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Hillsdale climbed the ranks of several national rankings this year focusing on the col-lege’s academic excellence and what one group called “radical conservatism.”

The most notable dis-tinction came from Forbes Magazine, which ranked Hillsdale the 60th bestcollege in the country, seventh best in the Midwest and the number one college in Michigan. The ranking is especially note-worthy considering Hillsdale jumped from 106th in 2010’s ranking.

President Larry Arnn said that while he thought ranking schools is a difficult undertak-ing he was pleased with the recognition.

“The rankings mat-ter because they matter to other people,” Arnn said. “We should do well.”

Forbes staff member Michael Noer writes on the magazine’s website that the rankings are based on “the things that matter most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, gradu-ation rates, and low levels of debt.” The rankings, which aimed to reach out to prospec-tive students as consumers, were created for Forbes by The Center for College Af-fordability and Productivity, a think tank based in Washing-ton, D.C.

Vice President Rich Péwé said the college has recently made more statistics such as tuition and retention rates available to groups like Forbes, but he ultimately cred-ited the exceptional faculty and applicants as responsible for boosting the college’s reputation.

“We continue to get better and better,” Péwé said. “We are continuing to make incredible progress with

our applicant pool.”While Péwé was skeptical

of the list, saying that many schools continually receive high rankings based on their historical reputations, Hills-dale admissions counselors readily embraced the distinc-tions. Admissions counselor Shannon McCleary ‘10 said an increasing number of students are finding schools based off of ranking systems.

“It’s definitely something we are going to use so that prospective students can see the value of Hillsdale,” Mc-Cleary said. “We are excited to talk about the ranking, especially being the number one Michigan school.”

Freshman Wyatt McDon-nell said learning of the ranking during his second campus visit didn’t influence his decision to attend Hillsdale but rather confirmed what he already thought about the school.

“It didn’t surprise me,” McDonnell said. “It’s academ-ically superior and it’s a better environment.”

McDonnell chose Hillsdale over Rice University, North-western University, and the University of Michigan.

Forbes was not the only publication watching Hills-dale in 2011. The Princeton Review type-listed Hillsdale’s student body the first most conservative school in coun-try, first on a list entitled “Fu-ture Rotarians and Daughters of America,” and second most religious in the country behind Brigham Young University. Hillsdale showed up on a number of other lists includ-ing 18th on “Professors Get High Marks,” 16th on “Easiest Campus to Get Around”, and 12th on “Don’t Inhale”, a list of a campuses without drug cultures.

In July, Hillsdale joined the likes of Occidental Col-lege, Bard College, and

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Hillsdale gatHers aCColades

Large student body uproots men, relocated a mile off campus

College rises in national rankings

364 freshmen make the cut

For the tenth year in a row, Hillsdale College’s incoming class of students has raised the standard for academic creden-tials, with better test scores, GPAs, class rankings and na-tional merit scholars than their predecessors.

The 364 new students admit-ted to Hillsdale this semester represent only 43 percent of applicants, a new record for the school’s acceptance rate.

“It’s an exciting time to be at Hillsdale College,” said Jeff Lantis, director of admis-sions.

Almost every number associ-ated with admission increased this year, with one exception — the number of students admit-ted. In 2010, 411 new students came to the college, a number Lantis said in retrospect was too big.

This year’s class is 20 percent smaller, even though applications rose by about that percentage. Admissions counselors sorted through 2,210 applications from 38 different states and six foreign countries to hand-pick the freshman class,

Lantis said.Senior Admissions Counsel-

or Jenny Brewer said Hillsdale’s increased name recognition definitely has something to do with the flood of of ap-plications. People who hear about the school from political programming or Imprimis often recommend it to their school-aged relatives.

“There’s that college on the radio,” she said, laughing.

Lantis said people often ask him why he thinks applications have grown by 35 percent in the last three years.

“I say that Dr. [Larry] Arnn and the board of trustees hired three new admissions coun-selors: Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity. And they’ve done a very good job for us,” Lantis said.

Both Lantis and Brewer said the name recognition also car-ries certain implications. They said they often have to explain that the college’s mission tran-scends any particular political platform.

“One of the first things I do is define conservative,” Brewer said.

She said conservative means “We believe there is truth and it does not change.”

“I want to make sure [students] are interviewing with us for the right reasons,” she said.

