Effective this summer, Pro-fessor of English Stephen Smith will serve as Dean of Faculty, replacing Professor of Chemis-try Mark Nussbaum, who has held the position for three years. Smith will serve for at least two years.

Im honored to be chosen, and I hope to learn from the great previous deans, Smith said. Im succeeding Mark Nuss-baum, and I hope to continue the tradition of good chemistry.

Provost David Whalen an-

nounced Smiths appointment via an all-school email last Thursday, March 26, the day af-ter Smith accepted the position. The email detailed Smiths cre-dentials, which include a bache-lors degree from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in literature and philosophic stud-ies from the University of Dal-las, with an emphasis on Thomas More and William Shakespeare. Whalen was involved in the search and hiring of Smith in 2001.

Besides Smiths credentials as a beloved professor and ac-complished scholar, his personal and leadership skills make him an ideal candidate, Whalen said.

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Baseball splits seriesChargers sweep Sundays doubleheader against Wayne State before dropping both games of Mondays twin bill. A8

Advanced watercolor Sam Knechts biannual water-FRORUFODVVVKDUHVWKHGLIFXO-ties and joys of working in that medium. B1 (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Claudette Charney, head coach of the Hillsdale womens basketball team, is retiring on April 30 after 13 seasons of lead-ing the Chargers.

Since coming to Hillsdale in 2002, Charney has built the womens basketball program, leading three girls to All-Ameri-can status, the team to three GLI-AC South Division titles, and the 2009 GLIAC championship. She also capped off personal achieve-ments during her time at Hillsdale E\ EHFRPLQJ WKH UVW ZRPHQVbasketball coach in the GLIAC to win more than 500 games.

Hillsdale gave me the oppor-tunity to be myself as a coach: To care about and have a passion for DFDGHPLFVUVWDQGIRUHPRVWDQG

to train great players, Charney said. I truly believe in what the school stands for.

Though shes spent 13 years at Hillsdale, shes spent far more years coaching in the GLIAC, making her the conferences longest-tenured and winningest coach.

But before her successful FRDFKLQJ FDUHHU VKHZDV DQ H[-ceptional player on the court.

Shes the most competitive person I know, senior guard Kadie Lowery said.

Her competitive edge helped her break the 2,000-point barrier during her collegiate career at Saginaw Valley State University and Grand Valley State Univer-sity, a feat only one other woman in the state of Michigan has ac-complished.

After graduating from GVSU, Charney had plans to teach, but

she was not ready to leave the game behind. At the age of 22, she took a part-time coaching job at Muskegon Community Col-lege, where she stayed for three years while working three other jobs before she was offered the full-time head coaching position at Alma College, a Division III school.

After leading the Alma team WR D FKDPSLRQVKLS KHU UVW VHD-son there, Charney was offered the head coaching job at Saginaw Valley State University. At 25 years old she started building her Division II career with the Cardi-nals. Charneys teams garnered 167 wins over her 10 seasons as head coach.

Charney left Saginaw Valley to lead the Grand Valley State University Lakers where she was named GLIAC coach of the year in 1998.

After seven years with the Lakers, Charney received an of-fer to coach at Hillsdale.

When I saw what Hillsdale was about, it aligned with me per-fectly, Charney said. Hillsdale offered an opportunity to truly have the best of both worlds it KDGDJUHDWDFDGHPLFSUROHDQGthe support a competitive Divi-sion II team needed.

Charneys quiet intensity has shaped the womens basketball program.

She wants to win games, Lowery said. But even in prac-tice, everything, every drill, is a competition.

Junior point guard Ashlyn Landherr added that Charney was a pretty quiet coach.

She tended to step back and watch the overall dynamic of the

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Head coach Claudette Charney, coaching the womens basketball team. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Stephen Smith: New dean of faculty

Charney retires from coaching

Macaela Bennett City News Editor

Board of Public Utilities Director Rickie J. Rose, 61, was charged with one count of drunk driving yesterday and sentenced to 75 days in jail and 12 months probation.

The days Rose spends in patient treatment will count to-ward his jail time.

Acting City Manager Doug Terry, who has remained sup-portive of Rose since his arrest in January, said it is too soon to say whether or not the city will continue to employ Rose after he completes his sentence.

Rick is a valued employee of BPU and for years has per-IRUPHG KLV GXWLHV LQ D SUR-cient manner, Terry said after the sentencing. However, we

do take the conduct of our em-ployees seriously, but there are not enough details to render an opinion about the future.

Rose was arrested on Satur-day, Jan. 24, after he crashed his car into a tree on Bankers Road in Reading, Michigan. According to the Hillsdale County Sheriff incident report, once police responded to the accident, they determined Rose had a blood alcohol content of .23 almost three times the legal limit of .08, according to the Michigan State Police web-site.

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'XH WR WKH H[SLUDWLRQ RIRoses contract, the Hillsdale City Council will vote in the QH[W IHZZHHNVRQZKHWKHU WRcontinue Roses contract.

Last week, the Hillsdale Col-lege shotgun team went to na-tionals for the fourth time, and brought home its third Division III championship from San An-tonio.

Hillsdales 10-person team is the only one in recent years to earn back-to-back division titles, besides Lindenwood University, a Division I team with close to 100 shooters.

The team has attended the NRA-sponsored national cham-pionship every year since its 2011 inception.

While many students traveled south or visited family during spring break, the shotgun team remained on campus, gearing up for the annual Association of College Unions International Collegiate Clay Target Cham-pionships. The tournament is a marathon for shooters, with al-PRVW VL[ IXOO GD\V RI VKRRWLQJmost days including practice and VHWXSIRUWKHQH[WGD\VHYHQWV

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5-stand competition, which lasted the duration of the tour-QDPHQW 7KH QH[W YH GD\V LQ-cluded all of the other events that comprise the sport: international trap and skeet, sporting clays, American skeet, and Sundays event, American trap.

)RUWKHUVWWLPHLQDZKLOHwe were behind another team by targets, senior Joe Kain said. By Thursday, it was really clear that we had to start shooting bet-ter, so it just got more and more intense until it was over.

One of the most incredible feats of the week occurred on Sunday, the last day of the championships. 6L[ KXQGUHG VWX-dents shot in that days American trap event.

