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Applications are downabout 5 percent from lastyears record numbers.

Director of Admissions JeffLantis and his team have pro-cessed over 1,950 applicationsso far, about 100 fewer thanthis time last year.

But by the time late tran-scripts and letters of recco-mendation arrive, Lantis saidhe expects the total number

of applications to be close to

2,200.

Lantis attributed the dip tothree main factors.

I dont want to give U.S.News and World Reportmuch credit, but we missedthe listing this year [due to]a paperwork glitch with anorganization that supplies infoto U.S. News, so our absencethere may have had an im-

pact, he said. The nationalad campaign that was run last

GOP presidential candidateRick Santorum backed out ofHillsdale Colleges Constitu-tional Symposium last Saturdaynight, 48 hours before it wasscheduled to start.

Santorums decision came

after a frenzied week of studentand administrative efforts toforum for presidential hopefuls,including hours of phone calls,sleepless nights, and thousandsof dollars of sunk costs for theschools administration.

We laid the groundwork forsomething really great and wealmost did it, said Elliot Gaiser,Collegian opinions editor andConstitution Symposium Chair.

The event drew cooperationfrom Central Hall to BenzingHall and back, at a time when al-most all upper-level administra-tive staff were in California for a

National Leadership Seminar.I wish people would know

just how close we came to doing

a thing that CNN and state party

chairmen couldnt do, Gaisersaid. If anything, its shown methat people our age can move theworld if we set our minds to it.

The story of the eventincludes candidates campaignssuggesting dozens of differentdates, days of radio silence,calls to staffer upon staffer andsenior state politicos, and ulti-

mately, Santorums withdrawal.

The PlanGaiser said he considered the

idea of a presidential forum for -tion from college administrators.

The green light came afterHillsdale President Larry Arnncornered Gaiser in Saga, Inc, atthe beginning of February, threeweeks before the Feb. 28 Michi-gan primary.

Dr. Arnn looks over at meand says, Dyou think you can dothis? I say, I can gosh darn try,and Dr. Arnn says, I think weregoing to try this, Gaiser said.

That week, Gaiser and seniorMike Morrison, juniors KatyBachelder and Sarah Anne

Voyles, and sophomores Melika

Willoughby and Brianna Waldenformed a Hillsdale ConstitutionalSymposium Executive Commit-tee under administrative point-

person Production AssistantVictoria Bergen 11.

The six of us would walk upwould join us, we were greeted

by Natalie Mock all of us

graduates or students from thepast two years. We walked into

at his table and worked from thesaid, laughing.

Provost David Whalen saidthe administrations position onthe event was established fromthe outset. He said the collegeasked that each candidate beinvited to speak and the event

disrupt campus life as little as

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Rule number 24 of GeorgeWashingtons Rules of Civil-ity and Decent Behavior inCompany and Conversationand all Affectation of Cer-emony are to be avoided, yetwhere due they are not to be

Neglected.Partygoers took those in-

structions to heart at the KirbyCenter for Constitutional Stud-ies and Citizenships celebra-tion of Washingtons Birthdayon Feb. 20.

In 1879, an act of Congressholiday to honor an Americancitizen. Today, it celebrates thecitizens.

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ton held owed its existence tohim, said David Bobb, the

Kirby Centers director, in atoast. He is indispensable;however, he never acted as

though he was indispensable,and for that we honor himtonight.

Other participants echoedBobbs tribute to Washingtonshumility. When asked whatquality he most admired in theMichael Zak pointed to hisrestraint.

He could have been aCromwell, but he chose notto, Zak said.

Others said they drawpersonal inspiration from hisexample.

A clinical psychologist fromNew Jersey praised Washing-ton for his steady model ascountry. A local college stu-dent joked that the standard of

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Student voting for Outstand-ing Senior Man and Womanclosed on Sunday night, butsources told The Collegian thatthe voting website might haveskewed the results by allowingfor discrepancy in the outcome.