Lantis said he explains the college’s commitment to the lib-eral arts and the idea of educa-tion beyond a narrow vocational training.

“You have students that think we are the Republican party headquarters, and we’re not,” he said. “You have students who think we’re Bob Jones

University — and we’re not. Sure, you

have to sort that all out.”But the recognition does

mean that students no longer confuse the college with every other self-titled liberal arts col-lege, Lantis said.

The result is a highly com-petitive admissions rate and full-to-overflowing dorms.

“We’re packed,” Diane Philipp, dean of women said.

Due to a growing retention rate, a large number of students wanting to live on campus, and the size of the incoming fresh-man class, some students were moved off campus after receiv-ing their housing assignments.

Ten men were moved to a newly renovated, college-owned house at 2271 Half Moon Lake Rd. to help free some space in the dorms.

“We had more men deny their off-campus permission than in years past,” said Dean of Men Aaron Petersen. “More upperclassmen wanted to be on or close to campus.”

Petersen said Hillsdale’s good retention rate was also a factor that played into the dif-ficult housing needs.

Senior Matt Noble, a Collegian photographer, was supposed to be the head resident assistant of Koon Residence. But when it was switched to

a women’s residence in the middle of the summer, he found himself with two options: to live off campus, or to move to the house on Half Moon Lake Road, now called The Mansion.

Noble said the house is

college-owned but not techni-cally a men’s dormitory. Before the school year began, the college renovated The Mansion. Noble said it replaced the floors, cleaned, and painted.

Senior Brad Dietzen said he

was planning on living in Gal-loway Hall, until the summer when he received an email from the dean’s office asking him to consider moving to the house on Half Moon Lake Road. Dietzen said initially he was unhappy. He did not want to live so far

off campus and was looking forward to spending his last year in a dorm. After a few different changes in his rooming plans, Dietzen was moved back to the room he originally requested.

“What people haven’t seen is

that a lot of people tend to kill the messenger,” Dietzen said. “This wasn’t [Petersen’s] fault, for sure, or really the adminis-tration’s. It’s a good bad situa-tion to have — we have more students than we’ve ever had before. He was very accommo-dating about it and professional and helpful about it.”

The greatest concern for

Noble is a slowly growing sepa-ration of students from campus as less housing on campus is available.

Noble said the “housing crisis” affects the entire student demographic. “They started to separate the classes,” he said. “Now it’s harder to have upper-classmen mentors because they are no longer in the dorms. A once tightly knit community is now being fractured, and that’s unfortunate.”

Dietzen acknowledged that it was a challenging situation. “I can’t imagine what the dean had to deal with in all of that, and hopefully other students did the same and kept their passions intact,” he said.

Junior Andrew Weaver is a resident at The Mansion. He said he planned on living in Simpson Residence but received an email asking him to move to Half Moon Lake Road. Weaver said the college did a great job on the renovations and is enjoy-

Freshmen and their families attend Convocation on Sunday. The class of 2015 is 20 percent smaller than last year, but significantly more selective. (Chuck Grimmett/Collegian)

Ten upperclassmen were moved to this house on Half Moon Lake Rd., after some of them had been assigned on-campus housing. High retention rates and a large incoming class were responsible, administrators said. (Matt Noble/Col-

Students reenact the 1587 Raid of Cadiz in the Slayton Arboretum last week. Students in home-made cardboard boats represented the British and Spanish sides. (Greg Barry/Collegian)

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MartiNi briNgs global seCurity to Hillsdale

Chris Martini has led global security departments for major corporations. He has managed business trips to crime-ridden countries for western millionaires. He has defended executives from armed gangs in South Africa and Latin America.

Now he is taking over Hillsdale College’s security office.

Martini said the wildest place he ever worked was South Africa when he was senior manager of global security for Capital One. The company had purchased

a South African bank and several executives and their families had to visit the country.

“It was insane,” Mar-tini said. “It was very, very dangerous, especially to bring people with wealth into the country at the time.”

The police, distracted by gun battles with gangsters, told the Capital One group it was on its own in an emer-gency. Martini led a force of armed bodyguards. The group stayed in secure compounds at night.

“It had to be so controlled because the threat was ev-erywhere,” he said. “I’m not being facetious. The advice that we received going into {see Housing page 4

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Michael Murray is the new-est face in the revamped Career Services Office.