Thirteen of them hit 100 of 100 targets: a perfect round. Those 13 were pulled into a shoot-off. Of the 13, three shot another perfect round of 25 targets. Two of those

were Hillsdale students, sopho-mores Kie Kababik and Clay Moniot. Kababik and Moniot went into a second shoot-off with a student from Linden-wood. Moniot hit all 15 targets, Kababik dropped one, and the /LQGHQZRRG VKRRWHU QLVKHGthird with 13.

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Kain and Carl say it was the strength of the team as a whole that enabled them to pull off the victory. In order to win, Hills-dales nine shooters (one did not participate) had to put up three top scores per event.

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Junior Emily Oren was named GLIAC and D-II national womens track athlete of the week. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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The streets near the Hillsdale College campus are slowly clear-ing out as administration removes houses in order to develop the area. With many houses gone, the college hopes to build on or sell the properties to enhance the ap-proach to campus.

Every visitor has an im-pression of Hillsdale when they FRPH&KLHI$GPLQLVWUDWLYH2I-cer Rich Pw said. Ideally, they turn up Manning, and then the UVW LPSUHVVLRQ WKH\ KDYH RI WKHcollege is the jewel, Central Hall. But either way when you think about that approach, it hasnt been very impressive. Were not neces-sarily looking to build ourselves everywhere, we just want to be surrounded by beautiful things, so it looks natural.

Pw said he hopes to improve the approach to the school with buildings architecturally similar to the buildings on campus. Among these hopes may be plans for a new townhouse for off-campus

students.The students seem to appreci-

ate a variety of housing, Dean of Women Diane Philipp said. They like the Suites, and the varieties of singles and doubles they can choose. We opted for this town-house idea and then we met with a group of students. Weve done that with almost everything we build, because students usually have very good ideas.

Current plans for these homes include eight single bedrooms, four bathrooms, a laundry unit, seating unit, kitchen, living room, dining room, and more. Six homes will be connected, totaling 48 resi-dents.

Theres a bit of a Central Hall theme, nice porches, and re-ally nice parking, Philipp said. Theyre talking a rod-iron fence in the front, with really nice land-scaping.

Once built, the townhouse will replace 16 beds being removed in both Simpson and McIntyre resi-dences, and provide additional op-tions for students living off cam-pus.

When you build residential, especially when you can do higher density, other things happen as a

result of that, Pw said. Not only would that be great for the college, but it would also give people who want to move to Hill-sdale and live close to the college the opportunity to do that. At the same time, they would contribute to the beauty of the surrounding area.

Pw said they may also use some of their new land to create parking lots for visitors as well as faculty.

Junior J.P. Zawatsky said his house will be removed this spring. Though he loved the house, hes excited about change.

We have a lot of memories in that house, a lot of good times, a lot of friendships being formed, a lot of family dinners, Zawatsky said. Its going to be sad seeing it go, but its going to be good to see whats new there.

Though the walk is almost 10 minutes longer, Zawatsky said he is not too upset about the move.

In the backyard of our new house is a stream, he said. Its going to be nice and relaxing. Maybe well put something in the backyard to make it look nice and calm. Maybe well have some music playing.

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With 11 online courses available to the pub-OLF+LOOVGDOH FRQWLQXHV WR H[SDQG LWV LQXHQFHRQAmerican political thought.

Its latest online course offering is titled The Federalist Papers, and the courses now have adver-tisements on various television networks.

One reason for having a course on The Feder-alist is that the book is centrally important to under-standing the Constitution as it was written and also to restoring constitutionalism in our time, Director of Programs for External Affairs Matt Bell said.

This course functions as an extension of Hills-dales Constitution 101 course, Bell added.

The online class began on Feb. 23 of this year with College President Larry Arnns lecture on the Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention, according to Bell.

Lectures have subsequently been released weekly on Mondays and will continue through the WKRI$SULOZLWKWKHUHOHDVHRIWKHWKDQGQDOlecture, Bell said.

There are 85 total Federalist papers; consequent-ly, a study of all of them would consume extensive time and resources. The material was cut down be-cause of this.

Due to the nature of online courses, we couldnt cover the entire book. However, we cover a major-ity of papers by explaining some of the most impor-tant themes set forth in The Federalist, Bell said.

According to the online course description, some of the topics discussed are the problem of majority faction, separation of powers, and the three branch-es of government.

Similar to the other online classes Hillsdale of-fers, The Federalist Papers originated as an on-campus course. Due to high demand, the course is now offered online as well.

Hillsdale College now advertises for The Fed-eralist Papers alongside Constitution 101 and other

online courses.Director of Marketing Bill Gray talked about

Hillsdales promotion strategy. The focus of the colleges online course adver-

tising right now is the Constitution 101 course, he said. We are also advertising other courses, such as The Federalist Papers, on digital channels such as social media.

Alongside traditional advertisement on conser-vative talk radio networks, Hillsdale has recently attempted to publicize the online courses in a new manner.

The college is testing advertising this course on selected national TV networks, such as news, his-tory, and religious networks, Gray said. The test cable television campaign for Constitution 101 will end in mid-April.

Hillsdale will examine the effectiveness of this experiment and continue from there.

The course is also promoted to those who have previously enrolled in a Hillsdale College online course, according to Gray.

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We try to offer the courses to those who are interested in similar topics, Grays said. For ex-ample, Facebook offers the opportunity to target ads for, say, American Heritage, to people who have expressed a direct or indirect interest in American history.

Gray discussed the marketing plan going forward for Hillsdale, social media and radio advertisements will continue year-round as long as they remain ef-fective, while as stated earlier the television promo-tions will be under review in mid-April.

The commercials and advertisements are effec-tive as the new course has been well received and the others continue to thrive.

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The 25th annual Faith in Life lecture series, entitled Morality Shrugged, featured guest speak-er Dr. Jason Peters and was held RQ0DUFKDQG,QXHQFHGby Wendell Berry, Peters spoke on the challenges of living a moral life in academia given the hyper-technological age in which we live.

Peters is the Parkander Chair in Literature at Augustana Col-lege in Rock Island, Illinois. His primary focus in the lec-tures was his belief that modern academia has the tendency to be held as more important, in his opinion, than it should be.

He elaborated on this idea in an article he wrote for the Orion magazine.

We professors are the con-fessors of an educational creed that dismisses the value of the domestic arts and sends gradu-ates out into a world of sur-rendered skills and purchased necessities, the article stated. We are the diploma retailers who have allowed students to assume that the machines and

the ungraduated will supply all their real needs.

