An article in the Beloit Daily News claims that the Class of 2023 Mindset List was “crafted by “[Tom] McBride, [Ron] Nief, Charles Westerberg and Marist College assistant [sic] professor of English Tom Zurhellen.”

That’s the first time I’ve heard of Zurhellen, who is actually an associate professor. Recall that a story in The Chronicle of Higher Education credited McBride, Nief, Westerberg, Marist’s School of Liberal Arts dean Martin Shaffer, director media relations Julia Fishman, and “a group of faculty members at Marist.” It’s unclear to me why the authorship of the List is so mysterious.

Zurhellen seems like an impressive character: his achievements include writing a trilogy of novels “that reimagine the life of Jesus in modern-day North Dakota” and walking from Portland, Oregon, to Poughkeepsie, New York, this summer to raise awareness about veterans’ suicide rates.

You’d think he’d bring a fresh perspective to the Mindset List and maybe he will in the future. Sadly, whatever contributions he made to the Class of 2013 List are lost in the usual morass of always and never.