Formerly the Career Plan-ning Office, Career Services hired Murray as the office’s new executive director as part of an expansion intended to increase Hillsdale students’ chances of finding internships and employment.

Murray has a strong hand-shake and a tinge of gray hair. The son of an Irish national who immigrated to the United States to find a job, Murray said he has always been attracted to helping others develop career paths.

Murray played both football and baseball and was a mem-ber of the Alpha Tao Omega fraternity as a student at Albion College.

He graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1991, studied law at the University of Detroit Mercy, and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in

2005 and 2006. He also worked in military career development.

“It was really then that I was bit by the bug of career devel-opment,” he said.

Registrar Douglas McArthur, who was involved in the initial interview for the position, said Murray’s forthright attitude stood out to him.

“I think he’s very engaging, incredibly sincere, and genu-inely interested in the college’s mission,” he said.

Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said Murray will travel the country in tan-dem with the college’s current fundraising efforts.

Murray said he will work to expand relationships with busi-nesses where Hillsdale students have an exclusive track to apply for a growing “pipeline of internships.”

He said he will also assist students with discovering their vocations.

“I want to help students find strengths and weaknesses, likes and desires,” he said. “People move in and out of careers, so I want to help them develop last-

ing vision.”Wiseley

said this will translate prac-tically into Sophomore Check-ups, in which Career Services will eventually meet with all second-year students to talk about their futures.

The office itself is also receiving an upgrade. Collapsed cardboard boxes and glossy stained cabinets suggest what Wiseley said is a “facelift” for Hillsdale’s vocational arm.

But the mission statement of the office will stay the same, she said. Increased funding, a revamped office and two new hires — of which Murray is the

first — will only redouble cur-rent efforts to “encourage and assist students in fulfilling their vocations, so that, leavened by their education, the students better serve their neighbors, their nation, and God.”

Murray intends to follow this mission to the letter.

“I am very into following text,” he said. “That’s my politi-cal stance and how I approach my life professionally.”

Career Services hits the road

T. Elliot GaiserOpinions Editor

Roxanne TurnbullArts Editor

The Career Services Center is doubling its efforts to place students in a competitive job market.

The office is focusing on underclassmen and broaden-ing networking resources for students in order to place them in the best internships, graduate schools, and job opportunities

possible.As part of this effort, the

department’s facilities are also undergoing renovations to accommodate two new staff members — Executive Director Michael Murray and a position yet to be filled.

“We really want to create a career exploration program that is integrated with the faculty and the mission of Hillsdale College,” Murray said.

Career Services will begin a

Sophomore Check-Up this fall to introduce younger students to the resources they offer and to help them compete for internships, particularly with corporations and other entities exclusive to Hillsdale students. It will also begin advising freshmen on career paths soon.

“We want to get students in-volved earlier in this process,” Joanna Wiseley said. “I was in Chicago and Washington, D.C., this summer working on foster-

ing relationships and develop-ing employment opportunities.”

Internships and job oppor-tunities will also likely come out of Career Services’ new partnership with the Michigan Colleges Foundation. A group of students will visit corpora-tions this fall — including Compuware andWhirlpool — along with other MCF-member colleges to give students a chance to scope out career paths and gain employment.

“Practical, real world experi-ence gained from internships makes students more quali-fied, well-rounded candidates when they apply for jobs or graduate schools,” Murray said. “It makes them stronger candidates while broadening their own personal network for employment opportunities.”

Career Services reported that 97 percent of 2010 Hillsdale graduates are attending profes-sional or graduate school or are

otherwise occupied by choice.“The placement rate is high

so there is little room for im-provement there, but what we can do is work to improve the quality of the internships and ensure that the graduate school opportunities are a better fit for the student,” Murray said. “We want a more substantive and accurate program for Hillsdale students.”

Internship central: Career Services expands vision for underclassmen

With his office smelling of fresh paint and his radio spew-ing information from the Hills-dale College maintenance team, Energy Education Specialist Tim Wells sits at his new desk in Central Hall exuding genuine enthusiasm for the vast amount of work Hillsdale College’s administration has placed on his shoulders

That’s an enthusiasm the administration shares.