Despite the series title of Faith in Life, the content of Pe-ters lectures was not limited to a strictly Christian audience.

I thought he presented his FDVH ZLWK VXIFLHQW H[DPSOHVoutside Christian doctrine while suggesting to the audience that to live well is to live according to Gods will, said Matt Sauer, one of the attending students. This simple but not simplistic Christian message was at the heart of his talks, even though they were not sermons, nor were they intended to be.

The Faith in Life lecture se-ries started in 1990 with the same purpose it has today to teach students how to live faith-driven lives in academia.

Our goal is to connect Ath-ens to Jerusalem, so to speak, Assistant Professor of Religion Don Westblade, an organizer of the Faith in Life series, said. We want to teach how faith can be lived out within an academic career, be that in English, math-ematics or psychology.

3HWHUV OHFWXUHV ZHUH OOHGwith information useful to any Hillsdale student, according to Sauer.

Jason Peters is an impor-tant voice for Hillsdale students to become familiar with while learning how to inherit, defend, and promote liberal education, he said.

According to Sauer, Peters is not only a credible authority in KLVHOGEXWLVDOVRHQMR\DEOHWRlisten to.

Peters is known for his wit and his dry humor and his hon-esty in writing, Sauer said. I think all of those came across in his talks.

Jason Peters is only the most recent guest speaker to present at the Faith in Life lecture se-ries; some of the most notable past speakers have included R. Albert Mohler Jr., Ray Ortlund Jr., and John Piper. Each of these speakers has brought something unique to the conversation of faith in academia.

Peters assertions regarding the domestic arts and academia WHVWLHV WR WKLV 0RUH FDQ EHfound regarding Peters and his work on the Front Porch Repub-lic blog, to which he actively contributes as a senior editor.

The lot next to College Baptist Church is now empty after a house was torn down to make room for the student townhouses. (Joseph Adams/Collegian)

Faith in Life lectures aim tokeep academics in perspective

7KHRYHURZVHDWLQJDUHDDG-joining the Knorr Dining Room has been closed since spring break due to storage needs for food service provider Bon App-tit while the new Searle Center is constructed.

Its a temporary closure while theyre doing construction at the Dow, Bon Apptit Gen-eral Manager David Apthorpe said.

Most of what is being stored LQWKHRYHURZURRPLVFDWHULQJequipment that had been stored in the kitchen facilities in the Dow Leadership Center. Once the construction project is com-pleted, Bon Apptit will have a brand-new kitchen facility for their catering.

7KHUHV VLJQLFDQW GHPROL-tion thats going on right now, Apthorpe said. We expect all

new equipment, so its really go-ing to be a state of the art kitch-en for the six to eight hundred people its going to hold. So its very exciting, but this is kind of the growing pains part.

Because of the space reduc-tion, students have been strug-JOLQJWRQGVHDWVLQ.QRUU6H-nior Cody Jessup recounted a recent lunch experience where KHDQGDIULHQGFRXOGQWQGDQ\empty tables, so had to get cre-ative.

We had to resort to using the table where the workers who wipe down the tables keep their supplies, Jessup said.

According to Jessup, the two neatly stacked the cleaning sup-plies in the corner and pulled extra chairs down from the back corner of the dining hall.

Junior Ellen Hogan said she shares a similar frustration.

Finding a place to sit in the dining hall has been harder lately, Hogan said. Students sprint across the room to snag a

booth or even for a small section of a long table. It seems that it KDVEHFRPHPRUHGLIFXOWHYHU\\HDU WR VLPSO\ QG D SODFH WRVLW +DYLQJ WKH RYHURZ URRPclosed doesnt help matters.

Apthorpe said they have been trying to deal with the space is-sue, but they are having storage problems.

One of the issues that were running into is that the college doesnt have space, Apthorpe said. One of the thoughts we had was to put more chairs around the table, but theres just not physical space to move the chairs that are in existence.

He emphasized that this is a temporary inconvenience, and he said all should be back to nor-mal come fall.

Were just excited, Ap-thorpe said. Were looking at the end result, and unfortunately, this is just kind of an inconve-nience for all parties.

Professors teach Iron Maiden

Sarah Chavey Collegian Reporter

Kelsey Drapkin Senior Reporter

Anders HagstromCollegian Freelancer

Natalie DeMacedoNews Editor

McIntyre Residence will receive a complete renovation this summer and be expanded to include new amenities and luxuries.

These renovations will in-volve a wide variety of updates, including mechanical, electri-cal, plumbing, and aesthetic updates, according to Chief $GPLQLVWUDWLYH 2IFHU 5LFKPw. The work is expected to take about three months to com-plete, beginning on May 15 and QLVKLQJ$XJDFFRUGLQJWRPw.

Pw said that during the renovations, the womens resi-dence will be unavailable to live in, but it will be ready for the

fall 2015 semester without any inconvenience to the residents who plan to live there.

Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell commented on its sway over next years housing decisions.

This will not have a large impact as it will still house pri-marily freshman women, she said.

However, when asked about forthcoming students dormi-tory choices, she said, I antici-pate it may change the dynamic of housing decisions in future years as prospectives visit cam-pus.

In the McIntyre courtyard, where there is currently an XQXVHG JUDVV\ HOG D UHSLWpergola, and courtyard will be added; this area will connect to all three living areas, according to Dell.

Dell also said the ends of HDFK VHFRQGRRU KDOOZD\ZLOOchange into a lounge with a kitchenette and study space, and that the newly-renovated base-ment will have a study space, WQHVVDUHDDQGODXQGU\URRP

Although many dorms are worthy of remodeling, McIntyre was chosen to be renovated next summer because it is the largest womens dorm on campus, ac-cording to Pw.

The college does have future plans for more dorms to be re-stored. Renovations are planned for Mauck and Galloway resi-dences after McIntyre updates are completed.

Josh PaladinoCollegian Reporter

Josh PaladinoCollegian Reporter

What do The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the fall of Icarus, and Alexander the Great have in common?

They are all songs by the heavy metal rock band Iron Maiden, which students can study this fall in a one-credit honors seminar.

The course, spearheaded by Director of the Dow Journal-ism Program John Miller, will tackle the literary and historical lyrics of the most successful heavy metal band ever, ac-cording to Miller.

They dont sing about sex, drugs, and rock n roll, but about literature and history, Miller added.

