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College releases new student resource app By Christian Papillon Collegian Reporter HillsdaleGo’s replacement app is now available for download on both Apple and Android devices. The new app, called Hillsdale Experience, provides students with a single location for academic resources including class information, the student events calendar, and the campus dining menu. The college released the app to the Google Play store in mid-September and the Apple store in early October. Although the Google Play store accepted the app immediately, the Apple store required additional information, which delayed the release, according to Senior Director of Applications and Software Kevin Maurer. The new app is produced by the same Virginia-based company, Ellucian, and contains many of the same features as HillsdaleGo. “We did not want to upset the world too much with something different,” Maurer said. “We just wanted to get the experience back for students who were used to HillsdaleGo.” Maurer said students should not have trouble getting used to the new app. “Hillsdale Experience is designed to be a close replica of HillsdaleGo,” Maurer said. “It will prove to be an easy adjustment for students.” Sophomore Josh Underwood said he likes the new app. “I think it is more simple than HillsdaleGo,” Underwood said. “It is very navigable. I’m glad that it has all the things I still need.”
The app home page features portals that direct students to pages such as Canvas and Self Service. Canvas is a site that contains information regarding classes and assignments, while Self Service gives access to registration, course planning, and student employee information. “The calendar with all the Hillsdale events is a great boon to me as a student,” Underwood said. Junior Isaac Myhal said he was disappointed with the new app. “The app only uses links,” Myhal said. “It doesn’t provide anything that I can’t get through a web browser. For the features that we really cared about like registration, there’s no incentive to get the app because I can bookmark all the webpages that it sends me to.” Myhal said he plans on monitoring the app to see if it receives any updates. “I would frequently register with the old Hillsdale app,” Myhal said. “At this point, that is not available on the new one.” According to Maurer, the college tested the app with 90 students before releasing it to the rest of the school, applying their feedback to the final product. Although the course roster feature is not yet a part of the Hillsdale Experience app, Maurer said students can use Canvas to access course rosters. “The biggest problem is that Canvas is not required for all classes,” Maurer said. “We are evaluating options for the best course roster delivery method for students.”
Vol. 148 Issue 8 – October 24, 2024 Shea Ruddy is a sophomore wide receiver for the Chargers. Courtesy | Steve Southerington
Wide receiver Ruddy leads DII in all-purpose yards By Francesca Cella Collegian Reporter Nobody in NCAA Division II has carried the football for more yards this season than Hillsdale’s Shea Ruddy. The sophomore currently leads the way with 1,378 all-purpose yards, which is a combination of yardage in rushing, receiving, and returning. “I’d like to keep it up and hopefully end the season there,” Ruddy said. “I want the team to succeed, and I’m trying to do everything I can to get us there.” Four weeks into the season, Ruddy led all of college football in all-purpose yards, including NCAA Division I and III.
“You never would guess it by the way he acts or talks, because he’s humble,” sophomore wide receiver Collin Davis said. Head coach Nate Shreffler said Ruddy’s statistics result from both his physical talent and his strategic instincts. “He’s a great athlete, first off, and so he has skills to do a lot of different things,” Shreffler said. “He has just a real natural feel for the game of football and puts himself in the right places at the right times.” Ruddy started to play football in third grade and was quarterback at Whiteford High School in Ottawa Lake, Michigan, where he broke
Meter is the first metaphor, visiting writer says
Poet James Matthew Wilson lectured on his theory of poetic form as a speaker for the Visiting Writers Program. Ally Hall | Collegian
By Ally Hall Design Editor For poet James Matthew Wilson, the nature of his craft can be summarized by an alliterative list: making, metaphor, memory, and meter. “If I could ask what poetry is, I’d have to be able to answer the question first of what it’s for,” Wilson said. Wilson presented his lecture “On the Nature and Ends of Po-
etry: a Theory of Poetic Form and Function” to a packed Hoynak Room Oct. 10. Following the spring release of his most recent published collection of poetry, “Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds,” Wilson met with students and faculty on campus for lectures, readings, and dinners. Coordinated by Associate Professor of English Dutton Kearney and Associate Professor of Classics and Chairman