“I am so excited about what Tim brings to the table,” said Rich Péwé, vice president for the administration, “He has ad-ministrative talent and a strong work ethic. Energy Education Specialist is a highly technical position that requires strong communication skills.”

Wells will work closely with the company Energy Educa-tion to monitor the college’s energy usage and look for areas where simple alterations will cut expenditures.

“Our number one priority is to provide a comfortable living and academic environment,” said Wells. “We are trying to ensure that all of our needs are met while looking for pockets of savings.”

Wells is no newcomer to

Hillsdale’s campus. He gradu-ated from the college in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science. For the past four years, Wells has also been the assistant coach of the college’s women’s basket-ball team.

Wells was asked to step into his new position on June 1, 2011, to accommodate a brand new mission of the administra-tion.

“We are always looking for opportunities to create efficien-cies at the college,” Péwé said. “One big opportunity to save money will come by reducing our energy and water consump-tion. Our goal is to be better every year and to be more cost effective.”

The numbers have been crunched, and the administration hopes to save around $200,000 by the end of this academic year. If all goes according to plan, the college will save close to $6 million in the next 10 years.

“All the resources we’re at-tempting to save are going to be redirected back to the academic realm,” Wells said.

Wells and Péwé said funding will be given to supporting both students and faculty.

Cooperation from the stu-dents will be an important factor

in saving the amount of money the college hopes for. Resident assistants from all dorms have been given guidelines to assist in cutting energy costs for their respective halls.

“It is great that students will be saving money that might go to future students,” said junior Ben Maddock, an RA in the Suites. “Conservation is a very positive issue and should be taken more seriously.”

Emily Schutz, a sophomore RA in Olds Residence, agreed.

“It’s things we should have been doing anyway, [and] it’s not meant to make us uncom-fortable,” said Schutz. “If it works, I think it’s a great idea.”

A new online energy portal will be open to students within the next couple weeks. Here, students can post any problems they witness as far as tempera-ture, water pressure, and other related issues. This way, Wells can keep in full communication with the campus and perform his job more efficiently.

“As long as everybody works together, I think we should be very successful,” Péwé said.

Sustainability plan to save Hillsdale energy, money

Casey HarperCollegian Freelancer

Resident assistants from the women’s dorms have taken a new step to build community between freshmen and upper-classmen residents.

To accomplish this, the up-perclassman women’s dorms have individually adopted each of the freshman women’s halls in order to promote bonding and community among the sopho-more, junior and senior women and the class of 2015.

The idea for “Adopt a Hall” was developed at the group leadership seminar by a group of RAs including seniors Han-nah Willis and Aubrie Marks, juniors Brianna Landon and Sarah Delserone, and sopho-more Jessica Youngstrom, and all six of the upperclassmen women’s residences have be-come involved by adopting halls in either McIntyre or Olds.

“We all kinda realized the lack of interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen,” said Willis, House Director of Mauck. The RAs came up with “Adopt a Hall” to “encourage the upperclassman dorms to interact with the freshmen to some extent,” Willis said.

The freshmen in Olds Lower Right have already seen their

adopters, the women of Water-man, at work. Freshmen Danica Carrier and Meredith Caton said Waterman women snuck into their hall last Wednesday, leav-ing gifts of homemade cookies and handmade notes signed “From the Ladies of Waterman.”

The Paul House residents also reached out to the freshmen class by bringing cookies to their adopted hall, Olds Lower Left, on the freshmen’s first night on campus and then the following night inviting their adoptees over for a tour of the Paul House.

Junior Elizabeth Matheson, a Paul House RA, said the Paul House women are very attached to Lower Left.

“We will see them up the hill and know their names,” Mathe-son said.

Matheson said the women in her house — particularly the 10 sophomores — feel very passionate about welcoming the freshmen because they remem-ber what it’s like to be new and not know a lot of people on campus.

They want to know the freshmen and be there for them without being overbearing, she added.

Besides getting to know their adoptees, the Paul House is making an attempt to meet

many others by hosting Satur-day morning breakfasts for dif-ferent McIntyre and Olds halls each week.

Willis said that “Adopt a Hall” is not a program with any specific requirements for the upperclassmen. The idea is that a couple times a semester the adopters and adoptees will get together — perhaps something as low-key as a movie or a meal together at Saga.

Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell said that “Adopt a Hall” came out of a desire “to create a stronger community among women residents on campus.”

