This summer, former Hillsdale basketball star Nick Washburn (‘13) became one of the few Chargers to be scouted and hired by a professional team overseas. Washburn signed on with the Peñas Huesca in Spain, a second-tier division team that made it to the quarterfinals in last year’s LEB Oro League. Hillsdale men’s basketball head coach...
Year: 2013
Little Caesers: hot but not ready
Senior Ellie Voci buys an average of one to two Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready pizzas every week during the school year. There have been weeks when the petite pizza enthusiast has purchased one four nights in a row. She takes pride in her ability to eat an entire Hot-N-Ready in under 20 minutes. Unfortunately for Voci...
Freshmen Leap into “The Devil’s Disciple”
Auditions for the Hillsdale College theatre department’s first play of the semester were held on Aug. 28 and 29, and when the cast list was released, and a surprising number of freshmen appeared in leading roles. The play, “The Devil’s Disciple” by George Bernard Shaw, will be showing Oct. 2-5. According to the director of...
Who will restore ‘the happiest place in Hillsdale?’
That place every Hillsdale College student recognizes but doesn’t really know — Silos Fun Park — is for sale. The self-acclaimed “Happiest Place in Hillsdale” opened in the summer of 2004, replete with two go-kart tracks, a putt-putt course, bumper boats, a cafe and arcade, batting cages, and a lighted golf driving range, and has...
Chargers in NFL
In 2009 wide receiver Andre Holmes (‘10) and offensive lineman Jared Veldheer (‘10) were teammates on one of the most successful Hillsdale College football teams ever. It was a history-making season as the Chargers made the division II playoffs for the first time ever. Fast forward four years and the two former Chargers are playing...