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Alumna publishes book on history of abortion Student competes at shotgun World Cup By Elyse Apel Opinions Editor
By Aubrey Gulick Senior Reporter Hillsdale sophomore and shotgun team member Joshua Corbin competed internationally at the World Cup in Morocco last month for USA shooting’s men’s skeet team. “Joshua is right on the brink of success internationally,” said head coach of the shotgun team Jordan Hintz. “If he continues on the same path he is currently on, there is no limit to what he will accomplish in the near future.” Corbin competed for the United States at the International Shooting Sports Federation World Cup in Rabat, Morocco, Jan. 13-15. Participating in the World Cup may allow Corbin to qualify for Olympic trials for the 2024 summer Paris Olympic Games. “I was competing in fourth position for America at this World Cup, and only the top three people were competing for medals, so I couldn’t win a medal personally; I was just there for the ranking points,” Corbin said. Competing internationally requires immense mental preparation, according to senior Ida Brown, who participated in a 2022 World Cup. “Competing on the international stage is both physically and mentally demanding,” Brown said. “You spend days traveling and then you get off a plane and are expected to be ready to shoot. It takes a lot of mental strength to perform well in a place where you’ve never shot with very little practice.”
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Just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Hillsdale alumna Leah (Hickman) Savas ’17, has published a 500-page book on the history of abortion in America from a prolife perspective. As a reporter for World, Savas spent the last three years co-writing “The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 16522022,” with Marvin Olasky, former editor-in-chief of World. “I hope this book adds for people what it did for me on the abortion issue,” Savas said. “When we started talking about the book back in 2019, I didn’t know much about the history of abortion in America.” The book was originally meant to be an update to a book Olasky wrote in the 1990s about abortion, but as they started researching, Olasky and Savas realized they would have to write a new book. “With just how much information and newspaper clippings and court records are available online now, he decided he needed to do a rewrite, not just an update,” Savas said.
The plan was to publish the book in January 2023, a month that marked the 50th anniversary of the handing down of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. “When we started working on the book, we had no idea that Roe v. Wade would be overturned. That was not even on our radar,” Savas said. “Even when the Supreme Court took up the Dobbs case, we thought it would allow that law to stand. We never thought it would overturn Roe v. Wade altogether.” After the Dobbs draft was leaked, Olasky and Savas realized the last chapter of the book would need to be about the end of Roe and how different states responded to it. “We had already turned in all the other chapters and had started editing, but we told our editors and publisher that we need a little time in July to add this last chapter in, just to tie it up,” Savas said. A native of Michigan, Savas said she never planned to end up in journalism. “I just thought that journalism seemed a little too cutthroat for me. Kind of intense with lots of deadlines and I just thought that I’m not that kind of person,” she said. As a student at Hillsdale, she and a few friends founded Fool’s Talk, the faith-based,
student-run publication of Hillsdale College’s Equip Ministries. One of those friends was Stephen Savas, whom Savas married in 2021. “I loved all of my friends at Hillsdale,” she said. “We just always had a good time together.” After graduating in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and double minors in classical education and German, Savas took a job in marketing at a small business. “When I was at my first job after college, I would listen to the World podcast,” Savas said. “That’s when I realized that there’s some actual human interest in journalism, it’s not all about politics. They were telling stories of individuals and people, and I just thought, ‘wow, it would be cool to learn how to do this kind of reporting.’” This podcast changed her view of journalism and led to her attending the World Journalism Institute in 2018. That then led her to an internship. “In 2019, I took an internship with World and then they hired me at the end of that summer internship,” Savas said. Olasky asked her to cover abortion, and later to help him co-write “The Story of Abortion.”
“Leah is great,” Olasky said. “She is smart, well-educated, articulate, and well-organized.” Released on Jan. 3, the book has received many positive reviews from pro-life leaders. “Olasky and Savas provide crucial historical context for the effort,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life.
The book takes a “street-level” view of abortion over the “suite level” view in America, according to Savas. “We tell the story of abortion in America through the everyday experiences of people who were personally affected by the issue,” Savas said.