Dell said that although the RAs are there to develop bonds with freshmen, there are many other women on campus who could act as mentors if given the opportunity. She said fostering that kind of cohesive commu-nity among women of all classes can be difficult because, unlike in men’s residences, the fresh-men women live in separate dorms.

Dell also said that the admin-istration, though not directly in-volved in the creation of “Adopt a Hall,” is in full support of the idea.

Rebekah LindstromCollegian Freelancer

Upperclass women adopt freshmen halls

Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley counsels a student on career opportunities in her office. (Wesley Steeb/Collegian)

Energy Education Specialist Tim Wells is attempting to save the college $6 million in the next 10 years. (Greg Barry/Collegian)

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Time OffThe clocks in Central Hall are

scheduled to be reset to the proper time this week.

Rich Péwé, vice president of administration, said it was noted the clocks were out of sync when observing construction for the new Reagan statue. Attempts were made to reset the clocks via method of button pushing effective in the past, but servicing the automatic clocks has proven less than auto-matic.

An outside repairman is coming in to set them right. Until repairs are made to the clocks, those crossing the Hillsdale campus must find their time elsewhere.

Assistant Professor of Politics John Grant said he relies on his watch.

Sophomore Max Kleber sopho-more said he uses his phone..

“I believe in this digital age people are getting their time from other sources,” he said.

— Jessi Pope

The Hillsdale College Writing Center has been an important resource for many students — freshmen and seniors alike.

Now, the center is undergoing renovations that will enlarge the space and include new features for those seeking help from the tutors.

“It’s going to be great,” senior Kirsten Block said.

The renovations will include taking out a wall to expand the current space. There will also be three or four individual study rooms built in the center.

Along with a new layout, the center will include new furni-

ture.The renovations are planned

to take about two to three weeks once they begin.

“I would say that we’ll be up and running within the month,” Block said.

The center is temporarily located in the Career Services office, but the change has not affected the number of students seeking help, Block said.

“It gets pretty busy in the fall semester,” she said. “We’re excited.”

— Evan Brune

Caleb WhitmerCopy Editor

Park Place Apartments,

the apartment building be-hind Simpson Residence, was recently foreclosed on, much to the chagrin of the students who intended to live there this semester.

Senior Evan Johnson lived at Park Place last semester and had already signed his lease for the next semester when he and his roommates discovered that their building had been foreclosed on in late May.

“We didn’t actually find out about [it] until we found a foreclosure notice on our door,” Johnson said.

They talked to the landlord, Rick Vear, who told them that he had signed the property over to the bank, but that it was prob-ably going to honor the leases.

The bank decided not to.In late July, Johnson and his

friends got a call from Dean of Men Aaron Petersen who had talked to officials from the bank while looking for more housing opportunities to make room for the incoming freshmen class.

While the bank had consid-ered honoring the leases, they ultimately decided to auction the building off, Petersen said.

After talking to the bank, Petersen called Johnson and his friends to let them know that they needed to remove their possessions from the building.

Although they left their phone numbers on a piece of paper in-side the apartment, Johnson said the bank never tried to contact him or his roommates.

Petersen said the breakdown in communication between the bank and the students was not malicious or intentional and bank officials were friendly throughout the process.

“I think everyone was in un-charted territory here,” he said. “Nobody at the bank was trying to make trouble for the tenants.”

Senior Katie Lamb and her roommates had even less notice about the it than Johnson and his, as they didn’t learn about the foreclosure until early July. Girls living in the apartment below contacted Lamb after they drove by the building and noticed the property’s long, neglected grass.

“I have no idea if [Vear] was ever going to tell us or if we were just going to show up and say ‘Oh, we don’t have a place to live,’” Lamb said. “I’m glad we found out when we did though.”

The girls contacted the bank, which informed them they would not be able to live at Park Place next semester. The girls were mailed their deposits the next day.

Johnson, Lamb, and their roommates were all able to find new off-campus houses before the semester started.

Vear, an ’83 alumnus, origi-nally built the apartments specif-ically for college student use.

“I’m catering to you [col-lege students],” Vear said to the Collegian in 2003. “That’s the whole reason behind why I built the units.”

The number listed for Vear in the phone book was discon-nected when The Collegian tried to contact him.

