdale had played four or five good games before the loss to Ohio Dominican.

During the semester break, Hillsdale played six basketball games, winning two and losing four.

“We were definitely looking to win all of them – we didn’t meet that,” sophomore Kayla Geffert said. “But we got our-selves in a good position to qualify for the tournament in March.”

Hillsdale began the new year with a loss to Grand Valley State University, but followed it up with an important win at Ferris State University.

Even though Hillsdale ended the first half ahead of Ferris by 10 points, they fell behind in the second half, and didn’t take the final lead until the last 36 seconds of the game.

“It sparked a winning streak for us,” Borowski said.

After the win against

Ferris State, Hillsdale lost by three points to nationally-ranked Wayne State Univer-sity (20), which has two Division I transfer students.

“It came down to the wire,” Charney said. “We didn’t score on the last possession and lost 88-85.”

Hillsdale finished off the break with a home win against Saginaw Valley State University.

“It was a really big game,” Charney said. “It didn’t start off well, but they played phe-nomenally the second half and won with a

minute left.”Geffert said that the win against Saginaw

Valley put the team in a good position to win against Tiffin.

“From Grand Valley to Saginaw we really improved a lot as a team,” Geffert said.

The Chargers have struggled through several season-ending injuries this season.

“We have not been very lucky,” Charney said. “It’s been one thing after another.”

Senior Marissa DeMott is out with an ACL injury. Redshirt sophomore Abbey Lovat is out for the season with a meniscus

tear, but is undergoing rehab to come back next season. Borowski broke her leg go-ing for a rebound in practice on Jan. 6, but hopes to come back in February. Becca Scherting has been out for a partially torn meniscus, but Borowski said she should be back in a week or so.

“There are usually quite a few injuries,” Borowski said, “but this year we are a little more unfortunate.”

Tonight, Hillsdale contin-ues playing South Division opponents. They will face Lake Erie College at home at 6 p.m.

Saturday, the Chargers play Ashland University, also at home.

“Playing all the North teams really prepared us for the South, which is really competitive,” Geffert said.

“We are really pumped.”

Right: Senior Justin Fawley long jumps at the Hillsdale Winer Opener. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Fifth-year senior Tim Dezelski plays forward on the Hills-dale College men’s basketball team. He was named South Division Player of the Week three times in a row and is currently fourth in the nation in scoring. He is a finance major.

How long have you been playing basketball?

I have been playing basketball ever since I can remember. It has always been something I have loved and am very pas-sionate about. At a young age I knew sports were my pas-sion and I experimented with them all –– particularly foot-

ball, basketball, and baseball. In high school it became clear that I had the highest potential in basketball; that is why I chose to play it in college.

What do you love about the sport?

I love the camaraderie, life lessons, and teamwork involved in basketball. It teaches you life lessons that can be used on and off the court for the rest of your life.

How has the men’s basketball team at Hillsdale differed from other teams you’ve played for?

Our team here at Hillsdale is an extremely close-knit group and that starts with our great coaching staff. The family at-mosphere is unlike any I have ever seen or been a part of.

How do you balance sports and academics?

Balancing sports and academ-ics is tough at Hillsdale. Play-ing basketball –– or any sport for that matter –– requires self discipline and student athletes rely a ton on time-manage-ment skills.

You did very well last year,

but this year you seem to have taken off even more. To what do you credit this success?

I am very honored and owe a lot of the credit to my team-mates, who allow me to be so successful. Most importantly I want to do anything I can to help the team win because that is what matters most.

Do you have any pre-game rituals?

I do not have any specific pre game rituals but I prepare for games the same way I do for practice. I believe that consis-tency is very important.

What are your biggest concerns coming into the semester?

My biggest concern this se-mester is leading my team to being the very best we can be. It is my final semester in col-lege and I would like to leave on the right note.

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Northville, Mich., which is a suburb of Detroit.

What drew you to the major you are in now?

Finance interests me be-cause I want to help other people maximize their situ-ation in the best possible way and help provide some security in other people’s and my own life.

