Students stopped by the Strosacker Science Center March 7 to celebrate the sesquicentennial year of the D. M. Fisk Museum of Natural History. Erik teder | Collegian
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Hillsdale Mock Trial punches ticket to nationals By Zachary Chen Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College Mock Trial team A is headed to the national championship next month. The team will compete in the American Mock Trial Association National Tournament in Chicago. Team A, which placed second at nationals last year, won first place in the Opening Round
Championship Series tournament last weekend with a score of 6.5 ballots, the highest a Hillsdale team has ever won at ORCS, according to team captain and senior Caleb Sampson. “It was an excellent tournament,” Sampson said. “After first place at regionals and first place at ORCS, at this point in the season, it’s the most successful competitive season Hillsdale College Mock Trial
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has ever had.” Hillsdale team A swept the first two rounds against Syracuse University team D and University of Toronto team C with scores of 2-0 before defeating Dickinson College team A 1.5-0.5 and splitting ballots with Dartmouth College team B for a score of 1-1, according to Pema. “We were very pleased with the caliber of competition we hit,” Sampson said. “We
thought everybody else did an excellent job, and we’re grateful to have walked out with the win knowing the quality of people we competed against.” After qualifying in ORCS, mock trial teams across the country must prepare an entirely new case for the nationals tournament, according to Pema.
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The Hillsdale College Mock Trial team A placed first at ORCS last weekend and will proceed to the national tournament. Courtesy | Chloe Noller
Former Charger’s to take the court for March Madness By Alex Deimel Assistant editor Patrick Cartier and Jack Gohlke were freshman basketball players at Hillsdale College in the fall of 2017. Now they’re competing on college basketball’s biggest stage: the NCAA Division I basketball tournament. Cartier helped the Colorado State University Rams advance to the first round of the tournament, scoring 12 points on Tuesday night in a First Four victory over the Virginia Cavaliers, 67-42. “We spent four years of our college career right by each other’s sides,” Gohlke said. “He’s one of my best friends in the world so it’s awesome to see his success, and I’m always rooting for him. I definitely hope CSU makes a run in the tournament because he deserves to be in the spotlight.” Cartier played three seasons with the Chargers, was a two-time G-MAC player of the year, and currently ranks sixth on Hillsdale’s all-time career scoring list with 1,624 total points. He transferred to Colorado State at the end of the 2021-22 season. “It was definitely a sense of relief to see our team chosen on Sunday,” Cartier said. “Since the first four was add-
ed in 2011, one of the teams in the first four has made the sweet 16 almost every year.” In his second year with the Rams, Cartier started 33 of 34 games and finished the regular season averaging 10.6 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. He had a 52% field-goal percentage. Gohlke played at Hillsdale for four years, transferring to the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies in metropolitan Detroit at the end of last season. In his final season with the Chargers, Gohlke was the team’s best 3-point shooter, and he tied a single-game record with 10 3-pointers, against Ashland University. This season, Gohlke averaged 12.2 points per game, with a 37% 3-point shooting percentage. The fifth-year senior scored 21 points in Oakland’s victory over the Cleveland State Vikings on March 11 in the Horizon League conference tournament. Oakland clinched a spot in the NCAA tournament the next day by beating the Milwaukee University Panthers in the conference championship. Gohlke scored 15 points in that game.
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Hillsdale radio nabs station of the year, Collegian students win in multiple categories By Catherine Maxwell Assistant Editor WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM recently won the Michigan Association of Broadcasters’ 2024 College Audio Station of the Year award, and The Collegian won 11 awards in the Michigan Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Radio Free Hillsdale won 12 additional awards on March 18, including six for first place, four for second place, and two for third place awards. The Collegian won three first place awards, three second place awards, two third place awards, and three honorable mentions in the Better Newspaper Contest awards announced March 14. “I’m very proud of the work the Collegian students put into making the newspaper each week,” said Maria Servold, assistant director of the Dow Journalism Program. “Few people appreciate the dedication the Collegian students have. I’m glad that their work has been recognized.” This is the second consecutive year Radio Free Hillsdale has won College Audio Station
of the Year and the third time overall. The first victory came in 2019. The station was founded in 2015 and began submitting for awards in 2017, according to Scot Bertram, general manager of the station. “Being honored in this way is special,” Bertram said. “It’s incredible to step back and think that our students are competing and winning these awards against college radio/audio programs at institutions with student populations that are 10, 20, even nearly 40 times larger than Hillsdale’s enrollment.” Senior Thérèse Boudreaux won first place in the daily newscast/news feature category for her broadcast “Spotlight on PFAS,” which discussed the dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals” that pollute the environment and drinking water. “The broadcast was not something I thought I’d win an award for, because it was basically just clips of my PFAS documentary turned into a newscast,” Boudreaux said. She said she likes the creativity the radio program encourages. “It’s a very independent pro-
cess,” she said. “What you make is 100% your creation, start to finish, but there are always people there to help if you need it.” Bertram said he likes seeing students’ hard work recognized. “Thérèse now has won both a national first place and a statewide first place for her piece on PFAS,” he said. “That’s pretty tough to do.” Sophomore Evan Mick won first place in the sports feature category for his piece on Hillsdale’s new football coach. He also won second place for his piece “The Life of a Kicker.” “I love the sport of football, and this is another avenue in which I get to be involved in it,” Mick said. “I get to learn new things about the sport that I am around every day.” According to Bertram, the editorial category was new for MAB. Junior Gavin Listro won first place for a piece on misleading marketing for electric vehicles. “I was trying to bring awareness to the idea that marketing should highlight actual benefits of electric vehicles while still being truthful about environmental impacts,” Listro said. Abigail Snyder ’23 won sec-
ond place in the editorial category for a piece on the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. “Throughout my 3.5 years at Hillsdale, I had a podcast/ radio show called ‘The Virtual Voyage,’” Snyder said. “It was
an armchair travel show where I took people to visit my favorite sites in Israel, all from their comfort zone. Listeners could put on their headphones and feel like they were there at various sites in Israel, with me as their tour guide.”
Snyder spent four summers in Israel, participating in an archeological dig for one, and will pursue a master’s in Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.
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General Manager at WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM Scot Bertram poses with the award for College Audio Station of the Year. Lauren Scott | Collegian