Hillsdale College is consid-ering bolstering its teaching staff at the Kirby Center as part of proposed changes to the Washington-Hillsdale Intern-ship Program.

WHIP students spend a semester living in Washington, D.C., interning at congress-men’s offices, and taking classes at the college’s recently renovated Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship.

Students work more than 40 hours a week at their intern-ships, compared to taking just two college classes.

While he described plans as being in the early stages of development, President Larry Arnn said he expects any changes to the program would involve tweaking the balance between interning and studying.

“What will benefit them more, work or studying? I’m not sure what the answer is to that question, but I expect it might be studying,” said Arnn. “We have to think about it more.”

“A lot of people are speculat-ing that this or that might be the right thing to do [at Hillsdale College],” said Provost David Whalen. “Right now we have a lot of people thinking about expanding the Kirby Center in an academic direction.”

Whalen also said that he sees ideas for future use of the Kirby Center as being similar to a

“study abroad in D.C.”As part of that, David Bobb,

director of the Kirby Center, hopes to give students more options of classes to take.

Bobb said the hope is that by increasing the center’s diver-sity of classes and decreasing the amount of time students spend working on their intern-ships, students will be better able to continue working on their majors while participating in the program.

Bobb specifically mentioned core classes such as American Heritage and Constitution as courses likely to be offered at the Kirby Center in the future.

“Offering new courses al-lows [more] students to see what a career in media or politics entails,” Bobb said. “[WHIP] can help them find their way into an excellent internship and give them an opportunity to make a differ-ence.”

Whalen also stressed that changes to the WHIP program would not result in a displace-ment of the program as it is now. Students will still be able to have full-time internships, but the option to work a part-time internship while taking a heavier course load will also be available.

Nine students are enrolled in WHIP for this semester, which Bobb said is about average. 40 to 50 are usually enrolled during the summer session, but those students only intern and don’t take classes.

Arnn said more students and

professors at the Kirby Cen-ter will not result in a larger teaching staff for the college as a whole. Instead, professors would most likely be shifted between Hillsdale and Washing-ton. At least one professor has expressed interest in participat-

ing.Arnn said his one regret for

the center is the current small enrollment.

“The Kirby Center would be a better place with a bunch of silly students around,” he said.

SafeCOnneCT UpdaTe iSSUeSA mandatory update of Safe-

Connect encountered serious problems last week.

SafeConnect, the campus in-ternet-safety software, required students to continually install the new update at each log-in.

Sophomore Garrett Holt, a Simpson residenct assistant, said he and many other men on his floor encountered issues with the SafeConnect software.

“It [the installment prompt] pops up every time,” Holt said. “I have to download it like10 times before it works.”

After the first unsuccessful update, Impulse, the supplying company, effectively relaunched the update at the end of last week.

“Those issues are resolved, and I currently do not know of any other wide-scale Safe-Connect issues,” said Patrick Chartrand, network systems manager of ITS in an email to The Collegian.

Chartrand said that SafeCon-nect is “a great product, that is far less intrusive and much easier to mange” than systems ITS used in the past.

SafeConnect made it possible for students to bring their own wireless routers to Hillsdale’s campus for the first time in 2010.

“When the SafeConnect software works right, it works well,” said David Zenz, execu-tive director of ITS.

— Taylor Knopf

Clerical errors led to campus and local non-profits losing their tax-exempt status.

The paperwork was muddled for the Delta Phi Alpha National German Honorary and various other non-profit organizations — such as the Astronomical Society of Hillsdale and the Biblical Apostolic Organization, Inc. — whose names appeared on the IRS automatic revocation list.

The Automatic Revocation of Exemption List is a list of the names of organizations that failed to re-file their 501(c)(3) form, a form that needs to be re-filed every three years. Those on the list are no longer eligible to receive exemptions.

Assistant Professor of Ger-

man Fred Yaniga said he sent the needed information yearly to the Delta Phi Alpha national chapter, and the chapter then filed under 501(c)(3) require-ments.

But during the past couple of years, whether through clerical error or shuffled priorities, the IRS placed Delta Phi Alpha on the list, claiming the honorary hadn’t filed in three years.

Yaniga said the national chap-ter was aware of the confusion and had accountants working to mend the problem.

“There’s nothing to be blamed other than bureaucratic, govern-ment snafu,” Yaniga said.