It just goes to show that ourschool is not on the cutting edgeof technology, said a student ITS

employee who asked to remainanonymous. And as much aswe would like to think that thisis Hillsdale College, you knowwere all still human just as

The student said the onlinevoting process through SurveyMonkey, a voting website, hastwo major glitches: the site does

by clearing the Internet History

cache, people could clear theirallowing them to vote again.

Anyone could vote, andthey could vote as many timesas they want, the student said.I do know that some juniorssee if it would let me vote twice.It didnt ask you who you are;

just clear your cache, and voteagain.

An email containing the linkto vote was sent only to students

with senior standing all 568of them but that allowedrecipients who are not gradu-ating this spring to still voteor forward the email to other

juniors, sophomores, and fresh-men to vote.

One junior student withsenior standing said he votedanyway.

I think they just lookedat how many credits I had and

included me in the senior classemail because of that. I voted

because I sensed the votinggetting an email and all. It wasmischievousof me, andI probablyshouldnthave done it.

Directorof Career Ser-vices JoannaWiseley, the

advisor to theclass of 2012,said that sheand the of-to switch the voting to SurveyMonkey this year and pay forthe service.

The college also usedSurvey Monkey to select thewinner for the senior class T-shirt design competition. Senior

Design Editor Bonnie Cofer the winner of the competition said she noticed the polling siteallowed for repeated voting.

I think its unfair and thatbothers me. Idont feel likeit was a fairwin, Cofersaid. The factthat I knowthe systemwas abused inthat instance,

makes meconcerned thatsimilar thingsmight havehappened in

other voting processes with thesame website. I wish that theywould either go back to votingon paper ballots or use an onlinesystem that required you to signin. With the system they are us-ing now, they are just asking for

someone to abuse it.Wiseley said she understood

that others could vote if theyreceived the link, but she hopedit would not come to that. Nev-ertheless, she did not see anydiscrepancies in the results.

There are 374 members ofthe senior class and 305 voteswere submitted.

I did not notice anything outof the ordinary, Wiseley said.There were way less responsesthan there were members of

the class. The voting was re-ally even. It was a really goodcross-section and the numberswere really well dispersed. So itwould indicate to me that therewas not a conspiracy.

The bottom line is it is justthe top three and I think they areall great candidates, and the fac-

Wiseley was not able toview who voted, but she was

able to see the IP address ofeach vote. Although she saidshe did not see repeat votes, thereturn to ballot voting.

Maybe we will do a ballot,Wiseley said. We just thoughtwe would get more response ifwe didnt do it at the GrewcockStudent Union and polled who-ever came to lunch that day. I

just didnt like that. [The issue]is on our agenda for our next

recommendation is that theywill take it forward to the nextclass, the class of 2013.

Seniors Nate Jebb, JamesManion, Clint Westbrook, andRyon Wiska represent the men there are four nominees becauseWiseley did not see a good

breaking point in the results.Seniors Brittany Baldwin, DinaFarhat, and Kelsey Shunk werenominated for the women.

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With the system theyare using now, theyare just asking forsomeone to abuse it.

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Junior Alexandra (Sasha)Allen is working on a year-longsculpture project a statueof a man chasing after a wildgazelle using senior LukeSanders as her model.

Allen and Sanders aregood friends who met at TheDonnybrook, an off-campushouse located behind SimpsonDormitory. When Allen startedher project last semester, sheknew she would need a humanmodel and that Sanders waslooking for job. He immediatelyaccepted the position.

Both have quirky senses ofhumor. Their friendship is fullof insults and teasing, but its

all in good fun.I call him gazelle boy,

Allen said of Sanders.Inspired by his long neck

and the time she saw him sniff-wanted to sculpt him as halfhuman, half gazelle. AssociateProfessor of Art Anthony Fru-dakis, her sculpture professor,

persuaded her otherwise.Though the sculpture itself

is nude, Allen made one thingclear about her model.