Professors across disciplines will come in and lecture from week to week everyone from College President Larry Arnn to Associate Professor of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter, Miller said. The majority of the guest professors are fans of the band, although Miller said he asked Arnn because he would be perfect to teach on the song Miller had in mind.

You will get some of the best professors on campus, and

me, Miller said.Professor of Theatre James

Brandon, an Iron Maiden fan since high school, will teach a class on the song Phantom of the Opera.

The class should be a blast, Brandon said. If you told me as a high school student that Id be lecturing a class on Iron Maiden, I wouldnt have believed you, but I wouldnt have thought itd be that bad.

He said he discovered Mill-ers love of the band before he ever met Miller.

I was reading a National Review article about this guys favorite Iron Maiden album that was my favorite Iron Maiden album, Brandon said. A num-ber of years later I was intro-duced to this new professor and made the connection.

Brandon said it is his favor-ite National Review piece to this day.

Professor of English Ste-phen Smith will join their ranks and lecture on the song The Flight of Icarus.

I want to look at how the vision of Iron Maiden com-pares. Are they more insightful than Ovid? Dante? Smith said, laughing. Why would this myth be as interesting to an an-cient poet, medieval poet, and crazy rock n roll?

Smith added that students

often only associate their pro-fessors with high things, but he said they were once high school students who loved heavy met-al.

I didnt know who &ROHULGJH ZDV ZKHQ , UVWheard Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Smith confessed.

All three professors said the class will be fun and intellectu-ally stimulating.

Its the kind of course that the name and content sounds like it could end up on a dumb-est courses in America list that conservative academics put out, but we can get away with it be-cause students here are so well-grounded, Miller said. Its not a substitute, its a supple-ment. Its ornamentation.

The goal of the class is to look at how great ideas and lit-erature translate into a pop cul-ture medium, Miller said.

As Monty Python used to say, Now for something com-pletely different, Smith said.

Smith joked that only the adventurous and daring should take the course, and Miller add-ed that the class might be easier for students who are already fans of the band.

You dont have to be a fan to join, but you will be when you are done, Miller said.

While Michigan may be known for its rocky roads, hopefully Michigan Pot Hole will help with that.

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Tunison originally thought of the name in January of last year as she was bumping along the roads. From there, they decided on the ingredients.

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MDOT this fall on their dona-tion.

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p.m. to 2 p.m. and professional Churchill impersonator Randy Otto will conduct a Q&A ses-sion as the prime minister from WRSP

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Freshman Brendan Noble and sophomore Josh Ham-ilton with freshman Brant Cohen, eating Michigan Pot Hole ice cream. (Breana Noble/Collegian)

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Winston Churchill will be celebrated next Thursday in the Grewcock Student Union with many festivities. (Amanda Tindall/Collegian)

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On March 26, Ashton Kutcher tweeted in response to the state-passed Religious Free-dom Restoration Act: Indiana are you also going to allow Christian establishments to ban Jews from coming in? Apparently con-fused he added, Or Vice Versa? Religious freedom??? #OUTRAGE.

Perhaps not all those responding to the law are such comical straw men, but many educated voices protested inappropriately.

The law echoes its namesake 1993 Feder-al RFRA, but differs in the following ways: It allows for person to refer essentially to an individual, organization or religious group, or a company (the worry here is that IRUSURW EXVLQHVVHV DUH LQFOXGHG DQG LWuses the unclear language of burden.

Those complaining might have missed Section 5, in which the exercise of religion includes any exercise of religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief. This means there is now a state law enabling any person to sue for a burden pawnable to personal belief.

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belief-based business decisions. It is simply a matter of determining burden in a dispute, a task at which this law only scratches.

President James Danko of Butler Univer-sity, the institution from which I transferred, declared vague apprehension about the law: I fear that some of those who advanced it have allowed their personal or political agendas to supersede the best interests of the State of Indiana and its people.

Incidentally, the law protects the interests of two parties: The state, and its people.

As outlined in Section 8, the govern-ment may burden a person, but only if it is the least-restricting route to the compelling government interest. That is, the legislation seeks to protect the state as represented by its government, and when expedient, to un-burden people of infringements upon their belief-motivated actions.

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He suggests out of place things, such as the two points of difference from the Federal RFRA, indicate injustice afoot.

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Alex Graham is a senior studying English.

If youve ever driven on a Michigan road, youve no doubt sworn under your breath at some point as your tires bounced across a pothole big enough to swallow the Titanic. Or two. Or YH

On May 5, voters will decide on Proposal 1, a controversial bill that would raise Michigans WD[HV LQ RUGHU WR [ LWV PLQH-HOGV(UURDGV

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The bill is projected to even-tually increase long-term fund-ing for failing roads by nearly $1.25 billion a year. However, while talk of the bill has main-ly focused on such road repair plans, Proposal 1 will also gen-erate an estimated $116 mil-lion a year for mass transit, along with additional money for schools and cities, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.

It is side projects and sneaky earmarks such as these that cloud the otherwise-simple and effective goal of Proposal 1: To save the people of Michigan from the roads of Michigan.

Whether or not funding for the expansion and improvement of public transit is a necessary and good plan of interest to the public is not up for debate. In

addition to the other bills that will inevitably arise from the passing of Proposal 1, public transit funding is a divisive and troubling aspect of Proposal 1 that is unnecessary and polar-izing.

For example, conservatives who may otherwise be support-ive of a bill like Proposal 1 are wary of government-funded projects such as public transpor-tation, especially if theyre not convinced of its necessity.

Despite concerns, Snyder de-fended the bills funding alloca-tion for public transit.

Many people depend on public transportation for their livelihood to get to work, Sny-der recently told MLive. And we need to see improvements to the system.

Regardless of the governors defense, the inclusion of other projects such as transit and school funding has undoubtedly torn voters.

Theres nothing like a gov-ernmentally proposed spaghetti deal, said Robert Terry, a Grosse Pointe Woods resident quoted by the Detroit Free Press who says voters should have been asked to vote on a tax hike WDUJHWHG VSHFLFDOO\ DW URDG UH-pair.

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Michigans constitution was to QDOO\ GR VRPHWKLQJ DERXW RXUroads, he said. But, no, Lan-sing just needed to stick schools in the mix.

It is statements like this that highlight the issues with Proposal 1. Hastily drafted by OHJLVODWRUV LQ WKH QDO KRXUV RIDecembers lame-duck session, it is messy and leaves too many loose ends untied. Nearly $300 million for K-12 schools? $260 million for family tax credit re-form? Another $116 million for public transit improvement?