— Abigail Wood

Caleb WhitmerCopy Editor

Foreclosures leave students stranded

The core goes to Washington

Areopagus, the high Greek council created by last year’s sorority and fraternity presi-dents, might cease to exist.

Pi Beta Phi sorority President Jaclyn Beatty, a senior, said that unity and communication be-tween the sororities and fraterni-ties still remains a priority.

“We are still working on

creating unity through differ-ent entities,” she said. “We are simply trying to figure out if the council will work of if there is another solution that would be more effective.”

Senior Alison Guttrich was elected at the end of last year to represent Pi Beta Phi on the council. No other houses have

elected representatives.Beatty said that at this year’s

leadership retreat, the presidents encouraged the PanHellenic Council and the Inter-Fraternity Council to take leadership of communication between male and female Greek students.

Aeropagus was originally formed to act as a liaison be-

tween the PanHellenic Council and the Inter-Fraternity Council. It was tasked with fostering communication and strength within the entire Greek system.

— Emily Johnston

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The Kirby Center opened in 2010 as Hillsdale College’s satellite in Washinton, D.C. {Chuck Grimmett/Collegian}

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dom College on The Huffington Post’s list of the Nine Most Radical Colleges in America. Post writer Lindsay Ditt-man justified Hillsdale’s placement on the list calling the institution’s fiscal policy “vehemently conservative.”

Péwé said making

lists like the Huffington Post’s doesn’t bother the administration but rather reassures them that they are following their first principles.

“We are probably do-ing exactly what we are supposed to be doing,” Péwé said.

the country was, ‘You don’t even stop at traffic lights.’”

Martini spent time in the armed forces, but he said that didn’t truly prepare him for the personal protection side of his job. He went through several programs, learning everything from combat to defensive driv-ing to mental preparation.

But a good security of-ficer always aims to keep his charges one step ahead of the enemy, he said.

“If you ever have to use any of that training, then you fail,” he said.

Despite his best efforts, Martini did meet the enemy face-to-face three times in his career, once in Latin America and twice in South Africa.

“When you put wealthy people or important people or recognized people in poten-tially dangerous areas, you’re always going to have some-thing that develops,” he said.

Martini and his wife Rachel decided it was time to move away from San Diego and he began looking for job opportunities. He knew of Hillsdale College and respected its mission, so he jumped at the opportunity to take over the role former head of security Mike Wertz vacated when he resigned last spring. Martini’s headquarters will be the new security office across from the Dow Leadership Cen-ter on 25 E. Galloway Dr.

Senior Davidson Russell, the student director of security,

said Martini is taking over an otherwise intact staff.

Martini starts work Sept. 26, but he met a number of students at a leadership retreat shortly before school began.

“I think that there’s a good base to build on,” he said. “I think the students trust security and understand the role it plays in the college. I certainly want to preserve that and enhance that where it makes sense.”

Junior Hannah Akin met him at the weekend retreat.

“He is a man who really cares about the students and about his job,” she said. “And he is extremely well qualified. He’s also up for pranking the dean, which makes him fabu-lous in my book.”

At the retreat, Martini played a practical joke involv-ing water balloons on Dean of Men Aaron Petersen.

One of Martini’s plans is to teach seminars in self-defense, a skill he considers important for both men and women. He is also looking forward to a quiet work atmosphere.

“That kind of travel can be exciting and interesting and everything, but I get more sat-isfaction out of spending time with friends and family,” he said. “And by friends I’m also talking about the students and the faculty and the people at Hillsdale. I’m so thrilled about the opportunity. The excite-ment is not all it’s cracked up to be.”

ing living there.“It is a little more removed from

campus, but there is a great vol-leyball court, and a spacious yard,” he said. “People want to come out there and be there.”

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“We’re all Americans who love the country and we’re all helping to carry the water in some way,” said Kremer.

Local citizen Dave Wal-lin, a Vietnam veteran and Ron Paul supporter, attended the rally with his wife, Pam, and expressed grave concern over the nation’s debt levels and economic woes. Such concerns permeated the tone of speakers and audience members alike.

The Tea Party Express speakers, however, could have still put more emphasis on promoting ideas rather than making political at-tacks, said Hillsdale junior Steve Sterkenburg.

“We know about the Con-stitution, but there are those in the community who don’t. I wish this event was less politically-based and more about educating people on the Constitution,” he said.

