The Hillsdale College debate team returned this weekend from the Indianapolis Forensics 500 Competition wihtout any medals but with high hopes for their new team members and confidence in their competitiveness for the upcoming tournaments this semester. The mostly inexperienced six-student team traveled to Indianapolis, Ind., this past weekend. The team, lead by debate coach...
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September 13, 2012July 12, 2022News
Pi Beta Phi receives $110,000 check
The Pi Beta Phi sorority house was inadvertently overcharged for its energy bill by the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities for more than a dozen years, but it was not until this past summer that the mistake was caught. To make amends, BPU sent a $110,000 check to the Pi Phi house in July as...
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September 13, 2012July 12, 2022News
‘Everyone go to your classes’ Professors, students remember 9/11
When Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn stepped in front of the hundred-plus crowd gathered in the Knorr Student Center, he was thinking about World War II. The fire and panic from the TV screen he had just turned off was still reflected in the faces of his audience. “I just want to say something,” The...
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September 8, 2012July 12, 2022News
KOON AND NIEDFELDT RESIDENTS SWAP DORMS
The Niedfeldt Residence group photos that line the halls and the basement of the dorm now include three groups of women hidden among the tradi- tionally male residents. “We are excited to get our faces on the wall for sure,” said junior Jessica Youngstrom, Nied- feldt house director. At the close of the spring semester,...
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September 8, 2012July 12, 2022News
Freshmen women outnumber men almost 3 to 2
The vase of flowers in the Niedfeldt Residence lobby at- tests to the feminine influence its new residents have exerted, just as the residents attest to an unusual shift in the demograph- ic of the incoming freshmen class. Of the 389 freshmen, only 43 percent are male, compared to 57 percent women. This is a...