Whether addressing these issues in any setting has merit in itself or not, these projects have no place in a last-minute bill aimed at addressing such a prevalent and pressing issue as Michigans broken-down and dangerous roads. If Snyders goal is to focus on Michigans future, he should take the time to do it right and rework the cur-rent proposal. In the meantime, vote no on Proposal 1. Show Snyder that Midwesterners are tough. We can brave a few more potholes in the name of being economical, but not for long.

Rachel Solomito is a sophomore studying English.

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Alex GrahamSpecial to the Collegian

The misguided outcry over Indianas RFRA

Be wary of Michigans Proposal 1

Rachel SolomitoStudent Columnist

A Christian may refuse to bake a cake for a ho-mosexual wedding, but the language of this leg-islation does not support the Christian out of hand.

Jenna AdamsonSpecial to the Collegian

2 April 2015 A4

OPINIONEditor in Chief: Morgan DelpNews Editors: Amanda Tindall | Natalie DeMacedo City News Editor: Macaela BennettOpinions Editor: Jack ButlerSports Editor: Sam ScorzoArts Editor: Micah MeadowcroftSpotlight Editor: Bailey PritchettDesign Editor: Hannah LeitnerWeb Editor: Evan CarterPhoto Editor: Anders KiledalCirculation Manager: Phil DeVoeAd Managers: Rachel Fernelius | Alex Eaton | Drew Jenkins | Matt MelchiorAssistant Editors: Sarah Albers | Andrew Egger | Nathanael Meadowcroft | Kate Patrick | Ramona Tausz | Emma VintonPhotographers: Joseph Adams | Sarah Borger | Joel Calvert | Elena Creed | Anders Kiledal | Hailey Morgan | Ben Strickland | Laura Wil-liamson | Faculty Advisers: John J. Miller | Maria Servold

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Behind the stigma is helping campus the opinion of the collegian editorial staff

The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity, length, and style. Letters should be 450 words or less and include your name and number. Send submissions to jbutler@hillsdale.edu before Sunday at 6 p.m.

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VOTER ID ISNOT RACIST

Against the backdrop of the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Obama recently addressed a favorite subject for calculated ignorance. The president lamented that civil rights abuses continue in new laws de-signed to prevent poor and minority voters from casting their vote. His implicit target: Voter ID legislation, such as the Wisconsin law the Supreme Court sustained last week.

Yet from Georgia to North Carolina, the most recent state with voter ID to release turnout data, black voter turnout re-mained the same or increased after these states passed voter ID laws, revealing the opposite of racially-motivated voter suppression. Persistent Democratic pummeling of voter ID reform exposes a surpassing devotion to political advantage over minority justice.

Many Democrats blame the Supreme Courts 2013 de-cision in Shelby County v. Holder for new discrimination threats arising from voting reforms. The decision declared unconstitutional the Voting Rights Acts Section 4(b) cover-age formula, which determined the nine states and parts of six other states subject to Section 5s requirement for federal preclearance of election law changes. Section 4(b) rested on 40-year-old turnout statistics that, if updated, would have shown black turnout equal to or higher than white turnout in most cases.

The Department of Justice pre-cleared Georgias voter ID law six years before Shelby. The ACLU, the NAACP, and other organizations sued unsuccessfully in federal court, claiming the law disenfranchised the large number of Georgians who could not obtain a photo ID. The plaintiffs proved neither that any person would be prevented from voting nor that the law unduly burden[ed] minority or el-derly voters. Despite a massive public education campaign advertising easily obtainable, free photo IDs, Georgia issued voter ID cards to a mere 0.23 percent of registered voters in 2008, a presidential election year. Meanwhile, turnout for black Georgians increased 42 percent in 2008 from 2004 and 44.2 percent in the 2010 congressional election from 2006.

Texas and North Carolina also challenge the voter sup-pression myth. After Texas passed its 2011 voter ID law, minority turnout in some rural counties increased by almost ten times in the 2013 off-year election versus the 2011 elec-tion while turnout in most of the minority-dominated urban counties almost doubled. North Carolinas election law re-form included a 2014 soft rollout of a photo ID require-ment. Belying the reforms characterization as a modern poll tax, black voter-age-population turnout rose to 41.1 percent in the 2014 election from 38.5 percent in November 2010.

As the Heritage Foundations Hans A. von Spakovsky wrote, If President Obama really believes his State of the Union claim that the right to vote is still being denied to too many, he should give Attorney General Eric Holder a serious dressing-down. The DOJ did not initiate a single disenfranchisement suit in 2014. During the presidents ten-XUH WKH'2-OHGRQO\WKUHHFDVHVUHODWHGWR6HFWLRQRIthe Voting Rights Act, which prohibits race- and color-based voter discrimination. Overturned, soon to be overturned, or LQLWLDWHGXQGHU WKH%XVK'2-QRQHRI WKHVHVXLWV MXVWLHVPresident Obamas rhetoric.

Only political motives can explain the presidents failure to recognize trends in increased minority voter turnout. Like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pouncing on the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings as examples of black martyrdom and endemic police racism, President Obama DQG KLV SDUW\ SURW IURP LQFLWLQJ UDFLDO KDWUHG ,WV HDVLHUto promote income redistribution, universal healthcare, and federal regulation of state elections as victories against priv-ileged, white oppressors. Its simpler to animate a voting block when each vote assails injustice.

An even uglier abuse of the Democratic minority voting base underlies voter ID opposition. As Artur Davis, former member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said in defense of Alabamas voter ID law, the most aggressive contem-porary voter suppression is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt. New York Democratic operative Anthony DeFiglio, impli-cated in a 2011 voter fraud case, described forging absentee ballots as a normal political tactic that targeted people living in low-income housing because they would be less likely to ask any questions. Voter ID laws complicate steal-ing the votes of the poor, the anonymous, and the deceased.

If only those who cheered President Obamas Selma ad-dress could have heard him speak the truth that voter ID leg-islation empowers minority voters through justice and trans-parency. The courageous men and women who marched across the Selma Bridge did not bleed for equality so their political leaders could manipulate and cheat them. When ZLOORXUUVWEODFNSUHVLGHQWVWRSDEXVLQJWKHLUOHJDF\"

Jenna Adamson is a senior studying English and French.

