Year: 2012

A new club has been formed on campus: the Hillsdale Men’s Volleyball Club. The brainchild of freshman Eric Walker, the volleyball club had its first practice on Nov. 5. The next practice will be in the Roche Sports Complex on Nov. 11from 3-5 p.m. Walker, who was part of a start-up volleyball club in high...

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...

Denise Nivison was stuffing mail for Daniel Sundahl, professor of English, when personnel staff from Administrative Affairs suddenly crowded into her office in Delp Hall. For a moment, she thought she was getting fired. Instead, they presented her with the most recent Mission Award, given to college employees who display noteworthy adherence to the mission...

When junior Nathan Seiver returned from Afghanistan as a member of the Marine 2nd Battalions weapon company, he had a revelation. “I came to realize what education meant to me,” Seiver said. Many public colleges, Seiver said, are destructive to the freedom he fought for in the province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan. Yet he...

Hillsdale College hired a masseuse. She is available to the student body by appointment. Amy Zacharias is available for a half hour at $30 or for an hour at $50. Her normal schedule is Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., but she is flexible and will work with students’ schedules on an...