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Leah Savas graduated from Hillsdale in 2017. Courtesy | Leah Savas
SAB to host Met Gala President’s Ball this Saturday By Tayte Christensen Collegian Freelancer A red carpet, student art show, and unique photo opportunities will bring the Met Gala to the Student Activities Board’s annual President’s Ball Feb. 11. Doors open at the Searle Center at 8:30 p.m. for swing dancing, followed by the formal ball from 9 p.m. to midnight. The Jerry Ross Band will provide live music for the event. Caitie Dugan, junior and
SAB creative team lead, said the décor of the event models after the Met Gala. “There will be a red carpet like there is at the Met Gala, greenery like they have at the Met Gala, and a very cool backdrop for photos that will kind of look like a magazine cover,” Dugan said. The Met Gala is an annual fundraiser hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It raises money for the Met’s Costume Initiative and attendees’ fashion is often a highlight.
An art gallery will be located in the Hoynak room, featuring the work of student artists and members of the campus art honorary, Alpha Rho Tau, according to SAB staff adviser Maddie Clark. “The art honorary will have some of their pieces in the Hoynak room, similar to the actual Met, so that will be a unique feature,” Clark said. “I’m really excited to see how that turns out, and we’re glad that we can partner with the art honorary.” According to Clark, Satur-
day’s event will have something for everyone. “There could be food, or the live music for dancing, or just listening too. Also, going and looking at the art and mingling and chatting with friends,” Clark said. “I think there are a variety of things to do.” Students should attend President’s Ball even if it is not for dancing, but simply to sneak in a late-night snack, Clark said. The menu for the night includes antipasto skewers,
chicken tenders, French macaroons, and chocolate mousse shooters. According to Dugan, the mocktails at the event will be really fun. President’s Ball is one of the most exciting events of the semester, according to Dugan. “It’s just a fun way to spend your Saturday night,” Dugan said. “You get to dress up, and it’s going to feel like you’re on the red carpet with the paparazzi. And also everyone goes, so don’t be lame.”
Former mathematics and computer science professor dies at age 75 By Olivia Pero Assistant editor
Jack Reinoehl established the computer science minor at Hillsdale. Courtesy | External Affairs
Retired mathematics and computer science professor Jack Reinoehl died Jan. 14 at 75 years old in Kalamazoo, Michigan. “He really loved working with students, and everything he did, he did with love. It got us very interested in the topic and made it very enjoyable,” said Paulina Volosov, assistant professor of mathematics who graduated from Hillsdale in 2014. Reinoehl taught at Hillsdale for 32 years and helped create the college’s computer science minor. He earned his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Volosov knew Reinoehl from taking his complex analysis class during her
time as a student at Hillsdale. Reinoehl had a teaching style that matched his personality, she said. “He was a very kind, soft-spoken person,” Volosov said. “So his teaching style was along those lines, but he had a very nice sense of humor that would appear frequently.” Professor of Mathematics David Murphy said Reinoehl was always smiling. “That was just his personality,” Murphy said. “He was happy to be doing the work he did.” Associate Professor of Mathematics Samuel Webster said when he thinks of Reinoehl’s legacy, his passion for birding comes to mind first. “You could almost argue that birds were his profession, and math was a hobby,” Webster said. “I’m obviously flipping the two there, but that’s how much he loved and
enjoyed birds.” Reinoehl could identify different types of birds merely by listening to their calls, and he regularly contributed to annual counts for Michigan and birding publications until his death, Volosov said. During his sabbaticals, Reinoehl would travel around the world to study different types of birds, Murphy said. “He would do a lot for the college unrelated to mathematics,” Webster said. “He would assist the biology department with things about birds, and he would take guests visiting campus around and identify birds.” Webster said he has wonderful memories of driving around with Reinoehl in the spring identifying the birds that were returning. One birding outing, Webster said Reinoehl took the two of them and Thomas Treloar, chairman and
professor of mathematics, to a cemetery in the southern part of the county. “He took us there in early March, and there was a group of about 30 long-eared owls on their migration pattern back up north,” Webster said. “He knew that they were there. I’ve since gone back occasionally, and I know Jack would go back too, but those owls never returned to that cemetery as part of their migration pattern.” Even after he retired in 2014, Reinoehl would always return in the spring for the graduating seniors’ luncheon, Murphy said. “We were able to see him again last spring,” Murphy said. “It was always fun to see him, and hear about what he’d been doing. He was upbeat and happy, and it seemed like that was the way that it continued until just recently.”