Its an overly complicated solution for a relatively simple problem

Lighthouses new Behind the Stigma series is an ex-cellent idea, and judging by attendance records, Hillsdale students seem to agree. The sessions have been packed, with one in the basement of Lane Hall so full that many students sat on the ground in the aisles.

At Hillsdale, there is un-necessary pressure to have it all together and do it all. Students feel an unspoken ex-

pectation to lead three clubs, have a 3.8 GPA, and serve in multiple ministries. To admit to anxiety or depression feels like admitting to failure or cer-tain inadequacy. Behind the Stigma seeks to denounce that misconception.

Mental illness feels very real and very oppressive to the person experiencing it, but its also something its sufferers do not feel capable of overcoming by themselves. This tendency

can lead to a negative feedback cycle of alienation from which those with mental illness feel they cannot escape. In such instances, only the perspective and support of others can res-cue such distraught souls from their illness and obviate their diurnal tedium.

Thats why Lighthouses efforts to bring awareness to these issues and provide a sup-port system for those strug-gling with depression or eat-

ing disorders is essential to campus health. Its great that people have taken the time to attend their talks. Keep it up. Ask questions. Help support a friend or stranger who feels DORQH LQ WKHLU JKW $QG LIyou are someone who suffers from these things, you arent alone and you shouldnt feel ashamed. You wouldnt be em-EDUUDVVHG WKDW WKH X KDV \RXrun-down, and this is no differ-ent.

Occasionally on campus, one may hear someone speaking about the Hillsdale Bubble. This is referring to the semi-mythical effect that a se-questered campus miles from a major city has on how the student body sees politics, religion, and culture. That Bubble was popped last Wednesday when police escorted a man out of the Mossey Library for stalking a fe-male student. This incident marked the second time he had been on cam-pus, as well as the second time he had managed to get inside the library. While we may all breathe a sigh of relief that no one was hurt and the threat removed, a subsequent con-versation on Yik Yak has shown that the Hillsdale Bubble doesnt stop at politics it extends to the security of students as well.

Some involved in the discussion on Yik Yak suggested increased secu-rity measures through the use of door ID-locks like the ones on the doors of Lane, Kendall, and the Grew-

cock Student Union. However, those who disagreed stated something that ought to be found disturbing. Their mindset is that it was just an iso-lated incident.

There is truth to what one Yakker said. Hillsdale is nowhere near the cities and is so isolated that incidents would be rare at best. However, the point of the matter is not the rate of occurrence but the scale. While the man was caught the second time he came to campus, he managed to get in and out without being detained the UVWWLPH7KLVFDQQRWEHRYHUVWDWHGSomeone was able to invade our school and escape.

While a hypothetical is not evi-dence, it is food for thought, and we must wonder what would have hap-SHQHG LI WKH PDQV LQWHQW WKDW UVWtime had not merely been to stalk. Student lives could have been tak-en, and that is unacceptable. While not all tragedies can be prevented, there are measures that could and should be taken, but currently are not. Whether this is merely an over-VLJKW EHLQJ UDLVHG IRU WKH UVW WLPH

or something being blithely ignored cannot be determined, but now is the time to act.

Dorms, Central Hall, the sports buildings, and the Mossey Library all lack the ID scanners with which Lane, Kendall, and Grewcock are equipped. This status quo risks an incident like what happened on Wednesday occurring. Is it really worth student lives to continue on our present course and spare our-VHOYHVWKHVFDOFRVW"(YHU\WKLQJKDVa price, after all, and this one would be in blood.

(YHU\ GD\ ZH VLW RQ RXU KDQGVand pretend this wont happen again, we play a cosmic dice game. All it takes is one bad roll for someone to GLH/LYHVDUHSUHFLRXVLQQLWHO\VReven if we shut our eyes and nothing bad happens to us in the near future, can we live with the responsibility that it would be our fault if someone down the line pays for our shortsight-HGQHVV"

Daniel ODette is a freshman studying history.

The recent announcement of Computer Science Professor Rein Zellers retirement presents an awk-ward discussion to the Hillsdale College community. Few students could mention the fact that he is the resident Computer Science professor, or that the math department commemorated his retirement by dumping the CS program from its course selection.

Hillsdale may not be the next Silicon Valley, but the lack of attention given to a CS program at the col-lege is concerning. We cannot ignore that the modern job climate increasingly demands for people who pos-sess basic programming and problem-solving skills. Hillsdale College is not an institution purely focused on getting students jobs, and its resistance to the de-gree factory trend present in American universities is worthy of praise. The Princeton Review lists biology, English, and history as the top three degrees received at this college, demonstrating a focus on both degrees in science and the humanities. Convinced that it is the best preparation for meeting the challenges of modern life, Hillsdale offers the traditional, classically-based, OLEHUDODUWV3ULQFHWRQVSUROHUHDGV

This liberal arts concept of a well-rounded student falls on its face when ACT credit makes mathematics an afterthought and computer science is hidden under the stairs like an orphaned wizard. The student body does not demand courses in CS because the faculty does nothing to advertise its presence. A highly-selec-tive institution such as ours cannot ignore the wide-spread growth of computer-related jobs and education in America. High schools across the country are add-ing CS courses to their curriculum, even making it re-quired in some cases.

The lack of expansion in the computer science pro-gram is partially the result of the campus polarized academic climate. The humanities majors are perfectly content to dodge math courses while the average busi-ness or science student is still required to attend cours-es in English, history, religion and philosophy. Yet stu-dents of the humanities take for granted the work that goes on to enable word processors, image editing, and web page design. In a few years, no one will even be able to explain what a disk is, or why the computer labs are so slow (try rebooting).

7KLVHOGLVQRWDEXVLQHVVDGGRQRUDQHUGVSLSHdream. Many non-programmers hold the assumption WKDW&6PDMRUV OHDUQD VSHFLF ODQJXDJH IRU D VLQJOHcareer. The truth is that programmers are trained to pick up any language their employer presents to them. Programming is just as much an art as designing a building, or constructing an argument. People slave for hours trying to design user interfaces for Microsoft and Apple, resulting in countless updates to software used by millions. The code behind computers, ATMs, and FDUGVZLSHVLVDHOGRIVWXG\LQLWVHOIDQGVKRXOGQRWbe seen as a disposable accessory of the math or busi-ness departments.

If we expect students at Hillsdale to master the lib-HUDODUWVWKHQZHPXVWUHFRJQL]HWKHLQXHQFHRI&6on mathematics, geometry, music production, and as-tronomy. The ability to code is no longer just a skill found in the basements of suburban families. Hillsdale needs a computer science program, even just a minor, to maintain relevance and meet the challenges of modern life.