He does not stand herenude, she said. He wearsshorts.

The sculpture looks as if heis beckoning after the gazelle.

He is calling after his inner

essence, Allen said.

Sanders was not as thrilledwith the pose merely because itrequired endurance to keep still.

It was very agonizing,Sanders said. My arms wereout in this yoga pose

He talks as if he standsthere for the whole two hours,Allen responded. He does take

breaks.Although the sculpture is

the man and gazelle for anancient Minoan motif. GivenSanders wide shoulders andsmall waist (commonly seen inMinoan art), he proved to bean ideal model for her desiredstyle.

When sculpting, knowledgeof the proper anatomy ratios

is key. Much of the sculptureinvolves forming the skeletaland muscle structures.

Hes weird-shaped, Allensaid. There are all these ratios,and they are suppose to be per-fect. But Luke has small hands,a long neck, and long face.

Sasha is harder on herselfthan she needs to be, Sanderssaid. She is a perfectionist andgood at what she does.

-ture by the end of the semester.She sculpts using oil-basedclay, which is strictly a model-ing and casting clay and cannotwill cover the sculpture withfoil and plaster which can be

Allen hopes to enter herleaping gazelle piece into thisyears energy-themed art com-

petition. The entire completedpiece will also be in the Hills-dale College student art show.

Though Allen has a passionfor art, she is a history majorwith an art minor.

be an art major until second se-mester of my sophomore year,so thats why Im a minor, shesaid. I never thought of art asa professional option. I knewI liked art, but never thought Iwas good enough at anything tomake a job out of it.

Surrounded by an artisticfamily, Allens sister-in-law,who also loves sculpting,inspired her to try the Sculpting

101 class last year. Allen enjoyssculpting; however, her reallove is textile art. After gradu-ation, Allen is thinking about

pursuing art school and culinaryschool.

As for Sanders and his mod-eling career, he said: This has

been a fun experience. ThoughIm open to the idea of model-ing, Im not actively pursuingagain.

Sanders will be graduatingthis spring with a religion and

philosophy degree and biologyminor.

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Capturing motion in clayTaylor Knopf


As technology improves,the variety of artistic mediumswidens considerably. Film is the20th century art form, and it con-tinues to receive more interest asthe years pass.

Hillsdale College does not

still dabble in this medium,creating complex pieces. Onesuch student is sophomore GregCarlson, who is currently trying

where the director makes pup-

pets and poses them, taking aseries of pictures where each

puppet is in a slightly differentposition. Each second of a stop-action movie is made up of 60

pictures.It gives you a lot of freedom

because you can be the actorfor all the different characters,

but its also time-consuming,Carlson said.

Carlson creates his ownpuppets, beginning with a wirearmature and sculpting a char-acter around it with the help of

He paints them, does wigging

and costuming, and also createshis own set.

Stop action is a totally differ-ent style. I can see the possibili-ties in it that havent really beentapped into, Carlson said.

Professor of Theatre JamesBrandon said hats off to Carl-He said the craft was considered

was worthy of respect.It takes patience and vision,

Brandon said.

larger-than-life medium. Filmprovides the ability to edit, un-like theater, where everything islive without a net.

Brandon admits to likingpopcorn movies, but he said

We are such slaves to narra-

tive. I like vibrant, experimentalartists. I like movies that chal-lenge me, Brandon said. It is

rather than a popcorn circus.

Junior Mark Keller createdresponse to an assignment givenin Brandons Movies As AMedium class. Brandon offeredhis students the option of eitherwriting a ten-page paper for the

under his supervision, the projectmodeled after The Thing, a

play written by Percival Wilde.The play has two roles, bothof which were acted by Keller,although he had help from mul-

art in that it embodied all thearts. Not only photography andacting, but music composition,visual arts, and even editing

the sequencing of imagestogether contributed to the

Film is the new opera,Keller said. Its the art form thattakes all the arts and brings themtogether as a whole.

