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Michael Mayday
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: News
Student Fed prepares for elections
Student Federation convened Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Junior William Clayton presented a request for $700 to host a Trace Bundy guitar concert on-campus. He cited high student interest as a primary motivation for the concert, evidenced by approximately 70 students currently enrolled in guitar classes. The federation later approved funding for the event.
President Brian Painter, a senior, introduced a petition circulated by the Choose Responsibility Organization on behalf of their "Get Real Campaign," which will encourage legislators to highlight the legal drinking age as an agenda priority. Federation representatives unanimously voted in favor of signing the petition.
Nominations for next year's officers concluded the meeting. To the role of secretary, sophomores Elliot Gaiser and Brittany Baldwin and juniors Sam Sparks and Laura Golden received nominations, of which only Gaiser accepted the nomination. For treasurer, sophomores James Manion, Kyle Forti, Sparks and Gaiser all accepted their nominations. Juniors Victoria Bergen and Blake Sherman accepted nomination for vice president, as did Golden and Clayton for president. Because federation guidelines require a representative to run for only one office, Gaiser declined the nomination for treasurer in favor of that for secretary. He is running unopposed.
- Carmen Mesbergen
Prize-winning author to visit
National Book Award finalist author Dennis Covington will give two presentations at Hillsdale College next week.
On Nov. 2, he will read from one of his works. He will deliver a talk titled "The Problem of the Azure-Hooded Jay" on Nov. 3. Both events will take place at 8 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium.
Although he has written numerous works, mainly nonfiction, he is best known for "Salvation on Sand Mountain," his account of snake-handling fundamentalist Christianity in southern Appalachia. Associate Professor of English John Somerville, who arranged Covington's visit, said the book is "brilliant" and "beautifully moving" and said it's one of his favorite books
Covington currently teaches creative writing at Texas Tech University. His articles have been published in many periodicals from scholarly journals to The New York Times.
- Margaret Freeland
Tocco gears up for friday's challenge
Just months after a debilitating shoulder injury left him out of his own competition, Don Tocco is back. After cancelling the Tocco Challenge in March, Tocco is gearing up to compete in Friday's five-sport-event.
The 70-year-old self-made businessman and host of the Tocco Challenge, plans not only on competing in the annual competition but is adding new events this year.
Seven representatives of the Greek houses will compete against each other and in the regularly scheduled baseball, basketball and football events. For the first time, they will also compete in tennis and chess. The winner will then try his luck against Tocco.
If a student beats Tocco, Hillsdale and his house win $25,000. If Tocco wins, the college receives $15,000, plus whatever money clients bet against Tocco.
"In years past, we've had as many as five people bet against me for $5,000," Tocco said.
For Tocco, it's not about the money.
"The Tocco Challenge is about helping people be the best they can be," he said.
Coming to Hillsdale isn't about the competition either.
"The sports challenge is the event that got me to Hillsdale," Tocco said. "What keeps me there is that the material I share works."
Tocco is disarmingly humble when it comes to his prospects this year.
"I don't ever expect to win," Tocco said. "It's a bone-crusher on the ego."
- Marieke van der Vaart
Environmental audit next week
Hillsdale College will be hosting third party environmental consultants HRP associates, Inc. for an environmental evaluation Nov. 3 to Nov. 5.
The evaluation will measure how well the college stores its dangerous substances such as chemi-cals in chemistry labs and art rooms.
"Pretty much every private school in Michigan is doing the same thing," Vice President of Ad-ministration Rich Péwé said.
Péwé said the Michigan College Foundation, a coalition of private Michigan colleges, decided to steer away from an EPA inspection and conduct a self audit. Hillsdale sent Superintendant of Buildlings Dave Billington, Director of Campus Security Mike Wertz and Science Lab Director Ted Miller to be trained as auditors, Péwé said.
Péwé said the EPA started to audit and enforce fines on colleges and universities on the East Coast two years ago, resulting in more than $800,000 fine in violations for Yale University.
Péwé said the EPA accepts the HRP's audit, which will report back to the college, the MCF and the Mich. Department of Environmental Quality, the Michigan branch of the DEA.
"It's a way to prevent what happened to the region one and two schools," Péwé said.
- Michael Mayday
Corrections:?
The Collegian corrects inaccurate or misleading information. Please contact us at collegian@hillsdale.edu if you think we have published such information.