Joe Pappalardo is a freshman studying marketing, journalism, and computer science.

When Ted Cruz announced his presidential bid last week, the media pounced on the opportunity to attack his ultra-conservative policies, Canadian heri-tage, and political antics. They used the opportunity

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Pfaff attested to the close-knit nature of the team.

Shooting in high school is very much like shooting for yourself, Pfaff said. Even though youre on a team, its just like a group that youre

with. But this is very much shooting for the team.

For next year, the coaches are aiming for another national victory, either in Division III or II. The team shot in Division II in 2013 and took seventh place at nationals.

We kind of like these national championships. I truly think that our goal is to win again, Carl said. If we go into Division II, itll be because we think we can win Division II.

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BaseballWayne St. (Mich.): 4Hillsdale: 13Wayne St. (Mich.): 8Hillsdale: 9Wayne St. (Mich.): 5Hillsdale: 3Wayne St. (Mich.): 14Hillsdale: 3

Season LeadersBatting AverageEric Shankin (.346)Connor Bartlett (.317)Runs Batted InBartlett (15)Chris McDonald (13)Earned Run AverageP.j. Cooley (2.45)Shane Armstrong (3.26)

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Season LeadersBatting AverageBekah Kastning (.458)Ainsley Ellison (.383)Runs Batted InGrunert (16)Ellison (7)Earned Run AverageDanielle Stiene (2.16)Kate Ardrey (3.50)

GolfTennessee River Rumble1. Lincoln Memorial (593)2. Dalton State (602)3. Brevard (611)4. Washburn (617)5. Carson-Newman (618)6. Catawba (619)7. Tusculum (622)8. Hillsdale (632)9. Walters State (635)10. Taylor (640)11. LMU B (641)12t. Anderson (646)12t. LMU C (646)14. Findlay (657)15. LMU D (679)

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second 10-4 at Williams Field.Sophomore Bekah Kastning

went 4-5 in the game, with big hits from junior Sarah Grunert (3-4) as well.

We wasted a good pitching effort from [freshman] Danielle Stiene, and we came into the sec-ond game a little peeved, head coach Joe Abraham said about the teams second-game turn-

around.Junior Sarah Grunert hit the

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The game ended with a con-troversial interference call. El-lison drove a hit up the middle with two outs and Kastning on second. The umpire called inter-ference and an out on Kastning ZKHQ VKH DQG7LIQV VKRUWVWRSmade contact as the shortstop dove for the ball and missed. It could have been perceived that the shortstop had no shot at mak-ing the play and therefore, the call should have been obstruc-WLRQRQSDUWRIWKH7LIQHOGHU

I think the call could have gone either way, and it went against us, Abraham said. We only had two or three hits in the game, and you cant expect to win that way.

The Chargers continue league play this Friday against Sagi-naw Valley and Saturday against Wayne State.

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Hillsdale senior swimmer Ra-chael Kurtz now stands alone as the only Charger swimmer to re-ceive All-American honors twice in her collegiate career. With her QLVKRIWKLQWKHIUHHVW\OHevent at the 2015 NCAA Divi-sion II swimming and diving championships, Kurtz marked her place in Hillsdale history leaving the legacy of two All-American titles.

For her to go second time All-American is a great tribute to her. She can say she was named All-American for half her swim-ming career at Hillsdale, head coach Kurt Kirner said.

But it wasnt just her awards and achievements that made Kurtz stand out on the Charger swim team. Kurtz led by ex-ample, pushing herself and her teammates to meet their full po-tential. According to her team-mates, she was a source of en-couragement that made a lasting impact on the Charger team.

6KHZDVWKHUVWRQHWRWHOOme that I could walk onto the team. Honestly, she is the rea-son that I am on the team, said sophomore swimmer MacKen-zie Dickhudt, She had such a big belief in me. All throughout the season she continued to en-courage me and told me that I could do it.

Growing up, Kurtz was very athletic. She tried everything and was good at everything.

I played like eight sports, but at some point, you have to choose, Kurtz said.

Swimming, she found, was the one sport she couldnt bear to give up. From then on, all her time was spent in the pool.

Coming into her college ca-reer, Kurtz had the potential to do great things. She said her tac-tic was to set the bar really high for herself, and always push to be better.

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nationals by .01 seconds.It was hard not to make the

cut off, but I took it as a learning experience, she said. But Kurtz had the opportunity at a Last Chance meet to try to qualify one more time.

I didnt think I could do any better. I decided not go, I had al-ready learned a lot that season, Kurtz said.

Once I realized that I was only .01 from qualifying, I wished I had tried one more time, she said, After that, I learned to not let any opportuni-ties go to waste.

That is how she swam the rest of her career.

You always love those kids that come in and keep trending up, Kirner said. She certainly has been the type who comes in with a certain talent that keeps getting better.

Kurtz continued to work harder, swim faster, and push herself all the way through her last race. Lots of swimming is mental, especially the 50 and 100 meters which I race, Kurtz said. It all comes down to who thinks they are going to win, who has the tougher mindset.

.XUW]H[SODLQHG WKDW UHHFW-ing on her collegiate career, the time shes spent working with her teammates overshadows her accomplishments.

I think it would be unfair to say that a highlight is an ac-complishment because that is the thing you get from all your hard work. Those are great times and all, but it is the hours in the pool where its 6 a.m. and no one wants to get in, but we all get in together Its those types of things that I think are the best, Kurtz said.

Bonding with teammates spending hours on a bus together and encouraging those around her to be their best those are the memories that matter, she said.

Her constant encouragement and honesty are her legacy, said Dickhudt. That is how Rachael Kurtz will be remembered: Not just for her achievements, but by her character as the ultimate en-couragement.

Rachael Kurtz: Two-time All-AmericanRachael Hille

Collegian Freelancer

Senior Rachael Kurtz earned her second All-American honor after placing 16th at nationals. (Photo Courtesy of External Affairs)

When God created the world, he made mistakes. When God created baseball, he made per-fection.

Now though, like irrever-ent and ungrateful children, the commissioner and owners have instituted new rules for the 2015 season foolishly trying to hurry the pace of a game designed to exist outside of time.

But baseball doesnt need progressive reformation. It needs only its own immortal or-thodoxy.

