Though the Hillsdale volleyball team didn’t achieve the record it was hoping for this season, several players were awarded All-GLIAC honors on Saturday night between conference semifinal matches at Grand Valley State University. Junior right-side hitter Haylee Booms, who had her best season yet in 2014, was awarded with First-Team All-GLIAC honors for the first...
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November 20, 2014July 12, 2022News
Husband of college employee dies
A Hillsdale County man and husband of a Hillsdale College employee was killed in a single-car crash yesterday morning on a road near Hillsdale. Brian Gillette, 67, of Osseo, Michigan, was the husband of Claudia Gillette, aide to the athletic director of Hillsdale College. Gillette was a retiree of Hillsdale Tool, and is survived by...
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November 20, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Many thanks to the Hillsdale College choir
Sometimes a performance impacts you in such a way that you feel compelled to convey your feelings to others in a way that transfers the impact to them. You can’t do this, of course, because the event has to be experienced. I am not an educated musician. I attend musical events because I enjoy them,...
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November 20, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Don’t hate on the snow
It’s beautiful. It’s fun. And it gets such a dang bad rap around here. It’s snow. Now before you Floridians and Texans and Californians come after me with pitchforks or (perhaps more likely) break down crying, give me a moment. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, it’s going to take over our Hillsdale lives for several months....
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November 20, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The War on Men
Wesleyan University in Connecticut recently decreed that fraternities with on-campus houses must become co-ed residences within three years. Sadly, this is no politically-correct prank or National Lampoon movie pitch. No college woman wants to live in a frat house. Even the hardiest gal is unlikely to find an environment of perennially “up” toilet seats (or...