-Compiled by Abi Wood

23 January 2014

Charger Sports

Charger Chatter: tim dezelski

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STRUGGLES THROUGH BREAK

For the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team, Christmas truly was the most wonderful time of the year.

After starting Christmas break with a tough three-point loss to Michigan Tech University, the Chargers reeled off an impressive eight game winning streak before falling to Ohio Domini-can on Saturday, 57-55.

“We’re starting to play better defensively,” head coach John Tharp said. “Our team has re-ally understood that the only way we’re going to be successful is defend-ing.”

Over their eight game winning streak, the Chargers held their opponents to an average of just 60.5 points per game.

“Good defense is the best offense,” sopho-more Kyle Cooper remarked. “We would get turnovers, we would hold the other team to one shot possessions, and then we would get out in transition, and get some easy buckets.”

“We’ve been playing great team defense,” senior Tim Dezelski added.

Dezelski was undoubtedly the team MVP during the winning streak, as he has won three consecutive GLIAC Men’s Basketball South Division player of the week awards.

“It’s an honor,” Dezelski said. “The

best thing is that we’ve been winning games, and if we weren’t winning it wouldn’t be as cool.”

Dezelski is averaging an astonishing 24.9 points per game this season on 57.3 percent field goal shooting, in addition to 3.9 assists per game and 1.9 steals per game. It has put him at fourth in the nation in scoring.

“He’s a great player,” Tharp said con-cerning Dezelski. “He demands a great

deal out of himself and he demands a great deal out of his team. He does it in a lot of different ways. He scores, he rebounds… we feel really fortunate that he’s in a Hillsdale College uniform.”

“[Tim Dezelski] continues to find ways to improve,” Cooper said. “He

does it in every facet of the game. He hits his shots, and they’re good shots, he involves his teammates when we have shots and he rebounds the ball… I hope he can keep doing it and do better.”

Another factor that contributed to the Chargers’ success was the extra time without schoolwork that Christmas break brought to the players.

“It is a chance for our guys to focus strictly on basketball, to have a few ex-

tra practices,” Tharp said. “We have such a close basketball team that it’s just a nice op-portunity to be together, doing a lot of different things as a team, and making improvements.”

The Chargers’ winning streak was highlighted by two im-pressive road victories against Grand Valley State University and Ferris State University. The Chargers beat Grand Valley by a close margin of 68-66, and followed up their performance with a 72-59 win against Ferris.

“I thought that was really a weekend that our guys showed a tremendous amount of tough-ness and discipline,” Tharp said about the two victories.

“Those are two tough places to play, and we gave both those teams their first loss in the league, so that was a real turn-ing point for us, and we got some confidence after that,” Dezelski added.

The Chargers now have an overall record of 10-4 (6-4 in the GLIAC), and are third place in the South Division, sitting

only a game behind Walsh and Findlay.The Chargers will look for their ninth

win in their last ten contests tonight against Lake Erie College at 8 p.m. in Jesse Phillips Arena.

Nathanael MeadocroftCollegian Freelancer

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Defense key in Charger wins

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On left: Senior Tim Dezelski makes a layup in the Charger win over Wayne State. On right: Junior Zach Miller drives to the basket. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team defeated Tiffin Uni-versity by 20 points on Thursday, Jan. 16.

The Chargers’ previous three wins all came down to the last two minutes of the game, winning each by less than five points.

But against Tiffin the Chargers took the lead in the beginning of the game

and never lost steam. “We made that game ours from the

start,” head coach Claudette Charney said.

It was their best game of the season, junior Brooke Borowski said.

Then on Saturday, Jan. 19, Hillsdale lost 56-75 to Ohio Dominican Univer-sity.

“Saturday was the complete op-posite,” Charney said. “I have no idea why.”

Monica BrandtCollegian Reporter

Junior Megan Fogt prepares to shoot a free throw at a home con-test against Wayne State. Fogt leads the team in free throw shoot-ing, along with overall scoring and rebounds. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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