The Hillsdale College campus has been buzzing with club sports action. Three of the club teams in season right now are women’s soccer, men’s rugby, and men’s soccer. The teams have started the competition part of their season and have been entertaining fans on the intramural fields on campus. Women’s soccer is in the Women’s...
Year: 2013
Michigan right to life group meets petition goal
On Sept. 30, pro-life advocates concluded their statewide effort to collect signatures from citizens who opposed a national healthcare provision that uses tax dollars to fund abortions. “People should be able to make a choice. Some taxpayers don’t want to subsidize abortion,” said Pam Sherstad, director of public information at Michigan Right to Life. The...
Professor Spotlight: Dave Gaebler
In his first full-time teaching job, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Dave Gaebler seeks to combine math’s practicality with its beauty. His liberal arts perspective made him a good fit for the Hillsdale faculty this year. Gaebler tries to show his students how ideas were formed so they understand how things work on a deeper level....
Study abroad part four: Germany
Assistant Professor of German Fred Yaniga leads the Hillsdale students through Berlin, pointing out historical markers amidst widespread new construction. The city is cosmopolitan and exploding with growth: a vastly different place than he remembers from his last visit when the Berlin Wall still stood. Now, Hillsdale students benefit from his past experience and the...
Repeat offender sentenced 11-20 years for beating
A Hillsdale Circuit Court judge sentenced Robert McCoy, 31, to serve 11-20 years in a Michigan correctional facility on Monday for committing great bodily harm less than murder. This was McCoy’s eighth felony offense; he also has 15 misdemeanors. McCoy’s criminal history began in 2001 and includes multiple breakings of parole, dealing and using narcotics,...