Sophomore Ben Holscher, who attended the event Friday, had also at-tended the first Tea Party in Washington, D.C.

“It was a powerful time... It made me realize that there are people out there who still care,” he said, thinking back to the Washington rally. “It was a very unifying event.”

This is the Tea Party Express’s fifth tour across the country in its two-and-a-half year existence, and the show it presented included a variety of entertainment, including musical acts and a stand-up comedian.

The tour will conclude with the Republican Primary Debate in Tampa, Fla. on Sept. 12, jointly hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express.

historical society will have to purchase appropriate cas-ing — archival folders for the letters, locking cabinets for protecting important pieces, etc.— to house the valuable artifacts.

Pulver has promised to match anything Hillsdale County raises, if they can raise at least $5,000. The company for which Pulver’s wife works has promised to do so also.

And Brown has been very supportive of the project, Baker said. “She’s attended meetings, made phone calls, and she’s done research to en-

sure that the collection comes to us safely. She knows what an asset the collection will be to Hillsdale County.”

Leona Helsel, volunteer for the Mitchell Research Center, where the non-fiction collec-tion will be housed, said that several people have already signed up to be notified when the collection arrives.

“I hate to use the term ‘feather in the cap,’ but this collection will definitely be a feather in the cap of Hillsdale,” Grimminck said.

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“but it can completely change a community.”

The League researched other small towns that also had mural projects. Cuba, Missouri gave them the most assistance. Through a similar mural project, Cuba turned their downtown from a forgotten stop on Route 66 to a bustling tourist destina-tion.

“The people from Missouri saw our downtown and were envious of the beauty we had to start with,” Springer said.

In order to fund such this endeavor, the ladies asked for donations and volunteers both in and out of the community. They needed paints, brushes, refresh-ments, and many other supplies.

“People just said, what do you need, and then gave,” Smith said. “It’s the beauty of a small town. If you get everyone pull-ing in the same direction you can really do a lot.”

To promote the event, the League began the “We Can” project. With help from Profes-sor Springer, the husband of one of the League’s founders as well as a graphic design professor at Hillsdale, the League posted flyers around town asking for donations. The ladies of the League also asked for donations from many prominent business-es in town. They were happily surprised by the outpouring of funds, as well as the excitement from many in the town.

The first group they appealed to was the City of Hillsdale Tax Increment Finance Authority. TIFA gives grants to groups that want to renovate the downtown area but had never given an art grant. The League created a new version of a request and, by a unanimous vote, received a grant of $5000.

Soon after, Laura Smith was on a local radio station promoting the project. Little did she know, but listening to the program was President of The Hillsdale County Commu-nity Foundation Sharon Bisher. Later, she called Smith and not only offered to donate $5000 of prep work, but also the use of the wall for the mural.

The money did not stop here. Smith said about 100 communi-ty members and businesses gave anywhere from $5 to $200.

The League, with the help of Brian Watkins, a videographer for Toyota, is creating a docu-mentary of the event. Watkins, a Hillsdale native, has donated his services to help keep his home-town beautiful. The documen-tary will be on YouTube and will be used in promoting the League’s future projects.

The unveiling of the mural will be held on September 9 at 4:30. The theme of the event is “We did”.

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Diversions

PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER, PEOPLE. You have just found the keys to your Hillsdale College Career in 200 words or less. You don’t need any-

thing else. Carry this column with you everywhere you go, and you will get A’s my friends.

Don’t kid yourselves; this is not going to be easy. Most of your college career, you WILL be crying, or something much worse.

Five percent of the time, you might smile. It’s not sup-posed to be fun: It’s supposed to change your being.

Your hair will be disheveled. You won’t wear clothes anymore, you’ll wear rags. And all you’ve got is that one good paragraph you wrote for your Great Books paper. When you’re a senior, you’ll remember that paragraph, that $100,000 paragraph of pure gold, even though you got a C+.

Life will be reduced to studying in the library for 12 straight hours before you collapse on a pile of dirty laundry.

And when your professor sees you, he’ll think you’ve been drinking instead of studying and insist that MORE time in the library is needed. At another school, such a situation might lead to despair and actually drinking, but here at Hills-dale, strength rejoices in that challenge.

Now, go read some Keats.

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