Of all the sports that matter, baseball alone escapes the tyr-anny of the timepiece. Bound by the two hands of the clock, basketball conforms to quarters, hockey obeys periods, and foot-ball submits to halves. In each, the clock does more than just mark the remaining moments. It shapes the consciousness of the players and guides the outcome of the game.

In baseball, every inning en-FDSVXODWHV D SRWHQWLDO LQQLW\Each unit of play contains three outs and every game, nine in-nings, but otherwise hours and minutes have never factored into the sport. Fat ladies, walk-off homers, and shutdown clos-ers mark the end of the gamenot obnoxious buzzers.

With his new pace-of-play apostasy, rookie commissioner Rob Manfred has forced a tem-poral construct on a holy insti-tution. Fearful that the length of a baseball game eclipses the attention and imagination of the average American, the commis-sioner conjured new speed-up rules.

To hurry things, the batters box becomes a cage, as hitters must keep a single foot within the chalk lines throughout their at-bat. Then to squeeze the game through a broadcast win-dow, digital timers countdown from 2:25 between innings, as if the traditional intricacies of so called non-game-action need only the same time necessary to boil a runny egg.

In the lesser sanctuaries of Double and Triple A ball, a more insidious heresy has emerged: pitch clocks. These electronic eyesores force young pitchers to throw within twenty seconds of touching the rubber. They also offer a threatening message to Major League pro-fessionals: Conform to the new pace of play rules or submit to the pitch-clock monstrosity.

Last year, the average base-ball game lasted 3 hours and 14 minutes. Thats a ghastly sum of time until compared with foot-

ball, the United States more violent and popular past time. In 2013, the average NFL game lasted 3 hours and 12 minutes on an average of just 11 minutes of actual game play.

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SOFTBALL TEAM SPLITS SERIES WITH TIFFIN

Freshman Haley Lawrence makes a play in the game against Tiffin on Wednesday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Morgan DelpEditor-in-Chief

team at practice, and then in-dividually coach players on how they were doing, Landherr said.

Lowery and Landherr both said Charney was known for her one-liners on the sidelines.

Shed say something and the whole team would crack up, Lowery said.

Landherr gave an example: Shed say to do something til the cows turned blue.

Putting a team together is one of Charneys strong suites, Low-ery said.

Shes great at recruiting, were such a close team and she really knew how to keep it that ZD\ 6KH ZDV DEOH WR QG JLUOVWKDWZRUNHGDQGWLQZLWK+LOO-sdale, Lowery said.

While she has racked up many accomplishments and honors, in-cluding being inducted into the Hall of Fame at Grand Valley State University in 1990, she said her favorite part of coaching has been developing players.

Ive won a lot of games, but to be able to teach and show student-athletes that if you work hard for something youll reap WKHEHQHWDQGWRKDYHWKDWLQX-ence is the best part, Charney said. Seeing the development of players like Stephanie Heid, Katie Cezat, who was actually the NCAA player of the year, and 0HJDQ )RJW ZKR HDUQHG UVWteam All-American this year, seeing those players grow was very special.

Moving forward, Charney VDLGVKHZRXOGOLNHWRQLVKKHUMaster of Science Degree in Ad-ministration at Central Michigan University, which she is only one credit and one thesis short of at-taining, and she would like to stay involved with Hillsdale.

Ive had a great run at coach-ing basketball, I think that part of my life is over and that I need to focus on different things, she said. Id like to be in the admin-istrative side of things now.

Charney said she chose to strive for a masters in administra-tion for the leadership aspect it teaches, which she has used in her position as the senior woman administrator and the director of compliance for the college.

As compliance director she was responsible for going to the GLIAC annual meetings and she

worked closely with Athletic Di-rector Don Brubacher.

She was the most helpful SHUVRQWRPHZKHQ,UVWJRWKHUHseven years ago, Brubacher said. She was very knowledg-able about the conference.

Over her 33 years of coach-ing, Charney said she hopes she inspired women to pursue ath-letic professions.

The percentage of female coaches in the country is becom-ing less and less. To have an in-XHQFHRQSHRSOHDQGVKRZZKDWa great avenue of employment this is and how its a way to stay in the game is a great thing.

Coaching is not a job without thanks, she said: Seeing those former players successful in life, having kids, going to weddings, thats the most redeeming part.

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$W WKHLU UVW KRPHPDWFK RIthe spring season on Saturday, Hillsdale swept the competition with an 8-1 win over Huntington College.

Weve been practicing hard and I think the girls were ea-ger for competition. All courts played hard and showed a lot of heart in their wins, coach Nicole Walbright said.

Sophomore Jada Bissett and junior Rachel Blaauw demon-strated commanding wins in their matches. Bissett shut out her op-ponent, winning 6-0, 6-0, while Blaauw cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 vic-

tory. Despite the lopsided score,

some matches showed stiff com-petition between the teams. Los-LQJKHUUVWVHW-XQLRU/LQG-say Pierce came back 6-3 and 10-6 for the win. Additionally, junior Sydney Delp won a close two-set match 7-5, 6-3 at no. 2 singles. At no. 3 singles, senior Morgan Delp won a hard-fought three-set match 5-7, 6-2, 10-4.

Lindsay and I played some great doubles. We were sharp and focused and took care of business, junior Sydney Delp. I was not too happy with how I played in my singles match, but a win is a win even when it is ugly.

Walbright said that everyone

on the team earned a win at some point over the weekend. After putting a heavy emphasis on doubles play during practice the past couple of weeks, the Char-JHUV QLVKHG WKH GD\ ZLWK YHof six singles matches won and wins in all three of the doubles matches.

It is nice to see positive re-sults when the team has been working so hard, Walbright said.

This weekends success in doubles play allows the team to switch from focusing on doubles to singles.

During the spring, the team doesnt compete in conference matches, making the focus be-tween seasons from qualifying

for GLIACs to working on spe-FLFV LQ RUGHU WR LPSURYH WKHLUgame.

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The team is looking forward to a restful Easter weekend as they begin to gear up for the quickly approaching end of the VSULQJ VHDVRQ7KH&KDUJHUV-nal home match of the season takes place on April 11 against Concordia University.

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The Hillsdale College base-ball team experienced the bru-tality of March in Michigan last weekend as the Chargers (8-16, 3-5 GLIAC) battled through wind, rain, snow, and hail on their way to a split of a four-game set with the Wayne State Warriors (9-12, 3-5 GLIAC).

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