There’s a new sheriff in town. Well, on campus at least. The administration hired former Hillsdale County Undersheriff Bill Whorley as the new director of campus security and emergency management. Whorley has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience in Hillsdale — first as a patrol officer and then as undersheriff. Whorley was hired...
The Hillsdale College psychology program, after its former director resigned, was restructured this last summer. Associate Professor of Psychology Kari McArthur was promoted to psychology chair after Professor Fritz Tsao resigned during the summer. Assistant Professor of Psychology Collin Barnes joined the faculty on the tenure track. Two adjunct lecturers in psychology were also hired:...
The Hillsdale College women’s swim team is doing an hour-long swim relay to raise money to fight cancer in memory of Ted Mullins, a swimmer at Carleton College who died in 2006 from sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer. The team will collect donations until Nov. 13 when they will swim a relay for an hour...
Two local drug busts made it to court last week. Leonard Ray Collins Jr. and Corby Eugene Clabaugh will face sentencing Oct. 1 after both men pleaded guilty to drug charges at their criminal pretrials on Sept. 4. Police arrested Collins and confiscated his cocaine and heroin May 29 at the Hillsdale Grab N Go...
One of Hillsdale College’s two mock trial teams placed first at last weekend’s Great Lakes Invitational Mock Trial Tournament, the first Hillsdale team to do so since the team began two years ago. The winning Hillsdale team finished with a 7-1 ballot record. The winning team, self-named “#Winning,” competed in four head-to-head rounds against Ohio...