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of Hillsdale’s Collegiate Scholars Program Eric Hutchinson, Wilson joined the legacy of the Visiting Writers Program. “Student involvement in this visit was off the charts,” Kearney said. “I love bragging about our students and then seeing visitors’ surprise that, for as much as I’ve talked our students up, they are even better in person.” Wilson used the classical tradition to map his exploration of the poetry, beginning with a section from Diotima in Plato’s “The Symposium.” Wilson’s chosen section states that the Muses give people melody and rhythm which then characterize poetry. “We know that every artist performs the act of making for himself,” Wilson said. “But what she’s proposing here is that the art of the poet involves not only a master of the craft or discipline or the ability or virtue to making, but one that involves a certain kind of receptivity.” The classic component that stuck out most to sophomore Olivia Gonzalez was Socrates. “I enjoyed when Wilson talked about Socrates’ appreciation for poets and how poets bring the soul into a worldly heaven through metaphors, bringing that from above to
earth and what is hidden into the world,” Gonzalez said. Wilson presented poetry as twofold: an act of the maker himself combined with a gift from the Muses. The components of poetry do not exist separately, according to Wilson. They each fold into one another. “Poetic meter, at the microcosmic level of the line of verse, orders our language according to a numerical principle that is reflective of and expressive of the macrocosm, the world as a whole,” Wilson said. “Meter is the source, the means, and the manifestation of memory, making things permanent and memorable. It is also the first metaphor. The metaphor that says ‘this word right here can be expressed in a finite form down here: in the work of poetry.’” Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston. He’s the poet-in-residence of the Benedict XVI Institute as well as the scholar-in-residence at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. Outside of the lecture hall, Wilson is the editor of Colosseum Books, and the poetry editor of Modern Age magazine.
several school records. After Ruddy attended football camps at Hillsdale College, however, the coaches decided he would play wide receiver and return kicks and punts, where he has excelled, according to Shreffler. “He’s had two touchdown returns this year, which is in and of itself pretty unique,” Shreffler said. “In my 26 years, I’ve seen four of them here. He’s gotten two of them.” If Ruddy continues through the final four games of the season at his current pace, he’ll finish the year with 2,165 all-purpose yards. This would break Hillsdale College’s current record of 2,093 all-purpose yards gained in
2002 by Kevin Clive. Ruddy’s younger brother, freshman Ryin Ruddy, is also on the football team. He said some of his brother’s motivation on the field comes from being the second of five boys. “I think having four brothers growing up was kind of a built-in way to push yourself,” Ryin Ruddy said. “We live on a property with our cousins, too. So at one point, there were all five of us and probably 10 other boys on the property. When we were younger, I remember every single weekend we would go out and play football.”
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Packages go underground: student mail lockers open under Lane and Kendall By Sydney Green Collegian Reporter Students can now pick up their packages from lockers in the basement hallway between Lane and Kendall halls. “We have been talking about doing this for years now to make it easier for students to have 24/7 access to packages,” Print and Mail Center Manager Deb Johnson said. “It’s hard for students when we are not open on Saturday, and this will help clean things up and make package pick up more efficient.” Once a package arrives, students receive a QR code and four-digit SMS code on their device to scan at the kiosk by the lockers. Director of Print and Mail John Quint said the location of the lockers will encourage students to pick up their packages faster. “We have had trouble in the past getting students to pick up their packages quickly,” Quint said. “With this now being more centrally located and not so much on the outskirts, we think this will help with the package pickup process.”
Quint said he expects the 24-hour student pickup rate to rise from its current 50% to around 80%. Over the past month, Quint said 680 packages have been loaded and 580 have been picked up so far. The kiosk has a security system that takes a picture of the student’s face once they scan their code. Quint said he hopes this will eliminate further confusion with package pickup. “From a security standpoint, we have the honor code which definitely sets us apart from other colleges,” Quint said. “But we wanted to further prevent any potential or accidental problems that might occur, and this will help us be able to provide answers if there is any confusion.” Print and Mail Operations Aide Kim Lashaway said she has gotten positive feedback on the new addition. “I think students are liking that the lockers are right on campus where their classes are,” Lashaway said. “Plus it is also an easy and efficient process for students to figure out.”