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Film: bringing artforms together

Abi WoodCopy Editor

Amid paper and pencil, oneof Hillsdale Colleges dedi-cated art students works towardhis dream. In his work, juniorThomas Lundberg projects

the hopes and aspirations of adecade-long hobby. Lundbergis going beyond the simpleacknowledgement of his artistictalents and intends to pursue a

It took a while to decideon an art major, but its what Ishould be doing for sure, Lun-dberg said. Drawing has beena hobby of mine since gradeschool. I understood thingsmost kids dont notice.

In deciding on a major,Lundberg was torn betweeneconomics and art.

I chose art because its whatI enjoy, Lundberg said. Imaware it might be hard to get a

job but its still worth it.

Son of Head Track Coachand Assistant Professor in PEDBill Lundberg, Tommy haslived in Hillsdale his whole life.The artistic streak also runs inthe family.

My sister was an art major,Tommy Lundberg said. Nowshe works at Anthropologydesigning displays. My dadwas an art major before heswitched to physical education.My grandmother was artistic aswell.

Tommy Lundberg begannurturing his talent in highschool by incorporating a loveof music into his drawings.

I started out copying thealbum covers of bands I liked,especially Radiohead, TommyLundberg said.

His interest soon spread tothe copying of pop culture im-ages.

I copied posters, concertposters from the 60s, famousworks of art, Tommy Lundbergsaid. I once copied a page fromthe Watchmen comic book. Ittook me a whole week becauseof the high level of detail.

In college Tommy Lundberghas made the transition from

popular images to famous faces.His portraits boast the likeness-es of celebrities Brad Pitt, Jack

Nicholson, Beyonc, AudreyHepburn and other celebrities.

Ive been working on por-traits for a while now, TommyLundberg said. Im working

on a Bob Dylan still have aways to go on that. Capturing a

portraits I do for practice, topush myself further. SometimesI draw things I see, in the unionfor instance. I get on these kicksof things I enjoy doing.

Tommy Lundbergs workalso has attracted the attentionof his peers.

Fellow art student andsophomore Joseph Craig at-tended Hillsdale Academy withTommy Lundberg.

Ive always thoughtTommys work has been great,Craig said. In class I cant help

but be jealous sometimes.Tommy Lundbergs love of

album art gives him favorabledisposition toward the seem-ingly soon-to-be-obsolete CD.

I still like buying CDs frombands I appreciate; I dont wantthem to disappear, TommyLundberg said. Vinyl is greatfor the large album artwork.Thats something Im curiousabout doing some time.

Tommy Lundberg alreadyhas begun to accept commis-sions for his work.

My aunt asked me to doa portrait of her husband myuncle, he said. She paid meand it was a great deal.

Another opportunity cameas Tommy Lundberg begandrawing buildings around cam-

pus. Senior Sally Klarr saw adrawing Lundberg made of theKappa Kappa Gamma house.

I asked if he would agreeto sell it to the sorority, Klarrsaid.

With senior year fast ap-proaching, Tommy Lundberghas been giving more thought toa post -collegiate career.

I have a friend of a friendwho works for Def Jam recordsmaking album art, he said.So Im hoping to get my wayin there. Right now its just ahobby of mine, but I wouldenjoy it being my job as well.

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Passion for pop cultureHayden Smith


By Roxanne Turnbull and Abi Wood

Senior Luke Sanders poses for junior Sasha Allen. Allen has been working on the sculp-ture for the entire school year. It represents the body in motion, and she will be enteringthe piece into a competition at the end of the year. (Joe Buth/Collegian)

Junior Tommy Lundberg has a passion for transformingpop culture into drawings. Here he works on his sketch ofdeceased actor, James Dean. (Elena Salvatore/Collegian)

Film is the new

opera. Mark Keller,

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