Student Federation convened Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Junior William Clayton presented a request for $700 to host a Trace Bundy guitar concert on-campus. He cited high student interest as a primary motivation for the concert, evidenced by approximately 70 students currently enrolled in guitar classes. The federation later approved funding for the event.
President Brian Painter, a senior, introduced a petition circulated by the Choose Responsibility Organization on behalf of their "Get Real Campaign," which will encourage legislators to highlight the legal drinking age as an agenda priority. Federation representatives unanimously voted in favor of signing the petition.
Nominations for next year's officers concluded the meeting. To the role of secretary, sophomores Elliot Gaiser and Brittany Baldwin and juniors Sam Sparks and Laura Golden received nominations, of which only Gaiser accepted the nomination. For treasurer, sophomores James Manion, Kyle Forti, Sparks and Gaiser all accepted their nominations. Juniors Victoria Bergen and Blake Sherman accepted nomination for vice president, as did Golden and Clayton for president. Because federation guidelines require a representative to run for only one office, Gaiser declined the nomination for treasurer in favor of that for secretary. He is running unopposed.
- Carmen Mesbergen
Prize-winning author to visit
National Book Award finalist author Dennis Covington will give two presentations at Hillsdale College next week.
On Nov. 2, he will read from one of his works. He will deliver a talk titled "The Problem of the Azure-Hooded Jay" on Nov. 3. Both events will take place at 8 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium.
Although he has written numerous works, mainly nonfiction, he is best known for "Salvation on Sand Mountain," his account of snake-handling fundamentalist Christianity in southern Appalachia. Associate Professor of English John Somerville, who arranged Covington's visit, said the book is "brilliant" and "beautifully moving" and said it's one of his favorite books
Covington currently teaches creative writing at Texas Tech University. His articles have been published in many periodicals from scholarly journals to The New York Times.
- Margaret Freeland
Tocco gears up for friday's challenge
Just months after a debilitating shoulder injury left him out of his own competition, Don Tocco is back. After cancelling the Tocco Challenge in March, Tocco is gearing up to compete in Friday's five-sport-event.
The 70-year-old self-made businessman and host of the Tocco Challenge, plans not only on competing in the annual competition but is adding new events this year.
Seven representatives of the Greek houses will compete against each other and in the regularly scheduled baseball, basketball and football events. For the first time, they will also compete in tennis and chess. The winner will then try his luck against Tocco.
If a student beats Tocco, Hillsdale and his house win $25,000. If Tocco wins, the college receives $15,000, plus whatever money clients bet against Tocco.
"In years past, we've had as many as five people bet against me for $5,000," Tocco said.
For Tocco, it's not about the money.
"The Tocco Challenge is about helping people be the best they can be," he said.
Coming to Hillsdale isn't about the competition either.
"The sports challenge is the event that got me to Hillsdale," Tocco said. "What keeps me there is that the material I share works."
Tocco is disarmingly humble when it comes to his prospects this year.
"I don't ever expect to win," Tocco said. "It's a bone-crusher on the ego."
- Marieke van der Vaart
Environmental audit next week
Hillsdale College will be hosting third party environmental consultants HRP associates, Inc. for an environmental evaluation Nov. 3 to Nov. 5.
The evaluation will measure how well the college stores its dangerous substances such as chemi-cals in chemistry labs and art rooms.
"Pretty much every private school in Michigan is doing the same thing," Vice President of Ad-ministration Rich Péwé said.
Péwé said the Michigan College Foundation, a coalition of private Michigan colleges, decided to steer away from an EPA inspection and conduct a self audit. Hillsdale sent Superintendant of Buildlings Dave Billington, Director of Campus Security Mike Wertz and Science Lab Director Ted Miller to be trained as auditors, Péwé said.
Péwé said the EPA started to audit and enforce fines on colleges and universities on the East Coast two years ago, resulting in more than $800,000 fine in violations for Yale University.
Péwé said the EPA accepts the HRP's audit, which will report back to the college, the MCF and the Mich. Department of Environmental Quality, the Michigan branch of the DEA.
"It's a way to prevent what happened to the region one and two schools," Péwé said.
- Michael Mayday
Corrections:?
The Collegian corrects inaccurate or misleading information. Please contact us at collegian@hillsdale.edu if you think we have published such information.
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